Serial Killers

Finland

Antti Taskinen – poisoner of three men; sentenced to life imprisonment
Matti Haapoja – convicted murderer of three people, admitted to the murders of 18

Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers – French poisoner; executed in 1676
Pierre Chanal – serial killer who committed suicide in 2003
Michel Fourniret – confessed to nine murders; allegedly killed 10 more
Guy Georges – aka the "Beast of the Bastille"; serving a life sentence for 7 murders between 1991 and 1997
Francis Heaulme – serving a life sentence for 20 murders between 1984 and 1992
Hélène Jégado – domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851; executed in 1852
Henri Désiré Landru – killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin
Émile Louis – preyed on young handicapped women
Christine Malèvre – nurse sentenced for the murders of at least 30 terminally ill patients
Thierry Paulin – aka the "Beast of Montmartre"; preyed on the elderly in the 1980s
Marcel Petiot – doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis; executed in 1946
Gilles de Rais – 15th century demonolator and child killer
Joseph Vacher – aka "The French Ripper"; 19th century serial killer of 11 people
Jeanne Weber – convicted of the murders of 10 children

Jürgen Bartsch – killed four, one escaped; died by wrongful overdose during castration surgery
Karl Denke – cannibal; allegedly killed 30 people
Volker Eckert – accused of 19 murders between 1974 and 2006
Gesche Gottfried – serial poisoner who murdered 15 people in Hanover and Bremen; publicly executed in 1831
Karl Grossmann – killed women and sold their flesh on the black market
Fritz Haarmann – preyed on young men and boys; executed in 1925
Fritz Honka – murdered four women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment
Joachim Kroll – claimed 13 victims over three decades
Peter Kürten – aka the "Vampire of Düsseldorf"; executed in 1932
Stephan Letter – male nurse who killed 29 patients; arrested in 2006
Marianne Nölle – female nurse who was convicted of killing seven patients between 1984 and 1992; suspected of killing 17; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993
Norbert Poehlke – police officer and serial killer
Peter Stumpp – self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 1500s
Anna Maria Zwanziger – Bavarian poisoner; killer of four people; executed in 1811

Charles Quansah – convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in Accra; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003.

Antonis Daglis - aka the "Athens Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murders and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others

Lam Kor-wan – sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to life imprisonment
Lam Kwok-wai – murdered three women

Erzsébet Báthory – countess who killed servant girls; rumored to have killed more than 600
Béla Kiss – murdered at least 24 women; escaped justice in the confusion of World War I

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