Serial Killers

Japan

• Sataro Fukiage – raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century
• Hiroaki Hidaka – killed four prostitutes in 1996; executed on December 25, 2006
• Miyuki Ishikawa – murdered an estimated 103, but could have been up to 169 infants in the 1940s
• Kiyotaka Katsuta – 22 alleged murders but convicted of eight; executed in 2000
• Yoshio Kodaira – rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and Chinese people as a soldier
• Genzo Kurita – killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophilia
• Hiroshi Maeue – aka "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims
• Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata – aka "House of Horror"; tortured and murdered at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family
• Tsutomu Miyazaki – aka "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate a hand of a girl; executed in 2008
• Norio Nagayama – killed four people with a handgun at the age of 19; a novelist in prison
• Seisaku Nakamura – aka "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people
• Akira Nishiguchi – killed five people and engaged in fraud
• Kiyoshi Okubo – raped and murdered eight young women during 41 days in 1971

 Latvia

• Kaspars Petrovs – convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005; confessed to killing 38

 Mexico

• Juana Barraza – aka "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of Mexico City until January 25, 2006
• Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández – aka "Goyo" and the "Strangler of Tacuba"; raped and killed four women in 1942; hailed as a successful case of rehabilitation and pardoned in 1976
• Adolfo Constanzo – aka "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989
• Delfina and María de Jesús González – aka "Las Poquianchis"; killed a total of 91; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964
• Raúl Osiel Marroquín – aka "El Sádico"; killed four male homosexuals in Mexico City
• Abdul Latif Sharif – Egyptian national alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez
• José Luis Calva – cannibal; police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house; committed suicide on December 11, 2007

 Netherlands

• Lucia de Berk – nurse convicted of killing at least seven and attempting three murders in the 2000s (2008: case reopened by the Dutch supreme court)
• Maria Swanenburg – killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s

 Norway

• Arnfinn Nesset – geriatric assistant nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders-Og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1984

 Pakistan

• Javed Iqbal – believed to have killed 100 boys

 Poland

• Julian Koltun – raped and murdered women in eastern Poland
• Zdzisław Marchwicki – aka "Zagłębie Vampire"; convicted of murdering 14 women; executed in 1976
• Władysław Mazurkiewicz – aka "The Gentleman Killer"; killed up to 30 women
• Stanisław Modzelewski – murdered seven women in Łódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970
• Leszek Pękalski – aka the "Vampire of Bytów"; killed up to 17 women
• The Skin Hunters - four medics in Łódź who killed patients
• Łucjan Staniak – aka "The Red Spider" and "The Red Ripper"; killed up to 20 women

 Portugal

• António Luís Costa – ex-GNR officer who murdered three women between 2005 and 2006

 Romania

• Vera Renczi – poisoned two husbands, one son and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s
• Ion Rîmaru – murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971

 Russia

• Valeriy Asratyan – arrested in 1990 and convicted of three murders and dozens of cases of sexual abuse; executed
• Andrei Chikatilo – aka "The Rostov Ripper"; killed 52 women and children throughout the Soviet Union; arrested, convicted and executed in 1994
• Vasiliy Kulik – killed 13 people aged between seven months and 75 years; executed