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Victims | Name(s) | Location | Time active | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300+ | Pedro López | 1978 to 1980 | Total unknown. Known as The Monster of the Andes. | |
| 80–612 | Elizabeth Báthory | 1585 to 1610 | Total unknown, but evidence points to between 80 and 600 victims. | |
| 3-300 | Henry Lee Lucas | 1960–1983 | 189 murders had been cleared and attributed to him. The exact number of murders committed by Lucas is unknown, but is 3-300. | |
| 218–500 | Dr Harold Shipman | 1975 to 1998 | Estimated; only 218 positively identified by subsequent inquiry | |
| Total unknown. Known as The Monster of the Andes. | ||||
| 172 | Luis Garavito | 1992 to 1998 | Known as The Beast of the Andes. | |
| 146 | Hu Wanlin | 1997 to 1999 | ||
| 103+ | Miyuki Ishikawa | 1944 to 1948 | Japanese midwife who is believed to have murdered many infants with the aid of several accomplices throughout the 1940s. It is estimated that her victims numbered between 85 to 169, however the general estimate is 103. | |
| 100 | Javed Iqbal | 1996 to 1999 | Pakistani serial killer who was found guilty of the sexual abuse and murder of 100 children. | |
| 91 | Delfina and María de Jesús González | 1955–1964 | ||
| 80–200+ | Gilles de Rais | 1435 to 1440 | Estimated totals range substantially. | |
| 72 | Daniel Barbosa | 1986 to 1988 | ||
| 67 | Yang Xinhai | 2000 to 2003 | ||
| 58+ | Giuseppe Greco | 1977 to 1985 | At least 58 murders; exact total unknown. | |
| 57 | Woo Bum-kon | April 26 to April 27, 1982 | Largest spree killing in modern history, killing 57 and injuring 35. | |
| 53 | Andrei Chikatilo | 1978 to 1990 | Known as Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper. Convicted of 52 murders. | |
| 52 | Anatoly Onopriyenko | 1989 to 1996 | ||
| 48 | Alexander Pichushkin | 2001 to 2006 | Known as the Chessboard Killer. Confessed to 15 more. | |
| 48 | Gary Ridgway | 1982 to 2000 | Known as The Green River Killer. | |
| 45 | Andrew Kehoe | May 18, 1927 | Known as the Bath School Massacre. | |
| 43 | David Burke | December 7, 1987 | ||
| 38-139 | Darya Saltykova | ? to 1762 | ||
| 38 | Moses Sithole | 1994 to 1995 | ||
| 37 (claimed) | The Zodiac Killer | 1962(?) to 1977(?) | Remains unsolved but open in the California jurisdictions the 5 certain Zodiac murders occurred. | |
| 36 | Donald Harvey | 1970 to 1987 | Claims responsibility for another 51 murders. | |
| 36-100 | Serhiy Tkach | 1984 to 2005 | ||
| 35 | Martin Bryant | April 28, 1996 | Known as the Port Arthur Massacre. | |
| 35 | Ted Bundy | 1974 to 1978 | ||
| 35 | Vera Renczi | 1920s to 1930s | ||
| 33 | John Wayne Gacy | 1972 to 1978 | ||
| 32 | Seung-Hui Cho | April 16, 2007 | Known as the Virginia Tech Massacre. | |
| 31 | Karl Denke | 1903 to 1924 | ||
| 30 | Mutsuo Toi | May 21, 1938 | Known as the Tsuyama massacre. | |
| 30 | Campo Elías Delgado | December 4, 1986 | ||
| 29+ | Charles Cullen | 1988 to 2003 | Cullen has admitted to more murders, which authorities believe are likely, but the murders cannot be verified. | |
| 27 | Dean Corll | 1970 to 1973 | ||
| 27 | Fritz Haarmann | 1919 to 1924 | ||
| 27 | H. H. Holmes | 1893 to 1895 | Total disputed. | |
| 27 | Cedric Maake | 1996 to 1997 | ||
| 27 | Maria Swanenburg | 1880 to 1883 | ||
| 26+ | Robert Pickton | 1995 to 2001 | ||
| 26 | Marcel Petiot | 1926 to 1944 | Petiot is suspected of having killed up to 63 in total. | |
| 25 | Leonard Lake and Charles Ng | 1982 to 1985 | ||
| 24 | Béla Kiss | 1912 to 1916 | ||
| 23 | George Jo Hennard | October 16, 1991 | ||
| 22 | Arnfinn Nesset | ? to 1983 | ||
| 21 | William Bonin | 1979 to 1980 | ||
| 21 | James Oliver Huberty | July 18, 1984 | Known as the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre | |
| 21 | Patrick Kearney | 1965 to 1977 | ||
| 20 | Francis Heaulme | 1984 to 1992 | ||
| 20 | Yoo Young-Chul | 2003 to 2004 | ||
| 20 | Mohammed Bijeh | 2004 | ||
| 19 | Sergei Ryakhovsky | 1988 to 1993 | Known as the Balakshikha Ripper | |
| 17 | Joel Rifkin | 1989 to 1993 | ||
| 17 | William Burke and William Hare | 1827 to 1828 | Known as the West Port murders | |
| 17 | Jeffrey Dahmer | 1978 to 1991 | ||
| 17 | Thomas Hamilton | March 13, 1996 | Known as the Dunblane massacre. | |
| 16 | Robert Steinhäuser | April 26, 2002 | Known as Erfurt massacre. | |
| 16 | Charles Ray Hatcher | 1969 to 1982 | ||
| 16 | Michael Robert Ryan | August 19, 1987 | Known as the Hungerford Massacre. | |
| 16 | Randy Steven Kraft | 1969 to 1983 | Confessed to 51 further murders. | |
| 16 | The Monster of Florence | 1968 to 1985 | Pietro Pacciani was convicted of the murders in 1994, but the decision was controversially overturned. Pacciani died 1998 and of 3 alleged accomplices-2 convicted and 1 acquitted | |
| 16 | Ronald Gene Simmons | December 22 to December 26, 1987 | ||
| 16 | Sipho Thwala | 1996 to 1997 | ||
| 15 | Tim Kretschmer | March 11, 2009 | Known as Winnenden school massacre. | |
| 15 | Dennis Nilsen | 1978 to 1983 | ||
| 15 | Charles Whitman | July 31 to August 1, 1966 | ||
| 15 | Jack Unterweger | 1974 to 1992 | ||
| 15 | Robert Hansen | 1980 to 1983 | ||
| 15 | Eric Borel | September 23/24, 1995 | ||
| 14 | Ernst August Wagner | September 4, 1913 | ||
| 14 | Patrick Sherrill | August 20, 1986 | Postal shooting. | |
| 14 | Christian Dornier | July 12, 1989 | ||
| 14 | Marc Lépine | December 6, 1989 | Known as the École Polytechnique massacre. | |
| 14 | Friedrich Leibacher | September 27, 2001) | ||
| 13 | Howard Unruh | September 6, 1949 | ||
| 13 | Boston Strangler | 1962 to 1964 | Although Albert DeSalvo was widely thought to be the Boston Strangler, police and others analysing the case have long doubted the truth of his confession. | |
| 13 | Vasiliy Kulik | 1984 to 1986 | Known as the Irkutsk Monster. | |
| 13 | Peter Sutcliffe | 1975 to 1980 | Known as the Yorkshire Ripper. | |
| 13 | Robert Lee Yates | 1975 to 1998 | ||
| 13 | Richard Ramirez | 1984 to 1985 | Known as the Night Stalker. | |
| 13 | George Banks | 1982 | ||
| 13 | Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold | April 20, 1999 | Known as the Columbine High School massacre | |
| 13 | David Gray | November 13 1990 | Known as the Aramoana Massacre. | |
| 13 | Jiverly Wong | April 3, 2009 | Known as the Binghamton shootings | |
| 12 | Sadamichi Hirasawa | January 26, 1948 | It is suspected that he was falsely charged | |
| 12 | Maxim Petrov | 2000 to 2002 | Doctor who killed patients. | |
| 12 | Fred West | 1973 to 1987 | ||
| 12 | Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono | 1977 to 1978 | ||
| 11 | Henri Désiré Landru | 1914 to 1918 | ||
| 11 | Clifford Olson | 1980 to 1981 | ||
| 11 | Sergey Golovkin | 1986 to 1992 | ||
| 11 | Charles Starkweather | 1957 to 1958 | ||
| 11 | John Justin Bunting | August 1992 to 20 May 1999 | Ringleader in the Snowtown murders, AKA the Bodies in Barrels murders | |
| 10 | Tore Hedin | 1951 to 1952 | ||
| 10 | Walter Seifert | June 11, 1964 | ||
| 10 | Edmund Kemper | 1964 to 1973 | ||
| 10 | Dennis Rader | 1974 to 1991 | Known as the BTK Killer, for "Bind, Torture, Kill" | |
| 10 | Kumatarō Kido and Yagorō Tani | 1893 | ||
| 10 | Robert Joe Wagner | August 1992 to 20 May 1999 | Ringleader in the Snowtown murders, AKA the Bodies in Barrels murders |