Peter Sutcliffe had raided and raped at least 20 women, including at least 13 women, in the West and South Yorkshire counties of Leeds and Bradford in 1975.
Dennis Nilsen is a necrophilic serial killer who killed at least 15 men in London between 1978 and 1983. His nickname is also the Muswell Hill Murderer or the Kindly Killer.
Karl Großmann was born on December 13, 1863 in Neuruppin and died on July 5, 1922 in Berlin. The butcher of Berlin mostly invited young women to his house and killed them.
"Kiss my ass.": Those were the last words of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. He was sentenced to death twelve times for 33 murders of young men and children - world record. The actual number of murder victims was taken to his grave by one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. He died from a lethal injection on May 10, 1994 at the Stateville Correction Center.
Mexican-born Juan Corona employed seasonal workers on a California farm in the 1970s. He also gave them a place to sleep on the site where 25 bodies were later discovered. He was sentenced to 25 life sentences with no prospect of pardon.
Moses Sithole is a South African serial killer. He committed the ABC murder series, named after his crime scenes Atteridgeville, then Boksburg and finally Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg. In some cases, he called the victims' relatives to mock them.
Rodney James Alcala is an American serial killer who started his murder in 1971. He has been waiting for his death sentence in a California prison since 2010.
In 2006, serial killer Ronald Dominique admitted to having committed 23 murders and numerous rapes in the federal state seed Lousiana. His victims were young men.
Theodore "Ted" Robert Bundy killed at least 28 young women between the age of 18 and his final arrest in 1978. Ted Bundy was found to have murdered 28 women, but at least 36 victims are suspected.
Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson was born on May 12, 1897 and was hanged in Winnipeg on January 13, 1928. He escaped from Napa State Hospital several times. After his last escape, he began his series of murders in 1926.
Yang Xinhai was born on July 29, 1968. As the son of a poor farming family, he was introverted and tenderly strung as the youngest child. At school he had to provide himself with food, which was always a challenge without money. When he was 17, he dropped out of school to join migrant workers.
Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann was a German serial killer who was born in Hanover on October 25, 1879 and executed on April 15, 1925 with a guillotine.
Henry Howard Holmes's real name Herman Webster Mudgett was born on May 16, 1860 and was executed on May 7, 1896 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The exact number of its victims is not known, it is assumed that up to 200 victims.
American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK Killer (English for Bind, Torture and Kill), killed at least eight people in the period from 1974 to 1991.
Pedro Alonso Lopez is a Colombian serial killer who raped and killed up to 300 girls in South America. He was called the monster by the Andes after leading the police to a mass grave of 53 girls in 1980.
Patrick Kearney is an American necrophile serial killer who has at least 43 people on his conscience. Kearney's profile-less murder scheme, which is found in most serial killers, made it difficult for the police to catch him.
The French serial killer Joseph Vacher lived from 1868 to 1898. The police assume that he had at least 11 people on his conscience. Vacher's victims were mostly young agricultural workers. It didn't matter whether they were female or male.
Peter Kürten, also called Vampire from Düsseldorf, was a multiple serial killer at the beginning of the last century. He committed a series of sexual crimes, robberies and murders of children and adults.
Anatoly Onoprienko was a 52-time serial killer from Ukraine. He started his murder series at the age of 19. Most of the time he went to abandoned houses and killed the whole family.
Joachim Kroll was a German cannibal and serial killer. He was convicted of eight murders despite admitting fourteen murders. Kroll started his series of murders in 1955 after his mother died. He worked as a toilet man for Mannesmann, later for Thyssen-Krupp.
Luis Garavito is a rapist and serial killer from Colombia. He was born on January 25, 1957. At the age of 35, he started talking to small children, luring them away, and then raping and killing them. He remained undetected for seven years.
Alexander Pichushkin is a Russian serial killer from Moscow. In 1992 the then 18-year-old student began planning the so-called checkerboard murders together with his friend and classmate Mikhail Odiichuk.
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