Runners Up According to Scientific American, there are 25 to 50 serial killers operating in the US during any given year, and they're responsible for maybe 150 murders annually. The killer's identity remains unknown. 43 years later, she wasn't so lucky, according to new charges", The suspect in 3 murders and 8 rapes blended in, Bike Path Killer Altemio Sanchez arrested five years ago, "Gerard Schaefer Jr.'s horrifying 'Killer Fiction' stories could have been filed on memoir shelf", "Suspect Is Charged in 4 Zodiac Cases in Queens", "Public Safety Virginia serial killer Charles Severance sentenced to life in prison", "CASTRO VALLEY / How man convicted in Oregon became suspect in girl's killing", "The Derby Poisoner. Raped and murdered women in abandoned houses in Detroit. Authorities: Deceased serial killer Vincent Groves may have had up to 20 victims from 1970s '80s. "A Murderous Maniac The Many Crimes Charged Against Lizzie Halliday, A mania Like Jack The Ripper", Musgrave, Jon. Antwan Pittman has been convicted in one case, Killed young girls and women in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties by offering help with fixing their car tires, before he sexually assaulted them and drowned them in canals, Stabbing attacks against mostly small-framed African-American men, with the main area being, Allegedly responsible for nine murders in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Leonard Christopher was convicted of one murder; another murder was committed in same style while he was incarcerated; believed to still be at large, Raped and strangled six young women and girls in Washington, D.C. in the early 1970s, dumping their bodies by freeways, Strangled a woman and two teenage girls to death with socks, Allegedly responsible for the "Great Basin Murders", in which young girls and women were raped and killed across the, Known as the "San Mateo slasher"; five unsolved killings, of young women in. Known as "The Nebraska Fiend", Richards murdered nine people including a mother and her children. Executed for a murder he committed in Canada, Raped and killed four women and a young boy in, Murdered carjacking victims during a three-state crime spree, Known as the "Brick Moron"; confessed to five murders and multiple assaults in, Pennsylvania woman who murdered eight of her children; two others died of natural causes, Convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering three young boys in, Former marine suspected of killing six people around, Robbed and murdered elderly women primarily in, Murderer, rapist, and arsonist; convicted of two murders, but confessed to 19 others, Killed four acquaintances and one accomplice for money and to cover up his crimes, Convicted of murdering a man and woman decades apart; four other acquaintances died suspiciously and four husbands committed suicide, Known as "The Route 40 Killer"; abducted and murdered women from Route 40 in, Murdered his stepmother in 2000 and two other women in Fort Worth in 1991. JULY 4, 1986", Keith Hunter Jesperson: Happy Face Killer, "Arrest in Murder Brings 'Butcher Slayings' Checkup", "Police solve two cases from 1980s tied to 1984 Halloween murders", "Suspected serial killer/rapist gets another 100 years in prison", "Man who killed girlfriend, infant loses final appeal", "Connected in Friendship, and in Shared Addictions", "Ryan Commutes All Illinois Death Sentences", "Texas Nurse Suspected of Killing Up to 60 Children Is Charged With Murder", "Five Given Injections Quit Breathing, Doctor Says In Nurse's Trial", "Former Nurse Indicted in Texas Child Injury Case", "Even in death, 'The Mule' confused with more prolific serial killer", "A serial rapist took the blame for South Florida woman's murder. Not really. But the end of his killing spree occurred in Florida, after he fled a Colorado prison ( for the . Also known as the "Double Initial Murders"; murders of three young girls in the. Washington Washington state also rates high in serial killings. ", "Death penalty focus of Erskine case: Trial begins today in '93 killing of 2 boys", "The hunt for Scott Erskine The long and costly trail leading to Erskine's conviction in slayings", "Police ID serial killer more than 40 years after the murders of 4 women in Denver, Adams County", "Man who beat homeless men to death in series of L.A. attacks sentenced to life in prison", "Former Isle resident Evans gets death sentence in Miss", "L.A. Man Gets 4 Life Sentences for 2010 Series of Violent Home-Invasion Robbery Killings", "THE EYLER LEGACY: 21 DEATHS MURDERER ADMITTED GRISLY 2-STATE SPREE", "Was Springfield man Neal Falls a serial killer? A series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Actively working on a B.S in Criminal Justice I have knowledge in a wide range of topics including but not limited to Forensic Science, American Law, CPTED, Active Shooter Prevention, Sex Crimes . Serial killers such as the Green River Killer, the BTK Killer and the Golden State Killer are remembered for their heinous acts. November 30, 2013", "Many Children, Many Moves, and a Grisly Find", "Juan David Ortiz found guilty, sentenced to life in Border Patrol serial killing of 4 women", "Ivan L. Page sentenced to life in prison in slaying of Deena Brown", "O.C. ". In one year, Charleston County faced five death penalty trials", "Ex-Marine 'Serial Killer' Sentenced to 100 Years for Mother's Day Murders of 2 Girls", "Trenton Man Faces Charges in the Slayings of 4 Women", "Justice Story: 'Queens creeper' Joseph Baldi kills 4 women - 3 after he was freed from Creedmoor", "Two Barmaids, Five Alligators, and the Butcher of Elmendorf", "Danny BarberDeath Penalty Information Center", "Multiple persona pleads guilty to 3 unsolved murders", "Adolph James Rode a.k.a Cesar Barone: Life event", "Man killed 3 Honolulu women over 36-year period", "Ex-Cop, Acquitted in First Wife's Death, is Accused of Killing Second | the Spokesman-Review", "Yonkers serial sex killer gets 75 years to life", "Inmate gets wish, sentenced to death for third Florida murder", "Murderer Beardslee executed / Lethal injection at San Quentin after governor, high court deny final appeals", "South Whittier killer of four gets death penalty", "BETTERTON ELECTROCUTED; PROTESTS INNOCENCE", "Richard Biegenwald, 'Thrill Killer' of Five People, Dies at 67", "Judge outraged; mass murderer gets life instead", "Bishop Found Guilty Of Murdering 5 Boys", "Man Is Convicted of 1990s Murders of 2 Prostitutes", "Suspected Serial Killer Found Guilty Of Slashing The Throats Of Elderly Victims, Leaving Three Dead", "Convicted Killer an Extra in Val Kilmer Movie", "Florida executes former carnival worker guilty of killing 3 women", "1980s Serial Killer Who Murdered Women in Oregon Identified as Convicted Criminal John Charles Bolsinger", Article about trial of Laster and murder of Lara, Greenville County Clerk of Courts records, "SUSPECT IN GAY SLAYINGS CALLED VOLATILE 'WILD CARD', "Face to face with an alleged serial killer", "Oppose the execution of William Bradford", "Crimes of the Cape Fear: Serial killer James Bradley kills two Wilmington women", "Accused serial killer Joseph Brant pleads not guilty to three New Orleans murders", "Greenville cold case solved: Jenny Zitricki killed by serial killer Robert Brashers in 1990, police say", "Letters reveal little of shooting motive", "Illinois Serial Killer Pleads Guilty in 8 Deaths", "Man gets 245 years for three killings in Indiana", "Rampage: The Briley brothers terrorized Richmond area", "Alabama death row inmate's petition to review case declined in 1997 slaying of wife, her 4-year-old grandson", "Suspected Serial Killer Gets Life in Prison For Murdering Prostitute, Charged in 6 Other Killings", "Texas killer may have murdered 18 women", Robert Charles Browne is a Killer Con Man, "Relatives of victims in 1970s slayings fear inmate's release", "Family of Tina Harmon, abducted and killed in 1981, wants police to reopen the case Massillon, Ohio The Independent", "MAN WHO KILLED 6 TO GET A 'HIGH' GIVEN LIFE TERM", "Man confessed in 5 slayings killed in crash", "Serial killer Burchart dies in prison at 52", "Long trail, sometimes cold, led to arrest in slayings from 1978, 1994", "Piecing together the portrait of a serial killer", "People v. Busch - 56 Cal.2d 868 - Wed, 11/22/1961 | California Supreme Court Resources", "Death of a serial killer: James Ray Cable", "Clallam inmate who died was state's 'first known serial killer', The Want-Ad Killer: Harvey Carignan, by Ann Rule, "Convicted Fresno County killer and death row inmate found dead in prison", "Serial killer provided a glimpse into warped mind", "Execution of Carr at St Clairsville, for the Murder of Louisa Fox", "3 life sentences, for killer Billy Lee Chadd", "Florida police crack 23-year-old strangulation case with DNA testing", "Just crazy for blood: Richard Trenton Chase, a.k.a. Killed whole families in their sleep, from the east coast to the west, arriving and departing by train. [1][2] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone".[2][3]. The given number is proven victims - the exact number of victims assigned to a serial killer in many cases is not known. Although suspected in more than 18 murders, Surratt was convicted of one murder in South Carolina. Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946 to a single mother. Child murder victims' families question Wayne Williams guilt (May 2, 2015). Imprisoned for the murder of a friend. Kreuger, Peggy; Kendra Justice & Amy Hunt (March 2006). ?ay 16, 1989", "Serial killer Andre Crawford spared death penalty", "The history of an Idaho serial killer who has been on and off death row for nearly 43 years", "Convict dies in Nevada prison 34 years after landing on death row", "FBI Serial Killers, Part 6: Andrew Cunanan Murders a Fashion Icon", "Sex offender pleads guilty in Portland killings", "Man Gets Death Sentence for Killing Cellmate", "Confessed mass slayer pleads guilty, mentally ill", "Gauen: Case of long-ago killer instructive for potential Illinois dealth-penalty debate", "Former Tyler nurse begins death row sentence for killing four patients", "After Arrest of Suspected Golden State Killer, Details of His Life Emerge", "Golden State Killer Sentenced To Life In Prison Without Possibility Of Parole", "Suicide's 4th Victim Still Unidentified", "Paroled Rapist Charged With Killing 5 Women in New Jersey", "A Model Inmate, and Now a Suspect Again; New Jersey Officials Say Parolee Accused in 5 Slayings Showed No Signs of Trouble", "DNA links dead suspect to second Sarasota homicide victim, police say", "Sentenced to Death, This Cold-Blooded Killer is Free", "Sam Dieteman, Serial Shooter, is Spared Death Sentence by Jury; Will Spend Rest of Life in Prison", "Westley Dodd: A Long, Steady Slide Into Dark Desperation", "From a meek "nobody" to a serial killer? Responsible for several murders in South Carolina, including the "Superbike Murders". Died: December 2020. Serial killer active in North Carolina with no particular victim profile; victims' ages ranged from 8 to 80, both male and female, and both white and black; claimed that mental health . First 11th person named on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. January 21, 2017", "Teen-ager charged in three homicides and 1987 slaying", "Serial Killer Suspect Arrested; 9-11 Set Off Murder Spree", "Murderer Or Serial Killer? The map is based on articles gathered from Wikipedia. October 19, 2019", "A "Smooth-Talking" Serial Killer Keeps On Lying, Stays In Prison", "East Lansing serial killer Don Miller denied parole for the 10th time", "Compulsion to rape and kill: Inside Steelton serial killer Joseph Miller's mind", "Man charged with fatally running down 2 women and driving over 3rd pregnant victim", "Moore Believed To Have Outclassed Bluebeard Or Mrs. Guinnes As Murderer", "Stephen Morin: How I unwittingly helped a serial killer", "Suspected serial killer's state ties raise questions", "Fugitive Ends His Own Life, Police Theory", "Winston Moseley, 81, Killer of Kitty Genovese, Dies in Prison", "Florida serial killer eluded conviction, but not COVID-19", "Silent DC sniper mastermind Muhammad executed", "Man who killed 3 Memphis women now charged with new crime", "Admitted killer of 6 women gets 15-30 years", "Serial Killer Wayne Nance and the Case of "The Montana Jane Doe's", "Marin judge sentences Joseph Naso to death row for murders of six women", "Twisted Alabama couple kidnap, rape and kill teenager Lisa Ann Milliken and Janice Chatman in sick 1982 crime spree", "Man convicted of killing Fort Madison woman, four others up for parole", "SUSPECT IN NIH SLAYING INVESTIGATED IN 4 MORE KILLINGS", "Serial murderer of OC homeless dies in jail. The list is sorted by the number of confirmed victims the killer had in his/her acts as a serial killer. February 7, 1987", "The story of Jesse Pomeroy, 14-year-old serial killer", "Police Release Dramatic 911 Tapes from Florida Office Massacre", "Convicted murderer says he was helping homeless man by killing him. Some experts believe that serial killers are responsible for a significant number of these unsolved murders. Shot four black men from his Jeep, three of them fatally. Ago Today", "Man sentenced in 1988 slaying of LO couple", "Kelly apologizes before execution for deaths of Spring Hill family", "Israel Keyes Update: Alaska serial killer linked to at least 11 deaths, FBI says", "FBI Informant Charged With Four Murders", "Police: Anthony Kirkland suspect in several murders FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather & Sports", "Florida executes triple killer Thomas Knight", "Thomas Knight, who killed Miami couple and a prison guard, executed | Miami Herald", "Andrew Skerritt: Thomas Knight is poster boy for the death penalty", "Woman accused of killing children arrest in Utah", "Couple charged with murder in deaths of boarders", "DNA from Parsippany murder found at convicted killer's request", "Killer's prison-transfer request outrages N.J. victims' families", "South Carolina 'Serial Killer' Todd Kohlhepp Pleads Guilty in 7 Murders", "Todd Kohlhepp pleads guilty to murdering 7 over 13 years", "Most Notorious: Joseph Kondro was a smooth-talking killer", "The human monster: How a suspected serial killer was arrested in Stanley County", "Insanity defense: LaBarre pleads not guilty in 2 murders", "Ladd apologized to murder victim's family just prior to execution", "Convicted killer of 10-year-old he impregnated executed", "Serial Killer Leonard Lake was Arrested (June 2, 1985) Crime Magazine", "Family's capture of serial killer Adam Leroy Lane chronicled in book", "Trucker gets life term for attacks on 2 Pa. women", "Trucker tells how he killed woman in Bloomsbury", "Man Who Confessed to Many Slayings Executed in Missouri", "Court upholds use of DNA found on killer's abandoned coffee cup", "Officials confirm convicted serial killer Derrick Todd Lee has died", "Serial Killer Brothers Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon A Timeline of Victims of the .22 Caliber Killers", "Two Licking County brothers have been arrested as suspects in the so-called .22-caliber killings", "Two Licking County brothers have been arrested as suspects in the so-called .22-caliber killings. ", "Ohio executes John Fautenberry, the trucker who went on a killing spree", "Convicted Ill. serial killer charged in Wis. death. ", "Michigan Parole Board Assailed After Killings", "Union Man Gets Life in Three Killings, Mutilations", "Why did quiet auto thief turn violent as a parolee? Sandy Little Identified as Body in the Box", "Nurse sentenced to life for killing 10 patients", "Execution Report: Desmond Jennings - Page 1", "A Fresno County jury recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of killing four women. Manson, Joe, The Daily Nexus, June 4, 1980, p. 1. As of August 2022, four of the cases have been definitively solved, and authorities now believe that multiple offenders are involved. Poisonings of 10 patients at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in 1975. A serial killer is typically a person who kills three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. Multi-state killer who, along with his accomplice, murdered a man and injured another, murdered four women and three young girls, and raped a young girl . One Suspect Is A Cop", "Stockton community bands together amid serial killings", "Map shows where Stockton serial killer has attacked", "Stockton, Calif., police arrest suspect in serial killings", "SUITLAND MURDERS UNSOLVED BUT FAR FROM FORGOTTEN", "Skull discovery revives Washington murder mystery", "Serial murder multi-disciplinary perspectives for investigators", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States&oldid=1142823893, Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment, Murdered robbery victim in 1970, and at least three women until 1990 in, Murdered seven people, including three policemen, Killed his sister-in-law in Illinois; paroled and moved to Colorado, where he killed two more women, Sometimes called "The Dating Game Killer" because of his 1978 appearance on the television show, Shot a lodger in 1930; after his release, he killed three more people in a fit of jealousy, Raped and strangled prostitutes and drug addicts around, Poisoned a husband and residents of her nursing home in, Known as "The Salt Lake City Strangler"; violent sex offender who kidnapped and murdered women and girls, Navy sailor convicted for murdering prostitutes in Michigan and Illinois; confessed to more murders around the world, Known as "The Woodward Corridor Killer"; serial rapist who preyed on women in, Murdered his half-brother; paroled, and later murdered his adoptive father and a neighboring couple's daughter during a drunken shooting spree, Known as "The Trenton Strangler"; raped and murdered four women in, Known as "The Queens Creeper"; mentally-ill burglar who stabbed women to death after breaking into their apartments, Texas murderer of women known as "The Alligator Man", North Carolina woman who was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976, Mentally-ill factory worker who shot and killed prostitutes around Memphis, Known as "The Petting Party Bandit"; shot couples in, Killed three women he was romantically involved with in, Convicted of murdering his second wife in, Responsible for murdering at least 11 victims who were found buried on his property in, Raped and murdered one girl and two women in, Robbed and murdered a woman in Florida, then murdered two sex offenders in prison, Shot his girlfriend, and then a trio of men in financially-motivated schemes, Family of serial killers who lived and operated in, Known as "The Kansas City Butcher" and "The Collector"; kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered young men in, Known as "The Son of Sam" and the ".44 Caliber Killer"; shot eight random strangers, killing six, in and around, Murdered his wives in Missouri and Oklahoma during violent arguments, Career criminal who shot four people in Los Angeles to cover up other crimes, Sentenced to death for the murders of two people; confessed to 44 other murders, Known as "The Railway Killer"; his case was part of, Sentenced to 25 years in prison for one murder, released on parole after serving 21 years and committed additional murders upon release, Murdered people he worked for as a tree trimmer, Murdered three women in Florida and a fourth woman in Texas, Convicted of a manslaughter in Utah in 1980; posthumously linked to three rapes and murders in, Known as "The Freeway Killer"; preyed on young men and boys in, Murdered acquaintances around South Carolina, Known as "The I-95 Killer"; Targeted gay men in Florida, Georgia and Maryland, Known as "The Bathroom Slayer"; preyed on women living in the same apartment building he was living in with his brother at the time, Suspected of more murders due to his modus operandi of taking photographs of his victims, Murdered his stepdaughter; paroled, and later murdered two women, Shot his parents in 1971 when he was 13, killing his pregnant mother; stabbed his wife and niece to death in 2004, Mental patient who killed a fellow patient in Pennsylvania; after release, killed a mother and daughter in his hometown in California, Known as "The Bonecrusher"; strangled black prostitutes at his house in, Raped and murdered girls and women in Gary and Portage, Indiana, Three brothers and an accomplice responsible for 11 murders, Shot his friend to death; later murdered his wife and her grandson while out on, Raped and murdered middle aged women around Detroit, Michigan. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Murdered three girls in Arkansas; later murdered a woman in Missouri. Serial rapist and murderer operating mainly in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, also known as "The Shotgun Killer".