List of Famous Serial Killers

What is the meaning of the term ‘Serial Killer’? Here is a list of famous Serial Killers, Men and Women…
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PRETTY CRAZZY 2/2/2010
Tamisha there's also elizabeth bathory 1/5/2010
john thats just insanity 12/30/2009
cassidine chip davis do you believe that it is mostly mental illness that makes the killers become killers or do you belive it is just who they are or do you believe something else plz reply directly to me 12/29/2009
cassidine this is horrible what is happening to these people 12/29/2009
Eliza i personally think that there people are crazy. but it is really interesting to learn about them... 12/23/2009
adarsha raj sha they are very impressed of killing people and run away
i know this much whats your comment about this.
12/21/2009
unknown awesome 12/15/2009
Himself There are hundreds of serial kilers in North America at the present time. They are alive, well and actively pursuing their diabolical trade.
Canada (especially western Canada is full of them !
12/5/2009
sdfiousido The Zodia killer wasnt in North Carolina, it was in California. 12/4/2009
vontrell i study many and serial killers is one of them . i love to research 11/28/2009
blackdahlia I am quite thankful to have located your site. Its very thought provoking, but I would like to see links attached to each name for more information whether to your site or general information. 11/28/2009
Osiris Actually The Zodiac Killer was located in Northern California. 11/22/2009
annoumous Aileen Wournos, I remember watching her life story on TV. I feel that even though she killed so many men, we should be held accountable some way or the other because women like her never had anyone to teach them about real love and acceptance... 11/11/2009
Adrian Murray There is one serial killer you have missed who is Peter Sutcliffe (Yorkshire ripper ) active in Northern England,who slayed 13 Women in the 70s& 80s 11/4/2009
Yoyo The Zodiac Killer was doing his thing in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. 10/31/2009
Richard You have inaccurate information all over the place you might want to take a look at that. 10/29/2009
ALEXIS OPPS ON THE FIRST POST I MEANT IT WAS NOT NORTH CAROLINA WERE HE KILLED HIS VICTIMS IT WAS CALIFORNIA BAY AREA. 10/28/2009
ALEXIS Chris Biery the zodiac killer was never arrested because they never caught him. 10/28/2009
Alexis about the zodiac killer it was North Carolina were he killed his victims it was California Vallejo, San Francisco, lake herman rd, lake berryessa. Im just letting you know 10/28/2009
Meg don't forget about the first known serial killer to be documented which is H. H. Holems.

but other than that nice listings
10/28/2009
chip davis savannah you have no concept of what charles manson did, he was covicted for the crime of accesory to first degree murder. 7 counts. he was sentenced to death in 1971,but in 1974 the united states supreme court overturned all death penelties in the country, therefore his sentenece was comuted to life in prison. agaust 9, 1969 manson had tex watson and three girls kill sharon tate and freinds, the next night manson personally supervised the killings of mr. and mrs. labianca. although, he was never convicted, he was linked to 28 other homicides in the los angeles. ed gains was only convicted of 1 homicide and desecration of the dead, he made his lamp shades out of human skin. the jury found him not guilty by reason of mental defect. he died in a mental institution in 1971 or so.ed gains was the inspuration for leatherface in the "texas chainsaw massacre" and not the inspuration for hanibal lector or buffalo bill. you people need to look at actual case studies and not fictional detective novels which is obviously what most of you read. if anybody has any questions or concerns about any serial killers in history, dont hesitate to write in the room just direct it to me . i dont mind at all. 10/24/2009
chip davis I have been keeping up on serial killers for over 30 years.. I find them very interesting in may ways. most people do not understand what makes a serial killer tick... I have read over 61 books on the subject and i sometimes still have problems with it. that is way i have started looking on line for more information about them... 10/23/2009
Amy Seems to be a link between women serial killers and murdering family whereas the men are a misdts of strangers 10/19/2009
Peter Thank You so Much 10/5/2009
timothy in the late 60's, in new york, i think there was a political person, accused of killing his girl friend. i think his name was ''ira'' left the u.s.a., and was found years later, and brought back to the u.s.a., in a different country. there also was a movie about it, i saw, where they thought she was killed, and moved out of the apartment building in a big wooden box. my wife and i were wondering the name of the killer, what country he was caught in, and the name of the movie made about this, if you know, and or have any info, please pass it on,, ok,, thanks,, 9/29/2009
Savannah Charles Manson killed noone. His followers did. The only murders proven were the on the Tate estate. This makes his involvment with mass murder. Not Serial murder. Unless they prove further deaths in relation to "the family". 9/26/2009
rico was just wondering how or what makes a serial killer what he is. is it the x or y chromozone or are they born with what? 7/30/2009
Kirk arent there serial killer family like the ones in House Of 1000 Corpse/ Devil's Rejects? 7/22/2009
Lashaye Jukes can come to my house and kill email me if you want to know were i live so i can set it all up for my parents every thing you will get to know about me and get over with by shooting me in the head 7/20/2009
ms.unknown personally, i think that these serial killers had a rough childhood. but that doesnt give them a reason to kill innocent people.they can take there anger into sports. but of course, people didnt think about that .also,there is no reason to kill anyone..and btk, stangling someone is the most personal way to kill someone because you are looking into the eyes of your victim.that shows that people are really heartless.and most of those serial killers grew up in a reasonable home. 7/7/2009
kamaal hassan that is just horrible. how would they get sick minds like that. 7/3/2009
Matt Berry It kills me. People classifies a person as a serial murderer, if they committed only 2. While this is not true, it takes at least 3 murders, over a period of time with a cool off period in between. This differs from spree and mass because spree killers kill 3 people within a short period of time and mass kills 3 people in one single event. Statistically, males kill with more violent means (shooting, stabbing, so forth) while females generally use poison. Another difference between males/females is their motives- females generally kill for profit while the motive of the male killer differs. 6/24/2009
Matt Berry Why is Manson on here? He is not a serial murderer. 6/24/2009
Sam I surprised Dahmer isn't on here 6/20/2009
bill Ever heard of richard kuklinski? 100+++ 6/19/2009
elizabeth Is there more on Charles Manson? 6/16/2009
Ugene Hannabal Lectors HOT I would let him eat me any day! hahahaha. only joking, but he is hot. 6/8/2009
Eric Who ever made this site need to get their facts straight. the zodiac killer was a notorious serial killer in the 1960's in CALIFORNIA, not north carolina.

I read up to the zodiac and then decided to go to a different site with factually accurate information.
5/19/2009
junkbunny add john wilkes booth 4/30/2009
Jane For the woman killers...I noticed that many of them either strangled or basicly poison their victims, not to mention most of them did it for money...thats kind of a pathetic reason to kill someone... and how could a woman kill her own child(ren) anyways? 4/28/2009
jessica actually, ed gein was not the inspiration for the character of hannibal lecter, but rather buffalo bill, a charater in the movie, who was creating a "woman suit" out of real women. 4/23/2009
Michelle Excuse me but I have a correction about one of your serial killer posts. Aileen Wuornos was NOT executed on October 9, 1992, but 10 years later on October 9, 2002. Get your facts straight before you post things like this. Aileen spent 12 years on Florida State's Death Row before being executed by way of lethal injection. 4/22/2009
Leslie To kirista: Ed Gein influenced both. He's the influence for many horro films to date. 4/20/2009
bethrjacobs I think our country has the highest rate of serial killers and physchiatrists in the world;and it's not working.More white men becoming famous for being bad,and more women being thrown away.By the time these "people" are caught they have killed at times hundreds of women.It looks like the U.S. thinks it's o.k..On the side I read there was not to long ago here in this country a psychiatrist serial killer. 4/7/2009
rawr i dont understand how someone can be sooo... disturbing 4/6/2009
diana you have the zodiac in N.C. he was in cALIFORNA is there information you can send me on this. All other sits say nothing about N.C 4/6/2009
michael mcgill hfhdgygfdhgufydvgfvxbhfggd 4/3/2009
cc Albert was the craziest I've ever hear of any serial killers!
Craziest serial killer in the world!
4/2/2009
cc Add Albert Fish to the list! 4/2/2009
Haroun Just a small correction - Ed Gein sounds like the inspiration for Buffalo Bill, the other serial killer in Harris's "Silence of the Lambs" - not Dr. Lecter! 3/31/2009
Shawn S. You forgot a famous female serial killer. Her name was Countess Elizabeth Báthory. 3/30/2009
october are there any famour woman killer 3/20/2009
shawty I think its crazy some one so stupid and with no feelings could take a human life out of the world, that just proves how crazy and looney a person could be. 3/20/2009
Anna is albert fish in this? hes my favorite 3/2/2009
onjh what about jeffrey dahmer? 2/21/2009
Hanna Hi, The Zodiac killer actually operated in Northern California. 2/16/2009
Nelson Serial Kiiings around Manhattan' Mt. 2/15/2009
natalya F wow i never knew back in the day they did the elctric chair and i cant beleve im intrestide in this o.m.g 2/14/2009
aidan pidgeon Well god bless everyone of these killers as in time we all have to answer to Our Lord Jesus Christ,and i pray for these woman and men who killied so many people and for what money most of them
god love them also god bless all of them
2/12/2009
Robert Camargo The Zodiac Killer: He did his kill spree in and around Vallejo, California. I was in grade school in Vallejo at the time. 2/3/2009
lala j i dont think she should have been killed,i dont think she would have been put to death if she had had a female judge at her trail,she was obviously in need of some mentle heath care,she didnt deserve the death penalty! 2/2/2009
Me The Zodiac Killer was in Northern California, not North Carolina 1/30/2009
INTERESTED PART VERY INTERESTING STUFF. 1/23/2009
billy goat i think the guy that scammed 27 times should seriously consider getting mentally evaluated(a check-up from the neck up! 12/6/2008
kimiki wow! half the people on here are so cool :)
i got issues lol... oh well at least i know i do...
i liked it a whole lot though ^.^
12/2/2008
nova Where's Michael Myers at on this list?...Now that dude's a bad man no doubt! haha if he was real i mean 11/21/2008
tuttut kool but strange 11/11/2008
Bob Zodiac never killed anyone in North Carolina. It was California. 11/6/2008
BOB GREATT! 10/29/2008
Lorbundie there are so many more fasinating serial killers such as Elizabeth Bathory and they are not listed. so in conclusion this is not a very good site. 10/28/2008
mike what about the guy from the texas chainsaw massacre. wasn't that real? 10/8/2008
Krista Thank you for the concise description of each notorious serial killer. However, I noticed two errors:
1. The Zodiac murdred in Northern California, not North Carolina.
2. Ed Gein influnced the character of Buffallo Bill, not Hannibal Lector in "Silence of the Lambs"
9/17/2008
Rebecca It was very intresting and spured me onto further research on the subject. I have found a new topic for an essay in my Phycology class! 9/12/2008
Jamie E The Zodiac was in northern California

100% incorrect!
9/1/2008
April OMG some people are really weird i dont see why people kill other people. LOLZ 8/30/2008
NAYAH WOW THESE WOMAN ARE RUTHLESS AND THUIS IS THE STUFF IM INTERESTED IN. 8/27/2008
carmen wilsom i think this is a good website for peoplr to know the top serial killers! 8/19/2008
shaniqua what about btk? cmon u know better! anyways i dont need to stay too long because i have a life!haha 8/18/2008
haans very good info 8/18/2008
soon OMG! some of you need to learn how to spell 8/16/2008
Lisa This site gave me chills through and through. No one can really trust anyone completely according to this article. It's crazy how the human mind can twist. 8/13/2008
angela what about jeffrey dahmer?
he was the freaking narliest of the bunch.
8/8/2008
maureen I LOVE SERIAL KILLERS AND MURDERS! I LOVE DEAD BODIES! 8/4/2008
William Oh and Ed Gein was a serial killer. Just because he was only convicted of 2 he was suspected of many others. And yes where is Dahmer on here? John Wayne Gacy was another, he is not on here. 8/2/2008
William She got a lot of it wrong. Aileen Wournos wasn't executed until 2002, the Zodiac killer killed in San Fransico, Ca. in the late 1960s, and Ted Bundy did not escape only 17 hours after capture. He got out on bail where he was convicted of kidnapping then he escaped. Then he escaped again after being charged with murder in Utah on Dec. 30, 1977 when he then went to Fl and committed the sorority murders. If she is going to put up famous serial killers and talk about them she should at least get it right 8/2/2008
N The Zodiac Killer murdered people in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay area, not in North Carolina 7/22/2008
jeff how is Dahmer not on this list? 7/17/2008
Candice I just don't understand what can make a person do such things to other human beings. I could not have the though or the mind-set to do such a insane act. But most of these people where just plain insane. 7/12/2008
Robert R. I think one of the people you're are missing is Carl Panzram. He Sodomized over 1000 men, burned down the correctional facility he was taken to, did over 1000 robberies, killed 21 people including children and 1 women, and etc. 7/1/2008
Jill Ed Gein isn't a serial killer. A serial killer is someone who "murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval". Gein only murdered 2 women, then he committed a bunch of grave robberies. 6/20/2008
may terrible ! very terrible ! but i think this people shouldn `t be submet a eletric chair they just be submeted a phichiastry system , they very sick minds. 6/15/2008
HALLOWEEN SIS they are crazy man but some people may deserve it 6/10/2008
halloween sis NANNIE DOSS was crazy how can u kill ur on family members like that even when my brother did he should not have but he did and i feel bad but i am sure she no good reason and my brother did stop killing it never solves anything cause at the end of the day u will still have anger in u 6/5/2008
halloween sis people got to understand that the only people kill cause some body put them over the edge or they were just crazy and i fell any of them that was put tp death should not have been put to death they should have been put in the crazy house and got some help because the halloween movies were true cause the killer i knew and now he is dead cause some body made him go to the egde he was my brother and i miss him alot so there it is aint that hot and did kill his step dad but he didnt kill me cause i was his little sis and he love me 6/5/2008
dameon omg i saw that movie about ALIEEN WUORNOS i knew it was true but i never thought i would read about it 6/5/2008
Jasmine M These were sick killers and I would really love to know how they could really do that bcause i've always heard that serial killers were not only sick in the mind but super smart...Another thing I would love to know is how can they blend in so well with "normal" people?I mean you would think that there would be some type of signs...But I guess that's where the serial killer smartness comes in. 6/2/2008
hippie what about Dahmer? 5/26/2008
gacy im the best serial killer that ever lived. i like how yall just found those dead boy under my house and left my house dirty. dat was't even cool. but im in hell now cooking for the devil. but it is hot down here. oh and yall know the devill gay. ha ha ha gettin me some. 5/23/2008
Anthony Perry aileen wuornos was put to death on october 9th 2002 and the nick broomfield documentary was released on november 21st 2003. your date of death for her is wrong. 5/20/2008
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