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Active before 1600 [edit]

Name	Country	Years active	Claimed victims	Notes
Poison Band	Roman Republic	331 BC	90+	Several Roman men died in what was believed to be a plague, until a servant woman revealed that they had been poisoned past a conspiracy of matrons. Two patrician women arrested admitted to preparing concoctions only claimed that they were medicinal; when they drank it themselves to prove information technology, (at their own suggestion), they died immediately. A full of 170 matrons were arrested. According to Livy, "their act was regarded as a prodigy, and suggested madness rather than felonious intent".[i]
Liu Pengli	Western Han	144–116 BC	100+	Prince of Jidong during the reign of the Emperor Jing, his uncle. Helped by enslaved people, he attacked civilians in his lands during the night, killing over a hundred. Although the court advised the Emperor to execute him, the emperor but reduced him to a commoner and exiled him to Shangyong (modernistic Zhushan Canton, Hubei Province).[2]
Anula of Anuradhapura	Anuradhapura Kingdom	l–47 BC	5	Poisoned her son and iv husbands before holding the throne as queen regnant for five years, after which she was overthrown and burned live.[3]
Locusta of Gaul[4]	Roman Empire	54–55 AD	v–7+[4]	Poisoner in the service of Emperor Nero. Executed by Galba in 69 AD.
Dhu Shanatir	Himyarite Kingdom	fifth century Advertisement	100+	Lured young imperial boys into his home and sodomized them before throwing them out of a window. Stabbed by his last intended victim.[v]
Alice Kyteler	Republic of ireland	1302–1324	3–4	"The Witch of Kilkenny". Hiberno-Norman noblewoman prosecuted in the starting time modern witch trial in the British Isles, for the alleged poisoning of her 4 husbands, heresy and witchcraft. Fled to England, her ultimate fate unknown. Petronilla of Meath (her retainer) was tortured and burned at the pale in her place.[half-dozen]
Gilles de Rais	French republic	1432–1440	140+–600	French nobleman accused of torturing, raping and murdering over 140 children, upward to 600.[seven] Rais and several accomplices in the murders were hanged on 26 October 1440.[8]
Peter Stumpp	Holy Roman Empire	c. 1564–1589	16	"The Werewolf of Bedburg". Confessed nether torture to murdering and cannibalizing 14 children, including his son, and ii meaning women. Broken on the wheel, beheaded and burned.[9]
Peter Niers	Holy Roman Empire	c. 1566–1581	544	Bandit leader who confessed under torture to killing 544 people, including the murder of 24 women and the use of their unborn children in Black Magic. Broken on the wheel and quartered alive.[10]
Gilles Garnier	France	1572	iv	Hermit known as "The Werewolf of Dole". Confessed to strangling 4 children and eating their flesh.[xi] Garnier was defenseless attacking a young boy and burned at the stake in 1573.[12]
Elizabeth Báthory	Hungary	1585–1610	fourscore–650[13]	Known every bit "The Claret Countess"; tortured servant girls to death. Accomplices were executed and she was imprisoned until her death in 1614.[14]
Björn Pétursson	Dano-Norwegian Republic of iceland	1570–1596	9–xviii	Called Axlar-Björn ("Shoulder-Deport"). Farmer that robbed and killed people who traversed his land. Beheaded.[15]
Geordie Bourne	England	1597 and earlier	7	Scottish bandit agile in the East English March. Confessed to have killed seven Englishmen with his ain easily and "lain with to a higher place 40 men'south wives, what in England, what in Scotland". Executed by unknown means.[sixteen]

1600–1800 [edit]

Name	Country	Years agile	Claimed victims	Notes
Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer	Spanish Chile	c. 1630 – c. 1660	40	Aristocrat nicknamed La Quintrala, perchance after the local red-flowered mistletoe (quintral) and because of her long red hair. Investigated for the deaths of 40 servants and enslaved peoples in her holding, but never tried or convicted. Died of natural causes in 1665.[17]
Aqua Tofana poison ring	Spanish Sicily Papal States	1633–1651	100+	A group of female poisoners active in Palermo, Rome, and Naples. Ring leader was claimed to be Giulia Tofana although the only bear witness of a poisoning ring is the executions of Teofania di Adamo (1633) and Girolama Spara (1659), claimed, respectively, to be the mother and daughter of Giulia Tofana.[18]
Jasper Hanebuth	Holy Roman Empire	1652 and earlier	19	Former mercenary in the Swedish Army turned highwayman who was active in Eilenriede forest, and then outside Hanover. Ordinarily shot people from a distance, before knowing if they had whatsoever money. Confessed to the murder of xix people including his "robber helpmate", and was broken on the bicycle.[19]
Catherine Monvoisin	France	1660s–1679	thou–2500[xx]	Known every bit "La Voisin". Declared sorceress, fortune-teller, cult leader and poisoner for rent who confessed under torture to the ritual murder of over a one thousand infants in black masses.[20] As well tried to poison Louis Fourteen. She was convicted along with 35 others equally function of the Matter of the Poisons, and burned at the stake in 1680.
Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubrey, Madame de Brinvilliers and Godin de Sainte-Croix	France	1666–1670	3–50+[20]	Lovers, they poisoned d'Aubrey'southward begetter and ii brothers to inherit their estates, and an undetermined number of poor people in hospitals. Sainte-Croix died of natural causes in 1672, just d'Aubrey was tried, beheaded and burned at the stake in 1676. Her sensational trial led to the Affair of the Poisons.
Ahaya	Cuscowilla Spanish Florida	1730s–1783	86+	Seminole chief, called "Cowkeeper" by the British, who led continuous raids against Spanish garrisons and their allied tribes in Florida. Although his killings were done during war parties, he was partially motivated past a dream in which he was revealed that he would non find peace after death unless he killed 100 Spaniards. Died of natural causes, telling his sons in his deathbed that he had only killed 86 Spaniards and that they should kill another 14 in his proper name.[21]
Lewis Hutchinson	British Jamaica	1760s–1773	43+	Scottish doctor and rancher known as "The Mad Master" and "The Mad Doctor of Edinburgh Castle". Shot and robbed passers-past of all types in his property, sometimes with the aid of accomplices, subsequently which the enslaved people threw the bodies in Hutchinson'due south Hole where they were devoured by animals. Hanged.[22]
Dorcas Kelly	Republic of ireland	1761 and earlier	1–five	Also known as "Darkey Kelly". Dublin brothel owner hanged and burned at the stake for the murder of a client. Four skeletons were found in her establishment afterwards her execution.[23] [24]
Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova	Russia	1755–1762	38–147	Aristocrat who beat and tortured female person serfs to death. Sentenced to life in prison house in 1768, where she died of natural causes in 1801.[25]
Crown Prince Sado	Joseon	1757–1762	100+	Serial rapist and killer who was too heir to King Yeongjo of Joseon. Sealed in a rice chest until he died eight days later.[26]
Luísa de Jesus	Portugal	1772 and earlier	28–33	Luísa de Jesus (1750 – Coimbra, one July 1772), was accused of having murdered 33 abandoned children, taken from the "foundling wheel" in the town of Coimbra, Portugal. She only confessed to 28 of the homicides. She was mortified and insulted by crowds as she was led to the gallows, had her hands cut off, was then hanged, browbeaten with a club, and burned until she was reduced to ashes in a public execution. She was the last adult female executed in Portugal.[27] [28]
Klaas Annink, Anne Spanjers and Jannes Annink	Netherlands	1774 and before	400+	Family of robber-murderers active effectually Twente. Klaas (nicknamed "Huttenkloas") and his wife, Anne, were tried and executed in 1775.[29]
Thug Behram	Mughal Empire Oudh State[30]	1790–1840	125–931	Leader of the Thuggee cult of murder-robbers in central India, too known as Buhram Jemedar and the "Male monarch of the Thugs". Behram is oft cited equally one of the virtually prolific serial killers in History (if non the nearly) with up to 931 victims, although he only admitted to accept been nowadays for that many murders, committing 125 himself and witnessing 150 or more.[31] Thuggee victims were travellers that the Thuggees latched to and befriended before strangling them with a ceremonial handkerchief (rumal) and stealing their belongings. Hanged by officers of the E India Company as part of the British colonial Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848
Micajah and Wiley Harpe	United States	1797–1803	40	Highwaymen and river pirates known every bit "Big" and "Little" Harpe, or the Harpe Brothers, who ofttimes killed people of all types for the thrill or minor slights without actual monetary gain, even babies. "Large" Harpe bashed his own infant daughter'south caput against a tree because her crying annoyed him; this was the only murder he claimed to feel lamentable near. "Big" Harpe was shot and beheaded in 1799 by people who sought vengeance for the murder of a woman, while "Little" Harpe was arrested when he took fellow outlaw Samuel Mason's head to the authorities and tried to collect a bounty put on him in 1803, but was recognized, tried and hanged in 1804.[32]
Samuel Mason	Us Spanish Louisiana	1797–1803	xx+	Highwayman and river pirate sometimes associated with the Harpe Brothers and other outlaws. Afterwards being arrested in Louisiana and turned over to American regime, Mason overpowered his guards and escaped, just was shot in the procedure. His caput was later given to the government by his accomplice Wiley Harpe who wished to collect the bounty on the fugitive Stonemason. It is unknown if Stonemason died of his injuries or Harpe killed him.[33]
Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus	Holy Roman Empire	1800–1803	three	Prussian aristocrat who poisoned her lover, hubby, and aunt, and tried to toxicant an unhappy servant, always with arsenic. Sentenced to life in prison but pardoned in 1833. Died of natural causes three years later.[34]

1801–1830 [edit]

Name	Country	Years active	Claimed victims	Notes
Patty Cannon'southward gang	United States	1802[35]–1829	four–400+[35]	Kidnapped enslaved peoples and complimentary blacks in the Delmarva Peninsula and sold them to slavers down south. Cannon, reportedly aroused by the sight of black males being beaten into submission, was arrested when four skeletons (3 children, one male adult) were plant cached in her property, though most of the gang's victims were probably rival white slavers. Cannon died in prison house while awaiting trial, nether unclear circumstances.[35]
Mary Bateman	United Kingdom	1803–1808	ane–iv	"The Yorkshire Witch". Leeds career con adult female and thief, hanged in 1809 for the arsenic poisoning of a married couple she had been scamming (the husband survived). Suspect in three more deaths.[36]
"Cerise Inn" murderers	French Empire Kingdom of France	1805–1830	1?–l+?	The owners, Pierre and Marie Martin, and a valet, Jean Rochette, were believed at the fourth dimension to have murdered upwardly to l or more travellers that stayed in their inn of Lanarce, Ardèche[37] to rob them, simply were tried for only ane murder that has been questioned since past historians. All iii were guillotined in forepart of the inn in 1833.[38] [39]
Anna Maria Zwanziger	Germany	1808–1809	3	Housekeeper who poisoned her employers with arsenic and nursed them back to health to gain their favor; three died. Sentenced to beheading in 1811, which she welcomed as the only way to keep herself from poisoning people.
John Williams	Uk	1811	7	Irish sailor who murdered two families and their servants in London'south East End past bashing their heads with a hammer and cutting their throats. Hanged himself in prison house while pending trial.[twenty]
Gesche Gottfried	Bremen Hanover	1813–1827	15	Believed today to have suffered of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, as she poisoned several of her relatives and friends with arsenic for no credible reason. Last person publicly executed in Bremen, where she was beheaded in 1831.[forty]
Konstantin Sazonov	Russia	1814–1816	half dozen–7	Servitor at Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. He killed six or seven persons at 1814–1816.[41]
Samuel Green and William Ash	United states British North America	1817–1821	thirty	Itinerant burglars, robbers and counterfeiters, sometimes acting in solitary and others in association. Greenish, considered "America'south commencement Public enemy number i", was too a rapist and the more vehement and prolific killer of the 2, while Ash helped him escape from prison multiple times. While serving a sentence for burglary, Green beat a fellow prisoner to death with an atomic number 26 rod for informing the guards of an upcoming escape plan, and was hanged every bit a issue in 1822.[42]
Thomas Jeffries (or Jeffrey)	Australia New South Wales Van Diemen's Land	1820–1826	1–eight	Called "Captain Jeffries" (a name he gave himself). Navy deserter, robber and conman deported to Australia in 1820. He escaped the penal colony with iv other convicts in 1825. While on the run, the party broke into a hut and later the Tibbs settlement. Here they killed one man, severely injured some other and kidnapped Mrs Tibbs and her baby. Jeffries himself is known to have murdered the Tibbs babe before likely assaulting Mrs Tibbs and letting her go. Following this the escapees retreated to deeper bush state. Facing starvation, they killed ane of the party for nutrient before joining up with bushranger gangs. During his fourth dimension as member of bushranger gangs he undoubtedly was political party to more vehement crimes but too petty is known to link any murders to Jeffries alone. With simply one murder, that of the Tibbs babe, committed on record, Jeffries is more accurately described as a fierce bushranger and serial rapist than series killer. Records signal he was charged with two rapes, in addition to that of Mrs Tibbs during 1825 alone. He was too reputedly ejected from bushranger Matthew Brady'southward gang for molesting women Hanged.[43] [44]
Edme Castaing	French republic	1822	one–2	Physician believed to take poisoned two lawyer brothers with morphine in the span of 3 months, although he was only convicted of murdering the 2d victim and destroying the will of the first one. Guillotined in 1823.[45]
Alexander Pearce	Commonwealth of australia	1822–1823	2–5	Irishman deported in 1819 to Tasmania. He escaped the convict settlement with seven other convicts in 1824 into the Bush. The group was led by Robert Greenhill considering he was the only one with a weapon - the axe used to impale members of the party for food when starvation ensued (ironically in a region abundant with edible plants and other bush-league tucker). Subsequently the beginning such murder for survival (unlikely to accept been committed by the undersized weaponless Pearce), three of the seven decamped. Pearce escaped being the 2d of the party murdered for nutrient earlier i of the remaining three was fatally bitten by a snake. Only Pearce and Greenhill remained. Pearce was the simply one left alive to accomplish the eastern settlements. Pearce was recaptured and sent back to Macquaire Harbor captive settlement as his claims of murder and cannibalism weren't believed, and escaped soon after with another convict, Thomas Cox. This fourth dimension Pearce killed and ate his companion in less than ten days, when he surrendered voluntarily to the authorities. Information technology is difficult to justify calling Pearce a series killer equally he only killed two people on his own and was at most one of Greenhill'due south accomplices in two earlier survival murders. However, if more than fictional sensationalism to sell newspapers, his reported last words of "Homo's mankind is delicious. It tastes far amend than fish or pork" suggest he may have become ane had he lived. Hanged in 1824.[43] [46]
William Shush and William Hare	Britain	1828	16	Lured, intoxicated and murdered people to sell their bodies to Dr. Robert Knox who used them in his anatomy classes at Edinburgh Medical School. Their usual method was compressing the chest of the victims in a process henceforth known as "burking". Hare was given immunity in exchange for testifying against Burke, who was hanged in 1829, while Knox was never prosecuted. Burke's fiancée was as well tried but her implication was found non proven.[47]
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright	Great britain	1830	one–iv	Writer and painter believed to have poisoned his sister-in-law to collect a life insurance he recently purchased, and possibly likewise his uncle, mother-in-police and a friend. Having fled to France, he was arrested upon his return to Britain in 1837, only could not exist prosecuted for lack of evidence. Instead he was tried for, and establish guilty of, an unrelated case of forgery, for which he was exiled to Tasmania, where he died of natural causes in 1847.[48]
John Bishop and Thomas Williams	United Kingdom	1830–1831	5	Called the "London Burkers". Copycats of Burke and Hare that were active in London.[49] Hanged.[50]

1831–1850 [edit]

Proper name	Country	Years active	Claimed victims	Notes
Delphine LaLaurie	United States	1831–1834	2–four	New Orleans socialite that tortured and maimed enslaved peoples. Seven chained and mutilated enslaved people were rescued after a fire broke out in LaLaurie'due south mansion, of which two died of their injuries presently afterward, and three buried skeletons were later discovered in her property (according to witnesses, one had died in an blow). The case caused outrage in Louisiana merely LaLaurie fled to France and was never prosecuted.[51] Died of natural causes betwixt 1842 and 1849.
Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh	United states of america	1833–1845	ii	Poisoned two alcoholic husbands with arsenic. Hanged in 1846.[52]
Hélène Jégado	France	1833–1851	23–36	Kleptomaniac domestic servant who robbed and poisoned her employers and relatives with arsenic and antimony. She poisoned during two different periods separated by ten years, 1833 to 1841 and her final spree in 1851. Because the statute of limitations for the get-go spree had already run out, she was only tried for three murders and three attempts and guillotined in 1852.[53]
Pierre François Lacenaire	France	1834–1835	2	Poet, regular army defector and thief. Helped by two accomplices, Lacenaire stabbed a sometime prison cellmate and his mother in Paris, and subsequently attacked a banking company employee that survived. They intended to rob the victims but none of the hits produced any money. While in prison for an unrelated offense, one of the accomplices, Victor Avril, blamed Lacenaire for the murders, and Lacenaire reacted by making a detailed confession that ensured both Lacenaire and Avril would be found guilty and executed. Lacenaire's response and his willingness to answer messages and receive visitors in prison, along with the publication of his memoirs, fabricated him a celebrity. The 2 men were guillotined in 1836.[54]
Hannah Hanson Kinney	United States	1835–1840	0–iii	Believed at the time to have poisoned two husbands and a begetter in law; although arsenic was constitute in two bodies, she was found not guilty because of lack of further evidence.[55]
John Lynch	New Southward Wales	1835–1841	9–10	"The Berrima Axe Murderer". Irish gaelic convict turned bushranger who killed his victims with a unmarried hatchet accident to the dorsum of the head. His acquittal at a murder trial in 1835, while his two accomplices were hanged, had convinced him that God approved of his crimes. Hanged in 1842.[56]
Sarah Dazley	United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland	1840–1843	1–3	Hanged for the murder of her second husband, who was poisoned with arsenic. Believed to accept poisoned her commencement husband and child as well.[57]
John Johnston (or Johnson)	Us	1843–?	300+	Mountain man chosen "Liver-Eating Johnson" and Dapiek Absaroka ("Crow Killer" in Apsáalooke). Moved to the Rocky Mountains with frontiersman John Hatcher in 1843; the 2 killed iv Arapaho and Hatcher taught Johnson to scalp them. In 1847, his significant married woman, a fellow member of the Flathead Nation, was killed and scalped by Crow warriors. Johnson is said to have embarked and so on a vendetta against the Crow Nation that lasted for years and during which he murdered, scalped and ate the livers of 300 Crow warriors, although Thrapp (1991) considers this number inflated and incompatible with the Crow population at the time.[58] Died of natural causes in 1900.[59]
Manuel Blanco Romasanta	Kingdom of spain	1844–1852	9–14	"The Werewolf of Allariz". While on the run from his outset murder (a constable killed over a debt), Romasanta assumed a new identity and offered his services equally a mount guide to women and children, whom he murdered, later on selling their clothing (and co-ordinate to rumor, likewise making soap fabricated from their body fat). Post-obit his abort, he confessed to xiii murders, which he claimed were committed involuntarily during his transformation into a wolf as a result of a curse. He was found guilty of nine and sentenced to dice by garrote. This was changed to life in prison following a petition by doctors who wished to study him further. He died in jail in 1863.[threescore]
Edward Rulloff	Us	1844–1870	two–7	Chosen "The Genius Killer" and "The Man of 2 Lives". Medical doctor and philologist who had a parallel career as an armed robber and con man. Tried for the murder of his wife and daughter in 1846, he was given ten years for kidnapping because neither body was always plant; he was arrested again in 1870 for the murder of a clerk during a robbery. Hanged in 1871.[61]
William Palmer	Britain	1846?–1855	1–10	Gambling-fond md who poisoned friends and relatives with strychnine and ammonia, usually to collect life insurances or to keep money that the victims lent him; also suspected in the death of four of his newborns. Tried for i murder and hanged in 1856.[62]
Juhani Aataminpoika	One thousand Duchy of Finland	1849	12	Serial killer, who murdered 12 people in southern Finland between October and November in 1849, and he was too known by nickname "Kerpeikkari", which means 'executioner'. He was initially sentenced to death, but the judgement was changed by order of the Emperor to xl lashes and life imprisonment in Suomenlinna. He has been characterized as the offset serial killer in Finland.[63] [64]
Diogo Alves	Portugal	1836-1841	70+	Serial killer, who murdered 70 people in Águas Livres Aqueduct between 1836 until his execution in 1841, thus earning the title "Aqueduct Murderer".[65] He was sentenced to death and hanged on Feb 19, 1841. The head of the killer was separated from the torso and placed in a flask to preserve it for scientific purposes, where it is now a tourist attraction.[66]

1851–1880 [edit]

Name	Country	Years active	Claimed victims	Notes
Boone Helm	United states of america British Columbia	1851–1864	8–24+	Desperado agile through western North America who killed several men in alcohol-induced fights or to rob them. Engaged in survival cannibalism at least in one case. Hanged.[67]
Mary Ann Cotton wool	United Kingdom	c. 1852–1873	21	Poisoned her husbands, lovers and children with arsenic. Hanged.[ citation needed ]
Catherine Wilson	United Kingdom	1854[35]–1862	1–eight	Nurse believed to have poisoned her husband and 7 patients with colchicum (plus a failed attempt, with sulphuric acid), but tried for only one. Terminal woman publicly hanged in London.[68]
Martin Dumollard	France	1855–1861	three–30+	Lured women to Lyon with promises of piece of work and so killed them. Tried and guillotined in 1862. His wife, Marie-Anne Martinet, was found guilty of assisting him and sentenced to 20 years of difficult labor in a women's prison.[69] She died in 1875.
Lydia Sherman	United States	1858[70]–1871	ten	"The Derby Poisoner". Confessed to poisoning 3 husbands and 7 children with arsenic.[71] Died in prison.
Edward William Pritchard	United Kingdom	1863?–1865	ii–3	Doctor who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law with antimony; also a doubtable in the death of a maid who had officially died in a fire two years before. Hanged.[72]
The Bloody Espinosas	U.s.a.	1863	8[73]	Gang formed kickoff by Neomexicano road bandit brothers Felipe Nerio and José Vivián Espinosa, and afterward José Vivián's death by Felipe Nerio and nephew José Vicente, who acted in Conejos County, Colorado. Following a skirmish with the U.S. Regular army, the Espinosas alleged war on the U.s.a. and decided to impale as many Anglos equally they could, until they were tracked and killed past adventurer Tom Tobin and soldiers of Fort Garland.[73]
Dan Morgan	New South Wales Victoria	1864–1865	3	Violent bushranger who robbed railroad stations and shot hostages without necessity; one railroad worker and ii police sergeants died. Shot expressionless in a standoff with Victoria police.[74]
Thomas and John Clarke	New South Wales	1861–1867	v	Trigger-happy bushranger brothers who robbed travelers and farms and shot and killed 5 police officers. Their activities led to the passing of the Felons Anticipation Act of 1866 that allowed citizens to kill bushrangers on sight. Hanged.[75]
Matti Haapoja	Finland Russian Empire	1867–1894	three–10	Known to take killed 3 in Finland and suspected of 7 more murders, v of them in Siberia, to which he had been exiled in the 1880s. Also wounded vi people. Killed himself in prison in 1895.[76] [77]
"Wild" Bill Longley	United States	1869–1878	32	Racist gunfighter who claimed to have killed 32 people, about of whom were unarmed blacks and Mexicans. Hanged for the murder of a childhood friend.[78]
Margaret Waters	Great britain	1870 and earlier	19	Baby farmer who drugged and starved children in her intendance. Convicted of 1 murder and hanged.[79]
Juan Díaz de Garayo	Spain	1870–1879	half-dozen	Known as El Sacamantecas ("The Fat Extractor"). Strangled women after having sex with them—kickoff willingly, and so by strength. Garroted in 1881.[eighty]
Jesse Pomeroy	United States	1871–1874	two	Called "The Male child Fiend" and "The Inhuman Scamp". Beginning at historic period 12, he lured younger children and tortured them for his sexual pleasance, killing 2. Youngest person sentenced to death by the land of Massachusetts, afterward changed to life in prison under solitary solitude which was but lifted in 1917. Died in prison in 1931 of natural causes.[81]
The Encarmine Benders	United States	1872–1873	x–12[35]	Family of 4 who endemic an inn and small general shop in Labette County in southeastern Kansas from 1871 to 1873. They murdered around eleven clients, using a mallet and a pocketknife to rob them.[35] They fled when their crimes were discovered.[82] Their fate is unknown, although 2 members of the posse that establish the bodies made deathbed confessions decades after where they claimed to have tracked downward and murdered the family unit.[35]
Stephen Dee Richards	United States	1876-1878	half-dozen–9	"The Nebraska Fiend". Confessed to killing 2 men, one woman and her three children, in all cases only ane to rob the victims. Hanged in 1879.[83] [84]
Bochum Serial Sex activity Murderer	Federal republic of germany	1878–1882	8	Raped, strangled and mutilated women walking or working lone in the country. Wilhelm Schiff was found guilty of 3 murders and beheaded in January 1882, but the crimes continued until May of that year. Moral panic over the series killings contributed to the full restoration of capital punishment in the German states past 1885, later a hiatus of x to fifteen years.[85]
Victor Prévost	France	1867–1879	ii–4	Former butcher and policeman known as "The Butcher of the Chapel". Was charged with the murders of two people, with an boosted two other murders suspected. Killed his victims for profit via edgeless force trauma before disembowling them. Later on executed via guillotine on xix January 1880.[86]
Thomas Neill Cream	Canada United States United Kingdom	1879–1892	five–8	Doctor known equally "The Lambeth Poisoner". Poisoned 1 human being and several women with chloroform and strychnine, attempting to frame and then blackmail other men for the murders in some cases. Allegedly confessed to be Jack the Ripper before his execution by hanging in 1892, although he was in prison at the time of the Ripper murders.[87]
Amelia Dyer	United Kingdom	1879–1896	six–400+	Baby farmer who strangled the babies in her intendance. Hanged.[88]
Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins	Uk	1880–1883	four–eight[35]	"The Black Widows of Liverpool". Killed at least 4 people past poisoning in order to obtain insurance money. Hanged in 1884.[89]
Maria Swanenburg	Netherlands	1880–1883	27–90+	Killed at to the lowest degree 27 people past poisoning with arsenic, suspected of over 90 deaths. She murdered for the victims' insurance or inheritance. Sentenced to life in prison, she died in 1915.[xc]
Robert Butler	New Zealand Australia	1880–1905	i–4	Irish-built-in infiltrator and highwayman. Arrested in 1880 for the murder-robbery of a family of three in Dunedin, simply acquitted because all evidence was coexisting. Hanged years subsequently in Queensland for shooting a man.[91]
Francisco Guerrero	Mexico	1880–1908[92] [93]	21	Known as El Chalequero ("The Vests Man"). An open up misogynist, between 1880 and 1888 he raped and killed 20 women in Mexico City, oftentimes claimed to be prostitutes, strangling them or cutting their throats, in some cases also decapitating them. He and so threw their bodies in the Consulado river. Tried for one murder and another attempt, his initial death penalty was changed to 20 years in prison and was indulted in 1904. In 1908, he raped and murdered an old woman and was again given the death punishment, but died in prison of natural causes before he could be executed. Guerrero predates Jack the Ripper by viii years.

After 1881 [edit]

Proper name	State	Years active	Claimed victims	Notes
Émile Dubois	France Republic of bolivia Chile	1882–1905	6	French criminal and murderer who killed six people in three unlike countries. He was captured in 1905 and, after a trial, plant guilty of the murders committed in Chile and executed by 4 riflemen on 26 March 1907.[94]
Retainer Girl Annihilator	United States	1884–1885	eight	Unidentified killer, also nicknamed "The Austin Axe Murderer". Abducted women from their bedrooms at night, raped and killed them, striking them with an axe or stabbing them with a knife or other atomic number 26 implement, always in the head. Two husbands sleeping with their wives were dispatched starting time with a single strike from an axe (one died) just children, when present, were usually not harmed. The first 5 women targeted were blackness servants sleeping in cabins; the last two, white women in houses.[95] Some sources proper noun Nathan Elgin (1866–1886), an African-American melt shot by police while he was assaulting a daughter, as the likely culprit.[96] [97]
Martha Needle	Victoria S Australia	1885–1894	v	Poisoned her husband and three children, and her new fiancé'southward two brothers (ane of whom survived) with arsenic. Hanged.[98]
Jane Toppan	United states	1885–1901	31	Nurse who confessed to poisoning 31 people in her intendance and lying in bed with them as they died for her own sexual gratification. Plant not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a mental infirmary in which she remained for the rest of her life.[99]
Mary Ann Britland	Uk	1886	3	She murdered her daughter, her husband, and the wife of her lover with mouse poison, and was hanged for her crimes.[100]
H. H. Holmes	United States Canada	1886[101]–1894	nine–230+	Notorious for designing and building a "Murder Castle" where he tortured, killed, dissected and incinerated the bodies of people who had come to visit the 1893 World'southward Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He cashed in the victims' life insurance and sometimes kept and mounted their skeletons to sell them to medical institutions. Also killed an accomplice (by called-for him live) and 3 of his accomplice'southward children. Confessed to 27 murders, although the police estimated 230 victims in Chicago alone later examining the "Castle". Hanged in 1896.[102] [103]
Thames Body Murderer	Uk	1887–1889	iv	Unidentified killer who left the dismembered remains of victims in or near the Thames River.
The Kelly Family	United States	1887	eleven+	The Kelly Family unit was a family of serial killers who operated nigh a Kansas town called Oak City between August and December 1887. The family unit consisted of William Kelly (55); his married woman Kate; his son Neb, also called 'Baton' (20) and girl, Kit (18). Originally from Pennsylvania, the family unit is believed to have murdered 11 wealthy travelers, akin to the Bloody Benders a decade earlier.[104]
Albert Schmidt	New Due south Wales	1888-1890	3+	A German immigrant who murdered at least three travelling companions from 1888 to 1890 before execution in 1890. Also known equally "The Wagga Murderer."[105]
Jack the Ripper	United Kingdom	1888–1891?	5–11	Unidentified killer who stabbed at least 5 prostitutes and mutilated four in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London.[106] Several suspects take been named over the years.
Johann Otto Hoch	United States Austria-Hungary (alleged) France (alleged) United Kingdom (alleged)	1888?–1905	i–50+	High german con man who married women under false identities, swindled and poisoned them with arsenic. Hanged in 1906 for one murder, just suspected to take committed between xv and 55.[107]
Minnie Dean	New Zealand	1889?–1895	3+	Baby farmer hanged for the murder of three infants that were found buried in her property.[108] Only woman executed in the History of New Zealand.
Frederick Bailey Deeming	United Kingdom Victoria	1891	6	Killed his wife and four children (cutting their throats, except one daughter that was strangled) and buried their bodies in concrete under a rented house in Rainhill, England. He then fled with his mistress to Windsor, Victoria, where he bludgeoned her and cut her pharynx, and too buried the body in concrete in some other rented business firm. The discovery of the terminal body led to his arrest and the uncovering of the ones in Rainhill, attracting the attention of the international press, which considered him the possible identity of Jack the Ripper. Hanged in 1892.[109]
John and Sarah Makin	New South Wales	1892 and before[110]	12–13	Infant farmers who murdered infants in their intendance. John was hanged in 1893 simply Sarah's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and difficult labor. She was paroled in 1911 and died seven years subsequently of natural causes.
Lizzie Halliday	United States Ireland (alleged)	1893?–1906	5–8	"The Worst Woman on Globe". Acquitted of killing her stepson past burning downward their New York family dwelling house in 1893. Afterward her husband disappeared the following year, a search of their farm found the bodies of 2 women in the hayloft who had been shot to decease; the married man'due south mutilated body was institute nether the floorboards of the house a few days afterward. Halliday was bedevilled of the murders, becoming the first woman sentenced to die in the electric chair, merely her sentence was later commuted to being interned in an asylum afterwards she was establish to be insane. In 1906, she killed an asylum's nurse with a pair of scissors. Some other stepson claimed that Halliday had confided to him that she had murdered a previous hubby in Belfast, but had concealed the crime successfully.[111] [112] Died in 1918.
Louise Vermilya	Usa	1893–1911	9	Believed to have poisoned seven relatives and two boarders with arsenic in Chicago for economic proceeds. May have attempted suicide with arsenic while in habitation arrest in 1911,[113] if so she survived and saw all charges dismissed in 1915.[114]
Frances Knorr	Victoria	c. 1894	2	Baby farmer hanged for the murder of two babies that were plant buried in her property.[115]
Harry T. Hayward	United States	1894 and before	ane–4	"The Minneapolis Svengali." Gambler and serial arsonist who confessed to three other unreported murders subsequently being found guilty of one. Hanged in 1895.[116]
Joseph Vacher	France	1894–1897	11–27+	Mentally ill vagrant known as "The French Ripper" and the "Ripper of the S-Due east", although he was likewise agile in fundamental and northern French republic. Raped, stabbed and disembowelled women, teenage boys and girls who worked lonely in the countryside. Guillotined in 1898.[117]
Theodore Durrant	U.s.	1895	2	"The Demon of the Belfry". San Francisco sunday school instructor who raped and strangled two women who rebuffed his romantic advances, then abandoned their bodies in the church's library and bell bedchamber. Took role in the search for the first victim and suggested that she had been kidnapped and taken out of town. Hanged in 1898.[118]
Belle Gunness	The states	1896?–1908?	21–42+	Murderer for turn a profit who killed her relatives, employees and several suitors that she contacted through lonely hearts ads in Norwegian language newspapers of the Midwest, dismembering and burial most under a craven coop in La Porte, Indiana. The 1900 strychnine poisoning of Gunness' start husband is often reported equally her first murder, just the deaths of two of her children in 1896 and 1898 (who were insured) manifested similar symptoms. Reported dead, forth with her three remaining children, in a fire that destroyed her farmhouse in 1908, fifty-fifty though the children's bodies contained strychnine and the woman's body found next to them was decapitated and smaller than Gunness'. Several people claimed to meet her alive in the post-obit years.[55]
George Chapman	United Kingdom	1897–1902	3	Poisoned three of his mistresses with tartar emetic. Suspected at the time of his execution by hanging in 1903 to be the real identity of Jack the Ripper.[119]

Legendary serial killers [edit]

The existence of the post-obit serial killers is dubious or contradicts the accepted historical tape:

Proper noun	Country	Time Period	Notes
Andrew Christie	Scotland	1320–1339	Called "Christie-Cleek". Purported Perth butcher turned road bandit, murderer and cannibal during a astringent famine.[120]
Christman Genipperteinga	Holy Roman Empire	1568–1581	Claimed German bandit who was executed for 964 murders, according to a 1581 pamphlet. Possibly inspired past existent bandit Peter Niers, who confessed under torture to 544 deaths and was executed in the same year, although similar characters appear in German fairy tales and folk songs from before that time.[121]
Sawney Bean's clan	Scotland	1575–1600	Claimed cannibal family that robbed, killed and ate travellers in a cave of Bennane Caput, until their manhunt and execution past James VI. Contemporary documents make no reference to the hundreds of disappearances and murders said to have been carried by Bean'south association, which was probably inspired past the earlier fable of Christie-Cleek.[122]
Sweeney Todd	United Kingdom	1790–1801	London barber said to kill his clients by slashing their throats and/or throwing them through a trapdoor, after which an accomplice would make pies with the meat of their bodies. Introduced in the 1846–1847 penny dreadful The Cord of Pearls, Todd was first claimed to be a real criminal in the first published edition of 1850, supposedly tried in December 1801 and executed in January 1802. Courtroom records of the time practice not mention Todd or anyone like.[123]
Don Vincente	Spain	1834–1836	Bibliomaniac ex-monk and librarian said to have killed ten men in Barcelona in order to steal unique books and add them to his collection, sentenced for his crimes to die by garrote. The story, first published equally an anonymous article in an 1836 Parisian paper, was reprinted as a true story in France for a century, while remaining largely unknown in Spain.[124]
Agnus McVee, Jim McVee and Al Riley	Canada	1875–1885	Family unit claimed to have endemic a hotel and shop on the Cariboo Road of British Columbia during the Cariboo Aureate Rush, where they killed miners for their gold and kidnapped women and forced into sex activity trafficking against their volition until their arrest and death in prison in New Westminster. The story comes from a single source and there are no records of disappearances in the area at the time of the murders nor existing decease certificates of the supposed serial killers apprehended.[125]

See also [edit]

• List of serial killers by country
• List of serial killers by number of victims

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