Notorious Murderers and Serial Killers

Somewhere around 175 to 200. Over eighty of those killers were females. I'm not sure where that information came from but I suspect it is not correct. That is saying women commit over 40% of serial murders. White male are responsible for over 80% of all the serial murders.

Belle Gunness (1896-1908) was responsible for killing 49 people on her small farm in La Porte, Indiana, just outside of Chicago. Her victims included ranch workers, vagrant females, adopted children and her many husbands.

She ranks in the female serial killer statistics as number 2.

1. Countess Erzebe

2. Belle Gunness

3. Mary Ann Cotton

4. Rosemary West

5. Aileen Wuornos

Assassination of Juan María De Araluce Villar happened on 1976-10-04.

Sante Kimes was 79 years old when he died on May 19, 2014 (birthdate: July 24, 1934).

their was the Charleston Sniper but they think they caught him

As a psychic, Hurkos worked on two high profile murder cases. One was the Boston Strangler who raped and murdered thirteen women from 1962 to 1964. Albert DeSalvo confessed to the crimes. Hurkos hadn't able to identify him as the murderer.

His name is Idham Henyansyah aka Ryan. Hi's known as The Smiling Serial Killer from Indonesia. He is charged of bludgeoning 10 victims and burying them in his parents backyard. He was caught spreading the reamins of his 11th victim through south Jakarta.

The rokkenjima mass murder of 1986.

//Throughout history there have been many crafty, careful and extremely lucky killers. The Green River Killer, Gary Leon Ridgeway, took two decades to apprehend. Science in the form of DNA finally brought down the quiet, church-going Ridgeway who confessed to over 60 murders, so many he could not remember them all.

Dennis Rader aka BTK from Kansas stumped law enforcement again for over 20 years. Like Ridgeway, Rader was discovered thanks to technology. He used a computer to correspond with detectives after he was assured by them that it was untraceable. They lied. Rader, a church elder and upstanding citizen, used the church's computer.

Ted Kaczynski, aka Unibomber, was finally arrested, ending this 'killer via mail''s crime career that lasted from 1978 to 1995.

Yes!! Kingston Pen!!

Italy had some serial killers during the last century. One odd serial killer to come across is Leonarda Cianciulli, the so-called "Soap-Maker of Correggio" who murdered three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap.

Italian authorities have an issue divulging on going investigations. That is why this question is hind of hard to answer. The best answer you could get is that most probably there is one. The fact is that a number of Serial Killers over the years have committed serial murder in Italy a no person have been apprehended.

some of the most famous serial killers were homosexuals, but they became widely known due to the nature of their crimes or the identities of their victims, not because they in any way represent serial killers generally. we had effrey Dahmer, Andrew Cunanan and John Wayne Gacy to name some.

H.H. Holmes was actually Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861-May 7, 1896), an American serial killer who was executed for murder.

The exact number of victims is not certain but the estimated total is somewhere between 3 and 11.

He began as impulsive killer rather than planned killer when he killed his grandmother. He was diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia and was also found to have a near-genius IQ. He scored 136. He stood at 6 feet 9 inches. He was released from prison in 1969 for killing his grandmother and had his juvenile records expunged.

1972 and 1973 he committed the serial killings. He would pick girls hitchhiking taking them to isolated rural areas and killing them. He would stab, shoot or smother the victims and afterwards take them back to his apartment where he would have sex with their decapitated heads and bodies and then dissect them. He totaled ten victims.

He was given the whole 8 counts of homicide and he wanted the death sentence. No can't do, this is California, so he received the life penalty.

Peterson was entitled to a speedy trial by a jury of his peers, which he received. He was also, under the law, innocent until proven guilty. He was proven guilty. Other than that, the murder of his wife and unborn son resulted in new legislation making it first degree murder to kill an unborn baby by first killing the mother.

German murder victim Hannah Wiedeck was 14 years old when she died on August 29, 2007 (born March 10, 1993). Her killer was sentenced to life in prison.

Farmer...Embalmer....Calmer...Llama...etc.

He covered his tracks so well that many had disappeared and died before their family and/or friends even had an idea that something was wrong. He told massive lies to everybody and certainly had no problem in killing if he felt threatened by discovery.

Lavinia Fisher is widely recognized as the first female serial killer in the USA. She was born in 1793 and was executed on February 18, 1820 at the age of either 26 or 27.

There has recently been a suspected serial killer that has killed a young woman in Georgia and another in Florida. But it wasn't Norcross. The last info that I have found they were still tying the two together based on similar MO's. Many times with serial killers the public may know very little until a suspect has been caught. The FBI estimates that at any given time there could be 50 to 100 serial killers 'working' in the US. Since the US has the whopping majority of serial killers, %86 give or take, that gives us an idea about other country's killers.

He will be charged of murder in the first degree. This could bring several different cases of murder in the first degree. Mostly killers are executed but a few get life imprisorment.

Try Google William Bonin and hit images.

George Russell was arrested in September 1990 for a misdemeanor, he was then linked to 3 murders in the Bellevue, WA area. He was convicted of all 3 murders, young women he was familiar with (they all frequented the same night clubs in the area), and sentenced to 3 life-with-no-parole terms. Saved from the death penalty only because the state of Washington had no death penalty at the time of his sentencing. He now resides at Clallam Bay Corrections Center in Clallam Bay, WA.

She did. It is no secret that Wuornos had a difficult childhood, which is a common story for serial killers. Wournos did exhibit some of the behaviors typically seen in male serial killers. Chronic lying, shoplifting, starting fires, hypersexual and sexually active at an early age. Wuornos was about eleven when she had her first sexual encounter. Poor impulse control, Wuornos was very unpredictable and had an explosive temper. She had a blantant disrespect for rules and laws.