the term serial killer was first widely used in the 1980s and is defined as a person who murders
three or more people usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification
taking place over a significant period of time most serial killings are motivated by
anger thrill seeking financial gain and attention seeking anyone would be shocked
and horrified by the names on this list it's the most deadly serial killers of all time
one of the most infamous american serial killers is john wayne gacy aka the killer
clown gacy performed in clown attire at children's parties as his clown alter egos pogo or patches
and admitted to wearing his costume while sexually assaulting torturing and strangling his victims
primarily young boys who he would lure to his home but it wasn't until 1978 that authorities
discovered several trenches filled with human remains in the crawl space under his house gacy
confessed and was convicted of killing 33 people and was executed by lethal injection in 1994
robert willie picton was a canadian pig farmer who preyed on sex workers and was nicknamed
pork chop rob due to his gruesome method for disposing of his victims feeding the bodies
to his pigs grinding up the remains mixing them with ground pork and selling them to the public
in 2002 police searched the property and discovered the personal items of
several missing women 80 unknown dna sequences frozen meat containing the dna of two women
and a gun with a dildo concealing the barrel picton told an undercover police
officer that he had killed 49 women and was upset it wasn't an even 50.
nicknamed the monster killer yang ji hai is china's most prolific serial killer between
1999 and 2003 he terrorized several provinces killing 67 people and committing 23 rapes his
method wasn't elegant he would sneak into homes at night and use any household items he found
knives axes shovels hammers to kill he left no witnesses and disguised
his appearance by wearing large clothes and shoes while committing his crimes
he confessed to his crime saying when i killed people i had a desire to kill more
i don't care whether they deserve to live or not it is none of my concern after confessing to his
crimes his trial in 2004 lasted only an hour and he was executed following his conviction
mikhail popkov was a police officer in russia by day moonlighting as a serial killer he was
nicknamed the werewolf because of how horribly he mutilated the bodies of his victims
popkov patrolled the streets of siberia hunting for immoral women who were drunk
and behaving frivolously with the mission to clean the city he would offer them rides and
kill them with whatever he had including knives axes baseball bats and screwdrivers
apparently he was an exemplary family man who loved his wife and daughter
although it's believed he began killing after suspecting his wife of cheating on him
in 2015 he was convicted of killing 22 women even though he later admitted to more than 80 murders
samuel little is the most contemporary killer on this list and the fbi is still
working on identifying a number of his victims the agency describes little
as the most prolific serial killer in u.s history believed to have killed 93 people
he began killing in the 70s and managed to go undetected for over three decades because
most of his victims were sex workers the homeless and drug addicts living on the fringes of society
ted bundy is easily the most famous killer in american history he became a media sensation
in the 1970s due to his charm good looks victim profile which was college-aged women
and managing to break out of jail twice he's been the subject of several movies documentaries and
books he is the chief suspect in 36 murders but experts believe he killed 100 or more
he often lured his victims to his car taking them somewhere to rape and bludgeon them to death
he was captured for good in connection to several murders at a sorority and bite marks on some of
the victims matched him definitively he was executed by electric chair in 1989
during a span of just six months in 1999 javed iqbal murdered 100 runaway boys in lahore pakistan
javed would lure a boy to his home where he sexually abused him strangled him
often with a chain then chopped the body into pieces and dissolved it in a barrel of acid he
kept a detailed journal of his victims one day after eluding the police for months he entered
a newspaper office handed over his journal and announced that he had killed 100 children
he was convicted of all 100 murders and the judge sentenced him to be publicly executed in the
fashion that he killed his victims he committed suicide in prison america's first truly infamous
serial killer was h.h holmes he was also a con artist and combined these two devilish acts with
horrific success in the late 1800s he got engaged to several women secured their savings then
killed them and sold their bodies to local medical schools craziest of all in 1893 he opened a hotel
for the sole purpose of killing tourists visiting for the 1893 world's colombian exposition the
murder castle had secret passages and soundproof rooms for torture and killing trapdoors and shoots
gas jets and a kiln researchers believed he killed over 200 people he was hanged in 1896
britain's most prolific serial killer is harold shipman aka dr death his co-workers
grew suspicious of the amounts of morphine he was prescribing and the number of his patients
who were passing away of old age according to him in 1998 he was caught forging the will of
one of his patients and her natural death was revisited and ruled a homicide he was convicted
on 15 counts of murder although experts believed he likely killed at least 215 of his patients
in 1999 he was sentenced to life in prison but in 2004 he hung himself in his cell
the monster of the andes is no urban legend for a decade pedro lopez terrorized areas of colombia
peru and ecuador killing over 300 poor and indigenous young girls in 1980 he was arrested
for trying to kidnap a girl and confessed to the murders of 53 others that he'd strangled and
dumped into previous dug graves he was sentenced to 20 years in prison the maximum in ecuador
then confessed to killing an additional 240 girls in colombia peru and ecuador in 1998 he seemed to
have vanished some believe he was killed in prison but others say he was released on bail or escaped
the deadliest known serial killer of all time is louis garavito or simply the beast believed
to have killed over 300 people he roamed colombia preying upon the young poor and homeless garavito
would disguise himself as a monk or a priest to lure boys to his home promising money or food
the bodies were usually discovered with bite marks on them and the crime scene was surrounded
by bottles of liquor garavito confessed to the murders of 140 boys and claimed that his body
had been taken over by a superior being he was sentenced to 1835 years in prison
these 11 evil men have the collective blood of roughly 1500 people on their hands it's tragic
and disturbing so why are we so fascinated by such atrocious people perhaps it's the
notion that humans have the capacity to be this evil and disturbed either way congratulations
you've survived an exploration of the most sick twisted and deadly killers of all time
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