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Why are there so many serial killers in the USA and the UK?

United Kingdom


* Beverley Allitt aka "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991
* Levi Bellfield aka "The Bus Stalker Killer"; murdered two female students, attempted to kill a third, and is suspected of up to 20 more attacks and murders; prime suspect in the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler
* Robert Black Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected of many more
* Ian Brady and Myra Hindley aka "Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17 and buried them in Saddleworth Moor
* Leslie Bailey killed at least three young boys in and around London in the 1980s
* William Burke and William Hare notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh in the 19th century
* George Chapman poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper
* John Childs murdered six people between 1974 and 1978; sentenced to life imprisonment
* Robert George Clements doctor who murdered one wife but committed suicide before being arrested; three previous wives died in suspicious circumstances
* John Christie killed seven women (including his wife) and disputably one infant between 1943 and 1953 and hid them in his house and garden at 10 Rillington Place
* Mary Ann Cotton British Victorian killer; said to have taken more than 20 victims
* Thomas Neill Cream aka "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892
* Amelia Dyer murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896
* Kenneth Erskine aka "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners
* Steven Grieveson aka "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in 1993 and 1994
* John George Haigh aka the "Acid Bath Murderer" and the "Vampire of London"; active in England during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have killed 9; executed in 1949
* Anthony Hardy aka the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four
* Trevor Hardy aka "The Beast in the Night"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976
* Colin Ireland aka "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s
* Michael Lupo aka "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders
* Bruce George Peter Lee serial arsonist and killer
* Patrick Mackay charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people
* Peter Manuel Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958
* Robert Maudsley killer of four; killed three in prison
* Peter Moore businessman who killed four men at random in Wales
* Donald Neilson aka "Black Panther; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle
* Dennis Nilsen killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983
* Colin Norris nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals
* William Palmer aka "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856
* Mark Rowntree 19 year old who killed four people at random
* Amelia Sach and Annie Walters murdered an unknown number of babies put up for adoption
* Harold Shipman doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year period
* George Joseph Smith aka "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women
* John Straffen child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007
* Peter Sutcliffe aka the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980
* Fred West and Rosemary West aka "House of Horrors"; she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at the couple's home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial
* Steve Wright aka "The Suffolk Strangler" or "The Ipswich Ripper"; killed 5 women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006

United States of America

* Richard Angelo aka "The Angel of Death"; nurse who killed 25 patients on Long Island, New York
* Joe Ball aka "The Alligator Man"; killed at least 20 women in the early 20th century in Texas
* David Berkowitz aka "Son of Sam" and "The .44 Caliber Killer"; convicted of six murders in New York
* Bloody Benders family who killed guests at their inn in Labette County, Kansas in 1872
* Robert Berdella convicted of killing six men in 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri; sexually tortured and dismembered his victims
* Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr. aka the "Hillside Strangler"; killers of 13 women and possibly involved in three other killings
* Richard Fran Biegenwald convicted of killing five people in the early 1980s in the Asbury Park, New Jersey area; suspected in at least six other murders
* Arthur Gary Bishop Utah man who murdered five young boys; executed in 1988
* William Bonin aka "The Freeway Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
* Robert Charles Browne convicted of two murders in Colorado; confessed to 48 murders
* Jerry Brudos aka "The Lust Killer" and "Shoe Fetish Slayer"; killed at least five women in Oregon
* Ted Bundy law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states
* David Carpenter aka the "Trailside Killer"; murdered five women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981
* Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson nomadic hippie killers involved in the counter-culture movement; suspects in 12 homicides; sentenced to life imprisonment for three San Francisco Bay Area murders in 1983
* Dean Carter murdered at least four women
* Richard Chase aka "The Vampire of Sacramento"; murdered six people in California the 1970s
* Ray Copeland and Faye Copeland oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States at the ages of 69 and 75; convicted of killing five men; modus operandi was to hire unskilled drifters as farm hands and later kill them
* Dean Corll, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks committed the Houston Mass Murders in the 1970s
* Juan Corona California killer convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971
* Andrew Cunanan murdered five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, in a cross-country journey during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at the age of 27
* Charles Cullen nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who killed as many as 40 patients through lethal injection
* Jeffrey Dahmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin cannibal who kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment for sexual gratification; convicted of 15 murders, but believed responsible for at least two others
* Albert DeSalvo aka "The Boston Strangler"; convicted of strangling 13 women
* Nannie Doss aka "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed 11 family members
* Mack Ray Edwards convicted of murdering three children after confessing to the murders of six in Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1969; claimed at one point to have killed as many as 18
* Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck the "Lonely Hearts Killers"; killed at least three women and one child in the 1940s but suspected in up to 20 murders in New York and Michigan
* Albert Fish aka the "Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to two others
* Wayne Adam Ford aka "Wayward Wayne"; confessed to murdering four women; believed to have killed others
* Kendall Francois serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York who targeted prostitutes; after strangling the women, he would store them in various crawl spaces in and around his home
* Joseph Paul Franklin racist serial killer who targeted interracial couples and attempted to assassinate Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan; convicted of 11 murders and confessed to nine others
* John Wayne Gacy aka "Killer Clown"; killer of at least 33 men and boys; kept bodies buried under his Chicago home
* Gerald Gallego Jr. and Charlene Williams aka the "Gallego Sex Slaves Killers"; kidnapped, raped and killed victims in the late 1970s; most of them were teenagers
* Carlton Gary convicted of the murders of seven elderly women in Georgia
* Donald Henry Gaskins aka "Meanest Man in America"; convicted of nine murders; confessed to more than 200; executed on September 6, 1991
* Ed Gein two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons; elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the films Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the novel/movie The Silence of the Lambs
* Janie Lou Gibbs Georgia poisoner who killed five family members
* Kristen Gilbert aka the "Angel of Death"; nurse convicted of killing four by epinephrine injection
* Harvey Glatman Californian rapist and killer of three women; lured women to pose for "bondage photographs"; executed September 18, 1959
* Jeffrey Gorton convicted of two rape-murders in Michigan, suspected of more
* Dana Sue Gray convicted of murder of three elderly women and attempted murder of a fourth in California
* Belle Gunness murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and children in Indiana
* Robert Hansen Alaskan baker who killed prostitutes at his cabin; convicted of four murders but admitted to 11 others
* Donald Harvey aka "Angel of Death"; hospital orderly; confessed to more than 80 "mercy killings" with 37 confirmed killings
* William Heirens aka "The Lipstick Killer"; confessed to three murders spanning from June 1945 to January 1946
* Waneta Hoyt New York woman who murdered her five children
* Michael Hughes killed four women in the Los Angeles area between 1992 and 1993; charged in 2008 with raping and murdering four additional women between 1986 and 1993
* Leslie Irvin aka "Mad Dog"; convicted of killing six people in Indiana in the mid-1950s; his Supreme Court case set a precedent for fair trials of highly publicized defendants
* Phillip Carl Jablonski killed at least four women in California and Utah
* Keith Hunter Jesperson Canadian serial killer convicted in the United States
* Vincent Johnson aka the "Brooklyn Strangler"; a homeless crack addict who killed at least five prostitutes
* Genene Jones Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care. Convicted of only one murder but suspected of 10 or more others
* Patrick Kearney necrophiliac convicted of 21 murders in California and admitted to seven other murders
* Edmund Kemper started killing when he was 15 years old in Santa Cruz, California; convicted of six murders and implicated in four others
* Tillie Klimek Chicago woman who poisoned five husbands; sentenced to life imprisonment
* Paul John Knowles raped and murdered 18 people
* Randy Kraft convicted of the murders of 16 young men and boys; suspected of 51 others in California
* Timothy Krajcir confessed to killing more than nine women—five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania
* Peter Kudzinowski killed children in New Jersey in the 1920s
* Leonard Lake and Charles Ng ex-Marines and survivalists; killed at least 11 people and suspected of 25; collected and murdered female sex slaves
* Derrick Todd Lee aka the "Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by DNA evidence to five others
* Henry Lee Lucas convicted of 11 murders and confessed to approximately 3000 others, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish; a task force set up to investigate his claims suggested that the true number of his murders may be as high as 213
* Rhonda Belle Martin Alabama poisoner who murdered six family members; suspected of poisoning at least nine; executed in 1957
* Herman Mudgett better known as H.H. Holmes; active from 1890 to 1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; convicted of only one murder but definitively tied to at least 8 more and confessed to a total of 27
* John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo aka "Beltway Snipers"; Muhammad is convicted of seven murders so far and awaiting prosecution for nine others; Malvo was convicted of, plead guilty to, or confessed to at least nine murders
* Herbert Mullin schizophrenic in Santa Cruz, California who killed people to prevent earthquakes; convicted of 10 murders and confessed to three others
* Earle Nelson aka "Gorilla Man"; necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one murder; implicated in about 20 others
* Marie Noe murdered eight of her children between 1949 and 1968
* Gordon Stewart Northcott Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
* Carl Panzram murderer, rapist and arsonist; convicted of two murders; confessed to 19 others; executed in 1930
* Dorothea Puente convicted of three killings; suspected of six others
* Dennis Rader aka the "BTK Killer"; killed ten people between 1974 and 1991
* Richard Ramirez aka the "Night Stalker"; terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and 1985; convicted of 14 murders
* David Parker Ray convicted of rape and torture and sentenced to 224 years in prison; FBI believes he was responsible for the deaths of 60 women in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
* Paul Dennis Reid killed seven people during armed robberies between February and April of 1997
* Ángel Maturino Reséndiz killed nine people in Texas, Kentucky, and Illinois
* Gary Ridgway aka the "Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 48 women in Washington state
* Joel Rifkin murdered 17 women in the New York City and Long Island areas
* John Edward Robinson aka the "Cyber Sex Killer"; lured victims through the internet; convicted of murdering six women in Missouri and Kansas
* Danny Rolling pleaded guilty to murdering five students in Florida; executed in 2006
* Michael Bruce Ross raped and murdered seven women in Connecticut
* Efren Saldivar respiratory therapist who killed six patients, possibly as many as 120
* Altemio Sanchez aka the "Bike Path Rapist"; responsible for three murders and numerous rapes spanning over a 25-year period in Buffalo, New York; currently serving three consecutive 75 years-to-life sentences for the murders
* Heriberto Seda a copycat killer of the "Zodiac Killer"
* Gerard John Schaefer Florida police officer who killed up to 34 women and girls
* Tommy Lynn Sells convicted of only one murder; admitted to murdering dozens of people across the United States, possibly in excess of 70 although only six are confirmed
* Arthur Shawcross aka "The Genesee River Killer"; convicted of 12 murders; confessed to one more
* Robert Shulman convicted of murdering five prostitutes between 1991 and 1996
* Lemuel Smith confessed to the murders of five people, including an on-duty female prison guard
* Morris Solomon Jr. handyman who killed six young women between 1986 and 1987 in Sacramento, California
* Gerald Stano convicted murderer of 41 women; executed in 1998
* Cary Stayner killed four women in Yosemite, California
* Michael Swango physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and colleagues
* William Suff aka the "Riverside Killer"; killed up to 19 women near Riverside, California
* Marybeth Tinning New York woman who poisoned nine of her children
* Ottis Toole Henry Lee Lucas' accomplice; convicted of six murders in Florida; confessed to but never tried for Adam Walsh's murder
* Chester Turner murderer of women in Los Angeles, California; convicted of 12 murders and linked through DNA evidence to another
* Henry Louis Wallace Charlotte, North Carolina killer of at least nine young women from 1992 to 1994
* Coral Eugene Watts convicted of two murders; admitted to killing 80 people in Texas and Michigan; possibly guilty of 100 murders
* Nathaniel White convicted of six murders from 1991 to 1992
* Wayne Williams convicted of two murders; police claim his arrest solved 23 others in a string of 29
* Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood Michigan duo who murdered five elderly nursing home residents in their care and claimed to have killed another
* Randall Woodfield aka the "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit"; convicted of four murders; believed responsible for 14 others
* Aileen Wuornos shot six men dead in Florida; executed in 2002
* Robert Lee Yates murdered at least 13 women in Spokane County, Washington

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probably because you didnt list killers in any other countries.
Reply 2
To keep the number of people posting stupid threads like this down.
Reply 3
Wobbles
To keep the number of people posting stupid threads like this down.


judging solely from your avatar, you maybe be one.

btw you white? male? 18-30?:eek: British?
Reply 4
Cocaine Socialist
probably because you didnt list killers in any other countries.


Argentina

* Cayetano Santos Godino aka "Petiso Orejudo" ("Big Eared Midget"); at 16, killed four children in 1912; died in prison in 1944
* Robledo Puch killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980

Australia

* David and Catherine Birnie couple responsible for the murders of four women
* Eric Edgar Cooke killed at least seven people; last person to be hanged in Western Australia
* Paul Denyer aka "Frankston Serial Killer"; murdered three women in 1993 in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston
* Peter Dupas serving three life sentences for multiple murders and rape charges
* Kathleen Folbigg murdered four of her infants
* Leonard Fraser convicted of killing three people in Rockhampton, Queensland
* John Wayne Glover aka "The Granny Killer"; committed suicide in 2005
* Caroline Grills aka "Auntie Thally"; serial poisoner of at least four family members
* Mark Jefferies responsible for the murders of four people
* Eddie Leonski aka "Brownout Strangler"; American serviceman who killed at least four people in Melbourne; executed on November 9, 1942
* William MacDonald aka "the Mutilator"
* Backpacker Murders (Ivan Milat) killed at least seven tourists in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales suspected in similar disappearances in Newcastle
* Truro murders (James Miller and Christopher Worrell) convicted of killing six victims
* Snowtown murders (John Bunting, Robert Wagner, Mark Haydon, James Vlassakis) convicted of, or assisted with, the murders of 11 people between 1992 and 1999

Austria

* Elfriede Blauensteiner poisoner of three individuals
* Lainz Angels of Death (Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Meyer, Waltraud Wagner) nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted to murdering 49 patients
* Jack Unterweger author and sexual sadist; convicted of 10 murders; believed to have killed 12 women

Belgium

* Marc Dutroux child molester and killer
* András Pándy aka "Vader Blauwbaard"; convicted of the murder and rape of his two wives and four children

Brazil

* Abraão José Bueno‎ - nurse who killed four child patients
* Edson Isidoro Guimarães - nurse who killed four patients but suspected of 131 deaths in total
* Anísio Ferreira de Sousa - gynaecologist who was convicted of the murder of three children but linked to the disappearance of a total of 19

Canada

* Paul Bernardo aka the "Scarborough Rapist"; Ontario man who killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife Karla Homolka
* Wayne Boden serial killer active from 1968-1971
* John Martin Crawford convicted in 1996 for the murders of three women
* Russell Johnson killer of seven women; confined to a mental institution since 1978
* Gilbert Paul Jordan killed between eight and 10 women by alcohol poisoning
* Allan Legere aka "Monster of the Miramichi"; killer of five individuals
* Clifford Olson murdered 11 children in British Columbia
* Robert Pickton charged with the first degree murders of 26 women; allegedly confessed to 49 murders; convicted December 9, 2007 of six charges; reduced to second degree murder
* Peter Woodcock murdered three children in 1956–1957 and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991

China

* Gong Runbo found guilty for the murders of six children and teenagers aged between 9 and 16 from 2005 to 2006
* Huang Yong between September 2001 and 2003 killed at least 17 teenage boys; executed in 2003
* Shen Changyin and Shen Changping found guilty of the murders of 11 prostitutes
* Shi Yuejun between September 24, 2006 and September 29, 2006 he murdered 12 people and wounded four others
* Yang Xinhai confessed to killing 65 people between 2000 and 2003; executed in 2004

Colombia

* Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka "The Beast of the Andes"; 71 alleged victims (most of his victims were killed in Ecuador)
* Luis Garavito admitted to killing and raping 172 people (also killed victims in Ecuador)
* Pedro López aka "The Monster of the Andes"; 360 alleged victims (also killed victims in Ecuador)

Czech Republic

* Václav Mrázek convicted of the murders of seven women; executed in 1957
* Marie Fikáčková female nurse who was executed by hanging in 1961 for the murders of 10 babies
* Petr Zelenka male nurse convicted of seven murders to "test" doctors

Denmark

* Dagmar Overbye childcare provider who killed between nine and 25 children; sentenced to death in 1921 then reprieved

Finland

* Antti Taskinen poisoner of three men; sentenced to life imprisonment
* Matti Haapoja convicted murderer of three people, admitted to the murders of 18

[edit] France

* Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers French poisoner; executed in 1676
* Pierre Chanal serial killer who committed suicide in 2003
* Michel Fourniret confessed to nine murders; allegedly killed 10 more
* Francis Heaulme serving a life sentence for 20 murders between 1984 and 1992
* Hélène Jegado domestic servant who poisoned at least 23 people between 1833 and 1851; executed in 1852
* Henri Désiré Landru killed 11 people; inspired the character of Monsieur Verdoux played by Charlie Chaplin
* Émile Louis preyed on young handicapped women
* Christine Malèvre nurse sentenced for the murders of at least 30 terminally ill patients
* Thierry Paulin aka the "Beast of Montmartre"; preyed on the elderly in the 1980s
* Marcel Petiot doctor who killed 63 would-be refugees from the Nazis; executed in 1946
* Gilles De Rais 15th century demonolator and child killer
* Joseph Vacher aka "The French Ripper"; 19th century serial killer of 11 people
* Jeanne Weber convicted of the murders of 10 children

Germany

* Jürgen Bartsch killed four, one escaped; died by wrongful overdose during castration surgery
* Karl Denke cannibal; allegedly killed 30 people
* Volker Eckert accused of 19 murders between 1974 and 2006
* Gesche Gottfried serial poisoner who murdered 15 people in Hanover and Bremen; publicly executed in 1831
* Karl Grossmann killed women and sold their flesh on the black market
* Fritz Haarmann preyed on young men and boys; executed in 1925
* Fritz Honka murdered four women in Hamburg and kept the bodies in his apartment
* Joachim Kroll claimed 13 victims over three decades
* Peter Kürten aka the "Vampire of Düsseldorf"; executed in 1932
* Stephan Letter male nurse who killed 29 patients; arrested in 2006
* Marianne Nölle female nurse who killed seven patients
* Norbert Poehlke police officer and serial killer
* Peter Stumpp self-proclaimed werewolf who killed 16 people during the 1500s
* Anna Maria Zwanziger Bavarian poisoner; killer of four people;

Ghana

* Charles Quansah convicted of the strangulation deaths of nine women in Accra; suspected of killing 34; sentenced to death in 2003.

Greece

* Antonis Daglis - aka the "Athens Ripper"; convicted in 1997 of the strangulation murders and dismemberment of three women and the attempted murder of six others

Hong Kong

* Lam Kor-Wan sexual sadist who murdered and dismembered four women in the 1980s; sentenced to life imprisonment
* Lam Kwok-Wai murdered three women

Hungary

* Erzsébet Báthory countess who killed servant girls; rumored to have killed more than 600
* Béla Kiss murdered at least 24 women; escaped justice in the confusion of World War I

India

* Raman Raghav killed homeless people and others in their sleep
* Charles Sobhraj killed at least 12 Western tourists in Southeast Asia during the 1970s

Indonesia

* Ahmad Suradji admitted to killing 42 women
Iran

* Mohammed Bijeh aka the "Tehran Desert Vampire"; killed at least 16 young boys near Tehran; executed in 2005
* Saeed Hanaei aka "The Spider Killer"; killed at least 16 women around Mashhad; executed in 2002


Israel

* Nicolai Bonner killed four people in 2005 in Haifa, three of them homeless; sentenced to life imprisonment

Italy

* Wolfgang Abel and Mario Furlan German-Italian duo found guilty of 10 of 27 counts of murder in 1987
* Donato Bilancia murdered 17 people in seven months between 1997 and 1998
* Luigi Chiatti aka the "Monster of Foligno"; victims were children
* Leonarda Cianciulli aka "Soap-Maker of Correggio"; murderess of three women
* Pietro Pacciani aka the "Monster of Florence"; victims were young couples
* Roberto Succo murdered at least five people, including his parents
Japan

* Sataro Fukiage raped and killed at least seven girls in the early 20th century
* Hiroaki Hidaka killed four prostitutes in 1996; executed on December 25, 2006
* Miyuki Ishikawa murdered an estimated 103, but could have been up to 169 infants in the 1940s
* Kiyotaka Katsuta 22 alleged murders but convicted of eight; executed in 2000
* Yoshio Kodaira rapist thought to have killed 11 people in Japan and Chinese people as a soldier
* Genzo Kurita killed six women and two children and engaged in rape and necrophilia
* Hiroshi Maeue aka "Suicide Website Murderer"; lured people from suicide clubs promising to kill himself with his victims
* Futoshi Matsunaga and Junko Ogata aka "House of Horror"; tortured and murdered at least seven people between 1996 and 1998, including Ogata's family
* Tsutomu Miyazaki aka "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer" and "Dracula"; killed four preschool-age girls and ate a hand of a girl; executed in 2008
* Norio Nagayama killed four people with a handgun at the age of 19; a novelist in prison
* Seisaku Nakamura aka "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer", murdered at least nine people
* Akira Nishiguchi killed five people and engaged in fraud
* Kiyoshi Okubo raped and murdered eight young women during 41 days in 1971

Kazakhstan

* Nikolai Dzhumagaliev aka "Metal Fang"; cannibal and rapist thought to have killed nearly 50 people

Latvia

* Kaspars Petrovs convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005; confessed to killing 38

Mexico

* Juana Barraza Samperio aka "Mataviejitas" ("Old Lady Killer"); operated within the metropolitan area of Mexico City until January 25, 2006
* Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández aka "Goyo" and the "Strangler of Tacuba"; raped and killed four women in 1942; hailed as a successful case of rehabilitation and pardoned in 1976
* Adolfo Constanzo aka "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; committed suicide in 1989
* Delfina and María De Jesús González aka "Las Poquianchis"; killed a total of 91; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964
* Raúl Osiel Marroquín aka "El Sádico"; killed four male homosexuals in Mexico City
* Abdul Latif Sharif Egyptian national alleged to be responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez
* José Luis Calva cannibal; police found the remains of multiple female victims in his house; committed suicide on December 11, 2007

Netherlands

* Lucia de Berk nurse convicted of killing at least seven and attempting three murders in the 2000s (2008: case reopened by the Dutch supreme court)
* Maria Swanenburg killed 27 with arsenic in the 1880s

[edit] Norway

* Arnfinn Nesset geriatric assistant nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers at the Orkdal Alders-Og Sjukeheim institution over a period of years before being convicted in 1984

Pakistan

* Javed Iqbal believed to have killed 100 boys

Poland

* Julian Koltun raped and murdered women in eastern Poland
* Zdzisław Marchwicki aka "Zagłębie Vampire"; convicted of murdering 14 women; executed in 1976
* Władysław Mazurkiewicz aka "The Gentleman Killer"; killed up to 30 women
* Stanisław Modzelewski murdered seven women in Łódź during the 1960s; executed in 1970
* Leszek Pękalski aka the "Vampire of Bytów"; killed up to 17 women
* Łucjan Staniak aka "The Red Spider" and "The Red Ripper"; killed up to 20 women

Portugal

* António Luís Costa police officer found guilty in 2007 of the slayings of three women

Romania

* Vera Renczi poisoned two husbands, one son and 32 of her suitors in the 1920s and 1930s
* Ion Rîmaru murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971; executed in 1971

Russia

* Valeriy Asratyan arrested in 1990 and convicted of three murders and dozens of cases of sexual abuse; executed
* Andrei Chikatilo aka "The Rostov Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter"; killed 52 women and children throughout the Soviet Union; arrested, convicted and executed in 1994
* Vasiliy Kulik killed 13 people aged between seven months and 75 years; executed
* Maxim Petrov doctor who killed 12 patients
* Alexander Pichushkin aka "The Chessboard Killer"; convicted of 48 murders; confessed to killing 63
* Sergei Ryakhovsky aka "The Hippopotamus"; convicted of the murders of 19 people aged between 14 and 78
* Darya Saltykova 18th century countess who tortured and killed serfs on her estate
* Anatoly Slivko convicted of killing seven young boys; executed
* Sasha Spesivtsev cannibal convicted of the murders of 19 women
* Alexander Tchayka killed four women between January 1994 and February 1994

[edit] Slovenia

* Silvo Plut killed three women; committed suicide in prison in 2007
* Metod Trobec raped and killed at least five women; committed suicide in prison in 2006

South Africa

* Daisy De Melker poisoner; killed two husbands and one son; executed in 1932
* Cedric Maake aka the "Wemmer Pan Killer"; serial rapist; murdered at least 27 people
* Moses Sithole believed to have killed at least 38 young women
* Sipho Thwala aka the "Phoenix Strangler"; raped and murdered 19 women in sugarcane fields from 1996 to 1997
* Gert Van Rooyen abducted at least six girls from 1988 to 1989 who were never found
* Elias Xitavhudzi murdered 16 people in Atteridgeville in the 1960s

South Korea

* Yoo Young-chul cannibal; killed 20 people from September 2003 to July 2004, mainly young women and rich men

Spain

* Francisca Ballesteros between 1990 and 2004 killed her family and attempted to kill her surviving son
* Francisco Garcia Escalero beggar convicted of 11 murders
* Enriqueta Martí self-proclaimed witch who murdered and cannibalized six children in Barcelona; executed in 1912
* José Antonio Rodriguez Vega raped and killed at least 16 women
* Manuel Delgado Villegas 48 alleged murders; convicted of eight

Sweden

* Thomas Quick aka "Sätermannen"; child molester; convicted of eight murders.

Ukraine

* Anatoly Onoprienko aka "The Terminator"; murdered 59 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
Reply 5
Did you notice how the number of serials killers varies more-or-less directly as the population?

Ditto my last post.
You honestly think that they are all the serial killers who have lived in those countries?

Brazil's statistic is, I'm certain, way higher
Reply 7
Mr. Orange
You honestly think that they are all the serial killers who have lived in those countries?

Brazil's statistic is, I'm certain, way higher


I'm sure there are many unsolved murders and some are being committed right now. Maybe, somewhere near by...
Reply 8
Probably because we actually apprehend ours.
Reply 9
Woop - Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born 23 November 1945 in Fraserburgh, Scotland) :party: My brother used to date his niece.
the bigger the population size the more likely to be a higher number of serial killers. sigh
Reply 11
What's your source? The huge sway towards the UK and USA could be either or both of:
a) The fact that they're the only two English-speaking countries on the list (bar Canada and Australia, both with relatively small populations)
b) Not all murders/serial killings are reported or solved, especially in less developed countries

You can't expect lists like that to be representative.
Like other have said, the UK & USA have larger population then all the other countries you listed therefore, the bigger the population, the more serial killers there are.

Also, some police forces in other countries are, compared to our police, poor and may not catch all killers.

I think population is the main reason, if you look at the list for the USA and look how much larger it is compared to the UK you can see what we mean. I can't remember the exact figures of population for the USA but it's larger therefore there's more serial killers.
Reply 13
SillyFencer
My brother used to date his niece.


My condolences.
Reply 14
Profesh
My condolences.

lol...
Reply 15
Yeah, there's only been five serial killers in the whole of China. Course. Great source you got there.. :/
Maybe we are better at catching them? :devil:
Reply 17
becky.fm
Yeah, there's only been five serial killers in the whole of China. Course. Great source you got there.. :/


They forgot to put Mao on the list.
Reply 18
Elipsis
They forgot to put Mao on the list.

Lol nice.
Reply 19
sweetlovinchick2k1
Like other have said, the UK & USA have larger population then all the other countries you listed therefore, the bigger the population, the more serial killers there are.

Also, some police forces in other countries are, compared to our police, poor and may not catch all killers.

I think population is the main reason, if you look at the list for the USA and look how much larger it is compared to the UK you can see what we mean. I can't remember the exact figures of population for the USA but it's larger therefore there's more serial killers.


How do you explain the USSR (Russia), Japan, China?

All these countries combined had less serial killers than the USA.