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  .22 CALIBER Killer ...   ...  USA ... ... ... ...
aka 1990 1990 WA
SPOKANE Killer Robert Lee YATES was held responsible for the killings of at least three known prostitutes, shot with a .22 caliber gun and dumped near the Spokane River in 1990. The Army helicopter pilot was later ruled out as the murderer, as he was stationed in Germany at the time of the killings.

.22 CALIBER Killer => CHRISTOPHER Joseph

.22 CALIBER Killers => LEWINGDON Gary & LEWINGDON Thaddeus

  .25 CALIBER Killer ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 1+
aka PENN STATION Sniper 1983 1984 NY
Verdict/Urteil:
The gunman, who killed one victim and wounded six over a period of 11 months, did stop shooting - and was never caught.

  3X ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1930 1930 NY
Verdict/Urteil: Unsolved

Crimes & Victims:
June 11, 1930: Grocer Joseph MOZYNSKI parks with Catherine MAY (19) along a “lover´s lane” in College Point near Queens. A stranger approches the car, shoots Joe dead without a word of warning and rapes Catherine. [ReadOn]


  4STATE Sex Killer ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 8
aka 1990s   ID UT NV WY
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  4PI MOVEMENT ...   ...  USA ... ... ... ?
see also BAKER Stanley, BERKOWITZ David, MANSON Charles Milles et al, MENTZER William 1967 ? nationwide
Verdict/Urteil:

In 1969, while gathering material for a book on the Charles Manson case, journalist Ed Sanders encountered reports of a sinister Satanic cult alleged to practice human sacrifice in several parts of California, luring youthful members from college campuses throughout the western half of the United States. [ReadOn]


  5STATE Muti Killer ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 9+
aka 1988 1992 FL IL KY MN OH
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ABBOTT Jack ...   ...  USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... ...
Verdict/Urteil:
Serial Killer Jack ABBOTT
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  ABEL Wolfgang *1959 ... ITALYGERMANY 0 ... 10 27+
  FURLAN Mario *1960 ...  
aka The case "Ludwig" 1977 1984 Verona, Padua, Milano (IT) Munich (DE)
Verdict/Urteil: 30 years for 10 murders (in fact free immediately under "open custody")
ABEL Wolfgang & FURLAN Mario 

Verona was an unlikely sort of city to play host to two of the most grisly serial killers in modern history. A role made that much less likely when one considered the background of this pair of sinister young men whose trial was set to shock Europe when it opened on the first day of December 1986. [ReadOn ]


  ACRES HOMES Serial Killer ...   ...  ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... Houston TX
Verdict/Urteil:
Kazeem ADEYEMO
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ADAMS Gary Starr => HARRELSON Sharon Lynn & ADAMS Gary Starr

  ADELAIDE Child Murders ...   ...  AUSTRALIA ... ... ... 8+
aka 1965 1970 Adelaide
... : ... ... ... ...
Verdict/Urteil:
Victoria´s longest serving prisoner is quested for the most mysterious children killings of Australia 40 years ago. Police connects Derek PERCY with several homicides in the 60s, including the disappearance of the BEAUMONT children in Adelaide in 1966. [ReadOn]

  ADEYEMO Kazeem ...   ...  ... ... ... 50+
aka ... ... Ibadan
Verdict/Urteil:
Kazeem ADEYEMO
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ADOLFO Gustavo => PARADA MORALES Gustavo Adolfo

  ADORNO George  *1959   USA ... ... ... 4
aka 1974- 1977 NY
Verdict/Urteil: 15 years to life

Born in 1959, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Adorno had his first close encounter with police at age four, after setting his sister on fire. He ran up an impressive record of sixteen arrests, all for theft, before he was charged -- at age 15 -- with triple homicide. [ReadOn]


AIKENS Thomas => McFARLANE Michael & JACKSON William & AIKENS Thomas

  AKIN Joseph "Joe" Dewey *1956  ...  USA ... ... 1 18+
aka 1990 1991 AL GA CA
Verdict/Urteil:

Male nurse Joseph Dewey AKIN, who worked in Cooper Green Hospital in Birmingham (AL), was charged September 1992 for having killed Robert J. PRICE (32) with an overdose Lidocaine. [ReadOn]


ALABAMA AXE Murders => JOHNSON Peyton

  ALABAMA AXE Murders ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 8+
aka 1919 1923 AL
Verdict/Urteil:

Between November 1919 and October 1923, residents of Birmingham, Alabama, were terrorized by a series of brutal assaults, committed by ax-wielding blacks, which claimed the lives of at least fifteen victims , leaving others gravely injured. [ReadOn]


  ALABAMA / FLORIDA COUPLES Killer ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 4
aka 1989 1990 AL FL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ALABAMA GAS STATION Slayings ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1973 1973 AL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ALAMEDA COUNTY TEENAGER Killer ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 4
aka 1983 1984 CA
Verdict/Urteil:

In the twelve-month period between December 1983 and late November 1984, four teenage girls were killed in Alameda County, California, on the San Francisco Bay. The crimes were grim enough, inciting fear in every parent at the time of their occurrence. [ReadOn]


  ALASKA Unsolved ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 15+
aka 1930 1931  
Verdict/Urteil:

In January 1931, it was announced that the United States Attorney General's office was committing federal agents to the search for an elusive killer, blamed for fifteen murders and a string of unsolved disappearances in the territory of Alaska. [ReadOn]


  ALBANESE Charles *1946 +1995/09/20 USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1980 1981 IL
Verdict/Urteil: Death Penalty (1982)

Crimes & Victims:
Early 1980s: According to investigators, Charles ALBANESE begins slowly poisoning his father Michael ALBANESE, his wife´s mother Marion MUELLER and his wife´s grandmother Mary LAMBERT with arsenic in Chicago. [ReadOn]


  ALBANI Adil ... +2005/02/15 Serial Killer PHILIPPINES ... ... ... ?
aka ... ... Baliwasan
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer Adil ALBANI

 


  ALBRIGHT Charles *1934 ... USA ... ... 1 3
aka Eyeball Killer, Dallas Ripper 1990 1991 TX
Verdict/Urteil: Life
ALBRIGHT Charles

During the early 90s Charles ALBRIGHT killed and mutilated three prositutes in Dallas. He removed their eyeballs for taking them as a trophy of his crimes. The charming husband, teacher and trainer serves his life term in Amarillo (TX) today and recently applied for taking part in the "Innocence Project" for testing hair found at the crimescenes against his DNA.


  ALBUQUERQUE GAY Killer ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 5+
aka 1998 1998 NM
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ALCALA Rodney James *... ... USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... CA
Verdict/Urteil: ...
News on Serial Killer Adil ALBANI
ALBRIGHT Charles

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ALDRETE Sara => CONSTANZO Adolfo de Jesus

  ALÈGRE Patrice *1969 ... FRANCE 5+2 5 5 20+
aka Homicie 31 1980s 1997 Toulouse
Verdict/Urteil: 22 years (5 murders, 6 rapes), awaiting more trials
ALEGRE Patrice

In February 2002 the son of a police officer was convicted to 22 years in prison for 5 murders and 6 rapes in Toulouse. A special task force "Homicide 31" startet in 1997 to examine the disappearance of 115 women and girls in and around Toulouse.[ReadOn]


  ALLANSON Patricia *... ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka ... ...  
Verdict/Urteil:
ALLANSON Patricia

Patricia ALLANSON always thought of herself as special. Her parents took any responsibility away from her and thus Patricia was convinced that a husband had to give her anything she ever dreamed of.
Patricia found this with her first husband, an army sergeant and had three children with him. Obviously he was not giving enough so she headed for six year younger Tom ALLANSON, who seemed able to offer her what she meant to deserve.[ReadOn]


  ALLEN Howard Arthur *1949/02/10 ... USA ... ... ... 3+
aka ... ...  
Verdict/Urteil:

A black serial killer with a taste for elderly victims , Howard Allen never strayed far from hometown Indianapolis in his search for prey. In August 1974, at age twenty-four, he invaded the home of 85-year-old Opal Cooper, beating her to death in the course of a petty robbery. [ReadOn]


  ALLEN Quincy Javon *... ... USA ... ... ... 4
aka Weird Man ... ... NC SC
Verdict/Urteil: Life + ongoing trial
News on Serial Killer Quincy Javon ALLEN

July 7, 2002: About 4 a.m., Allen twice shot a homeless man, James White, who was sleeping on a bench in Finlay Park, Deputy 5th Circuit Solicitor John Meadors said. [ReadOn]


  ALLEN Shirley Goude *1941 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1978 1982 MO
Verdict/Urteil: Life/Lebenslang

Shirley ALLEN killed by plan. Eight months after her marriage to Joe SINCLAIR she already tried to poison him. Lucky Joe, he kept his life and disappeared from hers. 1977 Shirley married again, this time John GREGG. She was convinced to be beneficiary of his life insurance policy, when John died unexpectedly. She did not get a penny.[ReadOn]


  ALLITT Beverley *1968 ... UK ... ... ... 4
aka Angel of Death 1991 1991 Grantham
Verdict/Urteil: 13 x life (1992)
Beverley ALLITT, a nurse suffering from the mental illness Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (a desire to kill or injure to get attention), was given 13 life sentences at Nottingham crown court in 1993 after being convicted of murdering four children and attacking nine others. [ReadOn]


  ALPHABET Murders ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1971 1973 NY
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  AMBROSE Lyda Catherine *1891 ... USA ... ... ... 5+
aka ... ...  
Verdict/Urteil:

A typical "Black Widow," Lyda Catherine AMBROSE left a trail of five dead husbands and lovers in her quest for insurance policy payoffs. Born in 1891, nothing is known about her early life until 1917 when she killed her first fiancee in Keytesville, Missouri.[ReadOn]


  AMER Abdelali *... ... MOROCCO ... ... ... ...
aka ... ...  
Verdict/Urteil:
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  AMIS Kingsley *... ... USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ...  
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  AMOS Lowell *1944 ... USA ... ... 1 4
aka 1979 1987 MI
Verdict/Urteil: Life wo.parole (1996)

On Oct 24, 1996, Lowell AMOS, a Detroit businessman whose mother and three wives died under suspicious circumstances, was convicted of murdering his third wife with a cocaine overdose. [ReadOn]


  ANCHORAGE Slayer ...   ...  USA ... ... ... 6
aka 1998 1998 AR
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ANDERMATT Roger *1970 ... SWITZERLAND 24 ... ... 27
aka 1995 2001 Lucerne
Verdict/Urteil:
News Timeline Serial Killer Roger ANDERMATT

On January 14, 2004 34-year-old Swiss nurse Roger ANDERMATT was arrested under the suspicion of murdering at least 25 elderly patients in nursing homes in and around Lucerne. Additionally ANDERMATT is suspected in three attempted murders and three assisted suicides.[ReadOn]


  ANDERSON Allen Leroy *1942 ... USA ... ... ... 8
aka 1976 1976 nationwide
Verdict/Urteil: 40 years in MI, death in FL => commuted to life

A 34-year-old vagrant with a long record of felony arrests, Anderson was living at a Seattle half-way house in 1976, when he stole the director's car and credit cards, embarking on a spree of robbery and murder spanning twenty states. [ReadOn]


  ANDERSON Brad ... ... Serial Killer USA ... ... ... 1+
aka ... ... Vincennes
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer Brad ANDERSON

... [ReadOn]

... [Weiterlesen]

  ANDERSON Curtis Dean ... ... Serial Killer USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... Santa Clara CA
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer Brad ANDERSON

... [ReadOn]

... [Weiterlesen]

  ANDERSON Dale R. *... ... USA ... ... ... 3+
aka ... ...  
Verdict/Urteil:

According to ex-FBI wiz Robert Ressler, "sexual psychopath" Dale R. Anderson, imprisoned for one of the most brutal slayings in Belleville history, likely killed newspaper intern Audrey Cardenas and four other women. [ReadOn]


ANDERSON Howard Scott => VAMPIRE CLAN

  ANDERSON Robert Leroy *... ... USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... ...
Verdict/Urteil:
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  ANDERSON Russell *... ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1987 1987 UT
Verdict/Urteil: 3 x 5-life
 
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  ANDRADE Marcelo Costa de *1966 ... BRAZIL ... ... ... 13+
aka Pedophile Vampire 1991 1991 Rio de Janeiro
Verdict/Urteil: Asylum, escaped, recaptured 1997
Mentally retarded homosexual Marcelo de ANDRADE worshipped his mother like a saint and went to church four times a week. 1991 - adged 25 - he killed 13 young boys from 6 to 13, raped them, drank their blood and feasted on their flesh. According to his own confessions he did this “to become as beautiful as them”.
Disappearing street urchins are a daily problem in Rio de Janeiro, mainly killed by warped vigilantes who want to “clean up the streets”.[ReadOn]

  ANDREWS Ralph *1945 ... USA ... ... 1 6
aka 1971 1991 IL
Verdict/Urteil: Life + 30 years

In June, 1999, Chicago police indicted 54-year-old Ralph Andrews for the 1977 murder, rape, and aggravated kidnapping of 16-year-old Susan Clark. Not suprisingly, wherever Ralphie lived, bodies turned up to the tune of 20 dead women within a three-state area. [ReadOn]


  ANGELO Richard *1962 ... USA ... ... 4 10+
aka Angel of Death 1987 1987 NY
Verdict/Urteil: 50 years - life

A former Boy Scout, Rich always wanted to be the hero. That's why this portly nurse pumped muscle paralyzer and other dangerous drugs into the intravenous bottles of his patients in the emergency room of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Long Island, NY. [ReadOn]


  ANKERS Winifred *... ... USA ... ... ... 8+
aka 1911 1912 NY
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ANN ARBOR Hospital Murders *... ... USA ... ... ... 11
aka 1975 1975 MI
Verdict/Urteil:
During summer 1975 the Veteran´s Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor (MI) was the scene of a high death rate. Up to 40 patients had died from an inexplicable respiratory failure. [ReadOn]

  AOSTA PROSTITUTE Killer *... ... ITALY ... ... ... ?
aka 1990s   Aosta
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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APPELGATE Everett => CREIGHTON Mary Frances

  APULIA Slasher *... ... ITALY ... ... ... 7
aka 1997 1997 Apulia
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ARCHAMBAULT Serge *1956 ... CANADA ... ... 3 3
aka 1989 1992 Montreal, Quebec
Verdict/Urteil: 25 years
 
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ARCHER-GILLIGAN Amy => GILLIGAN Amy

  ARCHERD William Dale *1912 ... USA ... ... 3 6
aka 1947 1966 CA NV
Verdict/Urteil: Death (1968) => commuted to life (1972)

Born in 1912, William Archerd cherished a lifelong fascination with medicine. Lacking the cash and self-discipline required for medical school, he sought work as a hospital attendant, learning what he could of drugs and their effects through practical experience. [ReadOn]


  ARDISON Victor *... ... FRANCE ... ... ... ?
aka 19th Century ...  
Verdict/Urteil: Death by Guillotine
 
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  ARGUELLES Robert *1962 ... USA 4 ... ... 4
aka 1992 1992 UT
Verdict/Urteil:

While serving a sentence for child molestation, Robert Arguelles, 34, confessed to being a serial killer. On May 2, 1996, four years after the disappearance of three teen-age girls from the Salt Lake City area, Robert confessed to their murders after he received a letter saying that he was a father. [ReadOn]


  ARMSTRONG John Eric *1973/11/23 ... USA ... ... ... 5-18
aka ... ... WA
Verdict/Urteil:

Detroit police charged ex-sailor John Eric Armstrong with the murder of five local prostitutes and three attempted murders. Investigators are confident he killed the Detroit-area women, but beyond that they wonder whether Armstrong -- a man who has the vanity plate "Baby Doll" on the front of his Jeep Wrangler -- is pulling a Henry Lee Lucas. [ReadOn]


  ARNOLD Herbert *1944 ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1965 1970 NY
Verdict/Urteil: Ruled insane (1965); released; incompetent for trial (1970; convicted on 1 murder (1973); paroled (1983); asylum on rape charge (1992)
 
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  ARRIGONI Andrea * ... ITALY ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... ...
Verdict/Urteil: ...

... [ReadOn]

... [Weiterlesen]

  ARTIEDA Ramiro *... +1939/07/03 BOLIVIA ... ... ... 8
aka 1930s ... La Paz
Verdict/Urteil:
 
Shot by Firing Squad

  ARZBERGER Gertraud ... ... AT ... ... ... 4+
aka ... ... Graz
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer Gertraud A.
Gertraud ARZBERGER
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  ASKEBORN Glenn *1944 ... USA ... ... ... 2+
aka 1975 1984 CT ME
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ATKINS Benjamin *1968 ... USA ... ... ... 11
aka Woodward Corridor Killer 1991 1992 MI
Verdict/Urteil: Life (1994)
 
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ATKINS Susan => MANSON Charles Milles et al

  ATKINSON Kathleen Anne ... ... UK ... ... ... 4+
aka 1991 1995 Newcastle
Urteil: Charges dismissed

Patients put at risk by culture of staff secrets A NURSE at the centre of an inquiry into the deaths of two girls and two elderly women in a hospital intensive care unit was arrested at home yesterday. Kathleen Anne Atkinson, 47, was suspended a year ago from her ‡23,000-a-year post and dismissed two months later for alleged "gross misconduct". [ReadOn]


  ATLANTA BLACK WOMEN Slasher ... ... USA ... ... ... 7+
aka 1980 1982 GA
Verdict/Urteil: Unsolved

On May 18, 1982, less than three months after dissolution of the special task force organized to solve a string of grisly "child murders," Atlanta detectives announced that another serial slayer was prowling the city. [ReadOn]


ATLANTA Child Murders => WILLIAMS Wayne Bertram

  ATLANTA DRAG QUEEN Killer ... ... USA ... ... ... 6
aka 1987 1992 GA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ATLANTA LOVER´s LANE Killer ... ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1977 1977 GA
Verdict/Urteil:

While homicide detectives in New York were stalking the elusive "Son of Sam," their counterparts in Georgia were attempting to identify a killer with a similar M.0., who preyed on couples parked on darkened lanes, attacking from the shadows, interrupting passion with the searing blasts of point-blank gunfire. [ReadOn]


  ATLANTA PROSTITUTE Killer ... ... USA ... ... ... 10
aka 1985 1996 GA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ATLANTIC CITY Serial Killer ... ... USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... Atlantic City NJ
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ATTERIDGEVILLE Mutilator ... ... SOUTH AFRICA ... ... ... 6
aka 1956 1956 Atteridgeville
Verdict/Urteil:

Since 1956 Pretoria's township of Atteridgeville has seen a spate of gruesome serial killers. Experts cannot explain why this particular area has bred so many killers. This original mutilator murdered six boys over five months in 1956. He was never caught or identified.


  ATWOOD Frank Jarvis *... +... USA ... ... ... 1+
aka ... 1984 Tucson AZ
Verdict/Urteil:
Serial Killer Frank Jarvis ATWOOD
Atwood had been convicted of lewd and lascivious acts and kidnapping an 8-year-old boy in California. In May 1984, he was paroled from the kidnapping sentence. Atwood came to Tucson in September 1984 in violation of his California parole. On Sept. 17, 8-year-old Vicky Lynn HOSKINSON was riding her bicycle home from mailing a letter. Atwood kidnapped the girl and killed her. He left her body in the desert and fled to Texas, where he was apprehended. Vicky's body was not found until April 1985.

  AUSTRIA TOURIST Murders ... ... AUSTRIA Serial Killer ... ... ... 5
aka 1921 1921 Salzburg
Verdict/Urteil: Unsolved

Dispite the disappearance of five tourists in the mountain area of Salzkammergut near Salzburg within six weeks in June and Juli 1921 seemed a suspicious accumulation and therefor led to broad media coverage and speculations, there was never any hint that the missing tourists Mr. ALEXANDER, Julius ROSKOSCHNY, Mr. FISCHER, Artur STORK and hungarian student Karl von RIBARY had become victims of a crime. [ReadOn]


  AVINAIN Charles *1799 +1867 FRANCE ... ... ... ?
aka 1867 1867 Paris
Verdict/Urteil: Death by Guillotine
 
Robbed and dismembered male customers

  AXEMAN of NEW ORLEANS ... ... USA ... ... ... 7+
aka 1911 1919 LA
Verdict/Urteil: Unsolved

In the pre-dawn hours of May 23, 1918, New Orleans grocer Joseph Maggio and his wife were murdered in bed by a prowler who chiseled through their back door, used Joseph's ax to strike each victim once across the skull, then slit their throats with a razor to finish the job. [ReadOn]


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25 Unsolved Cases
 
6 Female Serial Killers
 
1 Male suspect / on trial
 
37 Male Serial Killers
 
69 Cases total
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