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  RACHALS Terri Eden Maples 1962   USA ... ... ... 6+
aka 1985   GA
Verdict/Urteil:17 years (insanity)
In November 1985, administrators at Phoebe Putney Hospital, in Albany, Georgia, were alarmed by a sudden rash of cardiac arrests in the intensive care unit. A review of hospital records showed six suspicious deaths, with an equal number of near-misses, since late October, and police were quietly notified. Post-mortem examinations blamed the six deaths on injections of potassium chloride, and homicide investigators went to work the case full-time. [ReadOn]

  RADER Dennis L. *1946 ... USA ... ... ... 10+
aka BTK Strangler 1974 1991 Wichita KS
Urteil: 10 x life
News Timeline BTK Strangler
 NIGHTMARE in WICHITA
 BTK SERIAL KILLER WICHITA EAGLE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER
March 19, 2004:
The Wichita Eagle receives a letter with copies of the drivers license of Vicki WEGERLE and three fotos of the crime scene of her murder. First thinking about a bad joke, it soon becomes obvious, that the incredible happened: [ReadOn]

  RAE BARELI Serial Killer     Serial Killer INDIA 41 ... ... 41+
aka     Utta Pradesh
Verdict/Urteil:
News on RAE BARELI Serial Killer
On August 13, 1969, officials in Bombay , India, announced that 40-year-old Raman Raghav had been sentenced to hang following his conviction of multiple murders. According to sketchy reports, the defendant openly confessed to slaying forty-one men, women, and children, selected at random for the sheer pleasure of killing.

  RAGHAV Raman     Serial Killer INDIA ... ... ... 41+
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:

On August 13, 1969, officials in Bombay , India, announced that 40-year-old Raman Raghav had been sentenced to hang following his conviction of multiple murders. According to sketchy reports, the defendant openly confessed to slaying forty-one men, women, and children, selected at random for the sheer pleasure of killing.


  RAHMAN Yusef Abdullah 1968   USA ... ... ... 4+
1987 1988 KS NY
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  RAIES Jean     SWITZERLAND ... ... ... 12
AD 1880   Geneva
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  RAINY THURSDAY Killer     Serial Killer KOREA ... ... ... ...
aka ...   Seoul
Verdict/Urteil:
News on RAINY THURSDAY Serial Killer
 
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  RAIS Gilles de *1406 +1440/10/26 FRANCE ... ... ... 140+
aka    
Verdict/Urteil: Tod durch den Strang + auf dem Scheiterhaufen

A Fifteenth Century French war hero, Gilles was also one of medieval Europe's worst killers. An ally of Joan of Arc during the Hundred Year War, de Rais was instrumental in driving the English out of France. In his later years, after he was named Marshal of France by King Charles VII, he settled in his estates in Brittany, where he turned his heroic impulses towards torture and murder. [ReadOn]


  RAKOWITZ Daniel     USA ... ... ... 1
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  RALSTON Larry     USA ... ... ... 5
1975 1977 IL
Verdict/Urteil: 4 x Life

In 1978, Larry Ralston received four life sentences for killing four young Tristate women. One conviction was overturned, but in 1984 he received another life sentence for murder.
Somewhere between Chicago and Batavia, in the back seat of a police car, Larry Ralston freed his conscience. [ReadOn]


  RAMIREZ Pedro Pablo     COLOMBIA ... ... ... 40+
    Pereira
Verdict/Urteil:

Colombian police have arrested a man suspected of murdering 29 children found in two ditches in the city of Pereira. Pedro Pablo Ramirez was arrested on Wednesday December 30, 1998, in a suburb of Pereira, 300km (200 miles) east of Bogota, in connection with the murders. [ReadOn]


RAMIREZ Rafael Resendez => RESENDIZ Angel Maturino

  RAMIREZ Richard Leyva     USA ... ... ... 16+
Nightstalker     CA
Verdict/Urteil:

A Los Angeles transient known as the Night Stalker, Rich was captured in Boyle Heights, a Latino neighborhood, by an angry mob after he attempted a carjacking. His good looks made him a crowd favorite. His Metalhead-gone-Satanist image made him a cult figure. Like Manson, he is an unrepentant photo-opportunity-type killer with a bevy of female followers. [ReadOn]


  RAMOS Jose Antonio     USA ... ... ...
aka Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  RAND Andre 1943   USA ... ... ... 4+
Pied Piper of Staten Island 1972 1987 NY
Verdict/Urteil:

Born Andre Rashan, in 1943, the "Pied Piper of Staten Island" employed various pseudonyms to cover his movements and criminal activities through the years. Between 1966 and '68, using the last name "Bruchette," he worked as a physical therapy aide at New York's Willowbrook State School - later renamed the Staten Island Development Center. [ReadOn] Born Andre Rashan, in 1943, the "Pied Piper of Staten Island" employed various pseudonyms to cover his movements and criminal activities through the years. Between 1966 and '68, using the last name "Bruchette," he worked as a physical therapy aide at New York's Willowbrook State School - later renamed the Staten Island Development Center. [ReadOn]


  RANES Danny A.     USA
  RANES Larry Lee    
aka    
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  RARDON Gary Duane 1944   USA ... ... ... 4
1962 1974 IL IN
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  RASBERRY Gene     USA ... ... ... 6
aka     Kansas City
Verdict/Urteil:
 
Gene Raspberry was convicted 1968 in Kansas City, Mo. for killing six people.

  RATH Thomas 1959   GERMANY ... ... ... 4+
1981 1983 Bremen
Verdict/Urteil:

On October 30, 1981, 18-year-old Britta Schilling vanished while hitchhiking home from a disco near Bremen, in West Germany. Her naked, ravaged body bearing 27 stab wounds and the marks of torture prior to death - was found November 6, discarded on the Devil's Moor, a hundred-square-mile area of marshland north of Bremen. [ReadOn]


  RATHBUN Charles Edgar 1957   USA ... ... ... 6+
1989 1995 MI OH CA
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  RAWLINS GIRLS Slayer     USA ... ... ... 4
1974   WY Rawlins
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  RAY David     USA 0-6+
  HENDY Cindy    
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 

David Parker RAY and Cindy HENDY have at least six skeletons in the closet that could be dredged from Elephant Butte Lake or dug from shallow graves in the desert. As of March 22, 1999, numerous FBI agents, including psychological "profilers," converged on a trailer home in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, to gather evidence in a case of sexual torture and possible multiple murder. [ReadOn]


  RAZZAQ Abdul ...   AUSTRALIA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... ...
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  READ Mark Brandon 1955   AUSTRALIA ... ... ... 19+
aka Chopper 1979 1991 Melbourne
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  REARDEN Virginia 1932   USA ... ... ... 3
Virginia McGINNIS BW 1972 1987 KY CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
In July 1987, Louisville attorney Steve Keeney was approached by a female member of his church, seeking legal advice. The woman had been trying for months to collect a $2,500 life insurance payment on her daughter, killed in a California rock-climbing accident, but the insurance company was stalling without explanation. Keeney was moved by the womans obvious grief and near-poverty, agreeing to help if he could. [ReadOn]

  RED DOG James Allen 1954 1993/03/03 USA ... ... ... 5+
1990 1991 DE
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  REDDY Anji (Umesh) ... ... INDIA ... ... ... ...
... ... Hyderabad
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  REDHEAD Killer     USA ... ... ... 6-12
    AR PA TN MS KY
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REED John => JACKSON Peyton, JACKSON O´Delle, JACKSON Pearl, REED John & GLOVER Fred

  REES Melvin David     USA ... ... ... 9
Sex Beast    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A Maryland native, born in 1933, Rees attended the state university at age 20, dropping out before graduation to pursue a career in music. On March 12, 1955, he was arrested on charges of assaulting a 36-year-old woman, dragging her into his car when she refused to enter voluntarily, but the case was dropped when his victim refused to press charges. [ReadOn]

  REEVES Jack Wane 1940   USA ... ... ... 3
BB 1967 1994 TX +IT
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  REEVES Randolph     USA ... ... ... 2
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  REID Paul Dennis     USA ... ... ... 5+
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
Arrested in June, 1997 after he tried to kidnap his former boss at a Shoney's restaurant, Paul, a 39-year-old Texas parolee with a history of restaurant armed robberies, was charged with killing three people at a McDonald's on March 23 and two employees at a nearby Captain D's on Feb. 16. [ReadOn]

  RELDAN Robert R. 1940   USA ... ... ... 8+
1974 1975 NJ
Verdict/Urteil:
 
Between August 1974 and November 1975, residents of northern New Jersey were alarmed by a series of random, brutal homicides that claimed the lives of eight young women, perpetrated by a man who liked to pick his victims off in pairs. He would resort to solitary targets in a pinch, however, and he kept authorities off-balance by continually altering his methods - suffocation, strangulation, gunshots - on a whim. [ReadOn]

  REMETA Daniel Eugene 1958 1998/03/30 USA ... ... ... 5
1985   FL AR KS
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  RENCZI Vera     ROMANIA ... ... ... 30+
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
The most bizarre character in the chapter of Black Widows is Bucharest's Vera Renczi. She differs from most Black Widows because her motive was jealousy, not profit. Her obsession was not her men's money, but their devotion. This Hungarian beauty had many suitors and trusted not one of them. [ReadOn]

  RENDALL Martha   1909/10/06 AUSTRALIA ... ... ... 3
BW 1907 1908
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  RESENDIZ Angel Maturino ... ... USA ... ... ... 8+
aka Railway Killer, Rafael RESENDEZ-RAMIREZ ... ... WA
Verdict/Urteil:
Several law enforcement agencies in Southeast Texas and Mexico are looking for Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, a known vagrant freight train rider, after linking him to six deaths in Texas and one in Kentucky, all brutal beatings that took place near railroad tracks. On June 8, 1999, the latest victim, Josephine Konvicka, 73, was linked to Maturino-Resendiz, 38, by fingerprints found in her home. [ReadOn]

RESTIVO John => HALSTEAD Dennis, KOGUT John & RESTIVO John

  REZZALA Sid Ahmed     FRANCE ... ... ... 3+
aka    
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  RHOADES Paul Ezra *1957   USA ... ... ... 6+
1985 1987 ID UT
Verdict/Urteil:
 
An Idaho native, born in 1957, Rhoades boasted a record of small-time arrests dating from age 21. In May 1978, he was charged with refusal to disperse, and grand theft charges were filed against him six months later, the latter count dismissed prior to trial. A new charge of refusal to disperse was lodged in March 1982, and June of that year saw him booked for petty theft. Rhoades was arrested for driving without a license in June 1985 and again in March 1986, but more serious charges of burglary were dismissed in January 1986. [ReadOn]

  RHOADES Robert Ben *...   USA ... ... ... ...
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Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer Robert Ben RHOADES
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  RICE Darrell David *...   USA ... ... ... ...
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Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer Darrell David RICE
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  RICH Darrell Keith     USA ... ... ... 4
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
As of June, 1999, Shasta County serial killer Darrell Rich -- convicted of four murders in 1978 -- is slated to be the next prisoner to be executed in California. Rich, 44, of Cottonwood, was convicted of three first-degree murders, one second-degree murder and sexual assaults on five other women, all committed between June and August 1978. [ReadOn]

  RICHARDS Robert McKinley   +1989 USA ... ... ... 2+
1986 1987 TN
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  RICHARDS Stephen Lee   +1879/04/.. USA ... ... ... 9+
Nebraska Fiend 1879   NE
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  RICHARDSON Carl S.     USA ... ... ...
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A juvenile delinquent with a history of escapes from detention facilities in Washington, D.C., 17-year-old Carl Richardson was finally charged as an adult in the murders of three victims slain after various flights from custody. Confined at Oak Hill, the capital's maximum security jail for children, Richardson broke out three times between February and September 1987. [ReadOn]

  RICHARDSON Edwin     USA ... ... ...
aka    
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  RICHLAND TEENAGER Killer     USA ... ... ... 3
1981 1982 GA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
On the night of March 28, 1982, 16-year-Old Wanda Faye Reddick was dragged screaming from her bed by a kidnapper who had first crept through the family home, removing light bulbs from their sockets in an effort to delay pursuit. Her lifeless body was recovered six days later, outside Richland, in rural Stewart County. [ReadOn]

  RICHMOND Earl jr. 1961   USA ... ... ... 5
1990 1991 NJ NC
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  RICHMOND Slasher     USA ... ... ... ...
1990   VA
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  RICHMOND FAMILY Killings ... ... USA ... ... ... ...
...   VA
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  RIDGWAY Gary Leon     USA ... ... ... 48+
aka Greenriver Killer     WA
Verdict/Urteil:

The Green River Killer case has been the longest, costliest and most frustrating investigation in U.S. history. For 15 years, detectives in the Seattle-Tacoma area have been trying to track down the killer, an unidentified man believed to be responsible for the murders of 49 women in King County between 1982 and 1984. [ReadOn]


  RIEKEN Ronnie ...   GERMANY ... ... ... ...
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  RIFKIN Joel 1959   USA ... ... ... 17+
1991 1992 NY
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer Joel RIFKIN

New Yorks worst serial murder case of this century began--or ended--with a routine traffic stop in the predawn hours of June 28, 1993. State troopers Deborah Spaargaren and Sean Ruane were working the graveyard shift in East Meadow, Long Island, when they spotted a pickup truck with no license plate ahead of them, at 3:15 A.M. [ReadOn]


  RIJKE Sjef     NETHERLANDS ... ... ... 2
aka 1971 1971 Utrecht
Verdict/Urteil: 2 x Life (1972)
 
Sjef Rijke seemed to have no luck at all with women. During January 1971, his 18-year-old fiancee, Willy Maas, experienced a week of racking stomach pains that climaxed in her death. The symptoms seemed to coincide with food poisoning , though friends and relatives could never be precise about the suspect dish. [ReadOn]

  RISSELL Monte Ralph 1959 ... USA ... ... ... 5
1976 1977 VA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  RIVA James     USA ... ... ...
The Schizophrenic Vampire 1980 ...
Verdict/Urteil:
In April of 1980, James P. Riva shot his handicapped grandmother twice as she sat in her wheelchair. The gun was loaded with golden bullets. He drank the warm blood gushing from the wounds before trying to cover his tracks by burning her body and her home. Jimmy Riva was a troubled youngster who developed a bloodlust in his kindergarden days. [ReadOn]

  RIVER MONSTER     SOUTH AFRICA ... ... ... 7
1997 1998 Transkei
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  RIVERA Reinaldo     USA ... ... ... 4+
aka     Georgia SC
Verdict/Urteil:
Police in Agusta, Georgia, believe they have arrested a serial killer responsible for the murders of at least four women in South Carolina and Georgia. Reinaldo Rivera, a 37-year-old former sailor who worked for the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C., was arrested in a motel room where he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists after a woman whom he stabbed and raped helped authorities locate him. [ReadOn]

RIVERA Shannon => SMITH Harold Glenn, CRAVEY Michael Gene, RIVERA Shannon, TOSH Martin Wayne & TRIMMER John-Michael Alexander

  RIVERA Vincent Faustino 1963   USA ... ... ... 3
1990 1995 FL
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  RIVERDELL HOSPITAL Murders     USA ... ... ... 9
1965 1966 NJ
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  RIVERMAN     Serial Killer SOUTH AFRICA ... ... ... ...
... ... Durban
Verdict/Urteil:
News on RIVERMAN Serial Killer
 
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  RIVERSIDE CA COUNTY HOSPITAL MURDERS     USA ... ... ... 24
1981 1981 CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 

1981 häuften sich unerklärliche Todesfälle auf der Intensivstation des Riverside California County Hospitals. Eine Untersuchung fand in den Leichen Überdosen von Lidocaine. [ReadOn]


RIVERSIDE Prostitute Killer => SUFF William Lester

  RIZZO Todd Joseph     USA ... ... ...
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer Todd Joseph RIZZO
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ROBACZYNSKI Mary Rose => MARYLAND HOSPITAL Murders

  ROBBINS Gary A. 1935 1988/04/14 USA ... ... ... 4+
1981 1988 MI OH MD PA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROBERTS David James 1944 ... USA ... ... ... 4
1974   IN
Verdict/Urteil:
A native of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, born in January 1944, Roberts logged his first adult arrest at age 22. Preying on women in Gary and Crown Point, Indiana, he had raped and robbed at least two victims, leaving them locked in the trunks of their cars, before police picked him up. [ReadOn]

  ROBINSON Alonzo ... ... USA ... ... ... 3+
  WITHERS George ... ... ...
1995 1998 ...
Verdict/Urteil: 8 years (WITHERS); 10-30 years (ROBINSON)
 
These men formed a unit designed solely to apprehend and prosecute Alonzo Robinson and an associate, George Withers, when they noticed a pattern in a series of violent crimes, all involving extensive facial disfigurement of the victims. [ReadOn]

  ROBINSON Alonzo     USA ... ... ... 6+
1926 1934 MI MO
Verdict/Urteil:
 
Born to poverty in Cleveland, Mississippi, Robinson was arrested by hometown authorities in 1918, on charges of mailing obscene letters to local women. He escaped from custody en route to jail, and made his getaway despite a bullet in the shoulder. Eight years later, when decapitated women's bodies started turning up around Michigan City, police suspected Robinson alias "James Coyner" - of multiple murder. [ReadOn]

  ROBINSON Harvey Miguel 1974   USA ... ... ... 3
1992 1993 PA
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer John Edward ROBINSON sr.
Harvey Miguel Robinson is thought to be one of the youngest serial killers in history. Joan Burghardt, a 29-year-old nurse's aide, was Robinson's first victim. She was raped and bludgeoned in her east Allentown home in August 1992. In June 1993, Robinson abducted, raped and stabbed 15-year-old newspaper carrier Charlotte Schmoyer (pictured). One of Charlotte's regular newspaper customers noticed Charlotte's cart outside her front window, but when she saw no signs of the girl, she called the offices of the Morning Call. Charlotte's supervisors could not locate her, and they contacted the police. That same afternoon, Charlotte's body was found in a heavily wooded area nearby. Charlotte had been raped and stabbed over 20 times. The next month, Robinson raped and strangled 47-year-old grandmother Jessica Jean Fortney. Another victim, Denise Sam-Cali, who was beaten and raped in her home shortly after Schmoyer's killing, escaped alive. Robinson repeatedly returned to her house. On July 31, a police officer who was waiting for Denise's attacker exchanged gunfire with Robinson. Robinson was tracked to a local hospital, where he had sought treatment for injuries. Linked to the three killings by DNA evidence, Robinson was convicted in November 1994 and sentenced to death in all three cases. Just 19 at the time, he was thought to be one of the youngest serial killers in the nation's history. In June 2001, Lehigh County Judge Edward Reibman upheld Robinson's murder convictions but threw out the death sentences in the Burghardt and Schmoyer killings, saying the trial judge had given improper sentencing instructions to the jury. In December 2004, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence in the Fortney case and the first-degree murder convictions in the other cases, which are now back in Lehigh County Court. Gladys Burghardt says she can no longer afford to dwell on the murderous specter of the man who killed her daughter. ''I'm 83 now and it's not beneficial to my health, or my husband's health, to dwell on it. We only have a short time left, and we need to make the most of it.'' When Gladys and her husband, Stanley heard that Governor Ed Rendell had set an execution date for Robinson of April 4, Gladys said, ''This is something that's been waiting to happen, that this monster is put out of the world.'' However, the setting of the execution date is simply a formality and will lead to a stay while the next phase of appeals is carried out. ''I wish they would get it over with,'' said Gladys Burghardt, who is baffled by the notion that the killer has been able to escape execution this long. ''What good is the legal system if it doesn't carry out its threats?'' she said. ''How can someone like Harvey Robinson control the legal system?'' Denise Sam-Cali, who owns a Lehigh Valley transportation company, said she spends little time thinking about Robinson. ''We move on,'' she said. ''He's useless to society, so if they do put him to death, there's no loss.''

  ROBINSON John Edward sr.     USA ... ... ... 5-11
aka     KS MO
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer John Edward ROBINSON sr.
In what is arguably the first cyber sex serial killer case in the Crime Archives, 56-year-old John Edward Robinson is believed to have killed at least five women over a 16-year period. The case against the bondage-killer broke when authorities, who had been investigating Robinson for over three months, arrested him for sexually assaulting two women whom he met in sadomasochistic Internet chat rooms. [ReadOn]

  ROBINSON Sarah Jane   1905 USA ... ... ... 6
BW 1880s   MA
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  ROCHE Charles jr. 1964   USA ... ... ... 8+
1980s   IN
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  ROCHE John Francis 1927 1956/01/27 # USA ... ... ... 6+
1953 1954 NY
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  ROCHESTER PROSTITUTE Killer     USA ... ... ... 14-16
1989 1992 NY
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RODE Adolph James => BARONE Cesar Francesco

  RODRIGUEZ Robert Neal 1950 1992/05/15 USA ... ... ... 3
1984 1992 FL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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RODRIGUEZ VEGA Jose Antonio => VEGA Jose Antonio Rodriguez

  ROEDER Michaela (RÖDER) 1950   GERMANY ... ... ... 10-17
Wuppertal Angel of Death, Todesengel von Wuppertal 1980s  
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROGERS David Keith 1947   USA ... ... ... 3+
1986   CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A navy veteran and father of two, born in 1947, Rogers moved to Bakersfield, California, at age 30, finding employment with the Kern County Sheriff's Department a year later. He spent five years on beats where prostitutes were numerous, and he was fired March 22, 1983, for taking nude photographs of a hooker in a local cemetery. [ReadOn]

  ROGERS Dayton Leroy 1953   USA ... ... ... 8
Molalla Forest Killer 1987   OR
Verdict/Urteil:
The youngest of three children, Rogers was born in Moscow, Idaho, in 1954. His parents moved frequently, adopting four more children along the way, and Rogers turned to petty juvenile crime after losing his favored place as the baby of the family. In seventh grade, he was arrested for shooting a BB gun at passing cars, but serious violence was postponed until his late teens, with females singled out as his victims of preference. [ReadOn]

  ROGERS Glen Edward 1963   USA ... ... ... 5+
Casanova Killer, Cross Country Killer 1994 1995 CA KY MS LA FL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A charming, handsome and volatile individual, Glen was the focus of an all-points national manhunt after a cross-country rampage that left at least four women dead in four separate states. The consummate ladies man, Glen liked to pick up blond and redheaded women in bars and ask them for a ride home. [ReadOn]

  ROGERS Kenneth Paul 1943   USA ... ... ... 3
1969   IL
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  ROGERS Ramon Jay 1959   USA ... ... ... 4+
1977 1994 ID CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
Ramon, an aspiring actor and heavy-metal drummer, was arrested in March of 1996 in San Diego after the body parts of his visiting ex-girlfriend were found in the apartment complex he managed. The discovery triggered the reopening of two other cases involving the mutilation-murder of another of his old girlfriends and the disappearance of one of his friends. Investigators have also looked into two other murders outside San Diego County that might be linked to Rogers. The body parts of the old flame found, reportedly teeth and fingers, were in a plastic bag inside a storage locker near his parking space.

  ROGERS Richard W.     USA ... ... ...
aka Last Call Killer    
Verdict/Urteil:
News on Serial Killer John Edward ROBINSON sr.
Serial Killer Richard W ROGERS
Along the rural East Coast during the early 1990s, the remains of five middle-aged men were found dumped along some roadway.   Found variously in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, they had been murdered, dismembered, and wrapped tightly in several layers of plastic bags.  [ReadOn]

  ROGOSIN Sergej     UKRAINE ... ... ...
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROJAS Teofilo *Sparks*     COLOMBIA ... ... ... 592+
aka    
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  ROLLE Randal 1918 1949/10/14 USA ... ... ... 9#
1940s   MS
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  ROLLING Danny Harold *1954 +2006/10/25 USA ... ... ... 8+
aka Gainesville Ripper 1989 1990 FL LA
Verdict/Urteil: Death
A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, born May 26, 1954, Danny Rolling was the elder son of a foul-tempered policeman who treated his boys to regular ass-whippings, often supplemented with bond-age and blindfolds as punishment for real or imagined infractions. When not working his beat, James Rolling trapped and killed stray cats in his back yard, enjoying their agonized death throes. [ReadOn]

  ROMAGNA Giuseppe     ITALY ... ... ...
aka Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROMANOV Vladimir     RUSSIA ... ... ...
aka Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROME / FLORENCE GAY Slayer     ITALY ... ... ... 2
1997   Rome, Florence
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  ROME GAY Killer     ITALY ... ... ... 19
aka 1990 1997 Rome
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROME SERIAL KILLER     ITALY ... ... ...
aka Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  RONNING Michael ... ... USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... FL
Verdict/Urteil:
 

  ROOYEN Gert van   1990 SOUTH AFRICA ... ... ... 7
aka 1988 1989 Pretoria
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A murderous pedophile in Pretoria, South Africa. He kidnapped, sexually abused, and murdered 6 young teenage girls before offing himself and his mistress, Joey Haarhof with a 357, when the local heat closed in on him after a car chase.

  ROSALES Jose Juarez     MEXICO USA ... ... ... 7-20
aka Verdict/Urteil:
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ROSE Jason Wayne => JONES John Ray & ROSE Jason Wayne

  ROSENFELD Brian Kevin 1958   USA ... ... ... 23+
AD 1990   FL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROSENOW Joseph     USA ... ... ... 1
aka Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROSS Michael Bruce   +2005/05/13 USA ... ... ... 6+
aka     Hartford CN
Verdict/Urteil: Death by Lethal Injection
News on Serial Killer Michael Bruce ROSS
Born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, where his parents ran an egg farm, Ross concentrated on animal science in high school, moving on to Cornell University in 1977 and earning his bachelor's degree in 1981. After graduation, he worked briefly at an egg farm near Columbus, Ohio, but Ross had trouble keeping his mind on the chickens. [ReadOn]

  ROSTOV on DON SEX Killings     RUSSIA ... ... ... 8
1992  
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROSTOV RIPPER     RUSSIA ... ... ...
aka Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  ROTH Randolph Gordon 1954   USA ... ... ... 2
BB 1981 1990 WA
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  ROULET Jacques     FRANCE ... ... ... #
1590s  
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  ROWLAND Walter Graham   1947/02/27 UK ... ... ... 2
1930s 1946 Manchester
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On October 20, 1946, Olive Balchin, age 40, was found dead at a World War II bomb site in Manchester, England, her skull crushed with a hammer left at the scene. Descriptions of a suspect seen with the woman led authorities to Rowland, whose criminal record included a prior conviction for child-murder. At his trial, Rowland was convicted of the slaying despite a confession from Liverpool jail inmate David John Ware. Sentenced to die, Rowland was hanged at Strangways prison on February 27, 1947. Ware, his would-be benefactor, was confined to an asylum in 1951, after trying to murder another woman.

  ROWLES *Snowy*   1932/06/13 AUSTRALIA ... ... ... 2+
John Thomas SHMITH 1929 1930
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  ROWNTREE Mark Andrew 1957   UK ... ... ... 4
1976   Leeds
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  ROZIER Robert     USA ... ... ... 7+
Neriah ISRAEL 1981 1986 FL NY MO
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A star football player at UC Berkeley, Rozier was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals but quit the team after playing two games as a pro. He moved on to the Canadian Football League, then signed up briefly with the Oakland Raiders, but his will to win had disappeared somewhere along the way. [ReadOn]

  RUDA Manuela     GERMANY 1
  RUDA Daniel      
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  RUDLOFF Fritz 1904 1954 GERMANY ... ... ... 3+
AD 1954   Walterhausen
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A fiftyish native of Walterhausen, in East Germany, Rudloff was a registered nurse, known for his kindly demeanor, who "took real pride in healing the sick." Unknown to his acquaintances, however, Rudloff harbored lethal resentment toward licensed physicians more qualified than himself... and against one physician in particular. [ReadOn]

  RUIZ Paul *1948 +1997/01/08 USA 6
  DENTON Earl Van *1950   AR
1977    
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  RUIZHUO Hua     CHINA ... ... ... 4+
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  RULLOFFSON Edward Howard   1871/05/.. USA ... ... ... 4+
Edward RULOFF AD 1870 1871 NY
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  RUNBO Gong     CHINA ... ... ... 20+
aka Beijing
 
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  RUNG Thomas     GERMANY ... ... ... 13+
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  RUNGE Paul Frederick     USA ... ... ... 7
aka    
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News on Serial Killer Paul RUNGE
On June 14, 2001, Paul Frederick Runge, 31, was charged in Chicago with murdering and sexually assaulting six women and a 10-year-old girl in a string of sex attacks in Cook County and DuPage County between 1995 and 1997. The suspect, Paul Frederick Runge, has been behind bars since 1997, when he was arrested for a parole violation. [ReadOn]

  RUSSELL George Waterfield 1958   USA ... ... ... 3
Eastside Serial Killer 1990   WA
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Unemployed, Mercer Island
Raped and killed three women he met in Eastside bars, leaving their bodies in particular poses. A small-time burglar/con-artist who pretended to be a cop, Russell made his living off women he met, through trickery and theft. Status: In prison in Washington.

RUTRELL Martin => CHANEY Ben jr. & RUTRELL Martin & THOMPSON L.L.

  RUZICKA James Edward 1950   USA ... ... ... 2
1973   WA
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In and out of juvenile facilities and prisons from the age of nine, James Ruzicka was the product of an abusive home who compounded his problem with abuse of LSD, cocaine, mescaline and heroin. He first practiced bestiality as a child, soon progressing to the molestation of young girls. [ReadOn]

  RYAKHOVSKY Sergei 1963   RUSSIA ... ... ... 19
Hippopotamus 1991 1993 Moscow
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Sergei, a necrophilic killer known as "The Hippopotamus" because of his size, is believed to have slain up to 19 people in the suburbs of Moscow. Six more survived his attacks. In July, 1995 he was sentenced to death for his crimes. [ReadOn]

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16 Unsolved Cases
 
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8 Female Serial Killers
 
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92 Male Serial Killers
 
116 Cases total
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