List of Famous Serial Killers

Peter Niers was a German serial killer and bandit who was executed on 16 September 1581 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, some 40 km from Nuremberg. Based on confessions extracted from him and his accomplices under torture, he was convicted of 544 murders, including 24 fetuses cut out of pregnant women—allegedly, the fetal remains were to be used in magical rituals and for acts of cannibalism.

Leo Egidius Schiffer was a German serial killer, who was known as The Strangler of Aachen. Between 1983 and 1990, he murdered five girls and women between the ages of 15 to 31, abusing three of them sexually. His crimes were known as "hitchhiker killings" or "Disco-murders". In 1985, the program Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst covered his case.

Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour, also known as "al-Tourbini", was an Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer who raped and murdered at least 32 children in the course of seven years, throughout several locations in Egypt including Cairo, Alexandria, Qalyoubeya and Beni Sueif. All of his victims were 10 to 14 years old, most of them boys. Mansour was arrested in 2006 along with his six accomplices, and subsequently sentenced to death.

Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore is an American convicted murderer from Alamance County, North Carolina. Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for the 1986 arsenic poisoning of her boyfriend. She is also suspected in the death of a mother-in-law and her first husband, and the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989.

Orville Lynn Majors was a licensed practical nurse and serial killer, who was convicted of murdering his patients in Clinton, Indiana. Though he was only tried for seven murders and convicted of six, he was believed to have committed additional cases between 1993 and 1995, the period of time for which he was employed by the hospital where the deaths occurred, and for which he was investigated. It was reported that he murdered patients who he claimed were demanding, whiny, or disproportionately added to his work load.

Andrew Urdiales was an American serial killer who was convicted in Illinois in 2002 of killing three women and convicted in California in 2018 of killing five women. He was sentenced to death in California and committed suicide a few months later in California's San Quentin Prison.

Lam Kor-wan is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers.

The Coin Shop Killer, born Charles Thurman Sinclair, was an American alleged robber and murderer suspected of various murders of coin shop owners from the early-1980s and 1990s. He was categorized as a nomadic killer who was linked to murders across the Western states of the United States as well as into Canada.

Pavel Alekseevich Shuvalov (born 1 March 1968), known as The Nevsky Forest Park Maniac, is a Soviet-Russian serial killer who killed 5 children between 1991 and 1995.

Francisco de Assis Pereira, also known as "O Maníaco do Parque", is a Brazilian serial killer. He was arrested in 1998 for the rape and murder of 11 women and for assaulting nine others in a São Paulo park.