List of Famous Serial Killers

Lindsey Robert Rose is an Australian serial killer from New South Wales, currently serving five sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the murder of five people between 1984 and 1994.

Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 15 in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. Golovkin, also known as The Fisher and The Boa, tortured, raped and killed young boys in his garage basement and the forests outside Moscow.

Jesse Harding Pomeroy was a convicted American murderer and the youngest person in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be convicted of murder in the first degree. He was found guilty by a jury trial held in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County in December 1874.

Mamadou Traoré, known as The Bare-Handed Killer, is a Senegalese-born French serial rapist and murderer, responsible for assaulting at least six women, killing two of them, between April and October 1996.

Stephen D. Richards or Samuel D. Richards, also known in the media as The Nebraska Fiend, Kearney County Murderer, and The Ohio Monster, was an American serial killer who confessed to committing nine murders in Nebraska and Iowa between 1876 and 1878.

Joachim Georg Kroll was a German serial killer, necrophiliac and cannibal who operated in the Ruhr metropolitan region from 1955 until his capture in 1976. He was convicted of eight murders and one attempted murder, but confessed to a total of 14. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982.

Dmitry Leonidovich Gridin, known as The Lifter, is a Soviet serial killer who killed three girls in 1989.

Norio Nagayama was a Japanese spree killer and novelist.

Billy Richard Glaze, also known as "Jesse Sitting Crow" was a convicted American serial killer whose guilt has come into question by the discovery of DNA evidence excluding Glaze and implicating another man.

Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus was a German serial killer believed to have been responsible for poisoning her husband, aunt, and lover, and of attempting to poison her servant. Her trial led to a method of identifying arsenic poisoning.