List of Famous Serial Killers

José María Jarabo was a Spanish spree killer, who between 19 and 21 July 1958, murdered four adults and an unborn baby. Jarabo was sentenced to death by garrote and executed in 1959.

Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela Torres, also known as "El Canaca" and "El Chacal," was a Chilean criminal who killed six people in what the Investigations Police of Chile has called one of the most important crimes of twentieth century Chile.

Norbert Hans Poehlke, The Hammer-Killer, was a German police officer who after he committed suicide in 1985 was found to have committed several bank robberies and related murders. He was tagged as the "Hammer-Killer" for his modus operandi of killing drivers of cars and using a sledgehammer in later bank robberies in which he would use his victims' cars as getaway vehicles.

Vladimir Georgievich Vinnichevsky, known as The Urals Monster, was the youngest Soviet serial killer.

Sara María Aldrete Villareal is a convicted Mexican serial killer who headed a drug-smuggling and human sacrifice cult with Adolfo Constanzo. The members of the cult, dubbed by the media as The Narcosatanists, called her The Godmother, with Constanzo as “The Godfather”. The cult was involved in multiple ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989.

George Joseph Smith was an English serial killer and bigamist. In 1915, he was convicted and subsequently hanged for the murders of three women, the case becoming known as the Brides in the Bath Murders. As well as being widely reported in the media, the case was significant in the history of forensic pathology and detection. It was also one of the first cases in which similarities between connected crimes were used to prove deliberation, a technique used in subsequent prosecutions.

Vasiliy Sergeevich Kulik was a Soviet serial killer, convicted for the killing of 13 people and nearly 30 rapes and assaults in Irkutsk between 1984 and 1986.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann was a German serial killer, sexual predator, and cannibal who cannibalized his victims. He committed suicide while awaiting the end of the main trial without giving a full confession, leaving the extent of his crimes and motives largely unknown.

Hiroshi Maeue , aka "The Suicide Website Murderer", was a Japanese serial killer, who lured his victims via the internet and killed three people in 2005.

Albert Millet, born July 2, 1929, was a french serial killer, nicknamed "The Boar of the Moors". He is infamous for killing two women and a man (2007) in his hometown of Hyères.