List of Famous Serial Killers

Dmitry Petrovich Voronenko (born July 29, 1971), known as The Petersburg Maniac, is a Kyrgyzstani-Ukrainian serial killer, who killed 4 girls and young women in St. Petersburg between 2006 and 2007.

Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, convicted for the killing of 18 people in the Moscow area between 1988 and 1993.

Alexander Fedorovich Taran, also known as The Voroshilov Sharpshooter, is a Russian beekeeper who committed a series of attempted and accomplished murders in order to avenge the death of his children.

Jacquy Haddouche (born February 19, 1964, in Beauvais – October 23, 2010 at Fresnes prison) was a French serial killer. He was convicted of three murders committed between 1992 and 2002, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year lock-in period.

Rudolf Pleil was a German serial killer known as Der Totmacher. He was convicted of killing a salesman and nine women, but claimed to have killed 25 people. Many of his crimes took place mainly in the Harz mountain range.

José Antonio Rodríguez Vega, nicknamed El Mataviejas, was a Spanish serial killer who raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria, between August 1987 and April 1988.

Ivan Petrovich Panchenko (born January 27, 1968), known as The Svetlograd Maniac, is a Russian rapist and serial killer.

Hiroaki Hidaka was a Japanese serial killer.

Kristen Heather Gilbert is an American serial killer and former nurse who was convicted of four murders and two attempted murders of patients admitted to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Northampton, Massachusetts. She induced cardiac arrest in patients by injecting their intravenous therapy bags with massive doses of epinephrine, an untraceable heart stimulant. She would then respond to the coded emergency, often resuscitating the patients herself. Although it is believed that she may have been responsible for 350 or more deaths, her only confirmed victims were Stanley Jagodowski, Henry Hudon, Kenneth Cutting, and Edward Skwira.

Graham Frederick Young best known as the Teacup Poisoner and later the St. Albans Poisoner, was an English serial killer who used poison to kill his victims.