List of Famous Serial Killers

Douglas Daniel Clark is an American serial killer. Clark and his accomplice, Carol M. Bundy, were collectively known as the Sunset Strip Killers. They were accused and subsequently convicted of a variety of murders in Los Angeles, California.

Sergey Aleksandrovich Shipilov (born May 17, 1959, in Arkhangelsk, RSFSR), known as the "Velsk Chikatilo", is a Russian rapist and serial killer sentenced to life imprisonment for 14 murders and nine rapes. Most of his murders took place in the town of Velsk. The majority of his victims were women that he raped before killing.

Lam Kwok-wai is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers.

Elisabeth Wiese was a German serial killer from Hamburg, convicted and executed for the killing of five children.

Vyacheslav Valeryevich Solovyov, known as The Yaroslavl Poisoner, was a Russian serial killer and poisoner. He poisoned six people, including his wife and daughter.

César Armando Librado Legorreta is a Mexican serial killer known as El Coqueta, who was convicted of six rapes and murders of women in the Greater Mexico City.

Pierre François Lacenaire was a French murderer and would-be poet.

Ahmad Suradji, also known as Nasib Kelewang and Datuk Maringgi, was an Indonesian serial killer who admitted to murdering 42 girls and women between 1986 and 1997. Suradji's victims, ranging in age between 11 and 30, were strangled after being buried in the ground up to their waists as part of a ritual. He buried his victims in a sugarcane plantation near his home, with their heads facing his house, which he believed would give him extra power.

Juan Díaz de Garayo y Ruiz de Argandoña, also known as "The Sacamantecas", was a Spanish serial killer active near Vitoria, Álava, who strangled five women and a 13-year-old girl, and attacked four other women during two different periods, 1870 to 1874 and 1878 to 1879. A lust-motivated serial killer, Garayo first killed prostitutes after hiring and sleeping with them consensually, but grew more disorganized and violent as time went on, attacking, raping and murdering women that he saw walking alone in the country. His last two victims, murdered in consecutive days, were also stabbed, and the second was disemboweled.

Staf Van Eyken is a Belgian serial killer who strangled three women between October 1971 and March 1972 in Mechelen and Bonheiden. Because he liked to bite his victims, he got the nickname The Vampire of Muizen. In 1974, he was sentenced to death by an Antwerp cour d'assises, which was automatically converted to life imprisonment.