List of Famous Serial Killers

Ronald Joseph Dominique, known as The Bayou Strangler, is an American serial killer and rapist who murdered at least 23 men and boys in the state of Louisiana between July 1997 and 2006. On September 23, 2008, Dominique was found guilty and sentenced to several terms of life imprisonment without parole for his crimes. Following his conviction, the FBI stated that this case was the most significant serial homicide case in the country over the past two decades in terms of both numbers and duration.

Efren Saldivar is an American serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist at Adventist Health Glendale in Glendale, California.

Denis Sergeevich Pischikov, known as The Shivering Creature, is a Russian robber and serial killer, who killed 14 elderly people between 2002 and 2003 in the Moscow Oblast and Vladimir Oblast.

Kang Ho-sun is a South Korean serial killer who was sentenced to death in 2010 for killing 10 women, including his wife and mother-in-law.

Patrick David Mackay is a British serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 people in London and Kent in England, from 1974 to 1975. Only 3 were confirmed.

Westley Allan Dodd, was an American convicted serial killer and sex offender. In 1989, he sexually assaulted and murdered three young boys in Vancouver, Washington. He was arrested later that year after a failed attempt to abduct a six-year-old boy at a movie theater.

Stanislav Ivanovich Rogolev was a Soviet serial killer. For one and a half years he attacked 21 women, killing ten of them. In 1980, Rogolev was convicted four times, and charged once with rape. According to writer Alexander Chekhlov, Rogolev was the informer of Aloizs Vaznis, a police officer, who, in turn, tried to shield Rogolev. In particular, he gave Rogolev full information about the crimes, fabricating a confession in which he could be declared insane. It was also believed that Rogolev had information about the progress of the investigation. According to a writer and lawyer Andris Grūtups, Rogolev was a secret agent of the deputy minister, General Anrijs Kavalieris.

The shock is still too soft a word to describe the state in which Latvia was in the early 80's. Schoolgirls went to classes in close-knit groups, husbands greeted wives from late trains, and all over the place were reinforced police detachments. In every doorway, law-abiding citizens, frightened by a man, seemed to see the worst and most bloody maniac of Latvia of the Soviet period - Stanislav Rogolev.

Richard Angelo is an American serial killer and former nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, New York. In 1989, he was convicted of murdering several of his patients and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.

Elias Xitavhudzi was a South African serial killer who murdered 16 men and women in Atteridgeville, South Africa, in the 1950s. Xitavhudzi targeted only whites in the then-strictly segregated community. His killing spree caused a local sensation during the peak years of South Africa's apartheid regime. Prior to his capture, he acquired the nickname "Pangaman".