List of Famous Serial Killers

Władysław Mazurkiewicz was a Polish serial killer from the post–World War II Kraków, who also owned property in Warsaw. His economic standing and polite manners in Stalinist Poland earned him the nickname "the Gentleman Murderer", also "piękny Władek".

Huang Yong was a Chinese serial killer accused of murdering 17 teenage boys between September 2001-03.

Jacobus Dirk (Koos) Hertogs was a convicted Dutch serial killer. He was convicted for a total of three murders.

Frederick Bailey Deeming was an English-born Australian gasfitter and murderer. He was convicted and executed for the murder of a woman in Melbourne, Australia. He is remembered today because he was suspected by some of being the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

Kenneth Erskine is a British serial killer who became known as The Stockwell Strangler. He committed the murders of 7-11 senior citizens in London between April and July 1986.

Vaughn Orrin Greenwood is an American serial killer, known by the nickname The Skid Row Slasher.

Dagmar Johanne Amalie Overbye was a Danish serial killer. She murdered between 9 and 25 children, including one of her own, during a seven-year period from 1913 to 1920. On March 3, 1921, she was sentenced to death in one of the most noted trials in Danish history—one that changed legislation on childcare. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison.

The Bradford murders were the serial killings of three women in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England in 2009 and 2010.

John Floyd Thomas Jr. is an American serial killer, serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole convicted of the murders of seven women in the Los Angeles area during the 1970s and 1980s, and suspected by police of 10 to 15 more.

Orhan Aksoy, known as The Parcel Killer, is a Turkish serial killer who strangled five people around Istanbul from 2000 to 2001, stuffing their corpses in boxes he dumped in open fields or near construction sites. For his crimes, he was given five life terms and two years of solitary confinement.