List of Famous Serial Killers

Sergei Ivanovich Dovzhenko is a Ukrainian serial killer, a former operative of the Mariupol police. He confessed to committing 19 murders between November 1998 and May 2002 in his native city. Among his victims are a 12-year-old girl, four employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and one Yugoslav citizen.

Naceur Damergi (born 1944 in Tunis - died November 17, 1990) was a Tunisian serial killer who was executed by hanging for raping and killing 13 girls in the Nabeul region during the 1980s.

Paul John Knowles, also known as The Casanova Killer, was an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 20 people in 1974, though he claimed to have taken 35 lives.

Benjamin Thomas "Tony" Atkins, also known as The Woodward Corridor Killer, was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered, tortured, and raped 11 women, mostly sex workers and drug addicts, in Highland Park and Detroit, Michigan, during a period of nine months between December 1991 and August 1992.

Zdzisław Marchwicki, called the "Zagłębie vampire", was an alleged Polish serial killer.

Bai Baoshan was a Chinese serial killer who killed a total of 15 people.

Vera Renczi, was a Romanian serial killer who allegedly confessed to poisoning 35 individuals including her two husbands, multiple lovers, and her son with arsenic during the 1920s. The earliest report published by Otto Tolischus in the United States was in May, 1925. The article is based on letters from the readers without naming any reference. Renczi's story has surfaced repeatedly, but without traceable details such as specific dates of her birth, marriages, arrest, conviction, incarceration or death. Most sources place the murders at Berkerekul, Yugoslavia, or Bečkerek, which changed the name to Zrenjanin in 1946, although the spelling Berkerekul is unknown for this city. In 1972, the Guinness Book of World Records found no authoritative sources to support the claim that 35 people were killed by Renczi in early 20th-century Austro Hungarian Empire.

Clifford Robert Olson Jr. was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 children and young adults between the ages of 9 and 18 in the early 1980s. Olson scored 38/40 on the Psychopathy Checklist according to forensic psychiatrist Stanley Semrau, who interviewed Olson at length in prison.

Thomas Lee Dillon was an American serial killer who shot and killed five men in southeastern Ohio, beginning April 1, 1989 and continuing until April 1992.