List of Famous Serial Killers

Amy Duggan "Sister" Archer-Gilligan was a nursing home proprietor and serial killer from Windsor, Connecticut. She murdered at least five people by poisoning them. One of her victims was her second husband, Michael Gilligan; the others were residents of her nursing home.

Roger Dale Stafford was a convicted spree killer and serial killer executed for the 1978 murders of the Lorenz Family and six employees of a Sirloin Stockade restaurant in Oklahoma. Stafford never acknowledged his guilt, but Stafford's wife, Verna, implicated him in a total of 34 murders in seven different states.

Gilbert Paul Jordan, known as The Boozing Barber, was a Canadian serial killer who is believed to have committed the so-called "alcohol murders" in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Robert Joseph Silveria Jr., also known as The Boxcar Killer, is an American serial killer currently serving double life sentences in Wyoming. Silveria was also convicted in Kansas for the killing of Charles Randall Boyd, and in Florida for the killing of Willie Clark.

Oleg Vladimirovich Kuznetsov was a Soviet-Russian serial killer and rapist. Between 1991 and 1992, he killed 10 girls and women between the ages of 15 and 30.

Vladimir Ivanovich Kuzmin is a Russian thief and serial killer, who in the early 1990s was involved in various crimes against minors, murders, and manslaughter.

Sergey Anatolyevich Cherny, known as The Beast, was a Ukrainian-born Russian serial killer who killed 10 girls aged between 15 and 23 years in Smolensk from August to December 1999.

Stephan Letter is a German serial killer and former nurse responsible for the murder of at least 29 patients while he worked at a hospital in Sonthofen, Bavaria between January 2003 and July 2004. His murders have been described as Germany's largest number of killings since World War II.

John Wayne Glover was an English-Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women, over a period of 14 months from 1989-1990 including Winifreda, Lady Ashton, widow of the English-Australian impressionist painter Sir Will Ashton, in suburbs located in Sydney's North Shore. The fact that the victims were all elderly women, led to Glover attaining the nickname by the press of The Granny Killer. Following his arrest in 1990, he admitted to the murders and was sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He hanged himself in prison on 9 September 2005.

Vladimir Ivanovich Romanov (born 1950 in Kaliningrad Oblast, RSFSR - October 12, 2006 in Kaliningrad, Russia), known as the "Kaliningrad Maniac", was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile. Between 1991 and 2005, he committed at least 12 murders associated with rape.