List of Famous Serial Killers

José Paz Bezerra, known as the Morumbi Monster, is a Brazilian serial killer responsible for the deaths of more than 20 women in the states of São Paulo and Pará. Bezerra was sentenced to more than 60 years in prison and served the maximum Brazilian sentence - which is 30 years - at São José prison in Belém. He has been at liberty since 2001.

Kanpatimar Shankariya was an Indian serial killer.

Velaphi Ndlangamandla, also known as The Saloon Killer, is a South African robber and serial killer, responsible for killing 19 people between April and September 1998 in Mpumalanga. He was sentenced to 137 years' imprisonment for his crimes.

Nikolai Porfirievich Shestakov, known as The Luberetsky Maniac, was a Soviet serial killer and rapist, who worked as a truck driver.

Eduard Vasilyevich Shemyakov (born September 30, 1975), known as The Resort Maniac, is a Ukrainian-born Russian serial killer who killed 10 people and attempted to kill 2 others in St. Petersburg between 1996 and 1998. Before the murders, he always raped his victims, and always killed with particular cruelty, dismembering and decapitating bodies. In at least one case, cannibalism was involved.

Umesh Reddy is a serial rapist and serial killer from India. He confessed to killing 18 women, and was convicted in 9 cases. The police believe that he raped at least 20 women in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat. They also suspect that several of his crimes have not been reported, because the victims feared social stigma.

Francisco Guerrero Pérez (1840–1910), also known as Antonio Prida, was a Mexican serial killer in the late 19th century. He was the first serial killer to be captured in Mexico, although he was not the country's first recorded serial killer. Guerrero killed approximately twenty female prostitutes in Mexico City between 1880 and 1888. He also killed one woman whose status as a prostitute has been inconsistently reported.

Darbara Singh was an Indian serial killer, who has been convicted for two murders.

Aṅgulimāla is an important figure in Buddhism, particularly within the Theravāda tradition. Depicted as a ruthless brigand who completely transforms after a conversion to Buddhism, he is seen as the example par excellence of the redemptive power of the Buddha's teaching and the Buddha's skill as a teacher. Aṅgulimāla is seen by Buddhists as the "patron saint" of childbirth and is associated with fertility in South and Southeast Asia.

Christine Malèvre is a former nurse who was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of having killed as many as 30 patients. She confessed to some of the murders, but claimed she had done so at the request of the patients, who were all terminally ill. France, however, does not recognize a "right to die", and Malèvre eventually recanted most of her confessions. The families of several of her victims strongly denied that their relatives had expressed any will to die, much less asked Malèvre to kill them.