One of the United States most prolific serial killers, Gary Ridgway was arrested in 2001 for 4 murders though confessed to killing at least 70 women in Washington state throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. He avoided the death penalty by provided detailed confessions and led police to the dumping sites

Claiming to have killed at least 70 people, Tommy Lynn Sells is considered one of the most dangerous offenders in Texas, United States and has been convicted of several brutal murders between 1985 and 1999 including stabbing a 13 year old girl 16 times. Sells was eventually captured after breaking

John Wayne Gacy sexual assaulted and murdered 33 teenage boys and young men in a series of killings between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. He lured victims to his home with the promise of work or money before murdering them by strangulation with a tourniquet . Gacy buried 26

One of the most widely known murderers of the 20th century, Ted Bundy was an American serial killer and rapist who kidnapped or overpowered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s. Bundy typically approached his female victims in a public place and led them to secluded areas where he

The British equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen was a homosexual killer who murdered 15 gay men within home in London, England between 1978 and 1983. He retained his victims’ bodies before dissecting their remains and disposing of their bodies by burning or flushing the remains down the toilet, which

Known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He also committed necrophilia and ate parts of his later victims, dismembering and cooking parts of their bodies within his home. Dahmer

Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez was an American serial killer and Satan worshiper who terrorized Los Angeles between 1984 and 1985. Nicknamed the Night Stalker Ramirez broke into the homes of many of his victims, shooting, stabbing, raped and mutilating his victims who ranged between a 9 year old girl and

Peter William Sutcliffe is a British serial killer known as “The Yorkshire Ripper”. In 1981 Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others. He targeted prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford area causing a climate of fear across northern England. When arrested in January 1981 for

Known as the Genesee River Killer, Shawcross first killed in 1972, sexually assaulting and murdering a 10-year-old boy after luring him into a wooded area in Watertown, New York then raped and killed eight-year-old girl, for which he was captured and convicted of manslaughter. Serving 14 years imprisonment he was

The Gruesome Crimes of Fred & Rose West Fred and Rose West are one of the most notorious serial killer couples in British history. Between 1967 and 1987, the couple tortured, raped, and murdered at least 12 young women in their hometown of Gloucester, England. Their gruesome crimes shocked the

A Look at James Eagan Holmes, The Aurora Shooter On July 20th, 2012, a tragedy occurred in Aurora, Colorado that would forever change the lives of those affected. James Eagan Holmes opened fire inside a movie theater during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, killing 12 people and

James Edward “Pop” Pough (February 16, 1948 – June 18, 1990) was an American spree killer, who, on June 18, 1990, killed nine people and wounded four others in a General Motors Acceptance Corporation car loan office in Jacksonville, Florida, before committing suicide. The day before, he had already killed

The Gruesome Murders of John George Haigh John George Haigh was a British serial killer who gained notoriety for his gruesome murders in the 1940s. He was known as “The Acid Bath Murderer” due to his modus operandi of disposing of his victims’ bodies by dissolving them in sulfuric acid.

Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (13 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was an American-born Scottish serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, and is believed to have murdered two more. Prior to his arrest, the

The Gruesome Tale of Donald Henry Gaskins Blog Introduction: If you’re familiar with the name Donald Henry Gaskins, there’s a good chance it’s because you’ve heard about him in passing as one of the most prolific serial killers in US history. While his actual body count is unknown, it is

Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita, Kansas), between 1974 and 1991. He is known as the BTK killer (or the BTK strangler). “BTK” stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill”, which was his infamous signature.

Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Edmund Kemper Edmund Kemper is one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. Born in 1948, he was responsible for the deaths of at least eight people in California between 1964 and 1973. His gruesome acts earned him the nickname “The

A Look Into the Mind of David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer Between 1976 and 1977, New York City was terrorized by a series of seemingly random shootings that left six people dead and seven wounded. The perpetrator of these heinous crimes was eventually identified as David Berkowitz, a