Most Savage Serial Killers
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She sadistically tortured and killed around 650 girls, bathing in their blood to maintain a youthful appearance. Her brutal murders and bloodlust earned her the nickname the "Blood Countess".
Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children.
Herman Webster Mudgett (1861-1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or, more commonly, as H. H. Holmes, was an American serial killer. While he confessed to 27 murders, only nine could be plausibly confirmed and several of the people he claimed to have murdered were still alive. He is said to have killed as many as 200, though this figure is only traceable to 1940s pulp magazines. Besides... read more
Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer, who was sentenced for killing 110 girls, but who claims to have raped and killed more than 300 girls across Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and potentially other countries.
Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, also known as La Bestia or Tribilín is a Colombian rapist and serial killer. In 1999, he admitted to the rape, torture and murder of 138 children and teenagers.
Harold Frederick Shipman Jr. (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was a British GP and the most prolific serial killer in recorded history, with an estimated 250 victims. On 31 January 2000, Shipman was found guilty of murdering fifteen patients under his care. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. Shipman died by suicide by hanging... read more
Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer and cannibal. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man. In March of 1935, he was convicted and tried of first degree murder, and sentenced to death by electrocution. And on January 16, 1936, he was executed, and pronounced dead 3 minutes after he was placed on the... read more
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper, who committed the sexual assault, murder, and mutilation of at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Uzbek SSR.
Thug Behra or Buhram, also known as Buhram Jemedar and the 'King of the Thugs', was a leader of the Thuggee cult active in Oudh in northern central India during the late 18th and early 19th century, and is often cited as one of the world's most prolific serial killers.
"Jack the Ripper" was the alias of an unknown serial killer in Whitechapel, London who brutally murdered 5 women (mainly prostitutes) between August and November of 1888. To this day, he has remained a mysterious and popular phenomena among serial killers and popular media. He started the serial killer craze before it shifted to America. He was responsible for the deaths of at least 5 prostitutes and all were badly mutilated. It's believed that he had to have been a surgeon due to the way the bodies we're cut up and mutilated.
Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophiliac who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. He was born on November 24th, 1946, and died via the electric chair on January 24th, 1989. He was born illegitimately, and his father is unknown, but it is suspected that he could be a child of rape. He was a Sagittarius,... read more He doesn't even look like someone you'd suspect of being a serial killer, for many reasons. It's kinda of ironic that he is.
His murders may have been savage but he's not bad. All were pedophiles, child molesters, sex offenders, or murderers so I think they deserved it. He sounds more like a vigilante than a serial killer to me. And although he's been nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal", there is no proof of cannibalism and is merely a rumor. He also had a sad childhood. He was sexually and physically abused by his parents. He was hospitalized many times for multiple suicide attempts and became addicted to drugs. As a teenager, he worked as a male prostitute to support himself. After his forth murder he was sentenced to life in solitary confinement. I think a life sentence is a little too extreme, especially since he has shown signs of mental stability over the past few years. I actually feel sorry for him.
Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute, and that all of the homicides were committed in self-defense.
Clifford Robert Olson, Jr. was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 children and young adults between the ages of nine and 18 years in the early 1980s.
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender known as the Killer Clown who assaulted and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", personas he had devised... read more
Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders.