Most Notorious Murderers

1. Jack the Ripper

   

   "Jack the Ripper" is the name given to an unidentified serial killer who operated in Whitechapel, London. He brutally murdered five women, primarily prostitutes, between August and November of 1888. The killer's identity remains unknown, and the case has become one of the most infamous unsolved mysteries... read more

   Like America's Zodiac Killer, Jack the Ripper was never caught nor identified. He terrorized the city he lived in.

   Hitler didn't actually kill anyone himself. His army did. Jack the Ripper killed people himself.

2. Jeffrey Dahmer

   

   Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 - November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later crimes involved necrophilia, cannibalism... read more

   He did say at one of his trials that he's sorry for what he did. The victims' loved ones have every right to hate him, and he said that if he could give his own life to bring them back, he would.

   He was a necrophile and a cannibal. He killed some of his victims by injecting hydrochloric acid into holes he drilled in their skulls. He preserved their body parts. As a child, he impaled a dog.

   Visit any link giving info about cruel criminals, and on every link, you will find his name.

3. Albert Fish

   

   Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer, child rapist, 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 1935, he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death by electrocution... read more

   Anyone who writes to the mother of the child he just ate and explains how good it was deserves to be higher up on the list.

   Eating children is disgusting, probably because they didn't do their homework. Dumb England...

   A psycho. Someone who loves the feeling of pain and gives pain to others. He is said to be a pedophile and a cannibal. He wrote letters to the mothers of his victims, describing how good their children tasted.

4. Ted Bundy

   

   Theodore Robert Bundy (born November 24, 1946) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophiliac. He assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. Bundy was executed via electric chair on January 24, 1989. His exact number of victims remains... read more

   He was very charming and clever in his days. Not only was he "evil," but he was the smart kind of evil. Sure, he got caught in the end, but the things he did before were like those of a siren. A siren is a mermaid-like creature that lures its prey with its voice. In Bundy's case, it was his looks.

   Should've been higher. He was a manipulative rapist and killer who beat women and had sex with their dead bodies. Yes, he was hella sexy and charming, but he had a girlfriend while in prison and got love letters. He even got engaged to another woman. I will admit, he was extremely clever, especially when escaping. I'm studying him at the moment.

5. The Zodiac Killer

   

   The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who terrorized northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is infamous for sending cryptic letters and ciphers to newspapers, in which he claimed responsibility for various murders. Although several suspects have been investigated, the Zodiac Killer's... read more

   Probably the most intelligent serial killer of all time.

6. John Wayne Gacy

   

   John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys. Known as the Killer Clown, he often performed at children's hospitals and charity events as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown," personas he created... read more

   He targeted young men and boys and buried their corpses under his house. Sicko!

   This is where the fear of clowns came from.

   John Wayne Gacy, born March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, killed 32 males and buried them under his house.

7. Ed Gein

   

   Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American serial killer and body snatcher.

   Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gained widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he had exhumed corpses... read more

   He only killed about two people in his life. However, he was so obsessed with body parts that he would go to cemeteries and dig up the corpses of dead women to make masks out of their skin.

   Fun fact: This was the inspiration for Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

   Imagine entering Ed Gein's house to find rotting mutilated human flesh in paper bags, only to then recognize it as the face of someone you know. He slaughtered his victims and strung them up like pigs. He used various body parts and skin to create furnishings and décor for his home. This is true insanity.

8. Vlad Tepes

   

   Vlad III, also known as "Vlad the Impaler" or "Vlad Dracula", was born in 1431 and served as a Romanian monarch. He ruled the principality of Wallachia three separate times before his death in either 1476 or 1477. Vlad is most famous for his reputation as a brutal and authoritarian ruler, especially... read more

   Also called Vlad the Impaler, he was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was widely feared for his cruel and sadistic nature.

   The guy was known for impaling people. He was pretty evil, and he was the inspiration for the vampire stories because vampires kill a lot.

9. Richard Ramirez

   

   Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez, known as Richard Ramirez and widely referred to as the Night Stalker, was an American serial killer, rapist, and burglar. He was born on February 29, 1960, in El Paso, Texas, as the youngest of five children to Julian and Mercedes Ramirez. His father was a Mexican national... read more

10. Andrei Chikatilo

    

    Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило, Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило, romanized: Andrii Romanovych Chykatylo. October 16, 1936 - February 14, 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer... read more

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13. Genghis Khan

    

    Genghis Khan (c. 1162 - August 18, 1227), born Temüjin, was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He united the Mongol tribes and launched a series of military campaigns that conquered vast territories across Asia and... read more

14. Richard Chase

    

    Richard Trenton Chase was an American serial killer, cannibal, and necrophile who killed six people in Sacramento, California, from December 1977 to January 1978. He was known as The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains. His crimes shocked the nation... read more

15. Ottis Toole

    

16. Armin Meiwes

    

17. Eric Harris

    

    Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 - April 20, 1999) was an American senior student who participated in the Columbine High School massacre alongside Dylan Klebold. He was armed with a Hi-Point 995 carbine rifle and a Savage 67H pump-action shotgun. He wore green cargo pants, leather boots, and a white... read more

18. Lee Harvey Oswald

    

    Lee Harvey Oswald was an American former U.S. Marine who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.

    Oswald denied responsibility for Kennedy's assassination, claiming that he was a "patsy." Two days later, Oswald himself was fatally shot... read more

    If anyone doesn't know who this guy is, he is believed to be the person who assassinated JFK. Sure, other people killed innocents, but this was the President of the United States of America!

19. Richard Speck

    

    Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 - December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer. On the night of July 13-14, 1966, he systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital... read more

20. Seung-Hui Cho

    

    Cho Seung-Hui (January 18, 1984 - April 16, 2007), anglicized as Seung-Hui Cho, was a Korean-American mass murderer responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.

    On April 16, 2007, Cho killed 32 people and injured 17 others using two semi-automatic pistols at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg... read more

21. Mark David Chapman

    

    Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American prison inmate who murdered John Lennon on December 8, 1980. Chapman shot Lennon outside The Dakota apartment building in New York City.

    As Lennon entered the archway of The Dakota, his residence on the Upper West Side, Chapman fired five shots... read more

    The man who killed John Lennon.

22. Aileen Wuornos

    

    Aileen Carol Wuornos (born Pittman, February 29, 1956 - October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer who murdered seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990.

    Wuornos claimed that her victims had raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute, and that the killings were... read more

    She killed her first victim in self-defense, but after that, she went around killing other men. When she was arrested, she tried to defend herself by saying it was all in self-defense.

23. Tim McVeigh

    

24. Bob Berdella

    

    Robert Andrew "Bob" Berdella (January 31, 1949 - October 8, 1992) was an American serial killer in Kansas City, Missouri. He kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least six men between 1984 and 1987. Berdella was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty... read more

25. Mary Bell

    

26. Fred West

    

27. Elizabeth Bathory

    

    Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the Báthory family in the Kingdom of Hungary. She was accused of torturing and killing numerous young women between 1590 and 1610. Her legend has inspired numerous stories and references in popular culture.

    She believed that blood would keep her looking young for longer, and as a result, 650 girls died at her hands. Hence the name the "Blood Countess."

    She's often called a real-life vampire.