10 Worst Serial Killers
10. Wayne Williams – Body count: 2-31
Thought to be responsible for the infamous “Atlanta Child Murders” that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, between the years of 1979 and 1981, Williams was actually convicted of the murder of two adult men (29 year old Jimmy Payne and 27 year old Nathaniel Carter). It was after his arrest and subsequent conviction that local authorities were able to apparently solve the majority of the 29 child murders that took place in the area. He still protests his innocence to this day.
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9. Dean Corll – Body count: 27
Earning the nickname of “The Candy Man” when his crimes were uncovered (due to him running his mother’s small candy company), Corll was responsible for what would become known as the “Houston Mass Murders” which took place in Houston, Texas between the years of 1970 and 1973. Along with two accomplices (Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks), Corll would abduct and torture young boys that were lured to his apartment, then murdering and burying them in the surrounding rural areas. Corll was shot and killed by Henley following a heated argument at Corll’s home.
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8. John Wayne Gacy – Body count: 33
Also known as the “Killer Clown” due to the fact that Gacy would throw parties at which he would don a clown suit and make-up, acting under the guise of “Pogo the Clown”. Gacy was convicted of the rape and murder of some 33 young men during the years of 1972 and 1978, most of which he buried underneath his own home. He was executed in 1994, by lethal injection. Gacy managed to shock everyone when his crimes were uncovered, as he was a popular political and local figure at the time, living a seemingly normal life. Supposedly, his last words were “kiss my ass”. The photo of Gacy here is of him with First Lady Rosalynn Carter, which proved to be somewhat embarrassing for the Secret Service when his crimes were uncovered.
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7. Gary Ridgeway – Body count: Convicted of 48, but admitted somewhere around 90 killings.
Ridgeway would later become known as the “Green River Killer” (due to his propensity for dumping bodies in the Green River in Washington) for his killing spree during the 1980s which would result in him becoming one of the most prolific serial murderers in American history. He would abduct runaways or prostitutes and murder them after sexually assaulting them. Ridgeway was convicted in 2001 for murders that he had committed 20 years previously and this was down to a breakthrough in DNA evidence linking him to his victims. Ridgeway would later go on to say that murdering young women was his “career”.
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6. Moses Sithole – Body count: 38 or so murders, 40 rapes.
South Africa’s most infamous serial killer and perpetrator of what were known as the “ABC Murders” due to the fact that started, continued and finished in towns named Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland. He would lead his victims out into deserted fields under false pretences, where he would then overpower, rape and murder them. After his capture in 1995 and then conviction in 1997, he was sentenced to 2,410 years, with the possibility of parole in 930 years. In the year 2000, it was reported that Sithole had contracted AIDS whilst in prison.
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5. Gerald Stano – Body count: 41
An American, starting around the late 1960s to early 1970s and the continuing on for as many as 7-8 years, Stano picked up a number of hitch-hikers and young women, murdering them via shooting, stabbing or strangulation. Apprehended in 1980, he was sentenced to life in prison until his execution by the electric chair in Florida, 1998.
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4. Andrei Chikatilo – Body count: 53
A notorious Ukrainian serial murderer, as well as being a chronic bed-wetter suffering from impotence, Chikatilo earned himself such titles as “The Ripper of Rostov”, “The Rostov Ripper” and the “Butcher of Rostov”, after the area in which the murders were committed. A sexual deviant, Chikatilo was only able to achieve orgasm by stabbing and slashing his victims, rather than outwardly raping them. Active from the late 1970s, all the way through to the very early 1990s, he was apprehended and interrogated by police and sentenced to death, a sentence which was carried out in 1994 by a gunshot to the head. He was 57 at the time.
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3. Bruno Ludke – Body count: 85
His regime spanned 15 years, starting in 1928, Ludke was caught near the end of World War II by Nazi police, after they allegedly discovered him committing necrophilia on the corpse of one of his recently-deceased victims. He subsequently confessed to a number of crimes and was declared insane, being sent to a hospital in Vienna where he was subjected to medical experiments which resulted in his death by lethal injection in 1944. Even after his sterilization due to having been previously caught molesting a young woman, he continued to assault and then murder a number of other women, often by stabbing and strangulation.
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2. Henry Lee Lucas – Body count: Somewhere in the region of 4-213
Originally confessing to thousands of murders with his accomplice, Ottis Toole, police then subsequently attributed roughly 213 murder cases to his name (although only 4 were ever solidly proven to have been committed by him, one of which included his own abusive mother), thanks to the information they garnered from Lucas. He was apprehended in 1983 and was then sentenced to death, but bizarrely enough, his sentence was commuted to life in prison by the then-Governor George W. Bush. Out of 153 death penalty cases to be reviewed, Bush decided that this was the only case he’d intervene on. Many people believe that Lucas had simply been toying with the police, testing them, maybe hoping to embarrass them somehow, just to see how far he could go. Lucas died of natural causes in 2001, aged 64, taking the true number of how many crimes he committed to the grave with him.
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1. Pedro Alonso Lopez – Body count: 300+
By far one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, the “Monster of the Andes” butchered enough people to fill a small town. After killing around 100 tribal women in Peru in the 1970s, he was apprehended by tribal forces that were just about ready to execute him when they were convinced by an American missionary that was staying with them at the time to take him to the police force instead. Unfortunately, the police then just let him go, after which Lopez travelled to Ecuador, where he proceeded to kill about 3-4 girls a week, claiming that girls in Ecuador were “more gentle and trusting, more innocent”. This carried on until he was caught in 1980, but police were still unsure as to his guilt, but a flash flood uncovered a mass grave that had hidden many of his victims, which then led to his arrest. However, the Ecuador government then released him in 1998, deporting him to Columbia. Lopez allegedly said that he was being released for “good behavior”.
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‘Worst serial killers’
strange title,how could you catagorise one serial killer as not being as bad as the next?!And i think there’s some pretty horrific ones i can think of that aren’t on that list.
You should really put Elizabeth Bathory in there. Some of your killers are like boy scouts compared to her, hahaha
Richard Kuklinski. The Ice Man. 100-200. Single-handed.
Kinda surprised not to see Ted Bundy here.
You forgot Harrold Shipman. No, his killings weren’t gruesome, but they still can’t give an exact number as to how many little old ladies he killed during his many years as a doctor.
What about Harold Shipman? They proved 250 or so of his murders but apparantly he killed a whole bunch more people.
Che Guevara 300+
wow, this list needs more people. What about Ted Bundy, Elizabeth Bathory, the Son of Sam, Jack The Ripper. DRACULA!!!!
um… where is Jefery Dommer??? This dude not only killed people but he then ate them.. WOW!!!
Next time add Luis Garavito AKA La Bestia (The Beast). He Raped and killed more than 300 kids
What about Pickton? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton
officially 6 but he admitted to 49
the guy number 4 andrei chikatilo, looks like michael keaton XD
the last two guys had such a freedom
Bruno Ludke is a doubtful case. He may not have done the things he was tried for. Most likely, the killings were the work of several murderers. Ludke certainly does not look clever enough to be able to outwit the police for such a while. It is often argued that Ludke’s arrest was a embarrasment to the nazi authorities, as he was a fine aryan example and not a Jew or Gypsy. One could argue that they were better off with the apprehension of just one killer, Ludke, closing the case officially. In any case, nazi justice never was fair or thorough.
You’re missing the biggest. Gilles De Rais.
@Carrie wtf ?
. . . anyway, so you say these were the “10 worst serial killers” who were the best?
What makes each worse than the others?
In terms of body count, 7 outdoes 5 and 6. If there was a specific reason you ordered them that way it would more convincing.
i think it was the drummer or something like that in Marilyn Manson that they called Pogo
Er.. JACK THE RIPPER????? How could you forget him?
You forgot then
Stalin 20 000 000+
Mao 40 000 000+
etc
by his own hand:
Vasili Blokhin Russian NKWD officer is recorded as having personally executed tens of thousands (50.000) of prisoners (polishPOW) by his own hand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
What about Pope Innocent who killed hundreds of thousands of Christians during the inquisition. And than there is Idai Iman
This fis the most innacurate list I’ve ever seen
And is Wayne WIlliams supposedly the worst of all?
Where’s Ted Bundy? or J. Dahmer?
h
I could come up with a more accurate
good try though list. b
You people listing world leaders and popes need to look up the term serial killer.
I would say that this list is poor though. Ted Bundy certainly earned his spot on the list, as did many others… and the chosen on this list are sometimes only rumored to have killed the majority of their “victims”.
do research next time
Let me guess, Carrie, you’re one of those crazy, right wing religious Christian freak who can’t get over that Obama won and is our POTUS now.
Dumb c–t
FTA: “His regime spanned 15 years, starting in 1928, Ludke was caught near the end of World War II by Nazi police, after they allegedly discovered him committing necrophilia on the corpse of one of his recently-deceased victims. He subsequently confessed to a number of crimes and was declared insane, . . .”
You must be really bad if the Nazis think you are a sick f*ck.
@david LOL true.
I’m a bit surprised there weren’t any Nazi serial killers on this list. I don’t really know of any, but I’m sure there were many.
COME ONNNN…
WHY ISN’T JEFFREY DAHMER HERE OR TED BUNDY!?
THIS LIST NEEDS TO BE UPDATED!!!
Che Guevara FTW
Interesting list. But some of the entries seem pale in comparison to others thru history. I agree that Bundy should be there. Also there was a guy back in the 30s…Albert Fish …he would kidnap young children and eat them !!!!! Come on that has to be really terrible especially since he was 60 odd when they caught him and found parts of his latest victim in his pot !! It was believed that he killed nearly 100 vics. Also what about dahmer ?
Herman Webster Mudgett maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
He built a goddamned “Murder Castle”
very interesting killers
I think Hitler should be put on this list..yes he did not commit them himself but he convinced all of germany’s army too murder people just cause they were different and they thought themselves to be the master race. Blond hair and blue eyes however Hitler had neither so this always confused me that they always said that was the best.
worst serial killers???
what about ted bundy, charls manson, “jack the reaper”, “son of sam”, no????? hhhhhh most like “i didnt know they exist serial killers”
Che Guevara murdered hundres of persons after Castro took power in Cuba, and he even accepted that in a UN session (must be on youtube), even Castro had to stop him sometimes of killing someone just because of his looks. He was a serial killer, and was proud of it.
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So…
Jack the Ripper should be on this, not because of body count but because he’s the most nutorious serial killer of all time.
Ted Bundy did worse than moses although their crimes are similar,
Jeffery downer, although there’s a lot of sympathy for him due to the fact that he was very forward in expressing his disgust in himself and his actions, killed and committed canabalism…he experimented on people injecting acid into their brains to keep them in a zombified placid state for days until they eventually died… he’s certainly more evil than Gacy…
And what about the dude that they based Texas chainsaw massacre on? he decorated his house in the body parts of his victims…
half of these people I’ve never even heard about, and their crimes aren’t even that* shocking.
Try again.
omg how about
charles manson
?
he s a bad boy
what about the guy that killed people then sold them in germany? i cant remember the name unfortunatly
or the guy who disolved people in a big tub of acid.
i have a book of lots of people who should be on this list that arnt!
What about Jack the Ripper?
I know he was never found, but he did kill 6 women quite gruesomely.
@ JenLei
It’s Jeff Dahmer.
And Jeff only killed around 17 people, but yes he did eat them. Personally, Dahmer and Bundy are my favourites. You have to admire the way Bundy presented himself and I’m pretty sure that Dahmer didn’t feel bad, because why would he do it in the first place? I don’t think less of him for it. I’m not saying what they did was good, but you have to admit that they are very smart people. In fact, most serial killers are.
No estan ni el carnicero de milwaukee ni el vampira de sacramento, ni ted bundy y ya si metierais al arropiero esto seria la leche
@mandy: You mean the German Butcher who killed 24 boys and male prostitutes. He was called the Vampire or the Werewolf of Hannover and it’s possible he sold some of the He was executed in 1924.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haarmann
In China Yang Xinhai confessed to 65 Murders and over 20 rapes.
In the UK Frederick and Rosemary West were really twisted serial killers, who both tortured, raped and killed 12 young women, killed one or two of their own children and buried many of the corpses below their own house. This is the sickest murderer couple I know of. And most certainly they were bad enough, each for their own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_West
Stephan Letter, a male German nurse, killed 29 patients and was arrested in 2006.
More at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_country
ummmm WHAT ABOUT FRICKIN HITLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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