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Executed for a murder he committed in Canada, Raped and killed four women and a young boy in, Murdered carjacking victims during a three-state crime spree, Known as the "Brick Moron"; confessed to five murders and multiple assaults in, Pennsylvania woman who murdered eight of her children; two others died of natural causes, Convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering three young boys in, Former marine suspected of killing six people around, Robbed and murdered elderly women primarily in, Murderer, rapist, and arsonist; convicted of two murders, but confessed to 19 others, Killed four acquaintances and one accomplice for money and to cover up his crimes, Convicted of murdering a man and woman decades apart; four other acquaintances died suspiciously and four husbands committed suicide, Known as "The Route 40 Killer"; abducted and murdered women from Route 40 in, Murdered his stepmother in 2000 and two other women in Fort Worth in 1991. At any one time, it's believed that there are around 25-50 active serial killers lurking in the dark corners of the USA, stalking the streets and highways for their next potential victim.While the term serial killer usually conjures up images of people like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Richard Ram. Series of murders targeted towards elderly women in Los Angeles; convicted murderer Raymond Ward Clemmons confessed to the murders, but he was never charged due to a, Strangulations of five black women, mostly prostitutes and drug addicts, in, Series of murders of men who were shot in the back of the head and then castrated post-mortem, Murders of five boys in Manhattan in 1972 and 1973. New York State Reception Center in Almira, Sing Sing Correctional Facility and San Quentin State Prison. 1. Together with two accomplices, killed five people during robberies in Oregon and Washington, Known as "The Ditchbank Killer"; raped and murdered women in Fresno and Sacramento County, California, dumping their bodies in ditches afterwards, Sea merchant who murdered and mutilated three women, including his wife, in New York and California. Strangled three women to death in California, saying that he felt an irresistible urge to death. NOV. 21, 1986", "DNA reveals John Floyd Thomas as LA's most prolific serial killer", "Prosecutors link John Floyd Thomas to five more slayings", "Serial killer John Floyd Thomas Jr., dubbed the Westside Rapist, is sentenced to life", "The Twisted Life of Serial Killer Ottis Elwood Toole", "Jane Toppan: A Greed, Power, and Lust Serial Killer", "Convicted SoCal killers Andrew Urdiales, Virendra Govin found dead in San Quentin", "Police: Abandoned homes searched after man admits to 7 killings", "Who is Indiana serial killer suspect Darren Deon Vann? Kreuger, Peggy; Kendra Justice & Amy Hunt (March 2006). 6", "Angela Carella: Doubts outlive key figure in Stamford's notorious killings", "Hitchhiker's slaying 40 years ago in Clinton County remains an active investigation: state police", "75 women have been strangled or smothered in Chicago since 2001. Also known as the "Double Initial Murders"; murders of three young girls in the. Poisonings of 10 patients at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in 1975. He also confessed to murdering another woman in Ohio in 1980 and is linked to two other murders in Cleveland, Formerly known as Douglas Perry prior to 2000 gender transition, which the prosecution claimed was an attempt to avoid suspicion, Sentenced to death; commuted to 120 years imprisonment, One of his victims was the daughter of a South Carolina state senator, Canadian-born serial arsonist known as "The Boston Belfry Murderer". And while several major serial killers have been active in the 2000s like Israel Keyes, "D.C. Snipers" Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, and Anthony "Cleveland Strangler" Sowell " the. Years later, Hoyt said she killed themthen recanted. A series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. This serial killer is believed to have killed five people and wounded two others in a series of shootings that began in the San Francisco Bay Area in December 1968. Life imprisonment without parole (overturned on May 26, 2017); Murdered women and girls in Florida and California, burying most of them in the family home in. Some experts believe that serial killers are responsible for a significant number of these unsolved murders. With over 120 serial killers to its name, equalling a total of around 1600 serial killing-related deaths, the Golden State has been the hunting grounds of some of the most brutal and terrifying criminals in US history. According to archivist and researcher Thomas Hargrove, tracking the habits and . First 11th person named on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. The United States reportedly has three times more serial killers per capita than any other country globally and has 67.58% of known serial assassins. Killed a friend in 1971, then went on a shooting rampage in 1990, Known as "The West Virginia Bluebeard"; Dutch immigrant who lured victims through "lonely hearts" advertisements, murdering them for their money, Shot and killed people in DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia during robberies, Convicted as a minor; given an additional 1025 year sentence for assaulting a corrections officer in prison, Known as the "Thrill Killer"; murdered four immigrants in New York in revenge for the, Convicted of murdering a young girl and one man in both Missouri and Kansas; acquitted, but still main suspect, in three other deaths, Attacked mainly couples in Virginia and California, shooting them both after raping the women, Known as "The Clairemont Killer"; raped and murdered women in, Murdered elderly and mentally disabled boarders in, First Nevadan serial killer, found dead in cave 5 miles upriver from, Abducted young women and teenage girls in Ohio, Kidnapped, raped and murdered women around, Robbed and murdered up to five men across four states, Murdered a man who he was hitchhiked with, then murdered three more men in a 4-day spree, Known as "The Chameleon Killer"; main suspect in the, Responsible for the murders of three women in, Killed four people personally; also provided a prison gang with a lethal dose of drugs so they could kill another inmate, Kidnapped, raped and murdered teenage girls and young women in Texas and Oklahoma, Known as "The Forest Park Killer"; sex offender who raped and strangled three homeless women in, Killed his three wives after they planned to leave him; also killed a man while stationed in Italy, Reid is also a prime suspect for "The Denver Prostitute Killer", Truck driver who killed people across Ohio, Known as "The Railroad/Railway/Railcar Killer"; truck driver who converted the sleeper cab of his truck into a torture chamber where he kept women, torturing and sexually assaulting them, before killing them, Serial killer active in North Carolina with no particular victim profile; victims' ages ranged from 8 to 80, both male and female, and both white and black; claimed that mental health episodes prompted him to commit random murders, Drug addict who killed clerks during robberies in Idaho; suspected of similar murders in Utah and Wyoming. [1][2] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone".[2][3]. Aamodt estimates that an average of 145 serial killers (under the two-victim minimum definition) were active in the 1980s each year, compared with an average of 54 each year between 2010 and 2015. Serial killers such as the Green River Killer, the BTK Killer and the Golden State Killer are remembered for their heinous acts. This is a list of unidentified serial killers who committed crimes within the United States. Killed women in Charlotte and Monroe, North Carolina, Has maintained his innocence from the beginning and conviction is considered controversial, Murdered four people in Illinois and Missouri, including his wife, Murdered at least three people in Louisiana, Arsonist who smothered her children; suspected of killing siblings since childhood, Known as "The Desert Killer"; raped and murdered young girls and women in, Violent habitual criminal who killed people in various New York cities, starting at age 14, Poisoned his wife, brother and sister-in-law for monetary purposes, Sentenced to life imprisonment plus 165 years, Known as "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit", Killed two gas station attendants in Fort Worth during robberies; paroled, and later killed his father during an argument, First criminal executed by lethal injection in Oregon, Known as the "Damsel of Death"; shot seven men to death in Florida between 1989 and 1990. 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Antwan Pittman has been convicted in one case, Killed young girls and women in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties by offering help with fixing their car tires, before he sexually assaulted them and drowned them in canals, Stabbing attacks against mostly small-framed African-American men, with the main area being, Allegedly responsible for nine murders in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Leonard Christopher was convicted of one murder; another murder was committed in same style while he was incarcerated; believed to still be at large, Raped and strangled six young women and girls in Washington, D.C. in the early 1970s, dumping their bodies by freeways, Strangled a woman and two teenage girls to death with socks, Allegedly responsible for the "Great Basin Murders", in which young girls and women were raped and killed across the, Known as the "San Mateo slasher"; five unsolved killings, of young women in. Since the early 1970s, roughly 30 bodies have been extracted from the fields, mainly consisting of young girls. A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who murders three or more people, with the murders taking place over a month or longer and including a significant period of time between them. The FBI defines a serial killer as one person acting alone who commits two or more murders in separate events, often with a psychological motive or sadistic sexual component. Poisoned two husbands and four children, Suspected in various murders across Oregon, Washington and possibly Canada, Responsible for at least two of "The Southside Slayer" murders in, Transient who killed people in various states, some allegedly as part of a biker gang or for human sacrifices, Murdered three people during a five month crime spree in 1980 and a cab driver in 1982; confessed to murders dating back to 1956, Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who murdered patients, Shot and killed three men in Southern California for no apparent reason, Murdered two women and a teenage girl in Oregon, Milwaukee cannibal who retained various body parts of his victims, Died in a car crash prior to apprehension, Murdered people at campsites across three states, Murdered his cellmate while serving a life sentence for murdering six homeless men during a stabbing spree, Murdered two men during robberies, and later a prison guard; confessed to numerous sexually-motivated murders of men across the country, Ambulance dispatcher who abducted, raped and killed women in Baltimore, Nurse who killed patients at the hospital where he worked, Known as "The Golden State Killer", "The Visalia Ransacker", "The East Area Rapist", and "The Original Night Stalker"; murdered three people in Sacramento and 10 people in Southern California from 1975 through 1986; also linked to more than 50 rapes in the Sacramento area from 1976 to 1979, Itinerant gambler who killed female acquaintances during arguments, Murdered a neighbor in Delaware; paroled, then murdered two homeless women along the, Indonesian national who killed two business associates and his brother in Los Angeles, stashing their bodies in storage facilities, Convicted sex offender who sexually assaulted and murdered three young boys in, Known as "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; serial poisoner who killed four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson, and a mother-in-law, Robbed, raped, and murdered women across two Georgia counties, Raped at least 17 young boys and three young girls, Burglar who raped and violently beat elderly women in, Murdered three young boys in California, including his friend's younger brother, Eaton is also suspected of being behind the killings known as "The Great Basin Murders", Murdered transients in alcohol-induced rages, Sentenced to death for shooting his foster son in 1996 insurance murder, Pedophile who preyed on children in Los Angeles County, California, Stabbed to death women who rejected his romantic advances, Known as "The Parkersburg Murderer"; German emigrant who killed fellow emigrants in violent robberies, Known as "The Milwaukee North Side Strangler", Dentist who worked as a contract killer and plotted with women to kill their husbands so they could share the insurance money, Shot and killed a police officer in Denver, Colorado while avoiding a murder warrant in Texas; posthumously linked to four additional murders in the, Murdered various people across the Colorado Territory, Died in prison; murdered by a fellow death row inmate, Suspected of another dozen murders but recanted his confessions to over 70 more, Known as "The Northwood Murderer"; vagrant who murdered at least two young girls in New Hampshire, and possibly more in Maine and Massachusetts, Committed suicide after escaping police custody, Leader of a ring of jewelry and antique thieves who operated in and around, Kidnapped, raped and murdered three girls in, Known as "The Interstate Killer" and the "Highway Killer"; preyed on boys and young men in the Midwest, Epileptic who strangled infants because of voices in her head, Suspected of killing up to 10 women before being killed in, Befriended, murdered and robbed people across four states, Raped and murdered a woman and five children in Wisconsin and Illinois, Nurse's aide who smothered patients to "end their suffering", Brazilian flight attendant who killed prostitutes in Miami, Florida; suspected in other deaths, Known as "The Backwoods Sniper"; Self-styled survivalist who shot three people to death across Southern California.