Name: World's Most Evil Killers
Uploaded: 2021-05-26T15:35:58.000Z
Description: An in-depth look at the lives and crimes of some of the world's most evil killers, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Ramirez, Cary Stayner, Leonard Lake, Dorothea Puente and more.

An in-depth look at the lives and crimes of some of the world's most evil killers, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Ramirez, Cary Stayner, Leonard Lake, Dorothea Puente and more.

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Steve Wright killed five women over a six-week period in the winter of 2006 without motive or explanation.

Steve Wright

Peter Sutcliffe, also known as The Yorkshire Ripper, was convicted of killing thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others.

Peter Sutcliffe

Ian Huntley abducted two ten-year-old schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, and murdered them.

Ian Huntley

Fred and Rose West raped, tortured and killed women in their house of horrors, including their own daughter.

Fred and Rose West

Levi Bellfield killed two young women by bludgeoning them to death with a hammer, and he also attempted to murder a third. While in prison, he was convicted of a third murder that was unsolved for years.

Levi Bellfield

Joanne Dennehy violently stabbed three men to death in March 2013. She killed for her own entertainment and has been diagnosed as a psychotic sadomasochist.

Joanne Dennehy

Stephen Griffiths, the self-proclaimed Crossbow Cannibal, had always fantasized about murder. In 2009, he acted on his murderous instincts and killed three women.

Stephen Griffiths

Dennis Nilsen killed at least twelve men in the late 70s and early 80s in Muswell Hill, London.

Dennis Nilsen

When Tia Sharp disappears, Stuart Hazell helps police search for her, but in reality he had murdered the 12-year-old.

Stuart Hazel

It is widely believed that Tobin is the 1960s Scottish serial killer known as Bible John.

Peter Tobin

In 1987, Michael Ryan went on a killing spree in the quiet town of Hungerford before killing himself.

Michael Ryan

Beverley Allitt killed four children while working as a nurse at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in 1991.

Beverly Allitt

John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 men in the 1970s. He hid the bodies of his victims in the walls of his home.

John Wayne Gacy

Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious killers in the world. For thirteen years he raped, murdered and ate his young male victims - seventeen of them in total.

Jeffrey Dahmer

Ed Gein murdered two women in the 1950s and was also a body snatcher. He would fashion items out of bones and skin.

Ed Gein

Joachim Kroll murdered at least thirteen people during a span of over twenty years.

Joachim Kroll

Volker Eckert, a German truck driver, strangled and killed as many as nineteen women across Europe in a murderous career that lasted over thirty years.

Volker Eckert

Marc Dutroux kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls between 1995 and 1996, and he murdered four of them.

Marc Dutroux

Fritz Honka killed four prostitutes in Hamburg during the early 70s.

Fritz Honka

Thierry Paulin murdered 21 elderly women during the 1980s. He lived a lavish lifestyle, funded by the money stolen from his victims.

Thierry Paulin

Stephen Port callously killed four young men between 2014 and 2015.

Stefphen Port

In October 2012, Mark Bridger abducted and murdered five-year-old April Jones in Machynlleth, Wales. Evidence found on his laptop led to his conviction.

Mark Bridger

In 2012, fame-hungry Mick Philpott killed six of his own children by setting fire to the family home as they slept upstairs.

Mick Philpott

In 2010, bodybuilder Raoul Moat shot his ex-girlfriend and her partner, and went on the run and declared war on Northumbria police, vowing not to stop killing officers until he was dead.

Raoul Moat

For one week in 2016, Stefano Brizzi stored the body of a policeman in his flat in central London. Taking inspiration from the TV show "Breaking Bad," he tried to dissolve the body in his bath tub.

Stefano Brizzi

On July 1st, 2000, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was snatched from the street in Littlehampton, West Sussex.

Roy Whiting

On December 1st, 1996, Tracie Andrews had stabbed her own fiancé Lee Harvey to death and was trying to get away with murder.

Tracie Andrews

In 1988, Puente had drugged and killed her victims so she could continue to fraudulently claim their social security benefits.

Dorothea Puente

Rodney Alcala appeared on "The Dating Game" and it led to his arrest. In 2011, he was found guilty of murdering six women and a twelve-year-old girl.

Rodney Alcala

In August 1985, the fourteen-month killing spree of Richard Ramirez, known as the 'Night Stalker,' was ended after he claimed at least thirteen lives.

Richard Ramirez

Serial killing partners Leonard Lake and Charles Ng murdered eleven people in California in the 1980s. They had a secret bunker where they raped and killed their prey.

Charles Ng and Leonard

Steven Grieveson murdered four teenage boys in 1994 in his reign as the Sunderland Strangler before his capture.

Steven Grievson

Railway Killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy killed three women and raped many more across a four-year period in the early 1980s.

The Railway Killers

In 1999, California handyman Cary Staynor raped and murdered four young women. Obsessed with Big Foot, he became the monster in the woods.

Cary Stayner

Edmund Kemper killed ten people: his grandparents, six co-eds, his mother and his mother's friend. He was caught in California in 1973 and confessed it all.

Edmund Kemper

In December 2015, Horst Kroner boarded a plane. He had brutally murdered his wife while she slept and was now headed to Thailand for easy sex.

Horst Kroner

Between 1989 and 1992 in East Germany, Wolfgang Schmidt, known as the Beast of Beelitz, murdered four women and a baby.

Wolfgang Schmidt

In May 1990, convicted killer Jack Unterweger was freed from prison. He became a celebrated writer and a prison reform advocate in Austria until it was discovered that he killed nine more women.

Jack Unterweger

Danilo Restivo murdered two women nine years apart: sixteen-year-old Elisa Clapps in Italy and Heather Barnett in Bournemouth.

Danilo Restivo

In and around Gdansk, Poland from 1975 to 1983, Pawell Tuchlin attacked twenty women with a hammer. He brutally killed nine and sexually assaulted them all.

Pawel Tuchlin

By the age of nineteen, Polish schoolboy Karol Kot, aka the Vampire of Krokow, had killed two people.

Karol Kot

Diane Downs shot her three children, killing her daughter Cheryl and wounding her other two children.

Diane Downs

Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Killer, got away with murder across the Pacific Northwest for twenty years.

Gary Ridgway

Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to the murder of thirty women across the US in the 1970s.

Ted Bundy

Colin Ireland made a New Year's resolution in 1993 to become a serial killer and then murdered five gay men in London. In 2006, he got a whole life term.

Colin Ireland

In 1977, Angus Sinclair kidnapped, raped and murdered two seventeen-year-old girls after meeting them in a pub in Glasgow, Scotland.

Angus Sinclair

Aileen Wuornos, one of America's most prolific serial killers, murdered seven men in Florida by shooting them at point-blank range. She was eventually convicted and sentenced to death.

Aileen Wuornos

Robert Lee Yates Junior was a well-respected family man and war hero, but by night he was a cold-blooded serial killer. He was convicted of killing fourteen young women and one man.

Robert Lee Yates Jr

Robert Black was a Scottish serial killer who was convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of four girls.

Robert Black

Mark Hobson killed four people in North Yorkshire, England in July 2004. Hobson committed his first two murders within six days of each other. He is currently serving a whole life sentence.

Mark Hobson

Bobby Joe Long is an American serial killer and rapist who terrorised the Tampa Bay Area in Florida during 1984. During his eight-month sadistic killing spree, he murdered ten women.

Bobby Joe Long

Robert Berdella was an American serial killer, known as The Kansas City Butcher, who was responsible for drugging, raping, torturing and murdering six young men.

Robert Berdella - KCB

In Cumbria, 2010 taxi driver Derek Bird took his gun and, in less than 24 hours, shot dead 12 people and injured 11 more. The callous killer only stopped when he had run out of ammunition, finally turning the gun on himself.

Derek Bird

Danny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five university students in Florida in 1990.

Danny Rolling

Danny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five university students in Florida in 1990. Rolling also confessed to murdering a family in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.

David Heiss

Dennis Rader, known to the World as the BTK Killer, killed ten people, including young children, between 1974 and 1991 in Wichita, Kansas.

BTK - Dennis Rader

30-year-old Trevor Hardy, known as The Beast of Manchester, killed three teenage girls in a series of brutal attacks in the mid to late 1970s and was one of Britain's longest-serving prisoners.

Trevor Hardy

Christopher Halliwell strangled a woman and evaded justice for years until his arrest for another killing.

Christopher Halliwell

Serial killer John Cooper, known as The Bullseye Killer, killed four people between 1983 and 1996. He was given four life sentences.

John Cooper

Vincent Tabak strangled his neighbour to death in her own flat in December 2010. In 2011, he was given a life sentence.

Vincent Tabak

John Sweeney killed two of his ex girlfriends and then dumped their dismembered bodies in canals in London.

John Sweeney

In 2012, one-eyed gangster Dale Cregan went on a killing spree and murdered four people in Manchester.

Dale Cregan

In 1991, Christopher Hightower slaughtered an entire family to cover up a trail of fraud. He buried his victims in shallow graves. In 1993, he was sentenced to life without parole.

Christopher Hightower

David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, murdered six people and wounded seven others in the late 60s.

David Berkowitz

In July 1992, Robert Napper stabbed Rachel Nickel in front of her 2-year-old son. In November 1993, he broke into the home of Samantha Bisset and stabbed her to death.

Robert Napper

Sante and her 23-year-old son Kenny Kimes were a murderous duo who killed three people in the late 90s, including an 82-year-old woman.

Sante and Kenny Kimes

45-year-old Stephen attempted to kill his parents and nephew in a car crash. After the plan failed, the ruthless killer mercilessly executed his elderly parents with a shot gun.

Stephen Seddon

Richard Trenton Chase was a serial killer who brutally murdered six people in the late 70s in California.

Richard Chase

In the late 70s, adoptive cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi reigned terror over Los Angeles by strangling ten young women and dumping their bodies on hillsides.

The Hillside Stranglers

Bill Suff mutilated and murdered twelve sex workers in Riverside, California during the late 80s. At its peak, his spree of killings resulted in a victim a month.

William Suff

In December 1998, Angel Resendiz brutally beat Dr. Claudia Benton to death in her own home. He's suspected of murdering at least nine more people and evaded authorities by using multiple aliases.

Angel Resendiz

Once a respected local doctor in Hyde, Manchester, Dr. Harold Shipman became better known as Dr. Death.

Harold Shipman

Rapist Arthur Hutchinson escaped from police in 1983. Whilst on the run, he murdered three family members.

Arthur Hutchinson

Robert Ben Rhoades, the Truck Stop Killer, tortured women in the back of his truck for over a decade.

Robert Ben Rhoades

Andrew Dawson stabbed his neighbors to death before leaving their bodies in bathtubs full of water and bleach.

Andrew Dawson

Peter Moore was a sadistic serial killer who killed and mutilated four men in North Wales in 1995. The local cinema owner had an obsession with Nazis and sadomasochistic sex.

Peter Moore

Daniel Siebert was an American serial killer who confessed to killing ten people in the 80s. At the height of his killing spree, he murdered five people, including two children and his girlfriend.

Daniel Siebert

Police find 30-year-old Kayla Brown tied up and locked in a storage container, who had been held hostage for 65 days by seemingly respectable estate agent Todd Kohlhepp.

Todd Kohlhepp

Anthony Arkwright slaughtered his grandparents before murdering and mutilating two neighbours in 1988.

Anthony Arkwright

A 12-year-old school girl is brutally murdered in her own home in Hammersmith, London; the killer is an illegal immigrant who had a sickening record of sexual violence in his native Poland.

Andrzej Kunowski

A father took his children out for food after murdering his wife, then strangled them when they returned home.

Phillip Austin

An investigation into the man known as the 'Babes in the Wood Killer,' who evaded justice for thirty years.

Russel Bishop

A look into the case of a sadistic killer who posed as an MI5 agent in order to torture and murder his victim.

Jason Marshall

William Bonin is thought to have raped, tortured and murdered a minimum of twenty-one boys and young men.

William Bonin

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is better known by the nickname 'Grim Sleeper.' He lured vulnerable women into his car before murdering and sexually assaulting them for more than two decades.

Lonnie David Franklin

Billy Dunlop killed Julie Hogg in 1989 but was acquitted after two failed trials. However, due to a change in the UK law in 2005, Dunlop was convicted and sentenced to seventeen years in prison.

Billy Dunlop

A profile into the murderer who terrorised the gay community as the 'Trash Bag Killer' and confessed to killing 32 victims.

Patrick Kearney

An investigation into the woman who was driven into a jealous rage and stabbed her sister to death while her children slept upstairs.

Sabah Khan

Stephen Farrow committed two murders in early 2012 motivated by an obsessive hatred of Christianity, which he attributed to sexual abuse from a priest.

Stephen Farrow

Jerome Brudos was a serial killer and necrophile who murdered four women in Oregon during the 1960s. He was known as the 'The Lust Killer' and 'The Shoe Fetish Slayer.'

Jerry Brudos

Colin Pitchfork is a child murder who killed fifteen-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in the 1980s.

Colin Pitchfork

Victor Farrant is a convicted rapist who murdered his former girlfriend in 1996 and attempted to murder another woman after he was released from prison.

Victor Ferrant

In 2003, Kenneth Regan and William Horncy murdered a millionaire and his young family. The killers wiped out three generations of the Chohan family, including two young children.

Kenneth Regan & William Horncy

Ali Qazimaj is an Albanian conman who brutally murdered an elderly couple in 2016.

Ali Qazimaj

Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy were a deadly duo who terrorised the streets of LA in the summer of 1980.

Sunset Strip Killers

Keith Jesperson, known as the Smiley Face Killer, killed eight women across several states in the 1990s.

Keith Jesperson

Dayton Leroy Rogers, known as The Molalla Forest Killer, mutilated and killed at least eight women in the US.

Dayton Rogers

Arthur Shawcross, known as the 'Genesee River Killer,' was a serial killer who murdered eleven women.

Arthur Shawcross

A profile of Richard Roszkowski, the Connecticut triple-murderer who killed his ex-girlfriend, her nine-year-old daughter and another man in a brutal attack in 2006.

Richard Roszkowski

Cesar Barone was an American serial killer who took the life of four women in and around Hillsboro, Oregon in the 1990s.

World's Most Evil Killers

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