This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: – ( December 2012) A is typically a person who three or more people, in two or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons. There are gaps of time between the killings, which may range from a few days to months, or many years. This list shows serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of.
In many cases, the exact number of victims assigned to a serial killer is not known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there can be the possibility that they killed many more.Organization and ranking of serial killings is made difficult by the complex nature of serial killers and incomplete knowledge of the full extent of many killers' crimes. To address this, multiple categories have been provided in order to more accurately describe the nature of certain serial murders. This is not a reflection of an individual's overall rank, which may or may not vary depending on personal opinion concerning the nature and circumstances of their crimes. The fourth column in the table states the number of victims definitely assigned to that particular serial killer, and thus the table is in order of that figure. The fifth column states the number of possible victims the killer could have murdered.
Some of these crimes are unsolved, but were included because they are the work of a serial killer, despite nobody being caught.This list does not necessarily include or members of governments, such as,. Only serial killers with 10 confirmed or suspected murders should be included on this list.
Lane reportedly hated women, saying they were “below him.” He is known to have killed two women and was caught while trying to kill a third, a 15-year-old girl. Police believe he may have killed many more as he traveled for his job as a trucker. He put little planning into his attacks.
His first known victim was killed while she was outside in her yard talking on the phone. He chose his second victim by trying doors. Monica Massaro was stabbed to death in her New Jersey home because her door was unlocked. Lane’s only goal was to kill women – he didn’t particularly care what they did or looked like.
Was an experienced tracker and hunter. He literally hunted his female victims. He either drove or flew them in his private plane to remote sections of Alaska, then pursued them through the woods. He kidnapped, raped, and murdered at least 17 women around Anchorage and possibly more than 30. Hansen had a stutter and bad acne growing up.
He reportedly felt shunned by attractive girls in his school and turned his revenge fantasies into reality. Hansen primarily targeted good-looking women who worked in the sex trade.Read More. Australian killer Coultson picked two victims after they put an ad in the paper. Two students were looking for a third person to share their house.
Coulton answered the ad and forced the two women into separate rooms. The brother-in-law of one of the women was there at the time and Coultson forced him into a third room. All three were hogtied and shot.
No motive has ever been established. Coultson went on to attempt to abduct another couple about a month later but was stopped by nearby security guards.
When he was arrested, police found eleven bodies in Sowell’s Cleveland, Ohio duplex. Sowell, too, chose victims he believed were less likely to be missed. In this case, the killer chose African-American women, typically ones who were not close with their family, or struggled with drug use, thinking that police and the community would not be able to come together to find his victims. He was right.
Many of his victims had not even been reported missing by their families.All photos courtesy of Murderpedia KEEP SCROLLING FOR MORE CREEPY STORIES.