20 Most Terrifying Serial Killers of All Time (21 Photos)

Psychologists still cannot answer the question why some people become serial killers. What is it, genetic factor? Or upbringing? Be that as it may, the monsters from this list difficult to perceive as anything other than the true embodiment of evil.





20. Jeffrey Dahmer: 17+ victims



No such list would be complete without Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer, a.k.a. "Milwaukee Cannibal", confessed to killing 17 young people people for 14 years. But he didn't just kill them: Dahmer also raped, dismembered and sometimes ate his victims. During the trial, the killer confessed to drilling holes in the skulls of some of his victims and introduced various substances through them in order to turn them into "mindless sex slaves". Dahmer was found guilty of 15 murders and was sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences (941 years in total), but in In 1994, he was killed in prison by another prisoner.

19. Gerald Stano: 22+ casualties



Gerald Stano was a neglected child who grew into a real monster. Stano started killing in the late 1960s, and a wave of brutal murders continued for another seven years. Stano picked women hitchhikers, and killed: shot at them, stabbed them injured or strangled. Stano was detained in 1980 and eventually prosecuted for 22 murders, although he was interrogated confessed to 41. The chief investigator believed that the true number of victims was three times more. Stano was sentenced to life imprisonment, and then electrocuted in Florida in 1998.

18. Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour: 32+ victims



Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour, born in 1980, in childhood was subjected to terrible bullying. All ended up being the boy was raped and thrown off a moving train. As a result Mansour suffered serious injuries, including permanent damage right eye. After being discharged from the hospital, he joined the street gang and quickly led it. Mansour and his gang lured their victims into mostly homeless boys, on the roofs of trains, where they were subjected to sexually assaulted and tortured with razor blades. As soon as they fed up with their victims, they threw them, already dead or barely alive, on the way under an approaching train.

17. John Wayne Gacy: 33+ victims



It is difficult to imagine a more terrible character than the famous "Killer Clown" John Wayne Gacy. He got his nickname because performed at children's parties as the clown Pogo. But he didn't do it only to entertain small children; on such holidays also met politicians and other important people; not to mention that his profession gave him easy access to victims. gacy was found guilty of raping, torturing and killing 33 boys and teenagers. For six years, he lured victims to his house, strangled them, and then buried under the porch. Gacy was executed in 1994 through lethal injection.

16. Hajj Mohammed Mesfevi: 36+ victims



In 1906, terrible news shook Morocco: a local resident killed over 36 women. The case of Hajj Mohammed Mesfevi attracted international attention. The killer hunted down young girls, drugged them drugs, after which he brutally stabbed them to death with a dagger. The remains of the victims kept under his shop to entertain in his spare time. After after the victims were discovered, Mesfevi was sentenced to death executions by being immured alive. After he was walled up, he had to stand in a very narrow space with no food, water or source air. Eyewitnesses said that his screams were heard for two days before he died on the third.

15. Ted Bundy: 36+ victims



You don't have to be American or born in the 1970s to know Ted Bundy. Bundy is without a doubt one of the most heinous killers in history. His "handwriting" included kidnapping, rape and dismemberment of the victims. After that, he often left their heads as a keepsake and "played" with them. Hours before his execution in 1989, Bundy confessed in the kidnapping and murder of 30 women; however, experts believe that the case of the victims wasabout more than a hundred.

14. Sergei Tkach: 37+ victims



Former police officer Sergei Tkach was caught after came to the funeral of one of his victims. Friends of the deceased girl found out in The weaver of the man who spoke to her before she disappeared and death. Sergei Tkach was later put on trial for rape and the murder of 37 Ukrainian girls and girls aged 8 years and over; wherein he himself claimed to have killed at least 100. From 1980 to 2005 he went into hiding from the attention of the authorities, using their knowledge of operational practices militia. The weaver kidnapped his victims, strangled and sexually abused them. violence before, during or after death.

13. Moses Sithole: 38+ victims



Moses Sithole is the most notorious serial killer in the South Africa, who committed, as they were called, the "ABC Murders" because his victims were found in the cities of Utteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland (ABC). Using his charisma and attractive appearance, he lured his victims into deserted areas under the pretext that he was leading them for interviews, after which he attacked, raped and killed. In one in a particularly horrific case, he left the baby of one of his victims on the spot crimes where the child later died. Socio-economic circumstances in South Africa made it easy for him to find women desperately in need of work, and his politeness and courtesy only gave horror to his crimes. As a result, Sithole was charged charged with 40 rapes and 38 murders. Many of his victims failed to identify. In 1997, Sithole was sentenced to 2410 years. imprisonment.

12. Ahmad Suraji: 42+ casualties



Ahmad Suraji, also known as the "Black Mage Killer", began his killing spree in 1986 after he allegedly appeared to his late father and ordered the killing of 70 women. He did everything he could to within 13 years to reach this number. Suraji was engaged witchcraft, and some victims themselves came to him for help. Instead of he brought the women into the field and buried them up to their waists in the ground, convincing that this is part of a magical ritual. But instead of helping, he choked them, and after death he drank the saliva of the victims, believing that this would make him stronger. After that, he completely buried the women so that they pointed to his house. Suraji was arrested in 1998 and convicted of 42 murders. He was shot in 2008

11 Gary Leon Ridgway: 49+ Victims



In the 1980s and 1990s investigators unsuccessfully tried apprehend the famous "Green River Killer" who was hunting prostitutes and runaway teenagers in King County, Washington. Serial killer strangled his victims during or after sex with them, and then dumped their bodies near the Green River. For many years the police suspected a man named Gary Ridgway, but they couldn't file a case against him before DNA technology allowed them to tie him with some of the victims in 2001. In 2003, Ridgway admitted to 48 murders to avoid the death penalty and got a few life terms. He has since confessed to a number of other murders; according to him According to him, the total number of victims can reach from 75 to 80.

10 Andrey Chikatilo: 53+ Victims



Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet serial killer, raped, killed and dismembered over 50 girls and children between 1978 and 1990. Chikatilo brutally stabbed his victims with a knife, after which he threw them into forested areas near railway stations. The youngest victim was only nine years. Later, Chikatilo admitted that he could achieve orgasm only stabbing women, and therefore could not resist the urge kill. Despite the fact that he confessed to 56 brutal murders, the court found him guilty only of 53. On February 14, 1994, Chikatilo shot.

9 Samuel Little: 60+ Victims



Samuel Little, arguably the most prolific killer in history USA - an extremely terrible record for a country with so many serial killers. Little killed girls between the ages of 17 and 35, mostly African American sex workers. After his arrest, Little confessed to being 93 murders, and FBI experts believe all of his confessions are plausible. The investigation was able to prove 60 murders, but the rest are still pending final confirmation, since Little's victims were usually tear offfrom their families, were unemployed and had addictions. Little died on December 30, 2020 at the age of 80 in a hospital. Los Angeles.

8. Yang Xinhai: 67+ victims



Yang Xinhai is arguably China's most prolific serial killer - on account of his 67 murders and 23 rapes. His three-year streak killings swept the provinces of Henan, Anhui, Shandong and Hebei. He penetrated into houses of his victims and killed them with a hammer or other henchmen means; sometimes entire families became victims. Chinese police detained Jan, a migrant worker, during a routine inspection entertainment establishments. His trial lasted less than two hours, and in 2004 year he was found guilty. He was shot a few weeks later after the verdict.

7. Daniel Camargo Barbosa: 72+ victims



Many forensic scientists believe that the Colombian serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa strangled over 180 girls since 1973 to 1985, but he was found guilty of killing only 72 people. Camargo's mother died when he was a child and his father was cold, estranged tyrant. The future killer was raised by an aggressive stepmother, who often dressed him in girlish clothes, because of which he bullied by peers. Camargo hunted girls, often from families with low income, lured them to remote areas where he raped them and killed. He preferred virgins "because they cried," which gave him special pleasure. In 1994, Camargo was killed in prison to another prisoner - one of the nephews of his victims.

6. Bruno Ludke: 80+ victims



Bruno Ludke is officially one of the most productive serial killers of all time, but many experts consider him innocent. At the end of World War II, the German police detained Ludka wandering through the forest near the body of a murdered woman. Under pressure investigation of Ludke, who was declared insane due to "congenital dementia", confessed to this, as well as more than eighty other unsolved murders throughout Germany. He was admitted to the hospital in Vienna, where they were subjected to cruel pseudo-medical experiments, in as a result of which he died in 1944.

5. Mikhail Popkov: 80+ victims



Policeman Mikhail Popkov, convicted of 81 murder between 1992 and 2017, currently serving his second life sentence - in 2015 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 22 women, but after sentencing Popkov confessed to another 59 murders. "Angara Maniac" used one tactics for most of his crimes: in the evenings he offered lonely girls to give them a ride home. If they got into his car, he raped and killed them using a hammer, an ax as a weapon or a screwdriver. Popkov called himself a "cleaner", believing that he relieves your area from unwanted persons. The police believe that Popkov may eventually confess to killing dozens more victims, and their total the number is actually closer to 200.

4 Javed Iqbal: 100+ Victims



In 1999, Javed Iqbal, an ordinary resident of a working-class neighborhood in Lahore, Pakistan, sent a letter to the police claiming that he raped and killed over 100 runaway children aged 6 up to 16 years old. When the police searched his house, they found mutilated remains of at least two bodies, as well as photographs of the victims and bags with their clothes. During the ensuing trial, Iqbal showed no the slightest remorse, but only boasted: “I do not regret anything. I killed 100 children. The judge sentenced him to 100 times strangulation and his body to dismemberment and dissolution in acid - similar to what he did with with their victims.

3. Gilles de Rais: 100+ victims



Gilles de Rais was a wealthy baron in command of the French an army, an associate of Joan of Arc and... an insane serial killer. Between In 1432 and 1433, hundreds of children disappeared in the vicinity of the castles de Rais. Since the aristocracy often hired boys as servants, the parents of the victims knew nothing of their fate. De Rae confessed to his atrocities after his arrest and told how he was subjected to ritual torture and in ended up killing hundreds of children in ten years. De Rae seemed especially rejoiced in the killing. Having cut the throats of the victims, he sat on top of them and carefully watched as they died