Murderers, maniacs, cannibals - all these are criminals guilty of terrible crimes. Among them there are also representatives of the fairer sex, who were no less cruel than men.

There are many maniac killers in the world. They are responsible for the deaths of several thousand people. According to psychologists, maniacs are people with serious mental disorders caused by mental trauma received in childhood or congenital diseases.

John Wayne Gacy Jr.

John Wayne Gacy Jr. (1942-1999). This maniac was on the rampage for only 6 years, but during this time he managed to rape and kill at least 33 young men. Gacy's involvement in the remaining murders remained unproven. After the gunman was arrested, police found 27 dead bodies in the basement of his Illinois home. The rest of his victims were found in the river a little later. Some of them were in obscene positions, with dildos or penises in their mouths. The maniac loved to earn extra money at children's parties, dressing up as a clown in a red wig. For this, Gacy was nicknamed “Pogo the Clown” and “Killer Clown.” The series of murders was based on a sexual motive. In 1980, the criminal was sentenced to death, but the sentence was carried out only 14 years later by lethal injection.

Theodore Robert Bundy

Theodore Robert Bundy (1946-1989). The criminal was executed in 1989 using the electric chair. But memories of his brutal activities, which began back in 1974, still terrify. When the maniac was caught, he confessed to more than thirty murders. But the investigation suggested that the number of victims could be more than a hundred. At the same time, the maniac not only cold-bloodedly and quickly killed his victims - he liked to first strangle people doomed to death. Bundy also raped the people he captured, and he did not know any prohibitions in his sexual activity. His sexual contacts were made not only with living people, but also with those already dead.

Sergey Tkach

Sergei Tkach (born 1952). This case turned out to be quite difficult for investigators. After all, Tkach once served in the internal affairs bodies. From 1980 to 2005, he raped and then killed 29 girls and young women. Several rape victims are lucky to be alive. The maniac himself claims that he took the lives of 80 to 100 people. Several people were convicted and served prison terms for crimes committed by him. In 2008, Tkach was sentenced to life imprisonment. The maniac blames his ex-wives for his aggression towards women, who turned him into a monster. The killer's extraordinary cunning helped him remain unpunished for a long time. For example, he carefully hid his tracks, and left the crime scene along the sleepers so that the dogs could not pick up his trail.

Donald Harvey

Donald Harvey (b. 1952). Harvey is currently serving his life sentence in the North Idaho Colony. And before going to prison, he worked in a hospital. The maniac nicknamed himself “Angel of Death.” After all, over twenty years of work in medicine, he helped 87 of his patients die. So he claims, and the investigation attributes 36 to 57 murders to Harvey. The orderly killed people using cyanide, insulin and arsenic. As a result, the victims died long and painfully. At the same time, the killer did not limit himself in the ways of committing violence. He strangled some of his victims, and sometimes even pierced their insides with the sharp end of a hanger, infected them with hepatitis and turned off life-sustaining machines.

Moses Sithole

Moses Sithole (born 1964). This maniac received the nickname “South African Strangler” for his bloody activities. He was sentenced to a total of 2,410 years in prison. In his secluded hideout, Sithole was able to torture and kill 38 people. The criminal also committed 40 rapes. It is clear that the killer will not be able to serve the entire term in prison. And he won’t live to see old age. After all, he was diagnosed with AIDS in 2000, which will significantly shorten his life span. The short interval between his crimes brought the maniac notoriety. He accomplished all of them in just a year. In 1994, Sithole was released from prison and was imprisoned there again in 1995. This time it's forever.

Bell Sorenson Gunness

Bell Sorenson Gunness (1859-1908). It's not just men who become maniacs. This woman operated for several decades, during which time about 40 people became her victims. Born Brynhild, she became a real symbol of female madness and cruelty. She herself did not spend a single day at work, and received money for her living from insurance companies. They compensated her for the death of her loved ones, not suspecting who skillfully killed them. Bell herself was a very impressive lady, weighing 91 kilograms and 173 centimeters tall. She calmly started her business with her husband and children, then potential suitors began to fall into her clutches. In those days, such body shapes were considered quite attractive by men, as evidenced by the number of victims of the cold-blooded killer. Bell herself received the nickname "Black Widow". But her death is shrouded in mystery. One day she simply disappeared, and the police discovered her headless corpse some time later. It is still unclear whether it was the criminal herself or whether she faked her death. After all, at the time of the examination, the DNA material was not enough to confirm the death of the bloody killer.

Ahmad Suraji

Ahmad Suraji (1951-2008). This Iranian herder has confessed to killing 42 women. They were all of different ages, and the bloody chain lasted for 11 years. The maniac first tracked down his victims and then energetically killed them. At the same time, he used his own cruel ritual. Suraji buried the women up to their necks in the ground and then strangled them with a piece of cable. The killer was assisted in his actions by three wives, who were also convicted. Ahmad himself said that a prophetic dream prompted him to commit such atrocities. In it, his father appeared to him, who predicted the glory of a healer if a man kills 70 women and tastes their saliva. The son was unable to doubt these words and more than half accomplished his plan. In 2008, the authorities shot the criminal.

Alexander Pichushkin

Alexander Pichushkin (born 1974). After the trial, the media dubbed the maniac “The Chessboard Killer.” The fact is that the maniac intended to kill exactly 64 people, according to the number of squares on the chessboard. After each victim, one of its cells was closed. According to the killer, he almost accomplished his plan, taking the lives of 61 people. At the trial, Pichushkin’s involvement in 48 murders was proven, which was enough to sentence the maniac to life imprisonment. He committed his first murder at the age of 18; the victim was Alexander’s classmate. The maniac’s psyche finally took shape after the trial of Chikatilo, Pichushkin realized that he wanted to be like him and even surpass him in the number of victims. The killer launched his activities on the territory of the Bitsevsky forest park. He lured homeless people and alcoholics into the area, promising them free drinks, and then smashed their heads in with a bat. Soon the maniac began to hunt his acquaintances, since it was especially pleasant for him to kill them.

Gary Leon Ridgway

Gary Leon Ridgway (b. 1949). This maniac, nicknamed “River Man,” claims that he was able to kill more than 90 women in Washington state over 16 years. As a result, the court was able to prove 48 murders, and the criminal confessed to committing them. The methods he used were truly cruel. First of all, he satisfied his sexual passion and tortured the victims, then he strangled them with ropes, cable or fishing line. He even used necrophilia. If the maniac did not have time to take possession of the victim during the life of the victim, then he would have sexual contact with the corpse. In 2003, Ridgway fully confessed to his crimes, and his death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment.

Anatoly Onoprienko

Anatoly Onoprienko (born 1959). The maniac nicknamed “Terminator” admitted that during the six years of his hunt for people he killed 52 people. Onoprienko calculated that the points of his acts on the map of Ukraine should form a cross. According to the maniac, all his actions are controlled by certain voices heard in his head. When Onoprienko was arrested, they found on him a gun that was involved in his early murders, and personal belongings of the killed people. He himself attacked people on highways and in remote houses. The court sentenced the maniac to death in 1999, but it was soon commuted to life imprisonment.

Andrey Chikatilo

Andrei Chikatilo (1936-1994). This maniac is also of Ukrainian origin. For his actions, he received the nicknames "Red Ripper", "Rostov Butcher" and "Rostov Ripper". The killer operated from 1978 to 1990, during which time he killed 52 people. Most often the victims were women and children. Chikatilo tried to rape them, but this was not always successful. But he received sexual pleasure from watching the suffering of dying people. The maniac brought death to his victims by trying to have sexual intercourse with them. In 1994, the killer got what he deserved - a death penalty ended his life with a shot in the back of the head.

Pedro Alonso Lopez

Pedro Alonso Lopez (born 1948). This Colombian killer still continues to scare people because he has remained uncaught. His whole life is a complete drama. Lopez himself was a victim of molestation, had sex with his sister, and visited a pedophile's den. When the boy grew up, he himself began to beat, rape and molest, as if in revenge on life. As a teenager, Lopez became a killer, his first victim being his owner. The killer also flayed him, as well as his other three clients. As a result, the number of victims of the maniac exceeded all known cases. He was nicknamed the "Monster of the Andes." During interrogation, Lopez indicated the burial places of 110 of his victims, claiming that he had killed more than 300 people in total. But in Ecuador, where the trial took place, there is no death penalty. As a result, Lopez served 16 years in prison, being released in 1999. His current whereabouts are unknown. Lopez even got into the Guinness Book of Records as the most bloody maniac in the world.

Yang Xinhai

Yang Xinhai (1968-2004). This Chinese maniac was able to kill 67 people over the 4 years of his activity. Xinhai's criminal life began as a petty thief, but he soon moved from theft to violence and murder. The maniac often entered residential buildings and massacred entire families. His weapons included a saw and an axe. Yang killed children and raped pregnant women, and because of his inhumanity, the Chinese gave him the nickname “Monster Killer.” He traveled around the country by bicycle. When Xinhai was arrested, he said that killing gave him pleasure. According to a court verdict, the maniac was shot in 2004.

Pedro Rodriguez Filho

Pedro Rodriguez Filho (born 1954). This maniac is called "Little Pedro the Killer." After all, he killed more than a hundred people in his life. Most of them were in prison with Filho, being prisoners like himself. In 2003, the killer went to jail after confessing to killing 70 people. Among them was the father of the maniac. The court sentenced Filho to a total of 128 years in prison, but Brazilian laws will not allow a maniac to be behind bars for more than 30 years.

Elizabeth Bathory

Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614). This woman went down in history as the “Bloody Duchess.” The Duchess operated with her four assistants. The court found her guilty of murdering 600 women. Moreover, most of them were virgins. Bloodlust appeared in Bathory after her husband died from battle wounds. The Duchess was personally found guilty of murdering 80 women, but was never officially brought to trial. The noble family decided not to bring the matter to public hearings, simply imprisoning Elizabeth in the dungeon of her own castle. Four years after the hearings, the Duchess died. But it was not possible to hush up the matter; the fame of the bloody tormentor spread throughout Europe. She began to be counted among the successors of the work of Count Dracula. Many legends about Bathory immediately appeared. So, they said that she loved to bathe in a bath filled with the blood of virgins. The Duchess believed that this would help her rejuvenate. As a result, Bathory went down in human history as the most brutal female killer.

Javed Iqbal

Javed Iqbal (1956-2001). This maniac chose to commit suicide. In 2001, his body was autopsied in a Pakistani prison, and his body showed signs of numerous brutal beatings. At one time, the court found Iqbal guilty of raping and murdering more than a hundred children. But the matter is far from over. After all, after the death of the maniac, it turned out that many of the victims attributed to him were alive. Iqbal himself confessed to killing hundreds of children. The criminal said that he first strangled them and then cut the corpses into pieces, destroying evidence in acid. At the crime scene indicated to the investigation by the maniac, the remains of bodies, their photographs and belongings were found. Given the method used by the killer, it is impossible to accurately determine the number of his victims.

Tag Behram

Tag Behram (1765-1840). It is believed that this maniac killed a thousand people. He operated in India from 1790 to 1840. Behram was the leader of the brutal Tagi Kult gang. This bloody community attacked weary travelers and strangled them with a special, ritual piece of cloth. The bandits believed that only after performing such a deadly ritual would it be possible to rob the dead.

Louis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos

Louis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos (born 1957). The maniac received a very eloquent nickname - “The Beast”. He is now serving time in Colombia, the court sentenced him to 22 years in prison. In 1999, the criminal admitted that he had committed 140 rapes and then murders of boys. And according to rumors, the actual number of victims was twice as high. But Cubillos cooperated with the investigation and indicated the location of the remains of his victims, and also provided evidence of his crimes. That is why the maximum term under local laws of 30 years was reduced by 8. But the country recently adopted changes in criminal law, which makes it possible to increase the duration of a maniac’s imprisonment. I must say that there are all the prerequisites for this. After all, the police believe that Cubillos committed many more murders than was previously proven.

Gilles de Rais

Gilles de Rais (1404-1440). This nobleman, marshal and alchemist also went down in history as an ally of Joan of Arc. It is believed that it was he who served as the prototype for the fairy-tale character “Bluebeard”. The judges accused Gilles of killing two hundred children, whom he allegedly sacrificed to the devil. De Rais was excommunicated, hanged, and his body burned. It should be noted that historians have doubts that it was de Rais who committed the alleged murders. After all, he refused the charges until the very end, confessing only under the threat of torture.

Harold Frederick "Fred" Shipman

Harold Frederick "Fred" Shipman (1946-2004). This criminal had the longest list of proven murders. He is rightfully considered the bloodiest serial killer in history. The court proved 218 murders he committed, but the exact number could be much higher. Shipman was once an ordinary family doctor, respected in the area. But later he turned into "Doctor Death". The killer gave his patients lethal injections of heroin, most of the victims were women. Although Shipman was sentenced to life imprisonment, he decided not to wait for his natural death. The killer spent only 6 years in the cell, after which he hanged himself. After the high-profile case, significant amendments were made to the legislation of England in the field of medicine and health protection.

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John Wayne Gacy Jr. (03/17/1942 – 05/10/1994)

In a short period of 6 years, John Wayne Gacy raped and murdered at least 33 boys - his involvement in more crimes was not proven. After his arrest, police found 27 bodies in the basement of Gacy's Illinois home. The remaining bodies were found later in the river. The maniac received the nickname “Pogo the Clown” and “Killer Clown” due to the fact that he often worked part-time at children’s parties as a merry fellow in a red wig. John Wayne Gacy Jr. was executed on May 10, 1994 by lethal injection.

Theodore Robert Bundy (11/24/1946 – 01/24/1989)

He was executed by electric chair in 1989, but memories of his inhumane criminal activities that began in 1974 still chill the blood. When Bundy was caught, his “record” included at least 29 corpses - he confessed to a little over thirty murders, but the investigation suspected him of almost a hundred crimes. He didn't just kill his victims, he liked to strangle and beat the people he doomed to death. He often raped those who were in his hands, and his sexual preferences were not taboo - Bundy did not hesitate to have sexual intercourse with both living and dead victims of his brutal mania.

Sergei Tkach (1952 – still alive)

The most difficult case for the police: Tkach worked as an investigator in the local law enforcement department and raped and killed 29 girls and teenagers over 20 years. He was caught in 2005 and sentenced to just two years in prison. The number of his victims may not be accurate, since he himself claims that he killed between 80 and 100 people. For his manic disorder, Tkach blames his ex-wives, who instilled in him hatred of the entire female sex.

Donald Harvey (04/15/1952 – still alive)

Before receiving the prison sentence that Harvey is now serving in the North Idaho colony, the criminal worked in a hospital and called himself the “Angel of Death.” He is credited with 36 to 57 murders, but he himself claims that in twenty years of serving medicine he “helped” 87 patients pass into the world of the dead. Harvey used arsenic, cyanide and even insulin as murder weapons, from which his victims died a long and painful death. He did not limit himself in actions and often resorted to violence. The maniac strangled the patients and in some cases even pierced their internal organs with the pointed end of a coat hanger.

Moses Sithole (11/17/1964 – still alive)

Sithole, dubbed the "Strangler of South Africa", is now serving another year of a 2,410-year prison sentence for torturing and murdering 38 victims in his secluded lair. His list of crimes also includes more than 40 rapes. The punishment seems unrealistic - the criminal is unlikely to live to old age and will be able to serve even a small part of the assigned sentence for the simple reason that in 2000 he was diagnosed with AIDS, which means that he does not have long to live. Sithole “became famous” for his truly murderous speed - he committed his brutal crimes in just a year - from 1994, after his next release from prison, to 1995, when he was eventually caught.

Bell Sorenson Gunness (11/11/1859 – 28/04/1908)

Having killed more than 40 people over several decades, Bell (née Brynhild) became the personification of female cruelty and madness. She did not work a single day, and paid all expenses from insurance payments after the death of her loved ones, whom she herself killed. A not at all fragile lady weighing 91 kilograms and 173 cm tall with nerves of steel, she began her trade with her husband and children, and then switched to men who were looking for her suitors. At that time, despite her far from graceful forms, she was considered a rather attractive lady, given the number of suitors who suffered from her cold hand. The death of the black widow is still shrouded in mystery: one day the criminal disappeared, and some time later the police discovered her headless, charred corpse. The belonging of these remains to the criminal remains unproven today, because at the time of the examination of the DNA material it was not enough to fully prove or refute the police’s conclusions.

Ahmad Suraji (1951 – 07/10/2008)

Indonesian herder Suraji confessed to police that he killed 42 women of different ages over 11 years. He not only hunted down and predatorily killed them - he committed his crimes according to a certain savage ritual: he buried the victim up to his throat and strangled him with a piece of cable. Ahmad had three wives, who were also put on trial for helping to carry out his wild rituals. He claimed that his father once appeared to him in a dream and told him that Sraji could become a healer if he killed 70 women and drank their saliva. The son did not doubt the words of his parent and managed to more than half do what he was told. The criminal was shot in 2008.

Alexander Pichushkin (04/09/1974 – still alive)

The press dubbed him the “Chess Killer” because Pichushkin intended to kill exactly 64 people - the number of squares on the chessboard. He claims to have nearly achieved his goal of killing 61 people, but a court in 2007 convicted him of 48 murders, most of them homeless men, and sentenced him to life imprisonment, the first 15 years of which the offender must spend in solitary confinement. Pichushkin, who began to be called the “Bitsevsky maniac,” lured homeless people into the thicket of the Bitsevsky forest park, promising to treat them to vodka, and broke their skulls with a bat.

Gary Leon Ridgway (02/18/1949 – still alive)

The "River Man" claims to have killed more than 90 women in Washington state over 16 years. As a result, he was convicted of 48 murders, to each of which he confessed. His methods were truly brutal: having satisfied his lust and tormented his victim, he strangled her with ropes, fishing line and pieces of cable. Necrophilia was never a forbidden area for him: having killed another woman, he could easily have sexual intercourse with her corpse, if it was not possible to do this while the victim was alive. After Ridgway fully admitted his guilt in 2003, his lethal injection was commuted to serving a life sentence.

Anatoly Onoprienko (07/25/1959 – still alive)

Anatoly Onoprienko, the “Terminator,” confessed to killing 52 people during six years of his brutal manhunt. According to the maniac’s plan, the places of his crimes on the map of Ukraine were to become dots forming a cross. Onoprienko claimed that he was commanded by voices in his head. During the arrest, the maniac had a gun with him, which had already appeared in several previously committed crimes, and some belongings of the murdered people. The maniac was sentenced to death in 199, but then the sentence was changed to life imprisonment, which he is now serving.

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994)

Another Ukrainian by birth, Chikatilo, earned his nicknames “Rostov Ripper”, “Red Ripper” and “Rostov Butcher” by killing 52 people in 12 years - the maniac operated from 1978 to 1990. Its victims were mainly the fairer sex and children. He raped or attempted to rape women - he could achieve sexual release only by watching the terrible physical torture of the dying. He usually stabbed his victims while performing sexual intercourse with them. In 1994, Chikatilo was executed by a shot in the back of the head.

Pedro Alonso Lopez (8.10.1948 – still alive)

Lopez's terrible story is not over yet, because the maniac is still among us. From the very moment of his birth, his life can be considered a real tragedy - Pedro Alonso was both a victim of molestation and molested others, he was beaten, raped, and in response to those who mocked him, he began to kill while still a teenager. People nicknamed him the “Monster of the Andes” because he was responsible for more deaths than any known case. The court found him guilty of killing 110 girls, but by his own admission, he sent several hundred people to the next world. Lopez served 14 years, then spent another three years in the Columbia Hospital for the Mentally Ill, and then... for some unknown reason, he was released. The real location of the maniac is unknown.

Yang Xinhai (July 1968 – 02/14/2004)

Over the course of four years, a Chinese maniac killer took the lives of 67 people. Having started his criminal career as a petty thief, he soon began to rape and then kill. The maniac entered the house and often massacred entire families, wielding an ax and saw with bloody cruelty. Yang raped pregnant women and killed children, and because of his bestial passion, the Chinese began to call Xinhai the “Murderer Monster.” Xinhai suffered his death from a bullet to the temple in the prison execution yard in 2004.

Pedro Rodriguez Filho (1954 – still alive)

Nicknamed "Pedrinho Matador" ("Little Pedro the Killer"), Filho killed more than a hundred people, most of whom were prisoners serving time in the same prison as him. In 2003, he confessed to killing 70 people, including his own father. The court sentenced him to 128 years in prison, but according to Brazilian law, he can only remain behind barbed wire for 30 years of his sentence.

Elizabeth Bathory (08/7/1560 – 08/21/1614)

Known in history as the "Bloody Duchess", Elizabeth Bathory, along with her four assistants, was found guilty of murdering 600 women, most of them virgins. The desire to kill took possession of the duchess after the death of her husband from a wound in battle. Bathory was found guilty of murdering 80 women, but never formally appeared in court, since it was decided not to damage the good reputation of her famous family - as punishment she was imprisoned in one of the parts of her own castle under house arrest. Bathory died four years after receiving a more than lenient sentence. Despite the fact that they tried to hush up the matter, legends about the bloody torturer, which ranked her among the continuers of the fierce “traditions” of Vlad Dracula, spread throughout Europe. According to the legends, the savage loved to bathe in a bath filled with the blood of virgins, considering it an excellent means of rejuvenation. Elizabeth Bathory tops the list of the most insatiable female killers in all of human history.

Javed Iqbal (1956 – 8.10.2001)

Iqbal committed suicide in 2001 while in a Pakistani prison, after an autopsy revealed signs of severe beatings. The court found him guilty of raping and murdering 100 children, but Iqbal's case was reviewed after his death because a quarter of the alleged victims were eventually found alive. Even before his arrest, the maniac admitted to killing hundreds of boys - according to the criminal himself, he first strangled his victims, and then dismembered the corpses, dumping the remains in tanks of acid. They were found along with photographs and belongings of the deceased at the crime scene indicated by the maniac. Given the manner in which Iqbal disposed of evidence, the actual number of victims cannot be determined.

Tagh Behram (circa 1765 – 1840)

He is credited with killing 1,000 people in 50 years, from 1790 to 1840. Tag Behram was the leader of an Indian gang called Tagi Cult. Members of this bloody society strangled gullible travelers with a ritual piece of cloth, believing that only after the completion of this godless ritual would it be possible to take the belongings of the dead.

Louis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos (01/25/1957 – still alive)

Louis "The Beast" Cubillos is currently serving a 22-year prison sentence in Colombia. In 1999, he confessed to the rape and murder of 140 boys, but at least three hundred victims are attributed to him. The criminal indicated the location of the corpses and evidence of his crimes, and therefore he was given eight years less than the maximum sentence under Colombian law of 30 years. Recent changes in the country's criminal law make it possible to extend his sentence, and there are all the prerequisites for this, since the police suspect him of many more crimes than previously proven.

Gilles De Rais (1404 – 1440)

Gilles de Rais is known to history both as an associate of Joan of Arc and as a serial killer. He is credited with the killing of two hundred children brought as sacrifices to appease the devil. He was excommunicated and sentenced to hang in 1440.

Harold Frederick "Fred" Shipman (01/14/1946 – 01/13/2004)

Harold Shipman “distinguished himself” with the longest list of proven murders, which means he can rightfully be considered the most bloody serial maniac in the world. The court found him guilty of 250 crimes, but the real number of his victims may be much more extensive. The once-respected family physician, who later became known as "Dr. Death," administered lethal injections to his mostly female patients. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but decided to take his own life before natural death and hanged himself in his cell in 2004, six years after his arrest.

Today I want to tell you about mentally ill criminals, who can easily be called the most terrible maniacs of all time. In the continuation of the post, you will learn interesting facts about the killers, whom you can’t even call “human”.

John Wayne Gacy. Raped and killed 33 people, including teenagers. Nickname "Killer Clown". At the age of 9 he became a victim of a pedophile. He was known to society as an exemplary family man and workaholic. He worked as a clown during the holidays.

A dozen films have been made about him, including “To Catch a Killer” and “Gacy’s Grave Digger.” Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson dedicated songs to him. He became the prototype for the clown Pennywise in King's novel It.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer. Its victims between 1978 and 1991 were 17 boys and men. He raped and ate their corpses. The court sentenced him to fifteen life sentences.

A number of documentaries and feature films have been shot about Dahmer. Mentioned in many songs, including "Brainless" by Eminem and "Dark Horse" by Katy Perry.

Theodore Robert Bundy. Confessed to 30 murders. He kidnapped people, killed them, and then raped them. He collected the heads of victims as souvenirs. He graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology.

Many films have been made about him, including “The Green River Murders,” “The Ripper” and others. He is a frequent character in South Park.

Gary Ridgway. Killed a huge number of women from the 1980s to the 1990s. 20 years later, his guilt was proven through DNA analysis. He is one of America's most famous serial killers.

Ridgway's IQ is 83. At school he was one of the weakest students.
In the early 1980s, the police wanted to catch Gary with the help of Ted Bundy. He drew up a psychological portrait, but no one listened to him. This situation was taken as a basis in books about Hannibal Lector.

Ed Gein. He committed only two murders, but went down in history as one of the most terrible maniacs. He independently exhumed the bodies of young women and made costumes from them. The idea is taken as a basis in the book “Silence of the Lambs”.

He is the prototype for several other characters. For example, in the films “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Necromantic”.

Henry Lee Lucas. Proved by the investigation of 11 murders he committed, the maniac himself confessed to more than 300. His first victim was his own mother.

By personal order of President Bush, Lucas' death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment.

Eileen Carol Wuornos. Considered to be the first female maniac. She worked as a prostitute and killed several of her clients. As she later explained to investigators, they all wanted to injure her during sex.

If you believe they are evil, heartless, or simply mentally ill, then you are still part of a society that is both repulsed and attracted to the lives and minds of serial killers.

Who are they and what motivates them ?

Below are the most terrifying serial killers of the 20th century.

25. David Berkowitz

Known as the Son of Sam or the .44 killer, David Berkowitz carried out a killing spree in the summer of 1976. Using a .44 Bulldog revolver, he killed 6 people and wounded 7 more. Berkowitz also sent a number of letters to the police and the press recounting his further murders for the purpose of teasing.

He terrorized New Yorkers for almost a year. He was finally captured in August 1977. Berkowitz confessed to all of the murders and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for each of them.

24. Edmund Kemper

Edmund Kemper is an American serial killer and necrophiliac who carried out a series of brutal serial killings in California in the 1970s. At the age of 15, he killed his grandparents, and later killed and dismembered six hitchhiking women in the Santa Cruz area.

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He later killed his mother and one of her friends and surrendered to police a few days later. In November 1973, he was found guilty of 8 murders. He asked for the death penalty, but instead received life without parole.

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23. Larry Bittaker and Roy Norris

These two American serial killers worked together to kill five young women in California in 1979. They lured victims into their van drove off to secluded places and then both raped and tortured the unfortunates using a number of instruments.

In 1981, the maniacs were charged with murder, kidnapping and rape. Bittaker was sentenced to death and remains on death row to this day. Norris, however, was spared in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

22. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

These men killed five children between 1963 and 1965 in Greater Manchester, England. Their victims were between 10 and 17 years old. Before being brutally killed, the unfortunates were subjected to sexual violence.

Three of the dead were found in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor, the body of the last victim was found in Brady's house. The whereabouts of the fourth child, Keith Bennett, are still unknown.

Both Brady and Hindley were later sentenced to life imprisonment. Hindley died in prison in 2002. Brady has since been moved to maximum security hospital Ashworth, where he remains to this day, periodically going on hunger strikes.

21. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono

Between late 1977 and early 1978, cousins ​​Kenneth and Angelo held California at bay by kidnapping, raping and murdering 10 girls ranging in age from 12 to 28. Each of their victims ended their lives in the mountains above Los Angeles, where they were strangled.

Bianchi tried to plead his innocence, citing insanity, but it was later determined that the documents confirming his mental illness were fake. He pleaded guilty and began testifying against Buono.

Both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Buono died of a heart attack in his cell in 2002.

20. Dennis Rader

Dennis Rader killed 10 people in Sedgwick County, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Obsessed with popularity, Rader sent teasing letters to the police, signing "SPU", which stood for "Bondage, torture, murder."

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The raider stalked his victims before invading their homes, tying them up and torturing them. After disappearing in 1988, Rader reappeared in 2005, sending a floppy disk to the media that helped expose him. He was arrested and charged with the murders, to which he immediately confessed.

He is serving 10 life sentences with the earliest possible release date being February 26, 2180.

19. Donald Henry Gaskins

In 1969, Gaskins began killing hitchhikers he picked up while driving around the southern United States, torturing and mutilating his victims. He claimed to have killed between 80 and 90 people.

He was arrested in 1975 when a well-known crime boss confessed to police that he witnessed Gaskinson murder two young men. He was found guilty of killing 8 people and sentenced to death, however, the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Remarkably, Gaskins continued to commit murder while in a maximum security prison, killing a fellow inmate. He is the only person to kill an inmate on death row.

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18. Peter Manuel

The American-born Scottish serial killer is known to have killed 9 people in southern Scotland between 1956 and 1958. Suspected of killing 18 people.

Police were unable to prove his guilt until it was confirmed that some of the notes Manuel had used to pay for drinks in Glasgow pubs belonged to one of his victims.

He confessed to his crime in front of his mother while at the police station where he was being held. In July 1958, Manuel was hanged for his crimes in Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison. He was one of the last prisoners in Scotland to be hanged before the country abolished the death penalty.

17. John George Haigh

This man was an English serial killer from the 1940s. He was convicted of killing 6 people, although he claimed to have killed 9. John was a professional swindler, meeting rich people and making them believe that he was a successful businessman.

He lured his victims to an abandoned warehouse, where he shot them. After that, he dissolved their bodies in sulfuric acid, then forged documents in order to get his hands on all their property and savings.

He was identified from human remains, and the police managed to collect enough evidence to convict Haig. In 1949 he was sentenced to death and hanged at Wandsworth Prison.

16. Fred & Rose West

Between 1967 and 1987, Fred West and his wife Rose tortured, raped and murdered at least 10 young women and girls, most at their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, which was later described as a house of horrors.

The pair were finally apprehended and charged with the murders in 1994 after police obtained a search warrant. They discovered human bones buried in the garden and hidden under the floorboards.

Arrested in court, Fred hanged himself in his prison cell before he was convicted. In 1995, Rose was jailed for life after being convicted of 10 murders.

Their home on Cromwell Street was demolished in 1996 to discourage souvenir hunters.

15. Arthur Shawcross

Known as the "Genesee River Killer," Shawcross committed his first murder in 1972, raping and brutalizing a 10-year-old boy he lured into a wooded area in Watertown, New York.

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He then raped and killed an 8-year-old girl, for which he was captured and charged with manslaughter. After serving 14 years in prison, in 1988 he was released and brutally kills 12 prostitutes aged 22 to 59 years.

In the end, he was caught in the act of his latest crime. He confessed to all 12 murders and was sentenced to 250 years in prison, but died in prison of a heart attack in 2008.

14. Peter Sutcliffe

Peter William Sutcliffe is a British serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper. In 1981, Sutcliffe was convicted of the murders of 13 women and the attempted murders of seven others.

He killed prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford, creating a climate of fear throughout northern England. While arrested in 1981 for driving a car with false license plates, The police began to interrogate him regarding these murders, and he confessed.

At his trial, he pleaded not guilty to insanity murder, but self-defense was also rejected by the jury. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and to this day he remains in the Broadmoor Maximum Security Mental Hospital.

13. Richard Ramirez

Ricardo Ramirez Leyva Muñoz was an American serial killer who worshiped Satan and terrorized Los Angeles in 1984-1985. Nicknamed the "Night Stalker", Ramirez would break into the homes of his victims. shot, stabbed, maimed, raped and killed.

He did not specifically select his victims; they ranged from a 9-year-old girl to an elderly couple in their 60s. Ramirez was known for drawing pentagrams on the walls of his victims' homes.

He was captured in 1985 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was on death row in a California prison for 23 years, and Ramirez died in June 2013.

12. Jeffrey Dahmer

Known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal", Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer who raped, murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He was also a necrophiliac and ate his last victims, cooking them into a meal in his backyard.

Dahmer was caught after his potential victims were able to overcome him and contacted the police. In 1992, Dahmer was found guilty of 15 murders and was sentenced to 15 life sentences.

However, just two years into his time in a Colombian correctional facility, he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate.

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11. Dennis Nilsen

The British equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen was a homosexual killer who murdered 15 gay men in his London home between 1978 and 1983.

He kept the bodies of his victims for some time, then the decomposing remains were burned or flushed down the toilet. This helped catch him when human flesh was discovered in his sewer.

Nielsen was convicted in 1983 of six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. The sentence is life imprisonment. He is still serving his sentence in Yorkshire, England, with no chance of parole.

10. Ted Bundy

This is one of the most famous murderers of the 20th century. He kidnapped, raped and killed young women and girls in the 1970s. Bundy routinely approached his victims in public places, took them to secluded corners, and raped and killed them.

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He beheaded at least 12 victims, and He kept the severed heads in his apartment as trophies. He was detained by the police several times, but twice he managed to escape. He was accused of multiple murders and sentenced to death. Bundy was executed by electric chair in 1989.

9. Charles Ng and Leonard Lake

Chinese-American serial killer Charles Ng is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered 11-25 people along with his accomplice Leonard Lake at the latter's ranch in Calaveras County, California.

They filmed themselves raping and torturing their victims. Their crimes came to light in 1985 after Lake committed suicide when he learned that Ng had been caught shoplifting from a hardware store.

Police searched Lake's ranch and found human remains there. Ng was identified as Lake's accomplice in the crimes, but he tried to evade charges by fleeing to Canada. After a lengthy extradition to the United States, he stood trial in 1998 and was found guilty of 12 murders.

Ng is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

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8. John Wayne Gacy

Gacy raped and murdered 33 teenagers and young adults between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. He lured the victim to his home, promising money or work, then strangled him with a tourniquet. He buried 26 people in his yard, He disposed of the bodies of the following killed by throwing them into the Des Plaines River.

Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death. He spent 14 years on death row before being given a lethal injection on May 10, 1994.

7. Andrei Chikatilo

Andrei Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the "Rostov butcher." Between 1978 and 1990, he raped and killed at least 52 people, including women and children.

Suspecting Chikatilo of the murders, the police conducted surveillance of him, the results of which provided sufficient grounds for his arrest. He confessed to a total of 56 murders, and in April 1992 was convicted of committing 53 of them.

Relatives of the victims demanded his release from custody to commit lynching. Chikatilo was sentenced to death and executed in February 1994.

6. Tommy Lynn Sells

Claiming to have killed at least 70 people, Tommy Lynn Sales was considered one of the most dangerous criminals in the United States. He was convicted of several brutal murders between 1985 and 1999. His victims also included a 13-year-old girl, whom he stabbed 16 times.

They managed to capture him after The maniac's 10-year-old victim, whom he left to die, was able to crawl out and warn her neighbors. She gave a detailed description of the criminal, which ultimately contributed to his arrest.

Sals was sentenced to death. To this day he is on death row in a maximum security prison in Livingston, Texas.

5. Gary Ridgway

One of the most prolific serial killers, Gary Ridgway was arrested in 2001 for 4 murders, although he admitted to committing at least 70 murders of women in Washington State in the 1980s and 1990s.

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He avoided the death penalty by telling police in detail about the murders and leading authorities to the burial sites. He threw five women into the Green River, for which he was nicknamed the “Green River Killer” in the press. He was found guilty of 49 murders and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

4. Pedro Rodrigues Filho

Filho is a Brazilian serial killer arrested in 1973 and convicted in 2003 of killing at least 71 people. Sentenced to 128 years in prison.

He committed his first murder at the age of 14. He went after local drug dealers who killed his girlfriend while he was in prison for a series of thefts. At the age of 18, he already had 10 murders to his name.

While in prison, he killed his father, who was also serving time for murder. While in prison he killed 47 prisoners. Initially sentenced to 30 years in prison, Pedro increased his sentence with his own hands, since against the backdrop of constant murders, his sentence was increased to 400 years in prison.

3. Daniel Camargo Barbosa

The man was a Colombian serial killer who is believed to have raped and murdered more than 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador in the 1970s and 1980s. He's calm confessed to killing 71 girls in Ecuador after escaping from a Colombian prison.

He led police to the site where he collected the bodies of the victims. After raping the girls, he killed them with a machete. Barbosa was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to 16 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Ecuador. In November 1994, he was killed in prison by the cousin of one of the dead girls.

Harold Shipman was an English doctor, as well as the most prolific serial killer in human history, who has been proven to have 250 kills.

As a professional, he was respected in his circle, however, colleagues and local residents began to express concerns about the high mortality rate in the area, as well as the large number of signed cremation forms for elderly women.

Some of the bodies were later exhumed and examination of the corpses revealed the presence of diamorphine. Later it was established that Shipman deliberately administered lethal doses of the drug to large numbers of patients.

He then forged documents under the will, thereby inheriting large sums of money. He also falsified cremation documents to completely cover his tracks. The judge sentenced him to 15 life sentences without parole.

In January 2004, Shipman hanged himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison.

1. Pedro Alonso Lopez

Lopez is a Colombian serial killer accused of raping and murdering more than 300 girls in South America. He was believed to have preyed on young and vulnerable teenage girls in Peru. He lured them to secluded places, raped them, and then killed them, most often by suffocation.

Lopez was arrested when another attempt to kidnap a girl failed and he was caught by market workers. He confessed to killing more than 300 people.

The police only believed him when, after a flash flood, they discovered a mass grave of many of his victims. In the end, 53 bodies were found. Incarcerated in 1980, he spent just 18 years in prison before being released from an Ecuadorian prison and deported to Colombia, where he was arrested again in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison.

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Every second a crime is committed somewhere in the world. But not every criminal's name is etched in history. Here are the top 10 most infamous ones, cruel maniacs and serial killers in history.

10. John George Haig

English Serial killer, known as the "Acid Bath Killer" and "London Vampire" who was convicted of 6 murders in the 1940s. After committing the crime, he used acid to dispose of the body, but significant forensic evidence remained. On August 10, 1949, he was executed.

9. Georg Joachim Krall

German serial killer and cannibal. Known as the Duisburg man-eater. He was found guilty of eight murders, but confessed to a total of 14. He claimed that he ate the flesh of his victims to save on food. Kroll received nine life sentences but died of a heart attack in 1991 in Rheinbach prison.

8. Richard Trenton Chase

Richard Trenton Chase was accused of killing six people in a month. He was nicknamed "The Vampire of Sacramento" because he drank the blood of his victims. On December 29, 1977, Chase killed his first victim. On May 8, he was found guilty of six counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. On December 26, 1980, he committed suicide by overdosing on prescribed antidepressants.

7. Gilles de Race

Before starting his killing spree, he served as a captain in the army under Joan of Arc. He earned a name both as a captain and as a serial child killer. According to survivors, Race lured children, mostly boys who had blond hair and blue eyes, to his residence and raped, tortured and mutilated them. He was executed on October 26, 1440.

6. John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy was involved in the sexual assault and murder of at least 33 teenagers and young adults between 1972 and 1978. The criminal would lure his victims in handcuffs under the pretext of showing them a few tricks and then strangle them with a rope. After committing a crime, he buried the victim either on his plot or in the nearest river. After his arrest, he was sentenced to death and executed in May 1994.

5. Dennis Rader

Born in 1945, and in the period from 1974 to 1991. took the lives of 10 people. The raider didn't just kill his victims. Beforehand, he tied them up and tortured them. And then he reported details of the murders to the police and newspapers. Through this he was caught in 2005. He is currently serving 10 life sentences at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. And this monster is in fifth place in the Top 10 most brutal maniacs and serial killers in history.

4. Andrei Chikatilo

He is the Rostov Butcher. Most of the crimes were committed in the Rostov region. And there were quite a few of them: at least 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990. For his crimes, 10 innocent people were imprisoned. The killer was executed by firing squad on February 14, 1994. This is the most famous maniac and serial killer in history.

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3. Jeffrey Dahmer

Participated in the murder of 17 men and boys between 1987 and 1991. His cases include rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. Jeffrey committed his first murder in the summer of 1978, at the age of 18. He was arrested and sentenced to 15 life sentences, and on November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by other inmates at the Columbia Correctional Institute.

2. Theodore Bundy

American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper and necrophiliac, who killed many women and girls between 1974 and 1978. After a ten-year investigation, Bundy finally confessed to 30 murders, although the true figure remains unknown. He was executed by electric chair on January 24, 1989.

1. Albert Fish

Born Hamilton Howard Fish on May 19, 1870. He is responsible for molesting an appalling number of children - 100 innocent minors. He was suspected of killing five, but only three cases were proven. In addition to violence, he admitted to cannibalism. The monster was executed on January 16, 1934.