List of serial killers by country

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This is a list of notable serial killers, by their country of origin or activity.

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[edit] Convicted serial killers by country

[edit] Australia

[edit] Austria

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Canada

[edit] China

[edit] Colombia

  • Luis Garavito (also killed victims in Ecuador)
  • Pedro Lopez - The Monster of the Andes; apocryphal with 300 alleged victims (also killed victims in Ecuador)

[edit] Ecuador

[edit] France

[edit] Germany

[edit] Hungary

[edit] India

  • Charles Sobhraj - preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s
  • Thug Behram - leader of a gang of Thugs in Avadh, India, who confessed to participating in 931 individual murders and to having personally strangled approximately 125 men
  • Auto Shankar - Indian auto rickshaw driver who preyed on teenage girls
  • Raman Raghav - killed street urchins and others in their sleep

[edit] Indonesia

  • Ahmad Suradji - a serial killer who admitted to killing 42 women

[edit] Iran

[edit] Italy

  • Luigi Chiatti - the "Monster of Foligno"; victims were children
  • Roberto Succo - considered Public Enemy number one by France, Italy and Swiss Confederation

[edit] Japan

  • Tsutomu Miyazaki - aka "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer", and "Dracula", he killed 4 preschool-age Japanese girls and ate two of them

[edit] Kazakhstan

  • Nikolai Dzhumagaliev - cannibal and rapist known as "Metal Fang"; thought to have killed nearly 50 individuals

[edit] Latvia

  • Kaspars Petrovs - convicted of murdering 13 elderly Riga women in 2005. Confessed to killing 38.

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Netherlands

  • Lucia de Berk - nurse, convicted of killing at least 7 and attempting 3 murders in the 2000's. There is presently intense pressure in the media and from scientists and artists to reopen the case on the grounds that the conviction is based on weak circumstantial evidence together with statistical data that is alleged to be almost entirely fabricated Lucia de Berk, Dutch wikipedia

[edit] Norway

  • Arnfinn Nesset - Geriatric assistant nurse who poisoned 22 dwellers at the institution "Orkdal alders- og sjukeheim" over a period of some years before being convicted in 1984

[edit] Pakistan

[edit] Poland

[edit] Romania

  • Ion Rîmaru - Murdered and raped young women in Bucharest from 1970 to 1971.

[edit] Russia

  • Andrei Chikatilo - AKA "The Rostov Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter", a name given to him by the Russian public after the character in the popular American film Silence of the Lambs, which came out around the time of his arrest; killed 52 women and children throughout the many countries of the former Soviet Union before being arrested, convicted, and executed in 1994.
  • Oleg Kuznetsov - known as "Lzhedmitriy" ("False Dmitriy" named after False Dmitriy I) killed 6 women in Moscow and Moscow area and 4 women in Kiev, Ukraine (1991-1992). Sentenced to life imprisonment.

[edit] South Africa

  • Daisy de Melker - poisoner; killed 2 husbands and one son
  • Moses Sithole - believed to have killed at least 38 young women
  • Cedric maake - the Wemmer Pan Killer, murdered at least 27 people. Also serial rapist

[edit] South Korea

  • Yoo Young-Chul - killed and ate about 20 people, mainly rich elderly men and prostitutes

[edit] Sweden

  • Thomas Quick - child molestor and alleged serial killer
  • John Ausonius - "The Laser Man", attempted to kill eleven persons, succeeded in one case.

[edit] UK

[edit] Ukraine

  • Anatoly Onoprienko - Ukrainian serial killer known as "the Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996

[edit] USA

[edit] Unidentified serial killers

[edit] See also

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