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Family of serial killers who killed and robbed wealthy travellers in No Man's Land [411] Kemper, Edmund: 1964–1973 10 10 Sentenced to life imprisonment Known as "The Co-Ed Killer"; murdered his grandparents at age 15; released at age 21, he then murdered six young women, as well as his mother and her friend, in California [412] Keyes, Israel
This list shows all known serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims, then possible victims, then date. For those from previous centuries, see List of serial killers before 1900. 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 ...
Kenyel Brown. United States. 2001–2020. 6. 6. Committed suicide before apprehension. Known as the "Metro Detroit Serial Killer". Robbed and murdered six people from 2019 to 2020 in Wayne County, Michigan, later dying by suicide. [ 6]
Date apprehended. August 31, 1985. Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez ( / rəˈmɪərɛz /; February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), better known as Richard Ramirez, was an American serial killer and sex offender whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California. From April 1984 to August 1985 ...
Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor; August 23, 1943 – July 24, 2021) was an American serial killer and sex offender who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed between 1977 and 1979. He also pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 25 years to life for two further murders committed in New York and ...
October 27, 1983. Imprisoned at. Spring Creek Correctional Center, Seward, Alaska (until his death) Robert Christian Boes Hansen[ 2] (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), popularly known as the Butcher Baker, was an American serial killer active in Anchorage, Alaska, between 1972 and 1983. Hansen abducted, raped and murdered at least ...
Joseph Paul Franklin. Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer, white supremacist, and domestic terrorist who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Franklin was convicted of several murders and received four life sentences, as well as ...
The serial killing phenomenon in the United States was especially prominent from 1970 to 2000, which has been described as the "golden age of serial murder". [ 43] The cause of the spike in serial killings has been attributed to urbanization, which put people in close proximity and offered anonymity. [ 44]