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Indiana. Ontario. Pennsylvania. Date apprehended. November 17, 1894. Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that ...
A serial killer is typically a person who kills three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always ...
An 1829 illustration of Irish serial killer William Burke murdering Margery Campbell. A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders two [dubious – discuss] or more people, [1] [2] with the killings taking place over a significant period of time.
Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer ( / ˈdɑːmər /; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, [ 4] was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. [ 5]
California Medical Facility. Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl, between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his non-familial victims ...
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Aileen Carol Wuornos (/ ˈ w ɔːr n oʊ s /; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. [3] In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients.
Date apprehended. May 22, 1980. Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946) is an American serial killer who was convicted in New York of six murders committed between 1972 and 1980 and convicted in New Jersey of twelve murders committed between 1967 and 1978. [1] He was nicknamed by media as the Torso Killer and the Times Square Ripper ...