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Brothers or cousins; America's first known serial killers [319] Harris, DeWayne Lee: 1997–1998 3 3+ Sentenced to 94 years in prison Known as "The Seattle Jungle Killer"; strangled prostitutes in Seattle, dumping their bodies in an area known as 'The Jungle' [320] Harris, Michael Darnell: 1981–1982 4 10 Sentenced to life imprisonment
Known as "El Chaquero"; the first captured serial killer in Mexico, who killed sex workers in Mexico City; died in 1910 from cerebral thromboembolism and another, unspecified cause. [74] Ted Bundy United States: 1974–1978 20 35–100+ Bundy was an American serial killer known for his charisma and good looks.
Committed suicide before apprehension. Known as "The Butcher/ Bluebeard of Villa Astolfi"; murdered his wife in 2004, then murdered and dismembered a girlfriend in 2020. He is suspected of the disappearances of three neighbors. [ 4][ 5] Kenyel Brown. United States. 2001–2020. 6. 6. Committed suicide before apprehension.
Here’s a select list of convicted American serial killers and notable open or unsolved cases. Serial murder is defined by the FBI as two or more killings separated by a span of time.
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.
United States. State (s) California, Texas, and Ohio (convicted) 16 others (accused) [ 3] Date apprehended. September 5, 2012. Samuel Little ( né McDowell; June 7, 1940 – December 30, 2020) was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 people, nearly all women, between 1970 and 2005. [ 5]
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 ...
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 ...