Also a suspect in the murders of his first wife and a friend in Chicago. Killed three women he was romantically involved with in Honolulu, HawaiiĬonvicted of murdering his second wife in Antigua and Barbuda. Known as 'The Petting Party Bandit' shot couples in lovers' lanes in Memphis during robberies Killed four women around the Portland area Mentally-ill factory worker who shot and killed prostitutes around Memphis She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection. North Carolina woman who was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment and the first since 1962. Murdered four people in Dallas County, Texas between 19, having sex with the corpses of two of his victims

Texas murderer of women known as 'The Alligator Man' Known as 'The Queens Creeper' mentally-ill burglar who stabbed women to death after breaking into their apartments Known as 'The Trenton Strangler' raped and murdered four women in Trenton, New Jersey Murdered two underage girls in 2005 in Illinois and a 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer in Virginia in 2009 Murdered his half-brother paroled, and later murdered his adoptive father and a neighboring couple's daughter during a drunken shooting spree Known as 'The Woodward Corridor Killer' serial rapist who preyed on women in Highland Park and Detroit, Michigan Navy sailor convicted for murdering prostitutes in Michigan and Illinois confessed to more murders around the world Known as 'The Salt Lake City Strangler' violent sex offender who kidnapped and murdered women and girls Poisoned a husband and residents of her nursing home in Windsor, Connecticut Long Island nurse who poisoned patients in his careįirst person convicted of using insulin as a murder weaponĭied in Connecticut Hospital for the Insane Murdered people in Utah, Nevada, and California Murdered people in thrill-killings in Las Vegas, Nevada along with two other men added to the FBI's ten most wanted list in 1998 Amati's two codefendants were never convicted of murder due to a lack of evidenceįatally shot at least four people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, cannibalizing one, in a series of robbery and revenge-related murders. Raped and strangled prostitutes and drug addicts around Greensboro, North Carolina, dismembering their bodies post-mortem Murdered people in Fort Worth, Texas in robberies Murdered four people in North and South Carolina between July–August 2002 Shot a lodger in 1930 after his release, he killed three more people in a fit of jealousy Murdered people in Houston, Texas during robberies Sometimes called 'The Dating Game Killer' because of his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree Texas man known as the 'Eyeball Killer' because he removed the eyes of his victims after killing them Poisoned family members with arsenic in Fox Lake, Illinois to receive their inheritance Killed his sister-in-law in Illinois paroled and moved to Colorado, where he killed two more women

Murdered seven people, including three policemen Strangled three prostitutes in New York between 19 Murdered robbery victim in 1970, and at least three women until 1990 in St. Sentenced to death commuted to life imprisonment 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, by one offender acting alone'. 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.

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