Alexander Pichushkin (Russia)
"Chessboard Killer"
Years 1992 to 2006
Number of victims 48
Convicted of murdering 48 victims and suspected of killing 60. Claimed to have murdered 62 people, because he did not know that two of his victims had survived; stated goal of becoming Russia's most prolific serial killer. Sentenced to life.
Gary Ridgway (United States)
Years 1982 to 2000
Number of victims 49
Truck painter who confessed to killing 71 women. Also known as The Green River Killer. He almost exclusively targeted sex workers from Seattle. Suspected of killing over 90 victims, confessed to 71, convicted of 49.Sentenced to life without parole.
Anatoly Onoprienko (Soviet Union)
"The Beast of Ukraine"
Years 1989 to 1996
Number of victims 52
Known as "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Terminator" and "Citizen O". Convicted of the murders of 9 people in 1989 and 43 people in 1995–1996. Traveled through Europe illegally from 1990 to 1995; whether he killed during this time is unknown. Sentenced to death, later commuted to life.
Andrei Chikatilo (Soviet Union)
"The Butcher of Rostov"
Years 1978 to 1990
Number of victims 53
Convicted of the murder of 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990. One man was previously convicted and executed for his first murder. Executed in 1994
Yang Xinhai (China)
"Monster Killer"
Years 2000 to 2003
Number of victims 67
Would enter victims' homes at night and kill everyone with axes, meat cleavers, hammers, and shovels. Executed in February 2004.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Brazil)
Years 1967 to 2003
Number of victims 71
He has claimed to have killed over 100 victims, 47 of them inmates. He also killed his father and ate a piece of his heart. He killed his first two victims at the age of 14; he was first arrested in 1973. Convicted and sentenced to 128 years, but the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years.
Daniel Camargo (Colombia)
Years 1974 to 1986
Number of victims 72
Child and woman murderer, believed to have possibly raped and killed over 150 victims, primarily young virgin girls. Confessed to killing 72 victims, and incarcerated with Pedro López. He strangled young girls in Colombia and was arrested, but he escaped from prison and he started killing in Ecuador; rearrested in 1986, he was killed in jail by the nephew of one of his victims.
Giovanni Brusca (Italy)
Years 1980 to 1992
Number of victims 100
Former member of the Sicilian Mafia. He murdered the anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone in 1992 and stated that he had committed between 100 and 200 murders.
Pedro López (Colombia)
"The Monster of the Andes"
Years 1969 to 1979
Number of victims 110
Targeted young girls, between the ages of 8 and 12. Arrested in 1980 and convicted in 1983 of killing 3 young girls but confessed to killing 300, exact total unknown. Despite being one of the most prolific serial killers of the 20th century, he was released in 1998. Current whereabouts unknown.
Luis Garavito (Colombia)
Years 1992 to 1999
Number of victims 138
”La Bestia”
Child-murderer, torture-killer, and rapist. Confessed to killing 140 boys between 8 and 16 years old over a seven-year period in Colombia and neighboring countries. He is suspected of murdering over 300 victims, mostly street children. Sentenced to 22 years.
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