MOST NOTORIOUS KILLERS & MASS MURDERERS
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AILEEN WUORNOS
Aileen Carol Wuornos (born Aileen Carol Pittman) (February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American prostitute and serial killer who was sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992.
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ALBERT DESALVO
The Boston Strangler is a name attributed to the murderer of several women in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in the early 1960s. Investigators of the case has suggested the murders are not the handiwork of one person, due to the changing MOs of the crimes, and the varying ages of the victims.
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ALBERT FISH
Albert Hamilton Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, child molester, and cannibal. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria and possibly the Brooklyn Vampire.
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ANDREI CHIKATILO
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) was a Russian serial killer, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper. He was convicted of the murder of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990.
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BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
Elizabeth "Betty" Short (July 29, 1924 – January 15, 1947), was an aspiring actress better known as the Black Dahlia. She was the victim of a gruesome and unsolved murder at the age of 22.
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CHARLES MANSON
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934 as Charles Milles Maddox) was the founder and leader of the "Manson Family," an alleged religious cult whose members he commanded to commit the August, 1969, Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles.
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DAVID KORESH
David Koresh (born Vernon Wayne Howell) (August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was the leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be the final prophet, until a 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and subsequent siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended with the burning of Branch Davidian ranch. Koresh, 53 adults, 25 children and 2 unborn infants died in the fire.
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DENNIS RADER
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer (or the BTK strangler), which stands for Bind, Torture and Kill, an apt description of his modus operandi.
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ED GEIN
Edward Gein (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), was an American serial killer. Though only two murders on his part were proved, he gained great infamy due to necrophiliac behavior (which involved the skinning of his murder victims and exhumed corpses, the decoration of his home with parts of corpses, and the creation of articles of clothing and furniture from the skin of corpses) and cannibalism.
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EDMUND KEMPER
Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948 in Burbank, California), also known as The Co-ed Killer, is a serial killer who was active in the early 1970s. Kemper killed and dismembered six female hitchhikers in the Santa Cruz, California, area.
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H.H. HOLMES
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1860 – May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of "Dr. H. H. Holmes," was an American serial killer. Holmes trapped and murdered possibly hundreds of guests at his Chicago hotel, which he opened for the 1893 World's Fair. He confessed to 27 murders, though only nine have been confirmed.
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IAN BRADY
Ian Brady (born Ian Duncan Stewart on January 2, 1938 in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland) is a notorious Scottish serial killer. Brady is known primarily for his role in a series of murders that took place in Greater Manchester between 1963 and 1965. These were dubbed the Moors murders, as several victims were buried along the Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer. He murdered at least 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991 (with the majority of the murders occurring between 1989 and 1991). His murders were particularly gruesome, involving acts of necrophilia, dismemberment, cannibalism and torture.
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JIM JONES
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple group, which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass suicide by poison in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in the country of Guyana. Jones was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head among the 913 corpses there.
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JOHN WAYNE GACY
John Wayne Gacy, (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men, 28 of whom he buried in the crawl space under his house, between 1972 and his arrest in December 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he attended, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup.
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LIZZIE BORDEN
Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster and a central figure in the case surrounding the brutal axe double-murder of her father and stepmother on a sweltering day, August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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MARY BELL
Mary Flora Bell (born on May 26, 1957 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne England) was convicted in December 1968 of the murders of two boys, Martin Brown (four years old) and Brian Howe (three years old). Bell was ten years old at the time of the murders.
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OTTIS TOOLE
Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) (sometimes spelled Otis) was an American criminal. Though he claimed to be a serial killer and cannibal, and was the suspect in several unsolved murders, he recanted and restated a number of confessions.
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
Richard Muñoz Ramirez (born February 28, 1960 in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media as he terrorized California with a series of car and home abductions, rapes, and murders during the first half of 1985.
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RICHARD SPECK
Richard Franklin Speck (December 6, 1941–December 5, 1991) was a mass murderer who systematically killed eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on July 14, 1966.
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TED BUNDY
Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was one of the most notorious murderers in U.S. history. A serial killer, rapist, and necrophiliac, Bundy murdered scores of young women across the United States between 1974 and 1978.
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THE ZODIAC KILLER
The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California for ten months in the late 1960's. He coined his name in a series of taunting letters he sent to the press until 1974. His letters included four cryptograms, three of which have yet to be solved.
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