List of serial killers in the United States

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, by one offender acting alone".^[2][3]

The United States has by far the largest number of documented serial killers in the world. According to Radford University's Serial Killer Information Center, it has more documented serial killers than the next ten highest countries on the list combined.^[4]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Identified serial killers

Name	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Status	Notes	Ref.
Ables, Tony	1970–1990	4	4+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered robbery victim; paroled and later killed at least three women in St. Petersburg, Florida	[5][6]
Acevedo, Francisco	1989–1996	3	3	Sentenced to 75 years to life	Strangled three prostitutes in New York between 1989 and 1996	[7]
Adams, Edward James	1920–1921	7	7	Killed by police during apprehension	Murdered seven people, including three policemen	[8]
Agrue, John	1966–1982	3	3+	Died in 2009	Killed his sister-in-law in Illinois; paroled and moved to Colorado, where he killed two more women	[9]
Albanese, Charles	1980–1981	3	3	Executed 1995	Poisoned family members with arsenic in Fox Lake, Illinois to receive their inheritance	[10]
Alcala, Rodney	1971–1979	8	50–130+	Died in prison awaiting execution	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	[11]
Alix, Franklin DeWayne	1997–1998	3	4+	Executed 2010	Murdered people in Houston, Texas, during robberies	[12]
Allen, Herman	1930–1942	4	4	Executed 1942	Killed a lodger in 1930; after release, he killed three more people in a fit of jealousy	[13]
Allen, Howard	1974–1987	3	3	Died in prison	Targeted elderly victims during burglaries in Indiana	[14][15]
Allen, Quincy	2002	4	4	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Murdered four people in North and South Carolina between July–August 2002	[16]
Allridge, Ronald	1976–1985	3	3	Executed 1995	Murdered people in Fort Worth, Texas, in robberies alongside his brother	[17]
Alston, Robert Sylvester	1991–1993	4	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and strangled prostitutes and drug addicts around Greensboro, North Carolina, dismembering their bodies post-mortem	[18]
Anderson, Joshua	2006–2007	4	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Fatally shot at least four people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, cannibalizing one, in a series of robbery and revenge-related murders.	[19]
Anderson, Stephen Wayne	1973–1980	9	9+	Executed 2002	Murdered people in Utah, Nevada, and California	[20][21][22]
Andrews, Patrick	1997–2007	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed three people between 1997 and 2007, including one while incarcerated at USP Hazelton	[23]
Angelo, Richard	1987	4	10	Sentenced to 61 years to life	Long Island nurse who poisoned patients in his care	[24]
Archerd, William Dale	1947–1966	3	6	Died in prison	First person convicted of using insulin as a murder weapon	[25]
Archer-Gilligan, Amy	1910–1917	10	50	Died in Connecticut Hospital for the Insane	Poisoned a husband and residents of her nursing home in Windsor, Connecticut	[26]
Arguelles, Roberto	1992	4	4+	Died in prison	Known as "The Salt Lake City Strangler"; violent sex offender who kidnapped and murdered women and girls	[27]
Armstrong, John Eric	1992–1999	5	18	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Navy sailor convicted for murdering prostitutes in Michigan and Illinois; confessed to more murders around the world	[28]
Atkins, Benjamin	1991–1992	11	11	Died in prison	Known as "The Woodward Corridor Killer"; serial rapist who preyed on women in Highland Park and Detroit, Michigan	[29]
Atkins, Joseph	1969–1985	3	3	Executed 1999	Murdered his half-brother; paroled, and later murdered his adoptive father and a neighboring couple's daughter during a drunken shooting spree	[30]
Avalos, Johnny	2012–2015	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and strangled women in San Antonio, Texas	[31]
Avila-Torrez, Jorge	2005–2009	3	3	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Murdered two underage girls in 2005 in Illinois and a 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer in Virginia in 2009	[32]
Balaam, Anthony	1994–1996	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Trenton Strangler"; raped and murdered four women in Trenton, New Jersey	[33]
Baldi, Joseph	1970–1972	4	4	Died in prison	Known as "The Queens Creeper"; mentally-ill burglar who stabbed women to death in the Jamaica, Queens neighborhood after breaking into their apartments	[34]
Barber, Danny	1978–1980	4	4	Executed 1999	Murdered three women and one man in Dallas County, Texas, having sex with the corpses of two of his victims	[35]
Barfield, Velma	1971–1978	6	6	Executed 1984	North Carolina serial poisoner who was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment and the first since 1962. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection.	[36]
Barnes, James Antonio	1988	3	7	Released in 2016	Mentally-ill factory worker who shot and killed prostitutes around Memphis	[37]
Barone, Cesar	1991–1993	4	4+	Died in prison awaiting execution	Killed four women around the Portland area and sexually assaulted a number of others	[38]
Barr, Charles	1923	3	3	Executed 1926	Known as "The Petting Party Bandit"; shot couples in lovers' lanes in Memphis during robberies	[39]
Barrett, Eugene	1959–1995	3	3	Died in prison	Killed three women he was romantically involved with in Honolulu, Hawaii	[40]
Bartlett, Polly	1868	22	22	Murdered in police custody	Wyoming's first serial killer before it was even a state. Innkeeper who poisoned her rich male patrons with arsenic to rob them with her father Jim. Was arrested by a would-be victim from a bounty on her head, then shot dead while in jail by an employee of her last victim's father.	[41]
Baumeister, Herb	1980–1996	11	20	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Responsible for murdering at least eleven victims who were found buried on his property in Westfield, Indiana	[42]
Baxter, Patrick	1987–1990	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered one girl and two women in Westchester County, New York	[43]
Beamon, Rocky	2005–2017	3	3	Committed suicide prior to execution	Robbed and murdered a woman in Florida, then murdered two sex offenders in prison	[44]
Beardslee, Donald	1969–1981	3	3	Executed 2005	Murdered a woman in Missouri; paroled, and later murdered two more women on separate occasions in California	[45]
Beck, Martha	1947–1949	3	20	Executed 1951	With accomplice Raymond Fernandez, became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers"	[46]
Bell, Cimarron	2003–2004	4	4	Sentenced to death	Shot his girlfriend, and then a trio of men in financially-motivated schemes	[47]
Bell, Larry Gene	1984–1985	3	4+	Executed in 1996	Abducted, raped and murdered women in the Carolinas, then made taunting phone calls to their families	[48]
Bender Family	1869–1872	11	+	Unknown	Family of serial killers who lived and operated in Labette County, Kansas
Berdella, Robert	1984–1987	6	6	Died in prison	Known as "The Kansas City Butcher" and "The Collector"; kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered young men in Missouri	[49]
Berkowitz, David	1976–1977	6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Son of Sam" and the ".44 Caliber Killer"; shot eight random strangers, killing six, in and around New York City	[50]
Betterton, Monroe	1904–1919	3	3	Executed 1920	Murdered his wives in Missouri and Oklahoma during violent arguments	[51]
Bianchi, Kenneth	1977–1978	12	12	Sentenced to life imprisonment	With accomplice Angelo Buono Jr., known as "The Hillside Stranglers". Murdered young women in Los Angeles and Washington	[52]
Bible, Danny	1979–1983	4	4	Executed in 2018	Known as "The Ice Pick Killer"; serial rapist who raped and murdered a neighbor, then committed a triple murder four years later	[53]
Biegenwald, Richard	1958–1983	6	11	Died in prison	Active in New Jersey, suspected in at least two other murders	[54]
Biehler, Robert	1966–1973	4	4	Died in prison	Career criminal who shot four people in Los Angeles to cover up other crimes	[55]
Bird, Jake	1930–1947	13	46	Executed 1949	Sentenced to death for the murders of two people; confessed to forty-four other murders	[56]
Bishop, Arthur Gary	1979–1983	5	5	Executed 1988	Preyed on young boys in Utah between 1979 and 1983	[57]
Bittaker, Lawrence	1979	5	5	Died in prison awaiting execution	With accomplice Roy Norris known as "The Tool Box Killers"; kidnapped, sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered teenage girls in Los Angeles County, California	[58]
Bixler, Rodney Troy	2000	3	4	Sentenced to 40 years in prison	Strangled three women to death in Kentucky in 2000	[59]
Bladel, Rudy	1963–1978	7	7	Died while incarcerated at Henry Ford Allegiance Health	Known as "The Railway Killer"; his case was part of Michigan v. Jackson, which was later overruled by the Supreme Court	[60]
Blair, Terry	1982–2004	7	9	Died in prison	Sentenced to 25 years in prison for one murder, released on parole after serving 21 years and committed additional murders upon release	[61]
Blake, Eugene	1967–1984	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered a girl during an unprovoked attack; later paroled and committed two additional murders across Ohio and West Virginia	[62]
Blank, Daniel	1996–1997	6	6	Sentenced to death	Murdered six people between 1996 and 1997 in River Parishes, Louisiana	[63][64]
Bloomfield, Clifton	2005–2008	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Movie extra who murdered five people in Albuquerque, New Mexico	[65]
Bolin, Oscar Ray	1986–1987	4	4+	Executed 2016	Murdered three women in Florida and a fourth woman in Texas	[66]
Bolsinger, John Charles	1980–1988	4	4	Committed suicide in custody	Convicted of manslaughter in Utah in 1980; posthumously linked to three rapes and murders in Eugene, Oregon	[67]
Bonin, William	1979–1980	21	36+	Executed 1996	Known as "The Freeway Killer"; preyed on young men and boys in Southern California with several accomplices	[68]
Bounds, Dallen	1999	4	4	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Murdered acquaintances around South Carolina	[69]
Bowles, Gary Ray	1994	6	6+	Executed 2019	Known as "The I-95 Killer"; targeted gay men in Florida, Georgia and Maryland	[70]
Boyd, Charles Anthony	1986–1987	3	3	Executed 1999	Known as "The Bathroom Slayer"; preyed on women living in the same apartment building in North Dallas he was living in with his brother at the time	[71]
Bradley, James Opelton	1988–2014	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered his stepdaughter; paroled, and later murdered two women	[72]
Brandt, Charlie	1971–2004	4	7+	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Shot his parents in 1971 when he was 13, killing his pregnant mother; stabbed his wife and niece to death in 2004	[73]
Brant, Joseph	2007–2008	4	4+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed at least four women in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina	[74]
Brashers, Robert Eugene	1990–1998	3	3+	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Known as "Mister Maroon"; serial rapist who murdered at least three women in South Carolina and Missouri	[75]
Breslin, Joseph	1968–1982	3	3	Killed by intended victims	Mental patient who killed a fellow patient in Pennsylvania; after release, killed a mother and daughter in his hometown in California	[76]
Bright, Larry	2003–2004	8	8+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Bonecrusher"; strangled black prostitutes at his house in Peoria, burning some of them afterwards	[77]
Britt, Eugene	1995	7	10	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered girls and women in Gary and Portage, Indiana	[78]
Briley Brothers	1979	12	21	Executed 1984/1985 (Linwood and James) Sentenced to life imprisonment (Anthony)	Three brothers and an accomplice responsible for eleven murders	[79]
Broadnax, Donald	1977–1996	3	3	Sentenced to death	Shot his friend to death; later murdered his wife and her grandson while out on work release	[80]
Brockelhurst, Lester	1937	3	3+	Executed 1938	Robbed and murdered men across three states	[81]
Brooks, Shelly	2001–2006	7	20+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered middle aged women around Detroit, Michigan	[82]
Brown, Curtis Don	1985–1986	3	18	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered three women around Arlington and Fort Worth, Texas between 1985 and 1986; suspected of up to eighteen murders.	[83]
Brown, Debra Denise	1984	8	8	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Accomplice of Alton Coleman	[84]
Brown, Kenyel	2019–2020	6	6	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Known as "The Metro Detroit Serial Killer"; lifelong criminal who killed six people in the course of robberies between December 2019 and February 2020 in Wayne County, Michigan	[85]
Brown, Raymond Eugene	1960–1987	5	5	Died in prison awaiting execution	Killed three relatives as a teenager; paroled, and later killed and mutilated his girlfriend and her young daughter	[86]
Brudos, Jerry	1968–1969	4	4	Died in prison	Known as "The Lust Killer" and "The Shoe Fetish Slayer"; necrophile and foot fetishist who assaulted, murdered and dismembered women in Oregon	[87]
Brummett, Lyle	1975–1976	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and strangled three women in Texas with an accomplice	[88]
Buenoano, Judy	1971–1983	3	3+	Executed 1998	Murdered her husband, son and a boyfriend. Apprehended in 1983 after poisoning and car bombing a fiancé	[89]
Bullock, David	1981–1982	6	6+	Sentenced to 150 years to life	Known as "The .38 Caliber Killer"; shot people at random around New York City to "amuse himself"	[90]
Bunday, Thomas	1979–1981	5	6	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	United States Air Force non-commissioned officer who targeted women and young girls in Fairbanks, Alaska, while serving at Eielson Air Force Base	[91]
Bundy, Ted	1971–1978	20	30+	Executed 1989	Preyed on young white women throughout the United States	[92]
Buono Jr., Angelo	1977–1978	10	10	Died in prison	With accomplice Kenneth Bianchi, known as "The Hillside Stranglers". Murdered young women in Los Angeles	[93]
Burchart, Leslie	1994–1996	3	7+	Died in prison	Schizophrenic vagrant who killed fellow homeless men; prime suspect in the Golden Years Murders	[94]
Burkett, Nathaniel	1978–2002	5	5+	Died in prison	Murdered women in Mississippi and Nevada during a 24-year period	[95]
Burkhart, Timothy	1986–2001	4	4+	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Murdered young girls and women in Pierce County, Washington	[96]
Busch, Henry	1960	3	3	Executed 1962	Strangled three women to death in California, saying that he felt an irresistible urge to kill	[97]
Bush, Jason Eugene	1997–2009	3	5	Sentenced to death	Neo-Nazi who killed at least three Hispanic people in racially motivated slayings	[98]
Butler, Eugene	1900–1906	6	6	Died in North Dakota State Hospital	Mentally ill farmer in Niagara, North Dakota who killed six men and buried their bodies under his home; his crimes were discovered two years after his death during a home renovation	[99]
Cable, James Ray	1977–1989	4	6+	Died in prison	Murdered an inmate while imprisoned for rape; released, then killed at least three women in Kentucky	[100]
Campbell, Charles Rodman	1975–1982	4	4+	Executed 1994	Violent sex offender who murdered young women and children in Seattle and Clearview	[101]
Canaday, John Dwight	1968–1969	3	3	Died in prison	Considered Washington state's first known serial killer; sexually assaulted and murdered women in Seattle	[102]
Cannon, Patty	1802–1829	4	25+	Died in prison awaiting trial	Gang leader who kidnapped slaves and free blacks to either sell or torture them	[103]
Cantu, Peter Anthony	1993	3	3	Executed 2010	Leader of the "Black and White" gang that kidnapped, raped, and murdered a woman and two teenage girls in a Texas	[104]
Caputo, Ricardo	1971–1977	4	6	Died in prison	Argentine-born man who killed three women in the U.S. and one in Mexico	[105]
Carignan, Harvey	1949–1974	3	5+	Died in prison	Known as "The Want-Ad Killer"; escaped hanging for a 1949 killing on a technicality	[106]
Caro, Fernando Eros	1979–1980	3	5+	Died in prison	Kidnapped, raped and shot children and teenagers around Fresno County, California	[107]
Carpenter, David	1979–1981	8	10+	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Trailside Killer"; serial rapist known for stalking and murdering women hiking on trails in state parks in California	[108]
Carr, Robert Frederick	1972–1976	4	4	Died in prison	Pedophile who targeted children in both Florida and Connecticut.	[109]
Carson, Michael Bear	1981–1983	3	3+	Sentenced to 75 years to life	With his wife, Suzan Carson, dubbed "The San Francisco Witch Killers"; considered suspects in nearly a dozen other deaths in the U.S. and Europe[110]	[15]
Carson, Suzan	1981–1983	3	3+	Sentenced to 75 years to life	With her husband, Michael Bear Carson, dubbed "The San Francisco Witch Killers"; considered suspects in nearly a dozen other deaths in the U.S. and Europe[110]	[111]
Castro, Edward	1986–1987	3	3	Executed 2000	Robbed and murdered gay men across three Florida counties	[112]
Catlin, Steven David	1976–1984	3	4	Sentenced to death	Poisoned his mother and two wives with Paraquat	[113]
Catoe, Jarvis	1935–1941	8	11	Executed 1943	Sometimes referred to as the "D.C. Strangler"; active in Washington, D.C.	[114]
Chadd, Billy Lee	1974–1978	3	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered two women in California. He also murdered a man in Nevada.	[115]
Chandler, Oba	1989–1990	4	4+	Executed 2011	Also known as "Dave Posner" and "Dave Posno"	[116]
Chase, Richard	1977–1978	6	6	Committed suicide prior to execution	Known as "The Vampire of Sacramento"; necrophile and cannibal who murdered six people in the span of a month, between December 1977 and January 1978 in Sacramento, California	[117]
Chaves, Louis	1968–1987	3	3	Released in 2022	Murdered a couple in 1968 and later killed a police officer in 1987	[118]
Chavez, Juan	1986–1990	6	6+	Committed suicide in prison	Robbed and killed gay men in three cities in Los Angeles County	[119]
Chavez, Juan Rodriguez	1985–1995	12	12	Executed 2003	Known as "The Thrill Killer"; killed a neighbor during a burglary; paroled and went on a killing spree with a teenage accomplice	[120]
Cherry, Ervin	1993–1994	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Habitual criminal who strangled three women to death in North Florida	[121]
Chester, Elroy	1997–1998	5	5	Executed 2013	Killed five people in Texas, including his brother-in-law	[122]
Childs, Terry	1979–1985	5	12	Died in prison	Kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed women across Nevada and California	[123]
Christensen, William Dean	1982–1983	4	24+	Died in prison	Known as "The American Jack the Ripper"; murdered and mutilated people between Canada and the United States	[124]
Christiansen, Thor Nis	1976–1979	4	4	Murdered in prison by unknown assailant	Preyed on college-aged women in California	[125][126]
Christopher, Joseph	1980–1981	12	12	Died in prison	Known as "The Midtown Slasher" and the ".22-Caliber Killer"; targeted mainly African-American men and boys in New York, shooting some victims and stabbing and dismembering others	[127]
Clark, Doug	1980	7	7	Died in prison awaiting execution	With accomplice Carol Bundy, known as "The Sunset Strip Killers"; preyed on young women in West Hollywood and Los Angeles, California	[128]
Clark, Vernon Lee	1980–1989	4	6+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Sexually assaulted and killed at least four women in Maryland	[129]
Clement, Mary	1880–1885	4	4	Died in 1944	Luxembourgish immigrant who poisoned her family members with arsenic; released in 1886	[130]
Code, Nathaniel	1984–1987	8	12	Sentenced to death	Committed at least eight murders in Shreveport, Louisiana	[131]
Coffman, Cynthia	1986	4	4	Sentenced to death	Kidnapped four women by ATMs before accomplice James Gregory Marlow strangled them	[132]
Cole, Carroll	1947–1980	5	35	Executed 1985	Drowned an 8-year old classmate while still a child and strangled multiple women in California, Nevada and Texas as an adult	[133][134][135][136]
Coleman, Alton	1984	8	8	Executed 2002	Multi-state killer who, with his accomplice, murdered a man and injured another, murdered four women and three young girls, and raped a young girl	[84]
Collins, Harvey	1953–1955	3	3	Executed 1957	Marine who stabbed a woman to death in Kentucky; later killed two people in Washington during robberies	[137]
Colvin, Dellmus	1987–2005	7	7+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Truck driver who killed prostitutes in New Jersey and Ohio	[138]
Conde, Rory Enrique	1994–1995	6	6	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Tamiami Trail Strangler"; Colombian-born man who killed six prostitutes in Florida over a span of five months	[139]
Cook, Anthony	1973–1981	9	9+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Committed crimes with his brother Nathaniel Cook	[140]
Cook, Nathaniel	1973–1981	9	9+	Released in 2018	Committed crimes with his brother Anthony Cook	[140]
Cooks, Jessie Lee	1973–1974	15	73+	Died in prison	Part of "The Death Angels" cult responsible for the Zebra murders	[141]
Cooper, Samuel	2006–2007	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Shot and killed men in North Carolina	[142]
Copeland, Faye	1986–1989	5	12	Died in 2003 after release on parole in 2002	With her husband, Ray Copeland, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States	[143][144][145][146][147]
Copeland, Ray	1986–1989	5	12	Died in prison awaiting execution	With his wife, Faye Copeland, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States	[143][144][145][146][147]
Corll, Dean	1970–1973	29	29+	Murdered by accomplice Elmer Wayne Henley	Known as "The Candy Man" and "The Pied Piper". Crimes referred to as "The Houston Mass Murders"; raped and murdered boys and young men in Texas with the aid of teenaged accomplices David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley	[148][149]
Corona, Juan	1971	25	25	Died in prison	Mexican farm contractor who murdered male migrant workers in Sutter County, California, and buried their bodies in peach orchards	[150][151]
Corwin, Daniel Lee	1987	3	3	Executed 1998	Abducted and killed three women around Texas	[152]
Costa, Tony	1968–1969	4	8	Committed suicide in prison	Preyed on women in and around Truro, Massachusetts	[153]
Cottingham, Richard	1967–1980	18	85–100	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Torso Killer"; raped, strangled and dismembered numerous women across New York and New Jersey	[154]
Covington, Juan	1998–2005	3	3+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Shot people at random in Philadelphia due to paranoid hallucinations	[155]
Cowan, Mary	1884–1894	6	6	Died in prison	Known as "The Borgia of Maine". Poisoned two husbands and four children	[156]
Cox, Frederick Pete	1997	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered prostitutes in Orlando, Florida	[157]
Cox, Michael	1984	3	3	Sentenced to death	Kidnapped and fatally stabbed three teenage girls in California, burying their bodies in the Eldorado National Forest	[158]
Craine, Louis	1984–1987	4	5+	Died in prison	Responsible for at least two of "The Southside Slayer" murders in South Los Angeles	[159]
Crawford, Andre	1993–1999	11	11	Died in prison	Chicago transient who preyed on prostitutes and the destitute	[160]
Creech, Thomas Eugene	1974–1981	5	42	Sentenced to death	Transient who killed people in various states, some allegedly as part of a biker gang or for human sacrifices	[161]
Crump, Thomas Wayne	1980–1982	4	7	Died in prison	Murdered three people during a five month crime spree in 1980 and a cab driver in 1982; confessed to murders dating back to 1956	[162]
Cullen, Charles	1988–2003	10	40+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who murdered patients	[163]
Cunanan, Andrew	1997	5	5	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was among his victims	[164]
Cunningham, Mark William	1983	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Shot and killed three men in Southern California for no apparent reason	[165]
Curry, James Richard	1982–1983	4	5	Committed suicide in custody	One victim was Mary Silvani, whose identity was not discovered for 37 years	[166]
Cutlip, Jeffrey Paul	1975–1993	3	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered two women and a teenage girl in Oregon	[167]
Dahmer, Jeffrey	1978–1991	17	17	Murdered in prison by inmate Christopher Scarver	Milwaukee cannibal who retained various body parts of his victims	[168]
Daniels, James Edward	1963–1984	4	4	Died in a car crash prior to apprehension	Killed acquaintances in minor disputes	[169]
Danielson, Robert Wayne	1970–1982	7	7+	Committed suicide prior to execution	Murdered people at campsites across three states	[170][171]
Danks, Joseph Martin	1986–1990	7	7	Sentenced to death	Murdered his cellmate while serving a life sentence for murdering six homeless men during a stabbing spree	[172]
Davis, Bruce Alan	1971–1982	3	33	Committed suicide in prison	Murdered two men during robberies, and later a prison guard; confessed to numerous sexually-motivated murders of men across the country	[173]
Davis, Charles William	1975–1977	4	4+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Ambulance dispatcher who abducted, raped and killed women in Baltimore	[174]
Davis, Frank	1971–1983	3	3	Died in prison	Raped and murdered three teenage boys in Indiana	[175]
Davis, Girvies	1978–1979	4	9+	Executed 1995	Accomplice of Richard Holman; killed robbery witnesses, saying it was "easier" than wearing a mask	[176]
Davis, William George	2017–2018	4	7	Sentenced to death	Nurse who killed patients at the hospital where he worked	[177]
DeAngelo, Joseph James	1979–1986	13	13+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Golden State Killer", "The Visalia Ransacker", "The East Area Rapist", and "The Original Night Stalker"; murdered three people in Sacramento and ten people in Southern California from 1975 through 1986; also linked to more than fifty rapes in the Sacramento area from 1976 to 1979	[178][179][180][181][182]
DeJesus, Carmello	1971–1973	3	4	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Itinerant gambler who killed female acquaintances during arguments	[183]
Dennis, Jerome	1991–1992	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Responsible for killing five women in Newark and East Orange, New Jersey, while on parole	[184][185]
Devonshire, William	2003–2022	3	3	Died before trial	Murdered a neighbor in Delaware; paroled, then murdered two homeless women along the Tamiami Trail in Florida	[186]
Dewantoro, Harnoko	1991–1992	3	3	Sentenced to death; released in 2019	Indonesian national who killed two business associates and his brother in Los Angeles, stashing their bodies in storage facilities	[187]
Dieteman, Samuel	2005–2006	8	8	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Targeted random strangers during drive-by shootings and arsons in Phoenix, Arizona. Accomplice Dale Hausner committed suicide in prison	[188]
Dillon, Thomas	1989–1992	5	5+	Died in prison	Shot men at random in southeastern Ohio	[189]
Dodd, Westley Allan	1989	3	3	Executed 1993	Convicted sex offender who sexually assaulted and murdered three young boys in Vancouver, Washington, in 1989	[190]
Dominique, Ronald	1997–2006	23	23+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered male victims in Louisiana	[191]
Donaldson, Howell	2017	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Shot and killed four people, seemingly at random, in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa, Florida	[192][193][194]
Dorsey, Leon	1994	3	3	Executed 2008	Murdered store employees around Texas	[195]
Doss, Nannie	1927–1954	11	11	Died in prison	Known as "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow"; poisoned four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson, and a mother-in-law	[196]
Dotson, Jessie	1994–2008	7	7	Sentenced to death	Killed a man during a botched drug deal; after release, he killed six people, including his brother, brother's girlfriend, and two nephews	[197]
Dowler, David	1983–1987	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Poisoned three acquaintances in Odessa, Texas	[198]
Duffy, Charles Lee	1997	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Robbed, raped, and murdered women across two Georgia counties	[199]
Dugan, Brian	1983–1985	3	3+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Serial rapist active in and around Chicago, Illinois	[200]
Duncan, Joseph Edward	1996–2005	5	7	Died in prison awaiting execution	Raped at least seventeen young boys and three young girls	[201][202]
Duncan, Vender	1955–1957	3	3	Executed 1959	Burglar who raped and violently beat elderly women in San Francisco, fatally injuring three	[203]
Dunkle, Jon	1981–1985	3	3	Sentenced to death	Murdered three young boys in California, including his friend's younger brother	[204]
Durousseau, Paul	1997–2003	7	7+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Murdered seven women in the Southeastern United States, included two who were pregnant; German authorities suspect Durousseau may have killed several local women when he was stationed there with the Army during the early 1990s	[205][206]
Edwards, Andrew David	1987–1992	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered transients in alcohol-induced rages	[207]
Edwards, Edward	1977–1996	5	15+	Died in prison awaiting execution	Sentenced to death for shooting his foster son in 1996 insurance murder	[208][209]
Edwards, Mack Ray	1953–1970	6	6+	Committed suicide prior to execution	Pedophile who preyed on children in Los Angeles County, California	[210][211]
Edwards, Thomas Francis	1970–1981	3	3	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Bethesda Butcher"; shot and killed a young girl in California; posthumously linked to two murders in Maryland	[212]
Eichinger, John	1999–2005	4	4	Sentenced to death	Stabbed three women and a child to death in Pennsylvania; two of the women had rejected his romantic advances	[213]
Eisele, Joseph	1867	3	3	Executed 1868	Known as "The Parkersburg Murderer"; German emigrant who killed fellow emigrants in violent robberies	[214]
Ellis, Walter E.	1986–2007	8	10+	Died in prison	Known as "The Milwaukee North Side Strangler"	[215]
Engleman, Glennon	1958–1980	5	7+	Died in prison	Dentist who worked as a contract killer and plotted with women to kill their husbands so they could share the insurance money	[216]
Erskine, Scott	1989–1993	3	3+	Died in prison awaiting execution	Raped and murdered two young boys in California and a woman in Florida	[217][218]
Ervin, Joe Michael	1969–1981	6	6	Committed suicide in custody	Shot and killed a police officer in Denver, Colorado while avoiding a murder warrant in Texas; posthumously linked to four additional murders in the Denver metropolitan area	[219]
Escobar, Ramon	2018–2023	7	8	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Beat his uncle, aunt, and several homeless people to death between Texas and California	[220]
Espinosa, Felipe	1863	32	32	Killed by Tom Tobin	Murdered various people across the Colorado Territory
Evans, Donald Leroy	1985–1991	3	70	Murdered in prison by a fellow death row inmate	Suspected of another dozen murders but recanted his confessions to over seventy more	[221]
Evans, Gary	1985–1997	5	5	Committed suicide after escaping police custody	Leader of a ring of jewelry and antique thieves who operated in and around Capital District, New York	[222]
Evonitz, Richard	1996–1997	3	3+	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Kidnapped, raped and murdered three girls in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and abducted and assaulted a 15-year-old girl in Richland County, South Carolina	[223]
Ewell, John	2010	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Advocate against the "3 strikes law" who robbed and murdered middle-aged and elderly people in Los Angeles	[224]
Eyler, Larry	1982–1984	21	24	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Interstate Killer" and the "Highway Killer"; preyed on boys and young men in the Midwest	[225]
Falling, Christine	1980–1982	6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Epileptic who strangled infants in Florida because of voices in her head	[226]
Fautenberry, John	1990–1991	5	6	Executed 2009	Befriended, murdered and robbed people across four states	[227]
Fayne, Lorenzo	1989–1993	6	6	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered a woman and five children in Wisconsin and Illinois	[228]
Feltner, Jeffrey	1988–1989	7	7	Died in prison	Nurse's aide who smothered patients to "end their suffering"	[229]
Ferguson, John Errol	1974–1978	8	12	Executed 2013	Murdered multiple people in the Miami-Dade County, Florida area	[230]
Fernandes, Roberto Wagner	2000–2001	3	4+	Died in a plane crash	Brazilian flight attendant who killed prostitutes in Miami, Florida; suspected in other deaths	[231]
Fernandez, Raymond	1947–1949	3	20	Executed 1951	With accomplice Martha Beck, became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers"	[46]
Figueroa, Danny	1986	3	3	Died in prison	Known as "The Backwoods Sniper"; Self-styled survivalist who shot three people to death across Southern California	[232]
Fish, Albert	1924–1932	3	8+	Executed 1936	Known as "The Werewolf of Wysteria"; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children.	[233]
Fisher, Constance	1954–1966	6	6	Accidentally drowned after escaping from a mental hospital	Paranoid schizophrenic who drowned her six children on two different occasions in Maine	[234]
Fitzsimmons, George	1969–1973	4	4	Died in prison	Known as "The Karate Chop Killer"; mental patient who killed his parents in New York, then was released and killed his aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania	[235]
Flowers, Norman	2004–2005	3	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped, beat, and strangled women in their Las Vegas apartments	[236]
Floyd, Cecil Henry	1973–1974	6	11	Died in prison	Murdered people during robberies, sometimes with the help of his wife or other accomplices	[237]
Ford, Lester	1991	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered three women and raped two others during a six-month crime spree in Queens, New York	[238]
Ford, Wayne Adam	1997–1998	4	4+	Sentenced to death	Killed and mutilated four women in California	[239][240]
Forte, Linwood	1990	3	4	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Nightstalker"; home invader who suffocated elderly residents at their homes in Goldsboro	[241]
Fountain, Clayton Anthony	1974–1983	5	5	Died in prison	Killed his superior officer in the Philippines, then killed inmates and guards in federal prisons	[242]
Francois, Kendall	1996–1998	8	10+	Died in prison	Known as "The Poughkeepsie Killer"; convicted of the murders of eight women in New York	[243]
Franklin, Joseph Paul	1977–1980	11	22	Executed 2013	Also attempted to assassinate Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan	[244]
Franklin Jr., Lonnie David	1985–2007	10	25+	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Grim Sleeper"; charged after DNA evidence linked him with ten murders in Los Angeles since 1985	[245]
Frederick, James Anthony	1991–1992	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed people during robberies in Lantana, Florida	[246]
Gacy, John Wayne	1972–1978	33	33+	Executed 1994	Known as "The Killer Clown"; preyed on young men and boys in and around Chicago	[247][248]
Gallego, Gerald	1978–1980	10	10	Died in prison awaiting execution	Accomplice Charlene Gallego released in 1997	[249]
Garcia, Anthony	2008–2013	4	4	Sentenced to death	Former doctor who killed four people in Omaha, Nebraska, as revenge for being fired	[250]
Gardner, Earl	1925–1935	3	3	Executed 1936	Killed a man during a fight; after release, he killed his wife and infant son	[251]
Gardner, Ray Dempsey	1941–1949	3	3	Executed 1951	Killed people in North Dakota, Utah, and Montana	[252]
Garduno, Santiago	1900s–1932	3	4	Executed 1933	Killed at least three people in Colorado and New Mexico	[253]
Gargiulo, Michael	1993–2008	3	10	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Hollywood Ripper"; stabbed three women to death	[254][255]
Garrison, Wayne Henry	1972–1989	3	3	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Murdered three children, two of which as a child himself, in Tulsa, Oklahoma	[256]
Gary, Carlton	1970–1978	4	8+	Executed 2018	Known as "The Stocking Strangler"; raped and murdered elderly women in Columbus, Georgia; also linked to a murder in New York	[257]
Gaskins, Donald Henry	1953–1982	9	100+	Executed 1991	Convicted of nine murders; claimed to an author to have killed more than 100	[258]
Gay, Randy	1978–2011	3	3	Sentenced to death	Murdered three people, including his father-in-law and his biological father, during arguments	[259]
Gayles, Clifford	1934–1947	3	3	Executed 1948	Killed his girlfriend; paroled and went on a crime spree, resulting in the deaths of two others	[260]
Gaynor, Alfred	1995–1998	9	9	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and strangled drug-addicted women in Springfield, Massachusetts	[261]
Gecht, Robin	1981–1982	18	18	Sentenced to 120 years in prison	Leader of the satanic cult and organized crime group known as "The Ripper Crew" or "The Chicago Rippers"	[262][263]
Geralds, Hubert	1994–1995	5	5	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Known as "The Englewood Strangler"; Illinois man who sexually assaulted and strangled sex workers	[264]
Getreu, John	1963–1974	3	4+	Died in prison	Raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl on a U.S. Army base in West Germany in 1963 and was released after six years, then returned to the United States and murdered two young women in the early 1970s near Stanford University	[265]
Gibbs, Janie Lou	1966–1967	5	5	Died in 2010 after release in 1999	Killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by arsenic poisoning	[266]
Gibson, Keith	2008–2021	3	7	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed strangers and his mother during robberies in Delaware and Pennsylvania after being paroled from prison	[267]
Gibson, Mose	1908–1920	3	7+	Executed 1920	Committed murders during burglaries or during the course of robberies across several states. Guilt has been questioned	[268]
Gibson, William Clyde	2002–2012	3	33	Sentenced to death	Sexually assaulted and murdered women across Indiana	[269]
Gifford, Bertha	1900–1928	3	17	Died in Missouri State Hospital #4	Missouri serial poisoner; found not guilty by reason of insanity	[270]
Gilbert, Kristen	1989–1996	4	4+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Induced cardiac arrest in patients and would then respond to the coded emergency, often resuscitating the patients herself	[271]
Giles, Bernard	1973	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Abducted, raped and murdered female hitchhikers in orange groves near Titusville, Florida	[272]
Gillis, Sean Vincent	1994–2004	8	8	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Stalked, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and mutilated Louisiana women	[273][274]
Gilyard, Lorenzo	1977–1993	6	13+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Kansas City Strangler"; targeted mostly sex workers in and around Kansas City, Missouri	[275]
Glatman, Harvey	1957–1958	3	4	Executed 1959	Known as "The Glamour Girl Slayer" and "The Lonely Hearts Killer"; posed as a professional photographer in California to lure his victims with the promise of a modeling career before binding them and sexually assaulting them and photographing then murdering them
Glaze, Billy	1986–1987	3	20+	Died in prison	Guilt has come into question by the discovery of DNA evidence excluding Glaze and implicating another man	[276][277]
Gleason, Robert Charles	2007–2010	3	3+	Executed 2013	Killed two fellow inmates while serving a life sentence for another murder, and vowed to keep killing if he was not put to death	[278]
Goble, Sean Patrick	1994–1995	4	4+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Interstate Killer"; truck driver who kidnapped and murdered prostitutes along various highways	[279]
Gollehon, William	1985–1991	7	7	Sentenced to death	Convicted of killing a woman, then killed six inmates in prison
Gomez, Lloyd	1950–1951	9	9	Executed 1953	Known as "The Phantom Hobo Killer"; murdered nine homeless men across California	[280]
Gordon, Steven Dean	2013–2014	4	5	Sentenced to death	Sex offender who raped and strangled prostitutes in Santa Ana and Anaheim, California, aided by accomplice Franc Cano	[281]
Gore, David Alan	1981–1983	6	6	Executed 2012	One of the pair known as "The Killing Cousins"; murdered women in Vero Beach and Indian River County, Florida, with the aid of his cousin Fred Waterfield	[282]
Gosnell, Kermit Barron	1989–2010	4	200+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	A former abortion doctor who ran a Philadelphia abortion clinic, where authorities found remains of 47 late-term aborted and born-alive children. Gosnell was convicted in the death of three born-alive children and an abortion recipient, though staff testimony indicated hundreds of cases of children born alive during abortion procedures and then killed by Gosnell.	[283][284][285]
Goudeau, Mark	2005–2006	9	9	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Baseline Killer"; a serial kidnapper, rapist, thief, and serial killer that terrorized the Phoenix metro area	[286]
Graham, Gwendolyn	1987	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Accomplice of Cathy Wood; nurse's aide that preyed on elderly women in a Walker, Michigan nursing home	[287][288]
Graham, Harrison	1986–1987	7	7	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered seven women in Philadelphia and kept their remains in his apartment	[289]
Grant, Gary	1969–1971	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed three children and a young woman in Renton, Washington	[290]
Grant, Waldo	1973–1976	4	4+	Died in prison	Murdered four gay men in New York City	[291]
Granviel, Kenneth	1974–1975	7	9	Executed 1996	Raped and stabbed women and children in Fort Worth, Texas, in sexually motivated attacks	[292]
Grate, Shawn	2006–2016	5	5	Sentenced to death	Murdered women in rural Ohio	[293][294][295][296]
Gray, Dana Sue	1994	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Preyed on elderly women, murdering three; caught after a fourth intended victim survived and identified her	[297]
Gray, Marvin	1971–1992	3	41	Died in prison	Most dangerous prisoner in Colorado until his death; confessed to the murders of forty-one people across eight different states	[298]
Gray, Ricky Javon	2005–2006	8	8	Executed 2017	Killed his wife in Pennsylvania, then went on a killing spree in Virginia with his cousin, Ray Dandridge	[299]
Gray, Ronald	1986–1987	4	4	Sentenced to death	Soldier who raped and murdered women near Fort Bragg	[300]
Green, Larry	1973–1974	15	73+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Part of "The Death Angels" cult responsible for the Zebra murders	[141]
Green, Ricky Lee	1985–1986	4	12	Executed 1997	Bisexual drifter; his wife helped in two of the murders	[301]
Green, Samuel	1817–1821	3	3+	Executed 1822	Known as "The Terror of New England"; robbed and murdered various people across New England and Canada with accomplice William Ash	[302]
Greenawalt, Randy	1974–1978	7	9	Executed 1997	Killed at least one man in January 1974; later escaped from prison with another inmate, killing a family of four and a couple in Arizona and Colorado	[303]
Greenwell, Harry Edward	1987–1989	3	3	Died before apprehension	Known as the "I-65 Killer"; posthumously linked to murders of motel clerks along Interstate 65	[304]
Greenwood, Vaughn	1964–1975	11	11	Died in prison	Known as "The Skid Row Slasher"; preyed mainly on transients and the homeless in Southern California	[305][unreliable source?]
Gretzler, Douglas	1973	11	17	Executed 1998	With accomplice Willie Steelman, killed witnesses to their robberies spree across California and Arizona	[306]
Griffin, Jeffery Lee	1978–1979	3	3	Executed 1992	Stabbed to death three people during robberies in Houston	[307]
Grinder, James B.	1976–1984	4	4	Died in prison	Murdered three girls in Arkansas; later murdered a woman in Missouri	[308]
Grissom, Richard	1977–1989	4	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed three women in Johnson County, Kansas, after having been released from prison for a previous murder; the bodies of his latter victims have yet to be found	[309]
Groves, Vincent	1978–1988	7	20+	Died in prison	Raped and strangled prostitutes in Denver and the surrounding areas	[310]
Guerrero, Jose	1995–1998	3	3	Sentenced to death	Raped, shot, and strangled women in Madera, California	[311]
Gunness, Belle	1900–1908	14	14+	Unknown	Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who killed her suitors and children	[312]
Hahn, Anna Marie	1933–1937	5	5	Executed 1938	German-born murder-for-profit killer who poisoned five elderly men
Halbower, Rodney	1976	3	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Suspect in the Gypsy Hill killings	[313]
Hall, Andreas	1847–1848	3	3	Executed 1849	Prolific thief who killed three people during robberies in New York	[314]
Halliday, Lizzie	1891–1906	4	8+	Died in Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane	Irish immigrant who killed three people in Upstate New York. While incarcerated at Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, she killed a hospital attendant. First woman sentenced to be executed by the electric chair; commuted to a life sentence in a mental institution after a medical commission declared her insane.	[315]
Hammond, Andrew	2020–2022	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Shot three people to death in Fresno, California between 2020 and 2022	[316]
Hampton, T. J.	1887–1893	5	5	Executed 1901	Drifter who murdered five people across three states	[317]
Hance, William Henry	1977–1978	4	4	Executed 1994	Known as "The Forces of Evil"; United States Army soldier who murdered four women on and around military bases
Hankins, Terry	2000–2001	5	5	Executed 2009	Mansfield, Texas man who murdered members of his own family	[318]
Hansen, Robert	1971–1983	17	37	Died in prison	Known as "The Butcher Baker"; abducted, raped, and murdered women in and around Anchorage, Alaska. Hansen released many of his victims into the Alaskan wilderness after abducting them and hunted them with a semi-automatic rifle and a knife.	[319]
Harpe Brothers	1797–1804	39	50+	Lynched 1799 (Micajah) Executed 1804 (Wiley)	Brothers or cousins; America's first known serial killers	[320]
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'	[321]
Harris, Michael Darnell	1981–1982	4	10	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped, beat and strangled elderly women across Michigan; claims to be innocent	[322]
Harris, Robert Alton	1975–1978	3	3	Executed 1992	Killed his brother's roommate; after release, robbed and killed two brothers
Harris, Robert Wayne	1999–2000	6	6	Executed 2012	Killed a woman whom he suspected of stealing money from him, then killed five of his former coworkers three days after he was fired	[323]
Harris, Warren	1977	3	4	Released on parole in 2024	Known as "The French Quarter Stabber"; attacked and stabbed people in homophobic attacks in New Orleans	[324]
Harrison, Kenneth	1967–1969	4	4	Committed suicide in prison	Known as "The Giggler"; murdered people around Boston due to homicidal urges, and later called the police to inform of his crimes	[325]
Harrison, Lester	1951–1973	5	7	Unknown	Murdered prison inmate; after release, raped and murdered women in Chicago's Grant Park	[326]
Harvey, Donald	1970–1987	37	80	Murdered in prison by inmate James Elliott	Known as "The Angel of Death"; hospital orderly who murdered patients in Ohio and Kentucky	[327]
Hassell, George	1917–1926	13	13	Executed 1928	Annihilated his family on two separate occasions	[328]
Hatcher, Charles Ray	1969–1982	5	16	Committed suicide in prison	Convicted of two child murders in 1978 and 1982, also stabbed to death a fellow inmate and another man 20 years apart	[329]
Hausner, Dale	2006	8	8	Committed suicide prior to execution	Accomplice of Samuel Dieteman. Convicted of killing people in random drive-by shootings in Phoenix, Arizona	[330]
Hayes, Robert	2005–2006	3	7+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Daytona Beach Killer"; assaulted and shot three women in Florida. DNA tests have linked him to a fourth murder committed in 2016	[331]
Hayter, John Price	1953–1986	3	3	Died in prison	Drifter who killed a fellow prisoner and two women in Texas and Florida	[332]
Hazzard, Linda	1908–1911	15	15+	Died in 1938	Known as the "Starvation Doctor"; quack doctor and swindler who promoted fasting, pummeling and hours-long enemas as treatments. In 1911, she was found guilty of manslaughter in the state of Washington and was sentenced to two to twenty years of hard labor for killing at least fifteen people for financial gain at a sanitarium she operated near Seattle. Released on parole after only serving two years and later, for unknown reasons, received a full pardon from Governor Ernest Lister in 1916. Hazzard died after subjecting herself to her treatment methods.	[333]
Hearn, John Wayne	1985	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered three men for insurance money	[334]
Heirens, William	1945–1946	3	3	Died in prison	Known as "The Lipstick Killer"; Illinois teenager convicted of the murder of three Chicago women in the 1940s	[335]
Helm, Boone	1850–1864	11	11+	Executed 1864	Known as "The Kentucky Cannibal"; mountain man and Old West gunfighter who murdered and partially consumed his victims throughout the American West	[336][337]
Henley, Elmer Wayne	1970–1973	7	7	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Crimes referred to as "The Houston Mass Murders"; accomplice of Dean Corll, whom he later killed in self-defense	[148][338]
Henry, John Ruthell	1975–1985	3	3	Executed 2014	Murdered his first wife in Dade City in 1975; paroled, and later murdered his second wife and stepson	[339]
Hernandez, Alexander	2014	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Shot five people to death during a series of random drive-by shootings in California.	[340]
Hernandez, Ramon Torres	1994–2001	3	5+	Executed 2012	Kidnapped and murdered women in Bexar County, Texas	[341]
Herzog, Loren	1984–1999	3	19	Committed suicide prior to release	With accomplice Wesley Shermantine, known as "The Speed Freak Killers"	[342]
Hickey, J. Frank	1883–1911	3	3	Died in prison	Known as "The Postcard Killer"; poisoned a coworker with laudanum in Massachusetts and strangled two young boys to death in New York	[343]
Hickson, Monroe	1946	4	4	Died while a fugitive	Known as "Bluecorns"; murdered shopkeepers around Aiken County, South Carolina	[344]
Hill, Clarence	1938–1940	6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment; released in 1964	Attacked couples at lovers' lanes in Duck Island, New Jersey, and the surrounding area between 1938 and 1942	[345]
Hill, Ivan	1979–1994	9	9+	Sentenced to death	Known as "The 60 Freeway Killer"; responsible for at least one of the Southside Slayer murders	[346]
Hill, Walter	1952–1977	5	5	Executed 1997	Killed three people after serving time for two separate murders	[347]
Hilton, Gary	2007–2008	4	4+	Sentenced to death	Known as "The National Forest Serial Killer"; abducted and killed hikers in national forests across three states	[348]
Hinton, Ronald	1996–1999	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	With two accomplices, strangled three women to death in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago	[349]
Hittle, Daniel	1973–1989	7	7	Executed 2000	Killed his adoptive parents in Minnesota; paroled, and later killed five others in Texas during a shooting spree	[350]
Hodges, Henry Eugene	1988–1990	3	5	Sentenced to death in Tennessee in 1990	Convicted of three murders of homosexual men in Georgia and Tennessee. Confessed to at least eight murders of homosexual men in total.	[351][352]
Holman, Richard	1978–1979	4	9+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Accomplice of Girvies Davis; killed robbery witnesses	[176]
Holmes, H. H.	1891–1894	9	27+	Executed 1896	Convicted of only one murder, but definitively tied to at least eight more; confessed to a total of 27	[353][354]
Hooker, John Michael	1971–1988	3	3	Executed 2003	Killed a guest at a house party; later stabbed to death his common-law wife and her mother	[355]
Honken, Dustin Lee	1993	5	5	Executed 2020	Drug dealer who killed witnesses against him and their children with the help of his girlfriend, Angela Johnson	[356]
Hopewell, Raymont	1999–2005	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Attacked elderly residents of Baltimore, Maryland	[357]
Hopkins, John W.	1972–1978	3	3+	Committed suicide in prison	Known as "The Mohawk Ripper"; abducted, raped and stabbed college students in the Mohawk Valley region	[358]
Howell, William Devin	2003	7	7	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Convicted of killing seven people in 2003; believed to be the most prolific serial killer in Connecticut history	[359][360]
Hoyt, Waneta	1965–1971	5	5	Died in prison	New York woman who murdered her five children; exonerated under New York law because she died before her appeal	[361]
Hughes, Mervin Ray	1986–1999	3	4+	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Serial Shooter"; killed two people and injured ten others during a shooting spree in Oakland, after having been released from prison for a previous shooting death	[362]
Hughes, Michael	1986–1993	7	7+	Sentenced to death	Responsible for at least one of the Southside Slayer murders	[363]
Hughes, Philip Joseph	1972–1975	3	3+	Sentenced to life inprisonment	Killed three women with his ex-wife in Contra Costa County, California	[364]
Hunter, Bert Leroy	1968–1988	3	3	Executed 2000	Murdered a tavern owner; later paroled and murdered an elderly woman and her son with an accomplice	[365]
Hunter, Felando	2012	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered two men and two teenage boys during robberies in Detroit	[366]
Hunter, Richard Louis	1986	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and strangled elderly women in Atlanta	[367]
Huntsman, Megan	1996–2006	6	6	Sentenced to 30 years to life	Pleasant Grove, Utah woman who strangled six of her newborn children	[368][369][370]
Hyatt, Terry	1979–1987	3	3+	Sentenced to death	Kidnapped, raped and murdered women across North Carolina	[371]
Ingle, Phillip Lee	1991	4	4	Executed 1995	Murdered two elderly couples in North Carolina for no apparent reason	[372]
Irvin, Leslie	1954–1955	6	6+	Died in prison	His Supreme Court case set a precedent for fair trials of highly publicized defendants	[373]
Irvin, Marvin	1979–1990	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Former police officer who murdered women in St. Joseph, Missouri	[374]
Jablonski, Phillip Carl	1978–1991	5	5	Died in prison awaiting execution	Murdered women in California and Utah
Jackson, Calvin	1973–1974	9	9	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered and robbed women in Manhattan's East Side, abusing their corpses post-mortem	[375]
Jackson, Charles	1975–1982	8	8+	Died in prison	Responsible for at least eight of the East Bay Slayer murders	[376]
Jackson, Freddrick	2020–2022	4	4	Sentenced to 50 years in prison	Shot four men to death in Arkansas	[377][378]
Jackson, Homer	1983–1993	4	4+	Died in 2023 after release in 2022	Raped and strangled prostitutes across Portland, Oregon; case noted for messy trial and questionable evidence	[379]
Jackson, Mary Jane	1856–1861	4	4	Sentenced to 10 years in prison; freed after nine months	Known as "Bricktop"; prostitute who murdered four men in New Orleans	[380]
Jackson, Ray	1989–1990	6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as the "Gillham Park Strangler"; murdered six sex workers in Kansas City, Missouri.	[381]
Jackson, Vickie Dawn	2000–2001	10	10+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Poisoned patients in Nocona, Texas, with Mivacron	[382]
Jackson, William Perry	1980	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Together with two accomplices, killed five people during robberies in Oregon and Washington	[383]
Jennings, Desmond Domnique	1993	5	20	Executed 1999	Killed people in drug-related robberies	[384]
Jennings, Wilbur Lee	1981–1984	6	6+	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Ditchbank Killer"; raped and murdered women in Fresno and Sacramento County, California, dumping their bodies in ditches afterwards	[385]
Jesperson, Keith Hunter	1990–1995	8	8+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Happy Face Killer"	[386]
Johansen, William	1933–1940	3	3	Executed 1941	Sea merchant who murdered and mutilated three women, including his wife, in New York and California.	[387]
Johnson, Alvin	1972–1983	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Transient who killed people during alcoholic binges; one murder committed with Wilbur Lee Jennings	[388]
Johnson, Matthew Steven	2000–2001	3	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Preyed on disenfranchised young women in Connecticut	[389]
Johnson, Melvin	1984–1988	4	4+	Died in prison	Sex offender posthumously linked to sexually-motivated murders in Decatur, Illinois	[390]
Johnson, Michael	2008–2010	4	4+	Sentenced to 190 years in prison	Responsible for the murders of four sex workers in Chicago	[391]
Johnson, Milton	1983–1984	10	10+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Committed what was called The Weekend Murders in Will County, Illinois. Victims included two deputy sheriffs	[111]
Johnson, Raymond Eugene	1995–2007	3	3	Sentenced to death	Murdered an acquaintance; paroled, and later killed his ex-girlfriend and her infant daughter	[392]
Johnson, Vincent	1999–2000	5	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Brooklyn Strangler"; preyed on sex workers in and around New York City	[393]
Jones, Andre Vernell	1978–1979	5	8	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Murdered a couple, then murdered three more people on the same day with Freddie Tiller	[394]
Jones, Daniel O.	1998–2001	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Stabbed young women to death during home invasions in Kansas City, Missouri	[395]
Jones, Genene	1977–1982	2	60+	Sentenced to 99 years in prison	Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care; was due to be released March 2018; however, prosecutors charged her with two additional murders	[396][397][398][399]
Jones, George Lamar	1972–1997	3	3+	Died in prison	Drug addict who strangled prostitutes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin	[400]
Jones, Jack Harold	1983–1995	3	3+	Executed 2017	Murdered at least three women in Florida and Arkansas; a serial rapist was wrongfully convicted for one murder	[401]
Jones, Syd	1900s–1914	13	13	Executed 1915	Drifter who admitted to a dozen murders committed across the U.S.	[402]
Jones, Willie Ben	1980–1990	3	4	Sentenced to 60 years in prison	Killed sex workers because "they had to be punished"	[403]
Joubert, John	1982–1983	3	3	Executed 1996	Known as "The Nebraska Boy Snatcher"; murdered young boys in Maine and Nebraska	[404]
Joyner, Anthony	1983	6	18	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and killed elderly women at the Philadelphia nursing home he worked at	[405]
Junco, Francisco del	1995–1996	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Cuban immigrant who murdered and then burned the bodies of prostitutes in Miami	[406]
Kadamovas, Jurijus	2001–2002	5	5	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Accomplice of Iouri Mikhel; Lithuanian immigrant who kidnapped five people for ransom money in California and killed them	[407]
Kallinger, Joseph	1974–1975	3	3	Died in prison	Committed crimes with his 15-year-old son Michael Kallinger	[408]
Kaczynski, Ted	1978–1995	3	3	Committed suicide in prison	Nicknamed the 'Unabomber', Kaczynski murdered three individuals and injured twenty-three others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment.	[409][non-primary source needed]
Kaprat, Edwin	1991–1993	6	6	Murdered in prison by two fellow inmates	Known as "The Granny Killer"; robbed, murdered and set fire to the homes of his victims in Hernando County, Florida, most of whom were elderly women	[410]
Kearney, Patrick	1965–1977	21	43	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Trash Bag Killer"; necrophile and sadist who targeted young men and boys in Southern California	[411]
Kee, Arohn	1991–1998	3	3+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as the "East-Harlem Rapist"; raped seven women in Manhattan from 1991 to 1998, killing three of them	[412]
Keith, Leroy	1934–1956	3	3	Executed 1959	Shot three men during holdups in Ohio and New York	[413]
Kelley, John William	1986–1988	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Convicted rapist who killed a young hitchhiker and a married couple in rural California	[414]
Kelly, Alvin Andrew	1984	4	4	Executed 2008	Killed a family of three and later his roommate during robberies	[415]
Kelly Family	1887	11	11	Killed by vigilantes	Family of serial killers who killed and robbed wealthy travellers in No Man's Land	[416]
Kemper, Edmund	1964–1973	10	10	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Co-Ed Killer"; murdered his grandparents at age 15; released at age 21, he then murdered six young women, as well as his mother and her friend, in California	[417]
Keyes, Israel	1990s–2012	3	11+	Committed suicide in custody	Three confirmed victims; linked to eleven victims in four states	[418]
Kibbe, Roger	1977–1987	8	8+	Murdered in prison by fellow inmate	Known as "The I-5 Strangler"; murdered young women picked up on the freeways around Sacramento, California	[419]
Kimball, Scott Lee	2003–2004	4	5+	Sentenced to 70 years in prison	FBI Informant; proposed as a suspect in the West Mesa murders	[420]
Kinne, Sharon	1962–1964	3	3	Died in 2022 after escape in 1969	Her arrest warrant is one of the longest outstanding in American history	[421]
Kennedy, Edward Dean	1978–1981	3	3	Executed 1992	Killed a man during a robbery; killed two men, including a police officer, after escaping	[422]
Kirkland, Anthony	1987–2009	5	5	Sentenced to death	Preyed on young women in the Cincinnati area	[423][424]
Klimek, Tillie	1914–1921	5	7	Died in prison	Polish-born Chicago poisoner
Knapp, Alfred	1894–1902	5	5+	Executed 1904	Known as "The Hamilton Strangler"; murdered women and girls in Ohio and Indiana	[425]
Knight, Thomas	1974–1980	4	4	Executed 2014	Murdered four people between 1974 and 1980	[426][427][428]
Knighton, Robert Wesley	1973–1990	5	5	Executed 2003	Embarked on a two-state killing spree with his girlfriend and a teenage friend after serving time for killing a man	[429]
Knowles, Paul John	1974	18	35	Killed by police attempting to escape from custody	Known as "The Casanova Killer"	[430][431]
Koedatich, James	1971–1982	4	4	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Killed a man and a cellmate in Florida, he went on to kill two others in New Jersey	[432][433]
Kohlhepp, Todd	2003–2016	7	7+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Responsible for several murders in South Carolina, including the "Superbike Murders".	[434][435]
Kokoraleis, Andrew	1981–1982	18	18	Executed 1999	Member of the satanic cult and organized crime group known as "The Ripper Crew" or "The Chicago Rippers"	[262][436]
Kokoraleis, Thomas	1981–1982	18	18	Released in 2019	Member of the satanic cult and organized crime group known as "The Ripper Crew" or "The Chicago Rippers"	[262][263]
Koster, Brent Eugene	1972	3	3	Released in 2020	Teenage accomplice of Danny Ranes, who actively participated in three of his four murders	[437]
Kraft, Randy	1971–1983	16	67	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Scorecard Killer"; kept a coded list of young men and boys that he raped and murdered in Southern California, Michigan and Oregon	[438]
Krajcir, Timothy	1977–1982	9	9	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Confessed to killing five women in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania	[439]
Kudzinowski, Peter	1924–1928	3	3	Executed 1929	Imprisoned for the murder of a friend. Murdered two children following his release
Ladd, Robert Charles	1978–1996	4	4	Executed 2015	Killed a woman and three children in Dallas; paroled and later killed another woman in Tyler	[440]
Lagrone, Edward	1976–1991	4	6	Executed 2004	Murdered an acquaintance; later killed a 10-year-old girl he had impregnated and two of her great-aunts	[441]
Lake, Leonard	1983–1985	11	25	Committed suicide in custody	With accomplice Charles Ng, they are also known as "The Operation Miranda Killers"	[442][443][444][445][446]
LaLaurie, Delphine	1834	?	?	Died in Paris, France	New Orleans socialite who tortured and maimed her slaves	[447]
Lannon, Sean	2021	5	16	Sentenced to 95 years in prison	Killed at least five people in New Jersey and New Mexico, including his ex-wife	[448]
LaRette, Anthony	1976–1980	16	31	Executed 1995	Drifter who stalked, raped and stabbed to death women in multiple states	[449]
Lassor, Raymond	1984	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	First criminal to be successfully prosecuted under the 1984 Rhode Island 'Life Without Parole Statute'	[450]
Laudenberg, Adolph	1972–1975	4	6	Died in prison	Known as "The Santa Strangler"; murdered women in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles and one in San Francisco, and is the prime suspect for two similar murders	[451]
Lee, Daniel Lewis	1990–1996	4	4	Executed 2020	Neo-Nazi who killed man during a robbery; after release, he killed a family of three with accomplice Chevie Kehoe	[452]
Lee, Derrick Todd	1992–2003	7	7+	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by DNA evidence to five others	[453]
Lewingdon, Gary	1977–1978	10	10	Died in prison	Together with brother Thaddeus Lewingdon, known as "The .22 Caliber Killers"	[454][455]
Lewingdon, Thaddeus	1977–1978	9	9	Died in prison	Together with brother Gary Lewingdon, known as "The .22 Caliber Killers"	[454][456]
Liberty, Robert	1966–1970	3	3	Murdered by inmate while awaiting trial	Known as "The Candlelight Killer"; murdered his girlfriend and later two men in ritualistic style	[457]
Lindahl, Bruce	1974–1981	4	12+	Died from accidental self-inflicted injuries	Posthumously connected to various rape-murders in DuPage County	[458]
Lindsey, William Darrell	1988–1996	7	25	Died in prison	Murdered seven prostitutes in Florida and North Carolina	[459]
Lipscomb, Nathaniel	1958–1959	3	4	Executed 1961	Known as "The Dawn Strangler"; beat, raped and strangled three women in Baltimore	[460]
Little, Jerry	1985–1988	4	4	Died in prison	Raped and strangled women in St. Louis, Missouri	[461]
Little, Samuel	1970–2005	61	93+	Died in prison	Known as "The Choke-and-Stroke Killer"; transient who allegedly killed ninety-three women in fourteen states	[462][463]
Lockett, Will	1912–1920	4	4	Executed 1920	Lockett's trial resulted in an averted race riot and attempted lynching that was stopped when the police opened fire on the mob	[464]
Lockhart, Michael Lee	1987–1988	4	6+	Executed 1997	Received death sentences in three states; executed by the state of Texas
Long, Bobby Joe	1984	10	10+	Executed 2019	Known as "The Classified Ad Rapist"; serial rapist who kidnapped, assaulted and murdered women in Florida's Tampa Bay area	[465]
Long, Neal	1972–1975	4	7+	Died in prison	Known as "The Shotgun Slayer"; racist who murdered black people in drive-by shootings in Dayton, Ohio	[466]
Lopez, Gonzalo	2005–2022	6	6	Killed by police during apprehension	Killed a man during a kidnapping; murdered five members of the same family, including three children, after escaping	[467]
Lucas, David Allen	1979–1984	3	6	Sentenced to death	Murdered five women and one boy around San Diego County, California, by slashing their throats	[468]
Lucas, Henry Lee	1960–1983	3	3+	Died in prison	Convicted of eleven murders, confessed to approximately 3,000 murders, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish	[469][470]
Lunz, Christopher	2003–2009	3	20	Committed suicide in prison	Murdered his father; killed his cellmate and confessed to killing a fugitive sex offender	[471]
Lyles, Anjette	1952–1958	4	4	Died in a mental hospital	American restaurateur responsible for the poisoning deaths of four relatives in Macon, Georgia, apprehended on May 6, 1958, and sentenced to death yet later was involuntarily committed due to her diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenic	[472][473]
Lynch, Franklin	1987	3	13	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Day Stalker"; preyed on elderly women in the East Bay, California	[474]
Macek, Richard	1974	3	3+	Committed suicide in prison	Known as "The Mad Biter"; killed two women and one girl in sexually-motivated attacks in Wisconsin and Illinois	[475]
Madison, Michael	2012–2013	3	3+	Sentenced to death	Preyed on women in East Cleveland, Ohio	[476]
Mailhot, Jeffrey	2003–2004	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Rhode Island Ripper"; murdered and dismembered prostitutes in Woonsocket.	[477]
Majors, Orville Lynn	1993–1995	6	130	Died in prison	Licensed practical nurse who was convicted of murdering his patients in Clinton, Indiana	[478]
Malveaux, John Peter	1997	4	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and strangled women around Opelousas, Louisiana	[479]
Malvo, Lee Boyd	2002	7	17	Life imprisonment without parole (overturned on May 26, 2017); Supreme Court of the United States heard the case on October 16, 2019[480]	With accomplice John Allen Muhammad, perpetrated the D.C. sniper attacks	[481]
Mansfield, Billy	1975–1980	5	5+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered women and girls in Florida and California, burying most of them in the family home in Weeki Wachee with the aid of his father and younger brother	[482]
Marquette, Richard Laurence	1961–1975	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Oregon man who murdered three women, drained their blood, mutilated and dismembered their bodies. First 11th person named on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List	[483]
Martin, Deangelo Kenneth	2018–2019	4	6	Sentenced to 45–70 years in prison	Raped and murdered women in abandoned houses in Detroit.	[484][485]
Martin, James David	1989–2005	3	3	Sentenced to 42–64 years in prison	Strangled three across three states, including his wife	[486]
Martin, Lee Roy	1967–1968	4	4	Murdered in prison	Known as "The Gaffney Strangler". Sexually assaulted and killed two women and two young girls in South Carolina. Stabbed to death by a fellow prison inmate in 1972	[487][488][489]
Martin, Rhonda Belle	1926–1951	6	6	Executed 1957	Alabama woman who poisoned family members	[490]
Masini, Frank	1991–1992	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Italian man who burglarized and murdered elderly people in New Jersey	[491][492]
Mason, David	1980–1982	5	6	Executed 1993	Killed four elderly neighbours in 1980 and his cellmate in 1982 while imprisoned on lesser charges; suspected of shooting dead his boyfriend	[493]
Massof, Steven	2003–2008	3	100+	Released in 2019	Accomplice of Kermit Gosnell
Matthews, Eric	1994–1998	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Rapist who his killed ex-girlfriends, wife and stepson	[494]
Matix, William	1985–1986	4	6	Killed by police during apprehension	With accomplice Michael Lee Platt, killed two men during robberies and two FBI agents during a shootout in which both men were killed; also suspected of killing his wife and a female coworker in 1984	[495]
Maupin, Thomas	1988–2001	3	3	Sentenced to 12 years	Itinerant criminal who killed an 8-year-old girl and two adult women in Washington and Tennessee	[496]
Maury, Robert	1985–1987	3	3+	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Tipster Killer"; killed at least three women in California, then called into crime stoppers to report his crimes and receive award money	[497]
Maust, David Edward	1974–2003	5	5	Committed suicide in prison	Convicted of killing five teenage boys; one in Germany in 1974, another in 1981, and three he buried in his basement	[498][499]
Mayrand, Edward	1983–1994	3	3	Died in prison	Strangled to death three women in New England	[500]
Mays, Reta	2017–2018	8	8+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Nursing assistant who murdered seven elderly male military veterans with injections of insulin while employed at a VA hospital in Clarksburg, West Virginia	[501]
McCarthy, Kimberly	1988–1997	3	3	Executed 2013	Robbed and killed elderly people to support her cocaine addiction	[502]
McCoy, Stephen	1980–1981	3	3	Executed 1989	With his accomplice James Paster, the pair murdered three people in the Houston Area	[503]
McCray, Jeremiah	1956–1958	5	5	Executed 1958	Itinerant laborer who killed elderly people during robberies	[504]
McDuff, Kenneth	1966–1992	9	14+	Executed 1998	Known as "The Broomstick Killer"; death sentence for 1966 triple-murder commuted; began killing again three days after 1989 parole	[505][506]
McFadden, Jerry Walter	1973–1986	4	4+	Executed 1999	Known as "The Animal"	[507]
McFadden, Reginald	1969–1994	3	4+	Died in prison	Murdered an elderly woman as a teenager; later paroled and killed at least two people during a crime spree; his case greatly affected the parole system in both Pennsylvania and New York	[508]
McGhee, Timothy	1997–2001	3	12	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Monster of Atwater", he is alleged to have been responsible for at least twelve homicides between 1997 and 2001, three of which led to convictions.	[509]
McGregor, Edward George	1990–2006	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped, stabbed, and strangled women to death in Greater Houston	[510]
McKnight, Anthony	1985	5	5	Died in prison awaiting execution	Rapist who killed young girls and women in Oakland, California; responsible for some of the East Bay Slayer murders	[511]
McKnight, Gregory	1992–2000	3	3	Sentenced to death	Murdered three people in Ohio, burying the bodies of two on his property in Chillicothe afterwards	[512]
McWatters, Eugene	2004	3	3	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Known as "The Salerno Strangler"; Murdered women in Port Salerno, Florida	[513]
Meach, Charles L.	1973–1982	5	5	Died in prison	Beat a grocery store clerk to death in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1973 and later shot four teenagers to death at a campsite in 1982	[514]
Medellín, Jose	1993	3	3	Executed 2008	Member of the "Black and White" gang that kidnapped, raped, and murdered a woman and two teenage girls in a Texas	[104]
Medley, Joseph Dunbar	1944–1945	3	3	Executed 1946	Robbed and murdered three women after absconding from prison while serving time for armed robbery	[515]
Meirhofer, David	1967–1974	4	4	Committed suicide in custody	First serial killer to be apprehended via usage of offender profiling	[516]
Melanson, Roy	1974–1988	3	5+	Died in prison	Drifter connected to the rape-murders of at least three women in three states	[517]
Mendenhall, Bruce	2007	3	9+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Rest Stop Killer"; truck driver who abducted and murdered prostitutes across several states	[518]
Metheny, Joe	1976–1996	5	10	Died in prison	Raped and murdered women in Baltimore, allegedly cannibalizing his victims	[519]
Meza Jr., Raul	1982–2023	3	13+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl in 1982, later killed a woman in 2019 and his roommate in 2023; suspect in as many as ten other homicides	[520]
Mikhel, Iouri	2001–2002	5	5	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Accomplice of Jurijus Kadamovas; Russian immigrant who kidnapped five people in California for ransom money and killed them	[407]
Miller, Donald	1977–1981	5	5	Died in prison awaiting execution	Raped and murdered a co-ed in Long Beach; later bludgeoned to death gay men in Hollywood	[521]
Miller, Donald Gene	1977–1978	4	4	Incarcerated	Raped and killed women in East Lansing, Michigan	[522]
Miller, Joseph Daniel	1986–1990	5	5+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Kidnapped, raped and strangled black women around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	[523]
Miller, Joseph Robert	1976–1993	6	6+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Killed prostitutes in Chicago and Peoria, some after being paroled for murder	[524]
Mills, Lawrence Paul	2017	3	4	Sentenced to 28–48 years in prison	Murdered two prostitutes and an unborn baby by running them over with his car in Detroit, Michigan	[525]
Misch, David	1986–1989	3	4+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered a woman in 1989 and committed a double homicide in 1986; suspected in and awaiting trial for the murder of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht	[526]
Moore, Manuel	1973–1974	15	73+	Died in prison	Part of "The Death Angels" cult responsible for the Zebra murders	[141]
Morin, Stephen	1969–1981	4	48	Executed 1985	Suspected in over thirty unsolved violent crimes across the country	[527]
Morris, Cory	2002–2003	5	5+	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Crackhead Killer"; necrophile who murdered at least five prostitutes at his trailer in Phoenix, Arizona	[528]
Morrison, Kelsie	1921–1922	3	3	Killed by police during shootout	Perpetrator of the Osage Indian murders; granted immunity in exchange for his testimony	[529]
Mors, Frederick	1914–1915	8	8	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Murdered eight elderly patients by poison while employed in a nursing home in New York City; committed to Hudson River State Hospital; escaped in May 1916	[530]
Morse, Hugh	1959–1961	4	4+	Died in prison	Former fugitive who murdered four women during a cross-country crime spree	[531]
Morton, David Bruce	1983–1990	3	3+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Morton has also been considered a suspect in a series of highly publicized murders on young women in Santa Fe, New Mexico	[532]
Mosley, Eddie	1973–1987	8	16+	Died in prison	Raped and murdered numerous young girls and women in and around Fort Lauderdale, Florida	[533]
Muehlberg, Gary	1990–1993	5	6+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Package Killer"; tortured and murdered prostitutes and one male acquaintance around St. Louis	[534]
Muhammad, John Allen	2002	7	17	Executed 2009	With accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, perpetrated the D.C. sniper attacks	[535]
Mullin, Herbert	1972–1973	13	13	Died in prison	California schizophrenic who shot, stabbed and bludgeoned victims ranging in age from 4 to 72. Died in California Health Care Facility prison in 2022	[536]
Mullins, Michael	1999–2012	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered three women over the span of 13 years in Memphis, Tennessee	[537]
Nance, Wayne	1974–1986	6	6+	Killed by intended victim	Known as "The Missoula Mauler"	[538][539]
Nardello, Antonio	1884–1885	3	3	Executed 1886	Italian laborer who robbed and murdered other laborers in Maryland and Washington, D.C.	[540]
Naso, Joseph	1977–1994	6	10+	Sentenced to death	Murdered six women in California; suspect in the Alphabet murders	[541]
Neal, William Lee	1998	3	3	Sentenced to death	Killed three women and raped a fourth woman in captivity after a long history of confidence tricks, domestic abuse, and abandonment of families.	[542]
Nelson, Earle	1926–1927	22	29	Executed 1928	Known as "The Gorilla Man". Executed for a murder he committed in Canada	[543]
Nemechek, Francis	1974–1976	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and killed four women and a young boy in Kansas	[544]
Newman, Allan Patterson	1991–1992	4	4	Died in prison	Murdered carjacking victims during a three-state crime spree	[545]
Ng, Charles	1983–1985	11	25	Sentenced to death	With accomplice Leonard Lake, they are also known as "The Operation Miranda Killers"	[443][444][445][446][546]
Nissensohn, Joseph	1981–1989	4	4+	Sentenced to death	Raped and murdered teenagers and women in California and Washington	[547]
Nixon, Robert	1937–1938	3	5	Executed 1939	Known as the "Brick Moron"; confessed to five murders and multiple assaults in Los Angeles and Illinois; Nixon served, in part, as the basis of the character of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940 social protest novel Native Son
Noe, Marie	1949–1968	8	8	Died in 2016	Pennsylvania woman who murdered eight of her children; two others died of natural causes	[548]
Normore, Mario	2017	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered four acquaintances during robberies or arguments	[549]
Norris, Roy	1979	5	5	Died in prison	With accomplice Lawrence Bittaker known as "Tool Box Killers"; kidnapped, sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered teenage girls in Los Angeles County, California	[58]
Northcott, Gordon Stewart	1926–1928	3	20	Executed 1930	Canadian immigrant who was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering three young boys in Wineville, California, in what become known as the Wineville Chicken Coop murders; his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott, was charged and convicted as an accomplice	[550]
O'Brien, Derrick Sean	1993	3	3	Executed 2006	Member of the "Black and White" gang that kidnapped, raped, and murdered a woman and two teenage girls in a Texas	[104]
Ocampo, Itzcoatl	2011–2012	6	6	Committed suicide in custody	Former marine suspected of killing six people around Orange County, California	[551]
O'Dell, Diane	1982–1985	3	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Sullivan County, New York woman who murdered her illegitimate infants by asphyxiation	[552]
Ortiz, Juan David	2018	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Border Patrol agent who shot four sex workers in Webb County, Texas and attempted to kill a fifth woman.	[553]
Pace, Lyndon Fitzgerald	1988–1989	4	5	Sentenced to death	Robbed and murdered elderly women primarily in Atlanta's Vine City neighborhood. In 1990, he robbed the apartment of Coretta Scott King	[554]
Page, Ivan	1998–2001	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered prostitutes in Flint, Michigan	[555]
Panzram, Carl	1920–1929	5	22	Executed 1930	Murderer, rapist, and arsonist; convicted of two murders, but confessed to nineteen others	[556]
Pardo, Manuel	1986	9	9	Executed 2012	South Florida former police officer who acted in partnership with Rolando Garcia; the two claimed to be ridding the world of drug dealers	[557]
Parker, Gerald	1978–1979	6	6	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Bedroom Basher"; Orange County, California man who raped and murdered five women. Parker was not identified until 1996	[558]
Paster, James	1980–1981	3	5	Executed 1989	With accomplice Stephen McCoy, the pair murdered three people in the Houston Area. Paster confessed to two other murders for which he was never tried.	[559]
Patton, Carl	1973–1977	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed four acquaintances and one accomplice for money and to cover up his crimes	[560]
Peete, Louise	1913–1944	3	3+	Executed 1947	Convicted of murdering a man and woman decades apart; four other acquaintances died suspiciously and four husbands committed suicide	[561]
Penton, David Elliott	1984–1988	5	9+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Child molester who abducted and murdered young children in Texas and Ohio	[562]
Perkins, Reginald	1980–2000	3	6	Executed 2009	Murdered his stepmother in 2000 and two other women in Fort Worth in 1991. He also confessed to murdering another woman in Ohio in 1980 and is linked to two other murders in Cleveland	[563]
Perry, Donna	1990	3	3+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Formerly known as Douglas Perry prior to 2000 gender transition, which the prosecution claimed was an attempt to avoid suspicion	[564]
Peterson, Christopher	1990	4	7	Sentenced to death; commuted to 120 years in prison	Known as "The Shotgun Killer"	[565]
Pierce, William	1970–1971	9	9+	Died in prison	One of his victims was the daughter of a South Carolina state senator	[566]
Pizzuto, Gerald	1985	4	4	Sentenced to death	He was convicted and sentenced to death in Idaho for a double murder, in addition to more than 69 years' jail for killing two more people in Washington	[567][568]
Platt, Michael Lee	1985–1986	4	5	Killed by police during apprehension	With accomplice William Matix, killed two men during robberies and two FBI agents during a shootout in which both men were killed; also suspected of killing his wife in 1984	[495]
Player, Michael	1986	10	10	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Known as "The Skid Row Slayer"; targeted mostly homeless individuals in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles	[569]
Pough, James Edward	1971–1990	12	12	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Killed a friend in 1971, then went on a shooting rampage in 1990	[570]
Powers, Harry	1931	5	5+	Executed 1932	Known as "The West Virginia Bluebeard"; Dutch immigrant who lured victims through "lonely hearts" advertisements, murdering them for their money	[571]
Presley, Aeman	2014	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Shot and killed people in DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia during robberies	[572]
Pressdee, Heather	2022–2023	3	17	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Nurse convicted of murdering three patients in her care and is suspected to have murdered an additional fourteen	[573]
Price, Craig	1987–1989	4	4	Incarcerated	Convicted as a minor; given an additional 10–25 year sentence for assaulting a corrections officer in prison	[574]
Price, Larme	2003	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as the "Thrill Killer"; murdered four immigrants in New York in revenge for the September 11 attacks	[575]
Prieto, Alfredo	1988–1990	9	9	Executed 2015	Attacked mainly couples in Virginia and California, shooting them both after raping the women	[576]
Prince Jr., Cleophus	1990	6	6	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Clairemont Killer"; raped and murdered women in San Diego County, California	[577]
Pruett, Marion Albert	1981	5	5	Executed 1999	Committed his crimes while in the United States Federal Witness Protection Program	[578]
Pruitt, Pleasant	1888–1902	3	3	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Murdered his three wives in Indiana	[579]
Puente, Dorothea	1982–1988	9	15	Died in prison	Murdered elderly and mentally disabled boarders in Sacramento, California, before cashing their Social Security checks; convicted of three killings, suspected of six others	[580]
Queho	1909?–1919	13	23	Died while a fugitive	First Nevadan serial killer, found dead in cave five miles upriver from El Dorado Canyon. Cause of death uncertain.	[581]
Rader, Dennis	1974–1991	10	10	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The BTK Killer"; killed men, women and children in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, while sending taunting letters to local police and media outlets	[582]
Ralston, Larry	1975–1977	4	5+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Abducted young women and teenage girls in Ohio	[583]
Ramirez, Richard	1984–1985	15	15+	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Night Stalker"	[584]
Ranes, Danny	1972	4	4	Died in prison	Kidnapped, raped and murdered women around Kalamazoo, Michigan, with teenage accomplice Brent Koster	[585][586]
Rardon, Gary	1962–1974	4	4	Died in 2024 after release in 2020	Murdered a man whom he was hitchhiking with, then murdered three more men in a 4-day spree	[587]
Rasmussen, Terry Peder	1978–2002	6	6+	Died in prison	Known as "The Chameleon Killer"; main suspect in the Bear Brook murders, as well as other murders	[588]
Ray, Clifton	1987–1994	3	6+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Responsible for the murders of three women in Kansas City, Missouri	[589]
Red Dog, James Allen	1973–1991	5	5	Executed 1993	Killed four people personally; also provided a prison gang with a lethal dose of drugs so they could kill another inmate	[590]
Reece, William Lewis	1997	4	4+	Sentenced to death	Kidnapped, raped and murdered teenage girls and young women in Texas and Oklahoma	[591]
Reed, Todd Alan	1999	3	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Forest Park Killer"; sex offender who raped and strangled three homeless women in Portland, Oregon	[592]
Rees, Melvin	1957–1959	5	9+	Died in prison	Known as "The Sex Beast"	[15][unreliable source?]
Reeves, Jack	1967–1994	4	4	Sentenced to 99 years in prison	Killed his three wives after they planned to leave him; also killed a man while stationed in Italy	[593]
Reid, Paul Dennis	1997	7	7	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Fast Food Killer"; committed seven murders during three fast-food restaurant robberies in Metropolitan Nashville and Clarksville, Tennessee	[594]
Rembert, Robert	1997–2015	5	5+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Truck driver who killed people across Ohio	[595]
Reséndiz, Ángel Maturino	1986–1999	10	16	Executed 2006	Known as "The Railroad/Railway/Railcar Killer"; primarily murdered people in their homes near railroad tracks	[596]
Respus, Asbury	1900s–1931	8	8+	Executed 1932	Serial killer active in North Carolina with no particular victim profile; victims' ages ranged from 8 to 80, both male and female, and both white and black; claimed that mental health episodes prompted him to commit random murders	[597]
Rhoades, Robert Ben	1975–1990	4	50+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Truck Stop Killer"; truck driver who converted the sleeper cab of his truck into a torture chamber where he kept women, torturing and sexually assaulting them, before killing them	[598]
Rice, Stanley	1963–1968	3	5+	Died in prison	Itinerant child molester who shot and killed young boys in Canada and the U.S.	[599]
Rich, Darrell Keith	1978	4	4	Executed 2000	Known as "The Hilltop Rapist"; preyed on young women and girls in Redding, California	[600]
Richards, Stephen D.	1876–1878	9	9+	Executed 1879	Known as "The Nebraska Fiend", Richards murdered nine people including a mother and her children. Suspected of additional murders.	[601]
Richmond, Earl	1991	4	4	Executed 2005	Ex-Sergeant who raped and murdered four women in New Jersey and North Carolina	[602]
Ridgway, Gary	1982–1998	49	90+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Green River Killer"; targeted sex workers and runaways in Washington	[603]
Rifkin, Joel	1989–1993	9	17+	Sentenced to 203 years to life	Mostly preyed on sex workers in New York City and Long Island	[604]
Rissell, Montie	1976–1977	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered women in Alexandria, Virginia	[111]
Ritchie, James Dale	2016	5	5	Killed by police during apprehension	Known as "The Anchorage Serial Killer"; shot people at random in parks or along bike paths in and around Anchorage, Alaska	[605]
Rivera, Reinaldo	1999–2000	4	4	Sentenced to death	Abducted, raped and killed women in the Augusta metropolitan area	[606]
Robbins, Malcolm	1979–1980	4	4+	Died in prison awaiting execution	Itinerant child molester who murdered young boys and teenagers in various states	[607]
Robinson, Harvey Miguel	1992–1993	3	3	Sentenced to death	Teenager who stalked, raped and killed women in Allentown, Pennsylvania	[608]
Robinson, John Edward	1984–1999	8	8+	Sentenced to death	Sometimes referred to as "The Internet's first serial killer"	[609]
Robinson, John Wesley	1896–1913	3	3	Executed 1915	Murdered his girlfriend; later paroled and choked to death his wife and stepdaughter before dismembering their bodies	[610]
Robinson, Sarah Jane	1881–1886	8	11	Died in prison	Known as "The Boston Borgia"; Irish-born poisoner who murdered family members and associates for profit in Massachusetts with the aid of accomplices Thomas R. Smith and Dr. Charles C. Beers	[611]
Roche, John Francis	1953–1954	4	6	Executed 1956	Active primarily in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan	[612]
Rodriguez, Antonio	2010	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Kensington Strangler"; raped and killed drug-addicted women in Kensington, Philadelphia	[613]
Rodriguez, Robert Neal	1984–1992	3	3	Committed suicide to avoid arrest	Former police officer who murdered a woman and two teenage girls in Florida	[614]
Rogers, Dayton Leroy	1983–1987	7	8+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Molalla Forest Killer"; raped and murdered sex workers in Oregon	[615]
Rogers, Glen Edward	1993–1995	4	5	Sentenced to death	Death sentence currently under appeal	[616]
Rogers, Ramon	1993–1996	3	4	Sentenced to death	Murdered his roommate and two ex-girlfriends in San Diego, dismembering their remains post-mortem	[617]
Rolling, Danny	1989–1990	8	8	Executed 2006	Pleaded guilty to murdering five students in Gainesville, Florida	[618]
Ross, Michael Bruce	1981–1984	8	8+	Executed 2005	Known as "The Roadside Strangler"; sexually assaulted and murdered women and girls in Connecticut and New York	[619]
Roye, Norman	1953–1954	3	3	Executed 1956	Known as "The Dreaded Strangler"; Manhattan youth who murdered women during home invasions	[620]
Rozier, Robert	1981–1986	4	7	Serving 25 years to life on a conviction for check kiting under a third strike law	Former NFL player; sentenced to 22 years for murder after agreeing to testify against Yahweh ben Yahweh's organization	[621]
Rulloff, Edward H.	1844–1870	3	5	Executed 1871	Known as "The Genius Killer"; Canadian-born doctor, lawyer, schoolmaster, photographer, inventor, carpet designer, phrenologist, philologist and career criminal active in New York. Rulloff's brain is said to be the second largest brain on record and is on display at the Wilder Brain Collection in the psychology department of Cornell University	[622][623]
Rundle, David Allen	1986	3	3	Sentenced to death	Strangled young women and teenage girls in California's Sacramento and Placer counties	[624]
Runge, Paul	1995–1997	7	8+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Sexually assaulted and murdered women and one girl in Cook and DuPage counties in Illinois	[625]
Russell, George Waterfield	1990	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Charmer"; raped and murdered women in Seattle suburbs, mutilating and having sex with the corpses afterwards	[626]
Saenz, Kimberly Clark	2008	5	10+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed five patients by injecting bleach into their dialysis lines	[627]
Saldivar, Efren	1988–1998	6	50+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Respiratory therapist who murdered his patients at Adventist Health Glendale
Samartaney, Malik	1991–2019	3	6	Sentenced to 41 years in prison	Killed one of his friends, his son, and his daughter	[628]
Sanchez, Altemio	1990–2006	3	3+	Committed suicide in prison	Known as "The Bike Path Rapist"; responsible for three murders and numerous rapes spanning a 25-year period in Buffalo, New York	[629][630][631]
Sanders, Martin Lee	1980–1983	4	4	Died in prison	Truck driver who sexually assaulted and murdered young women across Washington	[632]
Sapp, William	1992–1993	3	3+	Sentenced to death	Rapist who murdered women and children around Springfield, Ohio	[633]
Schmid, Charles	1964	3	4	Murdered in prison by unknown assailants	Known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson"; murdered three teenage girls in Arizona with the aid of local teenagers	[634]
Seda, Heriberto	1990–1993	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	New York City copycat of the Zodiac Killer; selected his victims based on their astrological signs	[635]
Sellers, Sean	1985–1986	3	3	Executed 1999	Only one of 22 juveniles executed in the United States in the modern era to have been executed for a crime committed under the age of 17
Segundo, Juan	1986–1995	4	4+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Raped and killed young girls and women in the Fort Worth area	[636]
Sells, Tommy Lynn	1980–1999	6	22+	Executed 2014	Confessed to murdering dozens of people, possibly in excess of 70, only six are confirmed	[637][638]
Seoung, Doeur	1985–1998	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Cambodian-born burglar who raped, strangled and robbed his victims, beginning when he was a teenager	[639]
Severance, Charles	2003–2014	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered elderly residents in Alexandria, Virginia, out of hatred for the rich	[640]
Sharp, Michael Eugene	1982	3	5+	Executed 1997	Abducted, raped and killed women and children across West Texas	[641]
Shaw, Sebastian	1991–1992	3	13	Died in prison	Murdered victims selected at random in Portland, Oregon; confessed to additional murders, including one in California	[642]
Shawcross, Arthur	1972–1989	14	14	Died in prison	Known as "The Genesee River Killer"; raped and murdered two children in Watertown, New York in 1972. Paroled in 1987, he began murdering primarily sex workers in the Rochester area in 1988. Arrested in 1990.	[643]
Sherman, Lydia	1863–1877	12	12	Died in prison	Known as "The Derby Poisoner"; poisoned eight children in her care, six of which were her own, and her three husbands in Connecticut and Rhode Island	[644]
Shermantine, Wesley	1984–1999	4	19	Sentenced to death	With accomplice Loren Herzog, known as "The Speed Freak Killers"	[645]
Shore, Anthony Allen	1986–1995	4	4+	Executed 2018	Known as "The Tourniquet Killer"; murdered three young girls and a young woman in Texas	[646][647]
Shulman, Robert	1991–1996	5	5	Died in prison	Preyed on sex workers in New York	[648]
Siebert, Daniel Lee	1979–1986	10	13	Died in prison awaiting execution	Killed nine people across America in three months; responsible for at least one of the Southside Slayer murders	[649][unreliable source?] [650]
Sifuentes, Jose	1998–2003	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Strangled three women to death in Dallas; after posting bail he fled the country for sixteen years before he was re-apprehended in 2019	[651]
Silva, Mauricio	1978–1984	4	4	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Monster"; killed an acquaintance as a teenager; paroled and went on to kill two teenage runaways and his half-sister	[652]
Silveria Jr., Robert Joseph	1981–1996	9	30+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Boxcar Killer"; alleged member of Freight Train Riders of America	[653][654]
Simmons, Beoria	1981–1983	3	3	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Preyed on women and teenage girls in Jefferson County, Kentucky	[655]
Simon, J.C.X.	1973–1974	15	73+	Died in prison	Part of "The Death Angels" cult responsible for the Zebra murders	[141]
Sims, Ray Dell	1974–1977	5	5+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and strangled teenage girls in Fresno	[656]
Sinclair, Charles T.	1980–1990	13	13+	Died in prison	Known as "The Coin Shop Killer"; targeted coin shop owners in order to rob them of valuable coin collections	[657]
Singh, Michael	1975–1982	3	3	Murdered in prison by a fellow inmate	Killed his girlfriend and two wives during violent outbursts	[658]
Sitts, George Sidney	1945–1946	3	3	Executed 1947	Killed a man during a robbery; killed two police officers after escaping	[659]
Smallwood, Robert	1999–2006	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered women in Lexington, Kentucky, and additionally linked to other rapes	[660]
Smith, Andrew Lavern	1980–1983	4	4	Executed 1998	Killed four people and attempted to kill a fifth along Interstate 85 in South Carolina	[661]
Smith, Anthony Wayne	1999–2001	3	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Former defensive end who, with accomplices, killed at least three people during personal disputes	[662]
Smith, Gayno	1961–1962	6	6	Died in prison	Killed six family members in Iowa	[663]
Smith, Lemuel	1958–1981	5	6	Sentenced to death; commuted to life	First convict to kill an on-duty female corrections officer	[664]
Smith, Mark Alan	1969–1970	4	12+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Convicted of killing at least four women in Illinois and Arkansas; claimed in his book to have murdered eight women while stationed in Germany	[665]
Smith, William Scott	1981–1984	4	4+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Kidnapped, raped and strangled women in Salem, Oregon	[666]
Snyder, Leroy	1969	7	7	Died in prison	Active in Camden, New Jersey, in a period of eight months.	[667]
Solomon Jr., Morris	1986–1987	6	7	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Sacramento Slayer"	[668]
Soper, Edward Bates	1880–1897	5	5	Executed 1899	Killed his father, wife and two children in Missouri in separate incidents; fled to Oregon, where he killed another young child before his capture	[669]
Sowell, Anthony	2007–2009	11	14	Died in prison awaiting execution	Known as "The Cleveland Strangler" and "The Imperial Avenue Murderer"	[670]
Spangler, Robert	1978–1993	4	4	Died in prison	Murdered members of his own family in Colorado and Arizona	[671]
Spencer, Timothy Wilson	1984–1988	5	5	Executed 1994	Known as "The Southside Strangler"; committed three rapes and murders in Richmond, Virginia, and one in Arlington County, Virginia, in the autumn of 1987. He is believed to have committed at least one previous murder, in 1984, for which a different man was wrongfully convicted.	[672]
Spillman, Jack Owen	1994–1995	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Werewolf Butcher"	[673]
Spisak, Frank	1982	3	3	Executed 2011	Neo-Nazi who shot people during a racist and antisemitic shooting spree at Cleveland State University	[674]
Spreitzer, Edward	1981–1982	18	18	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Member of the satanic cult and organized crime group known as "The Ripper Crew" or "The Chicago Rippers"	[262][263]
Stafford, Roger Dale	1974–1978	9	34	Executed 1995	His wife implicated him in thirty-four different murders in seven different states	[675]
Stano, Gerald	1969–1980	22	41+	Executed 1998	Murdered young women and girls in Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania	[676]
Stayner, Cary	1999	4	4	Sentenced to death	Brother of kidnap victim Steven Stayner; murdered women in and around Yosemite National Park	[677][678]
Steeves, Richard	1965–1985	6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered five people in three states from 1965 to 1966; was controversially released from prison in 1985 and later killed a sixth person	[679]
Stephani, Paul Michael	1980–1982	3	3	Died in prison	Known as "The Weepy-Voiced Killer" due to a series of telephone calls he made to police, anonymously reporting his crimes in a remorseful and high-pitched voice; active in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area	[680][681]
Stevens, Charles	1989	4	4	Sentenced to death	Murdered four people from April to July 1989 on California Interstate-580	[682]
Stickles, Martin	1899–1900	3	3	Executed 1901	Known as "The Kelso Killer"; murdered three people during robberies in Cowlitz County, Washington	[683]
Stokes, Winford	1969–1978	3	3	Executed 1990	Career criminal and prison escapee who murdered people in St. Louis	[684]
Suff, William	1974–1992	14	14+	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Riverside Prostitute Killer"	[685]
Sully, Anthony	1983	6	6	Died in prison awaiting execution	Ex-policeman who tortured and killed prostitutes and drug dealers at his Burlingame warehouse	[686]
Sumner, Jesse	1963–1973	4	4	Died in prison	Murdered his robbery accomplice; paroled and murdered three young women in the vicinity of the Illinois State University	[687]
Sumpter, Michael	1969–1973	3	3	Died in 2001	Raped and murdered women in the Boston area, including Jane Britton	[688]
Surratt, Edward Arthur	1977–1978	7	18+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Serial rapist and murderer operating mainly in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, also known as "The Shotgun Killer". Although suspected in more than eighteen murders, Surratt was convicted of one murder in South Carolina. Surratt confessed to six additional murders in 2021.	[689]
Sutton, Nicholas Todd	1979–1985	4	4	Executed 2020	Killed two friends and his grandmother during money and drug-related disputes; later stabbed to death a prison inmate	[690]
Swango, Michael	1981–1997	4	60	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Physician and surgeon who poisoned patients and colleagues in the US and Zimbabwe	[691]
Swann, James	1993	4	4	Found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to Saint Elizabeths Hospital	Known as "The Shotgun Stalker"; responsible for random drive-by shotgun shootings in Washington, D.C.	[692]
Syed, Muhammad	2022	3	4	Sentenced to 30 years to life	Killed three Muslim men in drive-by shootings from July to August 2022. He is also suspected in the fourth murder in November 2021, but has not been charged so far.	[693]
Taborsky, Joseph "Mad Dog"	1950–1957	7	7	Executed 1960	Only convict in Connecticut to be sentenced to death twice for different crimes	[694]
Tavares, Daniel	1988–2007	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered a woman, his mother and later two others after release from prison	[695]
Taylor, Alvin	1985–1987	4	4	Sentenced to involuntary commitment	Schizophrenic who murdered friends and acquaintances across Wisconsin during psychotric episodes.	[696]
Taylor, Kevin	2001	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Preyed on sex workers in Southside Chicago	[697]
Terry, Michael	1985–1986	6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered six men in Atlanta, Georgia, in a 10-month period	[698]
Tersargyan, Alberd	2008–2010	4	4	Committed suicide in custody	Armenian immigrant who murdered a family of three and a prostitute in Hollywood, Los Angeles	[699]
Tholmer, Brandon	1981–1983	12	34	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The West Side Rapist"; preyed on elderly women in Westside, Los Angeles County	[700]
Thomas Jr., John Floyd	1972–1986	7	15+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Southland Strangler" and "The Westside Rapist"	[701][702][703]
Thompson, William Paul	1984	3	6	Executed 1989	Robbed and killed two men at a bar, then killed another man while on the run
Thornburg, Jason Alan	2017–2021	3	5	Sentenced to death	Murdered and dismembered three people in Texas in September 2021; additionally confessed to killing his girlfriend and his roommate	[704][705]
Toole, Ottis	1976–1983	6	6+	Died in prison	Accomplice of Henry Lee Lucas; claimed to have murdered Adam Walsh	[706]
Toppan, Jane	1895–1901	12	31+	Died in Taunton State Hospital	Known as "Jolly Jane"; nurse who poisoned both patients and family members in Massachusetts	[707]
Torrence, Michael	1987	3	3	Executed 1996	Robbed and killed two men with his brother and his wife; later killed a prostitute in Charleston during an argument	[708]
Travis, Maury	2000–2002	12	20+	Committed suicide in custody	Suspected of kidnapping, torturing and killing women at his home in Ferguson, Missouri	[709]
Ture Jr., Joseph	1978–1980	6	6+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered a family of four and two other women in Minnesota	[710]
Turner, Chester	1987–1998	15	16+	Sentenced to death	Convicted of murdering ten women and a viable unborn baby in South Los Angeles	[711]
Turner, Douglas	1987–1991	9	9	Committed suicide prior to execution	Convicted of killing a family of three, then killed six inmates in prison
Urdiales, Andrew	1986–1996	8	8	Committed suicide prior to execution	United States Marine who murdered women in Indiana, Illinois and California	[712]
Vann, Darren Deon	2013–2014	7	7+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Indiana murderer who killed seven women; five of which were found in abandoned structures in the city of Gary	[713][714][715]
Vaultz, Horace Van	1981–1986	3	3+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped and murdered women across California; his home contained photographs of over twenty potential victims	[716][717][718]
Van Dyke, David	1979–1980	6	6	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered six people in their homes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin	[719]
Vermilya, Louise	1893–1911	9	9	Died in 1913	Charges dismissed
Victor, Clarence	1964–1987	3	3	Died in prison	Killed three people in Omaha, Nebraska, the latter two while on parole	[720]
Villarreal, David	1979–1981	5	7	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Gay drifter who tortured and murdered acquaintances in San Antonio and Dallas	[721]
Wade, Joshua	1994–2007	5	5+	Died in prison	Murdered people across Alaska during angry outbursts or robberies	[722]
Walker, Anthony Guy	1975–1986	6	6+	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Career criminal who murdered mainly across Lenawee County, Michigan	[723]
Walker, Tracy	1991–2021	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed a security guard during an argument; released and later killed fellow homeless people in Rancho Dominguez	[724]
Wallace, Henry Louis	1990–1994	11	11	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Taco Bell Strangler"; preyed on women in and around Charlotte, North Carolina	[725]
Walton, Edward	1896–1908	5	5	Executed 1908	Confessed to murdering five people across five states	[726]
Walls, Frank Athen	1985–1987	5	5	Sentenced to death	Confessed to murdering five people across Ocean City, Florida	[727]
Ward, Ronald James	2000	4	4+	Died in prison	Murdered at least three women and one man in three states, in the span of four months	[728]
Wardrip, Faryion	1984–1986	5	5	Sentenced to death	Serial rapist who assaulted and murdered women in Wichita Falls, Texas and the surrounding counties. Death sentence currently under appeal	[729]
Warren, Edward Delon	1976–1979	3	3	Died in prison	Murdered a couple in Brookings, Oregon; later linked via DNA to an unsolved murder in Portland	[730]
Warren, Lesley Eugene	1987–1990	4	8	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Babyface Killer"; raped and murdered women in New York and the Carolinas	[731]
Washington, Steven	1963	3	3	Died in prison	Known as "The Window-Screen Rapist"; juvenile who raped and killed elderly women around St. Petersburg, Florida	[732]
Watson, Alexander Wayne	1986–1994	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Raped, stabbed and strangled women in two Maryland counties	[733]
Watts, Carl Eugene	1974–1982	14	100+	Died in prison	Known as "The Sunday Morning Slasher"; assaulted, tortured and murdered teenaged girls and young women in Michigan and Texas	[734]
Webb, Emanuel Lovell	1990–1994	5	5+	Sentenced to 60 years in prison	Known as "The East End Killer"; raped and killed four women in Connecticut and a fifth woman in Georgia	[735]
Weldon, Stewart	2017–2018	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Tortured and murdered women in Springfield, Massachusetts	[736]
Werner, Karl F.	1969–1971	3	3	Died in prison	Murdered teenage girls in Santa Clara County, California
Wheeler-Weaver, Khalil	2016	3	4	Sentenced to 160 years in prison	Killed women he met through dating apps in Orange, New Jersey	[737][738]
Whisenhant, Thomas	1963–1976	4	4+	Executed 2010	Kidnapped and murdered female clerks from convenience stores in Mobile County, Alabama	[739]
White, Larry Lamont	1983	3	3	Sentenced to death	Shot and killed women in Louisville, Kentucky, during apparent robberies	[740]
White, Nathaniel	1991–1992	6	6	Sentenced to 150 years to life	Confessed to bludgeoning and stabbing six women to death in Hudson Valley, New York, while on parole	[741]
White, Robert	1980–2013	4	4	Sentenced to 50 years in prison	Sexually assaulted and beat three women to death in Hartford, Connecticut, while on parole for an earlier murder	[742]
Whiteling, Sarah	1888	3	3	Executed 1889	Known as "The Wholesale Poisoner"	[743]
Whitten, Hattie	1900–1902	3	3	Committed suicide in custody	Maine woman who poisoned her husband and two children	[744]
Wickline, William	1979–1982	3	3+	Executed 2004	Known as "The Butcher"; drug addict who killed people in West Virginia and Ohio, dismembering and beheading their bodies post-mortem	[745]
Wilder, Christopher	1984	8	8+	Killed by police during apprehension	Known as "The Beauty Queen Killer"; Australian man who abducted and murdered women across the US	[746]
Wiley, Nicholas	2004	3	7	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The Syracuse Serial Killer"; sex offender who confessed to killing seven people in Syracuse, New York	[747]
Williams, Dorothy	1987–1989	3	3	Died in prison	Robbed and killed elderly people to support her heroin addiction	[748]
Williams, Kenneth Dewayne	1998–1999	4	4	Executed 2017	Killed two people on the same day, then killed two more people after escaping from prison	[749]
Williams, Laron	1977–1981	3	5+	Murdered in prison by fellow death row inmates	Strangled a prostitute in Nashville, Tennessee; later escaped from prison, murdering a police officer and priest; suspect in other murders across several states	[750]
Williams, Leslie Allen	1991–1992	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Necrophile who killed and raped at least four women in Michigan while on parole for rape from 1991 to 1992.	[751]
Williams, Ronald Turney	1975–1981	3	3	Sentenced to death	Criminal who murdered a police officer in 1975, another police officer while escaping from prison, and a final victim while he was a fugitive	[752][753]
Williams, Scott	1997–2006	3	3	Died in prison	Killed women in Charlotte and Monroe, North Carolina	[754]
Williamson, Thomas Andrew	1868–1890	4	4	Executed 1891	Murdered four people in Illinois and Missouri, including his wife	[755]
Willie, Robert Lee	1978–1980	3	5	Executed 1984	Murdered at least three people in Louisiana	[756]
Wimberly, Anthony	1984–1985	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered three women in Oakland during a crime spree	[757]
Wise, Martha	1924–1925	3	3	Died in prison	Poisoned seventeen members of her own family in Ohio	[758]
Wood, Cathy	1987	5	5	Released in 2020	Accomplice of Gwendolyn Graham; nurse's aide that preyed on elderly women in a Walker, Michigan nursing home	[287][288]
Wood, David Leonard	1987	6	9	Sentenced to death	Known as "The Desert Killer"; raped and murdered young girls and women in El Paso, Texas, burying their bodies in the desert afterwards	[759]
Wood, Frederick Charles	1926–1960	5	5	Executed 1963	Violent habitual criminal who killed people in various New York cities, starting at age 14	[760]
Woodfield, Randall	1979–1981	18	44	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Known as "The I-5 Killer" and "The I-5 Bandit"; serial rapist, kidnapper, robber and burglar who preyed on women along the Interstate 5 corridor running through Washington, Oregon and California	[761]
Woodward, Arthur T.	1923–1925	5	5	Died before apprehension	Perpetrator of the Osage Indian murders	[762]
Wooten, Charles	1969–1993	3	3	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Killed two gas station attendants in Fort Worth during robberies; paroled, and later killed his father during an argument	[763]
Wright, Douglas Franklin	1969–1991	7	7+	Executed 1996	First criminal executed by lethal injection in Oregon	[764]
Wuornos, Aileen	1989–1990	7	7	Executed 2002	Known as the "Damsel of Death"; shot seven men to death in Florida between 1989 and 1990	[765]
Yates, Robert Lee	1975–1998	16	16+	Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment	Known as "The Grocery Bag Killer"; targeted women in and around Spokane, Washington	[766]
Zarinsky, Robert	1965–1974	3	10	Died in prison	Murdered three teenage girls in Monmouth County, New Jersey; was also acquitted in the murder of a police officer	[767]

Unidentified serial killers

This is a list of unidentified serial killers who committed crimes within the United States.

Name	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Region where active	Notes	Ref.
Alphabet murders	1971–1973	3	3	NY	Also known as the "Double Initial Murders"; murders of three young girls in the Rochester, New York area in the early 1970s	[768]
Ann Arbor Hospital murders	1975	10	10	MI	Poisonings of ten patients at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in 1975. Two nurses, Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez, were convicted but a new trial was ordered because of prosecutorial misconduct. The prosecution chose to drop the charges rather than retry.	[769][770]
Atlanta child murders	1979–1981	28	30	GA	A series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least twenty-eight children, adolescents, and adults were killed. Wayne Williams was charged and sentenced for the two adult murders, with twenty-four of the other murders attributed to him.
Atlanta Lover's Lane Murders	1977	3	3	GA	A series of unsolved shootings of couples in Atlanta from January to March 1977
Atlanta Ripper	1911	15	15–21	GA	Mystery murderer(s) of fifteen Atlanta women in 1911	[771]
Axeman of New Orleans	1918–1919	6	6	LA	Responsible for the deaths of six or seven people in New Orleans and the surrounding areas from 1918 to 1919	[772]
Bag murders	1975–1977	6	6	NY	Murders and dismemberment of gay men in Lower Manhattan, whose body parts were wrapped in garbage bags and thrown into the Hudson River; convicted murderer Paul Bateson was a prime suspect in the killings, but never charged	[773]
Bigfoot Killer	1975	7	7	MI	Raped and murdered sex workers in Detroit; nicknamed derived from the suspect's large hands and feet	[774]
Boca Raton murders	2007	3	3	FL	Three unsolved murders of women committed at the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton, Florida in 2007	[775]
Boston Strangler	1962–1964	13	13	MA	1960s deaths of thirteen women (five young, eight older), mostly with their own stockings as ligature. Albert DeSalvo confessed to the murders, but was never indicted; DNA evidence tested in 2013 suggested his guilt in one of the cases	[776]
Bouncing Ball Killer	1959–1960	6	7+	CA	Series of murders targeted towards elderly women in Los Angeles; convicted murderer Raymond Ward Clemmons confessed to the murders, but he was never charged due to a lie detector proving he was being untruthful	[777]
Bra murders	1967–1971	5	5	CT	Strangulations of five black women, mostly prostitutes and drug addicts, in Stamford, Connecticut; schizophrenic preacher Benjamin Franklin Miller was prosecuted for the crimes, but acquitted by reason of insanity, leaving his true guilt in question	[778]
Castration serial murders	1980–1986	2	5+	WY, PA, UT, GA, CT	Series of murders of men who were shot in the back of the head and then castrated post-mortem	[779]
Charlie Chop-off	1972–1974	4	4	NY	Murders of five boys in Manhattan in 1972 and 1973. A mental patient confessed to one slashing death. Four stabbings also involving mutilation remain unsolved	[780]
Chicago Strangler	2001–2021	55	75+	IL	Raped and strangled predominantly African-American prostitutes and other vulnerable women in Chicago; could possibly be multiple serial killers	[781]
Cincinnati Strangler	1965–1966	7	7	OH	Raped and strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio, between 1965 and 1966; Cab driver Posteal Laskey Jr. is commonly believed to be culprit	[782]
Cleveland Torso Murderer	1935–1938	12	20+	OH, possibly PA and CA	Also known as the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"; responsible for 12–13 murders in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the 1930s	[783]
Colonial Parkway Killer	1986–1989	8	8	VA	Believed to have murdered at least eight people in Virginia between 1986 and 1989; left three couples dead and one couple missing and presumed dead. In January 2024, authorities announced that at least two of the murders had been conclusively linked to an official suspect, Alan W. Wilmer Sr., a local fisherman who died in 2017. Wilmer was also identified as a suspect in an unrelated third murder.[784][785]	[786][787]
Columbus murders	1965–1966	3	3	OH	Three fatal shootings committed in Columbus and West Jefferson	[788]
Connecticut River Valley Killer	1978–1987	7	7+	MA, NH, VT	Stabbed at least six women to death in New England in the 1980s, severely injured one	[789]
Cumminsville Killer	1904–1910	5	5	OH	Murdered and mutilated women in the Cincinnati neighborhood of South Cumminsville	[790]
Dayton Strangler	1900–1909	6	6	OH	Murdered five women and one man in Dayton, Ohio, in the early 20th-century; one man was wrongfully convicted for the murders	[791]
Denver Prostitute Killer	1975–1995	17	27	CO	Abducted, raped and strangled young girls and women around Denver and its various suburbs	[792]
Denver Strangler	1894–1903	3	5	CO	Strangled three prostitutes in Denver in ten weeks; also thought to be responsible in two more murders	[793]
Doodler	1974–1975	6	16	CA	Sketched then stabbed to death gay men in San Francisco, California in the 1970s	[794]
Dr. No	1981–1990	9	9+	OH, IL, NY, PA	Suspected of raping and strangling prostitutes alongside the Interstate 71; his first suspected victim is Marcia King, who was identified in 2018. Samuel Legg III, a trucker, has been arrested and charged but thus far (as of 2020) is incompetent to stand trial. He is receiving psychiatric treatment while they try to restore competency.	[795][796]
Eastbound Strangler	2006	4	4	NJ	Murdered four women near Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2006.	[797][798]
Edgecombe County serial killer	2005–2009	10	11	NC	Murders of nine women and disappearance of another since 2005 around Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Antwan Pittman has been convicted in one case	[799]
Essex County prostitute killings	1993–1998	14	15	NJ	Murders of at least fourteen women involved with prostitution in Essex County, New Jersey. Multiple perpetrators are suspected, and in 1998 Harrison Hogue was arrested for one of the murders but was ruled incompetent to stand trial.	[800][801]
Flat-Tire murders	1975–1976	12	35	FL	Killed young girls and women in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties by offering help with fixing their car tires, before he sexually assaulted them and drowned them in canals	[802]
Flint Serial Slasher	2009–2010	5	5	MI, OH, VA	Stabbing attacks against mostly small-framed African-American men, with the main area being Flint, Michigan; an Israeli national, Elias Abuelazam, has been convicted in one of the murders and remains the prime suspect in the other four	[803]
Fort Myers Eight murders	Mid-1990s	8	8	FL	The remains of eight adult men discovered murdered in a wooded area in Fort Myers, Florida, on March 23, 2007. The men are believed to have been at the location since the mid-1990s. Convicted murderer and serial rapist Daniel Conahan has been named as the prime suspect	[804][805]
Frankford Slasher	1985–1990	8	9	PA	Allegedly responsible for nine murders in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Leonard Christopher was convicted of one murder; another murder was committed in same style while he was incarcerated; believed to still be at large	[806][807]
Freeway Phantom	1971–1972	6	6	DC	Raped and strangled six young women and girls in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s, dumping their bodies by freeways	[808]
Gilgo Beach serial killings	1996–2010	11	11+	NY	Suspected of killing eight women, a man and a child since 1996 and dumping their bodies along remote beaches in Suffolk and Nassau County, New York. The killer has been referred to as the Gilgo Beach killer because of the location where the first bodies were found. In July 2023, Rex Heuerman was arrested and has been charged with four of the murders.	[809][810][811][812]
Gold Sock Killer	1973	3	3	FL	Strangled a woman and two teenage girls to death with socks in Broward County, Florida between July and August.	[813]
Golden Years Murders	1990–1996	13	13+	VA	Murders of elderly women in Richmond, Virginia; murderer Leslie Burchart was convicted for some of the killings, but his guilt is disputed	[814]
Great Basin Killer	1983–1997	4	4+	WY, UT, NV, ID	Allegedly responsible for the "Great Basin Murders", in which young girls and women were raped and killed across the Great Basin area; initially consisting of nine supposed murders, those have since been solved and attributed to different perpetrators	[815]
Gulf Killer	1971–1979	16	16+	FL	A series of unsolved murders that occurred primarily in Pasco County, Florida in the 1970s; likely multiple killers	[816]
Gypsy Hill killings	1976	5	5+	CA	Known as the "San Mateo slasher"; five unsolved killings, of young women in San Mateo County, California, during early 1976; in 2014, the FBI named Rodney Halbower as a person of interest in the Gypsy Hill killings; as of 2018[update], he has been convicted in two of the murders	[817][818]
Hog Trail Murders	1993–1996	6	11	FL	Mutilated bodies of young men found in Charlotte County, Florida; thought to be linked to Daniel Conahan, who was charged and convicted of one of the murders	[819]
Harbor City serial shootings	1993	3	3	CA	Shot four black men from his Jeep, three of them fatally	[820]
Honolulu Strangler	1985–1986	5	5	HI	Raped and strangled five young women in Hawaii in 1985 and 1986	[821][822]
I-45 Killer	1980	0	4+	TX	Strangled four known victims in 1980 and sexually assaulted some. Two of the four women have never been identified.	[823]
I-70 killer	1992–2001	6	9+	IN, MO, KS TX (suspected)	Killed and robbed six store clerks around the Midwestern United States	[824]
I-70 Strangler	1980–1991	12	12+	IN, OH	Killed gay men and dumped their bodies near I-70; suspected serial killer Herb Baumeister is considered the prime suspect in the case	[825]
Jeff Davis 8	2005–2009	8	8	LA	The bodies of eight women were found in swamps and canals surrounding Jennings, Louisiana. Originally thought to be a serial killer, but multiple suspects may be involved	[826][827]
Little Rock serial stabbings	2020–2021	3	3	AR	Random stabbing murders against strangers that occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas	[828]
Lone Woman Murders	1943–1949	9	12+	CA	Over nine unsolved femicides committed in Los Angeles that involved sexual mutilation, including the famous Black Dahlia murder	[829]
Main South Woodsman	2002–2004	3	5	MA	Murdered prostitutes picked up from Worcester's Main South neighborhood, dumping the bodies in various towns across the state and neighboring Maine. Convicted murderer Alex Scesny is considered the prime suspect, but has never been charged.	[830]
The Man from the Train	1890–1912	0	59+	USA	Probably Paul Mueller. Killed whole families in their sleep, from the East Coast to the West, arriving and departing by train. Existence (probable but identity unproven) was discovered over 100 years after the murders by analysis of contemporary records, showing a markedly common modus operandi for many previously unconnected crimes.	[831][832][833][834]
Miami Strangler	1964–1970	9	11	FL	Murdered at least nine women in Miami, Florida, between 1964 and 1970	[835]
Michigan Murders	1967–1969	1	7	MI	Raped, stabbed, and strangled young women between the ages of 13 and 21 in the Washtenaw County area of Michigan. John Norman Collins was convicted of the last murder in the series and strongly suspected to be responsible for all seven murders attributed to the same perpetrator.	[836]
Missouri River Killer	1982–1994	7	7+	MO	Abducted and killed women and young girls in Kansas City, Missouri, and surrounding areas. The killer was noted for amputating his victims' legs before dumping their remains in the Missouri River. Gregory Breeden, a then-Kansas City resident, remains the prime suspect in the case due to his relations with several of the victims, but he vehemently denied being the killer.	[837][838]
Mulatto Axe Murders	1911–1912	35	49+	LA, TX	Axe murders of a minimum of twelve African-American and interracial families along the Southern Pacific railroad line running through Louisiana and Texas. Raymond Barnabet was tried and convicted of the murders of one family. His teenage daughter, Clementine Barnabet was arrested shortly afterwards following the murder of another family and confessed to the murders of thirty-five others. She was later convicted of one murder, but released from prison in 1923. Both convictions have been disputed by historians. No one has ever been charged with the other slayings	[839]
Nassau County serial murders	1984–1989	5	5	NY	Murders of five prostitutes committed in the Nassau County area; Allen Gormely, convicted of murdering two prostitutes in Long Beach in 1990, is considered the current prime suspect	[840]
New Bedford Highway Killer	1988–1989	9	11	MA	Murders of nine women and disappearance of two others between 1988 and 1989	[841]
Oakland County Child Killer	1976–1977	4	4+	MI	Also known as the "Babysitter"; responsible for the murders of four or more children in Oakland County, Michigan in 1976 and 1977	[842]
Oklahoma City Butcher	1976–1986	3	3	OK	Killed and mutilated three women in Oklahoma City between 1976 and 1986	[843]
Phantom Killer	1946	5	5	TX	Believed to have committed the Texarkana Moonlight Murders in Texas between February 23 and May 4, 1946	[844]
Pittsburg serial murders	1998–1999	5	5	CA	Single or multiple offenders who murdered one man and four women over three months in the city of Pittsburg, California	[845]
1996 Raleigh murders	1996	6	6	NC	Series of murders and rapes across the Raleigh, North Carolina area; multiple killers are suspected, including one who was convicted of two murders	[846][847][848]
Redhead murders	1978–1992	5	14+	TN, AR, KY, MS, PA, WV	Series of unsolved homicides believed to have been committed by an unidentified serial killer in Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, also known as "The Bible Belt Strangler"	[849][850]
Sacramento Mad Killer	1940–1941	5	6+	CA	Unidentified serial killer who murdered middle-aged men picked up from bars in the Sacramento area	[851]
San Diego serial murders	1985–1990	43	43+	CA	Murders of women, predominantly prostitutes and drug addicts, across San Diego County. Initially believed to be a single serial killer, but later determined to be multiple killers.	[852]
Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders	1972–1973	7	7+	CA	A series of at least seven unsolved homicides involving female hitchhikers that took place in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa of the North Bay area of California in 1972 and 1973	[853]
Servant Girl Annihilator	1884–1885	8	8	TX	Also known as the "Austin Axe Murderer"; responsible for at least seven murders and severe injuries to seven others in Austin, Texas between 1884 and 1885	[854]
Skid Row Stabber	1978–1979	11	11	CA	Murdered homeless men in Los Angeles' Skid Row neighborhood; Bobby Joe Maxwell was falsely convicted of two of the murders and accused of the rest, and died while in a coma prior to being exonerated	[855]
South Florida serial murders	1997–2001	3	10+	FL	Murdered women, most of whom were homeless or prostitutes, primarily by strangling, four of the ten murders have been solved	[856]
South Memphis prostitute killings	2011	3	4	TN	Murders of three sex workers in Memphis, Tennessee, in the winter of 2011; possibly linked to a fourth murder committed in 2015	[857]
Storyville Slayer	1991–1996	24	24+	LA	Abducted, strangled and drowned predominantly female prostitutes around New Orleans; thought to be multiple killers	[858]
Stockton serial shootings	2021–2022	7	7	CA	Shot one man to death in Oakland and five in Stockton and shot a woman in Stockton who survived her injuries. Wesley Brownlee was arrested for the murders on October 15, 2022.	[859][860][861]
Suitland murders	1986–1987	5	9	MD, DC	Abducted, raped and stabbed to death women around Suitland, Maryland; convicted murderer Alton Alonso Best is considered the prime suspect	[862]
Texas Killing Fields	1970s–2000s	4	30+	TX	Since the early 1970s, roughly thirty bodies have been extracted from the fields, mainly consisting of young girls. As of March 2024, six of the cases have been definitively solved, and authorities now believe that multiple offenders are involved.
Tube Sock Killings	1985	4	6	WA	Unsolved murders which occurred in the remote community of Mineral in Washington	[863]
Ventura Strangler	1977	3	3+	CA	Targeted sex workers in Ventura County, California, over several months in 1977; a suspect, Warren Alexander, was arrested in 2024	[864]
West Mesa murders	2003–2009	11	11+	NM	Remains of eleven women, who disappeared between 2003 and 2005, found buried in the desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2009 and attributed to a bone collector	[865]
Zodiac Killer	1968–1974	5	37	CA NV (possible)	Targeted young couples. Remains unsolved but open in the California jurisdictions the five certain Zodiac murders occurred. Potentially thirty-seven total victims claimed but unverified.	[866]

See also

• List of rampage killers in the United States
• List of mass shootings in the United States

International:

• Lists of serial killers