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This is a list of notable serial killers, by their country of origin or activity.

Convicted serial killers by country

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

China

Colombia

  • Luis Garavito (also killed victims in Ecuador)
  • Pedro Lopez - The Monster of the Andes; apocryphal with 300 alleged victims (also killed victims in Ecuador)

Ecuador

France

Germany

Hungary

India

  • Charles Sobhraj - preyed on Western tourists in Southeast Asia in the 1970s
  • Thug Behram - leader of a gang of Thugs in Avadh, India, who confessed to participating in 931 individual murders and to having personally strangled approximately 125 men
  • Auto Shankar - Indian auto rickshaw driver who preyed on teenage girls

Indonesia

Iran

Italy

  • Luigi Chiatti - the "Monster of Foligno"; victims were children
  • Roberto Succo - considered Public Enemy number one by France, Italy and Swiss Confederation.

Japan

  • Tsutomu Miyazaki - aka "The Otaku Murderer", "The Little Girl Murderer", and "Dracula", he killed 4 preschool-age Japanese girls and ate two of them

Kazakhstan

  • Nikolai Dzhumagaliev - cannibal and rapist known as "Metal Fang"; thought to have killed nearly 50 individuals

Mexico

Netherlands

Pakistan

Poland

Russia

  • Golovkin Sergey - known as "The Udav" (The "Boa") or "Fisher" killed and butchered 11 boys in Moscow area (1986-1992). Sentenced to death.
  • Ionesyan Vladimir - known as the "Ubijtsa iz Mosgaza" ("The Killer from Moscow Gas Company") killed 5 people and robbed their apartments in Moscow and Ivanovo (1963-1964). Sentenced to death.
  • Kuznetsov Oleg - known as "Lzhedmitriy" ("False Dmitriy" named after False Dmitriy I) killed 6 women in Moscow and Moscow area and 4 women in Kiev (1991-1992). Sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • Kulik Vasiliy - known as The Irkutskiy Monstr ("The Irkutsk Monster") killed and raped 13 people (young boys and girls as well as elderly women) in Irkutsk (1984-1986). Sentenced to death.
  • Riakhovsky Sergey - known as "The Potroshitel iz Balashikhi" ("The Balashikha Ripper") killed 19 people (2 teenage boys and several elderly women and men) in Moscow area (1987-1993). Sentenced to death.
  • Tchayka Alexander - known as "The Okhotnik za shubami" ("The Fur Coats Hunter") killed 4 women dressed in fur coats in Moscow (January, 31 1994 - February, 16 1994). Sentenced to death.
  • Chikatilo Andrey - AKA "The Rostov Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter", a name given to him by the Russian public after the character in the popular American film Silence of the Lambs, which came out around the time of his arrest; killed 52 women and children throughout the many countries of the former Soviet Union before being arrested, convicted, and executed in 1994
  • Asratyan Valeriy - known as "The Rezhissior" ("The Movie Director") killed 3 and raped dozens women in Moscow (1988-1990). Sentenced to death.

South Africa

  • Daisy de Melker - poisoner; killed 2 husbands and one son
  • Moses Sithole - believed to have killed at least 38 young women
  • Cedric maake - the Wemmer Pan Killer, murdered at least 27 people. Also serial rapist

South Korea

  • Yoo Young-Chul - killed and ate about 20 people, mainly rich elderly men and prostitutes


Sweden

  • Thomas Quick - child molestor and alleged serial killer
  • Ulf Olsson - Convicted of two murders, suspected for at least two more.

UK

Ukraine

  • Anatoly Onoprienko - Ukrainian serial killer known as "the Terminator"; murdered 52 people from 1989 until his capture in 1996
  • Kuznetsov Oleg - known as "Lzhedmitriy" ("False Dmitriy" named after False Dmitriy I) killed 6 women in Moscow and Moscow area and 4 women in Kiev (1991-1992). Sentenced to life imprisonment.

USA

Unidentified serial killers

See also

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