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Ion Rîmaru ([iˈon rɨˈmaru]; modern spelling Râmaru; 12 October 1946 – 23 October 1971) was a Romanian serial killer dubbed the Vampire of Bucharest (Vampirul din București) or the Blondes' Killer (criminalul blondelor). [1] Rîmaru terrorized Bucharest between 1970 and 1971, killing four women and attacking more than ten others ...
Vera Renczi (dubbed the Black Widow, Mrs. Poison or Chatelaine of Berkerekul), [1] [2] was a claimed Romanian serial killer who was charged with poisoning 35 individuals including her two husbands, multiple lovers, and her son with arsenic during the 1920s.
Ioan "John" Balaban (13 April 1924 – 26 August 1953) was a Romanian-born serial killer who confessed to murdering five people in France and Australia. Balaban moved to Australia in 1951 and settled in Adelaide, South Australia, where he carried out four murders, including those of his wife, her son and mother.
Ioan Sârca (9 March 1911 – 1991), known as The Monster from Valcău, was a Romanian serial killer and rapist who killed at least 20 young boys and adolescents between 1943 and 1945. Considered one of the worst killers in the country's modern history, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and died behind bars in 1991, having never expressed ...
The Ciudad Juárez Rebels: gang of serial killers who killed women in Ciudad Juárez from 1995 to 1996; convicted of eight murders, suspected of killing between 10 and 14; claimed to have worked for Abdul Latif Sharif. [373] Adolfo Constanzo: known as "The Godfather of Matamoros"; serial killer and cult leader in Mexico; died by suicide in 1989 ...
Adrian Stroe (born 24 October 1959), known as The Taxi Driver of Death, is a Romanian serial killer responsible for the murders of three women in the vicinity of Bucharest, committed between January and September 1992. [1] Sentenced to life imprisonment for these murders in 1996, he was paroled in 2018. [2]
Ana di Pištonja, [note 1] (née Drakšin [5] or Draxin) [4] better known as Baba Anujka, [note 2] (Serbian Cyrillic: Баба Анујка; c. 1836 or 1838 – 1 September 1938) was a Serbo-Romanian convicted serial killer amateur chemist from the village of Vladimirovac, which was during her life part of the Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary and eventually Yugoslavia.
Romanian serial killer nicknamed, "The Black Widow". Renczi was convicted of killing 35 men through arsenic poisoning, but confessed to only killing 32 victims. Renczi is one of the world's most prolific female serial killers.