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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. 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. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders ...
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-6987-3. Rosewood, Jack; Lo, Rebecca (19 June 2017). The Big Book of Serial Killers: 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers. LAK Publishing. ISBN 978-1-64845-040-2. Schechter, Harold; Everitt, David (4 July 2006). The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers ...
Contract killers ("hitmen") may exhibit similar characteristics of serial killers, but are generally not classified as such because of third-party killing objectives and detached financial and emotional incentives. [148] [149] [150] Nevertheless, there are occasionally individuals that are labeled as both a hitman and a serial killer. [151]
The victims were found in vacant lots with their throats slit. One of the victims is unidentified. Mario Alberto Berrios Muñoz, a serial killer murdered in 2023, is the main suspect. [101] Little Rock serial stabbings United States 2020–2021 3 3 The fatal stabbings of three people in Little Rock, Arkansas. [102] Janikhel grave Pakistan: 2020 4 4
This list shows all known serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims, then possible victims, then date. For those from previous centuries, see List of serial killers before 1900. In many cases, the exact number of victims assigned to a serial killer is not known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there ...
However, "The Zodiac Killer" remains one of America's most infamous and elusive serial killers. Active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he is confirmed to have killed at least five people in ...
The Doodler was a serial killer who murdered five gay men in San Francisco, though it’s possible that he killed as many as 14. The murders took place from 1974 to 1975, and the murderer ...
Hulu's "Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer" shares 87-year-old Dr. Ann Burgess' story of working with victims of sexual assault, and how her research caught the attention of the FBI in the '70s ...