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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 September 2024. List of killers 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 ...
Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker (September 27, 1940 – December 13, 2019) and Roy Lewis Norris (February 5, 1948 – February 24, 2020), also known as the Tool Box Killers, were two American serial killers and rapists who committed the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls in southern California over a five-month period in 1979 ...
A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders three or more people, [1] with the killings taking place over a significant period of time in separate events. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Their psychological gratification is the motivation for the killings, and many serial murders involve sexual contact with the victims at different ...
October 27, 1983. Imprisoned at. Spring Creek Correctional Center, Seward, Alaska (until his death) Robert Christian Boes Hansen[ 2 ] (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), popularly known as the Butcher Baker, was an American serial killer active in Anchorage, Alaska, between 1972 and 1983. Hansen abducted, raped and murdered at least ...
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 – March 12, 2001), also known as The Confession Killer, was an American convicted murderer. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. He rose to infamy as a claimed serial killer while incarcerated for these crimes when he falsely confessed to approximately 600 other murders ...
December 10, 2003. David Edward Maust (April 5, 1954 – January 20, 2006) was an American serial killer who targeted predominantly male teenagers. His murders occurred in Germany and the United States. In 1984 he was sentenced to 35 years in prison; he was released under probation in June 1999. Once released and off of probation he continued ...
California. Date apprehended. August 31, 1985. Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez (/ rəˈmɪərɛz /; February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), better known as Richard Ramirez, and nicknamed The Night Stalker, was an American serial killer and sex offender whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of ...
The Hillside Strangler, later the Hillside Stranglers, is the media epithet for one, later discovered to be two, American serial killers who terrorized Los Angeles, California, between October 1977 and February 1978, with the nicknames originating from the fact that many of the victims' bodies were discovered in the hills surrounding the city.