However, Williams has never been charged for these murders and continues to claims to be innocent. Durousseau was a Jacksonville, Florida, cab driver who would befriend his victims before killing them. Over the course of six years, he allegedly raped and strangled his victims in Georgia and Florida. Durousseau was arrested in for the murder of Tyresa Mack and was later sentenced to death by lethal injection in Jacksonville, Florida.
In , his death sentence was thrown out by the Florida Supreme Court and ordered he face a new hearing. Durousseau is currently sitting on death row in Jacksonville. Between and , Carl Eugene Watts murdered over a dozen women in across the nation. In , Watts was sentenced to two life sentences for the murders of Gloria Steele in and Helen Dutcher in Watts confessed to 12 additional murders in Texas but was given immunity by the court.
In the same year he received his sentencing, Watts died due to prostate cancer at age 53 in a Michigan hospital. Roberta Elder i s one of the few black female serial killers in American history, and her crimes went under the radar for some time. Elder died under suspicious circumstances. Police started to investigate Elder and discovered ten additional murders that she may have been responsible for.
Her assumed victims were her own family members, in which she immediately grabbed their life insurance policy once they died. Elder was arrested and convicted to a life sentence on the presumption that she had poisoned her husband, although all evidence was circumstantial. His victims fit the profile of women who engaged in sex work and drugs. Sowell led women to his house with the promise of alcohol or drugs and then killed them.
His plan was to kill, dismember and then sell the body parts and organs to medical schools. Holmes was caught after a failed insurance scam and was sentenced to death.
He was hanged in Kemper, known as the Co-ed Killer , terrorized California throughout the s and 70s, abducting and killing college girls and hitchhikers.
Once secluded, Kemper would strangle his victims in his car, take them home and dismember their corpses. To conclude his reign of terror, Kemper killed his own mother and buried her head in his back garden. Bizarrely, Kemper handed himself in to authorities. To say Albert Fish was a disturbed individual would be an understatement. Fish also had a penchant for extreme sado-masochism. In the hours before his execution, Fish penned his final statement, resulting in several pages of handwritten notes.
More famously known as the Green River Killer , Gary Ridgway amassed one of the highest serial killer body counts in U. Ridgway focussed on sex workers and runaways, luring them into his car under the pretense of sleeping with them and then strangling them. He then disposed of their bodies in and around the Green River in Washington. Over the years, police discovered body parts and skeletal remains in the Green River, prompting the theory that a serial killer may have been using the area as a dumping ground.
DNA evidence later linked Ridgway to several of the killings. It's widely believed that, in addition to the murders he was convicted for, Ridgway could have killed many more.
He also made our list of Washington State serial killers. We hope you enjoyed this list of the top serial killers! Who are we missing from the list? Let us know in the comments! Are you a true crime junkie? Check out our collection of limited edition true crime clothing , and then read about the most famous female serial killers of all time! Read his story before bed. Look up fox hollow farms get read to have nightmares.
Robert Rhoades the truck stop killer. What the new movie midnight in the switchgrass is based on. Not sure why you have him listed as terrorizing New York City. Zodiac Killer was in Northern California. The copy cat was in New York City please correct that statement. Ed Gein only killed 2 women; 3 is the minimum to be considered a serial killer.
As well as Joel Rifkin. Pedro Alonso Lopez, the Monster of the Andes. The scary thing — he is no longer in prison. Albert Fish, H. American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century, known to have killed at least 20 women in the s. He was executed in the electric chair in David Berkowitz, known as Son of Sam, murdered six people in New York City from to , claiming he received orders from a demon-possessed dog.
Holmes was the alias of one of America's first serial killers. During the Columbian Exposition, he lured victims into his elaborate 'Murder Castle. He was never caught. Dubbed the "Night Stalker," Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer who broke into California homes, raping and torturing more than 25 victims and killing at least 13 over a two-year rampage.
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