Serial murderes

While an inquest was held, no proof of foul play could be produced, leading to another hefty insurance payout. She then began placing newspaper advertisements in search of a third husband, with the requirement that potential suitors had to visit her Indiana farm. Several prospective suitors made the trek, only to disappear forever—just one made it out alive, after reportedly waking up to see a sinister-looking Gunness standing over him.

Nobody knows for certain just how many people Belle Gunness murdered, but it seems she herself met a grisly end. In February , a fire devastated the farm. The search for her missing head which never turned up led to the gruesome discovery of almost a dozen bodies, including the missing suitors and several children.

Ray Lamphere, a former farmhand that she had fired a few years earlier and later claimed was threatening her life, was arrested and tried for the crimes, but was only convicted of arson. Serial Killer Ed Gein sitting in back of police car after being arrested. He supposedly murdered 11 people, eviscerating them and hiding body parts in his house.

He was an abused child of an alcoholic father and a puritanical and domineering mother who instilled in her son a pathological fear of both women and sex. When his father, brother and mother died within a 5-year period, he was left alone at the family farm, where he eventually cordoned off parts of the house turning it into a shrine, of sorts, to his mother.

Thirteen years later, local police arrived at the farm, following up on a tip regarding missing hardware store owner Bernice Worden. Their search of the property revealed a hall of horrors that included human body parts turned into household items such as chairs and bowls, faces used as wall hangings and a vest made up of a human torso. Many of these gruesome items were from already-dead bodies that Gein had stolen from their graves, but he had murdered one other woman in addition to Worden.

He claimed that he was using the body parts to assemble a new version of his beloved mother. Gein was diagnosed with schizophrenia and declared unfit for trial. A decade later, he was convicted of one of the murders, but was declared insane at the time of the crime.

He spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. John Wayne Gacy was charged with committing 33 murders. Gacy was later executed by lethal injection.

There they found a class ring and clothing belonging to several young men previously reported missing. In a 4-foot crawl space beneath the house, where a penetrating odor was present, they were shocked to find the decomposing bodies of 29 boys and teenagers that Gacy had raped and murdered.

Law enforcement also came under criticism, as the family members of several of the victims had previously pointed to Gacy as a possible suspect. In addition to the bodies found at his house, Gacy admitted to killing several additional men, disposing of their bodies in a nearby lake. His attempts at presenting an insanity defense failed, and he was convicted on 33 counts of murder and executed by lethal injection in He stole from them and then set fire to the homes of his victims.

He is currently serving a life sentence. Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton was dubbed The Pig Farmer Killer due to his profession as a farmer and tendency to kidnap and murder women.

His number of victims is as many as 49 women. He killed from to , when he was caught and sentenced to life in prison. Colonel Russell Williams, a decorated military pilot, became one of Canada's most notorious serial killers when it was discovered that he killed, robbed and raped multiple women in He was sentenced to life in prison in Peter Tobin killed and raped at least three women in the '90s and early '00s.

Tobin had previously served time for raping his teenage neighbors. Tobin is also suspected of being the infamous Bible John serial killer , although he was never officially charged with the crimes. Tobin is currently serving a life sentence. During the early s, Hu Wanlin was in prison for human trafficking.

That didn't stop him from opening a medical practice while jailed. Once he was released after a retrial in , Hu treated hundreds of patients with an herbal remedy that actually contained sodium sulphate. He was arrested in and sentenced to 15 years in prison for practicing medicine without a license.

Steve Wright, aka the Suffolk Strangler , killed five prostitutes in The English serial killer was caught ten days after his last murder and sentenced to life in prison. Viktor Sayenko at left in photos and two accomplices were responsible for the deaths of 21 people in The Ukraine murders became well known across the globe when one of the many video recordings of the horrific crimes was leaked on the Internet.

Sayenko was reportedly trying to get rich off of his snuff videos, but that motive was never proven. He is currently serving life in prison. Junko Ogata worked as an accomplice to the famous Japanese serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga. Ogata was harshly abused by Matsunaga, which lead to her helping him kill at least 7 people, including her niece and nephew , in the late 90s.

Although Ogata received a death sentence, the sentence was commuted to life. In the s, Catherine Birnie and her husband David killed four women. These brutal murders were known as the Moorhouse murders, named after their place of residence where they committed the crimes. After trying to kill a 5th victim , the girl escaped and brought the police to her abductors.

David killed himself in jail , but Catherine is still serving out her life sentence in an Australian prison. Kaspars Petrovs killed anywhere between 13 to 38 women in Latvia. During his trial, Petrovs claimed did not want to murder his victims and only intended to rob them. He was sentenced to life in prison. In , 8 bodies were found in barrels filled with hydrochloric acid in Snowtown, Australia.

The crimes became known as the Snowtown Murders. John Justin Bunting was one of the four perpetrators caught for the crimes. He was sentenced to eleven life sentences in prison , as the ringleader of the group. He helped Bunting find victims who were acquaintances of the group, many of whom had their social security and bank accounts robbed before they were murdered.

Wagner and the rest of the group were convicted in , and he was sentenced to life in prison. Charles Sobhraj is responsible for the murder of 12 people, through various methods, including drowning and poison.

He was originally arrested in India where he served time from to After he was released from prison, he went to France where he was considered a celebrity. However, in when he entered Nepal he was re-arrested for his crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

Argentina serial killer Robledo Puch killed 11 people, as well as robbed, raped, kidnapped and sexually abused many more people. His victims were killed through stabbings, shootings and strangulation. His crimes took place over one year before he was caught in and sentenced to life in prison. He was only 20 years old when he was caught. Adnan Colak is a Turkish serial killer who raped and killed 11 women between the ages of 68 and He also raped 6 other elderly women.

He was caught in , and his trial lasted over 5 years. He was sentenced to death, but when Turkey abolished the death penalty in his sentence was commuted to life. Russian serial killer Alexander Bychkov killed at least 6 men and was caught in He lured alcoholic and homeless men to his home before stabbing or beating them to death. Bychkov also cannibalized their bodies. Convicted serial killer and sex offender Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 males between and He was killed in by a fellow prison inmate.

British serial killer Harold Shipman, who worked in England as a medical doctor, killed over of his patients before his arrest in Jack Unterweger was an Austrian serial killer who murdered several women before committing suicide in Jerome Brudos was a serial killer and necrophile who murdered four women in Oregon during the s. Serial killer Edmund Kemper murdered six young women in the Santa Cruz, California, area and several members of his family. An abused child who later earned her living as a sex worker, Aileen Wuornos was found guilty of killing six men and was later executed in a Florida prison.

Serial killer Bobby Joe Long brutally murdered 10 women in He was executed in May Wayne Williams is suspected of murdering more than 20 Black youths from to in Atlanta, Georgia.