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58 min
The story of a desperately lonely overweight woman who lets herself fall into partnership with a man who murders women for money. The so-called Lonely Hearts Murders, entwined in voodoo magic and kinky sex, became one of the most sensational cases of the 1940s.
45 min
Randy Steven Kraft is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler, and the Freeway Killer. He murdered a minimum of 16 young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of whom he killed in California.
22 min
Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard, Jr. is an American serial killer. A former trash company supervisor, Gilyard is believed killed at least 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993. He was convicted of six counts of murder on March 16, 2007.
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58 min
The story of a desperately lonely overweight woman who lets herself fall into partnership with a man who murders women for money. The so-called Lonely Hearts Murders, entwined in voodoo magic and kinky sex, became one of the most sensational cases of the 1940s.
45 min
Randy Steven Kraft is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler, and the Freeway Killer. He murdered a minimum of 16 young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of whom he killed in California.
22 min
Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard, Jr. is an American serial killer. A former trash company supervisor, Gilyard is believed killed at least 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993. He was convicted of six counts of murder on March 16, 2007.
28 min
Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko, aka The Beast of Ukraine, was a prolific Ukrainian serial killer, family annihilator, mass murderer, serial arsonist, and robber active from 1989 to 1996. He admitted to killing 52 people in a seven-year period.
49 min
Hadden Irving Clark is a murderer and suspected serial killer who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. He is currently incarcerated at Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland.
30 min
Charles Becker was a lieutenant in the New York City Police Department between the 1890s and the 1910s. He is known for the scandal of being tried, convicted, and executed for the first-degree murder of the Manhattan gambler Herman Rosenthal in 1912 near Times Square.
31 min
Keith Hunter Jesperson is an American serial killer who murdered 8 women in the 1990s. They called him The Happy Face Killer because he sent letters to the prosecutors and media and drew smiley faces on the letters. At the age of 35, he was standing 6 feet 7.5 inches (2.02 m) and weighed approximately 240 pounds (110 kg).
43 min
Joel David Rifkin is an American serial killer who was sentenced to 203 years in prison for the murders of nine women between 1989 and 1993. He is believed to have killed up to 17 victims between 1989 and 1993 in New York City and on Long Island, New York. Although Rifkin often picked up sex workers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, he lived in East Meadow, a suburban hamlet on Long Island.
23 min
Beverley Gail Allitt is an English serial killer who was convicted of killing four children, attempting to kill three other children, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six.
34 min
Michel Paul Fourniret, also known as the Ogre of the Ardennes, is a French serial killer who confessed to killing twelve people in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2003.
31 min
Craig Chandler Price is an American serial killer who committed his crimes in Warwick, Rhode Island between the ages of 13 and 15. He was arrested in 1989 for four murders committed in his neighborhood: a woman and her two daughters that year, and the murder of another woman two years earlier. He had an existing criminal record for petty theft.
15 min
Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer, who was sentenced for killing 110 girls, but who claimed to have killed more than 300 girls across Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. Aside from uncited local accounts, López's crimes first received international attention from an interview conducted by Ron Laytner, a longtime freelance photojournalist who reported interviewing López in his Ambato prison cell in 1980.
22 min
Gary Ray Bowles was an American serial killer who was executed in 2019 for slaying six men in 1994. He is sometimes referred to as the I-95 Killer since most of his victims lived close to the Interstate 95 highway.
42 min
The "Snowtown" murders (also known as the bodies in barrels murders) were a series of murders committed by John Bunting, Robert Wagner, and James Vlassakis between August 1992 and May 1999, in and around Adelaide, South Australia. A fourth person, Mark Haydon, was convicted for helping to dispose of the bodies. The trial was one of the longest and most publicized in Australian legal history.
43 min
Aileen Carol "Lee" Wuornos was an American serial killer and sex worker who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990 by shooting them at point-blank range.
26 min
Robert Christian Hansen, known in the media as the "Butcher Baker," was an American serial killer. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen abducted and killed at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska; he hunted many of them down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife. He was arrested and convicted in 1983 and was sentenced to 461 years and a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
44 min
Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946) was a French doctor and serial killer suspected of killing more than 60 people in Paris, during WW2.
20 min
Mary Ann Cotton was an English serial killer, convicted of, and hanged for the poisoning of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton. It is likely that she killed three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies and many others. She may have killed as many as 21 people, including 11 of her 13 children. She chiefly used arsenic poisoning, causing gastric pain and rapid decline of health.
30 min
Henri Désiré Landru was a French serial killer, nicknamed the Bluebeard of Gambais, who killed at least seven women in the village of Gambais between December 1915 and January 1919. Landru also killed at least three other women, plus a young man, at a house he rented from December 1914 to August 1915 in the town of Vernouillet, 35 km northwest of Paris. The true number of Landru's victims, whose remains were never found, was almost certainly higher.
41 min
A quick look at the serial killers who surrendered and some of the serial killers who confessed crimes they did not commit, to gain some notoriety.
42 min
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer who killed and dismemberment 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991.
43 min
Murderabilia, also known as murderabilia, is a term identifying collectibles related to murders, homicides, perpetrators, or other violent crimes. Buyers typically seek collectibles that are either artifacts used or owned by murderers and items (often artwork) created by them. Virtually anything owned or created by mass murderers or serial killers can be marketed, such as vehicles, artwork, and weapons used in crimes. Clothing is also in high demand, particularly clothes worn during crimes themselves.
25 min
Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American convicted killer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.
43 min
Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.
1 hr 8 min
Between 1984 and 1985, Ramirez terrorized the Los Angeles area, breaking into homes at night and committing brutal murders and assaults.
31 min
Anna Marie Hahn was a German-born American serial killer. She poisoned several people and killed 5 of them.
7 min
Paul John Knowles, also known as The Casanova Killer, was an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 20 people in 1974, though he claimed to have taken 35 lives.
1 hr 29 min
Vlad III, most commonly known as Vlad the Impaler was the Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death. He is often considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania.
19 min
Joseph Douglas "Joe" Ball was an American serial killer, sometimes referred to as the "Alligator Man", the "Butcher of Elmendorf" and the "Bluebeard of South Texas". He is known to have killed two and is said to have killed as many as 20 women in the 1930s. His existence was long believed to be apocryphal, but he is a familiar figure in Texas folklore.
32 min
Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo was a Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer, and cult leader who led an infamous gang that was dubbed the Narcosatanists. His cult members nicknamed him The Godfather (El Padrino). Constanzo led the cult with Sara Aldrete, whom followers nicknamed "The Godmother" (La Madrina). The cult was involved in multiple ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989.
38 min
Charles Chi-tat Ng and Leonard Thomas Lake were the American serial killers who murdered an estimated 11 to 25 victims at a remote cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.
42 min
Josef Mengele, also known as the Angel of Death was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II. He is mainly remembered for his actions at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he performed deadly experiments on prisoners and was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be killed in the gas chambers and was one of the doctors who administered the gas. With Red Army troops sweeping through Poland, Mengele was transferred 280 kilometers from Auschwitz to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp on 17 January 1945, just 10 days before the arrival of the Soviet forces at Auschwitz.
46 min
Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders. As part of his plea bargain, another conviction was added, bringing the total number of convictions to 49, making him the second most prolific serial killer in United States history according to confirmed murders. He killed many teenage girls and women in the state of Washington during the 1980s and 1990s.
23 min
Anthony John Hardy was an English serial killer who was known as the Camden Ripper for dismembering some of his victims. In November 2003, he was sentenced to three life terms for three murders, but he may have killed up to nine people.
28 min
Carl Eugene Watts, also known by his nickname Coral, was an American serial killer dubbed "The Sunday Morning Slasher". He died of prostate cancer while serving two sentences of life imprisonment without parole in a Michigan prison for the murders of Helen Dutcher and Gloria Steele, although the number of his victims may have exceeded 100.
36 min
Carroll Edward Cole (May 9, 1938 – December 6, 1985) was an American serial killer who was executed in 1985 for killing at least fifteen women and one boy by strangulation between 1947 and 1980.
1 hr 7 min
John George Haigh, commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer who was convicted for the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine. Haigh battered to death or shot his victims and disposed of their bodies using sulphuric acid before forging their signatures so he could sell their possessions and collect large sums of money.
1 hr 5 min
Robert William "Willy" Pickton is a Canadian serial killer who was convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women. Arrested in 2002, he was the subject of a lengthy investigation that yielded evidence of numerous other murders. Pickton was charged with the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but these charges were stayed by the Crown in 2010. Pickton was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years – the longest sentence for murder under Canadian law at the time he was sentenced.
55 min
Dayton Leroy Rogers is a serial killer currently on Oregon's death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary for six murders. He has been tied to the murders of seven women. He preferred "street" women, usually addicts, sex workers, and runaways. The bodies of six of the women were found at a dumpsite located on privately owned forest lands outside Molalla, Oregon, and thus he was dubbed the "Molalla Forest Murderer".
41 min
Gerard John Schaefer Jr. was an American murderer and suspected serial killer who was imprisoned in 1973 for murders he committed while he was a sheriff's deputy in Martin County, Florida. Schaefer was convicted of two murders but was suspected of many others. He frequently appealed against his conviction, but privately boasted, both verbally and in writing, of killing more than thirty women and girls. In December 1995, Schaefer was stabbed to death in his prison cell.
22 min
Wayne Ford turned himself in. He walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department in Eureka, California in November 1998 with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He confessed to having killed four women in 1997 and 1998 and is thought to have killed others.
24 min
Michael Ross was an American serial killer. In 2005, he was executed by the state of Connecticut, making his execution the first in Connecticut (and all of New England) since 1960, and the last execution in Connecticut before the state repealed capital punishment in 2012.
42 min
Gary Michael Heidnik was an American murderer who kidnapped six women, killing two of them, while holding them prisoner in a pit in his basement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Heidnik was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999.
55 min
Joseph Kallinger was an American serial killer who murdered three people and terrorized four families. He committed these crimes with his 12-year-old son Michael.
13 min
Allan Baker and Kevin Crump are a notorious Australian duo serial killers who are currently serving life sentences for murdering Ian James Lamb and Virginia Morse.
18 min
Faye Della Copeland and Ray Copeland became, at the ages of 69 and 76 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters at their farm in Mooresville, Missouri. When her sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1999, Faye Copeland was the oldest woman on death row.
20 min
Patrick Wayne Kearney is an American serial killer, serial rapist, cannibal, and necrophile who preyed on young men in California from 1962 to 1977. He is sometimes referred to as "The Freeway Killer", a nickname he shares with two other separate serial killers, William Bonin and Randy Kraft. Kearney may be among the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history, claiming possibly as many as 43 victims according to law enforcement.
55 min
Daniel Harold Rolling, also known as The Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who murdered five students in Gainesville, Florida, over four days in late August 1990. Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing a triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990. In total, Rolling confessed to killing eight people. Rolling was sentenced to death for the five Gainesville murders in 1994. He was executed by lethal injection in 2006.
1 hr 33 min
Go to https://huntakiller.com/skdocs for 20% off your first box! Peter William Sutcliffe, also known as Peter William Coonan, was an English serial killer who was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper (an allusion to Jack the Ripper) by the press. On 22 May 1981, he was found guilty of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. He was sentenced to 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were converted to a whole life order in 2010. All but two of Sutcliffe's murders took place in West Yorkshire, the others in Manchester.
38 min
Juan Vallejo Corona was a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farmworkers found buried in shallow graves in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County, California, United States in 1971. At the time, the crimes were characterized as among the most notorious in the United States' history. Until the discovery of Dean Corll's victims two years after his own conviction, Corona was the deadliest American serial killer by the number of proven victims.
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