Worst serial killers 20th century


















Tracing him via the floppy disc, Rader was arrested and charged upon which he immediately confessed. He is serving 10 consecutive life sentences with an earliest possible release date of February 26, In , Gaskins began killing a series of hitchhikers he picked up while driving around the coastal highways of the American South, torturing and mutilating his victims.

He claimed to have killed 80 to 90 people. He was arrested in , when a criminal associate confessed to police that he had witnessed Gaskins killing two young men. He was convicted of eight murders and was sentenced to death which was later commuted to life imprisonment without parole.

Remarkably Gaskins went on to commit another murder within the high security prison, killing a fellow inmate.

He is the only man to have ever killed an inmate on death row. An American-born Scottish serial killer known to have killed nine people across southern Scotland between and , Manuel is suspected of having killed as many as 18 people.

Police were unable to prove his guilt until his final murders, when some banknotes Manuel had been using to pay for drinks in Glasgow pubs were proven to be stolen from one of his victims. He confessed to these murders after his mother confronted him at the police station where he was being held. He was one of the last prisoners to be hanged in Scotland before they ended capital punishment. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine.

A professional con man, he targeted wealthy individuals and charmed them into believing he was a successful businessman. He lured his victims to a derelict warehouse before shooting them. He then dissolved their bodies in sulfuric acid before forging papers in order to sell their possessions and collect their life savings.

In he was sentenced to death and hanged at Wandsworth Prison. Between and Fred West and his wife Rose tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls. The pair were finally apprehended and charged in after police obtained a search warrant and located several human bones buried within the garden and under the floor boards of their home.

During his trial, Fred West hanged himself prior to being convicted. In Rose West was jailed for life having been found guilty on 10 counts of murder. Known as the Genesee River Killer, Shawcross first killed in by sexually assaulting and murdering a year-old boy after luring him into a wooded area in Watertown, New York.

He then raped and killed an eight-year-old girl, for which he was captured and convicted of manslaughter. Serving 14 years in prison he was released in and went onto brutally kill 12 female prostitutes between the ages of 22 and Eventually captured at the scene of his last murder, Shawcross confessed to all 12 murders and was sentenced to a years imprisonment.

He died in prison of cardiac arrest in In Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others. He targeted prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford causing a climate of fear across northern England. When arrested in January for driving with false number-plates , police questioned him about the killings and he confessed. At his trial, he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility, but his defense was rejected by the jury.

He was sentenced to serve life in prison without parole and remains in Broadmoor Maximum Security Mental Hospital to this day.

His victims ranged between the ages of a nine year old girl to a married couple in their late sixties. Notably he smeared pentagrams on the walls of his crime scenes. He operated in the Soviet Union and Ukraine. He was a former Ukrainian police criminal investigator who suffocated girls aged between 8 and 18, and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead. He claims to have killed He was convicted of strangling at least 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings in Indonesia.

He believed that their deaths would give him magical powers. He was executed by firing squad on 11 July He was a truck painter, and confessed to killing 71 women. He was suspected of killing over 90 victims, confessed to 71, and was convicted of Few months later, he assaulted another teenage girl. Due to increasing complaints against him, the school board asked him to resign voluntarily.

He left this job and joined another teaching position in Shakhty. His teaching career ended in In he is known to have murdered his first victim — a 9-year-old girl.

He threw the body in the nearby river. On , he murdered another teenage girl whom he strangled, mutilated the body with a stick and teeth. Many of his victims were prey to brutal methods of executions like ripping open their body parts, mutilation of the eye sockets, bite off their tongue, tearing off their private organs and removing body parts.

The psychopath killer was arrested on 13 September The killer died on 14 September by execution by a gun shot. Albert Fish was a sadistic cannibal serial killer from America who tortured young children, raped and consumed them. He lured and preyed on weaker victims like handicapped children and American-African children. The scary killer was known to mutilate his victims, drink their blood, cook the meat and consume their body parts. He was suspected of killing 9 children but at one point of time he stated the number to be It is unclear on whether the number meant murders or sexual assaults.

After organizing a search for the boy, only his body was found hanging by a tree. The boy had been sexually assaulted and strangled. An autopsy of the boy concluded that the boy had suffered lacerations to his legs and abdomen. Fish never confessed to killing the boy, but later stated that he intended to castrate the boy but fled when he heard someone approaching the area.

Donald Henry Gaskins was a sadistic serial killer who is known to have confessed to killing 80 to 90 people purely for enjoyment. Gaskins was sent to a reform school where he was regularly raped by fellow inmates. He was released from the reform at the age of Gaskins is known to have suffered tremendous mental trauma that could have affected his criminal behaviors later on.

Gaskin was arrested several times, have escaped prison and have physically assaulted kids. He is known to have gone on a killing spree during the s and 70s.

He killed on an average one person every 6 weeks. He has confessed to killing people purely for enjoyment using different methods such as stabbing, suffocating, and mutilation and even claimed to have cannibalized few. Luis Garavito is known to have murdered more than people, admitted to murder, physical assault and torture of young boys. He initially gains trusts among them to commit the crime, takes them for a long walk until they are tired.

The photo of Gacy here is of him with First Lady Rosalynn Carter, which proved to be somewhat embarrassing for the Secret Service when his crimes were uncovered. He would abduct runaways or prostitutes and murder them after sexually assaulting them.

Ridgeway was convicted in for murders that he had committed 20 years previously and this was down to a breakthrough in DNA evidence linking him to his victims. He would lead his victims out into deserted fields under false pretences, where he would then overpower, rape and murder them. After his capture in and then conviction in , he was sentenced to 2, years, with the possibility of parole in years.

An American, starting around the late s to early s and the continuing on for as many as years, Stano picked up a number of hitch-hikers and young women, murdering them via shooting, stabbing or strangulation. Apprehended in , he was sentenced to life in prison until his execution by the electric chair in Florida,



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