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The number of victims almost doubled at the second practice his victims were mainly elderly women. He began his murder spree in 1972 and killed over 70 people in his first practice.

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Harold Shipman is one of history’s deadliest serial killers who has committed as many as 218 credited murders while working as a popular British physician. He is one of the worst serial killers of all time.ĪDVERTISEMENT Luis Garavito 8. After conclusive evidence was found at different crime scenes, Garavito was sentenced to several terms in prison, which total of 1,853 years and nine days in jail. On 22 April 1999, Garavito was arrested on separate charges of attempted rape, but his confession was not enough to charge him with his murders. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, he has more murder victims than the world’s worst serial killer, Pedro López. Though he has admitted to 138 acts of crime, the total number of his victims is more than twice that number. His modus operandi was tempting poor boys between the age of 6 to 16 with money, candy, or odd jobs, only to end up torturing, raping, and killing them. Luis Garavito is Columbia’s worst serial killer with over 300 victims. After 14 years on death row, he was executed by lethal injection in 1994. He was arrested and sentenced to death for committing 33 murders. John often used to perform as a clown in fundraising events – hence the name ‘Killer Clown’. He would hide his victim’s corpses in the crawl space under his house and later dispose of them in the Des Plaines River. He would tempt young boys to his house promising them work or money, only to strangulate them with a tourniquet. The friendly neighbor turned serial killer and a sex offender is something no one expected from John Wayne Gacy. Between 19, he assaulted and murdered around 33 teenagers and young men.

He makes it to the top 10 serial killers list.ĪDVERTISEMENT Jeffrey Dahmer 6. Dahmer was sentenced to 927 years of imprisonment in 1992 but was killed by a fellow inmate in 1994. His victims were mainly young men of colored skin.ĭuring his sensational trial, he gave a gruesome description of cannibalism and necrophilia, which renewed interest in serial killers among the masses. He was caught after a prospective victim overpowered him and reported him to the authorities. Dahmer also indulged in acts of necrophilia as well as cooking and consumption of his victim’s body parts. He committed several acts of murder between this time and 1991 when he was arrested for his crime. Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in 1978, at the ripe age of 18. Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is one of the most famous serial killer documentaries. Though he had confessed to committing 30 murders, the total number of his victims is unknown. However, it did not work, and he was executed in 1989 by electrocution. He enjoyed his status as a media star and welcomed journalists, and received several letters of admiration, hoping to delay his execution. Bundy had decapitated some of his victims – a search of his apartment showed 12 such heads kept as trophies. Ted Bundy often revisited his crime scenes to indulge in sexual acts with his victims’ corpses.

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He was the first serial killer whose trial was streamed on television. Ted Bundy was a handsome, well-educated, and charming man who used his wiles to rape and murder several young women. Miyazaki was arrested in July 1989 for the murder of 4 young girls and sentenced to death in 1997. He even sent postcards to his victim’s families describing his gruesome actions and taunting them. He often preserved his victims’ body parts as his trophies, gaining the name ‘Human Dracula’.Īfter his grandfather died in 1988, Tsutomu Miyazaki got depressed, which fueled his atrocious acts.

One of his many hideous acts includes drinking the victim’s blood and eating her hand after killing her. Tsutomu Miyazaki committed several hideous acts of crime including abduction, murder, and even necrophilia on little girls.

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