25 Most Terrifying Serial Killers of All Time

25 most terrifying serial killers of all time by hesty Bernard psychologists are still trying to figure out why some people become serial killers is it a genetic factor is the person's upbringing to blame for their behavior or is it a combination of variables that transform some people into horrific Killers nobody knows for sure but it is a known fact that all serial killers share some common characteristics most were abused as children experience some form of head trauma experience violent sexual events as children grew up isolated and alone and acted out their violent fantasies on animals before moving on to humans the serial killers on today's list committed particularly horrendous crimes and are all suspected of much higher body counts than those they were ultimately convicted of we've listed them according to their number of confirmed victims I'm Mike with list25 and here are 25 most terrifying serial killers of all time but before we begin don't forget to like share comment subscribe click that notification Bell so you don't miss out on any new content and uh with that being said let's go should I say it more horrifically let's go yeah now just let's move on [Music] 25 Leonard Lake and Charles ing the name's Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer are well known but Leonard Lake and Charles ing may be new to you Lake and ing joined their murders Minds together in 1983 at Lake secluded cabin outside Wesleyville California where Lake had built an extensive underground dungeon this dungeon imprisoned their prey while they were tortured and raped for months on end they even abducted two families Harvey and Deborah dubs and their infant son Sean and later Lonnie Bond and Brenda O'Connor and their two-year-old son Lonnie Jr the abducted men and infants were executed promptly while the women were used for their personal pleasure in a Twisted operation the two nicknamed operation Miranda the most terrifying aspect of lake and ing's murdering spree was that they painstakingly documented their acts on film 24. Joachim Kroll between 1955 and 1976 German serial killer Joachim Kroll butchered at least 14 people including children Kroll would have intercourse with his victims corpses after strangling them with his bare hands then cut them up into pieces for later consumption interestingly Kroll was arrested after a neighbor complained about a plumbing backup human remains had obstructed the pipes when Kroll was apprehended he was in the midst of boiling body parts hacked from his most recent victim they're in ketter a four-year-old girl 23. Harold Shipman Harold Shipman later dubbed Dr Death may just be the worst serial killer on today's list the medical doctor was convicted of murdering 15 elderly patients in 2000 however a public inquiry concluded that there were most likely several hundred more in his 27-year Killing Spree the GP administered Lethal Injections of morphine to his victims who ranged in age from 41 to 93. he hanged himself in his prison cell four years after being convicted 22. Randy Kraft there's a good reason our parents told us to never accept rides from strangers Randy craft an unsightly I.T consultant with an IQ of 130 would pick up hitchhikers and feed them drugged beer to incapacitate torture sexually assault and murder them his Reign ended after California Highway Patrol officers discovered a drugged hitchhiker in inside his Toyota they also came across a coded list of his victims while searching the vehicle investigators would later find his prized collection of trophies and the pictures he took of his victims many of whom could never be identified although his lawyers tried to declare him incompetent stand trial a jury found him guilty of 16 murders he was sentenced to death in 1989 after prosecutors presented evidence suggesting his total victims surpassed 65. 21. Jeffrey Dahmer without Jeffrey Dahmer no list of terrifying serial killers would be complete Dahmer aka the Milwaukee cannibal was found guilty of murdering 17 young men over 14 years but he did more than just murder them he also sexually assaulted dismembered and occasionally ate his victims during his trial Dahmer confessed to drilling a hole in some of his victims skulls to transform them into mindless sex slaves after being convicted of 15 murders Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive lifetimes in prison a sentence that amounts to 941 years however he died in prison in 1994 after an assault by another inmate 20. Muhammad bijay Muhammad basji also known as BJ grew up in a big family with six brothers and six half-brothers BJ never knew his mother and then said his father was an abuser who regularly beat him and Shackled his legs as a toddler BJ admitted to sexually assaulting and murdering 16 boys aged 8 to 15 over a year he would lure them into the desert under the guise of hunting animals then torture and assault them before murdering them their remains would be left to decompose in the desert with the remains of animals on top to divert any attention away from the odors BJ was apprehended on September 24 2004 and sentenced to death over 5 000 people came to witness his public execution 19. Gerald stano Gerald stano was a badly neglected child that grew up to be a monster his terrible childhood resulted in stunted development a distorted mind and a frightening pattern of conduct that lasted into adulthood his psychotic murdering Rampage began in the late 1960s and lasted more than seven years before he was captured stano would pick up hitchhiking women and murder them by shooting stabbing or strangling them he was apprehended in 1980 and eventually prosecuted for 33 murders although he was also linked to the murders of a further 88 women the lead investigator actually believes his true number of victims was three times that 18. Ramadan Abdel Rahim Mansour born in 1980 Ramadan was bullied terribly as a child The Bullying eventually ended with him being sexually assaulted and flung off a moving train in the attack Mansour sustained severe injuries including permanent damage to his right eye after his release from the hospital he joined a street gang and quickly Rose the ranks mansor and his gang would entice their victims mostly disadvantaged Street children onto the roofs of trains where they would sexually assault and torture them with razor blades once they grew bored with their victims they would fling the young children either dead or barely alive onto the tracks of approaching trains to finish them off 17. John Wayne Gacy there's terrifying and then there's the kind of terrifying that describes the Killer Clown John Wayne Gacy he earned his moniker because of his work as Pogo the clown at Children's birthday parties but the man didn't just do things to humor young children he also rubbed shoulders with important politicians and saw to it that his profession provided him with easy access to victims Casey was found guilty of raping torturing and murdering 33 teenage boys over the course of six years he would entice them to his house strangle or asphyxiate them and then bury them underneath said house Gacy was executed in 1994 via lethal injection 16. Ted Bundy you don't have to be an American or a child of the 1970s to be familiar with Ted Bundy Bundy is without a doubt one of history's most heinous murderers not to add kidnappers rapists burglars and necrophiles his modus operandi involved kidnapping raping and dismembering of his female victims he frequently held onto their heads as keepsakes and enjoyed playing with them in various ways hours before his execution in 1989 Bundy confessed to abducting and murdering 30 women however it's widely acknowledged that the actual number was much higher 15. Hajj Muhammad misfui a gruesome news story made the headlines in 1906 about a Moroccan man who had killed over 36 women in Morocco his name was Hajj Muhammad misfui case Drew International attention the killer would Target and Drug younger women before killing them brutally with a dagger he would keep the remains beneath his store for his after-hour activities after the victims were revealed mesfui was sentenced to death by being walled up alive now being walled up was a terrible ordeal the murderer had to stand up straight in a very narrow space and had no food or water and had a minimal supply of air reports from the time stated that his screams could be heard for two days before he grew quiet on the third fourteen Suri Tash Suri Tash a Ukrainian police officer was caught after he attended the funeral of one of his victims the deceased girls friends recognized Tosh as the man who had spoken to her before her disappearance and death he would later be tried for the rapes and murders of 37 Ukrainian girls and young women he'd claimed to have killed at least 100 women from 1980 through 2005 he used his abilities as an investigator to slip under the Authority's radar killing scores of young women and girls as young as eight Tosh would kidnap them strangle them with a cord or similar device and sexually assault them before during or after death 13. Moses sitole Moses sotole is South Africa's most infamous serial killer who committed what's known as the ABC murders since his victims were found in the cities of adrageville boxberg and Cleveland known for his Charisma and handsome appearance he enticed his victims into deserted areas under the pretense of taking them on job interviews only to overpower rape and murder them in one particularly horrific event he left the toddler of one of his victims at the crime scene where the child later succumbed to the elements the socioeconomic circumstances in South Africa made it easy for him to find women desperate for work and his sophisticated demeanor added to the frightening nature of his crimes he was finally charged with 40 rapes and 38 murders many of his victims were never identified in 1997 sitole was sentenced to 2410 years in prison 12. Ahmad soraji Ahmad saraji also known as the Black Magic killer allegedly began his murder spree in 1986 after his late father appeared to him in a vision and instructed him to kill 70 women he did everything he could for 13 years to reach that number soraji practiced Witchcraft and some victims came with him hoping his powers would help them solve their issues instead he enticed them into a field and persuaded them that burying them up to their waist was part of his magical cure instead he strangled them and drank their saliva after they had died believing it would increase his powers finally he would bury them entirely with their head pointing toward his house saraji was arrested in 1998 and convicted of 42 murders he was executed by firing squad in 2008 11. Gary Leon Ridgeway between the 1980s and 90s investigators battled to apprehend the infamous Green River Killer who preyed on prostitutes and Adolescent runaways in King County Washington the serial killer would strangle his victims during or after he had had sex with them then dumped their bodies near the Green River for years police suspected a man named Gary Ridgeway but they couldn't construct a case against him until DNA technology allowed them to connect him to some of the victims in 2001. Ridgway confessed to 48 murders in 2003 to avoid the death penalty and received several life sentences he has since admitted to several more homicides claiming a body count of 75 to 80 victims 10. Andre chicatillo the movie Citizen X chronicled the Russian investigators hunt for our next killer and his ultimate capture Andre chicatillo the Russian serial killer sexually assaulted murdered and dissected over 50 young women and children between 1978 and 1990. chicatillos stabbed and slashed his victims to death with the knife before leaving them in remote Forest areas next to train stations the youngest victim was a mere nine years old chicatello later admitted that he could only reach orgasm by stabbing women and making resisting his intense desire to kill impossible even though he confessed to 56 brutal murders he was tried and convicted of only 53 in 1994 and executed by firing squad 9. Yang Shin Hai Yang Shing Hai may have been China's most prolific serial murderer with a body count of 67 murders and 23 rapes his three-year murdering spree included Honan Angel provinces he killed with a hammer and occasionally murdered entire families Yang famously stated after his trial on Chinese television I have no desire to be part of society Society is not my concern Chinese police apprehended Yang a migrant worker during a routine inspection of entertainment establishments his trial lasted less than two hours and he was found guilty in 2004. he was executed by firing squad a few weeks after the verdict 8. Samuel Little American serial killer Samuel little is the most prolific killer in U.S history that's saying a lot in a country with such a long history of Serial murderers also known as the choke and stroke killer little killed young women between the ages of 17 and 35. predominantly African-American sex workers after his arrest little confessed in 93 murders and all of his admissions are believed to be believable by FBI crime experts law enforcement has verified 60 of his victims with many more awaiting final confirmation Little's victims were usually disconnected from their families and battling unemployment and addiction little died on December 30th 2020 at the age of 80 in a hospital in Los Angeles 7. Daniel carmago Barbosa many criminologists believe that the Colombian serial killer Daniel carmago Barbosa strangled more than 180 girls between 1973 and 1985. he was found guilty of murdering 72. carmango's mother died while he was a child and his father was domineering and emotionally detached he was raised by an aggressive stepmother who frequently clothed him in girls clothes making him a target of mockery in front of his peers he preyed on virginal young girls often from low-income households and lured them to remote areas before raping and killing them he justified his decision to Target and kill young girls he preferred virgins because they cried which gave him more satisfaction he died in prison in 1994 after being stabbed by another inmate in an almost theatrical twist one of his victims nephews stabbed him to death six the Russian police officer Mikhail popkov convicted of 56 murders between 1992 and 2017 is currently serving his second life sentence in prison popkov had already been in prison for the murder of 22 women in 2015. the murderer known as the werewolf employed a similar strategy for most of his crimes while off duty he would stop women and offer them a ride if they climbed into his vehicle he would rape and murder them using weapons such as a hammer and an ax popkov described himself as a cleaner who believed he was ridding his neighborhood of undesirables chilling home videos of himself attest to this fact police believe popgov may eventually confess to dozens more victims as his tally is believed to be closer to 200 5. Bruno ludka Bruno ludka a German serial killer was a mentally ill sadist who found violent pleasure in torturing animals when he was 18 he switched to human victims pursuing girls and women who stimulated his frenetic sexual impulses although he occasionally robbed his victims rape was typically his primary motivation Nazi police apprehended lutka at the end of World War II after they discovered him in necrophilic acts with the remains of one of his victims he eventually confessed to several unsolved murders and was declared insane he was committed to a hospital in Vienna and subjected to Medical experimentation that ended with his execution by lethal injection in 1944. 4. Javed Iqbal in 1999 Javed Iqbal a middle-aged resident of a working-class neighborhood in Lahore Pakistan sent a letter to the police claiming that he had sexually abused and murdered over 100 juvenile runaways between the ages of 6 and 16. when authorities searched his home they discovered the mangled bodies of at least two victims and photographs and bags containing his victim's clothes during his subsequent trial he boasted I have no regrets I killed 100 children he showed no remorse for his actions a judge sentenced him to be strangled a hundred times and his body to be dismembered and dissolved in acid identical to what he had done to his victims three was a wealthy Knight in Lord the Commander in the French army and Joan of arc's companion in arms he was also a thoroughly insane serial killer hundreds of children went missing in the areas surrounding Darius Castle between 1432 and 1433 because it was common for the aristocracy to hire young boys as servants the parents of his victims were utterly unaware of their children's fate the high confessed to the accusations after his arrest and described how he ritually tortured hundreds of youngsters over a roughly 10-year period their High appeared to take particular Delight in the killings after cutting their throats he would sit on the victim's bellies to watch them die on October 26 1440 he was sentenced to death by simultaneous burning and hanging and died and not 2. Pedro Lopez even more terrifying than Pedro Lopez's in human killing spree is the fact that we don't know where he is today the Colombian claims to have raped and murdered around 300 women throughout Columbia Ecuador and Peru at least a hundred of them were native women the monster of the Andes was apprehended in 1980 and led authorities to the graves of 53 victims aged 9 to 12. a jury convicted Lopez of murdering 110 girls in Ecuador on top of his conviction in Ecuador he confessed to an additional 240 murders in Colombia and Peru and was declared insane despite being a convicted serial killer Lopez was released from prison in 1998 for good behavior while several theories surround His whereabouts no one can confirm where he is today one Luis garavito Luis caravito aka the Beast has the highest number of confirmed victims among serial killers worldwide garavito initially confessed to murdering 140 boys between the ages of 6 and 16 between 1992 and 1999. he is however accused of murdering nearly 300 people authorities launched an investigation into the deaths after discovering a mass grave containing 35 young children most were boys whose bodies exhibited signs of binding sexual assault and long-term torture after his conviction garavida was sentenced to the longest prison sentence in Colombian history 1853 years nevertheless Colombian legislation was changed in the following years to limit imprisonment to a maximum of 40 years and his sense was further reduced to 22 as he cooperated with the authorities to locate his victims remains he will now become eligible for parole in 2023. so I don't have anything for this one I really don't what are some other serial killers we may have missed on the list let us know in the comments below like I said before don't forget to like share comment subscribe click that notification Bell and as always I said that this this one messed with me this one's hmm I don't understand how people can do it I mean I know I know I I'm speechless I just can't thank you guys so much I love you all and I'll see you next time

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Published: Mon Jun 19 2023