But these murderers killed in the dozens and there are serial killers out there with hundreds of victims to their name. These are the ones we will concentrate on here.
This list of worst serial killers focuses on numbers, but it also focuses on brutality and those who murdered for seditious pleasure and not financial gain. There were killers—and in some case still are killers—that are much worse. The only entry for the US on this list of the worst serial killers, Gary Ridgway is definitely deserving of his place on this list. Ridgway, who was sentenced to life without parole, targeted sex workers in Seattle , with many of his crimes going unnoticed.
Citizen O, also known as The Beast of Ukraine, killed 9 people in Ukraine in and then added to that number in In the interim years he was traveling through Europe. However, he was only ever convicted for the murders he committed in his home country, crimes for which he eventually received a life sentence after a death sentence was commuted.
Easily one of the most evil Russian serial killers ever. Few serial killers have killed more than , while a few have murdered below 10 but violently. Since the lists of serial killers are large, we have compacted to only the 20th century sadistic killers.
The main focus of serial killers in this list would be based on sadism and extreme tortures. Some of these serial killers are terrifying, scary, evil and love killing.
List of 10 most sadistic serial killers of 20th century who have tortured their victims brutally before killing:. During the s, this was considered as the worst example of serial murders in the history of America. The victims were usually drugged with alcohol and other drugs until they passed out. The victims were beaten when tied by rope on to a plywood-board or a bed.
After torturing the victims for several days, the victims are killed by strangulation or shooting with a. Then the sadist killer would bury them in any of the four different places — a beach on Bolivar peninsula, a beach in Jefferson County, a rented boat shed or woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn.
Robert Berdella was an American serial killer who is known to have physically assaulted, tortured and murdered at least six men between and Around the age of 16, he claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a male co-worker at the restaurant where he worked. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute in , during this time he engaged in animal torture at-least three times — he tortured a duck, a chicken and sedated and tranquilized a dog.
He started his criminal career by drug dealing and abusing alcohol. He was arrested at the age of 19 for possessing marijuana and LSD. He is known to have had relationships with male prostitutes and was open about being gay. Berdella started killing prostitutes from , by befriending them, luring them to his basement where he repeatedly tortured and finally asphyxiating them fatally.
He also engaged in killing people in different styles and involved different torture techniques such as suffocating them, injecting infected drugs, electric shocks via spatula placed across the eyelid, intoxication and enduring piano wire tied around the wrist to cause nervous damage.
He is also known to have drained the blood of few of his victims after they are dead, cut them and retained few body parts with him before burying the body in the backyard. The sadist monster died of a heart attack in at Jefferson City Correctional Center. The sadistic killer is known to drain the blood of his victims to drink while he repeatedly sexually assaulted them.
He was connected to murders and disappearances of at-least 30 women but was never tried nor convicted of those crimes. In , a year-old Debbora Fitzjohn, secretary of Fairfax, Virginia disappeared mysteriously.
Crutchley was a prime suspect as he lived near a trailer park where the woman was last seen with her boyfriend. Crutchley was questioned several times but nothing was cracked even after her skeletal remains were found by a hunter in October the next year. Many other disappearances have occurred in the area. A string of disappearances also occurred in Pennsylvania when he resided there. In some cases bodies of women were found in remote areas.
In , in Malabar, Florida, a teenager handcuffed to both ankles and feet was found crawling on the side of the road. She had been passed by several trucks until someone stopped to help her.
She begged the driver to take a note of a house and not to take her there. After she was hospitalized it was found that 40 percent of her blood was missing. The day before she had been hitchhiking and a man had given her a ride to take her to the place she wanted to go, but said he had to stop off at a house first.
He invited her in and she refused it, and he got into the back seat and choked her unconscious. She woke up to find that she was tied to a kitchen top. A video cam was placed with lights. The man assaulted and recorded the action. Then he inserted needles into her wrist and carefully extracted blood and began to drink. He told her that he was a vampire when he drank the blood. Unfortunately, his desires were unquenchable, and like most serial killers, he took too many risks.
Bundy was caught in and sentenced to death by electric chair. He was executed in and remains probably the most famous serial killer of all time. But what we do know is that he killed at least five women by gutting, disemboweling and leaving them for dead on the midnight streets of London, England in Not content with just spilling the blood of innocent women, the elusive Jack taunted London police with letters and postcards, one of which was sent alongside the extracted kidney of one of his victims.
Jack obliterated her to the point that she was unrecognizable, and to this day, the crime scene photos of the aftermath remain a disturbing image. No serial killer list is complete without mention of the grave-robbing ghoul whose grim antics spawned one of the best horror characters of all time - Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
He lived with his mother in their farmhouse in Plainfield, Wisconsin until she died in , at which time Gein was 40 years old. Soon after, Gein began paying visits to local cemeteries, where he would unearth the bodies of recently-deceased women, steal them and fashion them into various household items. He shot and killed two local women with a rifle, loaded their corpses into his truck and took them home to his decaying house. Human bones, bowls made of skulls, mutilated vaginas, a lampshade made from human skin , clothes made from flayed skin — and much more.
Because of his affinity for making furniture out of human skin, the character Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs was based on Ed Gein's creations. Gein died in a mental hospital in , but his presence still haunts the backwoods of Plainfield. But by night, he was a sadistic, murdering rapist who ran an unlicensed cemetery beneath his house. As Gacy murdered the young boy, he claimed to experience an orgasm, and from that point on, chased that same feeling with 32 more victims.
You see, every other serial killer on this list had a preferred victim type. Bundy liked young women, Gacy liked teen boys, Gein liked dead women. But Panzram was a different type of beast. Born in Minnesota in , Panzram lived a reckless life from a young age. He started train-hopping as a young man to get around the country, attacking and burgling random people along the way to sustain himself. He lured American soldiers away from bars and shot and killed them.
While only convicted of 3 murders, he actually confessed to killing over twenty people. Panzram despised humanity and fantasized about killing on a mass scale. Between the years of and , the Milwaukee Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer raped, killed and violated the remains of 17 young men. Dahmer mostly killed young black men because that was the demographic he was sexually attracted to. He lured them back to his apartment with promises of sex, booze or drugs, then blitz-attacked them and strangled them to death.
Read next: 21 serial killer quotes and the chilling stories behind them. As Dahmer became more confident, he began to drug his victims so he could toy with them while they were still alive. In some cases, he drilled into their heads and injected them with chemicals in a strange attempt to create human zombies.
Dahmer was caught when one of his victims escaped and told the police of the horrors inside his apartment. Sure enough, police found human body parts , castrated penises in jars and hundreds of Polaroids of decapitated bodies. There are a handful of famous killers of the feminine persuasion out there too.
Wuornos was an abused child who went on to become a sex worker who suddenly upped her game when she started murdering her clients. Allegedly, all of these men had hired her for her sexual services but had become violent, so Wuornos naturally retaliated by executing them.
Her tragic story was adapted into the film ' Monster' in , which won actress Charlize Theron an academy award in Back over the pond we go to Manchester, England, where the man dubbed Doctor Death killed a record-breaking number of victims over a 28 year reign of terror. In the UK, Shipman is undoubtedly one of the most famous serial killers of modern times. On the surface, he looks like your average doctor, but Harold Shipman concealed a horrific secret.
He was the most prolific serial killer in known history. Shipman would visit his elderly patients in their homes and administer excessive amounts of morphine into their system; an act which mirrored how his own mother died.
It was later found that Shipman had been falsifying the documents of his dead patients to hide his activities.
He denied all allegations, and unfortunately, he committed suicide in his prison cell in , taking all of his secrets to the grave.
The list of serial killers that are still alive gets shorter and shorter by the year. This pillar of the Wichita community lived a double life.
He was a loving husband, father and company man, but he moonlighted as the elusive BTK killer, killing entire families and taunting police with mutilated Barbie dolls.
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