The top ten serial killers of all time

He was 57 at the time. His regime spanned 15 years, starting in , Ludke was caught near the end of World War II by Nazi police, after they allegedly discovered him committing necrophilia on the corpse of one of his recently-deceased victims. He subsequently confessed to a number of crimes and was declared insane, being sent to a hospital in Vienna where he was subjected to medical experiments which resulted in his death by lethal injection in Even after his sterilization due to having been previously caught molesting a young woman, he continued to assault and then murder a number of other women, often by stabbing and strangulation.

Originally confessing to thousands of murders with his accomplice, Ottis Toole, police then subsequently attributed roughly murder cases to his name although only 4 were ever solidly proven to have been committed by him, one of which included his own abusive mother , thanks to the information they garnered from Lucas.

He was apprehended in and was then sentenced to death, but bizarrely enough, his sentence was commuted to life in prison by the then-Governor George W. Many people believe that Lucas had simply been toying with the police, testing them, maybe hoping to embarrass them somehow, just to see how far he could go. Lucas died of natural causes in , aged 64, taking the true number of how many crimes he committed to the grave with him.

After killing around tribal women in Peru in the s, he was apprehended by tribal forces that were just about ready to execute him when they were convinced by an American missionary that was staying with them at the time to take him to the police force instead.

This carried on until he was caught in , but police were still unsure as to his guilt, but a flash flood uncovered a mass grave that had hidden many of his victims, which then led to his arrest. Though the causes of psychopathy remains a mystery, most serial killers show general tendencies associated anti-social behaviour.

The study of the Minnesota Twins Reared Apart has indicated that psychopathic tendencies are sixty percent heritable. Thus, if psychopathy is genetically determined then there should be some deterrence in the brain functions of the psychopaths which was revealed in a study by the University of Wisconsin.

The brain scans revealed that psychopathy was related to decreased connectivity between the amygdala and the ventromedial frontal cortex. Seeing other people suffer does not make them feel bad, and they are not embarrassed when caught doing something unpleasant. Though to a much less degree, social factors also play a role in the development of psychopathic tendencies.

Early childhood abuse or neglect, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, etc. Most serial killers even have families that they take care of. They look like normal, sophisticated people going about their daily work and one can hardly understand that they are plotting murder in their heads.

He confessed to 30 homicides in seven states but the true number remains unknown. He was regarded as handsome and charismatic and exploited these traits into winning his victims trust. He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes and performed sexual acts for several hours at a time till further decomposition made it impossible.

At one point it was stated that the number was over He was a suspect in at least five murders during his life time and confessed to three. He was finally imprisoned and executed by electric chair.

Richard Ramirez was a serial killer, rapist and burglar, infamously known as the Night Stalker by news media. He was an avowed Satanist who never expressed any guilt for his crimes. He became well known for his post-modern mutilation of women. He would kidnap prostitutes and murder them after sexually attacking them. Known as: Black widow Murders: 21 Mary, proffered to kill husbands, lovers, or those in her way.

Her victims were mainly poisoned. Butcher of Rostov was a Ukranian murderer found guilty of the murder of 53 kids and women in a span of twelve years. He used alcohol and cash to attract woman prostitutes and toys and candies to lure kids of both sexes.

And then, they would go to a woods and it would be the place for accomplishing his sick needs. He was found guilty of fifty-two murders and sentenced to death. Toggle navigation. All Lists Miscellaneous. Theodore Bundy 2. Pedro Alonso Lopez 3. Zodiac killer 4. Elizabeth Bathory 5. Gilles de Rais 6. Jack The Ripper 7. John Wayne Gacy 8. Gary Leon Ridgeway 9. Mary Ann Cotton Andrei Chikatilo.

Zodiac killer Name: uknown Murders: 37 His victims were murdered via stabbings and shootings. Elizabeth Bathory Known as: Blood Countess Murders: around 80 Take a look at probably the worst female serial killers ever known, even if a few hundreds of years happened.