Serial Killers
serial killing = the unlawful homicide of at least Three people carried out by te same person in separate events occurring at different times.
| KILLS | YEARS | NAME | AKA |
| 300 + | 1971 - 1998 | Dr. Harold Shipman | Dr Death |
| 200 - 400 | 1960 - 1896 | Amelia Dyer | Reading Baby Farmer |
| 130 + | 1940 - 1983 | Dr. Bodkin Adams | |
| 26 | 1978 | Peter Dinsdale | Bruce Lee |
| 21 + | 1852 - 1872 | Mary-Ann Cotton | |
| 16 + | 1828 | Burke & Hare | Body Snatchers |
| 15 + | 1944 - 1948 | John George Haigh | Acid Bath Murders |
| 15 + | 1958 | Peter Manuel | Beast of Birkenshaw |
| 15 + | 1978 - 1983 | Dennis Nilsen | Kindly Killer |
| 13 + ? | 1970 ? - 1980 | Peter Sutcliffe | Yorkshire Ripper |
| 9 - 15 ? | 1953 - 1983 | Kieran Kelly | Nosy Kelly |
| 12 + ? | 1967 - 1987 | Fred + Rose West | House Of Horrors |
| 12 ? | 1974 - 75 | Patrick MacKay | |
| 7 - 11 ? | April - July 1987 | Kenneth Erskine | Stockwell Strangler |
| 10 + ? | 1842 - 1856 | Dr. Wiiliam Palmer | Rugeley Poisoner |
| 9 | 1877 - 1892 | Dr Thomas Cream | Lambeth Poisoner |
| 8 ? | 1943 - 1953 | John Christie | |
| 8 ? | 1971 - 1978 | Angus Sinclair | Worlds End Murders |
| 7 | 1964 - 1965 | Jack The Stripper | London Nude Murders |
| 7 | 1853 - 1862 | Catherine Wilson | |
| 6 + ? | 1999 - 2006 | Steven Wright | Suffolk Strangler |
| 6 | 1974 - 1978 | John Childs | |
| 5 | 1995 - 1998 | Stephen Akinmurele | |
| 5 | 1964 - 1965 | Ian Brady & Myra Hindley | Morrs Murders |
| 5 | 1977 - 1978 | Archibald Hall (Roy Fontaine) | Monster Butler |
| 5 | 1993 | Colin Ireland | Gay Slayer |
| 5 | 1974 - 1975 | Donald Neilson | The Black Panther |
| 5 | 1888 | Identity Unknown | Jack The Ripper |
| 4 + ? | 1982 - 1986 | Robert Black | |
| 4 + ? | 2014 - 2015 | Stephen Port | |
| 4 + | 1955 - 1957 | Mary Wilson | Merry Widow of Windy Nook |
| 4 | 1991 | Beverley Allitt | Angel of Death |
| 4 | 1985 & 1989 | John Cooper | The Bullseye Killer |
| 4 | Feb 1942 | Gordon Cummins | The Blackout Ripper |
| 4 | 1990 - 1994 | Steven Grieveson | Sunderland Strangler |
| 4 | 1986 | Michael Lupo | Wolf Man of London |
| 4 | Sept - Dec 1995 | Peter Moore | Man In Black |
| 4 | 1972 - 1978 | Robert Maudsley | |
| 4 | 2002 | Colin Norris | Angel of Death |
| 4 | 1975 - 1976 | Mark Rowntree | |
| 4 | 1821 - 1837 | Thomas G Wainewright | Wainwright the Poisoner |
| 4 | 1955 - 1957 | Mary Wilson | Merry widow of Windy Nook |
| 3 + | 2002 - 2004 | Levi Bellfield | Bus Stop Killer |
| 3 + | 1960 - 1961 | Michael Copeland | Bubble Car Murder |
| 3 + ? | 2025 | James Desborough | |
| 3 + ? | 2002 - 2003 | Anthony Hardy | The Camden Ripper |
| 3 + ? | ?? - 1991 | Peter Tobin | |
| 3 + | 1974 - 1976 | Trevor Hardy | Beast Of Manchester |
| 3 ? | 1985 - 1986 | John Duffy & David Mulcahy | Railway Killers |
| 3 ? | 1962 & 1971 | Graham Young | Teacup Poisoner |
| 3 | 1984 - 1985 | Leslie Bailey | |
| 3 | 1915, 1925 & 1935 | William Burkitt | Hessle Road Serial Killer |
| 3 | 1897 - 1902 | George Chapman (Severin Klosowsk) | The Borough Poisoner |
| 3 | 2013 | Joanna Dennehy | Peterborough Ditch Murders |
| 3 | 1965, 1978 & 1988 | Michael Downs | |
| 3 | 2009 - 2010 | Stephen Griffiths | Crossbow Cannibal |
| 3 | 1946 | Neville Heath | Golden Haired Killer |
| 3 | 1973 | Joseph Kappen | Saturday Night Strangler |
| 3 | 2004 - 2005 | Mark Martin | The Sneinton Strangler |
| 3 | 2013 & 2019 | Jordan Monaghan | |
| 3 | July 1992 & Nov 1993 | Robert Napper | |
| 3 | 1982 | Barry Prudom | The Phantom in the Forest |
| 3 | 1951 & 1952 | John Straffen | |
| 3 | 1912 - 1914 | George Smith | Brides in the Bath |
| 3 | 2000 | Philip Smith | |
| 3 | Identity Unknown | Bible John | |
| 2 + | 2007 | Derek Brown |
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