The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: A Study of the Chilling Criminal Phenomenon from the Angels of Death to the Zodiac Killer (Facts on File Crime Library)

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Williams, Rob (18 November 2013). "Joanna Dennehy trial: Serial killer stuns Old Bailey by pleading guilty to murdering three men and dumping bodies in ditches". The Independent . Retrieved 12 February 2014.

Unidentified serial killer also known as "The Gilgo Beach Killer". Believed to have murdered 10 to 14 people associated with the sex trade over a period of 15 years. [219] Known as "The Soulless"; killed between 6 and at least 15 people starting from the 1990s, including 4 underage brothers; sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. [294]

Known as "The monster of Montmartre". Killed and robbed elderly women. Died of AIDS in 1989 in prison before trial. [90] Known as " Marrakesh Arch-Killer"; Mesfewi drugged, mutilated and murdered women; he was executed by immurement (walling) in 1906. Known as "The Gentleman Killer". Indicted of, and confessed to having committed 30 murders; convicted of six and hanged in 1957. [291] Killed seven people after Yemeni unification; fled prison, then proceeded to kill a young couple and three more people; killed during a shootout with police. [189] Yolande Waddington: David Burgess guilty of nanny's murder". BBC News. 20 July 2012 . Retrieved 5 November 2021.

Megan Jones (6 January 2023). "Shrewsbury serial killer Robin Ligus dead at 70". Shropshire Star. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023. Known as "The Yorkshire Ripper"; murdered women around West Yorkshire and Manchester; the manhunt for him was one of the most extensive and expensive in British historyKnown as " Mother Rasputin"; abbess believed to have murdered wealthy women and children who came into her abbess. The true number of her victims is a matter of debate, but she was found guilty of 177 murders—150 through negligence (fraudulently claiming to offer free tuberculosis treatment when the 'treatment' only consisted of abiding in her high altitude convent) and 27 through starvation. Died in prison in 1954. [48] [49] Unidentified serial killer who shot gay men in the head (except one, who was bludgeoned) in the Paturis Park of Carapicuiba. [177] Known as "The Monster Butler"; murdered people to cover up his crimes while working as a butler for British aristocracy, some with the help of accomplice Michael Kitto Found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from 2005 to 2006; executed in 2007. [292]