Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. Their crimes are committed as a result of a compulsion that often has roots in the killer's (often dysfunctional) youth, as opposed to those who are motivated by financial gain (e.g. contract killers) or ideological/political motivations (e.g. terrorists).
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- Bathory, Elizabeth
- Berkowitz, David
- Bernardo, Paul Kenneth
- Bundy, Theodore Robert
- Buono, Angelo
- Burke and Hare
- Chase, Richard Trenton
- Chikatilo, Andrei Romanovich
- Christie, John Reginald Halliday
- Conahan, Daniel Owen
- Dahmer, Jeffrey L.
- DeSalvo, Albert
- Dutroux, Marc
- Fish, Albert H.
- Gacy, John Wayne
- Gein, Edward Theodore
- Glatman, Harvey Murray
- Gunness, Belle
- Haigh, John George
- Hindley, Myra
- Jack the Ripper
- Kürten, Peter
- Long, Robert Joe
- Lucas, Henry Lee
- Milat, Ivan Robert Marko
- Miley, Gregory M.
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- The Washington Post: Sniper Shootings Coverage Newspaper coverage of a series of random killings in Montgomery County and other suburbs of Washington, DC, that began October 2, 2002 by Lee Boyd Malvo and John Muhammad.
- Yates, Robert The life and crimes of the Spokane, Washington, serial killer.
- Cruz, James Robert Jr. An overview of the life and crimes of a truck driver who allegedly killed prostitutes.