Serial Killers
serial killing = the unlawful homicide of at least Three people carried out by the same person in separate events occurring at different times. Although this definition is widely accepted, the crime is not formally or Legally recognised.
| 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 | 2015-2016 | Lucy Letby | |
| 7 | 1853 - 1862 | Catherine Wilson | |
| 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 | 2006 | Steven Wright | Suffolk Strangler |
| 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 + ? | 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 | 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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