Serial Killing for Profit: Multiple Murder for Money

Serial Killing for Profit

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Former Hells Angels biker who killed 43 people. Died of bone-marrow cancer in Convicted of strangling at least 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings he believed would give him magical powers. Executed by firing squad on 11 July Thiago Gomes da Rocha. Brazilian security guard who confessed to the murders of 39 people. Attempted suicide in prison. Sentenced to 25 years. Known as South Africa's Ted Bundy. Preyed on unemployed women, posing as a businessman and luring his victims with the prospects of a job, before leading them to an isolated place, where he raped, tortured, and murdered them.

Sentenced to years imprisonment with a non-parole period of years. A former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, suffocated girls aged between 8 and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead. Claims to have killed Besides killing, he robbed his victims of money and valuable items that he would sometimes give to his wife as a gift. American serial killer known for his charisma and good looks.

Bundy officially confessed to 30 homicides, but has confessed to killing 35—36 women in the past, and some estimates run upwards of or more. Infamous for escaping from prison twice and murdering multiple victims in one day; sometimes abducting women from the same location within hours of one another. Known to have murdered a minimum of 33 teenage boys and young men between and , 26 of whom he buried in the crawl space of his Chicago home. Gacy was known as the "Killer Clown" due to the fact he often entertained children at social events dressed in a self devised clown costume. Gacy was executed in Ottoman Empire Iraq Persia.

Known as "Asghar the Murderer". Killed 33 young adults in Iraq and Iran. Executed on June 26, Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour. Gang leader known as al-Tourbini "The Express Train". Raped and tortured homeless children, mostly boys aged 10 to 14 years old, aboard the trains between Cairo , Alexandria , Qalyoubeya and Beni Sueif. The victims were usually thrown off the moving train when they were dead or in agony; other times they were thrown into the Nile or buried alive.

Killed and cannibalized poor travelers and homeless vagrants. Kept a ledger recording his murders with at least 31 names in it including Vincenz Olivier, his only surviving victim , thus confirming at least 30 victims. But due to the massive amount of human remains found in his apartment, his kill count is suspected by many to exceed 42 victims.

Killed motorists in various municipalities before his capture. Sexually assaulted women he befriended in forests, stabbing or strangling them afterwards; sentenced to death. Corll was responsible for the Houston Mass Murders , the torture and murder of young boys in Pasadena, Texas , and elsewhere in southeast Texas. Murdered by accomplice Elmer Wayne Henley when Corll turned on him. Robbed 22 stores in several Chinese provinces, killing 28 people in the process. He killed his victims with different instruments such as guns, rocks, a knife, and a hammer.

Authorities attributed the murders to two serial killers because of the inconsistent modus operandi. In some cases he killed his victims with a rock, in others he shot them, and in others he murdered tailors with a hammer. Maake was arrested after Moses Sithole was found guilty of 38 killings and sentenced to 1, years in prison.

Bruce George Peter Lee. Epileptic arsonist who killed people in the town of Hull ; sentenced to life imprisonment. Corona was convicted of murdering ranch laborers and burying them in orchards. He was sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment. Also known as the Butcher of Hannover and the Vampire of Hannover, because of his preferred method of killing by biting through his victim's throat, sometimes while sodomizing them.

He would then dump the bodies in the nearby river Leine. Is believed to have been responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men.

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He was convicted, found guilty of 24 murders and executed. Evaded arrest and conviction after the discovery of 24 bodies hidden in large metal drums in his property in At that time he was serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army , and deserted when the military was notified of the murders by civilian authorities. His final whereabouts and fate are unknown, as is his final victim count. Killed mainly women he considered unfaithful to their husbands, sometimes the children accompanying them too; committed suicide before he could be sentenced.

Sentenced to 8 life terms. Necrophiliac who primarily targeted boarding house landladies on the U. Captured after two murders in a small now ghost town in southern Manitoba. Found guilty, hanged by Canadian authorities in January Known as the "Necrophile Rebel"; killed his victims with blows from heavy objects, then had sexual intercourse with their corpses; sentenced to civil commitment.

Colombian pedophile and serial killer. He confessed to killing 21 children in remote areas of Colombia. Would pick up young male hitch-hikers or young men from gay bars near Redondo Beach, California, and kill them. Bonin and three accomplices are known to have murdered a minimum of 21 youths aged between 12 and 19 in and around Los Angeles. As the majority of his victims were discarded alongside various southern California freeways, Bonin became known as the Freeway Killer. Bonin was convicted of 14 of the freeway murders and was executed in Romanian man who lured victims and then murdered them with an axe; he was arrested after a dog found a dead body in his house on 7 September He confessed to have committed at least 26 murders.

He was shot dead by a policeman while trying to escape from prison. Used a hammer to murder mostly older victims, until his focus shifted to the decapitation and mutilation of escorts after being dumped by a girlfriend who worked in that profession. Killed travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad serving under Zardad Khan. Also killed his wife. Executed on April 20, Known as the "Monster of Tholeni"; killed women and children in the village of Tholeni; sentenced from 25 years to life imprisonment.

Lured female victims with promises of marriage and gave them cyanide, claiming they were contraceptive pills, Sentenced to death in Cannibal known as "The Novokuznetsk Monster"; admitted to 19 murders, but 82 bloody sets of clothes were found in his home, along with jewels and photographs of possibly unidentified victims. Found insane and interned in a mental hospital. His mother was sentenced to 16 years in prison for luring Spesivtsev's victims to their home. Known as "The Interstate Killer"; sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of year-old Daniel Bridges. He confessed to other homicides of young men and boys in five separate states.

Died of AIDS complications in Child trafficker who sold children to the black market; multiple children due to the harsh abuse caused by Tann; died of uterine cancer before she could be arrested. Alleged serial killer who killed 19 people with an M3 submachine gun in three Costa Rican towns, always south of the Florencio del Castillo Highway. Known as the Balashikha Ripper. Accused of killing at least 19 women.

Charged with 13 murders, he escaped during a trial transport. Killed 8 more people in two months before he was recaptured. Sentenced to 27 years. Committed suicide in prison on 27 February Army deserter who committed 30 robberies and killed 19 people; the most infamous Latvian criminal; executed Known as the " Krasnoyarsk Beast"; committed 70 crimes around the Krasnoyarsk area, including 19 murders and 8 attempted murders; sentenced to death, commutted to life imprisonment. Killed in various cities of Turkey.

Killed 18 people in various states in Known as "The monster of Montmartre". Killed and robbed old women. Confessed to 18 rapes and murders. Killed 18 people in three months, including a family of four; given 19 life sentences and years of imprisonment. Lured and murdered 17 teenage boys, although he is suspected of 25 murders between September and Sentenced to 35 years in prison. Killed people because they were "mocking" him; sentenced to life imprisonment. Burglar who murdered 17 people, mainly prostitutes, between and , during six months.

Known as the "Prostitutes Killer" and the "Liguria Monster". Known as the " Novosibirsk Maniac"; former policeman who killed prostitutes; sentenced to life imprisonment. Known as "Satan in a skirt". Killed 17 elderly women between and Sentenced to 20 years in prison. Convicted of 16 counts of murder but left a cryptic "score card" referring to at least 65 victims.

May have had an accomplice. Raped and killed at least 16 boys and teenagers. Nicknamed the "Tehran Desert Vampire". Was convicted and executed after being lashed in front of a crowd in Known as the Ogre or Beast of Ardennes. He was caught after a failed kidnapping in Nicknamed the Phoenix Strangler after the area in which he committed his crimes; he raped and strangled 19 females; arrested, he was found guilty of 16 murders.

Confessed to luring 16 prostitutes to his home and killing them in an attempt to "cleanse" the city of Mashhad. His actions were dubbed "The Spider Murders". Dahmer ate some of his victims and kept their body parts in his freezer. Was sentenced to life imprisonment; murdered in prison in Nicknamed El Mataviejas The Old Lady Killer , he raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria.

He went unrecognized for over a year because he tugged his victims into their beds after they were killed; no autopsies were made and the deaths were attributed to natural causes. Nicknamed Panga man for his use of a machete locally known as a "panga". He stabbed and robbed his victims between and ; arrested, he was hanged on 14 November Pleaded guilty to and convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes committed over a nine-month period in Raped and strangled females in the Donnybrook area. Convicted of 16 murders and 19 rapes, nine kidnappings, robbery and assault. Killed prostitutes in the "Skid Row" area of E.

Sprague Avenue in Spokane, Washington. Sentenced to years in prison and two death sentences. Killed 16 people in California , Nevada , Texas. A habitual criminal, confessed to the rape and murder of over 20 young and adolescent males. Escaped from prison several times and was declared a " manipulative institutionalized sociopath " [84] Sentenced to life; committed suicide in prison. Serial rapist who killed children of poor families.

Mystery murderer s of fifteen Atlanta women in May have had as many 21 victims. Prostitutes he kidnapped were released into the Alaskan wilderness for him to hunt down like animals. Based on discovered remains, police suspect him of six murders in addition to the 15 for which he was convicted. Sentenced to years plus life. Died in ; age Known as the "Railroad Killer" because his killings were committed near the railroad tracks he used to traverse the country. He was also suspected in a California murder case and claimed two additional killings he refused to elaborate on.

Executed by lethal injection. Convicted of killing 15 people in Los Angeles, California in the s and s. Killed his victims with an axe or a knife in the s; hanged in Stalked his victims, then would beat and bite them while they were asleep. Died from natural causes a few years after his arrest. Killed 5 prostitutes; imprisoned and released, after which he killed 10 more; sentenced to life imprisonment. Believed to have killed over 80 women in multiple states, in Watts accepted a plea bargain in Texas in which he would plead guilty to a lesser charge and be granted immunity from murder charges in exchange for providing information on his victims; as a result he confessed to 12 murders and was sentenced to 60 years in prison on the lesser charge.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment in separate trials in Michigan in and , and died of cancer a week after the sentence was handed down.

Unidentified killer who shot couples in lovers lanes and mutilated the women, taking their sexual organs and in the last two cases, also their left breast. Pacciani was scheduled for retrial in when he died after taking medication contraindicated to his heart problems. Pacciani's two alleged accomplices, Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti, were sentenced to life and 30 years in prison respectively.

Some believe that none of the accused were guilty, and that Lotti incriminated himself and the other two because he was homeless and wanted to live in prison. Committed arson and burglary, served 2 years of a five-year sentence. Within a year of his release, he raped and murdered two children in Under a plea bargain, he was sentenced to 25 years. Sentenced to life without parole. Died age 63 in Sketched then stabbed to death 14 gay men in San Francisco.

Surviving victims did not wish to testify, so the killer was not identified. Marcelo Costa de Andrade. Drank the blood of his victims. Found not guilty by reason of insanity. Known as The Psychopath from Alto Hospicio; killed 14 women. Sentenced to life imprisonment on February 26, Killed people out of personal hostility; also raped two young girls; sentenced to life imprisonment. Kidnapped, raped and murdered people; died in the hospital from injuries sustained during a suicide attempt. Known as "The brick killer". Killed 14 homeless men with rocks or bricks when they were asleep.

Sentenced to death in May Sentenced to death for the murders of two people; confessed to 44 other murders; eleven were substantiated and he was suspected in the rest. Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and relatives in Indiana. High possibility of over 40 murders. Could have faked her own death in the fire that destroyed her home in ; her children had died of strychnine poisoning before the fire, and the woman's body found next to them was decapitated and, reportedly, smaller than Gunness' own.

Unidentified serial killer, also known as "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run", who targeted drifters and derelicts, of whom only two were identified, between and in Cleveland , Ohio. Confessed to strangling 38 elderly residents of Riga, Latvia, in Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the robbery and murder of Killed 13 people between June 28, , and August 24, , in Los Angeles. Known as the "Night Stalker". Killed 13 women between October 30, , and November 17, Most victims were killed by a combination of bludgeoning and stabbing, and all but two were killed in the county of Yorkshire.

Owing to the modus operandi and location of the murders, Sutcliffe became known as the "Yorkshire Ripper. After 3 years he was sent to a secure psychiatric facility, where he served 25 years before being found "fit to leave" in Government officials and courts ruled in that he will never be released. In , he was declared "no longer mentally ill," and transferred to a maximum security prison.

Raped 15 women in San Isidro , killing 13 of them. Shot and killed during a firefight with the police. Known as the "Granny Ripper"; killed and allegedly cannibalized people in her apartment; committed to a psychiatric clinic. Despite detailed confessions, prosecutors decided not to try him for the first three crimes, instead focusing on crimes that conflicted with his insanity plea.

Although Albert DeSalvo was widely thought to be the Boston Strangler, police and others analysing the case have long doubted the truth of his confession. DeSalvo's body was exhumed for DNA testing, and compared to a substance found on the exhumed body of the Boston Strangler's last victim. In , it was declared not to match, but in officials announced that improvements in DNA extraction technology produced viable samples from the degraded evidence. DeSalvo's body was exhumed and found to match. Known as "The Kansas City Strangler". Killed up to 13 prostitutes in the Kansas City area from to Sentenced to life on April 14, Known as the Irkutsk Monster.

Paranoid schizophrenic who killed people who beat him in chess games; sentenced to compulsory treatment. Known as "The Beast of Atteridgeville " 13 counts of murder, 12 counts of sodomy from — Known as the "Sugar cane serial killer". Shot gay men in the head except one, who was bludgeoned in the Paturis Park of Carapicuiba.

Raped and killed minors in the Nabeul region; executed Known as the "Sandman"; sexually abused young boys in their sleep, then poisoned them; suspected of a murders total. He was suspected of 31 murders. Two victims had been murdered while Gaskins had been incarcerated; one while Gaskins had been on death row.

Later claimed on death row that he had murdered between 80 and victims. Executed in September Previously served 10 years of a year sentence for beating his baby daughter to death. Beginning two years after his release, this county store clerk raped, stabbed, strangled, and sometimes mutilated 12 or more prostitutes in Riverside County, California.

Killed prostitutes in the St. Louis area from to Caught when he mailed an Expedia. Committed suicide in prison. Picked up young men in London between and and dismembered them, keeping various body parts around his home. Convicted of strangling twelve females between ages 12 and 28 and suspected in another three cases. One of the "Hillside Stranglers". French con man known as "The Bikini Killer" or "The Serpent" that targeted Western tourists in vacation spots of South-east Asia, often with the help of female accomplices. Imprisoned in India from to , and from serving a life sentence in Nepal.

Killed 7 people after the Yemeni reunion; fled prison, then proceeded to kill a young couple and three more people; killed during a shootout with police. Raped and killed women around Lipetsk , then robbed their corpses; sentenced to life imprisonment. Known as "The Midtown Slasher"; racist who killed 12 people, all but one of them African Americans, in and , between upstate New York and Georgia, mutilating 2 of them. Sentenced to life, died in prison at the age of 33 of male breast cancer.

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Series of indiscriminate poisonings carried out in Japan in where twelve people were killed. Self-proclaimed witch that abducted, prostituted, murdered and made potions with the bodies of small children that she sold in Barcelona. Remains of 12 different children were identified in her home, but she is believed to have murdered more. Murdered in prison by fellow immates while awaiting trial in Strangled gay men and buried their bodies in his backyard in Indiana and Ohio; 11 men were found in the yard but only 5 were identified. Committed suicide when faced with arrest.

Ringleader in the Snowtown murders aka Bodies in the Barrels Murders ; sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Killed at least 11 boys in the Moscow area between and Female wrestler who bludgeoned or strangled elderly women to rob them. Sentenced to years. Sold flesh of the victims as 'ostrich meat' and kept eyeballs in wine.

Served 14 years in Austrian prison because of a murder in ; killed at least 9 prostitutes after his release. Was a small media star in Austrian media in the early s and was arrested in the United States , where he may have killed another 3 prostitutes, on behalf of Austrian police.

Hanged himself in after being sentenced to life in prison. Known as the "Skid Row Slasher". Killed 11 people, suspected of 2 more. Cut victims' throats from ear to ear and may have drank their blood. Known as "The Woodward Corridor Killer". Raped and strangled his victims before abandoning their bodies in vacant buildings. Died in prison in , age 29, from AIDS. Responsible for 11 deaths between and Died in prison in , age Considered a dangerous offender , meaning that Olson could never have been released from prison.

He had three parole applications rejected. Nicknamed " Bluebeard ", he put notes in the lonely hearts section of newspapers under different aliases, presenting himself as a widower that wanted to marry a war widow. He killed at least ten women and the teenaged son of one of them, and burned their bodies after he had gained access to their assets. Remains of 11 women, who disappeared between and , found buried in desert in Albuquerque, New Mexico in and attributed to a bone collector.

Known as The Cleveland Strangler, he was convicted of killing 11 women between and , and is suspected in another series of murders in the s, with the two sets of killings separated by a year stint in prison. Murdered 11 women between and Sentenced to life in prison. Known as "The Killer Beggar". A necrophilic , schizophrenic homeless man found insane and confined to a psychiatric hospital after killing 11 prostitutes and other homeless people between and Convicted of 11 murders and multiple other crimes including attempted murder and sexual assault.

Sentenced to life imprisonment in Killed eleven elderly women aged 68 to 95 and raped six others.

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Sentenced to death but changed to life in prison after Turkey abolished the death penalty in Teenager serial killer known as the "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer" for being born deaf. Murdered 11 people including his brother and attacked many others, among them his father, sister, brother-in-law and nephew. Tried as an adult and executed. Known as the "singing serial killer" and "Ryan", the artistic name he adopted while awaiting his execution in prison, where he recorded an album and wrote his autobiography.

Francisco de Assis Pereira. Pereira found his victims by posing as a talent scout for a modeling agency. Raped and murdered garment workers after being rejected by his lover. Known as "Chinese Jack the Ripper"; Killed women and then mutilated their corpses.

Seduced, raped and then killed women in his home; sentenced to life imprisonment. Known as Der Totmacher literally: Convicted of killing salesman and nine women. Claimed to have killed Known as "The Weekend Murderer" killed up to 17 people. Long Island 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. Convicted of manslaughter; killed ten people across America in three months in mids including two children and a Southside Slayer victim. Committed at least 12 murders, 50 rapes, and burglaries across California in the s and s.

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. Known as the "Grim Sleeper" for the alleged year hiatus he took from murdering between and Shot and strangled his victims, mostly women, around South Los Angeles. Strangled women around Smolensk ; suspected of the drowning death of another woman; died in from pneumonia while in a special psychiatric hospital. Known as "Boetie Boer"; raped, sodomised and murdered 10 victims from — Sentenced to 7 life terms. Kidnapped 19 people, raped 17, and murdered Sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences plus years in prison; hanged himself three weeks after conviction.

Called "The Co-ed Butcher. He was released in In and , he murdered and dismembered 6 young women, then killed his mother and her friend. He was sentenced to 8 counts of 7 years to life. Known as the BTK Killer. Murdered ten people in Sedgwick County in and around Wichita , Kansas, between and Sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole for years. Known as "the baby faced killer"; responsible for 10 murders. Escaped from prison and later recaptured.

Secondary ringleader in the Snowtown murders and best friend of John Justin Bunting; sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Transient baby-sitter who strangled children in her care. Hanged herself in prison on July 5, Confessed to 10 murders in Charlotte, North Carolina. The victims were all women that he knew.

Convicted of strangling ten females. Died in prison in The victims, women aged 14 to 71, were bound, gagged, and strangled to death with their own clothes in most cases. The largest criminal case in South Korea with two million officers mobilized and over 21, suspects investigated, but went ultimately unsolved. Killed ten girls who were between the ages of 5 to 9 years old. He was arrested from Bahadurgargh, Haryana after a long chase by Haryana police.

A former soldier who targeted ATM users. He killed 10 people and evaded the law for 8 years, before being shot in a shootout with police after a year-long manhunt. Sentenced to death in for killing 10 women, including his wife and mother-in-law. Robbed, raped and killed people around Russia and Ukraine; sentenced to death but commutted to life imprisonment. Known as "Agent "; killed and raped women, managing to avoid capture through suspected knowledge of the investigation against him; executed German trucker who confessed to have abducted, tortured and killed five prostitutes through his route in Western Europe , plus strangling a year-old girl in his native West Germany in , when he was Police considered him perpetrator of nine murders with four more being possible , but he hanged himself in prison before being convicted.

Former security guard who was convicted of seven murders and two assassinations, but confessed to a reported that he murdered a people; sentenced to 20 years in prison and released on parole in Charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. Executed by guillotine in Killed nine people in two states, including a family of three; his wife implicated him in 34 total murders in different states; executed Known as the "Station Strangler", convicted of only one of 22 cases of murder and sodomy of young children near Cape Town.

Convicted of killing 9 people, but suspected in the murder of dozens. He is known as the "Criminal Backpacker" due to his travels throughout France. He left a trail of bodies wherever he went. Convicted of nine murders but believed to have committed 17; also suspected of being the unidentified Long Island serial killer. Sentenced to years to life. Murdered between 9 and 25 children — of which one was her own — during a seven-year period.

On March 3, , she was sentenced to death in one of the most talked about trials in Danish history, that changed legislation on childcare. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Overbye was working as a professional child caretaker, caring for babies born outside of marriage, murdering her own charges. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater. The corpses were either cremated, buried or hidden in the loft.

Known as "The Broomstick Killer"; death sentence for triple-murder commuted; killed three days after parole and ten further times in Waco, Texas until Executed by lethal injection by the state of Texas on November 17, Robert Joseph Silveria Jr. Known as "The Boxcar Killer"; freight train rider convicted of beating to death fellow transients and confessed to dozens more. Known as "The Thrill Killer". Killed at least nine people in Monmouth County, New Jersey and is suspected in at least two other murders.

Described in his personal diary how he killed 11 men who were alcoholics and tramps.

Confessed to eating body parts of his victims. Found guilty of nine murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. New Bedford Highway Killer. Murders of nine women and disappearance of two others between and Motorist who shot twelve people in separate events in Phoenix, Arizona , killing nine. Aaron Saucedo was charged with the shootings and two additional murders in Edgecombe County Serial Killer. Murders of nine women and disappearance of another since around Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Antwan Pittman has been convicted in one case. Convicted of raping and murdering a woman in Sentenced to life imprisonment for killing eight more women during a violent crime spree between and Known as the "Chernikov Maniac"; committed numerous rapes and at least 9 murders in several Russian regions; committed suicide in police custody.

Known as "Ulyanovsky maniac"; killed 8 girls and 1 man from to ; executed Known as the " Kiev Poisoner"; poisoned people out of personal spite; executed English pastor and pedophile who raped and murdered girls in countries he stayed in; never convicted, and died from natural causes in the US in First documented South African serial killer; killed people and then buried them in his backyard; committed suicide to avoid arrest. Slovak serial killer and necrophile who committed his murders during the early s in Munich , Amsterdam and Bratislava.

He was arrested in and received a life sentence in He remains the murderer with the biggest number of victims in the modern history of Slovakia. Black widow who poisoned her family members and other people; charges against her were dismissed, due to her frail health. Murdered his wives with poisoned buttermilk; died of a heart attack.

Confessed to killing nine women, five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Taxi driver known as "The Monster of Machala ", between and abducted 10 of his passengers all lone female students in this Ecuadorian city and killed 8, often raping them after with a stick. Although sentenced to 16 years in prison, he benefitted from an amnesty campaign in that also cleared his criminal record and moved to Spain, where he was arrested for the rape and murder of another student and the attempted rape and murder of a prostitute in Sentenced in to 45 years in prison.

Known as "The Night Bat"; robbed, raped and killed women, burning their bodies afterwards. Killed an officer in ; after release, killed 8 more people; sentenced to death. Killed women and attempted to kill 11 more to feel better; executed White supremacist shooter who confessed to 20 murders and several attempted murders. A serial rapist, Kodaira killed his father-in-law in and 8 to 10 women in Japan between and , engaging in necrophilia after the fifth murder. Previously s he had been deployed to Northern China as a sailor in the Imperial Japanese Navy , where he was free to target the locals.

Dubbed the "Happy Face Killer", Jesperson was convicted of killing 8 women by strangulation. Was convicted of at least five murders, though his actual total is estimated to be much higher. Strangled or shot people to rob them, using a gun he had stolen from a policeman after running him over with his car. Killed eight women during a spree before accidentally killing himself; suspected in the disappearance and murder of more than 5 more.

Killer of at least eight people in the New Orleans area from May to October Known as the "Boozing Barber", typically would find alcoholic women in bars in Vancouver 's destitute Downtown Eastside , buy them drinks or pay them for sex and encourage them to drink with him. When they passed out, he would pour more liquor down their throats, with the resulting deaths reported as alcohol poisoning and generally ignored by police as the intentional murders blended in with the common occurrence in that neighbourhood.

Allegedly responsible for nine murders in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Leonard Christopher was convicted of one murder; another murder was committed in same style while he was incarcerated; believed to still be at large. Admitted to killing eight prostitutes in Poughkeepsie, New York , but denied involvement with the disappearance of a ninth prostitute.

Murdered women with reddish hair in several states. Known as "The Slavemaster"; lured victims through the internet. Nicknamed "The Night Caller", he terrorized the city of Perth assaulting 22 people at random with various means, killing eight of them. Murdered eight of her children between and Believed to have murdered at least eight people in Virginia between and ; left three couples dead and one couple missing and presumed dead. Ross confessed to all of the murders, and was convicted of four of them. He was executed by the state of Connecticut on May 13, by lethal injection , making it the first execution in Connecticut and the whole of New England since Suffocated eight of her nine children during the s.

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One daughter died of natural causes shortly after birth, the first of the Tinning children to die. Raped and killed prostitutes in three states; sentenced to death, but commuted to life imprisonment without parole. Kidnapped, raped, and mutilated the corpses of Louisiana women. Gassed, strangled and in some cases raped eight women one of them his wife in his flat of Notting Hill , London.

Prior to Christie's arrest, one of his victims was attributed to the victim's father, who was hanged after a trial where Christie declared as a witness. The controversy generated led to the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom. Serial rapist and murderer, engaging in necrophilia in two of his murders. Two other victims were the children of the woman he targeted, who Kurita threw off a cliff a third child survived. Raped and murdered eight women aged 17 to 21 upon his release from prison, where he had been for previous rapes. Known as the "S-Bahn murderer"; SA sergeant convicted of raping and murdering eight women by throwing them off trains in Berlin during blackouts in and Killed homeless people and two homosexuals in parks; committed suicide before he could be sentenced.

Known as the "Urals Monster"; teenage pedophile who killed children aged between 2 and 4 years old; executed Killed 8 people in the Lipetsk Oblast and Tambov Oblast ; sentenced to life imprisonment. Killed his brother in the s; emigrated to the US, then returned and killed 7 women in several states. Known as the "Shadow Killer"; killed 7 women and 1 man either during the evening or early morning.

Murdered her newborn infants. Known as the "Angel Maker on Bruks Street"; baby farmer who killed 8 children; committed suicide while in prison custody. Strangled his younger sibling; arrested, and after release killed six more people; again released in , when he killed his final victim. Convicted of killing seven people in Believed to be the most prolific serial killer in Connecticut history. Lured women in a park at night and hacked them with an axe as part of a plan to rid the world of prostitution. Also cooked parts of his victims and ate them himself or served them to other people as part of ethnic dishes.

Found innocent for reason of insanity and interned in a mental institution. Confessed to the impulsive murders of 48 people of different sex, age, wealth and sexual orientation in three countries including his girlfriend, whom he strangled during sex , but police only investigated him for 22 murders in Spain and was considered proven author of 7. Some of his victims were killed with hand to hand combat techniques that he had learned in the Spanish Foreign Legion. Diagnosed with XYY syndrome and interned in a mental institution until his death in Convicted of killing seven women in Philadelphia and keeping their bodies in his apartment.

Convicted of the Backpacker murders ; sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 18 years without the possibility of parole. May have had accomplices. Convicted of the murder of 6 people in the late s, including a woman and her year-old daughter. Claims to have killed 11 others, including murders committed while on parole and while on a three-day pass from prison.

Finally imprisoned for life, killed a cellmate in Known as "The Stockwell Stranger", he was a burglar who raped and strangled at least 7 elderly women after breaking into their home. Known as "The Trailside Killer"; murdered women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between and Murdered his godfather in ; after release, killed six cashiers in two separate store rraids; also suspected of murdering a trio of German tourists.

Supposedly murdered prostitutes and exotic dancers; his first victim was Marcia King, who was identified in Believed to have murdered several other women in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Sentenced to death, died in A US-born Scottish burglar and serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people across Lanarkshire between and , believed to have killed a further two.

Manuel was the third-last prisoner to be hanged in Scotland, after a sensational trial in which he conducted his own defence. Kansas City serial killer and rapist; active — Confessed to strangling eight women, but convicted of seven because one of the bodies was never found. Killed six women and a schoolgirl in the South Los Angeles area between and Killed five women and two men in Ciudad Juarez between and Sentenced to life imprisonment.

Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer. Series of at least seven unsolved homicides involving female hitchhikers that took place in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa of the North Bay area of California in and Known as "The Stocking Strangler". Convicted of the murders of seven elderly women in Georgia. Known as "The I-5 Strangler", killed 7 women between and He was tried for the Walnut Creek murder by the Grand Jury before the body was found but in exchange for helping to find the body Kibbe was spared the death penalty and received life in prison.

It took 34 years to find the body of his first victim. Connecticut River Valley Killer. Believed responsible for a series of similar knife murders mostly in and around Claremont, New Hampshire, and the Connecticut River Valley, primarily in the s. Confessed to the murders of at least seven women. Known as the "Bedroom Strangler". Initially convicted of raping and killing 3 women, but it was later revealed that he had other victims.

Active in Kollam , Kerala , Navas was arrested and imprisoned for his first two murders in and During his final crime spree in , he bludgeoned to death five elderly pavement dwellers in their sleep, always after midnight. He feigned a mental illness to avoid suspicion by the police in at least two occasions.

Killed seven people during robberies. Befriended and then killed male migrants over petty disputes. Killed seven girls aged 11 to 16 and raped between 93 and Killed 7 women in Chomutov. Reid killed the employees of restaurants he targeted for a series of robberies. He was on parole after serving 7 years of a year sentence for armed robbery. Died in at age Sentenced to death in ; released in after the sole witness his brother was found insane. A year later, he killed 6 people in a 2-month string of brutal robberies and murders.

Last person to be executed on Connecticut's electric chair, in In , he escaped the mental hospital where he was recluded in for murdering his parents five years earlier and began a crime spree in Europe that included burglary, hijacking, kidnapping, rape and murder and earned him the Public Enemy Number One spot in Italy, France and Switzerland.

Committed suicide in prison after failing to escape a second time.

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Bus driver that preyed on young handicapped women seven murders in the s. Sentenced to life in prison on November 25, Known as the "Beast of the Bastille"; serving a life sentence for seven murders between and Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murders of seven people in Victoria. As a member of the Young Pioneers Soviet Boy Scouts , Slivko gained the trust of 43 young boys over almost three decades, asphyxiated them until they fell unconscious, and then ritually molested, filmed, photographed and resuscitated them. The seven boys that did not wake up were dismembered and burned.

Minutes before his execution in , police asked Slivko for advice in the investigation of Andrei Chikatilo 's crimes. Known as "The Alligator"; killed and cannibalized at least 7 girl and women from to ; executed Criminal who killed seven people, including three policemen, over 14 months; killed during a shootout with the police. Known as "The Shotgun Killer", later changed name Obadyah Ben-Yisrayl, confessed to shooting seven people with a shotgun in a killing spree spanning from October 30, to December 18, in Indiana. Sentenced to death, commuted to life. Raped and strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio between and Believed to be Posteal Laskey, who was convicted of one murder and died in prison on May 29, Murdered seven young women including two who were pregnant in the southeast United States.

Murdered 7 people in the Pietermaritzburg area of KwaZulu Natal in Died in prison on December 1, Real estate broker who murdered four employees in a superbike shop after they refused to take back a vehicle that he had recently acquired there, and who in — lured two couples to his property, killing the man and keeping the woman chained in a shipping container and raping her. One female victim could be rescued before she was murdered. Kohlhepp had previously been convicted of kidnapping and raping a fourteen-year-old girl in , for which he was imprisoned until Homosexual man who cut off his victims' sexual organs.

Responsible for the murders of several young boys and adolescents, whose bodies were discovered in sewage treatment plants. Known as the "Midday Murderer", due to killing his victims during the afternoon. Released in , after 50 years imprisonment. Raped and murdered 6 women, and also murdered his stepbrother; another man was falsely accused of his first murder. Serial murderer and rapist who would target homosexual men, and hide their bodies in garden planters.

Drifter active throughout the United States who specialized in killing children and multiple victims after breaking into their homes. Caught when a year-old girl survived his attack and provided a description of him. Executed in Texas on April 3, Known as "The Gentleman Killer". Indicted of, and confessed to having committed 30 murders; convicted of 6 and hanged in Found guilty of six counts of second-degree murder. Accused of murdering 20 other women, most of them prostitutes and drug dealers. Comments by Pickton suggest that the total may be Found guilty of the murders of six children and teenagers aged between nine and 16 from to ; executed Former clergyman nicknamed "Father Bluebeard", killed his two wives and four of his children with the help of a fifth he was having an incestuous affair with, and whom denounced him to the authorities seven years later.

British ex-pat living in Australia. Known by the media as "The Granny Killer" as he targeted elderly women; committed suicide while in prison in Killed between 6 and 12 people under the influence of alcohol. A freelance photographers who raped and strangled to death women in California. Arrested in and sentenced to death two years later.

Known as "The Double Initial Killer" since first four victims to be identified bore double initials. Called the "Acid Bath Murderer" for dissolving his victims in sulphuric acid under the belief that he could not be prosecuted for murder if no body was found. He would then forge papers to sell the victims possessions. Confessed nine murders, convicted of six and hanged. Long-haul trucker who killed prostitutes at truck stops; sentenced to life imprisonment. Killed store clerks in robberies around the Midwestern United States.

Killed strangers, all men, along Florida highways over 13 months while working as a prostitute. Executed by lethal injection in Murdered at least six prostitutes in London and may have been responsible for the deaths of two others before that. Handyman who killed six young women between and in Sacramento, California. Multiple Murder for Money addresses a gap in the existing literature by documenting one dozen of the most notorious perpetrators of commercial serial murder—murderers who kill to secure inheritances and pensions, to sell possessions or even the body itself, or as murderers-for-hire.

In these pages, readers will encounter some of the nation's most infamous and disturbing criminals, including "America's first serial killer," Herman Mudgett; Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the "Honeymoon Killers;" Los Angeles's "Night Stalker," Richard Ramirez; the "black widow" Blanche Taylor Moore; and Dana Sue Gray, who killed three women for shopping money. Author Dirk Gibson gets to the twisted heart of each case, meticulously detailing the crimes, the victims, the hunt for the killers, the distinctive variations on the motive of "killing for money," and the lessons learned by investigators in each instance.

Everyone from professional investigators to true crime aficionados will be riveted by these stunning accounts. He profiles a dozen cases of seven men and five women who killed for money, and presents data analyzing their traits and backgrounds. Try our Search Tips. Topics Libraries Unlimited Librarianship: Available for Course Adoption. Features Profiles 12 cases of serial murder motivated by profit Provides ten tables of data that collectively describe salient dimensions of the sample of murderers examined in the book, and quantify their commercial motivation Includes a selective bibliography of the resources used by the author to write the book Offers a comprehensive index covering all aspects of the murderers, their crimes, and the profit motive behind them Highlights Corrects the prevalent misconception that serial murder excludes commercially motivated killings Documents in detail 12 specific cases of multiple murders committed for money Provides the true stories behind a number of cases portrayed in films and fiction Quantifies the occurrence of the types of profit motives underlying serial murder, including inheritances, pensions, acquisition of real property, the sale of body parts and clothing, and insurance scams.

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