The Gruesome Crimes of Peter Kurten When we think of notorious serial killers, many names come to mind—Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy. But one name that is often overlooked is Peter Kurten—the “Vampire of Dusseldorf” who terrorized Germany in the 1920s. His gruesome crimes and depraved behavior shocked

Fritz Honka was a German offender responsible for the deaths of four women in Hamburg during the early to mid-1970s. His crimes were discovered in 1975 when human remains were found in his rented flat. Key Facts Four women were murdered and their remains were located in Honka’s apartment. Honka

Joachim Georg Kroll was a German serial offender whose crimes in the Ruhr region included multiple murders and acts of cannibalism. His case has been studied in criminology and reported widely in media accounts. Key Facts in H3 – Birth details are inconsistently documented in historical records. – Investigators have

A.K.A.: “G*y Slayer” Number of victims: 5 Murder Method: Strangulation Country: London, England, UK Colin Ireland was a former soldier who murdered five g*y men in the mid-1990s. His killing spree finished soon when a CCTV camera got him with his last victim and he was sentenced to life in

The Gruesome Crimes of Ian Brady In the 1960s, Ian Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley shocked the nation with their heinous crimes. Between 1963 and 1965, the pair committed five murders in and around Manchester, England, earning them the nickname “The Moors Murderers.” Their victims were all children between

Charles Frederick Albright: The Serial Killer with a Disturbing Calling Card Charles Frederick Albright was an American serial killer whose disturbing calling card left behind at crime scenes earned him the nickname “The Eyeball Killer.” He was convicted in 1992 of killing three women and mutilating their bodies, and his

The Horrific Story of Gray Leon Ridgway Blog Introduction: Gray Leon Ridgway was a serial killer from Washington State believed to have killed at least 49 women in the early 1980s and 1990s. He was known as the Green River Killer after the river near Seattle where many of his

Charles Sobhraj speaks several languages, studies psychology, and is an expert on gemology. He’s a big fan of Nietzsche, loves discussing “Beyond Good and Evil,” and between 1975 and 1976, this half-Vietnamese half-Indian “ubermensch” murdered over 20 people across India, Thailand, Nepal, Turkey, and Iran. And thanks to his genius,

The Terror of Paul Ogorzow Paul Ogorzow was the perpetrator of a series of gruesome murders that terrorized Berlin during the 1930s. He preyed on women, attacking them in their homes and on the streets in unprovoked assaults. His reign of terror continued for nearly a year before he was

John Marten Crawford was a Canadian offender known for multiple homicides and sexual assaults committed in Alberta and Saskatchewan, primarily during the 1980s and 1990s. He was convicted in separate cases and is serving life sentences in a Saskatchewan penitentiary. Key Facts At least four victims have been linked to

A.K.A.: “The Vampire Rapist” Number of victims: 4 Murder Method: Strangulation Country: Montreal, Quebec/Alberta, Calgary, Canada Canadian serial killer “Wayne Clifford Boden” was a 26-year-old muscular young fellow whose criminal signature is to left bite marks on the breasts of his female victims. His all female victims had been found

The Horrifying Crimes of Karla Leanne Homolka Karla Leanne Homolka is a Canadian serial killer who, along with her then-husband Paul Bernardo, committed a series of gruesome sexual assaults and murders in the early 1990s. Together they were responsible for the deaths of three teenage girls: Leslie Mahaffy, Kristen French,

Christopher Robin Worrell was an Australian suspect linked to a series of killings of young women in South Australia during the 1970s. He is most commonly associated in press accounts with a string of seven deaths around the Truro and Adelaide areas. Key Facts Seven young women have been linked

Number of victims: 3-6 Murder Method: Stabbing with knife Country: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Subside Norris Dupas is an Australian serial killer of the worst kind who killed at least three women and then used to remove their breasts. His savage history of crimes spans more than three decades. In 2007,

John Wayne Glover was a British-born Australian serial killer known as the “Granny Killer” for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney’s North Shore during 1989–1990. Key Facts He murdered six elderly women over a short period, a pattern that brought national attention. He was widely referred to in

A.K.A.: “The Monster of the Andes” Number of victims: 57-300+ Murder Method: Strangulation Country: Peru/ Ecuador/ Colombia Pedro Lopez is one among the worst serial killers of all time, dubbed as “Monster of Andes” killed above 300 girls in his inhabitant country, afterward in Peru and Ecuador, and probably in

A.K.A.: “The Fisher” Number of victims: 11 Murder Method: Stabbing with knife Country: Moscow, Russia Between 1986 and 1992, Russian serial killer, Sergei Golovkin, murdered and butchered 11 young men in the Moscow area.  His victims were young boys aged 10-12. He had a room in his carport where he

In 1921, the small town of Heidelberg, Germany was rocked by a gruesome discovery. When police arrived in response to neighbors’ reports of shouting and slamming noises coming from one of the flats, they found the body of a young woman who had recently been killed. It turned out that