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SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

specific

DATE(S): Late 1960s/early 1970s VENUE: Bergen

DATE(S): 1995–2001 VENUE: Lucerne, Switzerland County, N.J. VICTIMS: 12+

VICTIMS: 22

MO: Violent rapist of young females; after 1977 arrest MO: Nurse who killed Alzheimer’s patients aged for two rapes, he confessed the murders of more 66–95 by suffocation and lethal injections; Five than a dozen women

other victims survived.

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DISPOSITION: Received life prison term on Jan. 28, DISPOSITION: Convicted of kidnapping one victim, 2005

1997; condemned on two murder counts, April 7, 1999

Anderson, Allen Leroy
(1942– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

Anderson, Russell
(?– )

DATE(S): 1976 VENUE: USA, nationwide VIC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

TIMS: Eight definite

specific

MO: Robbery-murders in transit cross-country

DATE(S): 1987 VENUE: Salt Lake City, Utah VIC-

DISPOSITION: 40 years in Minn.; Fla. death sentence TIMS: Three

commuted to life

MO: Execution-style shootings of mentally retarded adults

Anderson, Curtis Dean
(1961– )

DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty; three consecutive terms of five years to life

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Northern California VIC-

Anderson, William L.
(d. 1864) AKA: Bloody Bill TIMS: 10 suspected

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE

MO: Convicted kidnapper, described by police as DATE(S): 1850s–64 VENUE: Kans./Mo. VICTIMS:

prime suspect in murders and disappearances of girls 54 admitted

aged four to seven; confessed one murder and 10

MO: Career criminal and member of “QUANTRILL’S

abductions to police in May 2001, saying, “This is RAIDERS”

gonna go down like ZODIAC”

DISPOSITION: Killed in Union ambush, Oct. 26, 1864

DISPOSITION: Imprisoned from 1992 to 1999 for the 1991 kidnapping of a 25-year-old woman; received
Andrade, Marcel de
(1966– ) AKA: Nitteroi vampire life term in July 2001 for kidnapping an eight-yearSEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

old girl who escaped alive

DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

VICTIMS: 14

Anderson, Dale R.
(1952– )

MO: Raped/killed boys, age six to thirteen, and drank SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

their blood

DATE(S): 1978–89 VENUE: St. Clair County, Ill.

DISPOSITION: Confined to lunatic asylum;

VICTIMS: More than seven alleged

escaped/recaptured, 1997

MO: Profiler ROBERT RESSLER names Anderson as the strangler of six females aged 14–24, and one young
Andrews, Ralph Raymond
(1945– )

boy; Anderson denies any murders but admits,

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

“These cases and a lot of others you don’t know DATE(S): 1972–91 VENUE: Ill./Ind./Mich./Wisc.

about are related.”

VICTIMS: 20–40 estimated

DISPOSITION: Life prison term in 1989, on two mur-MO: Rape-slayer of females, stabbed and eviscerated der counts; two suspects serving time for three other victims, usually teens; boasted in prison of “many”

murders

killings are deemed innocent by Ressler

DISPOSITION: Acquitted of attempted murder after stabbing two 15-year-olds, 1973; life sentence for a
Anderson, Richard Harold
(1948– )

1991 murder, in 1993; second life term for a 1977

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

murder in April 2003

DATE(S): 1972/87 VENUE: Fla. VICTIMS: Two

MO: Murders in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties;
Angeline, Betty Jean
(1942– )

one victim was man who propositioned Anderson’s SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

girlfried

DATE(S): 2001 VENUE: Independence, Va. VIC-

DISPOSITION: 20-year term, 1974; condemned, 1988

TIMS: Two

MO: Shot female acquaintances aged 59 and 62 in
Anderson, Robert Leroy
(1969– )

their homes

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty on both counts and DATE(S): 1994–96 VENUE: Sioux Falls, S. Dak.

received life sentence, Nov. 2001

VICTIMS: Two

MO: Rape-slayer of women aged 28 and 29; victims
Angelo, Richard
(1962– )

strangled or suffocated

SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-hero

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DATE(S): 1987 VENUE: West Islip, N.Y. VICTIMS:
Archerd, William Dale
(1912– )

10+ estimated

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

MO: “Hero” murders of hospital patients by male DATE(S): 1947–66 VENUE: Calif./Nev. VICTIMS:

nurse

Six suspected

DISPOSITION: 50 years to life on four counts

MO:“Bluebeard” slayer of wives/others, via insulin injections

Anh, The Duong
(1975– )

DISPOSITION: Condemned on three counts, 1968;

SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-felony

commuted to life, 1972

DATE(S): 1998–99 VENUE: California VICTIMS:

10

Ardison, Victor
(?–?)

MO: Gang leader who shot male victims during rob-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

beries, including four killed in one incident

DATE(S): 19th century VENUE: France VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: Convicted in January 2003 on three

“Several”

counts of first-degree murder and one count second-MO: Necrophile who slept with severed heads of his degree; condemned in February 2003 on three

victims

counts

DISPOSITION: Guillotined, date unknown

Ankers, Winifred
(?– )

Arguelles, Roberto
(1962–2003)

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-revenge

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1911–12 VENUE: Brooklyn, N.Y. VIC-

DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Salt Lake City, Utah VIC-

TIMS: Eight confessed

TIMS: Four confessed

MO: Hospital employee; killed infants in maternity MO: Lust killer of three teenage girls and 42-year-old ward out of spite for nurses

woman

DISPOSITION: Confessed, Feb. 1912; disposition DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty and requested execu-unreported

tion, 1997; died in prison of “unknown causes,”

Nov. 13, 2003

Anthony, Michael Lee
(1947– )

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC

Arinaitwe, Richard
(1977– )

DATE(S): 2001 VENUE: Highland Park, Mich.

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

VICTIMS: Two

DATE(S): 1998 VENUE: Kampala, Uganda VIC-

MO: Habitual sex offender and self-styled “black TIMS: Eight

Jesus,” found with remains of murdered women in MO: Strangled women, including a 35-year-old Ameri-his basement

can tourist; tried to kill the magistrate who took his DISPOSITION: Received a prison term of 15–30 years confession in March 1999

for rape and robbery in 1991, mistakenly paroled in DISPOSITION: 48-month sentence for attempted mur-1996 (instead of 2011); returned to prison on that der, 1999; condemned for murder in December 2003

charge while awaiting trial on two murder counts
Armstrong, John Eric
(1974– )

Archambault, Serge
(1956– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Detroit, Mich. VIC-

DATE(S): 1989–92 VENUE: Montreal, Quebec

TIMS: Six

VICTIMS: Three

MO: Strangler of female prostitutes; confessed murders MO: Traveling salesman and lust-killer of women of 11 women and one man, allegedly committed in DISPOSITION: 25 years on three counts of first-degree the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thai-murder, 1993

land while a U.S. Navy seaman, 1993–99; authorities discount those claims but blamed Armstrong for
Archer, Gerald Thomas
(1932–95)

six murders in Michigan

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Life sentence without parole on one DATE(S): 1969–71 VENUE: Chatham and London,

count, April 2001; pleaded guilty on three counts of Ontario VICTIMS: Three

second degree murder and received a 31-year sen-MO: Females in their 50s and 60s beaten and stabbed tence in July 2001

DISPOSITION: Life sentence on one count, 1972; died in prison 1995; publicly blamed for two more mur-Arnold, Herbert (1944– )

ders in February 2000

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/Sex.

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DATE(S): 1965/70 VENUE: New York City VIC-

DATE(S): 1970/85 VENUE: North Charleston, S.C.

TIMS: Three

VICTIMS: Three

MO: Rape-slayer of two female neighbors; killed kid-MO: Shot his brother, adoptive father, and a teenage nap victim

neighbor

DISPOSITION: Ruled insane, 1965 (later released); DISPOSITION: Life term for brother’s death, 1970

incompetent for trial, 1970; convicted on one count, (paroled 1980); executed on two counts Jan. 22, 1973 (paroled 1983); back to asylum on rape

1999

charge, 1991

Avinain, Charles
(1799–1867)

Arnold, Terry
(1962– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1867 VENUE: Paris, France VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1981–87 VENUE: North America VIC-

“Several”

TIMS: “Several” suspected

MO: Butcher who robbed/dismembered male cus-

MO: Rape-slayer of girls and young women killed tomers

while he worked for a traveling carnival

DISPOSITION: Guillotined, 1867

DISPOSITION: Life sentence in Canada, 1991, for the 1987 murder of a 16-year-old girl; named as prime
Bailey, Leslie
(1950–93) AKA: Catweazle suspect in three more Canadian murders, plus others SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

in Mexico and five U.S. states (Fla., N.Y., Okla., DATE(S): 1980s VENUE: England VICTIMS:

Tex., and Va.)

Three+

MO: Pedophile slayer of boys age six to 14; police sug-Arrington, Marie Dean (1933– )

gest 25 possible victims; alleged accomplices in sec-SEX: F RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE

ond and third murders never charged

DATE(S): 1964/68 VENUE: Fla. VICTIMS: Two

DISPOSITION: 15 years for manslaughter (with three MO: Shot husband; killed female victim kidnapped to accomplices), 1989; life term on second count, extort son’s release from prison

1991; life term on third count, 1992; found dead in DISPOSITION: 20 years for manslaughter, 1965; con-cell “under suspicious circumstances,” Oct. 1993

demned, 1969; sentence commuted to life, 1972

ACCOMPLICES: Stephen Barrell (?– ), 15 years in 1989; Sidney Cooke (1928– ), 19 years in 1989;
Artieda, Ramiro
(d. 1939)

Robert Oliver (1955– ), 15 years in 1989

SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC

DATE(S): 1930s VENUE: La Paz, Bolivia VIC-

Bajramovic, Miro
(?– )

TIMS: Eight

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-

MO: Killed brother for inheritance, then strangled seven extremist

18-year-old girls resembling lover who jilted him DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: Croatia VICTIMS: 86

DISPOSITION: Shot by firing squad, July 3, 1939

confessed

MO: Croat soldier who killed Serbs during “ethnic
Askeborn, Glenn
(1944– )

cleansing”

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Confessed in open court; outcome

DATE(S): 1975/84 VENUE: Conn./Maine VIC-

unknown

TIMS: Two suspected

MO: Women bound/killed in identical circumstances
Baker, Cullen Montgomery
(1836–68/69)

DISPOSITION: Imprisoned on one count, in Maine SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE

DATE(S): 1861–68 VENUE: Ark./Tex. VICTIMS:

Atkins, Benjamin
(1968– ) AKA: Woodward Corri-12+

dor Killer

MO: Old West outlaw and murderer

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Killed by posse in Dec. 1868 or Jan.

DATE(S): 1991–92 VENUE: Detroit, Mich. VIC-

1869

TIMS: 11

MO: Strangler of female prostitutes

Baker, Stanley Dean
(1948– )

DISPOSITION: Life imprisonment, 1994

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-

extremist

Atkins, Joseph Ernest
(1947–99)

DATE(S): 1970 VENUE: Mont./Calif. VICTIMS:

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

Two confessed

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MO: Mutilation/cannibal murders influenced by

DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Keraterm, Bosnia VIC-

Satanism

TIMS: Five

DISPOSITION: Mont. life sentence (paroled 1985) MO: Bosnian Serb concentration camp guard who

killed five inmates and injured at least 27 others in
Balaam, Anthony
(1966– )

“ethnic cleansing”

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty and received an eight-DATE(S): 1994–96 VENUE: Trenton, N.J. VIC-

year prison term, Oct. 29, 2003

TIMS: Four

MO: Raped/strangled four female prostitutes aged
Baptistella, Dr. Sergio Luiz
(1955– )

27–41 within a two-mile radius of his home; fifth SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

victim escaped to notify police

DATE(S): 1998 VENUE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

DISPOSITION: Convicted on four counts; received life VICTIMS: Four alleged

prison terms, June 16, 2000

MO: Physician who shot six other doctors in personal disputes, killing four; one victim was his former
Baldi, Joseph
(1941– )