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

brother-in-law for life insurance

DATE(S): 1978–80 VENUE: Minn. VICTIMS: Six

DISPOSITION: Life sentence in Idaho, 1921

suspected

MO: Rape-slayer of females and three children of one
Trupp, Nathan
(1947– )

victim shot during home invasion

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

DISPOSITION: Convicted and sentenced to life on two specific

murder counts for killing a 19-year-old waitress in DATE(S): 1988 VENUE: N. Mex./Calif. VICTIMS:

Afton (1978) and an 18-year-old waitress in West St.

Five

Paul (1980)

MO: Shot random victims while stalking actor Michael Landon

Turner, Julia Lynn Womack
(1968– )

DISPOSITION: Declared insane; confined to state hos-SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE

pital

DATE(S): 1995–2001 VENUE: Cumming, Ga. VIC-

TIMS: Three alleged

Tsuiman, Yuri
(?– ) AKA: Beast of Taganrog MO: “Black widow” who poisoned husband and com-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

mon-law husband with antifreeze; male employer DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Rostov-on-Don, Russia

also died under mysterious circumstances, with VICTIMS: Four

$40,000 missing from his office

MO: Pedophile slayer of young girls

DISPOSITION: Convicted on May 14, 2004 of poison-DISPOSITION: Unknown

ing husband in 1995; received life prison term; charged pending in second case

Tsutomu Miyazaki
(1963– )

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

Turner, Lise Jane
(1956– )

DATE(S): 1988–89 VENUE: Japan VICTIMS: Four

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

confessed

specific

MO: Kidnapped/killed girls age four to seven;

DATE(S): 1980–82 VENUE: Christchurch, New

necrophile

Zealand VICTIMS: Four

DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1997

MO: Killed young children, two of them her own DISPOSITION: Life term + 10 years for attempted
Tucker, James Neil
(1957–2004)

murders, 1984 (paroled 1997)

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

DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Midlands, S.C. VICTIMS:

Ulayuk, Eli
(1968– )

Two

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

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DATE(S): 1988/2004 VENUE: Yellowknife, North-

DATE(S): 1952 VENUE: Quezon City, Philippines

west Territories, Canada VICTIMS: Two

VICTIMS: Four+

MO: Necrophile slayer of a female friend and his MO: Skeletal remains found by police in home of female parole officer; both victims stabbed/strangled unidentified man

prior to sex

DISPOSITION: Unknown

DISPOSITION: Convicted of manslaughter in first case, 1992; paroled June 2004; charged with second
Undisclosed
(1950– )

murder, Oct. 7, 2004; trial pending

SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./PC-

extremism

Underwood, L. C.
(1948– )

DATE(S): 1966–67 VENUE: Tokyo, Japan VIC-

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

TIMS: Three

DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Salisbury, N.C. VICTIMS:

MO: Rape-slayer of young women who mocked his

Two suspected

biracial origins

MO: Ex-cop and obsessive stalker; killed ex-girlfriend’s DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1967

elderly mother and her new lover in separate attacks DISPOSITION: Life + 40 years on one count, 1997

Undisclosed
(1944– )

SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: S MOTIVE: Undisclosed

Undisclosed
(?– )

DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: Xidan, China VIC-

SEX: M RACE: ? TYPE: S MOTIVE: CE

TIMS: Three

DATE(S): 1920 VENUE: Tanta, Egypt VICTIMS:

MO: Restaurant owner; killed three teens and served 20

their flesh as pork

MO:“Bluebeard” slayer of women for profit; kept sev-DISPOSITION: Undisclosed

ered heads in his home

DISPOSITION: Unreported

Undisclosed
(1944– )

SEX: F RACE: A TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC

Undisclosed
(?– )

DATE(S): 1980s–1990s VENUE: Tokyo, Japan

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

VICTIMS: Six

DATE(S): 1920–21 VENUE: Mexico City, Mexico

MO: Decomposed remains of newborn infants found VICTIMS: Four

in plastic bags in an apartment closet; 58-year-old MO: “Bluebeard” slayer of female lovers

tenant admitted the babies were hers

DISPOSITION: Convicted Feb. 18, 1922; sentence DISPOSITION: No charges filed

unknown

Undisclosed
(1948– )

Undisclosed
(d. 1942) AKA: The Ghoul

SEX: F RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC alleged

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

DATE(S): 1985–99 VENUE: KwaZulu-Natal, South

DATE(S): 1942 VENUE: Guadalcanal VICTIMS:

Africa VICTIMS: 20+ alleged

“Several”

MO: Children abducted and killed in
muti
magic ritu-MO: Deranged U.S. Marine stabbed fellow soldiers in als; suspect arrested in Sept. 1999 with two children nocturnal attacks

missing since 1996; later led police to several graves; DISPOSITION: Shot by sentry while fleeing last crime identified as black-magic “healer”

scene

DISPOSITION: Unknown

Undisclosed
(1932– ) AKA: Harry Brown

Undisclosed
(1968– )

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

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

DATE(S): 1980s VENUE: Melbourne, Australia

DATE(S): 1987 VENUE: Thunder Bay, Ontario

VICTIMS: Six

VICTIMS: Two

MO: “Deeply religious” man identified in 2001 as the MO: Rape-slayer of 16-year-old girls

prime suspect in murders of six females aged 14–73, DISPOSITION: Arrested, July 2000; disposition

who were kidnapped from streets and suburban bus unknown

stops, with bodies dumped outside town

DISPOSITION: Unknown

Undisclosed
(1968– )

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

Undisclosed
(?– )

DATE(S): 1992–97 VENUE: Norway VICTIMS:

SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.

Four

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MO: Mother who killed four of her children, ranging
Undisclosed
(1962– )

in age from two days to six weeks, staged as SIDS

SEX: F RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-non-

cases

specific

DISPOSITION: Unknown

DATE(S): 1997–2001 VENUE: The Hague, Nether-

lands VICTIMS: 14

Undisclosed

MO: Nurse who killed patients with lethal injections at SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

four local hospitals; victims primarily infants, young DATE(S): 1994–99 VENUE: Germany/Holland

children, and seniors

VICTIMS: Three confessed

DISPOSITION: Unknown

MO: Mutilation-slayer of women; who beheaded and dismembered his victims

Undisclosed
(?– )

DISPOSITION: Unknown; confessed three murders to SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

police in November 1999

DATE(S): 1998 VENUE: Overton, Tex. VICTIMS:

Two

Undisclosed
(1988– )

MO: Beat and stabbed women aged 75 and 89 in their SEX: F RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Cult

bathrooms at home

DATE(S): 1994–2001 VENUE: Maiduguri, Nigeria

DISPOSITION: In Nov. 1999, police chief Ed Williams VICTIMS: 48 confessed

announced that the unnamed killer was imprisoned MO: Girl arrested at age 13, suspected of killing a two-on other charges

year-old boy and cutting out his heart; she confessed participation in 48 human sacrifices since age seven
Undisclosed
(?– ) AKA: Cannibal of Kosovo and led police to the home of her cult leader

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

DISPOSITION: Unknown

specific

DATE(S): 1997–99 VENUE: Kosovo, Yugoslavia

Undisclosed
(?– )

VICTIMS: “Several”

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

MO: Serbian policeman arrested by UN peacekeepers DATE(S): 1996–97 VENUE: Johannesburg, South

who found human limbs and organs in his refriger-Africa VICTIMS: 14

ator

MO: Rape-slayer of women beaten or shot; some vic-DISPOSITION: Arrested June 28, 1999; outcome

tims also robbed

unknown

DISPOSITION: Unnamed subject charged with 23

offenses in December 1997; counts include murder,
Undisclosed
(1959– )

rape, and robbery; disposition unknown

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

DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Velsk, Siberia VICTIMS:

Undisclosed
(1975– )

Eight

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

MO: Rape-slayer of women aged 16–49, killed at his DATE(S): 1994–98 VENUE: Stockholm, Sweden

rural cabin and buried in nearby woods; confessed VICTIMS: Eight

and revealed bodies after charged with rape

MO: “Signature” killer of victims stabbed in their DISPOSITION: Unknown

homes after visits to communal laundries

DISPOSITION: Unknown

Undisclosed
(d. 2000) AKA: Bas Congo Throatcutter SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

Undisclosed

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Democratic Republic

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.

of Congo VICTIMS: 12

DATE(S): 1997–98 VENUE: Dayton, Ohio VIC-

MO: Slayer who slashed throats of female victims in TIMS: Four

Bas Congo Province

MO: Unnamed minor, identified as prime suspect in the DISPOSITION: Killed by a victim’s husband, May 2, suffocation of four children, aged one to three years, 2000

who died at the home of Regina Moreland over a seven-month period; victims included two of More-Undisclosed (?– )

land’s grandsons, one granddaughter, and a great-niece SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DISPOSITION: Child subject submitted for psychiatric DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Chiradzulu, Malawi VIC-testing/treatment, July 1998

TIMS: Eight

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MO: Killed and dismembered women, keeping partial
Undisclosed
(1983– ) AKA: School Killer remains of several at his home

SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-

DISPOSITION: Arrested in March 2000; disposition cific

unknown

DATE(S): 1997 VENUE: Kobe, Japan VICTIMS:

Two

Undisclosed
(1966– )

MO: 14-year-old who attacked five younger children, SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-killing two; one victim beheaded

“mercy”

DISPOSITION: Indefinite sentence to juvenile prison, DATE(S): 2000–01 VENUE: Lucerne, Switzerland

1997

VICTIMS: 27 confessed

MO: Nurse who admits killing victims aged 66–95 at
Unknown
(d. 1598) AKA: Werewolf of Châlons five area nursing homes; methods included suffoca-SEX: M

RACE: W

TYPE: T

MOTIVE:

tion and drug overdoses

Sex./Sad.

DISPOSITION: Police confirm 24 deaths as homicides; DATE(S): 1590s VENUE: Châlons, France VIC-trial scheduled for early 2005

TIMS: “Dozens”

MO: “Demon tailor” who killed/cannibalized patrons
Undisclosed
(1972– )

of his shop and rural victims ambushed in the

SEX: F RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-

nearby forest

“mercy”

DISPOSITION:Burned at the stake, Dec. 1598

DATE(S): 2001 VENUE: Melbourne, Australia

VICTIMS: More than two

Unknown
(?–?) AKA: Bald Head Pete

MO: Nurse linked to unnatural deaths of two patients SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

aged 63 and 89; 80 similar deaths under ongoing DATE(S): 1840s–70s VENUE: Rocky Mountains

investigation

VICTIMS: 100+

DISPOSITION: Unknown

MO: “Mountain man” and scalp hunter, prolific slayer of Indians

Undisclosed
(1973– )

DISPOSITION: Unknown

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

DATE(S): 2002–03 VENUE: Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Unknown
(?–?) AKA: Arkansas Bill

VICTIMS: 25+

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

MO: Rape-slayer of women

DATE(S): 1870s VENUE: Dodge City, Kans. VIC-

DISPOSITION: Unknown

TIMS: 22 claimed

MO: Old West gunman

Undisclosed
(1979– )

DISPOSITION: Unknown

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-

mercy

Unknown
(d. 1931) AKA: Buster from Chicago DATE(S): 2003–04 VENUE: Sonthofen, Germany

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

VICTIMS: 16 confessed

DATE(S): 1920–31 VENUE: Ill./N.Y. VICTIMS:

MO: Hospital nurse who confessed killing patients

“Numerous”

aged 60–89 with lethal injections; 64 other “suspi-MO: “Most prolific hit man of the entire [1920s]

cious” deaths under review

underworld”

DISPOSITION: Unknown

DISPOSITION: Murdered in New York City poolhall, Sept. 1931

Undisclosed
(?– )

SEX: F

RACE: A

TYPE: S

MOTIVE: PC-

Ursinus, Sophie Charlotte Elizabeth (1760–1836)

“mercy”

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE

DATE(S): 2003–04 VENUE: Japan VICTIMS: Four

DATE(S): 1785–1801 VENUE: Berlin, Germany

alleged

VICTIMS: Three

MO: Doctor accused of killing elderly and comatose MO: “Black widow” poisoner of her lover, husband, patients at hospitals in Haborocho, Hokkaido, and and aunt for personal gain