List of US serial killers by region:
Alabama
[edit]Montgomery, Alabama
Rhonda Belle Martin
[edit]Alaska
[edit]Anchorage, Alaska
Robert Christian Hansen: murdered between 17 and 21 people, active
1980-1983, modus operandi consisted of hiring prostitutes in
Anchorage, flying them out to his remote hunting cabin in his private
plane, and releasing them into the woods where he would hunt and kill
them for sport; served as inspiration for the action thriller Naked
Fear (2007) starring Danielle De Luca as a dancer stalked by a
maniacal hunter. Currently serving a sentence of 461 years in prison.
[edit]Arizona
[edit]Phoenix, Arizona
Baseline Killer - active August 2005 - June 2006. Investigation still
ongoing.
Dale Hausner: AKA the "Serial Shooter", active 2005-2006, convicted of
8 murders with accomplice Samuel Dieteman.
[edit]Arkansas
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[edit]California
[edit]Antioch, California
Charles Ray Hatcher: numerous aliases; confessed to murdering 16
people between 1969 and 1982, in California, Missouri, and Illinois,
attempted murder and sexual assault of young boys and minor teenagers
in Nebraska, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1984,
subsequently committed suicide in Jefferson City, Missouri the same
year.
[edit]Hermosa Beach, California
Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris
[edit]Los Angeles, California
Kenneth Bianchi and cousin Angelo Buono Jr: AKA the "Hillside
Stranglers."
William Bonin: AKA the "Freeway Killer"; killed at least 21 boys and
young men, suspected in fifteen additional homicides, executed in
1996.
Doug Clark and Carol M. Bundy: AKA "The Sunset Strip Slayers"
The Manson Family
Richard Ramirez: AKA the "Night Stalker"; murdered 14 or more people
during a murder spree from 1984 to 1985, associated with Satanism and
periodically shouted "Hail Satan" during trial; currently awaiting
execution.
[edit]Riverside County, California
Dana Sue Gray murdered 3 elderly women in 1994 to support her spending
habits, identified when fourth victim survived her attacks; convicted
and sentenced to life without parole in 1998.
[edit]Sacramento, California
Richard Chase: AKA the "Vampire of Sacramento"; murdered six people in
the 1970s
Ted Kaczynski: AKA the "Unabomber"; site of 2 fatal bombings. Also
killed 1 victim in North Caldwell, New Jersey.
Theresa Knorr: committed 3 homicides including first husband,
convicted of murdering 2 of her own children.
[edit]San Diego, California
Cleophus Prince Jr.: AKA the "Clairemont Killer"; convicted of 6
murders committed in 1990, sentenced to death in 1991.
[edit]San Francisco, California
Zodiac Killer; active late 1960s to early 1970s, never apprehended,
identity still unknown; also killed victims in the surrounding Bay
Area, including Benicia, Vallejo and Lake Berryessa.
Charles Ray Hatcher
[edit]Santa Clara, California
Edmund Kemper: AKA the "Co-ed Killer"; convicted of 10 murders,
beginning with his paternal grandparents in North Fork, California.
[edit]Santa Cruz, California
Herbert Mullin: murdered 13 people between 1972 and 1973, sentenced to
life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025.
[edit]Santa Monica, California
Michael Gargiulo dubbed the "Chiller Killer" AKA the "Hollywood
Ripper" from 1993-2008 was an air-conditioning repairman who killed
one woman in Chicago and 3 other women in Santa Monica, CA. Notable
for killing Ashton Kutcher's former girlfriend Ashley Ellerin.
Confessed in also committing 6 other murders. [1] [2][3] [4]
[edit]Wilseyville, California
Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
[edit]Yuba City, California
Juan Corona
[edit]Colorado
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[edit]Connecticut
Michael Bruce Ross: convicted of 8 murders committed across
Connecticut and New York between 1981 and 1984; executed in
Connecticut in 2005.
[edit]Windsor, Connecticut
Amy Archer-Gilligan: AKA "Sister Amy", active 1910-1917, killed
between 5 and 50 elderly victims; cited as an inspiration for the play
and later film, Arsenic and Old Lace.
[edit]Delaware
[edit]New Castle County, Delaware
Steven Brian Pennell: AKA "The I-40 Killer", "The Corridor Killer";
believed to have murdered 2-5 victims, only confirmed serial killer in
Delaware, executed in 1992.
[edit]Florida
Aileen Wuornos; 7 murders across the state, executed 2002; crime drama
Monster (2003 film) based on her life.
[edit]Tallahassee, Florida
Ted Bundy
[edit]Georgia
[edit]Cordele, Georgia
Janie Lou Gibbs: murdered the 5 male members of her immediate family
by poisoning in 1966-1967; her husband, three sons, and grandson;
given five life sentences, declared clinically insane, died while on
parole in a Douglasville, Georgia nursing home in 2010.
[edit]Hawaii
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[edit]Idaho
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[edit]Illinois
Charles Ray Hatcher
[edit]Chicago, Illinois
John Wayne Gacy: AKA the "Killer Clown"
Belle Gunness
Dr. H. H. Holmes - one of the first documented American serial
killers, active from 1890 to 1894 during Chicago's 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition
[edit]Waukegan, Illinois
Alton Coleman: murdered 7 victims during a 1984 killing spree through
the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and
Kentucky, only person to receive death sentences in three different US
states, executed in Lucasville, Ohio in 2002.
[edit]Indiana
[edit]Gary, Indiana
Alton Coleman: murdered 7 victims during a 1984 killing spree through
the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and
Kentucky, only person to receive death sentences in three different US
states, executed in Lucasville, Ohio in 2002.
[edit]Indianapolis, Indiana
Howard Allen
Alton Coleman
[edit]La Porte, Indiana
Belle Gunness
[edit]Westfield, Indiana
Herb Baumeister
[edit]Iowa
[edit]Davenport, Iowa
Charles Ray Hatcher: numerous aliases; confessed to murdering 16
people between 1969 and 1982, in California, Missouri, Illinois, and
Iowa, attempted murder and sexual assault of young boys and minor
teenagers in Nebraska, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in
1984, subsequently committed suicide in Jefferson City, Missouri the
same year.
[edit]Des Moines, Iowa
Charles Ray Hatcher
[edit]Kansas
[edit]La Cygne, Kansas
John Edward Robinson: AKA the "Cyber Sex Killer"; lured victims
through the internet; convicted of 8 murders in Kansas and Missouri.
[edit]Wichita, Kansas
BTK strangler (Dennis Rader)
[edit]Kentucky
[edit]Williamsburg, Kentucky
Alton Coleman: Attempted murder in Kentucky, murdered 7 victims during
a 1984 killing spree through the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio,
Indiana, and Michigan, only person to receive death sentences in three
different US states, executed in Lucasville, Ohio in 2002.
[edit]Louisiana
[edit]Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Derrick Todd Lee
[edit]Maine
[edit]Portland, Maine
John Joseph Joubert: AKA the "Nebraska Boy Snatcher"; AKA the
"Woodford Slasher"; abducted, tortured, and murdered 3 boys in
1982-1983; one in Portland, Maine and two in Nebraska, convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment in Maine, sentenced to death and
executed by Nebraska in 1996.
[edit]Maryland
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[edit]Massachusetts
[edit]Boston, Massachusetts
Jane Toppan; active 1885-1901, confessed to 31 murders.
[edit]Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Tony Costa; murdered and dismembered 4 residents of the small town of
Truro, Massachusetts while under the influence of drugs in 1968 and
1969, committed suicide in prison in 1974.
[edit]Michigan
Elias Abuelazam
[edit]Detroit, Michigan
Velma Barfield: convicted of five murders, executed 1984; first woman
to be executed by lethal injection.
Alton Coleman: murdered 7 victims during a 1984 killing spree through
the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and
Kentucky, only person to receive death sentences in three different US
states, executed in Lucasville, Ohio in 2002.
John Norman Collins: convicted of the "Michigan Murders" committed in
Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor between 1967 and 1969.
[edit]Minnesota
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[edit]Mississippi
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[edit]Missouri
[edit]Kansas City, Missouri
Robert Berdella
Terry Blair
John Edward Robinson: AKA "Cyber-Sex Killer", active 1984-1999,
pioneered use of the internet in locating victims, convicted of 8
murders in Missouri and Kansas.
[edit]St. Joseph, Missouri
Charles Ray Hatcher:numerous aliases; confessed to murdering 16 people
between 1969 and 1982, in California, Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa,
attempted murder and sexual assault of young boys and minor teenagers
in Nebraska, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1984,
subsequently committed suicide in Jefferson City, Missouri the same
year.
[edit]St. Louis, Missouri
Ray and Faye Copeland: married couple with modus operandi of taking in
drifters with the promise of work on their cattle ranch and then
killing them. Convicted at the ages of 76 and 69 respectively, died of
natural causes while awaiting execution.
[edit]Montana
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[edit]Nebraska
[edit]Bellevue, Nebraska
John Joseph Joubert: AKA the "Nebraska Boy Snatcher"; AKA the
"Woodford Slasher"; abducted, tortured, and murdered 3 boys in
1982-1983; one in Portland, Maine and two in Nebraska, convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment in Maine, sentenced to death and
executed by Nebraska in 1996.
[edit]Papillion, Nebraska
John Joseph Joubert
[edit]Nevada
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[edit]New Hampshire
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[edit]New Jersey
[edit]Asbury Park, New Jersey
Richard Biegenwald: convicted of killing 5 people in the early 1980s
in the Asbury Park, New Jersey area; suspected in at least 6 other
murders.
[edit]Flemington, New Jersey
Charles Cullen: male nurse murdered as many as 40 patients during the
16 years he worked at 10 hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
active 1988 - 2003, currently serving 11 consecutive life sentences in
New Jersey and 12 in Pennsylvania; will be ineligible for parole for
397 years.
[edit]Morristown, New Jersey
Charles Cullen
[edit]North Caldwell, New Jersey
Ted Kaczynski: AKA the "Unabomber"; 1 murder, also committed 2 murders
in Sacramento, California.
[edit]Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Charles Cullen
[edit]Somerville, New Jersey
Charles Cullen
[edit]Westfield, New Jersey
John List: convicted of 5 murders; his own mother wife and children;
eluded police and disappeared under an assumed identity for 18 years,
remarried, before being identified and arrested after an age-
progressed likeness was broadcast on America's Most Wanted.
[edit]New Mexico
[edit]Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
David Parker Ray: AKA the "Toy-Box Killer", active 1950's-1999;
accomplice Cindy Hendy.
[edit]New York
[edit]Rochester, New York
Arthur Shawcross: ; convicted of 11 murders in Rochester, New York and
2 murders in Watertown, New York.
[edit]Newark Valley, New York
Waneta Hoyt: murdered 5 of her own children from 1964–1971, convicted
and sentenced to 75 years in prison in 1995; died before her appeal in
1998.
[edit]New York City, New York
David Berkowitz: AKA "Son of Sam"; convicted of 6 murders in New York
City, New York between July 1976 and August 1977.
Joseph Christopher: AKA the "Midtown Slasher"; 12 murders, active 1980
to 1981.
Richard Cottingham: AKA the "Torso Killer"; convicted of murdering 6
women between 1967 and 1980.
Vincent Johnson: AKA the "Brooklyn Strangler"
[edit]Wallkill, New York
Michael Bruce Ross; convicted of one murder in downstate New York in
addition to 7 murders in nearby Connecticut; executed in Somers,
Connecticut in 2005.
[edit]North Carolina
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[edit]North Dakota
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[edit]Ohio
Herb Baumeister: suspected of killing 20+ men along I-70; committed
suicide after remains of 11 were found on his Westfield, Indiana
property. Suspected of killing 9 other men, the bodies of whom were
found in rural areas along the corridor of Interstate 70 between
Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio. (Baumeister is listed here
in both Ohio and Indiana.)
[edit]Cincinnati, Ohio
Alton Coleman: murdered 7 victims during a 1984 killing spree through
the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and
Kentucky, only person to receive death sentences in three different US
states, executed in Lucasville, Ohio in 2002.
[edit]Dayton, Ohio
Alton Coleman
[edit]Norwood, Ohio
Alton Coleman
[edit]Toledo, Ohio
Alton Coleman
[edit]Oklahoma
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[edit]Oregon
Dayton Leroy Rogers: AKA the "Molalla Forest Murderer"
[edit]Pennsylvania
[edit]Allentown, Pennsylvania
Charles Cullen: male nurse murdered as many as 40 patients during the
16 years he worked at 10 hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
active 1988 - 2003, currently serving 11 consecutive life sentences in
New Jersey and 12 in Pennsylvania; will be ineligible for parole for
397 years.
[edit]Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Charles Cullen
[edit]Easton, Pennsylvania
Charles Cullen
[edit]Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Juan Covington: convicted of 3 murders and 2 more attempted murders,
active 1998-2005, currently serving three life sentences.
Gary Heidnik: convicted of kidnapping six women and murdering two
1987, executed in 1999.
Marie Noe: murdered eight of her own children between 1949 and 1968;
convicted in 1999.
[edit]Rhode Island
[edit]Warwick, Rhode Island
Craig Price: AKA the "Warwick Slasher", convicted of 4 stabbing
murders between 1987 and 1989.
[edit]South Carolina
[edit]Sumter, South Carolina
Donald Henry "Pee-wee" Gaskins, Jr.: AKA "Meanest Man in America";
convicted of nine murders, suspected of committing over 100 homicides
between 1953 and 1982, executed 1991.
[edit]South Dakota
Robert Leroy Anderson
[edit]Tennessee
[edit]Nashville, Tennessee and Clarksville,Tennessee
Paul Dennis Reid
[edit]Knoxville, Tennessee
Thomas Dee Huskey
[edit]Memphis, Tennessee
George Howard Putt
[edit]Texas
[edit]Dallas, Texas
Charles Albright
[edit]Houston, Texas
Dean Corll; AKA "The Candy Man," failed candy shop proprietor
responsible for Houston Mass Murders, killing at least 29 teenage boys
and young men between 1970 and 1973 with younger accomplices David
Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley
[edit]Utah
[edit]Hinckley, Utah
Arthur Gary Bishop
[edit]Salt Lake City, Utah
Arthur Gary Bishop
[edit]Cedar Fort, Utah
Arthur Gary Bishop
[edit]Vermont
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[edit]Virginia
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[edit]Washington
[edit]Aberdeen, Washington
Billy Gohl: AKA the "Ghoul of Grays Harbor", killed transient workers
and sailors, convicted in 1910 of only two murders, suspected in 41
other unsolved homicides.
[edit]Burien, Washington
Ted Bundy
[edit]East Wenatchee, Washington
Jack Owen Spillman III: AKA the "Werewolf Butcher"
[edit]Ellensburg, Washington
Ted Bundy
[edit]Issaquah, Washington
Ted Bundy
[edit]Olympia, Washington
Ted Bundy
[edit]Seattle, Washington
Gary Ridgway: AKA the "Green River Killer"; most prolific American
serial killer ever, confessed to 71 homicides, presumed to have killed
90+ victims.
[edit]SeaTac, Washington
Gary Ridgway
[edit]Spokane, Washington
Robert Lee Yates
[edit]Tumwater, Washington
Ted Bundy
[edit]West Virginia
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[edit]Wisconsin
[edit]Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jeffrey Dahmer: AKA the "Milwaukee Cannibal"; active 1978 - 1991,
convicted of 17 murders.
Walter Ellis: AKA the "Milwaukee North Side Strangler" , convicted of
murdering 7 women between 1986 and 2007.
[edit]Kenosha, Wisconsin
Alton Coleman: murdered 7 victims during a 1984 killing spree through
the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and
Kentucky, only person to receive death sentences in three different US
states, executed in Lucasville, Ohio in 2002.
[edit]Plainfield, Wisconsin
Ed Gein: active 1950's; served as inspiration for numerous fictional
serial killers including Norman Bates (Psycho), Leatherface (The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre), and Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs).