Sources: BBC
China executes serial killer Lao Rongzhi for the murders of seven people between 1996 and 1999. 2023-12-18
A serial killer is suspected of having fatally shot three homeless men during the past week in Los Angeles, California, United States. 2023-12-1
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who received a life sentence in Nepal for murdering 12 tourists between 1963 and 1976, and suspected of murdering also 18 other people, is released from prison due to his old age and good behaviour in accordance with a Supreme Court order. He is deported to France and barred from Nepal for ten years. 2022-12-23
The DC Police Department arrest a suspected serial killer involved in the murders of two homeless men, and the attempted murder of three others in Washington, D.C. and New York City. 2022-03-15
The suicide note left by François Vérove, a 59-year-old French former military police officer who committed suicide two days ago in Le Grau-du-Roi, Occitanie, reveals that he murdered four people, including 11-year-old Cécile Bloch. The serial killer, nicknamed "Le Grêlé", was also involved in a series of rapes. 2021-10-1
Gracious David-West, a serial killer who killed 15 women in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, between July and September 2019, is sentenced to death. 2020-10-9
China executes serial killer Gao Chengyong, who murdered eleven girls and women between 1988 and 2002. 2019-01-3
German nurse and convicted serial killer Niels Högel is charged with 97 further counts of murder. 2018-01-22
Indiana gerontophobe and prolific serial killer Orville Lynn Majors, believed to have committed as many as 130 nursing home murders between 1993 and 1995, dies in prison at the age of 56. 2017-09-24
Police in Anchorage, Alaska, confirm that James Dale Ritchie, killed by an Anchorage police officer whom Ritchie had tried to kill in the fall of 2016, was a serial killer who had used the same gun to kill 5 people, apparently at random. Two of the murders were double homicides, with some of the deaths occurring along Anchorage's expansive Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. 2017-04-26