Sources: BBC
The prime suspect arrested over the discovery of nine mutilated female bodies in a rubbish dump in the Mukuru slums of Nairobi, Kenya, confesses to killing 42 women. Another man is also arrested. 2024-07-15
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
Dutch serial killer Joran van der Sloot confesses in a U.S. federal court that he killed Natalee Holloway. 2023-10-18
A man is arrested in Kigali, Rwanda, after fourteen people are found dead at his house. The suspected serial killer lured his victims to his house from nearby bars. 2023-09-7
The New York City Police Department releases images of a suspected serial killer who has shot five homeless men, two fatally, in New York City and Washington, D.C. in the last week. 2022-03-14
The Tokyo District Court sentences serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the "Twitter killer", to death, for murdering nine people at his apartment in 2017 and dismembering their bodies. Shiraishi, who was found mentally competent, pled guilty and told the court his crimes had a sexual motive. 2020-12-15
American serial killer Bobby Joe Long who murdered 10 women in the Tampa Bay Area during an eight month period in 1984 is executed by lethal injection. 2019-05-23
China executes serial killer Gao Chengyong, who murdered eleven girls and women between 1988 and 2002. 2019-01-3
Russian serial killer and former policeman Mikhail Popkov is convicted of an additional 56 murders between 1992 and 2007. All of his victims were women. 2018-12-10
Convicted murderer Samuel Little confesses to murdering 90 women between 1970 and 2005, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed 34 of his confessions and are now working to confirm the others. 2018-11-29