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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 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

Masten Wanjala, the Kenyan suspected serial killer of 14 boys, who escaped from prison two days ago, is murdered by lynching by a mob of villagers in Bungoma. Wanjala was hiding at his parents' home when he was identified by neighbours.
2021-10-15

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

Diane Madison, the mother of American serial killer Michael Madison, is stabbed to death in her home. Three children are also injured. Her grandson Jalen Plummer is arrested and charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault.
2019-06-24

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

British serial killer Robert Black is sentenced to a minimum of 25 years imprisonment for the 1981 murder of Northern Ireland schoolgirl Jennifer Cardy.
2011-12-8