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
Dutch serial killer Joran van der Sloot confesses in a U.S. federal court that he killed Natalee Holloway. 2023-10-18
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
Suspected serial killer Gracious David-West confesses to fifteen murders at a hotel in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 2019-09-25
Japan carries out the first executions this year, hanging Koichi Shoji, 64, who killed two women in 2001, and serial killer Yasunori Suzuki, 50, who killed three women between 2004 and 2005 in Fukuoka Prefecture. 2019-08-2
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
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
Three more human remains are found in the Gilgo area of Long Island New York bringing the total number of bodies to eight with a serial killer believed to be responsible. 2011-04-4