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The Supreme Court of India acquits Surendra Koli of all remaining charges in the series of child murders and rapes which occurred between 2005 and 2006 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and ordering his immediate release. Koli was originally sentenced to death and was serving a life sentence for the remaining cases.
2025-11-11

Suspected serial killer Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, accused of murdering 42 women, escapes from police custody in Nairobi, Kenya.
2024-08-20

China executes serial killer Lao Rongzhi for the murders of seven people between 1996 and 1999.
2023-12-18

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

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

Suspected serial killer Gracious David-West confesses to fifteen murders at a hotel in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
2019-09-25

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

Police in Florida link a fourth unsolved murder to an unknown serial killer targeting the Seminole Heights area of Tampa, Florida.
2017-11-14

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