Sources: BBC
Deceased serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers is identified as the prime suspect in the quadruple homicide at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States. 2025-09-26
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
Serial killer Lucy Letby is convicted of an attempted murder in a retrial at Manchester Crown Court in Manchester, England. 2024-07-2
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 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
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
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
Niels Högel, post-war Germany's serial killer with the highest known kill count, is sentenced to life imprisonment for 85 murders. 2019-06-6
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