Serial killers

08:00, 4 DEC 2025

Serial killer Joanna Dennehy's twisted demand to justify horrifying murders

Joanna Dennehy was handed a whole life sentence for the killing spree in 2013 and is one of only four women in British legal history to have been given such a punishment

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How Russian serial killer 'Chessboard Killer' planned to murder 64 people in Moscow

Alexander Pichushkin would murder repeatedly, his victims a mix of homeless vagrants or, audaciously, people he knew

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'Granny Ripper' beheaded neighbour and then boiled her head in a pot

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Tamara Samsonova, known as the 'Granny Ripper' or 'Baba Yaga', was accused of gruesome murdershospital

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Copycat serial killer murdered women with chilling method and has never been caught

Three women all named Maria were found murdered in Lisbon during the 1990s. Police believed the same killer was responsible for all three murders, but despite FBI involvement, the perpetrator was never identified

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'Truck stop killer' who tortured and raped 50 women left vile message for victim's dad

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, known as the 'Truck Stop Killer', murdered more than 50 young girls and women in a horrific campaign of terror

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I escaped the clutches of a serial killer after he uttered one word

Vanessa Veselka was hitchhiking in the US in the summer of 1985 when she was picked up by a trucker who turned out to be the notorious serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades

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'I was kidnapped by serial killer but simple act helped me escape alive'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Kara was just 15 years old when she was kidnapped by Richard Evonitz, who had already murdered three teenage girls in Virginia

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Serial killer nurse addicted to 'power over life and death' killed 60 babies

Genene Jones preyed on the most vulnerable - innocent babies and children in her care

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Serial killer's horrifying statement to police after butchering more than 100 women

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Known as the 'Sunday Morning Slasher', this serial killer murdered more than 100 women in the 1970s and 1980s before he was eventually caught and confessed to 13 of the murders

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Teen girls tortured and raped by 'Toolbox Killers' before brutal murders

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. The duo targeted teen girls and abducted, raped, and tortured them using tools like screwdrivers, icepicks, and pliers before brutally murdering them.

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‘Robin Hood' serial killer bit out his own father's heart and inspired Dexter

Pedro Rodrigues Filho, better known as Pedrinho Matador ("Killer Pete"), claimed to have murdered more than 100 people over five decades

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Monster serial killer who murdered 110 women now free and no one knows where he is

Pedro Alonso López, known as the "Monster of the Andes", is one of the most prolific serial killers in history - but he was released from prison in 1998 and has since vanished

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'I was locked in a cell with a serial killer and he made chilling threat to me'

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Edmund Kemper was a serial killer who murdered and decapitated his grandmother at age 14 before going on to kill a number of women

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Ireland's first serial killer gravely ill in hospital as victim's family fear time is running out

John Shaw (83) brutally murdered Elizabeth Plunkett in Co. Wicklow and Mary Duffy in Co. Mayo during a 1976 murder spree with evil partner Geoffrey Evans

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'I fled Dublin for UK and lived with Fred West – there was immediate warning sign'

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she moved into 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester in 1977, where she was subjected to the vile attentions of her landlord, serial killer Fred West

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Irish lodger who escaped killers Fred and Rose West breaks silence decades later

Irish woman Kathleen Richards has told how she unknowingly lived with Fred and Rose West at 25 Cromwell Street in the late 1970s, before narrowly escaping the serial killers' house of horrors.

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Satanist who ate four teens in sick ritual freed from prison for sinister reason

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Nikolai Ogolobyak was part of a sect that kidnapped, killed, dismembered and ate four teenagers in a bid to 'achieve satanic powers'

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Granny Ripper who killed and ate her victims' organs in gruesome ritual

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova was dubbed 'Granny Ripper' after carrying out a spate of hideous crimes against up to 11 victims

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Cannibal killer who ate heart of victim and chopped off his penis

Jason Thornburg was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of the brutal murders of three people - David Lueras, 42, Maricruz Mathis, 33, and Lauren Phillips, 34

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Britain's 'most dangerous' prisoner's nephew notices startling 'change' in serial killer

British serial killer Robert Maudsley, 71, known as Hannibal the Cannibal, has been moved from HMP Wakefield in Yorkshire to Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire in a move that has upset his family

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RTE podcast series Stolen Sister explores Elizabeth Plunkett murder, killed by Ireland's first serial killers

Sisters of Elizabeth Plunkett, who was murdered by Ireland's first serial killers, speak for the first time in nearly 50 years as they seek justice

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World's worst serial killer has horrifying motive for killing 90 women

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Mikhail Popkov, 61, has told police he has murdered at least 90 women - but a police source says his true body count could be closer to 200

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Rose West 'struggles to walk, talks to the TV' and eats peculiar prison breakfast alone

New details have emerged about how notorious serial killer Rose West spends her final years in prison - isolated, frail and largely shunned - as Netflix's Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story sheds fresh light on the couple's horrific crimes.

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Serial killer dad scattered 10,000 bones around his family home

Herb Baumeister, a married father of three, is believed to have murdered approximately 25 young men during his killing spree in the early 1990s

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