List of serial killers by country

Convicted serial killers by country

Afghanistan

• Abul Djabar: killed 65 men and boys by strangling them with turbans while raping them; suspected of over 300 murders; sentenced to death and hanged in 1970.
• Abdullah Shah: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad while serving under warlord Zardad Khan; also killed his wife; executed with a single shot in the head in 2004.

  Algeria

• Madeleine Mouton: known as "The Berthelot Poisoner"; French immigrant who poisoned between four and seven people in Sidi Bel Abbès from 1943 to 1944 to pay off her debts; executed in 1948.

  Argentina

• Brenda Agüero: neonatal nurse who poisoned multiple babies in Córdoba, killing five; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Marcelo Antelo: known as "The San La Muerte Killer"; drug addict who killed at least four people in Buenos Aires between February and August 2010, allegedly in the name of a pagan saint; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Roberto José Carmona: known as "The Human Hyena"; abducted, raped and shot dead a teenage girl near Carlos Paz in 1986; sentenced to life, killed two inmates in prison; murdered a cab driver after a brief escape from prison in 2022. Carmona got two additional life sentences for his latest crimes.
• Diego Casanova: known as El Matapresos ; murdered five inmates in the Boulogne Sur Mer prison in Mendoza Province while serving a jail term for a murder he committed in 2004.
• Juan Catalino Domínguez: ranch hand who killed eight people around southeast Buenos Aires Province from 1944 to 1948 while on the run; shot dead by police agents in Madariaga in 1948.
• Florencio Fernández: known as "The Argentine Vampire"; killed 15 women in his hometown of Monteros, Tucumán Province, during the 1950s; died in jail in 1968. Dismissed as an urban legend by several Argentine sources.
• Cayetano Santos Godino: known as "Petiso Orejudo" ; killed four children between 1906 and 1912. He was 16 when arrested in 1912 and died in prison in 1944.
• Cayetano Domingo Grossi: the first known serial killer in Argentine history; Italian immigrant who murdered five of his newborn children in the neighborhood of Retiro in Buenos Aires, between 1896 and 1898; executed by firing squad in 1900.
• Francisco Antonio Laureana: known as "The Satyr of San Isidro"; murdered 15 women from 1974 to 1975 in the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires, raping 13 of them; killed in a shootout with the police in February 1975.
• Yiya Murano: known as "The Poisoner of Monserrat", poisoned three female acquaintances over borrowed money in Buenos Aires in 1979.
• Javier Hernán Pino: killed and robbed five people between February and October 2015 in three cities in different provinces across the country; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Robledo Puch: known as "The Angel of Death"; killed 11 people before his arrest in 1972; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980. Currently the longest-incarcerated inmate in South America.

  Australia

• David and Catherine Birnie: responsible for "The Moorhouse Murders"; raped and murdered four women in Willagee in 1986; David died by suicide in 2005, while Catherine remains incarcerated and serving a life sentence.
• Gregory Brazel: shot a woman to death in a 1982 armed robbery; murdered two prostitutes in 1990; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• John Bunting, Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis: convicted of the Snowtown murders of 12 people between 1992 and 1999. Also known as the "Bodies in the Barrels Murders".
• Eric Edgar Cooke: known as "The Night Caller"; killed at least eight people and attempted to kill many more in and around Perth between 1959 and 1963; executed in 1964, becoming the last person to be hanged in Western Australia.
• John Leslie Coombes: killed two men in 1984 and one woman in 2009 around the Victoria area; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Bandali Debs: convicted of murdering two police officers and two prostitutes in the 1990s; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Paul Denyer: known as "The Frankston Killer"; murdered three women in 1993 in the surrounding suburbs of Frankston; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Peter Dupas: murdered between three and six women around Victoria from 1985 to 1999, severing their breasts; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Leonard Fraser: known as "The Rockhampton Rapist"; convicted of killing four women in Rockhampton, Queensland; died in prison in 2007.
• John Wayne Glover: known as "The Granny Killer"; English immigrant who killed at least six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore; died by suicide in 2005.
• Caroline Grills: known as "Auntie Thally"; a serial poisoner of five family members in New South Wales between 1947 and 1953; died in prison in 1960.
• Paul Steven Haigh: sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murders of seven people in Victoria in the late 1970s.
• Matthew James Harris: strangled a friend's brother, a female friend, and a male neighbor over five weeks in 1998 in Wagga Wagga; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Thomas Jeffrey: Tasmanian penal colony escapee responsible for the murders of five people; executed in 1826.
• Frances Knorr: known as "The Baby Farming Murderess"; English-born baby farmer who killed three infants; executed in 1894.
• Eddie Leonski: known as "The Brownout Strangler"; United States Army soldier who killed three women in Melbourne; executed by the U.S. military in 1942.
• John Lynch: known as "The Berrima Axe Murderer"; killed ten people from 1835 to 1841. Executed in 1842.
• William MacDonald: known as "The Mutilator"; English immigrant who killed at least five men between June 1961 and April 1963 throughout Sydney. Died in prison in 2015, becoming the longest serving inmate in New South Wales.
• John Balaban: a Romanian emigrant who murdered at least five people in France and Australia from 1948 to 1953, including his wife and her family; executed in 1953.
• John and Sarah Makin: late 19th century baby farmers who killed and buried 12 children at a succession of their homes. John was executed in 1893, while Sarah was reprieved, and paroled in 1911.
• Ivan Milat: killed at least seven tourists in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales between 1989 and 1993, which became known as the "Backpacker Murders"; suspected in similar disappearances in Newcastle. Died in prison in 2019.
• Martha Needle: known as "The Black Widow of Richmond," poisoner of four family members and her boyfriend's brother; executed in 1894.
• Alexander Pearce: Irish convict who escaped with seven other convicts from imprisonment in Van Diemen's Land; five of them were killed and cannibalised, leaving Pearce the only one left; hanged in 1824.
• Martha Rendell: killed three stepchildren with hydrochloric acid in 1907–08; last woman to be hanged in Western Australia.
• Lindsey Robert Rose: New South Wales serial and contract killer who murdered five people between 1984 and 1994; sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 'Snowy' Rowles: committed the "Murchison Murders"; stockman who murdered three people using a method from a then-unpublished book of author Arthur Upfield, and was caught after forgetting to complete one of the steps after the third murder. Executed in 1932.
• Arnold Sodeman: known as "The School-girl Strangler"; killed four children in Melbourne in the 1930s. Executed in 1936.
• John Whelan: Tasmanian penal colony escapee responsible for the murders of five people; executed in 1855.
• Christopher Worrell and James Miller: known as "The Truro Murderers"; murdered seven people in 1976–1977; Worrell died in a car crash prior to identification while Miller was sentenced to life and died in 2008.

  Austria

• Elfriede Blauensteiner: known as "The Black Widow"; poisoner of three individuals; died in prison in 2003.
• Max Gufler: bludgeoned, poisoned and drowned women in the 1950s; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders, but believed to have committed 18; died 1966.
• Leopoldine Kasparek: known as "The Strangler of Vienna"; strangled 14 wealthy, elderly women, killing 4; died in prison in 1921.
• Dariusz Kotwica: known as "The Euro Ripper"; Polish vagrant who murdered at least three pensioners in Austria and Sweden in 2015; suspected of more murders in the Netherlands, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom; sentenced to involuntary commitment.
• Lainz Angels of Death: four nurses at the Lainz General Hospital in Vienna who admitted to murdering 49 patients between 1983 and 1989.
• Martha Marek: poisoned three family members and a lodger in her house with thallium between 1932 and 1937; executed 1938.
• Harald Sassak: gasworks employee who between 1971 and 1972 killed six people for the purpose of robbery; died from an undisclosed illness in 2013.
• Hugo Schenk: known as "The Viennese Housemaids Killer"; swindler who killed four maids in 1883 with his accomplice Karl Schlossarek; suspected of more murders; executed 1884.
• Franz Schmidt: killed a young girl in Innsbruck in 1957, later released and committed a double murder in Redlham in 1984; suspected of a child murder in 1982; sentenced to life, released in 2013.
• Franz and Rosalie Schneider: couple who robbed and murdered at least three, possibly six, maidservants in Lower Austria from June to July 1891; Franz was executed in 1892, while Rosalie's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.
• Jack Unterweger: author and sexual sadist; convicted of ten murders; believed to have killed 12 women; died by suicide in prison in 1994.

  The Bahamas

• Cordell Farrington: killed four children and his boyfriend from 2002 to 2003; sentenced to death and later commuted to life imprisonment.
• Michaiah Shobek: known as "The Angels of Lucifer Killer"; American immigrant who murdered three fellow US tourists from 1973 to 1974; executed in 1976.