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holdup victim

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-

DISPOSITION: Life term in Ore.; condemned in Calif., specific

1998

DATE(S): 1968/82 VENUE: Calif. VICTIMS: Three

MO: Mental patient who killed a fellow inmate and
Branch, Eric Scott
(1972– )

two victims outside the asylum

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Shot dead during armed robbery, July DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Pensacola, Fla. VICTIMS:

1982

?

MO: Ted Bundy “

Breton, Robert, Sr.
(1946– )

WANNA-BE”; named by authorities as

serial murder suspect

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-domestic

DISPOSITION: Condemned on one murder count,

DATE(S): 1966/86 VENUE: Waterbury, Conn. VIC-

1994

TIMS: Three

MO: Stabbed father (1966), son, and ex-wife

Brandt, Carl
(1956–2004)

DISPOSITION: Suspended sentence for manslaughter, SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-1966; condemned, 1989

specific

Brewer, James D.
(1955– )

DATE(S): 1971–2004 VENUE: U.S./Europe VIC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE

TIMS: More than seven suspected

DATE(S): 1977–78 VENUE: Indianapolis, Ind.

MO: Shot both parents at age 13, killing his pregnant VICTIMS: Two

mother; fatally stabbed his wife and 37-year-old MO: Shot female holdup victim; killed man in rage niece at age 47, decapitating and disemboweling one over gay encounter

victim; suspected of two similar murders in Florida DISPOSITION: 60-year term on one count, 1993;

(1989 and 1995), plus others in Germany and Hol-reduced to 50 years, 1995

land

DISPOSITION: No charges filed in first case; spent one
Brice, Greg, Jr.
(?– )

year in a psychiatric hospital; suicide by hanging at SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

the second crime scene, on Sept. 15, 2004

DATE(S): 1994–96 VENUE: Washington, D.C.

VICTIMS: Four

Bratislav, Vladimir
(?– ) AKA: Beast of Lysva MO: Shot male victims in personal arguments

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DISPOSITION: Confined as a juvenile on his first mur-DATE(S): 1997–98 VENUE: Lysva, Russia VIC-

der charge, 1994; indicted as an adult for second TIMS: 30

slaying, October 1994; escaped from jail in May MO: Rape-mutilation slayer of young women

1995; still at large when he killed two more victims DISPOSITION: Sentenced to life imprisonment

in May 1996; convicted on one count and received a term of 30 years to life, Jan. 17, 1997; pleaded
Braun, Gregory Francis
(1961– )

guilty to one count of manslaughter in 1998 and SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-felony

received a term of five to 15 years; two other counts DATE(S): 1989 VENUE: Kans./Tex./N. Mex./Okla.

dropped in plea bargain

VICTIMS: Five

MO: Shot female clerks during robberies of stores in
Bridges, Tyearone
(1958–87)

three states; compared murder to “shooting craps in SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

Vegas”

DATE(S): 1987 VENUE: New Orleans, La. VIC-

DISPOSITION: Life prison terms imposed in Kansas, TIMS: Two

Texas, and New Mexico; executed in Oklahoma,

MO: Middle-aged women shot in robbery attempts July 20, 2000

DISPOSITION: Killed resisting arrest, Dec. 7, 1987

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Briggen, Joseph
(1850–1903)

DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: Philadelphia, Pa. VIC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: CE

TIMS: Two

DATE(S): 1880s–1902 VENUE: Northern Calif.

MO: Shot male jewelers during holdups

VICTIMS: 12+

DISPOSITION: Life term on one count, 1992; con-MO: Rancher who fed farmhands to his prize hogs demned on second count, 1993

DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1902; died in prison
Brooks, John
(1966– )

Brinvilliers, Marie de
(1630–1676)

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1986 VENUE: New Orleans, La. VIC-

DATE(S): 1665–73 VENUE: Paris, France VIC-

TIMS: Nine

TIMS: 54 confessed

MO: Victims shot in street robberies

MO:Poisoned 50 hospital patients as “practice” for DISPOSITION: Convicted/condemned for six murders profit-motivated murders of her father, brothers, and lover

Bropst, Tony
(1953– )

DISPOSITION: Beheaded July 17, 1676

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-felony

DATE(S): 1986 VENUE: Ariz./Colo. VICTIMS:

Brisbon, Henry
(1956– )

Two

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC

MO: Victims shot for cars

DATE(S): 1973/82 VENUE: Chicago/Menard, Ill.

DISPOSITION: 40 years in Ariz.; 40 years to life in VICTIMS: Three

Colo.

MO: Killed two in robbery, one in prison

DISPOSITION: 1,000–3,000 years, 1973; condemned,
Brown, Barry Austin
(?– )

1982

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

DATE(S): 1974 VENUE: Santa Cruz/San Mateo,

Britt, Eugene V.
(1957– )

Calif. VICTIMS: Three

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

MO: Robbery murders of two men and a woman

DATE(S): 1995 VENUE: Lake/Porter counties, Ind.

DISPOSITION: Guilty plea on three counts; consecu-VICTIMS: 11 confessed

tive life terms, 1974

MO: Random slayer of victims age eight to 51, all but one female

Brown, Charles Noel
(1933– )

DISPOSITION: Life without parole for guilty plea on SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-felony

one count, 1996; trial on six more counts scheduled for 2005

DATE(S): 1961 VENUE: Minn./Iowa VICTIMS:

Three

Brogsdale, Rickey Henry
(1963– ) AKA: Peeping MO: Men shot in robberies/abductions

Tom Killer

DISPOSITION: Condemned in Iowa, Sept. 1961

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1987 VENUE: Washington, D.C. VIC-

Brown, Henry Newton
(1857–84)

TIMS: Four

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC

MO: Homicidal voyeur; shot 11 women, killing four DATE(S): 1870s–84 VENUE: Tex./N. Mex./Kans.

DISPOSITION: 63 years to life on four counts, 1989

VICTIMS: Six

MO: Old West outlaw and occasional lawman

Broni, Milena Quaglini da
(1957– )

DISPOSITION: Shot while attempting to rob bank, SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

May 1, 1884

DATE(S): 1995–98 VENUE: Pavia, Italy VICTIMS:

Three confessed

Brown, Raymond Eugene
(1946– )

MO: Slayer of men aged 53–83 who “wanted to have SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/Sex.

sex”; beat her husband to death as he slept; drugged DATE(S): 1960/87 VENUE: Clay-Russell counties, and drowned another victim in his bathtub

Ala. VICTIMS: Five

DISPOSITION: Convicted of her husband’s murder, MO: Stabbed three relatives; raped/stabbed mother-December 1999; confessed two more murders in court daughter

DISPOSITION: Life, 1960 (paroled 1973); returned to
Bronshtein, Antuan
(1972– )

prison as parole violator (for rape), 1973 (released SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

again, 1986); condemned 1987

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Brown, Vernon
(?– )

MO: Pedophile strangler of children

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Convicted; sentence unknown

DATE(S): 1980–86 VENUE: Ind./Mo. VICTIMS:

Five+

Brumfitt, Paul
(1956– )

MO: Killer pedophile; blamed crimes on drug addic-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./PC

tion

DATE(S): 1980/2000 VENUE: England VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: Condemned in Mo.

Three

MO: Beat a tailor to death and strangled a bus driver,
Brown, Willie
(1957– )

1980; stabbed a 19-year-old female prostitute to SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

death and burned her body, then raped another

DATE(S): 1979/1999 VENUE: Detroit, Mich. VIC-

streetwalker, 2000

TIMS: More than two

DISPOSITION: Received three life terms for

MO: Strangler of black gay men, killed exactly 20

manslaughter and wounding, 1980; released July years apart; suspected in a string of similar murders 1993; convicted of murder and sentenced to life, DISPOSITION: Convicted on one count, 1979; paroled July 22, 2000

1994; convicted on second count, November 1999

Buccieri, Fiore
(1904–73) AKA: Fifi

Broyles, James
(1968– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-domes-

revenge

tic

DATE(S): 1924–72 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-

DATE(S): 1984/96 VENUE: Edmonton, Alberta

TIMS: “Numerous”

VICTIMS: Two

MO: Mafia executioner; labeled lord high executioner MO: Strangled grandmother and girlfriend for “nag-of the Chicago syndicate by FBI agents, 1966

ging” him

DISPOSITION: Died of cancer, 1973

DISPOSITION: Confined as juvenile, 1984; 20 years for second-degree murder, 1998

Buchanan, Denise
(?– )

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-

Bryan, Joseph Francis, Jr.
(1939– )

cific

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DATE(S): 1989–94 VENUE: Reno, Nev. VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1964 VENUE: S.C./Fla./N.J. VICTIMS:

Three

Three

MO: Sadistic pedophile, abducted/tortured young boys MO:Mother who killed her children in the guise of DISPOSITION: Federal life sentence for kidnapping, SIDS

1965

DISPOSITION: Convicted on two counts, April 1999; received two consecutive life sentences without
Bryan, Peter
(1969– ) AKA: “The Cannibal”

parole

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

specific

Buenoaño, Judias
(1943–98) AKA: The Black Widow DATE(S): 1993/2004 VENUE: London, England

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-inheri-

VICTIMS: Three

tance

MO: Bludgeoned 20-year-old woman with a hammer; DATE(S): 1971–80 VENUE: Fla./Colo. VICTIMS:

killed a 43-year-old male friend and cooked his Three

brain; murdered a 59-year-old fellow patient at MO: “Black widow” slayer of husband, son, and lover Broadmoor asylum

DISPOSITION: Executed in Fla., Mar. 30, 1998

DISPOSITION: Detained in mental hospital,

1994–2001; pleaded guilty with diminished respon-Buenrostro, Dora Luz (1960– )

sibility on two counts voluntary manslaughter, SEX: F RACE: H TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC

March 15, 2005; returned to asylum indefinitely DATE(S): October 1994 VENUE: San Jacinto, Calif.

VICTIMS: Three

Brydges, Ralph Lionel
(d. 1927) AKA: Monster of MO: Killed her children over a three-day period Rome

DISPOSITION: Condemned on Oct. 2, 1998

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1924–27 VENUE: Rome, Italy VICTIMS:

Bullock, David
(1960– )

Six+

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC

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DATE(S): 1981–82 VENUE: New York City VIC-

DATE(S): 1995–96 VENUE: Rostov-on-Don, Russia

TIMS: Six confirmed

VICTIMS: Six

MO: Confessed shooting 10 victims “to amuse myself”

MO: Pedophile who killed child victims to avoid prose-DISPOSITION: six terms of 25 years to life

cution

DISPOSITION: Confessed in custody; disposition
Burchart, Leslie Leon
(1949–2002)

unknown

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

specific

Busch, Henry Adolph
(1931–62)

DATE(S): 1994–96 VENUE: Richmond, Va. VIC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

TIMS: Seven suspected

specific

MO: Schizophrenic with history of voyeurism and DATE(S): 1960 VENUE: Hollywood, Calif. VIC-

“flashing” who assaulted four men, killing three, TIMS: Three

aged 35–46; suspected of strangling four women MO: “Zombie-like” strangler of women who attacked aged 55–84 in their homes

six, killing three aged 53–72 (including his aunt) in DISPOSITION: Confessed murders of male victims their homes

while jailed for trespassing, in 1996; received 105

DISPOSITION: Condemned on one count, with life years for murder and malicious wounding; died in terms on two others; executed in June 1962

prison, Aug. 16, 2002

Buse, William H.
(d. 1858)

Burke, Elmer
(1917–58) AKA: Trigger

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC

DATE(S): 1857–58 VENUE: Miss. VICTIMS: “Sev-

DATE(S): 1946–54 VENUE: Eastern USA VIC-

eral”

MO: Lust killer of women

TIMS: “Numerous”

DISPOSITION: Hanged on one count, Nov. 1858

MO: Career criminal and contract killer

DISPOSITION: Executed at Sing Sing, Jan. 9, 1958

Bushara, Wilson
(1959– )

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: S MOTIVE: Cult

Burke, Frederick R.
(1893–1940) AKA: Killer DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Kampala, Uganda VIC-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

TIMS: 24 alleged

DATE(S): 1920–31 VENUE: Ill./N.Y./Mich. VIC-

MO: “Prophet” of the World Last Message Warning TIMS: “Numerous”

Church, identified as killer of 24 cult members; MO: Career criminal and contract killer; prime suspect arrested July 2000