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Authors: Michael Newton
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SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
brother-in-law for life insurance
DATE(S): 1978–80 VENUE: Minn. VICTIMS: Six
DISPOSITION: Life sentence in Idaho, 1921
suspected
MO: Rape-slayer of females and three children of one
Trupp, Nathan
(1947– )
victim shot during home invasion
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-
DISPOSITION: Convicted and sentenced to life on two specific
murder counts for killing a 19-year-old waitress in DATE(S): 1988 VENUE: N. Mex./Calif. VICTIMS:
Afton (1978) and an 18-year-old waitress in West St.
Five
Paul (1980)
MO: Shot random victims while stalking actor Michael Landon
Turner, Julia Lynn Womack
(1968– )
DISPOSITION: Declared insane; confined to state hos-SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE
pital
DATE(S): 1995–2001 VENUE: Cumming, Ga. VIC-
TIMS: Three alleged
Tsuiman, Yuri
(?– ) AKA: Beast of Taganrog MO: “Black widow” who poisoned husband and com-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
mon-law husband with antifreeze; male employer DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Rostov-on-Don, Russia
also died under mysterious circumstances, with VICTIMS: Four
$40,000 missing from his office
MO: Pedophile slayer of young girls
DISPOSITION: Convicted on May 14, 2004 of poison-DISPOSITION: Unknown
ing husband in 1995; received life prison term; charged pending in second case
Tsutomu Miyazaki
(1963– )
SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
Turner, Lise Jane
(1956– )
DATE(S): 1988–89 VENUE: Japan VICTIMS: Four
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-
confessed
specific
MO: Kidnapped/killed girls age four to seven;
DATE(S): 1980–82 VENUE: Christchurch, New
necrophile
Zealand VICTIMS: Four
DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1997
MO: Killed young children, two of them her own DISPOSITION: Life term + 10 years for attempted
Tucker, James Neil
(1957–2004)
murders, 1984 (paroled 1997)
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Midlands, S.C. VICTIMS:
Ulayuk, Eli
(1968– )
Two
SEX: M RACE: NA TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
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DATE(S): 1988/2004 VENUE: Yellowknife, North-
DATE(S): 1952 VENUE: Quezon City, Philippines
west Territories, Canada VICTIMS: Two
VICTIMS: Four+
MO: Necrophile slayer of a female friend and his MO: Skeletal remains found by police in home of female parole officer; both victims stabbed/strangled unidentified man
prior to sex
DISPOSITION: Unknown
DISPOSITION: Convicted of manslaughter in first case, 1992; paroled June 2004; charged with second
Undisclosed
(1950– )
murder, Oct. 7, 2004; trial pending
SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./PC-
extremism
Underwood, L. C.
(1948– )
DATE(S): 1966–67 VENUE: Tokyo, Japan VIC-
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC
TIMS: Three
DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Salisbury, N.C. VICTIMS:
MO: Rape-slayer of young women who mocked his
Two suspected
biracial origins
MO: Ex-cop and obsessive stalker; killed ex-girlfriend’s DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1967
elderly mother and her new lover in separate attacks DISPOSITION: Life + 40 years on one count, 1997
Undisclosed
(1944– )
SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: S MOTIVE: Undisclosed
Undisclosed
(?– )
DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: Xidan, China VIC-
SEX: M RACE: ? TYPE: S MOTIVE: CE
TIMS: Three
DATE(S): 1920 VENUE: Tanta, Egypt VICTIMS:
MO: Restaurant owner; killed three teens and served 20
their flesh as pork
MO:“Bluebeard” slayer of women for profit; kept sev-DISPOSITION: Undisclosed
ered heads in his home
DISPOSITION: Unreported
Undisclosed
(1944– )
SEX: F RACE: A TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC
Undisclosed
(?– )
DATE(S): 1980s–1990s VENUE: Tokyo, Japan
SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
VICTIMS: Six
DATE(S): 1920–21 VENUE: Mexico City, Mexico
MO: Decomposed remains of newborn infants found VICTIMS: Four
in plastic bags in an apartment closet; 58-year-old MO: “Bluebeard” slayer of female lovers
tenant admitted the babies were hers
DISPOSITION: Convicted Feb. 18, 1922; sentence DISPOSITION: No charges filed
unknown
Undisclosed
(1948– )
Undisclosed
(d. 1942) AKA: The Ghoul
SEX: F RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC alleged
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC
DATE(S): 1985–99 VENUE: KwaZulu-Natal, South
DATE(S): 1942 VENUE: Guadalcanal VICTIMS:
Africa VICTIMS: 20+ alleged
“Several”
MO: Children abducted and killed in
muti
magic ritu-MO: Deranged U.S. Marine stabbed fellow soldiers in als; suspect arrested in Sept. 1999 with two children nocturnal attacks
missing since 1996; later led police to several graves; DISPOSITION: Shot by sentry while fleeing last crime identified as black-magic “healer”
scene
DISPOSITION: Unknown
Undisclosed
(1932– ) AKA: Harry Brown
Undisclosed
(1968– )
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1980s VENUE: Melbourne, Australia
DATE(S): 1987 VENUE: Thunder Bay, Ontario
VICTIMS: Six
VICTIMS: Two
MO: “Deeply religious” man identified in 2001 as the MO: Rape-slayer of 16-year-old girls
prime suspect in murders of six females aged 14–73, DISPOSITION: Arrested, July 2000; disposition
who were kidnapped from streets and suburban bus unknown
stops, with bodies dumped outside town
DISPOSITION: Unknown
Undisclosed
(1968– )
SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC
Undisclosed
(?– )
DATE(S): 1992–97 VENUE: Norway VICTIMS:
SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.
Four
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MO: Mother who killed four of her children, ranging
Undisclosed
(1962– )
in age from two days to six weeks, staged as SIDS
SEX: F RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-non-
cases
specific
DISPOSITION: Unknown
DATE(S): 1997–2001 VENUE: The Hague, Nether-
lands VICTIMS: 14
Undisclosed
MO: Nurse who killed patients with lethal injections at SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
four local hospitals; victims primarily infants, young DATE(S): 1994–99 VENUE: Germany/Holland
children, and seniors
VICTIMS: Three confessed
DISPOSITION: Unknown
MO: Mutilation-slayer of women; who beheaded and dismembered his victims
Undisclosed
(?– )
DISPOSITION: Unknown; confessed three murders to SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC
police in November 1999
DATE(S): 1998 VENUE: Overton, Tex. VICTIMS:
Two
Undisclosed
(1988– )
MO: Beat and stabbed women aged 75 and 89 in their SEX: F RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Cult
bathrooms at home
DATE(S): 1994–2001 VENUE: Maiduguri, Nigeria
DISPOSITION: In Nov. 1999, police chief Ed Williams VICTIMS: 48 confessed
announced that the unnamed killer was imprisoned MO: Girl arrested at age 13, suspected of killing a two-on other charges
year-old boy and cutting out his heart; she confessed participation in 48 human sacrifices since age seven
Undisclosed
(?– ) AKA: Cannibal of Kosovo and led police to the home of her cult leader
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-
DISPOSITION: Unknown
specific
DATE(S): 1997–99 VENUE: Kosovo, Yugoslavia
Undisclosed
(?– )
VICTIMS: “Several”
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./CE
MO: Serbian policeman arrested by UN peacekeepers DATE(S): 1996–97 VENUE: Johannesburg, South
who found human limbs and organs in his refriger-Africa VICTIMS: 14
ator
MO: Rape-slayer of women beaten or shot; some vic-DISPOSITION: Arrested June 28, 1999; outcome
tims also robbed
unknown
DISPOSITION: Unnamed subject charged with 23
offenses in December 1997; counts include murder,
Undisclosed
(1959– )
rape, and robbery; disposition unknown
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Velsk, Siberia VICTIMS:
Undisclosed
(1975– )
Eight
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Rape-slayer of women aged 16–49, killed at his DATE(S): 1994–98 VENUE: Stockholm, Sweden
rural cabin and buried in nearby woods; confessed VICTIMS: Eight
and revealed bodies after charged with rape
MO: “Signature” killer of victims stabbed in their DISPOSITION: Unknown
homes after visits to communal laundries
DISPOSITION: Unknown
Undisclosed
(d. 2000) AKA: Bas Congo Throatcutter SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Undisclosed
DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Democratic Republic
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.
of Congo VICTIMS: 12
DATE(S): 1997–98 VENUE: Dayton, Ohio VIC-
MO: Slayer who slashed throats of female victims in TIMS: Four
Bas Congo Province
MO: Unnamed minor, identified as prime suspect in the DISPOSITION: Killed by a victim’s husband, May 2, suffocation of four children, aged one to three years, 2000
who died at the home of Regina Moreland over a seven-month period; victims included two of More-Undisclosed (?– )
land’s grandsons, one granddaughter, and a great-niece SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
DISPOSITION: Child subject submitted for psychiatric DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Chiradzulu, Malawi VIC-testing/treatment, July 1998
TIMS: Eight
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MO: Killed and dismembered women, keeping partial
Undisclosed
(1983– ) AKA: School Killer remains of several at his home
SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-
DISPOSITION: Arrested in March 2000; disposition cific
unknown
DATE(S): 1997 VENUE: Kobe, Japan VICTIMS:
Two
Undisclosed
(1966– )
MO: 14-year-old who attacked five younger children, SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-killing two; one victim beheaded
“mercy”
DISPOSITION: Indefinite sentence to juvenile prison, DATE(S): 2000–01 VENUE: Lucerne, Switzerland
1997
VICTIMS: 27 confessed
MO: Nurse who admits killing victims aged 66–95 at
Unknown
(d. 1598) AKA: Werewolf of Châlons five area nursing homes; methods included suffoca-SEX: M
RACE: W
TYPE: T
MOTIVE:
tion and drug overdoses
Sex./Sad.
DISPOSITION: Police confirm 24 deaths as homicides; DATE(S): 1590s VENUE: Châlons, France VIC-trial scheduled for early 2005
TIMS: “Dozens”
MO: “Demon tailor” who killed/cannibalized patrons
Undisclosed
(1972– )
of his shop and rural victims ambushed in the
SEX: F RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-
nearby forest
“mercy”
DISPOSITION:Burned at the stake, Dec. 1598
DATE(S): 2001 VENUE: Melbourne, Australia
VICTIMS: More than two
Unknown
(?–?) AKA: Bald Head Pete
MO: Nurse linked to unnatural deaths of two patients SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC
aged 63 and 89; 80 similar deaths under ongoing DATE(S): 1840s–70s VENUE: Rocky Mountains
investigation
VICTIMS: 100+
DISPOSITION: Unknown
MO: “Mountain man” and scalp hunter, prolific slayer of Indians
Undisclosed
(1973– )
DISPOSITION: Unknown
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 2002–03 VENUE: Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Unknown
(?–?) AKA: Arkansas Bill
VICTIMS: 25+
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC
MO: Rape-slayer of women
DATE(S): 1870s VENUE: Dodge City, Kans. VIC-
DISPOSITION: Unknown
TIMS: 22 claimed
MO: Old West gunman
Undisclosed
(1979– )
DISPOSITION: Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-
mercy
Unknown
(d. 1931) AKA: Buster from Chicago DATE(S): 2003–04 VENUE: Sonthofen, Germany
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
VICTIMS: 16 confessed
DATE(S): 1920–31 VENUE: Ill./N.Y. VICTIMS:
MO: Hospital nurse who confessed killing patients
“Numerous”
aged 60–89 with lethal injections; 64 other “suspi-MO: “Most prolific hit man of the entire [1920s]
cious” deaths under review
underworld”
DISPOSITION: Unknown
DISPOSITION: Murdered in New York City poolhall, Sept. 1931
Undisclosed
(?– )
SEX: F
RACE: A
TYPE: S
MOTIVE: PC-
Ursinus, Sophie Charlotte Elizabeth (1760–1836)
“mercy”
SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE
DATE(S): 2003–04 VENUE: Japan VICTIMS: Four
DATE(S): 1785–1801 VENUE: Berlin, Germany
alleged
VICTIMS: Three
MO: Doctor accused of killing elderly and comatose MO: “Black widow” poisoner of her lover, husband, patients at hospitals in Haborocho, Hokkaido, and and aunt for personal gain