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DISPOSITION: Life term on one count in Ga., 1973

Kinne, Sharon
(1940– )

Ketchum, Tom
(1862–1901) AKA: Black Jack SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE

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

DATE(S): 1960–62 VENUE: Mo./Mexico VIC-

DATE(S): 1880s–1901 VENUE:

TIMS: Three

Tex./N.Mex./Colo./Ariz. VICTIMS: “Several”

MO: “Black widow” slayer of husband, lover’s wife, MO: “Wild Bunch” outlaw and murderer

and boyfriend

DISPOSITION: Hanged in Ariz., Apr. 26, 1901

DISPOSITION: 13 years on one count in Mexico, 1963

Keyes, Russell
(1957–98)

Kinney, James Allen
(1948– )

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

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

DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Portugal/France/Morocco

DATE(S): 1980s–90s VENUE:

VICTIMS: Five

Mich./Minn./Iowa/Idaho/Oreg./Wash. VICTIMS:

MO: British national; killed women who spurned mar-More than six suspected

riage proposals in his pursuit of altered citizenship MO: Transient rape-slayer of young women

DISPOSITION: Shot by American bride in Ariz. after DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty on one murder count in he confessed five murders, July 21, 1998

Washington, Dec. 12, 2001; received life prison term without parole, Jan. 14, 2002

Khan, Dr. Sohrab Aslam
(1944– )

SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-

Kipp, Martin James
(1952–85) AKA: Dr. Crazy cific

SEX: M RACE: NA TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

DATE(S): 1986 VENUE: Lahore, Pakistan VIC-

DATE(S): 1983–84 VENUE: Los Angeles/Orange

TIMS: 13

counties, Calif. VICTIMS: Two

MO: Thrill-killer of male victims in random shootings MO: Rape-strangler of teenage girls

DISPOSITION: Unreported by Pakistani authorities DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1987

Kibbe, Roger Reece
(1941– ) AKA: I-5 Killer
Kiyotaka Katsuta
(1948–2000)

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

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

DATE(S): 1986–88 VENUE: Calif./Nev. VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1972–82 VENUE: Japan VICTIMS: Eight

Seven+ suspected

confessed

MO: Rape-strangler of females age 17–26

MO: Japan’s “most evil” criminal, arrested after a 10-DISPOSITION: Life term with 18-year minimum on year rampage; strangled four Kyoto women,

one count, 1991

1972–77, then switched to shooting men in rob-

beries at Kobe and Nagoya

Kilgore, Dean
(1950– )

DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1986; hanged on Nov.

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

30, 2000

DATE(S): 1978/89 VENUE: Polk County, Fla. VIC-

TIMS: Two

Klenner, Frederick Robert, Jr.
(1956– ) MO: Killed kidnap victim; murdered prison inmate SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

DISPOSITION: two life terms, 1978; condemned, 1990

DATE(S): 1984–85 VENUE: Ky./N.C. VICTIMS:

Eight

Kim, Hyu Soo
(1971– )

MO: Stabbed/shot five relatives of his girlfriend; later SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sad.

murdered the girlfriend and her two children

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DISPOSITION: Suicide by bomb to avoid arrest, June
Komar, Janusz
(1963– )

3, 1985

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

DATE(S): 1983 VENUE: Germany VICTIMS: Two

Klimek, Tillie
(1865–?)

MO: Czech immigrant; beat/stomped women age 26

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

and 68, also robbing second victim

DATE(S): 1914–20 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-

DISPOSITION: 10 years maximum sentence due to age TIMS: Six

MO: “Black widow” poisoner of husbands and a

Komaroff, Vasili
(1871–1923) AKA: Wolf of Moscow female neighbor

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

DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1921

DATE(S): 1921–23 VENUE: Moscow, Russia VIC-

TIMS: 33 confessed

Klosowski, Severin Antoniovitch
(1865–1903) AKA: MO: Horse dealer who robbed/killed customers at his George Chapman

stable

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

DISPOSITION: Executed with wife (convicted as

DATE(S): 1897—1902 VENUE: England VIC-

accomplice), June 18, 1923

TIMS: Three

MO: Profit-motivated poisoner of common-law wives;
Komin, Alexander
(1953– )

suspect in 1888 “JACK THE RIPPER” case

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

DISPOSITION: Hanged April 7, 1903

DATE(S): 1971/82 VENUE: Fla./N.J. VICTIMS:

Three confirmed

Knight, Thomas
(1951– )

MO: Killed male roommate (1971); raped stabbed SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

female victims

DATE(S): 1974/1980 VENUE: Miami, Fla. VIC-

DISPOSITION: Convicted of murder/robbery in Fla., TIMS: Three

1971 (paroled 1982); condemned on one count in MO: Killed two victims in personal altercations, then N.J., 1984 (reduced on appeal); life term for second murdered another inmate

count, 1985

DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts, April 21, 1975; condemned on third count, Jan. 20, 1983

Kondro, Joseph
(?– )

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

Kock, Eugene de
(1949– ) AKA: Prime Evil DATE(S): 1982–97 VENUE: Washington State VIC-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-extremist

TIMS: “Dozens”

DATE(S): 1970s–80s VENUE: South Africa VIC-

TIMS: “Numerous”

MO: Rapist and strangler of young girls, suspected in MO: Policeman who murdered black antiapartheid disappearances and deaths spanning 15 years

activists

DISPOSITION: Confessed two murders and two rapes DISPOSITION: 212 years for six murders and 83 lesser to avoid execution; received 55-year prison term in counts, 1996

1999

Koedatich, James J.
(1948– )

Koudri, Mohammed
(?– )

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

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

DATE(S): 1971/82–83 VENUE: Fla./N.J. VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1994 VENUE: Milan, Italy VICTIMS:

Three+

Two

MO: Killed male roommate (1971) and at least two MO: Slayer of gay men

females

DISPOSITION: Convicted; sentence unknown

DISPOSITION: Condemned on one count, 1984 (commuted to life on appeal); life term on second count,
Krebs, Rex Allen
(1966– )

1985

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

DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Koltun, Julian
(1950– )

VICTIMS: Two

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

MO: Convicted sex offender and self-described “mon-DATE(S): 1980–81 VENUE: Eastern Poland VIC-

ster” who killed two 20-year-old coeds, hiding bod-TIMS: Two

ies on his property

MO: “Vampire” rape-slayer of women

DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts, May 11,

DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1981

2001

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Krist, Gary Steven
(1945– )

MO: Alcoholic cannibal who murdered and devoured SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-male drinking cronies, keeping blood and body parts specific

in his flat

DATE(S): 1959–64 VENUE: Alaska/Calid./Utah

DISPOSITION: Convicted on three murder counts, VICTIMS: Four confessed

March 19, 1997

MO: Confessed slayer of two gay men, one girl, and an unidentified victim

Kuznetsof
(d. 1929)

DISPOSITION: Ga. life term for kidnapping, 1969; SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

never charged with murder

DATE(S): 1920s VENUE: Russia VICTIMS: Six+

MO: Alleged leader of “Volga pirates”; killed two
Krueger, David Michael
(1918– )

relatives and at least four others in various rob-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

beries

DATE(S): 1956–57/91 VENUE: Ontario, Canada

DISPOSITION: Executed by firing squad, 1929

VICTIMS: Four confessed

MO: Pedophile slayer of children; killed/sodomized 27-Kyte, Alun (1967– ) AKA: Midlands Ripper year-old man

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

DISPOSITION: Ruled insane, 1957; committed fourth DATE(S): 1984–96 VENUE: British Midlands VIC-murder on day pass from asylum; ruled insane again TIMS: 19 suspected

1992

MO: Raped and strangled female prostitutes and hitchhikers

Kuklinski, Richard
(1935– )

DISPOSITION: Life sentence on two counts, 2000

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

DATE(S): 1949–86 VENUE: N.J./N.Y. VICTIMS:

Kyteler, Alice
(?–?)

100+

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

MO: Beat personal enemy to death in fight, age 14; DATE(S): 1300s VENUE: Kilkenny, Ireland VIC-adult career criminal and contract killer; also killed TIMS: More than four

for pleasure and revenge

MO: Black widow slayer of four husbands; also

DISPOSITION: Consecutive life terms with 60-year accused of witchcraft and human sacrifice

minimums on each of four counts, 1988; indicted in DISPOSITION: Convicted and condemned in absentia February 2003 for the 1979 murder of a New York but never captured; her maid, Petronella de Meath, City policeman, confessed during a TV interview; was convicted as an accomplice and burned at the trial pending

stake on Nov. 3, 1324

Kulaxides, Peter
(?–?)

L., Thomas
(1969– )

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

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

tic

extremist

DATE(S): 1920s VENUE: Greece VICTIMS: Six

DATE(S): 1995–96 VENUE: Germany VICTIMS:

suspected

Five confessed

MO: “Bluebeard” slayer of wives

MO: Nazi skinhead; shot political opponents and a DISPOSITION: Confessed one count, Sept. 1930; sen-gang defector

tence unknown

DISPOSITION: Confessed, Mar. 1996; sentence

unknown

Kutzner, Richard William
(1942–2002)

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

Lacenaire, Pierre François
(d. 1835)

DATE(S): 1996 VENUE: Harris County, Tex. VIC-

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

TIMS: Two

DATE(S): 1834 VENUE: Paris, France VICTIMS:

MO: Women aged 54 and 59, bound and strangled

Three confessed

during robberies

MO: Killed robbery victims

DISPOSITION: Executed on Aug. 7, 2002

DISPOSITION: Guillotined, 1835

Kuzikov, Ilshat
(1959– )

LaFerte, Georges
(1952– )

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

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

DATE(S): 1992–96 VENUE: St. Petersburg, Russia DATE(S): 1983–84 VENUE: Nantes, France VIC-VICTIMS: Three

TIMS: Two

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MO: Alcoholic lust-killer of young women

MO: French-Canadian trapper; donned bearskin and DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1987

mask to rape and mutilate young women around

Halloween season

Landau, Abraham
(d. 1935) AKA: Misfit

DISPOSITION: Hanged in Quebec, Mar. 15, 1878

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

DATE(S): 1920s–35 VENUE: N.Y./N.J. VICTIMS:

Lara, Mario
(1955– )

“Numerous”

SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/Sex.

MO: Contract killer for

DATES(S): 1981 VENUE: Dade County, Fla. VIC-

ARTHUR FLEGENHEIMER gang

DISPOSITION: Murdered with Flegenheimer, Oct. 23, TIMS: Two

1935

MO: Serial rapist; killed female prosecution witness in upcoming trial; stabbed teenage rape victim

Landzo, Esad
(?– )

DISPOSITION: Condemned on one count + life with 25-year minimum on second count, 1982

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

extremist

LaRette, Anthony Joe, Jr.
(1962–95)

DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Celibici, Bosnia VICTIMS: SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

Three+

DATES(S): 1977–80 VENUE: Kans./Mo. VICTIMS:

MO: Raped/killed Serbs in concentration camp

Three confessed

DISPOSITION: 15 years on three murder counts, 1998

MO: Young women killed with multiple stab wounds DISPOSITION: Executed in Mo., Nov. 29, 1995

Lane, Doyle Edward
(1961– )

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

Laskey, Posteal
(1937– ) AKA: Cincinnati Strangler DATES(S): 1980/90 VENUE: Tex./Kans. VICTIMS:

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

Two suspected

DATES(S): 1965–66 VENUE: Cincinnati, Ohio

MO: Pedophile slayer of girls age eight and nine VICTIMS: Seven

DISPOSITION: Condemned on one count in Tex.,

MO: Rape-slayer of women age 51–81

1992

DISPOSITION: Convicted on one count, 1967

Lang, Donald
(1945– ) AKA: Dummy

Lawrence, Michael Alan
(1955– )

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-

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

cific

DATES(S): 1976/90 VENUE: Fla. VICTIMS: Two

DATES(S): 1965/72 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-

MO: Killed robbery victims in Santa Rosa and Escam-TIMS: Two

bia Counties

MO: Illiterate deaf-mute slayer of women

DISPOSITION: Life term, 1976 (paroled 1985); con-DISPOSITION: Ruled incompetent for trial, 1965; demned, 1990

released from asylum, 1971; life sentence, 1972