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SEX: M/F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE:

TIMS: Three

Sex./Sad.

MO: Lust killers of three young women, including DATE(S): 1963–65 VENUE: Scotland/England VIC-Karla’s sister

TIMS: 10 suspected

DISPOSITION: Homolka turned state’s evidence,

MO: “Thrill killers” of male and female victims, vari-receiving 10–12 years in return for testimony, 1994; ous ages

Bernardo sentenced to life with 25-year minimum, DISPOSITION: Life sentences for both on three

1995; Homolka released on July 4, 2005

counts, 1966; Hindley died in prison on Nov. 15, 2002

Birnie, David and Catherine (both 1951– )

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

Braun, Thomas Eugene; Maine, Leonard
(both DATE(S): 1986 VENUE: Freemantle, Australia

1951–

)

VICTIMS: Five

SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/Sex.

MO: Rape-murders of young women

DATE(S): 1967 VENUE: Wash./Ore. VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: Life sentences for both 1987

Three

MO: Victims shot for their vehicles; one woman raped
Bijeh, Mohammed
(?– );
Baghi, Ali
(?– ) AKA: DISPOSITION: Life terms for both

Vampires of the Tehran Desert

SEX: 2 M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

Brooks, Benjamin H.
(1967– );
Treesh, Frederick J.

DATE(S): 2003–04 VENUE: Tehran, Iran VIC-

(1964– )

TIMS: 20 alleged

SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

MO: Rape-slayers of victims lured to the desert on DATE(S): 1994 VENUE: Mich./Ohio VICTIMS:

hunting expeditions; those killed included 17 chil-Two

dren, two men, and one woman

MO: Killed holdup victims

DISPOSITION: On Oct. 14, 2004, Bijeh was con-

DISPOSITION: Treesh condemned in Ohio; 56 years demned on two counts of rape, also receiving 15

to life to Brooks, 1996

years for kidnapping, three years for seven counts of murder, and 100 lashes for crimes against the dead;
Brown, John
(1800–59),
Frederick¯
(1827–56),
Jason
Baghi was acquitted of murder but received 15 years (1823–?),
Oliver
(c. 1838–59), et al.

for kidnapping and 100 lashes

SEX: 15 M RACE: W/B TYPE: N MOTIVE: GC-

extremist

Blakely, Falicia
(1979– );
Ervin, Ameshia
(1982– ) DATE(S): 1855–59 VENUE: Kans./Va. VICTIMS:

SEX: 2 F RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

12+

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MO: Religious fanatic abolitionist, his sons, and SEX: 8 M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: GC-assorted other followers; murdered advocates of extremist

slavery in Kans. and in later raid on U.S. arsenal at DATE(S): 1978 VENUE: Ill./Nebr. VICTIMS: 12

Harper’s Ferry, Va.; several victims dismembered MO: Black racists; shot whites in home invasions DISPOSITION: Frederick killed in battle, Aug. 18, DISPOSITION: Burse and Moran murdered in jail, 1856; Oliver and 11 others killed at Harper’s Ferry; June 1979; life terms for their accomplices

John Brown hanged, Dec. 2, 1859

Burrows, Erskine Durrant
(d. 1973);
Tacklyn, Larry
Brown, John Frank
(1963– );
Coetzee, Samuel
Winfield
(d. 1973)

Jacques
(1967–97)

SEX: 2 M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC-

SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE:

extremist

Sex./Sad./CE

DATE(S): 1972–73 VENUE: Bermuda VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1993–95 VENUE: South Africa VIC-

Five

TIMS: Five

MO: Black power activists; shot five white men MO: Gay lovers who robbed/killed/mutilated men met (including governor)

in gay bars

DISPOSITION: Both hanged, 1973

DISPOSITION: Coetzee, suicide during trial, May 1997; life term Brown on guilty plea, 1997

Bux, Jose Miculax
(d. 1946);
Macu, Mariano
(?– ) SEX: 2 M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.?

Buck, Rufus
(d. 1896);
Davis, Lewis
(d. 1896);
Davis,
DATE(S): 1946 VENUE: Colombia VICTIMS: 12

Lucky
(d. 1896);
July, Maomi
(d. 1896);
Sampson,
MO: Killed boys age 10–16; details withheld by police
Sam
(d. 1896)

DISPOSITION: Bux executed July 18, 1946; life term SEX: 5 M RACE: NA TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC

for Macu

DATE(S): 1895 VENUE: Okla. Territory VICTIMS:

Two

Carr, Jonathan
(1980– );
Carr, Reginald
(1978– ) MO: Killed two white victims; robbed/raped others in SEX: 2 M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/Sex.

two-week “war”

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Wichita, Kan. VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: All five hanged together on July 1, Five

1896

MO: Fatally shot a 55-year-old woman, then invaded a home with five persons present, raped two women,
Burke, Peter
(1959– );
Crawford, Cody Vernon
and shot all five victims, killing four

(1958– );
Thacker, Oren
(1958– )

DISPOSITION: Both condemned in November 2002

SEX: 3 M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE:

Sad./GC-extremist

Carrion, Christopher Alan
(1971– );
Zaepfel, Leigh
DATE(S): 1974 VENUE: Farmington, N. Mex.

Ann
(1973– )

VICTIMS: Three

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

MO: Teenage racists who beat/burned Navajo men to DATE(S): 1990 VENUE: Ind./Okla. VICTIMS:

death

Three

DISPOSITION: Each sentenced to indefinite juvenile MO: Holdup victims shot execution-style

confinement, 1974; release mandatory at age 21

DISPOSITION: Dual life terms for both in Okla., 1991

Burke, William
(1792–1829);
Hare, William
(?–?)
Carson, James Michael
(1950– ),
Susan
(1941– ) SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

AKA: Michael and Suzan Bear

DATE(S): 1827–28 VENUE: Edinburgh, Scotland

SEX: M/F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-

VICTIMS: 12 minimum

extremist

MO: Sold corpses of victims for medical dissection DATE(S): 1981–83 VENUE: California VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: Burke hanged, 1829; Hare immunized Three

for testimony

MO: Self-styled “Muslim warriors”; killed three suspected “witches”

Burse, Nathaniel
(1955–79);
Clark, Michael
DISPOSITION: 25 years to life for both on each of (1957– );
Jackson, Garland
(1956– );
Moran,
three counts, 1984

Edward, Jr.
(1955–79);
Patry, Darrell
(1958– );
Taylor, Donald
(1957– );
Taylor, Reuben
(1956–

Chan Ka-chun
(1972– );
Chan Ki-nang
(1969– );

);
Wilson, Robert
(1960– ) AKA: De Mau Mau
Leung Sze-lai
(1975– )

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SEX: 3 M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./CE

gang-related, committed at various sites throughout DATE(S): 1996–97 VENUE: China VICTIMS:

England between his teenage years and 1979

Three

DISPOSITION: Pinfold received a 10-year sentence for MO: Raped/robbed women; victims suffocated and robbery in 1977; Childs confessed contract murders stabbed

after he was jailed for hijacking in June 1979; Childs DISPOSITION: All three convicted, 1999: three life testified against his two accomplices at trial in terms plus 26 years for Chan Ka-chun; two life December 1979; Pinfold convicted on one count, terms for Chan Ki-nang; 12 years for Leung Sze-lai receiving life prison term; MacKenny convicted on on guilty plea to manslaughter and rape

two counts, receiving life term with 25 years minimum; Childs also received a life term

Chaney, Ben, Jr.
(1953– );
Rutrell, Martin
(1955– );
Thompson, L. L.
(1950–70)

Clanton, Newman Haynes
(d. 1881),
Joseph Isaac
SEX: 3 M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: GC-

(1847–87),
Phineas Fay
(1845–?),
William Harrison
extremist

(1862–81)

DATE(S): 1970 VENUE: Fla./S.C. VICTIMS: Four

SEX: 4+ M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC

MO: Young blacks who robbed/shot whites to “get DATE(S): 1873–87 VENUE: Ariz./Mexico VIC-even” for racism in the South

TIMS: 60+

DISPOSITION: Thompson killed in shoot-out with MO: Old West outlaw family whose gang also included S.C. victims, May 20, 1970; Chaney and Rutrell WILLIAM BROCIUS GRAHAM, JOHN RINGGOLD, and

imprisoned in S.C.

others; staged murderous raids into Mexico for loot and livestocks; engaged in bloody feud with WYATT

Chen Chin-hsing
(d. 1999);
Kao Tien-men
(d. 1997); EARP, his brothers, and JOHN HOLLIDAY around

Lin Chun-sheng
(d. 1997)

Tombstone, Ariz.

SEX: 3 M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/Sex.

DISPOSITION: Newman killed with five associates in DATE(S): 1997 VENUE: Taiwan VICTIMS: 12

Mexico, following massacre of 19 Mexicans, July MO: Shot nine political victims “gangland style”; 1881; William killed at O.K. Corral gunfight with killed a doctor and his nurse after plastic surgery on two associates, Oct. 26, 1881; Joseph killed by Chen; kidnapped and killed the teenage daughter of posse, June 1887; Phineas sent to Yuma prison, a TV celebrity; several surviving female victims 1887 (paroled 1897)

raped

DISPOSITION: Lin killed in shootout with police,
Clark, Henry Lovell William
(1868–1913);
Fullam,
August 1997; Kao committed suicide when cornered by police, November 1997; Chen executed by firing
Augusta Fairfield
(1875–1914)

squad, Oct. 6, 1999

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

domestic

“Chijon Family”

DATE(S): 1911–12 VENUE: Agra, India VICTIMS:

SEX: 7 M RACE: A TYPE: N MOTIVE: GC-

Two

extremist

MO: Adulterous lovers; killed Clark’s wife and Ful-DATE(S): 1993–94 VENUE: South Korea VIC-

lam’s husband

TIMS: Five

DISPOSITION: Both condemned; Clarke hanged Mar.

MO: Cannibal ex-convicts driven by hatred of the 26, 1913; Fullam died of heatstroke in prison, May wealthy

28, 1914

DISPOSITION: All condemned, 1994

Clopton, Phillip
(1951–90);
Cable, James Ray
Childs, John
(?– );
MacKenny, Henry
(1936– );
Pin-

(1949– )

fold, Terence
(?– )

SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: 3 M RACE: W TYPE: T/N MOTIVE: CE-

DATE(S): 1989–90 VENUE: Ky. VICTIMS: Three

felony

suspected

DATE(S): 1965–79 VENUE: London, England VIC-

MO: Kidnappers and rape-slayers of female victims TIMS: 11 confessed

DISPOSITION: Clopton shot dead by teenage victim, MO: Freelance contract killers who murdered five men Apr. 1990; three consecutive 100-year terms (with and a 10-year-old boy, 1974–78; in 1998 Childs 150-year minimum) for Cable on kidnap, rape, and confessed five other slayings, both personal and sodomy charges, 1991

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Coleman, Alton
(1955–2002);
Brown, Debra Denise
Couvrette, Annette
(?– );
Gravel, Germaine
(?– ); (1959– )

Lapierre, Imelda
(?– );
Lemire, Elizabeth
(?– ); SEX: M/F RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./CE

Tanuay, Germaine
(?– )

DATE(S): 1984 VENUE: Ill./Ind./Ohio VICTIMS:

SEX: 5 F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC/CE

Eight

DATE(S): 1950–51 VENUE: Canton, China VIC-

MO: “Thrill killers” of victims age 7–77

TIMS: 2,116

DISPOSITION: Both condemned (Coleman in all three MO: French Canadian Catholic nuns who ran the

states); Coleman executed in Ohio, April 26, 2002

Holy Child Orphanage, killing most of their charges and illegally selling infants who survived; 2,116 of
Cook, Anthony
(1948– );
Cook, Nathaniel
(1957– ) 2,251 inmates died between October 1950 and Feb-SEX: 2 M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./CE-

ruary 1951; no body count before that time is avail-felony

able

DATE(S): 1973–80 VENUE: Toledo, Ohio VIC-

DISPOSITION: All five nuns were convicted of murder TIMS: Nine

in 1951; Couvrette and Gravel received five-year MO: Brothers who preyed chiefly on couples, robbing prison terms, while the other three were deported and murdering four men aged 21–43, raping and

killing five females aged 12–22; a sixth rape victim
Dalton, Emmett
(1871–?),
Grattan
(1865–92),
Robert
survived multiple stab wounds

(1868–92),
William
(1866–93)

DISPOSITION: Anthony received a term of 15 years to SEX: 4 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

life for one murder in 1999; Anthony pleaded guilty DATE(S): 1891–92 VENUE: Calif./Okla./Kans.

to a second murder, rape, and attempted murder in VICTIMS: Eight+

April 2000, receiving another sentence of 15 years MO: Old West outlaw brothers; killed lawmen and to life, while seven murder counts were dismissed; robbery victims

Nathaniel pleaded guilty on one murder charge and DISPOSITION: Grattan and Robert killed in Kans.

two kidnapping counts in April 2000, receiving a robbery, Oct. 4, 1892; Emmett sentenced to life for term of 21–75 years with release scheduled for 2020