British Serial Killers - Part One

List of serial killers before 1900

He murdered at least eight females — including his wife Ethel — by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place in March , and shortly afterwards the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in an alcove in his kitchen. His wife was concealed beneath the floorboards of the front room at Rillington Place. Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife's murder, for which he was hanged in Not Rated 89 min Biography, Crime, Drama.

A pair of girls seeking adventure beyond the their Western Washington trailer park encounter the area's most ruthless serial killer. Based on Sheriff David Reichert's book, "Chasing the He murdered numerous women in Washington during the s and s, earning his nickname when the first five victims were found in the Green River.

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He strangled them, usually with his arm but sometimes using ligatures. After strangling the women, he would dump their bodies throughout forested and overgrown areas in King County. On November 30, , as he was leaving the Renton, Washington Kenworth Truck factory where he worked, he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence.

As part of a plea bargain wherein he agreed to disclose the whereabouts of still missing women, he was spared the death penalty and received a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Unrated 83 min Biography, Crime, Drama. Henry, a drifter, commits a series of brutal murders, supposedly operating with impunity. In June , Lucas was taken into custody for illegal possession of a firearm.

He then began bragging about a cross country murder spree spanning several decades. Lucas took police to the crime scenes and burial sites of people and was charged with of the crimes. Lucas confessed to, or implicated himself in, more than murders. He later recanted his confessions, despite professing information only the assailant would know as well as taking police to the crime scenes and grave sites to flatly stating "I'm a liar" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady.

Lucas confessed to involvement in about murders, but a more widely circulated total of about murders committed by Lucas is based on confessions deemed "believable" by a Texas-based Lucas Task Force, a group which was later criticized by then-Attorney General of Texas, Jim Mattox, and others for sloppy police work.

Many critics believe his recantations were a tactic to brew reasonable doubt and evade execution. Lucas had a known accomplice named Ottis Toole. The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over In January , Williams was found guilty of the murder of two adult men.

After his conviction, the Atlanta, Georgia police declared that an additional 23 of the 29 child murders were solved, with Williams shown to be the murderer. R min Biography, Crime, Drama. During the s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods. He was convicted of 52 murders in October although he confessed to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of these killings , and was executed in February Approved min Crime, Drama, Mystery.

A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt. Though the crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo, investigators of the case have since suggested the murders sometimes known as the silk stocking murders were not committed by one person. Unrated min Biography, Crime, Drama. March 17, — May 10, was an American serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between and Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home, buried three others elsewhere on his property, and discarded the remains of his last four known victims in a nearby river.

He was convicted of 33 murders and sentenced to death for 12 of these killings. He was executed in May Gacy later became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown", a character he devised himself. Dramatisation of the case of serial killers Fred and Rose West, focusing on the way in which they were brought to justice.

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Between and , he alone, and later, he and his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple's homes. Rosemary West also murdered Fred's stepdaughter his first wife's biological daughter Charmaine, while he was serving a prison sentence for theft. The majority of the murders occurred between May and September at their home in 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. The house was demolished in and the space converted into a landscaped footpath connecting Cromwell Street to St. Not Rated min Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, the serial killer.

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In , after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a After more than a decade of denials, he confessed shortly before his execution to 30 homicides committed in seven states between and ; the true total remains unknown, and could be much higher. PG 94 min Crime, Drama. An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. Based on the Charles Starkweather case [link]http: The couple was captured on January 29, Starkweather was executed seventeen months later, while Fugate served 17 years in prison.

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity. The investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson. He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's object.

Manson believed in what he called "Helter Skelter," a term he took from the song of the same name by The Beatles. Manson believed Helter Skelter to be an impending apocalyptic race war, which he described in his own version of the lyrics to the Beatles' song. He believed his murders would help precipitate that war. From the beginning of his notoriety, this connection with rock music linked him with a pop culture in which he ultimately became an emblem of insanity, violence and the macabre. Not Rated min Biography, Crime, Drama. Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.

Bunting was the ringleader of a "degenerate sub-culture" of murderers whose victims were people they already knew. Under the instruction of Bunting, the group would prey upon the weak and steal their welfare payments. His crimes led to the longest and most expensive investigations and criminal trials in Australia's history.

Bunting's targets consisted primarily of people he thought to be pedophiles and homosexuals. He has been described as a skilled manipulator of people and "Australia's worst serial killer". Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos , a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer. She was convicted and sentenced to death for six of the murders and executed by lethal injection on October 9, Not Rated 77 min Crime, Drama, History.

A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist. A Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the queen.

The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the media. The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax, and may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the story. Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes from the slums whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations.

The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge. Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October , and letters from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard.

The "From Hell" letter, received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, included half of a preserved human kidney, supposedly from one of the victims. Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer known as "Jack the Ripper".

Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper. An investigation into a series of brutal killings in Whitechapel up to was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of , but the legend of Jack the Ripper solidified.

As the murders were never solved, the legends surrounding them became a combination of genuine historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory. The term "ripperology" was coined to describe the study and analysis of the Ripper cases. There are now over one hundred theories about the Ripper's identity, and the murders have inspired multiple works of fiction. Based on the personal testimonies of many of those most closely involved, Five Daughters recounts the final weeks in the lives of the five young women murdered in Ipswich in All the victims were women who worked as prostitutes in the Ipswich area.

When his father, brother and mother died within a 5-year period, he was left alone at the family farm, where he eventually cordoned off parts of the house turning it into a shrine, of sorts, to his mother. Thirteen years later, local police arrived at the farm, following up on a tip regarding missing hardware store owner Bernice Worden.

Their search of the property revealed a hall of horrors that included human body parts turned into household items such as chairs and bowls, faces used as wall hangings and a vest made up of a human torso. Many of these gruesome items were from already-dead bodies that Gein had stolen from their graves, but he had murdered one other woman in addition to Worden. He claimed that he was using the body parts to assemble a new version of his beloved mother. Gein was diagnosed with schizophrenia and declared unfit for trial. A decade later, he was convicted of one of the murders, but was declared insane at the time of the crime.

He spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. John Wayne Gacy was charged with committing 33 murders. Gacy was later executed by lethal injection. There they found a class ring and clothing belonging to several young men previously reported missing. In a 4-foot crawl space beneath the house, where a penetrating odor was present, they were shocked to find the decomposing bodies of 29 boys and teenagers that Gacy had raped and murdered. Law enforcement also came under criticism, as the family members of several of the victims had previously pointed to Gacy as a possible suspect. In addition to the bodies found at his house, Gacy admitted to killing several additional men, disposing of their bodies in a nearby lake.

His attempts at presenting an insanity defense failed, and he was convicted on 33 counts of murder and executed by lethal injection in Jeffrey Dahmer at his initial appearance at the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, where he was charged with four counts of first-degree intentional homicide, July 26, Dahmer was arrested after police found the body parts of 11 men in his Milwaukee apartment. Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in , when he was just He would go on killing until his arrest in , after an African American man escaped his clutches and hailed down police near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dahmer had lived a shiftless life, dropping out of college and the Army and living with various family members before being kicked out by his grandmother and settling in the Milwaukee apartment. Three years before his arrest—and with several murders already under his belt—Dahmer was convicted of drugging and sexually molesting a young teenager. But he was released after serving only a year, continuing his killing binge, which focused almost entirely on young, non-white men. In , Dahmer was sentenced to years in jail, but was killed by a fellow inmate just two years later. The lovers, who buried the bodies on the moors near Manchester, were jailed for life in Hindley, her face immortalised in a police mug shot, died in Brady, now 71, is still being held at high-security Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside, where he has been on hunger strike for most of the past 10 years.

Former soldier Ireland tortured and killed homosexual men he met in bars.

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He decided to become a serial killer as a New Year's resolution in His killing spree ended later that year when a CCTV camera caught him with his last victim. He confessed to all five murders. He is one of only 35 prisoners to have been given a whole life tariff by a Home Secretary. Wright, 51, was convicted in February of the murders of five prostitutes in Ipswich, earning him the nickname "the Suffolk Strangler". Following the forklift truck driver's conviction, Suffolk Police began a "cold case" review of unsolved murders and circulated his details around the world via Interpol, as criminal psychologists warned it was likely he had killed before.

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While he has been linked to several other murders he has never been charged. Accessibility links Skip to article Skip to navigation. Wednesday 12 December Britain's worst serial killers Below is a list of Britain's most prolific serial killers. The Yorkeshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, recently made a new bid for freedom. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.