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Robert Eugene Brashers
Robert Eugene Brashers was an American serial killer who committed at least eight murders in Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas between 1990 and 1998. During his lifetime, Brashers was convicted of attempted murder for shooting a woman in 1985, as well as for various other offenses stemming from a 1992 case in which he stole a vehicle, but was not identified as a suspect in any of his murders and remained in relative obscurity. He died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1999 to avoid arrest for an unrelated crime after a standoff with police.
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.
Jim Jones
American cult leader (1931–1978)
Baruch Goldstein
American-Israeli doctor, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre (1956-1994)
Dennis Rader
Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes and then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature.
Susan Atkins
American convicted murderer from California (1948-2009)
Omar Mateen
American mass murderer (1986-2016)
Jean Lafitte
French pirate and privateer
Richard Chase
American serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac (1950–1980)
Charles Whitman
American mass murderer and spree killer; perpetrator of the University of Texas Tower shooting (1941–1966)
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
American mass murderers (1981–1999)
Herbert Mullin
American serial killer (1947–2022)
Patricia Krenwinkel
American murderer; member of Charles Manson's "Family"
Stephen Paddock
American mass murderer (1953–2017)
Elliot Rodger
American individual who perpetrated the 2014 Isla Vista killings (1991–2014)
James Holmes
American mass murderer, perpetrator of the July 20, 2012 mass shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado
John List
American mass murderer (1925–2008)
B. B. Comer
American politician (1848-1927)
Frank James
American outlaw, Confederate guerrilla, and train robber (1843-1915)
Richard Speck
Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence by stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. Speck also raped one victim before killing her. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding beneath a bed.
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
American mass murderer (1951–2021)
Dylann Roof
American white supremacist and neo nazi (born April 3nd 1994)
Charles "Tex" Watson
Manson family member, convicted murderer
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Kyrgyz-American man convicted of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15th, 2013
Andrew Kehoe
American mass murderer and bomber (1872–1927)
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Governor of Texas, Confederate States of America general, Texas A&M University president (1838-1898)
Nidal Malik Hasan
American Army officer and mass murderer (born 1970)
Robert Bales
American army soldier and mass murderer condemned
Terry Nichols
American domestic terrorist
Cole Younger
American bank robber (1844–1916)
Dan Mitrione
FBI agent (1920-1970)
Phillip Adams
American football cornerback (1988–2021)
Steven Green
US war criminal
Ernest Medina
US Army officer (1936–2018)
Jacob H. Smith
United States Army general in the Philippine–American War
Caril Ann Fugate
American spree killer
David Headley
Pakistani American convicted terrorist
Howard Unruh
American mass murderer
Adam Lanza
American spree killer; perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (Born 1992–Died 2012)
Bradford Bishop
American on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted list
Oba Chandler
American rapist and murderer
Nikolas Cruz
American mass shooter and former student of Stoneman Douglas High School
Todd Christopher Kohlhepp
American serial killer
Jared Lee Loughner
American mass murderer; charged with 2011 Tucson shooting
John Milliken Parker, Sr
American politician (1863-1939) and Governor from Louisiana
Kip Kinkel
American mass murderer
James DeWolf
American politician
Christopher Dorner
American LAPD police officer, United States Navy reservist and murderer (1979-2013)
J. Franklin Bell
4th Chief of Staff of the United States Army
John H. Winder
Confederate Army general (1800–1865)
Silas Talbot
American politician and naval officer (1751-1813)
Esek Hopkins
Continental Navy officer (1718-1802)
John Linley Frazier
American mass murderer (1946-2009)
Billy Ray Waldon
American fugitive
Mark Essex
American spree killer
Michael Silka
American spree killer
Carl Robert Brown
American mass murderer (1930-1982)
Blanton C. Winship
American military lawyer and veteran (1869-1947)
Abdul Rahman Yasin
FBI Most wanted terrorist