Necrophiles

Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His modus operandi typically consisted of convincing his target that he was in need of assistance or duping them into believing he was an authority figure. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon them unconscious, then restrain them with handcuffs before driving them to a remote location to be sexually assaulted and killed.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Periander (; ; died c. 585 BC) was the second tyrant of the Cypselid dynasty that ruled over ancient Corinth. Periander's rule brought about a prosperous time in Corinth's history, as his administrative skill made Corinth one of the wealthiest city states in Greece. Several accounts state that Periander was a cruel and harsh ruler, but others claim that he was a fair and just king who worked to ensure that the distribution of wealth in Corinth was more or less even. He is often considered one of the Seven Sages of Greece, men of the 6th century BC who were renowned for centuries for their wisd

Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least three child murders between July 1924 and June 1928. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and the Boogey Man. Fish was a suspect in at least ten murders during his lifetime, although he only confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide. He also confessed to stabbing at least two other people.

Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Township, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of his crimes.

leader in the French army, companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, convicted serial killer of children

American serial killer (1960–2013)

Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women, including his own mother, and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer", as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his murders included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment and possibly cannibalism.

Colombian serial killer (1957–2023)

American serial killer

Japanese author, murderer (1949-2022)

20th-century Japanese murderer

Japanese serial killer (1962–2008)

American serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac (1950–1980)

American convicted murderer and claimed serial killer (1936–2001)

Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years; this recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff in December 1994. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at HM Prison Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Canadian murderer, model and pornographic actor

Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.

American serial killer

French serial killer (1942–2021)

Ukrainian serial killer

German serial killer (1933–1991)

Russian serial killer and rapist

American serial killer (1854–1938)

English serial killer (1899–1953)

American murderer (1954–2006)

American serial killer (1978–2012)

American serial killer (1897–1928)

Soviet murderer (1959-1996)

American serial killer (1945–2008)

sentenced to death in France

Romanian serial killer (1903–1960)

Soviet serial killer (1938-1989)

American serial killer (1946–1995)

American serial killer

Russian serial killer (1962–2005)

Polish serial killer

Chinese serial killer and rapist

Romanian serial killer (1946–1971)

Australian serial killer (1931–1964)

Chinese ruler

American serial killer

French Necrophile

Chinese serial killer

South African serial killer

Hong Kong serial killer

Japanese serial killer (1926–1959)

Slovak serial killer (1955–2022)

American serial killer (1957-1981)

American serial killer (1952–1988)

Serial killer

Canadian serial killer (1939-2010)

Czech serial murderer (1925–1957)

America serial killer (1948–2023)

Japanese serial killer

American serial killer (1946–1974)

Brazilian serial killer

Estonian serial killer (1957-1982)