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I had a request to try and put a post together about Maury Travis. He’s an African-American serial killer who targeted prostitutes between 2000 and 2002 in Missouri. He killed atleast 12 but has claimed 17. Travis, a 36-year-old hotel waiter, hanged himself in jail before admitting to any of the murders.
He was known to [...]

You’ve probably never heard of Arnfinn Nesset before. It’s not surprising really since most books and movies focus on American serial killers. Nesset could possibly be worse then Bundy, Dahmer and Green River. He is Norway’s most prolific serial killer coming in with 22 known murders and 138 suspected killings.
Unlike most serial killers, he [...]

In the early 1980’s Lake and Ng somehow found each other and this would prove deadly for many. They lived in a bunker on a peice of remote wooded property in northern California. There they would live out their fantasies of raping, torturing and killing. Not only would the committ these horrible deeds but they would [...]

Lucian Staniak was called by some the Polish Jack The Ripper. His sadistic sex crimes would cover a three year span and would coincide with public celebrations.
On the eve of a national holiday, a letter was sent to a Warsaw newspaper. The note read “There is no happiness without tears, no life without death.” It [...]

We always think that most serial killers are white, while that’s true, over the course of time there have been a few that weren’t.
Henry Louis Wallace: He restricted himself to victims of his own race, like most typical serial killers. One way he was different though was that while most serial killers pick random targets, [...]

I was searching for serial killers by state because I was going to another state related post, like I did with the one for Florida. While searching though I came across a serial killer from my own state of Maryland. I couldn’t pass this one up.
Rees was a serial killer in the 50’s. He was [...]

There’s an old saying that goes “a sailor with a girl in every port.” If the claims of Armstrong are true, he was a sailor that murdered a girl in every port.
in 1992 at the age of 18, John Eric Armstrong joined the US Navy and served the next seven years aboard the aircraft Nimitz. [...]

This case envolves a father who enlisted his own son to be an accomplice in a serious of horrible crimes.
Born in 1936, Joseph Kallinger was abandoned as an infant and later adopted at 18 months old by a sadistic couple. They would beat him with a hammer, subject him to floggings. As a child he [...]

Greg over on the BE Shoutbox asked me about female serial killers, if they exsist. Of course they do. Murders aren’t held to just one type of person. Women serial killers though do committ their murders differently then men.
Where men are more likely to be more violent with the way they kill, 80% of women [...]

Instead of coming at you with a more famous case, I’ve choosen a lesser known one to get us started.
 The first murder happened in May of 1918 and continued through October of 1919. Till this day, no one has been identified as The Axeman though numerous leads were followed. Not all of the victims died [...]