The worst serial killers in the world

Paris, France:

The former nurse of a German hospital, Niels Hoegel, claimed to have killed a hundred of his overdose patients, which would make him one of the most prolific serial killers in the world. recent history.

The verdict of his trial is expected Thursday.

Here are some of the most notorious serial killers of the last decades.

The most prolific of Russia

The former Siberian policeman Mikhail Popkov was convicted in December 2018, at the age of 54, of 56 murders. He was already in prison for 22 murders.

Between 1992 and 2007, he raped and killed women with an ax or hammer after offering them nocturnal walks, sometimes in his police car. He also killed a policeman.

He is the worst serial killer of Russia lately.

America is the worst?

Samuel Little, a 78-year-old tramp, admitted 90 murders between 1970 and 2005 in November 2018, and the law enforcement authorities have corroborated more than 40 so far.

If the 90 confessions are confirmed, Little would be the most prolific American serial killer known.

The former boxer, arrested in 2012, mainly targeted drug addicts and prostitutes, many of whom had never been identified. In February 2019, the FBI published 16 portraits designed by him to try to identify some of his victims.

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Alexander Pichushkin was sentenced to life imprisonment in Moscow in 2007 for 48 murders, most of them between 2002 and 2006.

At age 33 at his trial, Pichushkin said he wanted to kill one person for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard, and barred a box for each run, hence his nickname.

His victims were mainly elderly men, alcoholics, met in a park.

Chinese Drifter

Yang Xinhai was executed in China in 2004, at the age of 35, after murdering 67 people during a three-year tragedy that ended in 2003.

Characterized as an introverted vagabond, he entered rural homes and sometimes slaughtered entire families with an ax, hammer or shovel.

The police listed theft and rape as grounds, but Yang was also described as a deranged killer who appreciated what he was doing.

The American "green river killer"

The American truck painter Gary Ridgway confessed in 2003 that he had strangled 48 people mainly between prostitutes and runaways from 1982 to 1984, but he is suspected of moreover.

Nicknamed the "Green River Killer" after the Seattle waterway where his first victims were found, he was 54 when he was convicted and imprisoned.

Death of England

Harold Shipman, a family physician near Manchester, was sentenced to life in 2000 after being convicted of killing 15 of his elderly patients with lethal doses of morphine. He was hanged in prison in 2004, at the age of 57.

An investigation revealed that Shipman, nicknamed "Doctor Death", had killed about 250 patients between 1971 and 1998, making him the worst serial killer in the country.

Colombian monster

Luis Alfredo Garavito was sentenced to 835 years imprisonment in 2000, at the age of 42, for murdering 189 boys for five years, until 1996.

Nicknamed "The monster of Genoa" after his birthplace in Colombia, Garavito was able to contact his victims – aged between 8 and 16 years old – by pretending to be a charity worker, a salesman, a monk or a disabled person.

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In 1992, Andrei Chikatilo, 56, was sentenced to death for 52 badual homicides between 1978 and 1990.

The former teacher, known as "Rostov butcher" after the southern region of Russia where he was particularly active, was executed in 1994.

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In 1980, Colombian Pedro Lopez Monsalve was arrested on a market in Ecuador after attempting to kidnap a girl. He then confessed to strangling at least 310 children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

The "monster of the Andes" was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Ecuador, then extradited in 1994 to Colombia where he was interned in a psychiatric hospital.

Released several years later, he disappeared and would have been 70 years old today.

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