- Charles Manson
Charles Manson, the leader of a notorious group of killers dubbed The Manson Family, is still alive and making creepy headlines at 80+ years old. Currently imprisoned at the Corcoran State Prison in California, Manson was recently granted a marriage license to wed 26-year-old Elaine Burton (also known as "Star"), a young woman who has been working for nearly ten years to see a man serving a life sentence for murder exonerated.
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Age: 81
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Profession: Musician, Singer-songwriter, Criminal
Institution: Broward Community College, National Training School for Boys
Height: 5'1"
Children: Valentine Michael Manson, Charles Luther Manson, Charles Manson, Jr.
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- Gary Ridgway - The Green River Killer
Often known as the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway killed at least 49 people, with the number of victims probably closer to 90. Ridgway lured prostitutes away to be strangled and raped. He dumped the bodies in the forested areas in Washington, but his first five victims were found in the Green River. He was caught in 2001 after nearly twenty years of murders and sentenced to life in prison.
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Age: 66
Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Institution: Tyee Educational Complex
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Better known as the BTK Killer, Dennis Rader killed 10 people in his native Kansas over a span of almost 20 years starting in 1974. Rader bound, tortured and killed his victims and then sent letters to the police and news outlets bragging about his crimes. He was caught in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison, one life sentence for each murder.
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Age: 70
Birthplace: Pittsburg, Kansas, United States of America
Institution: Wichita State University, Wichita Heights High School, Butler Community College, Kansas Wesleyan University
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Dennis Nilsen is a convicted serial killer and necrophiliac who killed 15 young men in the 70s and 80s in England. He cut up the bodies of his victims and disposed of them by flushing pieces down the toilet and burning the rest. He is currently serving a life sentence in HMP Full Sutton Maximum Security Prison in England.
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Age: 70
Birthplace: Fraserburgh, United Kingdom
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While working as a nurse over the course of 16 years, Charles Cullen killed at least 35 victims - although the suspected number is actually in the hundreds. He killed patients through overdoses and medical contamination in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals. Cullen was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 127 years in prison. Since then, investigations into the hospitals that employed Cullen have revealed that some may have been aware that he was harming patients without taking any measures to stop it.
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Age: 55
Birthplace: West Orange, New Jersey, United States of America
Profession: Nurse, Physician
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David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, terrorized the people of NYC in 1976-1977. Berkowitz claimed he was told by a demon dog to shoot his victims. He killed 6 people and wounded 7 more before getting caught in August 1977. Berkowitz received 6 life sentences.
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Age: 62
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States of America
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Throughout 1979-1981, Atlanta was terrorized by the Atlanta Child Murders where 29 children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered. After Wayne Williams was arrested in 1981 for the murder of two adults, police began to suspect that he was the dreaded child serial killer. Although Williams still maintains he is innocent of the child murders, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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Age: 57
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Institution: Georgia State University, Douglass High School
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In Italy, Donato Bilancia was responsible for the seven-month long crime spree in 1997 that resulted in the deaths of 17 people, both men and women. His motives for each crime were different, from robbery to sexual assault. He was arrested in 1998 and given 13 life sentences, along with 20 extra years for his sex crimes.
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Age: 64
Birthplace: Potenza, Italy
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During the early 1990s, Hu Wanlin was in prison for human trafficking. That didn't stop him from opening a medical practice while jailed. Once he was released after a retrial in 1997, Hu treated hundreds of patients with an herbal remedy that actually contained sodium sulphate. 146 people died of his treatments. He was arrested in 1999 and sentenced to 15 years in prison for practicing medicine without a license.
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Age: 66
Birthplace: Mianyang, China
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Russian doctor Maxim Petrov was arrested in 2000 for murdering at least 19 people through a lethal drug combination. He stole from them and then set fire to the homes of his victims. He is currently serving a life sentence.
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Age: Died at 27 (1965-1992)
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Kristen Gilbert worked as a nurse in Massachusetts when she killed four patients by injecting them with epinephrine. The drug caused the patients to have heart attacks. Gilbert allegedly used these medical emergencies to get the attention of a police officer. In 1998, she called a bomb threat into the hospital as revenge for her coworkers suspecting her of murder. In 2001, she was finally convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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Age: 48
Birthplace: Fall River, Massachusetts, United States of America
Profession: Nurse
Institution: Greenfield Community College
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From 1970 to 1987, Donald Harvey killed between 37 to 57 people. While most of his victims were patients in the hospital where he worked, he also poisoned people he knew, including his lover and neighbors. While Harvey claimed to be an Angel of Death, who kills to take away people's pain, he used painful poisons and methods of killing including suffocation, arsenic, cyanide and hepatitis B. He was sentenced to life in prison.
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Age: 63
Birthplace: Ohio, United States of America
Profession: Physician
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- Juan Corona
In 1971, Juan Corona, a Mexican man working on fruit ranches in California, killed at least 25 men. His victims had worked as laborers on the fruit ranches and were buried in the area. When Corona was caught, he plead not guilty by reason of insanity but was found guilty. He was given 25 life sentences, however he is up for parole in 2016.
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Age: 81
Birthplace: Autlán, Mexico
Medical Conditions: Schizophrenia
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Along with his wife, Paul Bernardo killed and raped at least 3 young women, raping many more women during his time as The Scarborough Rapist. Together, he and his wife drugged and sexually assaulted her sister, who became their first joint victim. He was caught in 1993 and sentenced to life in prison.
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Age: 51
Birthplace: Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
Institution: University of Toronto, University of Toronto Scarborough, Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate Institute
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As the wife of serial rapist and killer Paul Bernardo, Karla Homolka was an accessory to a plethora of rapes and murders, many of which she took part in herself. Homolka facilitated the rape and murder of her younger sister and at least two other women. The couple was arrested in 1993. She was sentenced to 12 years for manslaughter and released in 2005.
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Age: 45
Birthplace: Port Credit, Ontario, Canada
Institution: Queen's University, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School
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- Scott Lee Kimball
Colorado serial killer Scott Lee Kimball killed at least 4 people between 2003 and 2004. Although Kimball was caught in 2004, he was allowed out of prison as an FBI informant. During that time, he allegedly killed more people in the West Mesa Murders. Kimball is currently serving his 70-year sentence in Colorado State Penitentiary.
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Age: 49
Birthplace: Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton was dubbed The Pig Farmer Killer due to his profession as a farmer and tendency to kidnap and murder women. His number of victims is anywhere between 6 and 49 women. He killed from 1983 to 2002, when he was caught and sentenced to life in prison.
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Age: 66
Birthplace: Port Coquitlam, Canada
Profession: Farmer
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Colonel Russell Williams, a decorated military pilot, became one of Canada's most notorious serial killerswhen it was discovered that he killed, robbed and raped multiple women in 2009-2010. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2010.