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Elizabeth Bathory
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- Kingdom of Hungary, 1585-1609
- Total victim count was 650
- Severe beatings, burning, mutilation, biting the flesh off, freezing and starvation
- Found guilty and sentenced to house arrest; died of natural causes
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H.H. Holmes
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- Chicago, 1882-1885
- Nine could be plausibly confirmed
- Asphyxiation, drugged
- Hanged for murder in 1896, however his neck did not snap and it took him 20 minutes to die
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Pedro Rodrigues Filho
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- Brazil, 1968-present
- At least 71 victims
- Shooting and beating- beat his father to death, cut out his heart and chewed it up
- Imprisoned in 1973, released in 2007, and imprisoned again in 2011
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Ahmad Suradji
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- Medan, North Sumatra, 1986-1997
- 42 girls and women
- Strangled after being buried up to their waists as part of a ritual
- Sentenced to death by firing squad and executed on July 10 2008.
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Paul John Knowles
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- Southern America, 1974
- 20 confirmed, possibly 35 victims
- Strangulation by pantyhose and telephone cord, stabbing and shooting
- Shot by police after apprehension during a struggle
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Anatoly Onoprienko
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- Ukraine, 1989-1996
- 52 confirmed victims
- Shooting, beating and axing
- Was given a life sentence and died in jail of heart failure on August 27, 2013
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William George Heirens
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- Chicago, 1946
- 3 confirmed victims
- Stabbed, strangled and dismembered
- Died from complications of diabetes while serving a life sentence in 2012
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Richard Ramirez
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- Los Angeles and San Francisco, June 1984-August 1985
- 13 murder victims
- Handguns, knives, a machete, a tire iron and a hammer
- Died of complications of B-cell lymphoma while on death row
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Aileen Wuornos
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- Florida, 1989-1990
- 6 confirmed victims
- Shooting at point blank range
- Executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002
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Dean Arnold Corll A.K.A. "The Candy Man"
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- Houston, Texas, 1970-1973
- At least 28 boys
- Would lure boys into his van and then shoot or strangle
- Was shot and killed by an accomplice
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