Convicted serial killers by country Afghanistan Abdullah Shah : killed at least twenty travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad serving under Zardad Khan ; also killed his wife; executed on 20 April Cayetano Santos Godino : also known as "Petiso Orejudo" "Big Eared Midget" ; at 16, killed four children in ; died in prison in Robledo Puch : also known as "The Death Angel" and "The Black Angel"; killed eleven people before his arrest in ; sentenced to life imprisonment in Dariusz Kotwica : also known as the "Euro Ripper"; Polish vagrant who murdered at least three pensioners in Austria and Sweden in ; suspected of more murders in the Netherlands , Czech Republic and the United Kingdom ; sentenced to involuntary commitment.
He pretended to love them, later killing them brutally. Jan Caubergh : strangled his pregnant neighbour, his girlfriend and their child in ; sentenced to death but it was converted to life imprisonment; was the longest-serving prisoner in the country until his death in Four of his victims were murdered; the final two were rescued.
Marcelo de Jesus Silva : also known as "Chucky"; dwarf man convicted of twenty counts of murder, robbery, drug trafficking and death squad. Killed his cellmate and a guard in , and is said to have murdered a family of twelve people in an unspecified date and year. Died in Pedro Rodrigues Filho : also known as "Pedrinho Matador"; convicted and sentenced to years imprisonment for 70 murders; however, the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years; claimed to have killed more than victims, including 40 prison inmates.
Burundi Ivomoku Bakusuba : confessed to having killed over 67 children. Committed suicide, "probably in the late s, or in the early s". Bulgaria Hristo Georgiev : also known as "The Sadist"; former militiaman who murdered four women and one man in Sofia from to ; executed Russell Maurice Johnson : also known as the "Bedroom Strangler"; convicted of raping and murdering three women in the s; total number of victims later found to be higher. Gilbert Paul Jordan : also known as the "Boozing Barber", killed between eight and ten women by alcohol poisoning in Vancouver ; died in Dong Wenyu : burglar-rapist who killed six people during break-ins between March and May ; also raped the female victims' corpses; executed Ladislav Hojer : sadist who raped and strangled at least five women from to around Czechoslovakia; executed Yuri Ustimenko and Dmitry Medvedev : Russian duo who committed robberies, killing five people; Medvedev was killed by police, and Ustimenko was captured in Poland, extradited to Estonia and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Evidence suggests having killed as many as 22—25 people between and in Finland and Siberia. Sentenced to life imprisonment, but committed suicide by hanging in a prison cell. Ismo Junni : killed his wife in , then killed four people in arson attacks at the Kivinokka allotment garden in Helsinki from to ; committed suicide while in custody.
