Henri Désiré Landru, the 'Bluebeard of Gambais', seduced and murdered at least 10 women in WWI-era France through lonely-hearts ads, burning their bodies in his stove.

Gerald Stano confessed to 41 murders of young women across Florida and beyond, though doubts surround some confessions. He was executed in 1998.

Vasili Komaroff, the 'Wolf of Moscow', murdered at least 33 men in 1920s Soviet Russia, luring horse-market customers to his home before robbing and killing them.

Béla Kiss, the 'Monster of Cinkota', murdered at least 24 people in Hungary and preserved their bodies in metal drums — then vanished and was never caught.

Joseph Paul Franklin was a white supremacist serial killer who murdered around 16 people across the US, targeting Black people, interracial couples and Jews.

Peter Sutcliffe, the 'Yorkshire Ripper', murdered 13 women and attacked seven more across northern England. Inside the case and the flawed five-year manhunt.

Dennis Nilsen murdered at least 12 young men in London, his crimes uncovered only when human remains blocked a drain. A case shadowed by overlooked victims.

Fred West, with his wife Rose, murdered at least 12 young women and girls in Gloucester, burying them at 25 Cromwell Street — Britain's infamous 'House of Horrors'.

Joseph Vacher, the 'French Ripper', murdered at least 11 people — many of them young shepherds — across rural France in the 1890s, in a landmark forensic case.

Earle Nelson, the 'Gorilla Killer', strangled at least 22 landladies across the US and Canada in the 1920s — perhaps the first known serial sex murderer of the century.

Pedro López, the 'Monster of the Andes', confessed to killing hundreds of girls across Colombia, Peru and Ecuador — then walked free and disappeared.

The story of Luis Garavito, 'La Bestia' — the Colombian serial killer linked to nearly 200 murders of boys, his disguises, capture, and controversial sentence.

Mariam Soulakiotis, the Greek abbess called the 'Killer Nun', was convicted in a case linked to scores of deaths from neglect and abuse — a story still disputed today.

Daniel Camargo Barbosa raped and murdered scores of girls across Colombia and Ecuador, escaped an island prison, and was finally killed behind bars. His chilling story.

Rodney Alcala won a 1978 episode of The Dating Game while in the middle of a murder spree. Inside the crimes of one of America's most disturbing serial killers.

Harold Shipman, the trusted English GP known as 'Dr. Death', murdered an estimated 250 patients with lethal injections. Inside one of history's worst medical killers.

He has been called the most prolific murderer who ever lived. He never owned a gun, never built a weapon, and left no manifesto behind. His only tool was a strip of cloth and the patience to make a stranger trust him before he used it. Two centuries later, the story of Thug Behram still anchors every argument about the outer limits of human violence. But it is also a story about something more uncomfortable: how the historical record itself can be bent by the people who write

Some crimes horrify because of how they were committed. This one horrified a nation because of who committed it, and against whom. The case of Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit forced India to confront a combination it was not prepared for: women, working as a family, who preyed on the most defenceless victims imaginable, young children. It is one of the most painful cases in the country's modern history, and also one of its most legally significant, ending in a courtroom decisio

He arrived in the big city chasing a dream that thousands shared: a young man from a small town, hoping the film world might notice him. Instead, Gowri Shankar became one of the most feared names in Tamil Nadu, a gangster and murderer whose nickname, drawn from the humble autorickshaw, would outlive him by decades. Auto Shankar's story is not only about the killings that sent him to the gallows. It is about how a small-time hustler built a criminal empire on the back of a cit

When women began turning up dead on the outskirts of Bangalore, investigators did what investigators usually do: they started looking for a dangerous man. The assumption felt obvious. It was also completely wrong. The person luring these women to their deaths was a woman who presented herself as one of the most devout people they would ever meet. Her name was K.D. Kempamma, and the press would come to call her Cyanide Mallika. She holds a grim place in the country's criminal