World's Most Evil Killers

Thierry Paulin murdered 21 elderly women during the 1980s. He lived a lavish lifestyle, funded by the money stolen from his victims.

Fritz Honka killed four prostitutes in Hamburg during the early 70s.

Marc Dutroux kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls between 1995 and 1996, and he murdered four of them.

Volker Eckert, a German truck driver, strangled and killed as many as nineteen women across Europe in a murderous career that lasted over thirty years.

Joachim Kroll murdered at least thirteen people during a span of over twenty years.

Ed Gein murdered two women in the 1950s and was also a body snatcher. He would fashion items out of bones and skin.

Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious killers in the world. For thirteen years he raped, murdered and ate his young male victims, seventeen of them in total.

John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 boys and young men during a six-year period in the 1970s. He hid the bodies of his victims in the walls of his suburban home.

Beverley Allitt killed four children and attempted to murder nine more while working as a nurse at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991.

In 1987, Michael Ryan went on a killing spree in the quiet market town of Hungerford in Berkshirem before turning the gun on himself.

It is widely believed that Tobin is the 1960s Scottish serial killer known as Bible John.

A look at a Belgian serial killer convicted for kidnapping, torturing and sexual abuse.

Stuart Hazell had sexually assaulted and murdered Tia, his partner's twelve-year-old daughter.

Dennis Nilsen killed at least twelve men in the late 70s and early 80s in Muswell Hill, London.

Stephen Griffiths, the self-proclaimed Crossbow Cannibal, had always fantasized about murder. In 2009, he acted on his murderous instincts and killed three women.

Joanne Dennehy violently stabbed three men to death in March 2013. She killed for her own entertainment and has been diagnosed as a psychotic sadomasochist.

Levi Bellfield killed two young women by bludgeoning them to death with a hammer, and he also attempted to murder a third. While in prison, he was convicted of a third murder that was unsolved for years.

Fred and Rose West raped, tortured and killed young women in their house of horrors, including their own daughter.

Stuart Hazell sexually assaulted and murdered his partner's 12-year-old granddaughter,Tia Sharpe.

Ian Huntley abducted two ten-year-old schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, murdered them and tried to burn the bodies.

Peter Sutcliffe, also known as The Yorkshire Ripper, was convicted of killing thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others.

Steve Wright killed five women over a six-week period in the winter of 2006 without motive or explanation.