Billy Gohl, a German-American, is among the well-known serial killers in American history who was charged with murdering many people. He was accused of killing sailors that traveled through the Aberdeen sailors union, Washington. Before he was apprehended in 1910, he was connected to several killings. Recent research, however, has seriously questioned the claims made…

Gwendolyn Graham was born on August 6, 1963. She showed signs of sociopathy from a young age and was fascinated by death. In 1987, she began working as a nurse’s aide at the Alpine Manor nursing home in Walker, Michigan. It was there that she met her partner in crime, Cathy Wood. The two women…

Alvin Neelley was a prolific American serial killer. In the early 1980s, he and his wife Judith Ann Adams Neelley abducted, tortured, and murdered Lisa Ann Millican and Janice Kay Chatman. The couple also attempted to abduct a third victim. Judith was sentenced to death in 1983, but her sentence was later commuted to life…

Curtis Don Brown was convicted of raping and killing three women in Texas between 1985 and 1986, but it’s believed that he was involved in up to 18 homicides. In 2009, he was found guilty of two further murders from 1985 as a result of fresh DNA evidence. Typically, Brown would sneak up behind his…

Eugene Britt is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven girls and women in Gary and Portage, Indiana. It is believed that he may have been responsible for a total of ten murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Eugene Britt had a history of violence against women before he embarked on…

John Arthur Ackroyd was an American murderer and suspected serial killer. In 1992, he was sentenced to five life terms in prison for the abduction and murder of Kaye Turner. Ackroyd was born on October 3, 1949, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. His father worked as a truck driver and his mother was a homemaker. Ackroyd…

An infamous series of murders of young women took place in Michigan in the late 1960s, which were referred to as the Michigan Murders serial killer. The victims were mostly young girls under 21 who were murdered. Their bodies were sometimes mutilated after death and thrown away within a 15-mile radius.  Despite an extensive investigation,…

Terry Hyatt is a serial killer who was born on March 28, 1957, in North Carolina. He killed at least three women in the state from 1979 to 1987 and was convicted and sentenced to death for two of the murders. In 2005, he was linked to the third murder via DNA profiling and pled…

Jorge Avila-Torrez is an American serial killer and rapist who is known for murdering two girls in Zion, Illinois. After DNA evidence connected him to the crime, he was ultimately found guilty. He was found guilty of double homicide as well as murder at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. Jorge Avila-Torrez, a former Marine, is a…

Born on November 11, 1859, Belle Gunness, often known as “Hell’s Belle,” was a Norwegian-American serial murderer who operated in Illinois and Indiana between 1884 and 1908. Gunness emigrated to the United States in February 1901 together with her two children, Myrtle and Lucy. She made her home in Chicago and started working as a…