A TO Z OF MALE KILLERS

Article BY SKYE ANDREWS - Art by A-Farsy

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AL-BATOUTI, GAMEEL
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 216
Date of Murders 31 October 1999
Method of Murder Deliberately crashing flight 990 into the ocean
Location Atlantic Ocean 60 miles SE of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA
Status Died in the crash

According to the National Transportation Safety Board AL-BATOUTI seized the planes controls and turned off the auto-pilot after the captain left the cockpit. He then led the plane into a dive while continually repeating “I rely on God.”

BREIVIK, ANDERS BEHRING
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 77
Date of Murders 22 July 2011
Method of Murder Bombing/Shooting
Location Oslo/Utoya Island, Norway
Status Sentenced to containment (a special form of prison sentence that can be extended indefinitely)

BREIVIK allegedly bombed government buildings in Oslo which resulted in 8 deaths, hours later he posed as a police officer and went to Utoya Island were he opened fire on unarmed adolescence reportedly killing 69 people.

CAMARGO BARBOSA, DANIEL
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 72+
Date of Murders 1974/ 1984-1986
Method of Murder Strangulation – Stabbing with knife
Location Colombia/Ecuador
Status Sentenced to 16 years in prison in 1989. Killed in prison by another prisoner on 13 November 1994

CAMARGO calmly confessed to police that he had killed 71 children in Ecudor. The bodies had been dismembered. After raping his victims he hacked, slashed and crushed the girls with a machete. He said he chose children because he wanted virgins and they cried.

DAE-HAN, KIM
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 198
Date of Murders 17 February 2003
Method of Murders Fire
Location Daegu, South Korea
Status Sentenced to life imprisonment 5 August 2003. Died in prison 31 August 2004

DAE-HAN set fire to a train stopped at Jungangno Station which also spread to another train which had entered the station from the opposite direction.

EVANS, DONALD LEROY
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 3-60+
Date of Murders 1975-1991
Method of Murder Strangulation
Location Several States, USA
Status Sentenced to death in 1993. Stabbed to death by a fellow inmate 5 January 1999

EVANS was known for sexually assaulting and brutally killing victims at parks and rest areas across 20 states. He confessed to killing 60 people.

FERGUSON, CHAMP
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 53-100+
Date of Murders 1861-1865
Method of Murder Shooting
Location Kentucky/Tennessee, USA
Status Executed by hanging 20 October 1865

FERGUSON was a Kentucky and Tennessee confederate guerrilla in the American Civil war who claimed to have killed dozens of soldiers and civilians.

GARAVITO CUBILLOS, LUIS ALFREDO
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 138-192
Date of Murders 1992-1999
Method of Murder Stabbing with knife and screwdriver
Location Colombia/Ecuador
Status Sentenced to 1,853 years in prison

GARAVITO admitted in 1999 to the rape and murder of 140 young boys although the map he drew for police with the locations of bodies, police estimate it could be as many as 300. He is currently under investigation for the murder of 172 children in more than 59 towns in Colombia.

HARVEY, DONALD
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 37-87
Date of Murders 1970-1987
Method of Murder Smothering with plastic and pillow, Poisoning, Deprivation of oxygen
Location Kentucky/Ohio, USA
Status Sentenced to life in prison

HARVEY admitted to killing more than 50 people in his life. Digging further police found that hospitals he had worked at all had very high fatality rates and some of his acquaintances and homosexual lovers had mysteriously died suddenly as well

IQBAL, JAVED
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 100
Date of Murders 1998-1999
Method of Murder Strangulation
Location Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Status Sentenced to death 16 March 2000. Committed suicide in his cell

IQBAL was found guilty of the sexual abuse and murder of 100 children between the ages of six to 16. He claimed to have strangled and dismembered the victims and disposing of the bodies using vats of hydrochloric acid, then dumping the remains in the river.

JONES, JAMES WARREN
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 900+
Date of Murders 18 November 1978
Method of Murder Shooting/Poison
Location Jonestown, Guyana
Status Died from a gunshot wound to the head the same day

JONES was the founder of the Peoples Temple group, he ordered the mass-murder and suicide of over 900 men, women and children.

KIBWETEERE, JOSEPH
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 1000+
Date of Murders March 2000
Method of Murder Poisoning/Fire
Location Kanungu District, Uganda
Status Died in a mass suicide 17 March 2000

KIBWETEERE was the cult leader and co-founder of The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. In early 2000 followers of the sect perished in a fire, poisonings and killings. It is not determined whether this was a cult suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by the sect leaders after their prediction of the apocalypse failed to pass.

LOPEZ, PEDRO ALONSO
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 57 - 300+
Date of Murders 1969-1980
Method of Murder Strangulation
Location Peru, Ecuador, Colombia
Status Unknown

LOPEZ was accused to raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America.

McVEIGH, TIMOTHY JAMES
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 168
Date of Murders 19 April 1995
Method of Murder Bombing
Location Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
Status Executed by lethal injection 11 June 2001

McVEIGH drove to Alfred P. Murrah Federal building with 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane. Just as the building was opening for the day he ignited the fuse and ran away.

NESSET, ARNFINN
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 22+
Date of Murders 1977-1980
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Orkdal, Norway
Status Sentenced to 21 years in prison

NESSET poisoned 22 patients with curacit (a muscle relaxing drug). Curacit becomes difficult to trace in a corpse as time passes so it is possible he killed up to 138 people.

ONOPRIENKO, ANATOLY
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 52
Date of Murders 1989-1996
Method of Murder Shooting
Location Ukraine
Status Died in prison 27 August 2013

ONOPRIENKO would chose an isolated house, get the attention of the occupants then kill them starting with the adult male, then he would kill the spouse and any children. He also would kill any witnesses to his crimes. Later he claimed they were killed because inner voices commanded him to.

PILIN, ZHANG
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 111
Date of Murders 7 May 2002
Method of Murder Set fire to a passanger cabin with gasoline, causing the plane to lose control and crash
Location Dalian, Liaoning, China
Status Died in the plane crash

PILIN set fire to the passanger cabin with gasoline causing the plane to lose control and crash

QUANSAH, CHARLES EBO
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 9-34
Date of Murders 1993-2000
Method of Murder Strangulation
Location Accra/Kumasi, Ghana
Status Sentenced to death in 2000

QUANSAH claims that police had tortured him into confessing to the murders.

RUCHAO, JIN
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 108+1
Date of Murders 16 March 2001
Method of Murders home-made bombs
Location Shijiazhuang, Yunnan, China
Status Executed by shot to the head 17 June 2001

RUCHAO set off a series of bombs to take revenge against relatives, his ex wife and others that he had feuded with.

SHANKARIYA, KAMPATIMAR
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 70+
Date of Murders 1977-1978
Method of Murders Hitting with a hammer
Location Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Status Executed by hanging 16 May 1979

SHANKARIYA was convicted in 1979 for using a hammer to kill at least 70 victims in a confession he claimed he had killed the victims for the pleasure it provided.

TKACH, SERHIY
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 29-100
Date of Murders 1980-2005
Method of Murder Suffocation – Strangulation
Location Crimea, Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkov regions, Ukraine
Status Sentenced to life in prison 23 December 2008

TKACH suffocated girls aged between eight and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead.

UNEK, WILLIAM
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 57
Date of Murders 1954/1957
Method of Murder Shooting – Hitting with an axe – Fire
Location Mahagi, Belgian Congo/Malampaka, Tanganyika
Status Died from injuries suffered in a fire 21 February 1957

UNEK killed a total of 57 people in two seperate spree killings. The first spree was in 1954 where he killed 21 people with an axe, he escaped and in 1957 he shot dead 10 men, eight women, eight children. He also murdered 5 more men with an axe, stabbed another, burned two women and a child, then strangled a 15 year old girl.

VOLKOVICH, VLADISLAV
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 16+
Date of Murders 1991-1996
Method of Murder Shooting – Stabbing – Bludgeoning
Location Kiev, Ukraine
Status Sentenced to life in prison August 2000

VOLKOVICH claimed the murder spree was in order to prepare for a career as a contract killer, he was practicing on the homeless.

WANLIN, HU
Classification Homicide
Number of Victims 146+
Date of Murders 1997-1998
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Henan, China
Status Sentenced to 15 years in prison for practising medicine without a license in 2000

WANLIN practised medicine illegally and killed atleast 146 “patients”

XINHAI, YANG
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 67
Date of Murder 2000-2003
Method of Murders Beating with a hammer
Location Henan, China
Status Executed by a shot to the head 14 February 2004

XINHAI confessed to killing 65 people. At night he would enter his victims homes and kill everyone inside with axes, meat cleavers, hammers and shovels. He often raped the female victims.

YUNLIANG, ZHANG
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 26
Date of Murder 5 June 2009
Method of Murder Fire
Location Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Status Died in the fire

YUNLIANG set fire to a bus killing 27 passangers and causing another 76 injuries. He reportedly threatened suicide because his family refused to continue supporting him financially.

ZHANJIN, LIU
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 42
Date of Murder 2000
Method of Murder Explosives
Location Shanxi, China
Status Died in the explosion

ZHANJIN suicide bombed a village wedding because he was angry his wife left him.