Leo Serial Killers

Rank the Most Wicked Leo Serial Killers

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Elizabeth Báthory
(Hungarian Noblewoman and Serial Killer)
Elizabeth Báthory
117
Birthdate: August 7, 1560
Birthplace: Nyírbátor, Hungary
Died: August 21, 1614
Known as The Blood Countess and Countess Dracula, Elizabeth Báthory was a Hungarian noblewoman who was accused of killing at least 650 young women from 1590 to 1610. She was also accused of cannibalism and bathing in the blood of her victims. She evaded punishment and died in house arrest.
 2 
Tsutomu Miyazaki
(Japanese Serial Killer)
Tsutomu Miyazaki
52
Birthdate: August 21, 1962
Birthplace: Itsukaichi, Tokyo
Died: June 17, 2008
Japanese serial killer, rapist, and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki, better known as the Otaku Murderer or the Little Girl Murderer, kidnapped and killed four girls, from ages 4 to 7, and then dismembered the bodies and indulged in necrophilia. He was convicted in 1997 and hanged to death in 2008.
 3 
Cary Stayner
(Serial Killer)
Cary Stayner
32
Birthdate: August 13, 1961
Birthplace: Merced, California

Cary Stayner is a serial killer convicted of the murders of four women in 1999. He had a troubled childhood. His brother Steven was a kidnap victim, and Cary himself was allegedly molested as a young boy. As a young man, he became involved with drugs and entered the world of crime. He is currently on death row.

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 4 
John George Haigh
(English Serial Killer Nicknamed 'The Acid Bath Murderer')
John George Haigh
14
Birthdate: July 24, 1909
Birthplace: Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
Died: August 10, 1949

Known as the Acid Bath Murderer, John George Haigh was Known for shooting or beating his victims to death and then dissolving them in sulphuric acid. To his friends, he seemed to be a wealthy man of culture. Though he initially got away with 5 murders, he was caught after his 6th murder.

 5 
Yukio Yamaji
(Serial killer)
Yukio Yamaji
12
Birthdate: August 21, 1983
Birthplace: Japan
Died: July 28, 2009
 6 
Myra Hindley
(Murderer Who Raped and Killed Five Children in and Around Manchester Between 1963 and 1965)
Myra Hindley
82
Birthdate: July 23, 1942
Birthplace: Crumpsall, Greater Manchester, England
Died: November 15, 2002

Myra Hindley was an English murderer accused of raping and killing five children aged between 10 and 17 along with her partner, Ian Brady. The killings, which were carried out between July 1963 and October 1965, were dubbed the Moors murders. The killings and its aftermath were dramatized and adapted into an award-winning TV film titled Longford.

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 7 
Martha Rendell
(Australian Murderer)
Martha Rendell
11
Birthdate: August 10, 1871
Birthplace: Australia
Died: October 6, 1909
 8 
Jack Unterweger
(Austrian Serial Killer, Playwright, and Journalist)
Jack Unterweger
12
Birthdate: August 16, 1950
Birthplace: Judenburg, Styria, Austria
Died: June 29, 1994
 9 
Jacques Plumain
(French Serial Killer)
Jacques Plumain
1
Birthdate: August 14, 1973
Birthplace: Guadeloupe

Jacques Plumain is a French serial killer who murdered at least two women in France and Germany between 1999 and 2001. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005. He served 15 years of his sentence before his release in January 2021. The murders inspired a couple of TV documentaries.

 10 
Anatoly Onoprienko
(Serial Killer)
Anatoly Onoprienko
19
Birthdate: July 25, 1959
Birthplace: Zhytomyr
Died: August 27, 2013
Anatoly Onoprienko, also known as The Beast of Ukraine and Citizen O, had grown up in an orphanage after his mother’s death. The Ukrainian serial killer then worked as a sailor and studied forestry, before going on a killing spree that claimed the lives of 52 people. 
 11 
Anthony Sowell
(American serial killer)
Anthony Sowell
16
Birthdate: August 19, 1959
Birthplace: Ohio
 12 
Kendall Francois
(American serial killer)
Kendall Francois
7
Birthdate: July 26, 1971
Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, New York
Died: September 11, 2014
Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
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 13 
Charles Albright
(American Serial Killer )
Charles Albright
11
Birthdate: August 10, 1933
Birthplace: Amarillo, Texas, United States
Died: August 22, 2020

Charles Albright was an American criminal and serial killer who was suspected of killing three women. In 1991, he was convicted of murdering a woman named Shirley Williams and imprisoned in the John Montford Psychiatric Unit in Texas. His story was covered by the media and many TV networks like HBO aired episodes related to Charles Albright.

 14 
Paul Durousseau
(Serial Killer)
Paul Durousseau
16
Birthdate: August 11, 1970
Birthplace: Beaumont
Height: 6'6" (198 cm)
 15 
Béla Kiss
(Serial Killer)
Béla Kiss
8
Birthdate: July 28, 1877
Birthplace: Izsák, Hungary
Died: October 4, 1916
 16 
Tony Costa
(American Serial Killer)
Tony Costa
11
Birthdate: August 2, 1944
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Died: May 12, 1974
 17 
Frederick Bailey Deeming
(Australian Murderer)
Frederick Bailey Deeming
9
Birthdate: July 30, 1853
Birthplace: Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England
Died: May 23, 1892
 18 
Hiroshi Maeue
(Serial killer)
Hiroshi Maeue
7
Birthdate: August 8, 1968
Birthplace: Japan
Died: July 28, 2009