Note: We are not the first in number of kills by a serial killer. Our top serial killer in the US is only 9th in confirmed kills in the world.
Source: Wikipedia
1) Gary Ridgeway - The Green River Killer - Possible Kills: 71 - 90+ - Proven kills: 49
Ridgeway was a truck painter who confessed to killing 71 women. He almost exclusively targeted sex workers from Seattle. Suspected of killing over 90 victims, confessed to 71, convicted of 49. Sentenced to life without parole.
2) Ted Bundy - Possible kills: 36+ - Proven kills: 35
Known for his charisma and good looks, Bundy officially confessed to 30 homicides, but has confessed to killing 35–36 women in the past. Some estimates run upwards of 100 or more. Infamous for escaping from prison twice and murdering multiple victims in one day; sometimes abducting women from the same location within hours of one another. He was executed by electric chair in 1989.
3) Samuel Little - Possible kills 90 - Proven kills: 34
Samuel Little was convicted of killing three women, but later investigations linked 31 other murders to him. Claims he killed as many as 90 victims total. The investigation into his crimes are ongoing.
4) John Wayne Gacy - The Killer Clown - Possible kills: 34+ - Proven kills: 33
John Wayne Gacy was known to have murdered a minimum of 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978, 26 of whom he buried in the crawl space of his Chicago home. Gacy was known as the "Killer Clown" due to the fact he often entertained children as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown" at social events dressed in a self devised clown costume. Executed by lethal injection in 1994.
5) Dean Corll - Possible kills: 29+ - Proven kills: 28.
Corll was responsible for the Houston Mass Murders, the torture and murder of young boys in Pasadena, Texas, and elsewhere in outheast Texas. Murdered by accomplice Elmer With Henley when Corll turned on him.
6) Juan Vallejo Corona - Possible kills 25+ - Proven kills: 25.
Corona was convicted of murdering ranch laborers and burying them in orchards. He was sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment.
7) Ronald Dominique - "The Bayou Strangler" - Possible kills: 23+ - Proven kills: 23
Ronald Dominique was a Louisianan serial killer who murdered victims in the Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish, Iberville Parish and Jefferson Parish. Sentenced to 8 life terms.
8) Earle Nelson - "The Gorilla Killer" "The Dark Strangler" - Possible kills: 25 - Proven kills: 22
Necrophiliac who primarily targeted boarding houselandladies on the U.S. West Coast during 1926; he was Captured after two murders in a small (now ghost) town in southern Manitoba. Found guilty, hanged by Canadian authorities in January 1928.
9) Patrick Kearney - Possible kills: 43+ - Proven kills: 21.
Patrick Kearney would pick up young male hitch-hikers or young men from gay bars near Redondo Beach, California, and kill them. He was Sentenced to life.
10) William Bonin - "The Freeway Killer" - Possible Victims 36+ - Proven Victims: 21
Bonin and three accomplices are known to have murdered a minimum of 21 youths aged between 12 and 19 in and around Los Angeles. The majority of his victims were discarded alongside various southern California freeways. Bonin was convicted of 14 of the freeway murders and was executed by lethal injection in 1996.
End Note: This list is compiled based on the one compiled on Wikipedia. There are other serial killers who may or may not be more prolific from American History such as H.H. Holmes. However, Holmes lived in a time when it was not possible to get an accurate representation of his kills and at his possible kill count ranges from 9 - 200+. If the reader has questions or comments, I do welcome them.
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