| WABLE John Wesley | 1929 | 1954/09/26 | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1953 | | PA OH | Verdict/Urteil: | On July 26, 1953, truck driver Lester Woodward was shot in the head and killed as he slept in his truck, parked along the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Irwin. Two days later, trucker Harry Pitts died in identical circ*mstances, parked near the turnpike's Donegal interchange. [ReadOn] | | WADDINGHAM Dorothea Nancy | 1899 | 1936/04/16 | | | ... | ... | ... | 2+ | AD | 1935 | 1936 | | Verdict/Urteil: | Hanged by Tom and Albert Pierrepoint at Birmingham's Winson Green prison. 36 year old "nurse" Waddingham, as she called herself, used morphine to poison one of her elderly patients, 89 year old Mrs. Louisa Baguley and her daughter Ada Baguley, the motive being gain. Hanged 16/04/1936, by Tom and Albert Pierrepoint at Birmingham's Winson Green prison. 36 year old "nurse" Waddingham, as she called herself, used morphine to poison one of her elderly patients, 89 year old Mrs. Louisa Baguley and her daughter Ada Baguley, the motive being gain. | | WAINEWRIGHT Thomas Griffiths | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 4 | BB | 1828 | 1837 | | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WAITE Dr. Arthur Warren | 1889 | 1917/05/.. | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | AD BB | 1916 | | MI | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WALDEN Robert Lee jr. | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1990 | 1992 | AZ | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WALDON Billy Ray | 1952 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 4 | | 1985 | | CA OK | Verdict/Urteil: | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (23) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (23)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) Billy Waldon scarcely knew his mother . During 1957, at the tender age of five, he was delivered to his grandmother's care, and the older woman raised him as her own around Tahlequah, Oklahoma, teaching him the values that she hoped would guide his steps through life. [ReadOn] | | WALKER Clarence | 1929 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 14 | | 1945 | 1966 | TN OH MI | Verdict/Urteil: | A native of Tennessee, born February 25, 1929, Walker was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison at age 14. Paroled after seven years, he adopted a rootless life-style, clashing repeatedly with the law in his travels and serving two prison terms in Ohio, on conviction for armed robbery and grand larceny. [ReadOn] | | WALKER Gary Alan | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | | 1984 | | OK | Verdict/Urteil: | Prior to embarkation on a spree of rape and murder, Gary Walker managed to compile a record of convictions spanning fifteen years, with charges that included auto theft, burglary, narcotics abuse and firearms violations. As Walker described his own life, "I haven't spent a full year out of jail since I was seventeen years old." [ReadOn] | | WALLACE George Kent | 1941 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | Mad Paddler | 1976 | 1990 | AR NC OK | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WALLS Frank Athen | 1967 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | | 1987 | | FL | Verdict/Urteil: | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (35) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (35)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) During the early morning hours of July 22, 1987, in Okaloosa County, a neighbor heard loud noises coming from the mobile home of the victims, Edward Alger and Ann Peterson. When Alger failed to report for duty at Eglin Air Force Base, where he worked, his superior officer Sergeant John Calloway went to Algers home. [ReadOn] | | WALLS Samuel Cornelius | 1939 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1959 | 1988 | NJ | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WALRAVEN James Samuel | | | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (38) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (38)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | aka | | | Clarkston | Verdict/Urteil: Life | It started on April 15, 1981 when police found 22 year old Louise DalSanto strangled and face down in her bathtub at Woodcreek apartments in Clarkston. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled by hand before her body was dumped face down and covered with scalding water in her bathtub. [ReadOn] | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (40) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (40)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WALTERS Annie => SACH Amelia & WALTERS Annie | | WALTON Edward | | 1908/07/17 | | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | | 1896 | 1908 | AL IL PA OH VA | Verdict/Urteil: | A Georgia native, Walton spent most of his life on the road, drifting around the eastern half of the United States and living under a variety of pseudonyms. Along the way, he killed at least five victims, though the widely-scattered crimes would not be linked until the morning of his scheduled execution, when he signed a brief confession in the shadow of the gallows. [ReadOn] | | WALTON Vernon | 1950 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1972 | 1991 | CA | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WALUSIMBI Baker | ... | ... | | | ... | ... | ... | ... | | ... | ... | Kampala | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WANLIN Hu | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 100-190 | aka | 1970s | 1999 | | Verdict/Urteil: | Hu Wanlin is a Sichuannative of China. He received only a primary school education, and then led a troubled life. While serving a sentence in jail for intentional homicide, swindling, and abducting and trafficking in women, Hu decided to try something different. In 1993, while still in jail, he opened a medical practice. [ReadOn] | | WAQANIVALU Waisale | ... | ... | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (49) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (49)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (50) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (50)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | ... | ... | ... | ... | aka | ... | ... | Fiji | ...:... | ... | ... | ... | Verdict/Urteil: | | ... | | WARDELL Gordon | 1952 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3+ | | 1991 | 1994 | | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WARDER Dr. Alfred | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | BB | 18.. | | | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WARDLAW Virginia | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | MARTIN Caroline Wardlaw | | | South | | SNEYD Mary Wardlaw | | | | | 1900s | | | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WARNER Karl F. | 1950 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | 1969 | 1970 | CA | Verdict/Urteil: | On August 3, 1969, schoolmates Deborah Furlong, 14, and Kathy Snoozy, 15, rode their bikes to a wooded knoll overlooking their homes in the rugged Alameda Valley section of South San Jose, California. They brought a picnic lunch and meant to spend a quiet afternoon alone, unconscious of the fact that they had trespassed on a killer's private hunting ground. [ReadOn] | | WARREN Leslie Eugene | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 6+ | | 1986 | 1990 | NY NC SC | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WARREN Nancy | | | | | ... | ... | ... | | aka | | | | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WASHINGTON Allen | 1948 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | 1969 | 1978 | IL | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WASHINGTON D.C. GAY Slasher | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 10 | | 1971 | | WA | Verdict/Urteil: | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (87) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (87)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) On March 3, 1972, police in the District of Columbia announced that ten of 1971's thirty-eight unsolved murders were "hom*osexually motivated or related." Hesitant to speculate about connections in the crimes, investigators did report that they were searching for a single suspect, pictured in a photograph with victim James Williams, 55, found stabbed to death in his northwest apartment on April 13, 1971. The snapshot had been taken by a photographer known only as "Bill," who ignored official pleas for help in solving the case. At this writing, the murders remain unsolved, the killer (or killers) still at large. | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (100) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (100)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WATERFIELD Fred => GORE David Alan & WATERFIELD Fred | | WATERS Margaret | 1835 | 1870/10/11 | | | ... | ... | ... | 19+ | BF | 1866 | 1870 | Brixton | Verdict/Urteil: | Hanged by William Calcraft at Horsemonger Lane Goal (County of Surrey). Waters, 34, was another baby farmer convicted of murdering an infant. | | WATSON Alexander Wayne | ... | ... | | | ... | ... | ... | ... | aka | ... | ... | ... | Verdict/Urteil: | | ... | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (106) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (106)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WATSON Charles Tex => MANSON Charles Milles | | WATSON James B. | 1870 | 1939/10/15 | | | ... | ... | ... | 25+ | BB | 1918 | 1920 | ID WA CA | Verdict/Urteil: | A classic American "bluebeard," Watson led a life of subterfuge and mystery, with question marks beginning at his birth. Christened Charles Gillam, he was born at Paris, Arkansas, sometime in 1870, his father absent at the time of the event. As a child, he was told of his father's death, discovering the truth -- that he had been deserted -- at the age of nine. [ReadOn] | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (109) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (109)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WATSON Mona Lisa => HOWELL Michael Wayne & WATSON Mona Lisa | | WATTS Coral Eugene | *1953 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 22+ | Sunday Morning Slasher | 1974 | | | Verdict/Urteil: | | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (113) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (113)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) Born at Fort Hood, Texas, during 1953, Watts grew up on the move, attending public schools in Texas, West Virginia, and Michigan before finishing high school -- after a fashion -- in Inkster, a Detroit suburb. Despite a tested IQ of 75, he was admitted to Western Michigan University, at Kalamazoo, and was enrolled there when he started acting out his violent fantasies against women in October 1974. [ReadOn] | News | Victims | | WAYCROSS .22 CALIBER Killer | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | 1993 | | GA | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WEBB Dennis Duane | 1952 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 8+ | | 1973 | 1987 | CA TX | Verdict/Urteil: | A racist drifter with his roots in northeast Texas, Webb would travel widely in the service of the outlaw motorcycle gangs to whom he owed his first allegiance. Jailed for a hometown burglary at age 20, in 1972, he reportedly killed his first victim a year later. The victim was gay, selected at random because, as Webb explained, "I don't like hom*osexuals." [ReadOn] | | WEBB Emanuel Lovell | ... | ... | | | ... | ... | ... | ... | aka | ... | ... | CT | Verdict/Urteil: | | | WEBSTER Robert | 1922 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1946 | 1963 | CA | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WEEKS Robert | 1929 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | BB | 1968 | 1981 | CA NV | Verdict/Urteil: | An Alabama native, born in 1929, Weeks graduated from Mississippi Southern College in 1952, after working his way through school as a mortician and parachute stuntman. Two years later, he married his first wife, Patricia, in Minneapolis, moving to Las Vegas in 1955. Weeks prospered there, opening the city's first limousine service in 1960, but his pathological jealousy made Patricia a virtual prisoner at home, where she was frequently beaten, denied permission to even go grocery shopping alone. [ReadOn] | | WEIDENBROEKER Helmut | 1965 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3-5 | | 1982 | 1986 | Aachen | Verdict/Urteil: | A German chemist, born in 1964, Weidenbroeker lived in Broichweiden, while serving his apprenticeship in nearby Aachen. As a student, he had dressed up in his sister's clothes before assaulting elderly women and stealing their purses. Arrested, he confessed but gave no motive for his crimes, earning a sentence of two years in prison. [ReadOn] | | WEIDMANN Eugen | 1915 | 1939/05/18 | | | ... | ... | ... | 6+ | | 1935 | 1937 | | Verdict/Urteil: | On August 7, 1937, 22-year-old Jean de Koven, an American dancer, was kidnapped from her Paris hotel room and murdered. Following receipt of a note demanding $500 ransom, police identified the killer as Eugen Weidmann, a German immigrant, and the manhunt began in earnest. [ReadOn] | | WEITZEL Dr. Robert | | | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (135) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (135)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | aka | | | | Verdict/Urteil: | On September, 1999, Dr. Weitzel was arrested in Bay City, Texas, about 75 miles southwest of Houston. The Salt City doctor was accused of killing five elderly patients by prescribing lethal doses of morphine and other drugs between December 30, 1995, and January 14, 1996. [ReadOn] | | WEN XIAN Li | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 13 | aka | | | | Verdict/Urteil: | This farmer from the southern Guangdong province in China eportedly strangled and stabbed 13 women and smashed their heads with a hammer out of revenge for being cheated by a prostitute when he first moved to Canton, Guangdong's provincial capital, to work in construction. [ReadOn] | | WEN Zhou | | | | | ... | ... | ... | ... | | | | Anshan | Verdict/Urteil: | | ... | | WEREWOLF of CHALONS | | +1598/12/.. | | | ... | ... | ... | # | | 1590s | | Chalons | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (159) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (159)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WEST John Coulter => DANIELS Murl & WEST John Coulter | | WEST Ronald Glenn | | | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (160) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (160)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | | ... | ... | ... | 2+ | aka | | | | Verdict/Urteil: | While serving a eight-year sentence for robbery Ronald Glenn West, a former Toronto police officer, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1970 sex slayings of nurses Helen Ferguson and Doreen Moorby. He is also under investigation in a 1991 double murder at a picnic site just outside of Blind River, Ontario. [ReadOn] | | WEST SIDE RAPIST | | | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (162) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (162)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | | ... | ... | ... | 10+ | aka | 1974 | 1975 | LA | Verdict/Urteil: | Within a single year, between November 1974 and October 1975, a vicious prowler terrorized the west side of Los Angeles, raping 33 women and killing at least ten. While all of his victims were elderly, ranging in age from 63 to 92 years, the incessant attacks spread an aura of fear city-wide, boosting gun sales, turning neighbor against neighbor as dark suspicions flourished. [ReadOn] | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (164) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (164)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WHALEY Michael => ISAAC Tommy Lee & WHALEY Michael & WHALEY Terrell | | WHELAN John | | | | | ... | ... | ... | | aka | | | | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WHIPPS Jeffrey | | | | | ... | ... | ... | | | | | Knox County | Verdict/Urteil: | | The small town of Vincennes, Indiana is known to many in the Tri-State as the town where murders are rarely solved, but that reputation is now changing. In the last year police believe they've solved three of those cases. As you've probably seen on the news, 23 year old Brian Jones has been charged with two murders. [ReadOn] | | WHISENHANT Thomas | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 4 | | 1963 | 1976 | AL | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WHITE Nathaniel | 1960 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 6 | | 1991 | 1992 | NY | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WHITE Shirley | 1932 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | BW | 1971 | 1992 | NC | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WHITEWAY Alfred C. | 1931 | 1954 | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1953 | | London | Verdict/Urteil: | A British serial slayer, 22-year-old Alfred Whiteway was arrested on July 1, 1953, on a charge of assaulting Patricia Birch in Windsor Park. The victim had been robbed of several shillings on June 12, after an attempted rape, and while Whiteway confessed the assault, he indignantly denied any intention of robbery. [ReadOn] | | WHITT Jimmy Earl | 1971 | 1994/06/28 | | | ... | ... | ... | 4 | | 1994 | | AL MS | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (187) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (187)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WIJNAENDTS Eric Marten => BONIN William et al | | WILKINS Edward Charles jr. | ... | ... | | | ... | ... | ... | ... | | ... | ... | Savannah GA | Verdict/Urteil: | In early June 1985, 8-year-old Nichole Lapatta was reported missing from her home in Laplace, Louisiana, 40 miles from New Orleans. Searchers found her body -- battered, raped, and strangled -- on June 6, discarded in some nearby woods that had become a makeshift rubbish dump. [ReadOn] | | WILLE John Francis | 1964 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 6 | | 1980 | 1985 | AL LA FL TX | Verdict/Urteil: | In early June 1985, 8-year-old Nichole Lapatta was reported missing from her home in Laplace, Louisiana, 40 miles from New Orleans. Searchers found her body -- battered, raped, and strangled -- on June 6, discarded in some nearby woods that had become a makeshift rubbish dump. [ReadOn] | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (203) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (203)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WILLIAMS Charlene => GALLEGO Gerald Armand & WILLIAMS Charlene | | WILLIAMS George E. | 1943 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 7 | | 1983 | 1984 | IL | Verdict/Urteil: | A Chicago native, born in 1943, Williams watched his mother die in childbirth, later witnessing the murder of his infant brother by a sad*stic step-mother. Convicted of armed robbery at age 18, he served time in state prison between 1961 and 1963, emerging to "go straight" as a security guard for a hospital in suburban Oak Lawn. [ReadOn] | | WILLIAMS Henry Robert | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1972 | 1973 | Mississauga, Ontario | Verdict/Urteil: | Sentenced to life imprisonment on his second conviction for rape and murder, Canadian Henry Williams opted for voluntary castration as a form of alternative treatment proposed for his evident mental disorders. [ReadOn] | | WILLIAMS John | | 1811 | | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | Ratcliffe Highway Murderer | 1811 | | London | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILLIAMS John jr. | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | | 1995 | 1997 | NC | Verdict/Urteil: | John Williams Jr., a drifter from Georgia picked up for assaulting a woman about a month ago is believed to be a serial killer responsible for at least four slayings in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Williams, 36, was charged on March 19, 1997 with the killing of Patricia Ashe in January 1996. [ReadOn] | | WILLIAMS Laron Ronald | ... | +1985/07/07 | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | ... | ... | | Verdict/Urteil: | Convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for the murder of a Nashville prostitute, Laron Williams escaped from the Memphis Correctional Center in April 1981. Before his arrest on May 17, Williams shot and killed Memphis police lieutenant Clarence Cox, moving on to murder a Catholic priest, Rev. John Jackson, in Jackson, Tennessee. [ReadOn] | | WILLIAMS Leslie Allen | 1953 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 4 | | 1991 | 1992 | MI | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILLIAMS Phillip | ... | ... | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (216) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (216)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (217) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (217)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | ... | ... | ... | ... | aka | ... | ... | ... | Verdict/Urteil: | | ... | | WILLIAMS Robert | 1936 | 1997/12/02 | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | 1977 | | AK IA | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILLIAMS Ronnie Keith | 1962 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1984 | 1993 | FL | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (227) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (227)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WILLIAMS Ruth Renee => KNIGHT Robert Wesley & WILLIAMS Ruth Renee | | WILLIAMS Scott | ... | ... | | | ... | ... | ... | ... | | ... | | VA | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILLIAMS Sidney | 1972 | 1989/10/03 | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | 1989 | | LA | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILLIAMS Stanley "Tookie" | ... | ... | | | ... | ... | ... | 4 | aka Crips Gang | ... | | Los Angeles | Verdict/Urteil: Death Penalty (1981), today at San Quentin | Stanley Tookie Williams was convicted of four murders, those of Albert Owens, a shop clerk killed during the robbery of a convenience store in February 1979, and of Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang and Yee-Chen Lin, killed during the robbery of their family-run motel the next month. | | WILLIAMS Wayne Bertram | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 28 | Atlanta Child Murders, Atlanta Kindermorde | | | GA | Verdict/Urteil: | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (236) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (236)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) The curious and controversial string of deaths that sparked a two -year reign of terror in Atlanta, Georgia, have been labeled "children's" murders even though a suspect, ultimately blamed for 23 of 30 homicides, was finally convicted only in the deaths of two adult ex-convicts. [ReadOn] | | WILLIAMSON Stella | *1904 (?1900) | 1980/08/.. (?1976) | | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | | 1923 | 1935 | PA | Verdict/Urteil: | No one in the small town of Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, gave much thought to Stella Williamson in life. Unmarried and reclusive, seldom speaking even to her closest neighbors, it was clear that Stella loved her privacy. [ReadOn] | | WILLIS Fred | 1951 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1984 | 1997 | NV | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILLIS Rhoda | *1870 | +1907/08/14 | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (241) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (241)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | | ... | ... | ... | 1+ | | | | Cardiff | Verdict/Urteil: | On the 14th of August 1907 Rhoda WILLIS was hanged by Henry and Tom Pierrepoint at Cardiff prison. WILLIS (37) was executed for the murder of a child and was another baby farmer. She was an attractive woman and her blaze of golden hair had a profound effect on Henry Pierrepoint. | | WILLOUGHBY John R. | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2 | | 1975 | 1983 | IN | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILSON Catherine | 1822 | 1862/10/20 | | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | BW | 1854 | 1862 | | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILSON Mary Elizabeth | 1891 | 1961 | | | ... | ... | ... | 4 | BW | 1956 | 1957 | Windy Hook | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WILSON Otto Stephen | *1911 | +1946/09/20 | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | LA Ripper | 1944 | 1944 | CA | Verdict/Urteil: Death by gas (San Quentin) | On 15 November, 1944, in a seedy downtown area, in a run-down hotel at the corner of Fourth and Main streets, a maid discovered the mutilated body of a prostitute, Virginia Lee Griffin, sprawled on a bed. [ReadOn] | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (251) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (251)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WILSON Robert => BURSE Nathaniel & CLARK Michael & JACKSON Garland & MORAN Edward jr. & PATRY Darrell & TAYLOR Donald & TAYLOR Reuben & WILSON Robert | | WIMBERLY Anthony | 1961 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | 1984 | 1985 | CA | Verdict/Urteil: | On November 8, 1984, a 12-year-old Oakland, California, girl was accosted by a black intruder who invaded her home, brandished a pistol, and forced her to surrender a jewelry box belonging to her parents. That accomplished, the man bound and gagged his victim, jammed a pillow case over her head and brutally raped her; finished, he pressed a pillow over her face and shot her twice, leaving the girl for dead. [ReadOn] | | WINDHOEK Serial Killer | ... | ... | | | ... | ... | ... | ... | | ... | ... | Windhoek | Verdict/Urteil: | | | WINTERS Noel Michael | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... | 4+ | | 1984 | ... | ... | Verdict/Urteil: | Murdered a father and son in February 1984 and stuffed their dismembered bodies in plastic bags. He killed himself in prison after the bodies of a Montreal couple were dug up on his property. | | WIRTH Robert | 1960 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 6-8 | | 1987 | 1988 | WI | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WISE Martha Hasel | *1885 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | Borgia of America | 1924 | 1925 | OH | Verdict/Urteil: Life / Lebenslang | Born in 1885, by age 40 Martha Wise was an impoverished widow, living alone on a farm near Medina, Ohio. She fell in love with Walter Johns, a man much younger than herself, but members of her family were blunt in their denunciation of the May-October romance, heaping ridicule on Martha for her "cradle-robbing." [ReadOn] | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (265) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (265)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WITHERS George => ROBINSON Alonzo & WITHERS George | | WITTMAN Manfred | 1945 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3+ | Beast of Oberfranken | 1959 | 1960 | | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (268) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (268)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WOLF Shirley => COLLIER Cindy & WOLF Shirley | | WOLTER Michael | *... | | | | ... | ... | ... | 5+ | | 1980 | 1983 | Frankfurt/Main | :... | ... | ... | ... | Verdict/Urteil: Life / Lebenslang | Twentieth-century German police are no strangers to serial murder. Since 1900, they have dealt with more compulsive killers than all their continental neighbors combined, a lethal phenomenon seemingly unrelated to historical phases of war and peace, depression or prosperity. [ReadOn] | | WONGSIN Sila | | 1959/06/26 | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (271) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (271)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | | ... | ... | ... | 5 | | 1958 | 1959 | | Verdict/Urteil: Death | On June 26, 1959, authorities in Bangkok announced that Sila Wongsin, leader of a devil-worship cult at Korat, in northeastern Thailand, had been executed without trial on charges of multiple murder. The summary action was taken after Thailand's premier, Marshal Sarit Thanarat, informed a cabinet meeting that Wongsin had slain five provincial officials, chosen as human, sacrifices to his deity. No other members of the cult were publicly identified. | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (273) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (273)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WOOD Catherine May => GRAHAM Gwendolyn Gail & WOOD Catherine May | | WOOD Daniel William | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... | 2+ | | 1979 | 1982 | Calgary | Verdict/Urteil: | Convicted of the sex-slayings of a woman in Calgary in 1979 and a woman in Toronto in 1982. | | WOOD David Leonard | 1951 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 13+ | Desert Killer | 1987 | 1988 | TX | Verdict/Urteil: | Known as the "Desert Killer". In 1992 he was convicted of killing six women and burying them in the desert Northeast of El Paso, Texas. He now resides in Death Row. | | WOOD Frederick G. | 1912 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 5+ | | 1926 | 1960 | NY | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WOOD Isaac | | 1858 | | | ... | ... | ... | 7 | BB | 1858 | | NY NJ | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WOOD James Edward | 1947 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 7+ | | 1967 | 1992 | LA AR ID | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WOODS Martha | | | | | ... | ... | ... | 7 | | 1946 | 1969 | nationwide | Verdict/Urteil: Life | An Army wife who followed her husband around the country from one military base to the next, Martha Woods also suffered from the bizarre mental illness dubbed Munchausens syndrome by proxy.[ReadOn] | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (289) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (289)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WOODWARD Alicia => ESPOSITO John & WOODWARD Alicia | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (296) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (296)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WORLEY Alva Hank => McDUFF Kenneth Allen & GREEN Roy Dale & WORLEY Alva Hank | ![serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (297) serial killer true crime library * serial killers by name * W * from John WABLE to Aileen WUORNOS (297)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==) | WORRELL Christopher Robin => MILLER James William & WORRELL Christopher Robin | | WRIGHT Douglas Franklin | 1940 | 1996/09/06 | | | ... | ... | ... | 6+ | | 1991 | | OR | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WRIGHT Dwayne Allen | 1972 | | | | ... | ... | ... | 3 | | 1989 | | MD VA DC | Verdict/Urteil: | ... | | WUORNOS Aileen Carol | | +2002/10/09 | | | ... | ... | ... | 7+ | Damsel of Death | 1989 | 1990 | FL | Verdict/Urteil: Death by Lethal Injection (Florida State Prison) | | Statistics W | | 15 | Unsolved Cases | | | Female suspects / on trial | | 24 | Female Serial Killers | | 1 | Male suspect / on trial | | 83 | Male Serial Killers | | 123 | Cases total | |