Who do you feel is the worst serial killer in world history?

Answer 1

Andrei Chikatilo.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/chikatilo/coat_1.html

Answer 2

George Bush

Answer 3

That depends upon your definition of "worst". The most recent was Jeffery Dahmer, but he did not kill as many as others. I've read about some who were much worse in the Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.

Answer 4

Serial Killer? Worst? What are our criteria for worst?

Do we include mass murders? Like Hitler? Lets focus on more traditional serial killers.

I'd say H.H. Holmes (200+) Born Herman Webster Mudgett, Dr. Holmes started his criminal career as a medical student by stealing corpses from the University of Michigan. He used the corpses to collect insurance money from policies taken out under fictitious names.

Answer 5

Here is a worthy nominee: Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614). Her crimes were so horrible that she is considered one of the inspirations for Bram Stoker's Dracula. She apparently killed more than 600 young women, preferably virgins, so she could bathe in, and occasionally drink, their blood in hopes of maintaining her own youth. When she was finally stopped, she couldn't be executed like those who helped her because she was related to monarchy. So she was walled in a castle and died four years later.

Answer 6

Prosecutors in Bogota say Luis Garavito has confessed to killing 140 children in a five-year spree.

Garavito, 42, posed as a beggar, a cripple and occasionally a priest, detectives say. What he has confessed to has touched off searches in fields and graveyards all over Colombia.

Police say Garavito preyed primarily on the children of poor street vendors, many of whom had been left unattended on street corners and in parks.

For the past year and a half, Colombian police have been looking into disappearances of children all over the country. They say Garavito confessed after being confronted with evidence they describe as overwhelming. Detectives have found 114 bodies so far.

Many of the children's bodies were found tied up with identical nylon rope, with a liquor bottle nearby. Their throats had been cut and "showing signs of having been tied up and mutilated," prosecutor Alfonso Gomez told a news conference Friday.

Police say Garavito appears to be the worst serial killer in Colombia's history.

Until last November, police had few clues into a multi-year rash of child disappearances. It was then that the remains of 25 boys ages 8 through 16 were found in a ravine and an overgrown lot in Pereira, Gomez said.

That gruesome discovery, initially thought by local authorities to be the work of a satanic cult, prompted authorities to create a nationwide task force that began to encounter similarities between cases across the country, he said.

That effort turned up an arrest warrant for Garavito in a 1996 homicide case of a child in the city of Tunja.

At the time of his arrest in the provincial city of Villavicencio, where he is currently being held, Garavito was living under an assumed name, prosecutors said. He was arrested on suspicion of the attempted rape there in April of a 12-year-old boy.

Garavito moved around the country frequently after the killings began in 1994, and also spent time in Ecuador, where investigations are under way to determine whether he might be linked to child slayings in the neighboring country, the prosecutor said.

In several places where Garavito lived he earned nicknames, including "Goofy", "El Loco" and "The Priest", Gomez said. Garavito was apparently abused as a child, and would undergo extensive psychological examinations, he said.

Colombia's chief prosecutor say Garavito won't actually be charged with the murders until the investigation is complete.

Answer 7

Charles Manson

Answer 8

John Wayne Gacey-

Answer 9

George Walker Bush. He is systematically facilitating the killing of innocent Iraqi's on a daily basis.

Answer 10

Ted Bundy, mainly because he was a nice looking man and except for when he was killing seemed to be nice caring guy. That made it even sicker.