WHO [as in one person] killed the most people in history...?

Question

I'm just wondering if you guys knew... and if you guys get what I'm asking. Don't give me any bull like "Hitler" or "Bush"! They didn't physically kill the people themselves. They had an army that did it for them!!!

I'm just wondering if you guys knew... and if you guys get what I'm asking. Don't give me any bull like "Hitler" or "Bush"! They didn't physically kill the people themselves. They had an army that did it for them!!!

Thanks

P.S. I'm looking for the person who killed the most people with their hands [meaning with knifes, chocking, etc.]

Answer 1

Don't know... why are you asking? Is somebody thinking about breaking a record?

Answer 2

DATE COUNTRY VICTIMS NAME
1829 Scotland 16 Burke & Hare
1873 England 15 Mary Ann Cotton
1895 USA 27 H.H Holmes
1908 USA 14 Belle Gunness
1921 France 11 Henri Landru
1924 Germany 27 Fritz Haarman
1927 USA 22 Earl Nelson
1928 USA 21 Carl Panzram
1944 France 27 Marcel Petiot
1948 Japan 12 Sadamichi Hirasawa
1949 USA 13 Howard Unruh
1958 USA 11 Charles Starkweather
1964 USA 13 Albert DeSalvo
1966 USA 16 Charles Whitman
1973 USA 27 Dean Corll
1973 USA 10 Edmund Kemper
1973 USA 13 Herbert Mullin
1978 USA 22 Ted Bundy
1979 USA 33 John Wayne Gacy
1981 England 13 Peter Sutcliffe
1983 USA 200 Henry Lee Lucas
1986 USA 14 Patrick Sherill
1986 Colombia 28 Campo Elias Delgado
1987 England 16 Michael Ryan
1987 USA 16 Ronald Gene Simmons
1989 Canada 14 Marc Lepine
1990 Russia 53 Andrei Chikatilo
1991 USA 22 George Hennard
1992 USA 17 Jeffrey Dahmer
1996 England 17 Thomas Hamilton
1996 Australia 35 Martin Bryant

Looks Like Henry Lee Lucas is your winner

Answer 3

A serial killer is someone who commits three or more murders over an extended period of time with cooling-off periods in between. In between their crimes, they appear to be quite normal, a state which Hervey Cleckley and Robert Hare call the "mask of sanity." There is often — but not always — a sexual element to the murders. All the murders must be completed/attempted in a similar fashion or the victims must have something in common, ex. occupation, race, sex, etc.

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Андре́й Рома́нович Чикати́ло) (October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) was a Russian serial killer, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper. He was convicted of the murder of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990.

[Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 – March 13, 2001) was an American criminal, convicted of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer. Ultimately, Lucas was convicted of eleven homicides.]
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A mass murderer, on the other hand, is an individual who commits multiple murders in a single event and in one location. The perpetrators sometimes commit suicide, therefore knowledge of their state of mind and triggers their actions is often left to speculation.

In 1927, school board member, Andrew Kehoe, upset by a property tax that had been levied to fund the construction of the school building, killed 45 people (including himself) and injured an additional 58 in a bombing at the Bath Consolidated School. This is still the largest school massacre in United States history.
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A spree killer commits multiple murders in different locations over a period of time that may vary from a few hours to several days. Unlike serial killers, however, the spree killer does not take a long break or resume everyday life between killings.
All of the above types of crimes are usually carried out by solitary individuals. There have been examples in all three categories in which two or more perpetrators have acted together.

Woo "Power" Bum-Kon (Korean: 우범근) (February 24, 1955–April 27, 1982) was a Korean police officer who carried out the worst incident of spree killing in known history, killing 58 (including himself), and wounding 35 in Kyung Sang-Namdo, South Korea.
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Answer 4

i spsoe we will never know the answer to that one, there is a marine sniper during vietnam taht had over 100 confirmed kills papa something, there were also japanese officers during ww2 and sepcifically the rape of nanking that had contests on how many they had killed i beleive they were in the 120s. john wayne gacy claims to have killed over 150 tho many less have been confirmed, timothy mc veigh killed 168 w the oklahoma city bombings, mohammed atta can be said to haev killed 1/2 of the people in the WTC disaster or roughly 1500, not sure who the other pilot was

Answer 5

I am not sure if their was ever a historic record of how many people died in wars hundreds of years ago but I found this quote

"These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time..."

If he did that in one day, he may be the person.

Answer 6

I'm not sure. I would guess it would have to be a serial killer, which is a person who kills many people over a period of time.
John Wayne Gacy officially killed 33. I'm sure someone out there has out done that.

Just a moment. I'm checking my basement.

Answer 7

The person who PERSONALLY killed more people in the world, I believe is Attila, or King Richard the Lion Hearted.

Answer 8

Considering the number of unsolved murders, the cleverness of some serial killers, it is probably a person unidentified.

There are lots of successful murders, and even with computers, crimes by one individual are often not associated until they are caught, if they ever are.

Answer 9

Fortitude... Could have been the bombadier on the Bock's Car -- Nagasaki. Of course, if you want to look at team effort. I'd have to go with the night the U.S.A.A.C/U.S.A.F. dropped incendiaries on Tokyo or Dresden.

Answer 10

Use up to date records.
Harold Shipman killed at least 150, and probably more.

Answer 11

I'd say William Bonney (Billy the Kid). 21 by age 21 and that didn't count the Indians, Chinamen or the Mexicans.