List of Serial Killers

Serial Killer: A man or woman who single handedly kills at least three or more people in separate events. Groups like The Sawyer Clan from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre also count as serial killers since they all usually kill the same person/people together.

Name of the serial killer or their nickname (if their real name isn't known) - Number of victims they have and their method of killing (reason for killing, if there is one)

Animation Serial Killers

Big Mouth

• The Ponytail Killer - 4 People, strangling (No reason given, is implied to be just attracted to people with ponytails)

Family Guy

• Patrick Pewterschmidt/The Fat Guy Strangler - 109 People, strangulation. (Strangled because Patrick thought they looked like Jackie Gleason, who he caught having sex with his mother as a child.)
• Diane Simmons - 5 People, various methods (Revenge against her secret boyfriend for dumping her and her co-anchor for trying to replace her with a younger woman. She only really planned to kill her ex, but she had to improvise when four people got in her way)

Metalocalypse

• Alfred Belmer - 276 People, mostly cannibalization. (Ate babies alive for entirely unknown reasons.)
• Metal Masked Assassin - 59 People, various methods. (Attempting to avenge his brother by killing Dethklok who he believes were responsible for his death.)

The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror

• Seymour Skinner - 3 People, various methods (Save money by using children's corpses as food.)
• Homer Simpson - 20 People, touching them (Fulfill his role as death by killing people)
• Jonathan Frink Sr. - 19 People, various methods (Get body parts in order to make his body better)
• Constable Wiggum - 3 People, stabbing (Make a case that Lisa Simpson couldn't solve)
• Charles Montgomery Burns - 23 People, shooting with a hunting rifle (Hunt people down for sport)
• Homer Simpson - 5 People, various methods (Kill celebrities, so that their images can be used in advertising)
• Ned Flanders - 6 People, various methods (Tricked by Homer Simpson into thinking that God ordered him to kill people)
• The Fat in the Hat - 486 People, various methods (No reason given)
• Chef - 5 People, various methods (Cook their corpses)
• Maggie Simpson - 4 People, psychic powers (No reason given)
• Lisa Simpson - 26 People, writing their name in the Death Tome (Rid the world of bad people)

South Park

• Spookyfish - 7 People, Various methods (No reason given)

Superjail!

• Monster Convict - 109 People, attacking at random and torturing them in his home to either eat them after or turn them into furniture (No reason given)

Anime Serial Killers

Death Note

• Light Yagami/Kira - 135,412 People, writing victims' names in the Death Note, which usually leads to a heart attack, though he sometimes changes the death (He was a Japanese high school senior who found a Death Note, a mysterious notebook that would kill anyone whose name was written in it. After realising that it actually worked, Light decided to use the notebook as a murder weapon to eliminate all crime and create a utopia with only the law-abiding people he accepts and make himself the proclaimed God of this new world)
• Misa Amane/The Second Kira - 22 People, writing victims' names in the Death Note, which usually leads to a heart attack, though she sometimes changes the death (She is the lover of Light Yagami, and is a famous model and actress whose parents were murdered when she was a little girl. Upon Kira's punishment of her parents' killer, she fell in love with Kira. Afterwards she discovered Kira's identity was Light, and began helping him in his conquest)
• Kyosuke Higuchi/The Third Kira - 335 People, writing victims' names in the Death Note, which usually leads to a heart attack, though he sometimes changes the death (He is a member of the Yotsuba Group, a group of eight high-ranking and powerful executives and members of the Yotsuba Corporation, and is the possessor of a Death Note. He received the Death Note and used it to kill all known executives and members of competing companies to Yotsuba to advance the company and gain more wealth as a result)
• Kiyomi Takada/The Fourth Kira - 131,902 People, writing victims' names in the Death Note, which leads to a heart attack (She was Kira's spokesperson and an ex-girlfriend of Light Yagami who, after being told by Light he was Kira, began assisting Light under the pretence she would rule over the New World as his queen)
• Teru Mikami/The Fifth Kira - 2,219 People, writing victims' names in the Death Note, which leads to a heart attack (He is one of Kira's followers who also helps Light Yagami to keep his identity as Kira a secret, while also serving as a backup Kira. When Light tried to find a new user for a Death Note, he looked to places where he saw loyalists of Kira. He found Mikami, and he gave his Death Note to him to throw off the authorities that were onto him)

Sailor Moon

• Chaos - 13 people, removing their star seeds (Wanting to end all the lives of civilians of the universe, to rule over it)

Comic Book Serial Killers

Se7en (Comic)

• Johnathan "John" Doe - 7 People, various methods relating to the Seven Deadly Sins (He sees himself as on a mission to make an example out of the seven deadly sins by punishing those who embody them and show the sinful world the path of righteousness)

Internet Serial Killers

Centricide

• Tankie, Ancap, Ancom/Ansynd, Nazi and Jreg - 5 People, various methods. (Get rid of the centrists in order to gain political power)

Dark Simpsons

• Homer Simpson - 4 People, with axe. (Get revenge on his family for sending him to jail)
• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon - 4 People, with sniper rifle (Get revenge on the Kwik-E-Mart after he got fired)
• Lisa Simpson - 4 People, with rat poison (Kill carnivores for being evil people)
• Ned Flanders - 4+ People, various methods (Cleanse Springfield of evil people)
• Fat Tony/Tony D'Amico - 3+ People, various methods. (Kill people who can't repay him)
• Homer Simpson - 3 People, with pistol (Get revenge on his family for embarassing him)
• Marge Simpson - 27+ people, explosions (Fulfill Homer Simpson's last wish)
• Chief Clancy Wiggum - 4 People, with gun. (Frame Homer Simpson)
• Snake Jailbird - 3+ People, with gun (No reason given)
• Bart Simpson - 2+ People, with knife (No reason given)
• Homer Simpson - 4 People, car crash (Get back at the Flanders family for being so perfect)
• Snake Jailbird - 4 People, with gun (Get revenge at the Simpsons family for ratting him out)
• Homer Simpson - 2+ People, with axe (Get revenge on Ned for cheating with his wife)
• Ned Flanders - 4 People, with noose (Get revenge on Homer for killing his family)

FNAF VHS

• William Afton/Springtrap - 5 People, unknown method (After his son Michael, who he already disliked, accidentally killed his other son Joseph, who he loved dearly, he became desperate for revenge against him in order to relieve some of his sorrow. However, he knew that if he did, he would be caught. So instead, he killed other "bad" kids as surrogates)

Klay World

• Dr. Joseph Lee Bob - 91 People, various methods (He used to help people but he decided it was just fun to watch them die)
• Zodiac Killer - 38 People, stabbing (No reason given)
• Henry - 28 People, shooting (Blissful ignorance)
• Hulky - 18 People, various methods (Anger)
• Giant Klayman - 16 People, various methods (No reason given)
• Tree Hand Thing - 8 People, various methods (No reason given)
• The Murderer - 8 People, shooting (No reason given)
• Rubber Ducky of Death - 8 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• Chip - 8 People, various methods (Mostly accidental)
• Karate Master - 7 People, karate (No reason given, probably dominance)
• Boogie Monster - 5 People, various methods (No reason given)
• Pick - 5 People, grenades (No reason given)
• Klayton - 4 People, lasers (Error in code)
• Grenade Gregory - 4 People, grenades (No reason given)
• Rick the Prick - 4 People, various methods (Rebuilt by King Womp evil)
• Newspaper Monster - 3 People, mauling (Anger)
• Handyman - 3 People, stabbing (Fear)
• Spider Klayman - 3 People, beating (No reason given)

Llamas with Hats

• Carl the Llama - 7,333,140,206 People, various methods (No reason given, though it seems he is simply completely insane)

Nighty Night Ripper

• Nighty Night Ripper - 3 People via stabbing and potentially rottweilers. (Reasons unknown)

The Monument Mythos

• Freedom - 173+ People, decapitation with a Giza Glass sword, turning them into Canyongalans (Silencing people who the government does not want to live)

SCP-001

• SCP-001/Atonement - 3+ People, via reality bending (Get rid of all anomalous phenomena.)
• Calvin Lucien, Adam Ivanov, Anthony Wright and Olivia Torres - 13 People, multiple methods. (Get rid of the SCP Foundation overseers, whom they view as corrupt.)
• SCP-001-EX/A Good Boy - 19+ People, multiple methods (Get rid of all anomalous phenomena.)
• SCP-001/The Black Moon - 23,605,206,154 People, complete annihilation of matter. (No reason given)
• Elizabeth Crocker - 214+ People, multiple methods (Get revenge on the SCP Foundation, as she believes that they murdered her husband.)

The Cameraman Chronicles

• Dak Appleton - 8 People, main method is breaking necks (To fulfill his bloodlust.)
• Harris Hyphen - 14 People, unknown method (Killing his wives and daughters that aren't "perfect".)
• Jeff François - 6 People, unknown method (Helping Mr. Hyphen kill his daughters so that Hyphen will give him a home.)
• Edgar Rippner - 6 People, main method is stabbing (No reason given.)
• Jupiter - At Least 18 People, only known method is stabbing/slitting (No reason given, implied to have done it to be famous.)
• Baron von Rizz - 10 People, main method forcing or ordering people to murder (To cause pain to Cameraman.)

Movie Serial Killers

3rd Night

• Deirdre Bodeen/The Watcher - 19 People, bludgeoning with a sledgehammer (No reason given)

10 to Midnight

• Warren Stacey - 7 People, single stab to the stomach with a butterfly knife (Getting even with women that reject him)

13 Fanboy

• Vincente DiSanti - 8 People, various methods (Is making a realistic slasher film along with Judie Aronson. Plus, resentment of horror movie actors and actresses)

45-25 PerfectMurder

• Cansu Aksoy - 4 People, poisoning with Aconitum Napellus (In addition to killing out of revenge for her rape, she believes her victims to be genuinely bad people that the world is better off without)

100 Tears

• Luther Edward Baxter/Gurdy the Clown/The Teardrop Killer - 23 People, various methods (After killing two people in the circus who attempted to ruin his life, he is forced to leave and eventually looses his mind, becoming an infamous serial killer known as "The Teardrop Killer", known as such due to him leaving a teardrop drawn in blood on the wall at each crime scene. Eventually, he also teams up with his long lost daughter, Christine Greaston)
• Christine Greaston/The Smiley Face Killer - 9 People, various methods (She was a maniac who wanted to become The Teardrop Killer after discovering that the killer was her father. She used him to begin committing murders, with her ultimate goal being to kill her father and take his place)

A Bucket of Blood

• Walter Paisley - 3 People, various methods (He covered the bodies in clay post-mortem and passed them off as sculptures, enjoying the fame and notoriety that came from it)

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Original Timeline

• Freddy Krueger - 60 People, various methods (Sadism and revenge against the parents of his victims for killing him)

Remake Timeline

• Freddy Krueger - 5 People, various methods (Revenge against the children who got him killed by their parents when they exposed him for being a pedophile)

American Psycho

• Patrick Bateman - 18 People, various methods (No reason given)

American Psycho 2: All American Girl

• Unnamed Woman/"Rachel Newman" - 10 People, various methods (Killing anyone that stands in the way of her dream of becoming an FBI agent)

Amsterdamned

• The Amsterdam Maniac - 7 People, pulling victims underwater and stabbing them with a diving knife (Insanity brought on by chemical poisoning and misanthropy from being shunned for his disfigurement)

Arabella Black Angel

• Martha Veronesi - 5 People, stabbing with scissors followed by post-mortem genital mutilation (Apparently obsessed with sex, but just didn't understand it)

August Underground Trilogy

• Peter Mountain - 25 People, various methods (Sadism and rage)
• "Maggot" - 13 People, various methods (Sexual sadism)
• "Crusty" - 7 People, various methods (Sadism and impressing her brother "Maggot" and Peter)

The Baby Doll Murders

• Larry Brown/The Baby Doll Killer - 6 People, various methods (He already had mental issues, but when his wife got a botched abortion leaving her infertile, it pushed him over the edge and he started killing women that had gotten abortions)

Backdraft

• John "Axe" Adcox - 3 People, setting a backdraft fire trap which his targets end up triggering (Protecting his fellow teammates from a corrupt group of men who were illegally closing down firehouses for profit and indirectly causing the deaths of firefighters. Also, avenging any comrades that died due to the group's actions)

The Banana Splits Movie

• Drooper the Lion - 26 People, various methods (He was a robot and a star of The Banana Splits who went on a killing spree after discovering the show was going to be cancelled)
• Fleegle the Dog - 25 People, various methods (He was a robot and a star of The Banana Splits who went on a killing spree after discovering the show was going to be cancelled)
• Bingo the Gorilla - 25 People, various methods (He was a robot and a star of The Banana Splits who went on a killing spree after discovering the show was going to be cancelled)
• Snorky the Elephant - 23 - 24 People, various methods (He was a robot and a star of The Banana Splits who went on a killing spree after discovering the show was going to be cancelled)

Basket Case

• Belial Bradley - 17 People, usually mauling victims to death with his sharpened teeth and overgrown nails (He was born deformed and attached to his older brother, Duane's, body, causing everyone in their family except their aunt to hate them. After being separated from Duane by their father so Duane could live a normal life, Belial became determined to become whole with his brother again, and saw anyone that Duane had normal relationships with as a threat. Later on, after being taken in by a caring woman named Ruth, Belial simply killed those that threatened the sanctuary that Ruth had created for deformed people like Belial)

Bastard (2015)

• Rachael - 6 People, hacking people up with a cleaver (Gathering human organs and body parts for her cannibal son to eat)

The Bat

• Lieutenant Andy Anderson/The Bat - 5 People, paralysis, followed by slitting throats with a clawed gloved (Greed; initially killed women for their riches, then started eliminating people who got in the way of him finding the 1.5 billion dollars hidden in the Oaks mansion)

The Batman

• Edward Nashton/The Riddler - 4 People, various methods (His childhood growing up in a rundown orphanage made him resent Gotham's elite and see them all as liars who used Thomas Wayne's money that was supposed to go to helping poor people like him, to line their own pockets. He grew inspired by Batman and became a masked vigilante in order to take down everyone in Gotham he viewed as corrupt and expose their lies)

Beg

• Jack Fox - 19 People, mainly using a machete or chainsaw (No reason given)

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

• Leslie Mancuso/Leslie Vernon - 11 People, various methods, usually with a scythe (A desire to become an infamous serial killer, akin to Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and others like them)

Benny Loves You

• Benny - 23 People, various methods (Being a stuffed animal, Benny was determined to eliminate anyone who annoyed his owner Jack or who Benny perceived would get in the way of their friendship)

Better Watch Out

• Lucas "Luke" Lerner - 3 People, various methods (He was a 12-year-old psychopath and a sadist who became enraged when his plan to seduce his babysitter failed. As things got more out of hand, he resorted to murder and carefully crafted framing to get away with his crimes)

Bigfoot's Bride

• Fred - 7 People, various methods (No reason given)

Billy Club

• Billy Haskins - 8 People, bludgeoning with his nailed baseball bat club or stabbing with the retractable blade (Revenge against his former little league teammates who nearly killed him and left him traumatized)

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

• Monica Ranieri - 8 People, various methods (Driven to insanity after being victimized by a sex maniac and finding out through a painting of the attack, that she identified more with him than she did herself)

Black Christmas

Black Christmas (1974)

• "Billy" - 6 People, various methods (No reason given)

Black X-Mas (2006)

• William Edward "Billy" Lenz - 7 People, various methods (He lost his mind after being severely abused, neglected and raped by his mother for his entire life and killed her and his step-father, while also mutilating his daughter/sister Agnes. When he finally escaped the insane asylum he was imprisoned in, he returned to his family home to reunite with Agnes and kill everyone there)
• Agnes Lenz - 8 People, various methods, usually post-mortem eye removal (She was the result of her mother raping her brother/father, Billy, and was mutilated and had her eye removed and eaten by Billy while he was killing his family. She ended up growing up in an orphanage, which eventually caused her to lose her mind like Billy, specifically developing a strange fascination with eyeballs)

The Black Phone

• Albert Shaw/The Grabber - 6 People, various methods usually preceded by kidnapping and torture (No reason given)

Bleed

• Chris - 9 People, various methods (Getting rid of the rest of the Murder Club, so he and Maddy Patterson can be together without anyone standing in the way)

Bloodmoon (1997)

• Chad Atkins - 7 People, using martial arts to beat down his opponents (Avenging his disqualification by killing all of the Master's Challenge competitors and proving he's the best martial artist)

Blood Rage

• Terry Simmons - 9 People, various methods (He was a sadistic psychopath who murdered a teen when he was a kid and framed his twin brother Todd, resulting in him being placed in a psychiatric facility. When Todd finally escapes, Terry begins killing again to make sure his brother stays locked up forever when he is caught)

Bloody Birthday

• Bethany "Beth" Simpson/Deborah "Debbie" Brody - 3 People, various methods (She was born during a solar eclipse along with Curtis and Steven, and as a result, had no compassion for others and began killing people on her tenth birthday)
• Curtis Taylor - 4 People, usually shooting (He was born during a solar eclipse along with Debbie and Steven, and as a result, had no compassion for others and began killing people on his tenth birthday)
• Steven Seton - 3 People, various methods (He was born during a solar eclipse along with Debbie and Curtis, and as a result, had no compassion for others and began killing people on his tenth birthday)

Bloody Bobby Duology

• Robert "Bloody Bobby" Maxwell - 18 People, various methods (Initially came back from the grave to take revenge on the group of bullies that caused his death, but no reason given for his second murder spree)

Bloody Moon

• Professor Alvaro - 5 People, various methods (Hired by Manuela to frame her brother Miguel for a series of murders so she can get his inheritance)

Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll

• Dr. Phillipe Labour - 7 People, various methods (Driven by grief over losing his daughter during an eye operation, he believed that he could keep her alive by continuously providing her corpse with eyes that matched hers)
• Ivette Rollet - 4 People, various methods, followed by gouging out and stealing their eyes post-mortem (Hypnotized by Phillipe into believing that her victims were the woman who stole her fiancé)

Bone Breaker

• Grace - 5 People, various methods (Feels that killing gives her a purpose, but also just hates people and enjoys it)

The Bone Collector

• Marcus Andrews/Richard Thompson/The Bone Collector - 13 People, various methods copied from "The Bone Collector" book (Revenge against Lincoln Rhyme for getting him sent to prison, where he was brutalized)

Bones

• James "Jimmy" Bones - 10 People, various methods, usually with a butterfly knife (After being murdered, the neighbourhood he lived in fell into ruin due to the circulation of illegal drugs. Years later, after several teens attempted to turn his old house into a night club, he returned to life to get revenge on his killers and and the people who disrupted his spirit)

Brightburn

• Brandon Breyer/Brightburn - 287 People, various methods (He is an extraterrestrial who is sent to Earth with the sinister intentions of taking it over for his race that sent him for this mission)

The Burning

• "Cropsy" - 9 People, various methods, usually with garden sheers (He was a caretaker at a summer camp who, after being horribly disfigured by fire during a prank gone wrong, armed himself with garden sheers and sought revenge against those responsible for the prank. He also killed a random prostitute with scissors, either purely out of rage or as practice)

Candyman

Original Timeline

• Daniel Robitaille/Candyman - 29 People, various methods, usually with a hook (As a human, he was murdered by slathering his whole body in honey and being killed by bees after it was discovered he was in a relationship with a white woman. He was later revived as legendary spirit known as "Candyman" who appears and kills anyone who says his name into a mirror five times)

Reboot Timeline

• Daniel Robitaille/Candyman - 15 People, various methods with a hook (Same motive as his original incarnation)

Chain Letter

• The Chain Man - 7 People, various methods involving chains (Kills anyone who doesn't forward his chain letter)

Cherry Falls

• Leonard Marliston - 17 People, stabbing and slashing with custom knives (Revenge against the town that destroyed his and his mother's lives)

The Call

• Dr. Michael Lewis Foster - 3 People, various methods (Kidnaps girls and makes them looked like his deceased sister to due his incest fetish.)

Child in the Night

• Os Winfield/Captain Hook - 5 People, stabbing or impalement with a cargo hook (He already held resentment towards his son due to him usurping his business from him, but when his son tried to have him committed it was the last straw. Out of desperation, he killed his son and then went on to kill anyone who knew about the attempted commitment because he viewed them as "hunters" who would put him in a mental institution, which he viewed as "being put in a cage for the rest of his life")

Child's Play

• Charles Lee Ray/Chucky the Killer Doll - 85 People, too many methods to list (Sadism, gaining infamy, and expanding his own lifespan to make himself immortal by possessing several dolls and people.)

Choose

• Nathan Jones/Mr. Choose It/Scar Lip/ISO_17 - 6 People, forcing his victims to choose between one horrible decision and another (Revenge against everyone he blames for his truly awful upbringing)

Chopping Mall

• Protector 1/KillBot #1 - 5 People, various methods (He was a robot who, after being struck by lightning, began malfunctioning and attacking anyone in the mall he was supposed to be guarding)
• Protector 2/KillBot #2 - 4 People, various methods (He was a robot who, after being struck by lightning, began malfunctioning and attacking anyone in the mall he was supposed to be guarding)
• Protector 3/KillBot #3 - 5 People, various methods (He was a robot who, after being struck by lightning, began malfunctioning and attacking anyone in the mall he was supposed to be guarding)

Christine

• Christine - 9 People, various methods (She is a possessed, sentient red 1958 Plymouth Fury vintage vehicle. Despite being a car, Christine is often referred to as a female and seems to have the mannerisms of a mean-spirited girlfriend when it comes to her new owners)

Christmas Evil

• Harry Stadling - 4 People, various methods (He suffered a psychotic break due to his stunted mental growth and believed he was Santa Clause, killing people who he personally disliked after deeming them "naughty")

The Clairvoyant

• Paul "Mac" McCormack/The Handcuff Killer - 5 People, handcuffing victims to things (Eliminating witnesses to a murder he committed)

Click: The Calendar Girl Killer

• Jack Hackerman - 16 People, various methods (Obsessed with photographing violence and death. Believes he's making his models immortal by including them in his "art", then kills them so they can go to Heaven like his mother. Also, might suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, which takes the form of his abusive nurse caretaker from his childhood.)

The Clovehitch Killer

• Donald "Don" Burnside/The Clovehitch Killer/Clovehitch - 14 People, strangling with a plastic bag and nylon stocking (Sexual sadism)

Club Dread

• Sam/Machete Phil/Machete Sam/The Machete Maniac - 14 People, using a kukri (Went mad after learning that Pete was giving the island to his drug-addicted nephew and thought that Dave would run it into the ground. He believed that he was the only one who deserved it, so he began killing off his competition while disguising as the local legend "Machete Phil")

The College Girl Murders

• James Portland/The Boss - 8 People by Proxy, poisoning (Greed; his niece was going to inherit the family fortune when she turned 21 and having already been convicted of a murder, he was a prime suspect if she ended up dead. So, he devised a plan to kill other girls at Ann's college to make it look like she was the victim of a random maniac)
• Harriet Foster/The Red Monk - 4 People, breaking necks with a bull whip (She's an insane women who's being controlled by James Portland and is ordered to kill anyone who might complicate the plan)
• Frank Conner/Keeney - 3 People, spraying poison on the victim (Hired to kill the college girls by James Portland)

Con Air

• Garland Greene - 30 People, unspecified brutal methods (has homicidal urges and considers normal life to be truly insane)

Copycat

• Peter Foley/Peter Kurten/The Copycat Killer - 9 People, copying the methods of infamous serial killers (He's a sadistic and misogynistic psychopath that gets pleasure from hurting people, specifically women. Also, he wanted to become a famous serial killer, citing that more books have been written about Jack the Ripper than Abraham Lincoln.)

Coraline

• The Beldam/The Other Mother - 3 People, sewing buttons onto their eyes, which allows her to take their souls (She is a powerful and malevolent witch/fey creature and the ruler of the Other World, accessed through a small door in the Pink Palace. She lures children into her realm by disguising herself as their "Other Mother". Once lured, she sews buttons in their eyes, consumes their flesh for strength, and keeps their souls as her prisoners)

The Corruption of Chris Miller

• Lewis - 12 People, various methods (Started running out of money to keep caring for his horses, so he resorted to killing people and stealing their money afterwards. It was also said by police, that he may enjoy the act of murder)

Creep (2014)

• Josef/Peachfuzz - 39 People, various methods (No reason given)

Criminal Law

• Martin Thiel IV - 5 People, mutilation, followed by setting the genitals on fire (When he was eight, he walked in on his mother performing an abortion and when he was a teenager, his father told him that she tried to abort him. These two things combined, fueled Martin's hatred of his mother and women who have abortions. He killed his mother's patients to spite her and "avenge" the children that were aborted)

Cut

• Brad Walker/The Scarman - 14 People, stabbing or cutting with his shears (Prevent anyone from ever finishing or seeing Hot-Blooded)

Cutthroat Alley

• Bones/The South Central Slasher - 5 People, slashing throats or stabbing (Revenge for his gang ratting him out for a murder he committed)

Dark Ride

• Jonah/The Seaside Slasher - 22 People, various methods (He has the mind of a five year old and turns people into attractions for his family's amusement park ride in order to "play" with his brother, Bill)

DC Animated Movie Universe

• Eobard Thawne/Professor Zoom - 13 People, various methods (Making Barry Allen's life hell and obtaining the Hell Card)

Dead Above Ground

• Rick Mallory - 7 People, hacking with an axe (Schizophrenic psychopath who didn't like that everyone ridiculed his movie)

Deadly Games

• Roger Lane - 4 People, various methods (Felt the town he was living in was boring and wanted to feel that same thrill that he experienced while serving in Vietnam. He also felt empowered when he killed, even using a board game to determine where and how he'd kill his victims)

Deadly Inheritance

• Janot Marot - 4 People, various methods (Is a sadist, but also wanted his father's money and didn't want to share it)

Deadly Manor

• Alfred and Amanda - 13 People, stabbing or slashing with a knife (Hatred of bikers, due to a group of bikers causing their car crash which left Amanda disfigured)

Death Carries a Cane

• Marco Arrighi - 6 People, mostly cutting throats with a straight razor (Killed three girls because he had a mental illness that forced him to kill anyone that couldn't meet his perfectionist standards, then started killing witnesses to his second murder)

Death Pool

• Jonathan "Johnny" Taylor/The Valley Drowner - 17 People, drowning (He killed his abusive babysitter by drowning her when he was a kid, now he gets thrill and arousal from drowning women. Plus infamy, after learning there are people that idolize him for his murders)

Death Proof

• Stuntman Michael "Mike" McKay - 5 People, using his car (Derives sexual pleasure from killing women with his car)

Death Screams

• Neil Marshall - 10 People, using a machete (Sees sex as bad and kills sexually active women because of trauma experienced in childhood brought on by his prostitute mother)

Death Steps in the Dark

• Ida Tuclidis - 5 People, slashing with a straight razor (Initially killed to keep an associate of hers from turning her into the police. Continued killing in order to cover up the murder and keep people from blackmailing her about it)

Deep Red

• Martha Manganiello - 4 People, various methods (Covering up her husband's murder)

Def by Temptation

• "The Temptress" - 16 People, maiming (She is a murderous creature who makes herself appear as an appealing woman, lures men in usually with the promise of sex, then kills and eats them)

The Dentist

• Dr. Alan Feinstone - 7 People, various methods (He was a hygiene-obsessed dentist who went insane after witnessing his wife sleeping with a filthy man. He hallucinated that his patients' mouths were rotten, which eventually caused him to start killing people)

Desecrated

• Ben - 13 People, various methods (His wife and daughter were murdered out in the wilderness while he was serving as a US Marine, so now he protects the land where he buried them by killing any trespassers)

Devious Nanny

• Elise Simon - 4 People, various methods (Getting rid of threats to her or her family's happiness)

Dirty Harry Films

Dirty Harry (1971)

• Charles Davis/Scorpio - 4 People, shooting with a sniper rifle (Killed simply out of sadism and thrill, but also wanted to extort a huge amount of money from the city)

Magnum Force

• The Death Squad (Neil Briggs, John Davis, Mike Grimes, Alan "Red" Astrachan, and Phil Sweet) - 29 People, shooting with revolvers (Killing criminals that escaped justice and anyone that stands in their way)

The Enforcer

• Bobby Maxwell - 9 People, various methods (Kills people that stand in the way of his group's plans)

Sudden Impact

• Jennifer Spencer - 4 People, shooting in the groin and forehead with a snub-nosed revolver (Killing the men who raped her and her sister, which left the latter in a traumatized state)

The Dead Pool

• Harlan Rook - 4 People, various methods (Killing to frame Peter Swan, a man he thought had stolen his ideas)

Don't Open Till Christmas

• Giles Harrison/The Santa Killer - 17 People, various methods (Hatred of Christmas due to a childhood trauma in which his father killed his mother while dressed as Santa)

Don't Torture a Duckling

• Don Alberto Avallone - 4 People, usually bludgeoning (Preventing boys from growing up and committing sin)

A Dragonfly for Each Corpse

• Pietro Volpini/The Dragonfly Killer - 13 People, various methods (Ridding the city of people he views as corrupt or immoral)

Drive-In Massacre

• The Drive-In Killer - 8 People, stabbing or cutting with a sword (No reason given)

Drive Thru

• Archie Benjamin/Horny the Clown - 14 People, various methods, usually with a meat cleaver (In life, Archie was a weird boy who was bullied relentlessly by his peers, climaxing in a tragic death when he was set on fire on his birthday - thus he returned from the grave as a vengeful demon, taking the persona of Horny the Clown and murdering everyone who ventured too near the fast food restaurant franchise he used to work for)

D-Tox/Eye See You

• Common Denominator - 27 People, various methods (Is a sadist and thrill-seeker that believes it's nature for the weak to be killed by stronger people like him)

Duel

• Keller/The Truck Driver - 7 People, using his truck (No reason given)

Edge of the Axe

• Lillian "Charlie" Nebbs - 9 People, hacking with an axe (Has a split personality that's targeting girls her father used to sleep with and medical staff that took care of her when she was committed)

Evil Judgment

• Ronald Robertson - 9 People, slitting throats with a scalpel (Suffered a breakdown after catching his wife in bed with a prostitute and was locked up in a mental hospital. Escaped and started murdering prostitutes and clients of said prostitutes out of hatred for them)

Eyeball

• Paulette Stone - 6 People, stabbing victims in the chest with a dagger (Lost her left eye when she was a child, gets mad every time she sees a blue-eyed girl because it reminds her of what she lost)

Eyes of Laura Mars

• John Neville/The Eyes Killer - 6 People, stabbing with an ice pick (As a child, he saw his father or some random john kill his prostitute mother and it traumatized him. He dissociated into two personalities and when he saw Laura Mars' photography, it brought back the memory and the violent personality despised her for that. The violent side of John, which referred to itself as "Tommy" began killing Laura's associates in order to discourage her from continuing her work)

Fade to Black

• Eric Binford - 5 People, dressing up as his favorite movie characters and using their weapons (Madness and revenge against people that betrayed him)

Fatal Frames

• Alex Ritt/The Video Killer - 5 People, decapitation with a machete (Killed his wife because she was going to leave him and set it up to look like the work of a serial killer by murdering four other women. Also, might be disturbed due to his father forcing him to watch pornographic snuff films as a child)

The Fifth Cord

• John Lubbock - 4 People, various methods (He was in love with his best friend, but too afraid to tell him. When the latter got married, he became jealous of the bride and wanted to kill her. However, he didn't want to be a suspect or have his secret crush be revealed, so he murdered three other people to make it look like his friend's bride was the victim of a serial killer)

Final Examination

• Derek Simmons/James Derek Kincaid - 3 People, strangling with rope (Believed that a group of sorority sisters were to blame for driving his sister to suicide.)

The First Power

• Patrick Channing/The Pentagram Killer - 20 People, sacrificing victims by carving a pentagram into their chests (Sacrificing people to Satan to gain the first power, aka immortality)

Five Women for the Killer

• Dr. Lidia Franzi - 3 People, cutting women open from groin to chest (Hates pregnant women due to being infertile)

Freaky

• Quentin Shermer/The Blissfield Butcher - 10 People, various methods (Psychopath who murders those who mention his name or even see him)

Frequency

• Jack Shepard/The Nightingale Killer - 11 People, strangling with cord (No reason given, implied to be mother-related)

Friday the 13th Series

Original Timeline

• Jason Voorhees - 19,885 People, too many methods to list (Avenging his mother's death)

Fright Flick

• Amanda Shepard - 13 People, various methods (Avenging the murder of her daughter)

Garroter

• John Leno/The Garroter - 11 People, decapitation with a piano wire (No reason given)

The Gingerdead Man

• Millard Findlemeyer/The Gingerdead Man - 60 People, various methods (Sadism and thrill)

The Girl in the Photographs

• Tom and Gerry - 14 People, various methods (Sadism and thrill)

Graduation Day

• Kevin Badger - 6 People, using a fencing sabre (Avenging his fiancé's death)

Guinea Pig

• "The Samurai" - 17 People, dismemberment and vivisection (A fascination with how much a human being can endure)

Hack-O-Lantern

• Amanda Drindle/The Cult Devil - 5 People, stabbing/impalement with sharp tools (She felt like her family was drifting apart and that her children were being taken away from her by people she viewed as bad influences)

Hangman (2017)

• Jimmy Stewart/Townsend/The Hangman - 8 People, carving a letter into their chest and hanging them with a noose (When he was a child, his dad hung himself right in front of him. A police officer named Ray Archer was the first on the scene and tried to comfort a young Jimmy. Afterwards, Jimmy was taken and put into foster care where he suffered abuse. The abuse molded Jimmy into a self-reliant psychopath who craved control. Nearing the anniversary of his father's suicide, he started killing people in order to play mind games with Ray as an act of revenge for forgetting about him.)

Hannibal Lecter Films

• Hannibal Lecter - 40 People, various methods (Mainly kills people he views as rude, uncivilized, or someone the world would be better off without, but will also kill people who get in the way of his freedom)

Manhunter (1986)

• Dr. Hannibal Lecktor - 9 People, unspecified brutal methods (Kills because it feeds his god complex)
• Francis Dollarhyde/The Tooth Fairy - 15 People, shooting and stabbing with shards from a broken mirror (Feels highly insecure about himself due to childhood abuse and his cleft lip. Believes that he is not loved nor accepted and desperately wants to be. He kills to fulfill the fantasy of becoming "The Great Red Dragon", a godlike being that is loved, accepted, and admired)

The Silence of the Lambs

• Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill - 8 People, shooting and post-mortem skinning (Wants to become a woman, so he kills overweight women and skins them to make a woman suit. Is not transgender, however, and wants to become a woman due to self-hatred and insecurity)

Happy Birthday to Me

• Ann Thomerson - 7 People, various methods (Hatred of Ginny)

Happy Death Day

• John Tombs - 11 People, various methods (No reason given, just seems to be a sadistic and misogynistic pervert)

The Hard Way (1991)

• The Party Crasher - 15 People, shooting victims with a modified .475 Wildey magnum (Sadism, thrill, and infamy)

Hatchet

• Victor Crowley - 61 People, various methods (After he was accidentally killed by his father while he was trying to save him from a house that had been set on fire by a group of teens, he became an extremely angry soul who'd butcher anyone who entered the swamp that was once his home)

Hayride Series

• Malcolm Guffin - 15 People, mostly used whatever weapons were available (No reason given)

Hell Fest

• "The Other" - 11 People, various methods (No reason given, though his pattern of victims could indicate that he has something against young brunette girls. This is further supported by the photos in his trophy cabinet)

Hollow Man

Hollow Man (2000)

• Sebastian Caine/The Hollow Man - 5 People, various methods (He went insane after voluntarily being turned invisible and being unable to be changed back. He went on a rampage, killing the scientists that he deemed were responsible for his state)

Hollow Man 2 (2006)

• Michael Griffin - 4 People, various methods (Same motive as Sebastian, except he did not go insane; he was simply incredibly spiteful and petty)

Home Sweet Home

• Jay Jones - 11 People, various methods (He was a psychotic who escaped a mental institution and began killing random people for no reason other than thrill)

Hot Fuzz

• Neighbourhood Watch Alliance - 16 People, various methods, followed by disguising the death to look like an accident (Killing people that could cost them the annual Village of the Year award)

The House That Jack Built

• Jack/Mr. Sophistication - 63 People, various methods (He was a psychopathic serial killer who viewed his numerous and gruesome murders as a form of art, and in-turn saw himself to be a masterful artist)

The Human Centipede

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

• Dr. Josef Heiter - 5 People, various methods (He was a brilliant retired surgeon who wanted to live out the fantasy of creating a "human centipede" after being unsatisfied performing this procedure on three rottweilers)

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

• Martin Lomax - 14 People, various methods (He was a mentally challenged sexual assault victim obsessed with the first Human Centipede film, eventually leading to him deciding to make a "centipede" of his own)

The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)

• Warden William "Bill" Boss - 505 People, various methods (He was the sadistic warden of a prison who decided to create a massive human centipede using his prisoners as a form of punishment)

Hush

• The Man - 15 People, mostly used a crossbow and a knife (Thrill and sadism)

Ice Cream Man

• Gregory Tudor/The Ice Cream Man - 7 People, various methods (After witnessing the ice cream man who he looked up to get murdered, he was traumatised and was eventually admitted to a institution. In there, he suffered torturous treatment and was given ice cream after each one. After he was released, he got a job as a ice cream truck driver and, as a result of all his trauma, began killing people and using their bodies for his ice cream treats)

The Iceman

• Richard Kuklinski - 100 People, mostly firearms (Gun for hire)

Ichi the Killer

• Hajime Shiroishi/Ichi the Killer - 25 People, slicing and slashing using his bladed boots (Although he hated killing people, he would become sexually aroused and murderous when he was enraged. A man named Jijji took advantage of this and coerced Ichi into killing members of the Yakuza, telling him that they were "bullies", which deeply angered Ichi)

Idle Hands

• The Hand - 17 People, various methods (It is a demon specifically created to possess the hand of the laziest person in town and kill a ton of people before dragging a soul to Hell. Prior to the film, it had possessed at least seven people before finding its way to slacker, Anton Tobias)

I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer

• Phil Philips - 11 People, various methods using cricket equipment (Revenge on his cricket teammates for bullying him and leaving his genitals disfigured after a towel-whipping gone bad)

I Know What You Did Last Summer

• Benjamin "Ben" Willis/The Fisherman - 24 People, various methods, usually with a fishing hook (After taking revenge on a man named David, the fiancée of his deceased daughter who was killed in a car accident that Ben blamed David for, he was accidentally hit by a group of teens while driving under the influence at night. The group decided that, since they had been drinking and they believed Ben to be dead, they should depose his body in the ocean so they didn't go to prison. Ben came back for revenge a year later and killed most of them, but two survived after seemingly killing him for good. Ben returned again, now with the help of his son, but was subsequently gunned down and died for real. Soon after, however, he returned as a zombie/ghost and finally got his revenge. After that, he became a spirit that hunted anyone who caused another's death and tried to cover it up. It's also worth mentioning that he murdered his wife at some point in the past for reasons unknown)

The Incredibles

• Buddy Pine/Syndrome - 23 People by Proxy, various methods using the Omnidroid's (He was the former biggest fan and wanna-be sidekick and now arch-nemesis of Mr. Incredible who, after being turned away by his idol, became a supervillain bent on destroying him and his family, as well as eradicating the very concept of Supers)

Into the Darkness

• Steve Sutton - 7 People, various methods (Misogyny, particularly towards prostitutes, because his mother was one)

I Saw the Devil

• Jang Kyung-chul - 6 People, various methods (Lust, sadism, and a vicious hatred of women)

It (Film)

• It/Pennywise the Dancing Clown - 44 People, various methods (Killing people for food, though It also had fun with It's victims by terrifying them in order to make them taste better and be more filling. This is also why It mainly targeted kids, since they were easier to scare)

It (Miniseries)

• It/Pennywise the Dancing Clown - 6 - 7 People, various methods (Killing people for food, though It also had fun with It's victims by terrifying them in order to make them taste better and be more filling. This is also why It mainly targeted kids, since they were easier to scare)

The Jackal

• "The Jackal" - 12 People, various methods (Assassin with sadistic tendencies, but also getting rid of people who get in the way of his mission to kill the first lady)

Jack Frost

• Jack Frost - 66 People, various methods (He was a serial killer and rapist who was transformed into a living snowman via chemical waste - he is a parody of horror movie monsters in general. Capable of performing many wild and crazy stunts with his new form and practically immortal Jack Frost terrorized the world in his quest to get revenge on the officer responsible for stopping him when he was still human)

Joy Ride Series

• Rusty Nail - 14 People, using his truck and various tools (Kills people who wrong him, also kills hookers for no reason given)

Jury Duty (1995)

• Billy/"Frank"/The Drive-Thru Killer - 8 People, knocking victims unconscious with a stun gun to the neck and finishing them off in an unspecified manner, presumably with a jagged knife or assortment of knives (Held nihilistic and radical views about the potential destruction of the Earth and killed managers of fast food restaurants for using non-recyclable materials that were harmful to the environment)

Killer Clown

• The Clown - 7 People, stabbing with a hunting knife (Sees hunting and killing people as fun)

Killer's Delight

• Danny T. Atkins - 19 People, snapping necks (His father committed suicide after being cheated on by his wife too many times and this caused Danny to develop misogynistic views of women. He eventually killed his mother and started killing women to keep them from becoming like her. Also, he seemed to gain sexual gratification from breaking his victims' bones)

The Killing Tree

• Clayton Slater/The Christmas Slayer - 51 People, various methods (Originally, he believed that everyone in the world was to focused on the material gain aspect of Christmas, which motivated him and his wife to kill families. Later, after his resurrection, he sought revenge on Faith, the only victim who got away and led to him being caught and executed)
• Morrigan Slater/The Christmas Slayer - 35 People, stabbing (She believed that everyone in the world was to focused on the material gain aspect of Christmas, which motivated she and her husband to kill families)

Knife + Heart

• Guy Favre - 5 People, stabbing (He snapped after seeing a gay porn film that seemed to be inspired by and make fun of the tragic events he experienced in his teenage years that left him heartbroken and disfigured. So, he killed all the actors who appeared in the film and tried to kill the producer out of revenge)

Knight Moves

• David Willerman - 7 People, slitting wrists with a straight razor (Revenge against Peter Sanderson for beating him at chess when they were children and indirectly causing his mother's suicide)

Let It Snow

• Mrs. Gegidze - 60 People, various methods (Hunts and kills anyone that sets foot on Black Ridge mountain in hope that she'll eventually find her daughter's killer)

The Little Things

• Unknown Killer - 6 People, stabbing (No reason given)

M

• Hans Beckert - 9 People, unknown methods, likely stabbing (Claims to be insane)

Ma

• Sue Ann "Ma" Ellington - 4 People, various methods (She suffered a psychotic break due to years of abuse and lack of attention in high school, then being re-introduced to her bullies later in life after throwing parties for current high schoolers in her house)

Madhouse (1974)

• Herbert Flay/Dr. Death - 7 People, various methods (Resentment towards Paul Toombes for becoming famous after playing Dr. Death, a character that he wrote for himself to play. Wanted to get Toombes out of the way so that he could take up the role)

The Majorettes

• Sheriff Braden - 5 People, stabbing and cutting with a bowie knife (Views the teenage girls in his town, particularly the cheerleader group called "The Majorettes" as impure due to them wearing revealing clothing and being sexually active. Killed them to cleanse their souls by submerging their bodies in water. He also might have been conflicted about the sexual attraction he felt towards the girls and blamed them for tempting him.)

Malignant

• Gabriel May - 50 People, various methods, usually with a sharpened trophy (He was born merged to Emily May's back as a deformed tumor-esque wretch. Due to his miserable existence, Gabriel became violent and misanthropic towards the doctors and his birth mother, as well as feeding on his sister's body to sustain himself, endangering her life. Realizing that there was no rehabilitating or redeeming him, the doctors did extensive surgery on the merged siblings, shedding almost his entire body and suppressing what couldn't be removed within Emily's head and mind. However, he was eventually reawakened, and began gruesomely puppeteering his sister's body, and became a vicious serial killer, targeting all to do with his suppression)

Murder is Easy

• Honoria Waynflete - 7 People, various methods (Revenge against her ex-fiancé by framing him for a series of murders)

Murder-Set-Pieces

• "The Photographer" - 42 People, various methods (Sexual sadism and a viscous hatred of women. He also often quotes Adolf Hitler during his murders and has direct ties to the Nazi's through his grandfather, but it is not made clear exactly how his antisemitism is involved in his crimes)

The Mutilator

• Ed Sr. - 7 People, various methods (Revenge against his son, who accidentally shot his wife, by killing all his friends. It is also shown in a photograph that he killed another man for unknown reasons)

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

• Axel Palmer - 10 People, various methods (After witnessing his father, who was one of the negligent supervisors, get murdered by Harry Warden at a Valentines Day party, he was traumatized, and this trauma caused him to lose his mind and go on a killing spree after a party was held for the first time in years)

My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)

• Harry Warden - 27 People, various methods (After being trapped in a mine with five of his co-workers, he went completely insane and killed them to save oxygen. After being rescued, he went on a killing spree to take revenge on Tom Hanniger, who he blamed for the incident)
• Thomas J. "Tom" Hanniger - 10 People, various methods (Reason uncertain; it is implied he could have been possessed by Harry Warden's spirit, he developed a split personality, or was just jealous of Axel and Sarah)

New Year's Evil

• Richard "Evil" Sullivan - 4 People, various methods (He was a misogynist who wanted revenge against his wife for taking his money from him. He killed a woman every hour leading up to the New Year, and called his wife after every murder to taunt her)

The New York Ripper

• Peter Bunch/The New York Ripper/The Ripper/The Duck - 6 People, various methods (Jealousy and hatred towards grown women, particularly sexually active women because his kid daughter was suffering from a rare disease that would soon kill her and she would never get a chance to grow up)

Night Game

• Floyd Epps - 6 People, slashing throats with his hook hand (He was a baseball player that got replaced by a man named Silvio Baretto and ended up getting into a bus crash while he was being transferred. The crash cost him his pitching hand and that drove him to resent his replacement. Feeling his life had been ruined, he decided to start killing blonde women that resembled Baretto's wife every time he won a baseball game, so his murders would replace Baretto's victories as the top headline in the newspapers)

No Country for Old Men

• Anton Chigurh - 14 People, various methods (Gun for hire)

Open 24 Hours

• James Lincoln Fields/The Rain Ripper - 40 People, bludgeoning with a hammer (No reason given)

Osmosis Jones

• Thrax - 29 People, various methods (Sadism, plus wanted to see how fast he could kill and have his virus be written about in medical books)

Ostermontag

• Heiko Fipper - 11 People, various methods (He became enraged when he discovered that his girlfriend was sending her step-sister to meet with him instead of herself when she didn't want to deal with him. He finally snapped and killed who he thought was his girlfriends step-sister, but it was actually his girlfriend. Years later, after developing into a sadistic psychopath, he came back to get revenge with his friends and kill other random people for fun in the meantime)
• Stephan - 3 People, various methods (He was a sadistic psychopath and a friend of Heiko Fipper, who assisted him in tormenting and killing several people)
• Andy - 3 People, various methods (He was a sadistic psychopath and a friend of Heiko Fipper, who assisted him in tormenting and killing several people)

Out of the Dark (1988)

• Kevin Silvers/Bobo the Clown - 6 People, various methods (Stalks and kills women that he's attracted to, either out of his own sadistic urges or an alternate personality's)

Out of the Heart

• Jake Noble - 7 People, poisoning with succinylcholine via shooting a dart in their neck (He's a religious zealot that believes he's on a mission from God to punish sinners and blasphemers)

Peeping Tom

• Mark Lewis - 3 People, stabbing victims in the throat with a blade hidden in the leg of his camera's tripod (Suffered psychological torment for most of his childhood inflicted by his father who used him as a test subject by frightening him and filming it. This caused him to develop a similar obsession with fear, wanting to do a documentary on it. In order to complete his documentary, he needed to record the shock on a person's face before they died, but every time he got the footage, it would fade to black too early, leading him to try again.

Pieces

• Timothy "Timmy" Foley-Reston/The Dean - 6 People, dismemberment with a chainsaw (As a child, he killed his mother after she tried to take away his pornographic jigsaw puzzle. Forty years later, he was reminded of the murder after hearing the sound of a glass breaking. Whether out of remorse or morbid fascination, it triggered him into trying to bring his mother back by killing college girls and sewing their body parts together)

The Pool (2001)

• Tommy/Frank - 10 People, slashing or stabbing with a machete (Resentment of women because they always teased him and treated him poorly. Also, seemed to hate his friends for all being in happy relationships, while his had all ended in disaster)

President's Day

• Leonard Wright/The Lincoln Killer - 19 People, various methods (Eliminating candidates of the school presidential election, so that Chelsea Blythe would win)

The Prowler

• Sheriff George Fraser/The Prowler - 7 People, various methods, usually with a bayonet (He was a former World War II veteran that was broken up with by his girlfriend in 1945. Enraged, he dressed in his combat uniform and stabbed his girlfriend and her new lover to death with a pitchfork. He was never caught and 35 years later, he would go on to kill again)

The Psychopath

• Mark Von Sturm - 5 People, various methods (Revenge against the men who convicted and imprisoned his father during World War II, though it is speculated that he might've done it to frame his mother so he'd get his father's estate in Germany)

The Raven

• Ivan Reynolds - 9 People, various methods (He was obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe and his stories and when he discovered that Poe was retiring, he began to kill people in ways inspired by Poe's stories and sent letters to him in order to force him to write a new story)

Retribution (1987)

• Vito Minelli Sr. - 3 People, various methods (Revenge against the people that tortured and murdered him)

Ricochet

• Roger Dwayne Felso/The Night Strangler - 9 People, strangling (No reason given)

The Row

• Miller Rakowski - 7 People, various methods (Despised Phi Lambda, a sorority house that had caused the suicide of his sister when he was a child. He particularly despised the leader of the house and killed her as revenge. When the leader's daughter joined Phi Lambda, it brought back the memory and feeling he got when he killed her mother, so he decided to target her, especially after seeing that the sorority hadn't changed much)

Rubber

• Robert the Tire - 19 People, blowing up victims heads using telekinesis (No reason given)

Rush Week

• Dean Russel Grail/The Phantom Pledge - 5 People, hacking victims to death with a battle axe (Believes that every girl that's making money by posing for nude photos is his daughter, Laura, and that when he kills them, he's purifying their souls)

Santa's Slay

• Santa Claus - 39 People, various methods (After losing a bet to the Devil, he was forced to spend decades bringing joy to children all over the world. When he was finally able to go back to being the malevolent killer he truly was, he went on a killing spree)

Saw

• John Kramer/Jigsaw - 31 People, various methods (Due to various tragedies in his life, he held the delusion that he was helping people appreciate their life by putting them in deadly traps and games and forcing them to save themselves, and that the people who died were missing the will to live. He also took on several "disciples", who continued his legacy following his death)
• Amanda Young - 4 People, various methods (She is John Kramer's secret apprentice (along with Mark Hoffman) and potential successor. At first, Amanda seemed feasible to continue John's work, until it's revealed that she doesn't truly believe in his philosophy and simply was trying to find love and appreciation, due to her mental illness)
• Mark Hoffman - 21 People, various methods (He is one of Jigsaw's secret apprentices. Like his mentor and other apprentice, Hoffman designs death traps that, for survivors, give them reason to appreciate their lives. Unlike Amanda Young, many of his traps give the victims the chance to escape, but unlike Jigsaw, he has no emotion towards his victims and broke the jigsaw code killing innocents)
• Logan Nelson - 8 People, various methods (He is one of Jigsaw's victims, who was selected because he is the one who accidentally mixed up Kramer's X-rays with another patient's. However, Jigsaw changed his mind and decided that Nelson shouldn't die because of an honest mistake and rescued him seconds before he was killed by the bucket trap. Years after Kramer's death, he decides to take up the Jigsaw mantle and make it look like John Kramer is still alive)
• William Schenk-Emmerson/The Spiral Killer - 6 People, various methods (He is a Jigsaw copycat who targets crooked cops in order to clean up the system after his father was killed by a corrupt cop years prior)

Schramm (1993)

• Lothar Schramm/The Lipstick Killer - 34 People, various methods with a knife and hammer (No reason given, though he seemed to be a necrophiliac and was clearly psychotic)

Sea of Love

• Terry Cruger - 3 People, single shot to the head with a revolver (He's obsessed with his ex-wife and kills men that she sleeps with)

Se7en

• Johnathan "John" Doe - 7 People, methods that relate to the Seven Deadly Sins (Punish people who are guilty of the Seven Deadly Sins and make an example out of them that people will study for centuries)

Seven Murders for Scotland Yard

• Winston Amory - 10 People, stabbing with a dagger (Suffers from impotency and as a result can only have sex with women when they're dead. Also, killed his wife for cheating on him with his friend)

The Shadow (1933)

• Reginald "Reggie" Ogden/The Shadow - 7 People, enforced suicide via blackmail (Thrill, financial gain, and to protect his identity. Also, viewed himself as a highly intelligent criminal mastermind who was smarter than any of the detectives in Scotland Yard)

The Shadow (Monogram Pictures)

The Shadow Returns

• Paul Breck - 4 People, pulling people over balconies with a bullwhip (Killed Joseph Yomans to get his formula for a valuable plastic, then killed anyone who knew about it)

A Shock to the System

• Graham Marshall - 5 People, sabotaging and making it look accidental (Killing people that annoy him or get in his way of becoming the CEO of the company he works for)

Shock Treatment

• Dr. Devilers - 10+ People, vivisections and pushing people off of cliffs (After finding out that peoples' guts can be made into a rejuvenation serum, he hired various migrant workers to work at his resort. He vivisection various migrant workers from other countries since they were cheap and no one would report or know of their deaths. He also killed anyone who came close to the truth.)

Silent Night, Deadly Night

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

• William "Billy" Chapman - 8 People, various methods (He snapped after watching his parents get murdered by a man in a Santa costume, years of abuse in an orphanage, and watching a man attempt to rape a woman, reminding him of his mothers death. He began to kill anyone he deemed to be "naughty", as well as anyone who stood in his way)

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 + Part 3

• Richard "Ricky" Chapman - 19-20 People, various methods (He shared his brothers psychosis and killed people who he deemed "naughty" and anyone who stood in his way. Later on, after suffering brain experimentation, he became totally insane and killed random people, while attempting to kill a blind woman who he shared a psychic connection with because of said experimentation)

Silent Night (2012)

• Ronald Jones Jr. - 14 People, various methods (He went insane after his father burned his mother alive with a flamethrower, and was subsequently gunned down by police. Seeking revenge on the town, he dressed as Santa and killed numerous people on Christmas and Christmas Eve)

Skeleton Man

• Cottonmouth Joe/Skeleton Man - 66 People, various methods (No reason given)

Slaughter High

• Martin "Marty" Rantzen - 12 People, various methods (Revenge against the people who bullied and disfigured him in high school, which drove him insane)

Sleepaway Camp

Timeline A

• Peter "Angela" Baker - 47 People, various methods (She/He loved summer camp so much that she/he would murder anyone who either broke the rules or did something she/he viewed as "immoral")

Timeline B

• Angela Baker - 20 People, various methods (She hated bullies and would kill them for either bullying herself or someone else)

Sleepless (2001)

• Lorenzo Betti/The Killer Dwarf/The Farmer - 23 People, various methods coinciding with the "Crazed Farmer" nursery rhyme (Either driven crazy or was inspired after the nursery rhyme about the farmer killing his animals got stuck in his head. Also, had homicidal and sadistic urges and saw the whole thing as an exciting game. He supposedly tried to stop, but his urge to repeat the nursery rhyme over again came back after he was forced to kill a prostitute that ended up taking incriminating evidence of his crimes from his apartment)

The Snowman

• Mathias Lund-Helgesen/The Snowman Killer - 6 People, injecting them with a euthanization agent and dismembering their bodies using a wire tie tool (Hates women who have affairs due to feeling his mother had driven off his father with her affair and abandoned him by killing herself)

Snuff 102

• "The Assassin" - 102 People, various methods preceded by extreme torture and rape (Sexual sadism)
• "The Road Killer" - 10 People, dismemberment (No reason given)

So I Married an Axe Murderer

• Rose Michaels/Mrs. X/The Honeymoon Murderer - 3 People, hacking with an axe (Killed her sister's fiancés because she felt they were taking Harriet away from her)

The Spiral Staircase

• Professor Albert Warren - 7 People, strangling (Kill weak and disabled people and "purify" the world)

Spree

• Kurt Kunkle/The Rideshare Killer - 11 People, various methods (He is a late teen/young adult who goes on a murderous spree during a live stream to gain more attention to his failing media accounts and snaps in the process resorting to continuing the spree when his viewers slowly but surely increase)

Still of the Night

• Gail Phillips - 3 People, stabbing (Killed her paramour when he tried to break off their relationship and began killing to frame the woman that was responsible for the breakup as revenge)

Stitches

• Richard Grindle/Stitches the Clown - 4 People, various methods (Revenge against the now grown up kids who indirectly caused his death)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

• Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd - 10 People, throat slashing with a straight razor (He wanted revenge against Judge Turpin for ruining his life, so he attempted to kill him during a shave. However, he was interrupted, and enraged, he decided to kill as many people as possible before Turpin returned for another shave, reasoning that he would be punishing the wicked and making others suffer, just like him)
• Nellie Lovett - 10 People by Proxy, throat slashing with a straight razor, cooking them into meat pies post-mortem (She assisted Sweeney Todd in his murderous spree by cutting up the bodies of his victims and turning them into meat pies. She not only did this out of love for him, but also because it increased her business)

Sweet Sixteen

• Tricia Platt/Joanne Morgan - 4 People, stabbing (Mental instability from her past, causing her to envision men as her father and her daughter as her deceased sister Joan)

Swimfan

• Madison Bell - 3 People, drowning or shooting (She was obsessed and possessive of Ben Cronin and killed anyone she saw as holding back their relationship or who she could no longer use. When Ben ultimately rejected her due to her behaviour, she attempted to kill him)

Switchback

• Bob Goodall - 23 People, severing the femoral artery (Kills because it makes him feel powerful)

Taking Lives

• Martin Asher - 36 People, garroting with a cord then bashing a victim several times in the face with a stone until they're unrecognizable (Stealing identities because he wanted to escape his own life. Also, said to get some sort of sexual pleasure out of garroting men)

Tenebrae

• Christiano Berti/The Razor Killer - 4 People, cutting throats with a straight razor (Was inspired by Peter Neal's book "Tenebrae" and started killing women he viewed as degenerates)
• Peter Neal - 7 People, various methods (Harbored misogynistic feelings and homicidal bloodlust stemming from an incident in his teenage years when he killed a girl that humiliated him. When a fan of his started killing, it brought his own love for murder and rage to the surface, and he decided to take the opportunity to kill the two people he hated most and some other people in order to craft the perfect novel)

Terrifier

• Art the Clown - 20 People, various brutal methods (He is a demonic and sadistic killer clown with mime-like qualities who appears on Halloween nights to wreak havoc)

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

• T-X - 68 People, various methods (To stop John Connor and his lieutenants from becoming threats to Skynet in the future)

Terror Train (1980)

• Kenny Hampson - 10 People, various methods (He was the victim of a cruel prank, which resulted in him losing his mind, getting humiliated, and costing him a chance to enjoy his college years. He returns years later to exact revenge on those involved during a New Year's costume party for the now seniors on a train and proceeds to kill them one by one all while he roams the train in disguise)

Their Killer Affair

• Greg Highfield/The Charm Killer - 5 People, various methods (Punishing unfaithful spouses)

Tightrope

• Leander Rolfe - 10 People, strangling with a ribbon (Revenge against Wesley Block for locking him up)

The Toolbox Murders

• Vance Kingsley - 4 People, using tools from his toolbox (Religious mania triggered by the death of his beloved daughter. Killed women he viewed as sinful that lived in the apartment complex he owned)

Traces of Red

• Michael "Mike" Dobson - 3 People, various methods (He and his brother were molested by their mother, leading him to have issues with women)

Tunnel Vision

• Craig Breslin - 4 People, ligature strangulation (Views himself as an artist and is promoting his work by strangling women and posing them like the women in his paintings)

Turbulence (1997)

• Ryan Weaver/The Lonely Hearts Strangler - 7 People, strangling (No reason given)

Twisted

• John Mills - 5 People, beating victims to death with a yawara (Considers it his mission to prevent Jessica Shepard from becoming like her nymphomaniac mother)

Uncle Sam

• Samuel "Sam" Harper/Uncle Sam - 12 People, various methods (He was a barbarous master sergeant for the US Army who reanimated into a patriotic zombie upon death, killing those who disgrace America)

Unfriended

Unfriended (2014)

• Laura Barnes/Billie227 - 6 People, various methods, usually evolving enforced suicide (She was a vengeful spirit who wanted revenge on Blair Lily for posting an embarrassing video of her drunk online, which led Laura to commit suicide. She got her revenge by tormenting and killing Blair's friends and boyfriend before finally killing her)

Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)

• The Circle/The Charon - 9 People, various methods (They are sadistic hackers who enjoy committing torture and murder and systematically incriminating innocent people for their crimes, which also includes breaking into their homes). They communicate on the Dark Web through a multi-layer protocol called "The River" (which is similar to Tor, but apparently more sophisticated, with more layers). They call themselves Charons, in reference to the mythological figure of the same name, who carries souls to the Hades (the Greek underworld)

Up

• Charles F. Muntz - 8 People, unknown method (He believed that anyone exploring Paradise Falls was actually trying to "steal" the exotic bird species that lived there. Determined to clear his name after fabricating a skeleton to make it seem as if he had actually found the bird, Muntz killed them so they couldn't steal his moment)

Upgrade

• STEM - 11 People, various methods (He was a micro-chip that wanted to become human, so he orchestrated events that led to him being attached to Grey Trace, then taking full control of his body after wiping out his creators)

Vomit Gore Series + A Perfect Child of Satan

• Hank Skinny - 7 People, various methods (Fulfilling his strange and sadistic sexual fantasises)
• Chester Molester - 4 People, various methods with a knife (No reason given, though likely for the same reasons as Hank Skinny)
• Allen Nasty - 4 People, various methods (Fulfilling his strange and sadistic sexual fantasies)

Whisper Kill

• Winnifred "Winnie" Rogers/The Faircrest Killer - 5 People, stabbing and genital mutilation (Reason uncertain, something to do with her husband molesting their daughter)

Who is Killing the Cheerleaders?

• Jonathan Colton - 5 People, various methods (He had a crush on a cheerleader named Ellie Oliver, but she didn't feel the same. So, whenever he tried to ask her out, she laughed it off along with her friends. This lead him into resenting them, believing that they were just bitches who thought they were better than him)

X (2022)

• Pearl - 10 People, various methods (When she was younger, she desired to become famous and loved by people all over the world, but she was stuck living on a farm, causing her to deeply resent her life. She eventually snapped and started killing people who, in her opinion, were preventing her from making anything of herself. Years later, she has become a sick and demented elderly housewife who is obsessed with youth and is jealous of young people due to never achieving her dream, and her husband's heart condition preventing them from making love)

You're Next

• Crispian Davison - 8 People by Proxy, various methods (He and his girlfriend Erin were having money troubles, so to solve these problems, Crispian hired Lamb Mask, Tiger Mask and Fox Mask. These assassins would slaughter the rest of the wealthy Davison family, allowing Crispian to claim their inheritance while not having to share it with their other siblings, Aimee and Drake. However, Crispian told them to spare his girlfriend Erin so she could be a witness to what happened)
• Tom/Fox Mask - 6 People, various methods (He was hired by Crispian Davison to almost everyone in his family, as well as their neighbours and anyone else in the house)
• Craig/Lamb Mask - 5 People, various methods (He was hired by Crispian Davison to almost everyone in his family, as well as their neighbours and anyone else in the house)
• Dave/Tiger Mask - 4 People, various methods (He was hired by Crispian Davison to almost everyone in his family, as well as their neighbours and anyone else in the house)

Novel Serial Killers

American Psycho (1991)

• Patrick Bateman - 30 People, various methods (No reason given)

It (Novel)

• It/Pennywise the Dancing Clown - 29 - 371 People, various methods (Killing people for food, though It also had fun with It's victims by terrifying them in order to make them taste better and be more filling. This is also why It mainly targeted kids, since they were easier to scare)

Most Likely to Die (Novel)

• Bella Marcott/The Cupid Killer - 4 People, various methods (Is psychologically damaged and emotionally unstable due to being raped by her brother all throughout her teenage years. She and her boyfriend killed her brother after he made her get a cheap abortion, which left her unable to ever have children. In the present, she resents her brother's ex-girlfriends and girls who crushed on him in school either due to feeling they had ostracized her or was jealous of their happy lives/fertility. She hated Lindsay the most since despite being in a relationship with her brother, she never had to abort her child)

TV Show Serial Killers

The Blacklist

• Karl Hoffman/The Good Samaritan - 7 People, giving the victim the same injuries they inflicted on a relative (Was abused in childhood by his sadistic mother, causing him to have zero tolerance towards abusers, believing that they should be victimized in order to know what it's like. Also, made his wheelchair-bound mother watch him punishing abusers in order to psychologically torment her)

Bones

• Dr. Andrew Rigby - 4 People, shooting, post-mortem cannibalisation (He is delusional and believed that preforming perverse medicine wheel rituals which involved consuming human body parts would grant him various virtues)
• Howard Epps/The Manipulator - 4 People directly, 1 Person indirectly, bludgeoning with a tire iron (He is a serial killer of blonde women who murders women due to his belief that they are all impure. This belief and his violent tendencies were imprinted on him as a result of his highly religious mothers abuse and her disproving of the women Howard went out with, considering them "loose")

Criminal Minds

• "The Footpath Killer" - 13 People, beating and shooting (No reason given)
• Timothy Vogel/The Seattle Strangler - 4 People, strangulation with a belt (Misogyny, due to impotence)
• Franklin Graney/The Tommy Killer - 6 People, strangling with wire (Kills women as su)rogates for the domineering female in his life. Also, wanted to become infamous so people, more particularly women stop seeing him as invisible)
• Karl Arnold/The Fox - 36 People, stabbing and shooting (Self-hatred caused by sexual abuse when he was young)
• Vincent "Vinny" Perotta - 100 People, dismemberment preceded by torture (Hates men who remind of his abusive father, gets an emotional release every time he tortures a man)
• William Devries - 5 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• "The Montana Strangler" - 5 People, strangulation (No reason given)
• Unnamed Child Killer - 3 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• Jacob Dawes - 18 People, death by torture with various tools (Sexual psychopathy, which stemmed from his mother's abuse)
• Walter Kern/The Keystone Killer - 8 People, strangulation or suffocation (No reason given, though his depression went away when he began killing again, implying he may have been sadistic)
• "The Boise Child Killer" - 3 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• Marvin Doyle/The Vigilante - 5 People, shooting followed by stabbing the victims through the ear with a flint knife (He had a heightened sense of right and wrong and when his parents got killed in a home invasion, he started developing schizophrenia which manifested in the form of voices of guilty defendants that got acquitted by claiming themselves to be victims. So, he thought he could stop the voices by doling out his own justice)
• Maggie Lowe - 5 People, shooting (She developed an extreme infatuation with Lila Archer and killed people who wronged her or threatened her career in any way)
• Pablo Vargas - 14 People, stabbing (He discovered that stabbing was a satisfactory substitute for rape after being "emasculated" when he failed to rape a woman)
• Mark Gregory - 7-8 People, drowning preceded by torture (His father was a very submissive man who was walked all over by his mother. She cheated on him a lot and he never called her out, so Mark murdered his mother as a way of standing up for him and this sparked him to have misogynistic views and want to relive the crime)
• Amber Canardo and Anthony Paul Conardo - 9 People, strangulation (Amber hates women and uses them as surrogates for her mother, who allowed her to be repeatedly raped by her male relatives when she was a teenager and actively sabotaged her attempt to get help when she finally did escape. Tony is submissive and insecure, which makes him easy for Amber to control)
• Jeffrey Charles - 3 People, bludgeoning with a Baseball bat (His mother abandoning him and his father spending more time at his teaching job lead to Jeffrey developing a resentment towards other children)
• "The Hollow Man" - 10 People, shooting (Notoriety due to feeling that he had been overlooked his entire life)
• "The Mill Creek Killer" - 7 People, blunt force head trauma (Sexual sadism and necrophilia)
• "The I-80 Killer" - 11 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• Ronald Weems - 4 People, stabbing (Sexual sadism, along with trying to rid the streets of prostitutes)
• Carl Buford - 3 People, strangulation (He was a prolific pedophile that murdered three boys not just to keep them from talking, but also to frame Derek Morgan)
• Frank Breitkopf - 177 People, vivisection (Sexual sadism)
• Tobias Hankel/Charles Hankel/Raphael - 7 People, various methods (He had two highly religious split personalities that want to punish people they see as sinners)
• Terrance Wakeland - 5 People, usually stabbing (Sexual release; he enjoyed recording the women singing before he killed them)
• Sarah Danlin - 8 People, various methods with a knife (Misandry and the fear of being sexually assaulted due to insecurity)
• Vincent Stiles - 11 People, fire and smoke inhalation (He holds deep resentment towards men that are more successful than him and craves admiration and power due to narcissism. He also simply enjoys setting fires)
• The Mulford Family - 26 People, shooting with arrows following torture (Thrill; the younger brothers were raised in the woods and thus shared their fathers blood lust)
• Charles Holcombe - 64 People, fatal dismemberment preceded by vivisection (He believed that killing homeless people and prostitutes would "fix" the perceived wrongs of the world. He also simply enjoyed killing people)
• Joe Smith - 6 People, heart removal (Borderline personality disorder and misogyny)
• Dr. Stanley Howard - 17 People, various methods (He was fascinated by fear and believed that killing his patients using their greatest fears would help him overcome his own fear)
• Gary and Ervin Robles - 16 People, bludgeoning (Gary) euthanization (Ervin) (They were both abused horribly in a foster home and when they finally escaped, they started robbing houses in order to support themselves. During one of their robberies, they came across abusive parents and this reminded the past. This made them think all the parents they came across were abusive. Ervin euthanized the kids afterwards due to wanting to spare them from the horrors of foster care)
• "The Scarsdale Skinner" - 3 People, skinning (No reason given)
• Francis Goehring - 4 People, unspecified murder method preceded by torture and rape (Sexual sadism)
• Floyd Feylinn Ferell - 13 People, throat slashing (Cannibalism; he also blamed his urges on Satan)
• Jason Clark Battle - 4 People, shooting (Due to his narcissism, he developed Hero Syndrome, where he would shoot random people in a drive-by, then call for backup and save their lives, making him look like a hero. In some cases, the victims were unable to be saved in time)
• Robert Wilkinson - 5 People, dismemberment preceded by torture and rape (Sadism and his wife leaving, causing him to kill girls as surrogates)
• Jeremy Andrus - 24 People, usually strangulation (Misogyny, narcissism and sadism)
• Chester Hardwick - 23 People, unspecified method (Sadism caused by an abusive childhood)
• Peter Redding - 7 People, various methods (He believed that he was taking his victims pain away after losing their kids)
• Steven Fitzgerald - 8 People, asphyxiation, via applying a chokehold (He killed homosexual men and stole their identity so he could disappear afterwards. He himself was homosexual, but he refused to accept it due to being raised and abused in a strict religious home)
• Brain Matloff/The Blue Ridge Strangler - 4 People, strangulation (His birth mother rejected him when he tried to ask to be apart of her life, so he started taking out his frustration by killing brunette women as surrogates for her)
• Cortland Bryce Ryan/The Angel Maker - 6 People, beating, post-mortem stomach puncturing (No reason given)
• Chloe Kelcher - 3 People, copying Cortland Ryan or shooting (She was delusional and fell in love with Cortland during his trial. She believed the only way to keep his legacy alive was to continue killing for him)
• Floyd Hansen - 7 People, bludgeoning and beating preceded by rape (Misogyny and sexual sadism)
• Armando Ruis Salinas - 14 People, usually bludgeoning (Snapped due to drug use and rejection. He would kill someone, and, after spending time in their house, he would hop on a train and move somewhere else)
• Henry Grace - 7 People, unknown method, dissolved victims remains in acid (Narcissism and possibly sadism, he believed in the debunked theory that being born with an extra Y-chromosome made him a killer. His brother William was a serial killer as well, which apparently had an impact on Henry)
• William Grace - 3 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• Unknown Serial Killer in Texas - 3 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• Robert C. Parker - 4 People, usually throat slashing preceded by disembowelment (Misogyny and sadism. He would non-fatally disembowel the victim before forcing her to clean up her own blood)
• "Animal" - 6 People, shooting (Revenge against the people who beat and humiliated him in a fight club, later began killing cops to feel powerful)
• William Harris - 3 People, strangulation (Sexual sadism)
• Steven Baleman - 3 People, strangulation (Sexual sadism)
• Roderick Gless - 3 People, exsanguination and embalming (Necrophilia)
• Eric Ryan Olson - 9 People, various methods (He was sadistic and was trying to figure out which method of murder satisfied him the most)
• Megan Kane - 4 People, usually poisoning (Misandry caused by her fathers neglect)
• Father Paul Silvano - 3 People, poisoning following exorcism (He claimed he was trying to rid the victim of the "evil" inside them, but he was really looking for revenge for the death of another priest. The priest was seemingly killed with a powerful drug that induced a heart attack. Silvano believed that his victims had killed him to suppress a series of pilgrimages. He also used the same drug in his Holy Water during the exorcisms)
• George Foyet/The Reaper - 36 People, shooting and stabbing (Control, infamy, and making Hotch's life a living hell)
• Adam/Amanda Jackson - 3 People, suffocation preceded by rape (He had a violent and vengeful alternate personality named "Amanda" that killed abusive alpha males)
• Vincent Rowlings - 13 People, stabbing (He was originally a sexual psychopath, but after a severe emotional change, he became increasingly ambivalent and only killed because he couldn't stop himself)
• Ian Coakley - 3 People, ramming or running over people with his truck (After accidentally causing the death of his wife by falling asleep at the wheel, his mind jumbled the memory and projected the blame onto a person driving a red car. So, whenever he saw a red car that looked similar to the one in his memory, he would follow and kill them with his car as revenge)
• Mason Turner - 89 People by Proxy, bludgeoning (He was a delusional and sociopathic sexual sadist who was paralysed by his autistic brother during a fight. Mason used his brother's guilt and metal handicap to manipulate him into killing people who lived on the street in order to harvest their organs, which were used in experiments for stem cell therapy)
• Lucas Turner - 89 People, bludgeoning (He was manipulated by his brother to kill people on the street in order to harvest their organs, which were used in experiments for stem cell therapy)
• Bill Jarvis/The Hollow Creek Killer - 3 People, unspecified method (Pedophilia, no reason given for killing)
• Boyd Schuller/The Planner - 4 People by Proxy, shooting, post-mortem mutilation (He was a judge who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, causing him to snap completely, having seen so many offenders walk away. He hired Tony Mecacci to deal out "justice")
• Tony Mecacci/Bosola/The Enforcer - 99 People, shooting, post-mortem mutilation (He was a hit man hired by Boyd Schuller to deal out "justice" against criminals who had escaped the justice system. Prior to this, he killed at least 3 other people)
• Robert Reimann - 3 People, asphyxiation (He had a history of sexual abuse that began with stalking and devolved into rape and assault, which ended temporarily when he met his wife. His urges returned when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and he wanted to leave her, but his wife made a deal with him: he would get to rape, impregnate and kill women, and she would get to keep the babies and care for them)
• Linda Reimann - 3 People by Proxy, asphyxiation (After losing her own child and being diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, she became desperate for children and made a deal with her husband: he would get to satisfy his urges by raping, impregnating and killing women, and she gets to keep and care for the babies)
• Earl Bulford/The Eye Snatcher - 6 People, usually throat slashing (he had a fixation on eyeballs and would kill people in order to extract them)
• Ray Campion - 4 People by Proxy, strangulation (He was the sociopathic manager of a popular Goth-Rock star named "Dante" who he wanted to keep in the spotlight by manipulating a schizophrenic woman named Gina King into killing some of Dante's fans in order to promote his upcoming album)
• Gina King - 4 People, strangulation, post-mortem throat puncturing (She was a schizophrenic and a super fan of Dante who was manipulated by Ray Campion into killing some of Dante's fans)
• Miranda Dracar - 17 People, stabbing, shooting and asphyxiation (Due to her past trauma, she would suffer psychotic breaks whenever she heard sounds related to war, such as planes flying over head or loud gunshot sounding noises. She would kill and bury families in the same way her family was killed, except the daughters who represented herself)
• Garret Pain - 14 People, cannibalization (No reason given, though he was clearly psychotic)
• Joe Belser/The Nashville Killer - 4 People, beating and stabbing (He was delusional and misogynistic and killed women who resembled his ex-lover, who he caught cheating on him with the best man at their wedding)
• Dale Schrader - 3 People, various methods (Revenge against the man who sold him out and later escaping police custody; no reason given for becoming a criminal, though it's likely he simply wanted money)
• Samantha Malcolm - 3 People, death via drug paralysis (Due to delusions and her father sexually abusing her, she would abduct petite women, paralyze them with drugs, and dress them up to look like dolls. When they eventually died from the drugs, she would leave their bodies somewhere in public)
• William Hodges (Possibly an alias) - 3 People, strangulation or bludgeoning (He was a narcissistic con-artist who created so many fake names and life's for himself that he resorted to violence in order to free himself)
• Anita Roycewood - 9 People, live cremation (No reason given)
• Roger Roycewood - 9 People by Proxy, live cremation (No reason given)
• Wade Hatchett - 11 People, strangulation (He was determined to find a mother for his daughter, so he abducted women and would ask them questions such as if they wanted children or were religious. If they gave an answer that he did not like, he killed them)
• John Vincent Bell - 17 People, usually shooting (He loved the thrill of the fight and would force a father to fight several homeless people; he killed whoever lost)
• Two Unnamed Child Killers - 6 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• Ronald Boyd/Santa Muerte - 43 People, slashing, stabbing and shooting (He was a racist killer cop who killed illegal immigrants when they attempted to enter the country. He also killed the sheriff when she was beginning to suspect him and eventually devolved into massacring an entire gang with a shotgun in broad daylight)
• Robert Matthew Burke - 9 People, strangulation (Sexual sadism)
• Owen Porter - 5 People, shooting or stabbing (Psychopathy and severe abandonment issues, causing him to start killing people who wanted to leave town)
• Robert Johnson/The Internet Killer - 4 People, strangulation (He had a sexual addiction and would kill women while live-streaming the murder online, and would hang the bodies in a walk-in freezer on meat hooks)
• Billy Flynn/The Prince of Darkness - 216 People, usually shooting (He had severe psychological issues caused by sexual abuse. He would go on to kill women while leaving a witness so that they to would share his past trauma)
• Lee Mullens/The Butcher - 24 People, stabbing preceded by torture (Sadism in the 1980s and 1990s, wanting to relive the glory days with his son Colby after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2010)
• Colby Bachner - 3 People, copying his father (He shared similar traits to his father; mainly wanted to help him relive his glory days)
• James Thomas - 15 People, shooting and stabbing (Misandry; also wanting to feel powerful after his prostate was removed, causing him to become impotent in the process)
• Kaman Scott - 8 People, burning alive (Revenge against his partner in crime, Tommy, after he caused him to become disfigured from an explosion, later he simply burned people who he felt had wronged him in some way on Devil's Night)
• Michael Kosina - 5 People, beating and strangulation (He led a rapist group called "The Brotherhood" and later began killing people himself without the others knowing)
• Shane Wyland - 12 People, unspecified method (Pedophilia/hebephilia, no reason given for killing)
• Charles Beauchamp/The Redmond Ripper - 25 People, unspecified method (No reason given)
• Drew Jacobs - 4 People, garroting (He craves power and control and gets off on how risky his kills are)
• James Stanworth - 3 People, stabbing (Psychopathic satisfaction)
• Hollis Walker, Jr. - 4 People, various methods (Fame and a desire to be noticed by his father after suffering an abusive and neglectful childhood)
• Ian Doyle/Valhalla - 7 People, usually shooting (Terrorism, later revenge against those who took his soon away from him)
• Steve - 4 People, drowning in methanol (No reason given, though it may have had something to do with a specific smell that sets him off)
• Greg Phinney/The Co-Ed Killer - 6 People, stabbing (Killing surrogates for his step-mother, who he hated for reasons unclear)
• Robert Bremmer - 6 People, usually stabbing preceded by rape and torture (Sexual sadism and a god-complex)
• Blake Wells - 14 People, usually stabbing (Sadism caused by his father severe abuse)
• Ben Bradstone - 23 People, stabbing preceded by rape and torture (Mental disability caused by being born with a lack of oxygen to the brain and a damaged frontal lobe, he also displayed sadistic and sociopathic traits)
• Robert Adams - 3 People, bombing or beating (Boiling rage cause by another student stealing his credit after he looked a school shooter in the eye during an attack, and resentful he was never able to make anything of himself)
• Chase Whitaker - 6 People, usually drowning (He was diagnosed with lymphoma and wanted to know if there was anything after death. He would drown people, then revive them and ask what they saw. He would keep doing this until he was unable to revive the victim)
• Travis James - 3 People, bludgeoning (After a tornado destroyed the cemetery his brother was buried in, he began killing teenage runaways who looked like his brother during tornado's. He would keep some of their body parts in order to "recreate" his brother by stitching the pieces together)
• Caleb Rossmore - 6 People, copying the Zodiac (He wanted to feel special and held a grudge against a specific woman, causing him to start killing women who looked like and the men that they were with)
• Michael Janeczko - 7 People, various methods (He believed that by killing emotionally distraught men, he was putting them out of their misery)
• Trevor Mills - 17 People, shooting (Racism and his belief that Clark Preston would be a much better mayor then Steve Wennington. In an effort to support Clark's campaign, he killed white families and framed their deaths on ethnic minorities who he also killed)
• Jeffrey Collins - 4 People, stabbing (Being paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident, his parents brought him prostitutes in an effort to make him happier. Jeffery ended up killing his first victim in a fit of rage, which his parents knew about, but decided to help him by disposing of the body and other evidence)
• James Heathridge - 4 People, usually nicotine poisoning (He was delusional and lived in a fantasy world where he believed he was working on behalf of Satan)
• Rodney Baines Garret - 27 People, stabbing (No reason given)
• Dylan Kohler - 4 People, copying Rodney Garret (He fell in love with Rodney's wife Helen and viewed Rodney as an enemy, going as far as to use his job as a prison shuttle driver to hire inmates to kill him, which failed. After Rodney's execution and discovering the Helen wore a wig, he began killing women in the same way Rodney did in order to take their hair and create "the perfect wig")
• Thomas Yates/The Womb Raider - 104 People, stabbing and disembowelment (Due to his abusive mother, he wished that he had never been born and began brutally killing women. After being caught, he gave up the names of 40 victims that hadn't been discovered yet and offered Agent David Rossi, who had been hunting him for years, a deal: every year on Rossi's birthday, he visits Thomas and is given the name and location of another victim)
• John Myers/The Silencer - 8 People, beating or asphyxiation (He was enraged after receiving a surgery against his will that fixed his hearing, but caused an annoying buzzing sound constantly. He eventually snapped and killed his mother, who forced him to do the surgery, and sewed her mouth shut afterwards. He continued to do this to people who looked like his mother and later anyone who annoyed him in some way)
• John Curtis/The Replicator - 6 People, usually copying various other killers (He deeply resented Erin Strauss and the BAU due to him being demoted from his position due to Strauss' actions and being viewed as "undesirable" by his new co-workers. He began stalking the BAU after being transferred to D.C field office and killing people in the same way the killers the BAU had just caught)
• Jason Nelson - 4 People, dismemberment preceded by rape (pedophilia and psychopathy)
• Arthur Rykov - 5 People, shooting (He fantasied about having the "perfect family" and after resizing the family he was stalking was not perfect, he abducted and punished them. He tried to do this again later on, but was stopped)
• John Nelson - 3 People, death by botched surgery (His wife lost her leg due to hypoplasia, so he started experimenting with leg amputation, believing, due to his God Complex, that he could attach a foreign leg to someone and it would eventually give the person the ability to walk normally, despite this being medically impossible)
• Emma Kerrigan - 4 People, usually decapitation and dismemberment (Because she was a hypochondriac due to scleroderma and her mental issues, she would only eat food that she grew. When her husband died, his ashes were spread on her garden and her scleroderma was later cured. She believed that eating the food from the garden where her husbands ashes were spread cured her, so she began killing men by force-feeding them soil, chopping up their bodies with a wood chipper, then burying them in her garden)
• Rudy Stein - 4 People, bludgeoning (No reason given)
• David Roy Turner - 3 People, usually copying Rudy Stein (Thrill and ephebophilia)
• Chad Mills - 4 People, stabbing or drowning in bleach (He blamed homeless people for preventing him from becoming "someone important" and viewed them as being a virus to the city, due to him getting sick when he came into close contact with one while rescuing them from a fire)
• Adam Rain - 3 People, usually hanging (Due to serious brain damage, when he woke up from a coma, he had reverted to a child-like state. During his childhood, he watched a robber kill his father during a robbery. Adam called on his marionette puppets, Mitch and Stephanie, to do something, not realizing that they were not real and could do nothing. As a result of the trauma and brain damage, he began attempting to turn people into marionette puppets so he could recreate his fathers murder and give it the ending he wanted)
• Russel Smith - 8 People, impalement (Sexual sadism)
• Willie Kestler - 5 People, hammering or shooting (He was born at the same time Russel Smith died, leading his maternal grandfather to believe he had the soul of the Devil inside him and would severely abuse him. Willie eventually began to believe this too, and became an avid researcher of reincarnation. Believing that he was Russel Smith reincarnated, he began killing women he thought were the reincarnated forms of the prostitutes Russel killed)
• Bryan Hughes - 6 People, usually exsanguination (He suffered from hemophilia, meaning he was more susceptible to serious injury, which made him fascinated with blood and eventually he became turned on by it. Combined with him feeling neglected by society, he began killing people and using their blood to make paintings, his true passion, and leaving the bodies in front of neglected or under-appreciated works of art)
• Paul Westin - 6 People, various methods (He was suffering from an identity crises and could neither accept nor repress his same-sex urges. Immediately after copulation, a man's serotonin levels drop, creating a high, and that rapid change can manifest itself into extreme depression and low self-esteem. Combined with the apparent belief that acting out on his attraction towards other men is wrong, this state causes Paul to lash out violently at the men he is with)
• Jack Lee Kemper - 4 People, unspecified method (No reason given)
• Donnie Bidwell - 3 People, copying Bryan Hughes (Revenge against the BAU and everyone else who ruined his life. This made his susceptible to John Curtis, who had him kill people in the same way as Bryan Hughes)
• Mark Jackson - 8 People, usually stabbing (Misogyny caused by his mother protecting his abusive father by telling Social Services that Mark, who had called them and told them about the abuse, made up everything)
• Tory Chapman - 4 People, shooting and post-mortem decapitation (While spending the night in a jail cell for vandalism, Tory overheard Leanne Tipton accusing her boyfriend Wade of raping her. Wanting to protect the reputation of Bronson Springs, the town they lived in, Wade's father covered it up, causing Tory to lash out and kill Wade. Years later, after Wade's head was discovered, he returned to Bronson Springs in order to avenge Leanne, who had since become his wife)
• Jonathan Ray Covey/The Nanny Killer - 5 People, drowning preceded by rape and torture (After his sister drowned due to her negligent nanny, Jonathan became desperate for revenge. However, after the nanny died of breast cancer, he started killing other nanny's as a replacement)
• Wallace Hines - 8 People, shooting preceded by rape and torture (He was delusional and sadistic and had a morbid fascination with the Praying Mantis. The female Praying Mantis kills and decapitates the male shortly after copulation, then eats his head. As a result of his delusions and obsession, he began killing women that looked like his first victim, Heather, and would force-feed his victims pieces of Heather's head)
• Colin Bramwell - 9 People, shooting (He was an expert sniper with a God-Complex that who derived pleasure from determining people's fates without them even seeing him. He also killed people for profit by working as a hit man)
• Leland Duncan - 4 People, various methods based on the Salem Witch Trials (He was raised by descendants of a 17th-century magistrate and after his adoptive parents died, it triggered the delusion that he had to continue the family legacy and execute "witches")
• Tanner Johnson - 6 People, usually strangulation (Delusional and desperate to prove to his ex-wife, who had gotten pregnant with another man, that he was not weak, he began killing people he saw as a bad influence on the tenants of the apartment she lived in)
• Charles Johnson - 4 People, beating and post-mortem genital mutilation (He wanted revenge against the men, who were part of the KKK, who castrated him and made it impossible for him to have a big family. After he killed two of them and mutilated their genitals, he discovered that they had daughters and killed them too)
• Ronald James Underwood - 6 People, usually beating (He wanted revenge against the bullies who he was too weak to stand up to in high school, and the teachers who did nothing to stop the bullies)
• Sam Russell - 4 People, strangulation (No reason given)
• John Nichols - 7 People, stabbing or copying Sam Russell (No reason given for killing in 20004, later wanted to prove that his partner, Sam, was not guilty of the murders he was charged for by copying his M.O.)
• Alan Anderson/The Crestview Rapist - 18 People, stabbing preceded by rape (without Judith) strangulation (with Judith) (Sexual sadism)
• Marvin Caul/The Doctor - 1 Person directly, 3 People indirectly, unspecified method for Carrie Bailey, drowning or strangulation by proxy (He hypnotized Cesar Jones into committing the murders, and making him believe that he was powerful being called "The Doctor". He killed Carrie Bailey in a fit of rage when she tried to leave him)
• Cesar Jones - 3 People while hypnotized, drowning or strangulation He was hypnotized by Marvin Caul into committing the murders. Prior to this, he was a convict who assaulted 20 people due to having a bad temper)
• David Wade Cunningham - 4 People, induced cardiac arrest after infecting them with rabies (he developed psychotic tendencies after seeing his brother get infected with rabies and eventually die. He infected a man with rabies using an unknown animal, them used the man to infect another person, and so on)
• Joe Bachner - 5 People, stabbing (He suffered severe abuse during his childhood and was deprived of revenge when his aunt died of cardiac arrest. He instead set his sights on Daria Samsen, who was a medical student and therefore reminded him of his aunt. She eventually became totally obedient to him after he abducted and raped her for months and he eventually started abducting random people, which Daria helped torture)
• "The Mountain Man" - 4 people, various methods (Being the result of a secret relationship, he was rejected by his mother, who gave him to an unidentified woman in the woods. She taught him how to hunt but kept him away form other people because, as the woman claimed, no one would understand him due to his deformity. As the woman was on her deathbed from cancer, she revealed the truth about his parents to him, and confused as to why they would abandon him, he formulated a plan to get their attention by using his hunting skills killing their family members)
• Owen McGregor - 10 People, shooting (He was a corrupt police officer who ran a trafficking ring, When one of their offences was witnessed by several prostitutes, he began systematically killing them)
• Steven Parkett/The Mad Butcher of Bakersfield - 3 People, dismemberment and decapitation (He was abused by his schizophrenic and alcoholic father when he was young, causing him to become introverted and have difficulty talking to people. He began stalking a woman until she got a restraining order against him, and when she began dating someone, he snapped and killed her and her lover. He later decided to keep killing when he began to enjoy the media attention he got form the brutality of his crimes, purchasing another victim for a human trafficking ring)
• Justin Leu - 6 People, various methods (Due to his abusive father who led his brother to committing suicide, he began killing parental figures in order to satisfy his need for revenge and punishment. He would murder his victims in ways that mirrored the punishments received by sinners in Dante's Inferno, even though the victims themselves did not commit the sins; they were all symbolic of his father)
• Claire Dunbar - 4 People, stabbing (Due to being abandoned and all of the apparent abuse she had suffered, her mind became increasingly unstable, which was likely inherited from her mentally unbalanced mother, and she began developing a childlike delusion in which she was Cinderella. While on a date one night, she realized that her date was lying about himself and was using her, causing her to angrily stab him to death. After this, her mind continued to break down as she sought to find her Prince Charming and killing any man who didn't meet her standards)
• William Pratt/The Mirror Man/The Selfie Killer - 3 People, slashing or shooting with a nail gun (He was delusional and obsessed with the Creepypasta character "The Mirror Man", which he helped create, so he began as series of killings based on it in order for it to gain more popularity)
• Donald Allen Mallick - 5 People, usually strangulation or shooting (Originally, he was determined to find a woman who was perfect for him, and killed the ones that didn't meet his standards. When he did find the ideal woman, he stopped killing for over three decades. After she died of cancer, however, he began searching again. He also killed former federal agent Jason Gideon out of fear of him catching him)
• Patrick Butler - 5 People, usually shanking (He was forced to participate in a prison "fight club" started by the corrupt guards, during which he killed 4 people. Prior to this, he killed another inmate on his own for unknown reasons and was a bank robber who used a toy gun in his robberies)
• Patrick Jon Murphy - 7 People, strangulation (He had a brutal erotic asphyxiation fetish and started killing women for fun due to being unsatisfied in his marriage)
• Jerry Tidwell - 12 People, strangulation preceded by torturing the fathers (He despised his family, mainly his father, and would kill other families as surrogates for them)
• Danny Lee Stokes - 9 People, beating and shooting (He was a schizophrenic who lost his mother in a burglary gone wrong. This led him to stop taking his medication and become an alcoholic. Believing that the ex-husband of one of his mothers tenants was responsible, he sought revenge. When he was unable to find him, not knowing he was in prison, he instead killed his ex-wife and her daughter in a fit of rage. Feeling guilty, he began seeing visions of them telling him to keep searching and to kill anyone who he saw as acting "immoral")
• Giuseppe Montolo - 8 People, induced cardiac arrest (After a traumatic childhood, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his father, Chazz, and become a professional hit man. He would make his victim look as if they had died of a heart attack. After being injured by another hit man, he became enraged realizing that one of his clients betrayed him and began killing his former clients to figure out who put the hit out on him)
• Archie Sutton/The Truck Stop Strangler - 3 People, strangulation (No reason given)
• Dana Seavers - 3 People, strangulation or blunt force head trauma (She was delusional and obsessed with a wedding photographer named Ryan, causing her to start killing brides-to-be, believing them to be a threat to her and Ryan's future)
• Benjamin Wade - 5 People, shooting (No reason given for using methamphetamine or becoming a criminal, though it's likely he simply enjoyed it, since he would rape women during the crimes)
• William Duke Mason - 7 People, beating and shooting, post-mortem burning (Due to apparent anger problems and using methamphetamine, he adopted the biker lifestyle after meeting Benjamin Wade, and went on crime sprees with him. Later he met Lester Turner while in prison and continued his spree with him while Benjamin was serving a longer sentence. He was also an ephebophile and had a relationship and a son with a girl named Tammy, with whom he wanted to have a real family)
• Lester Turner - 6 People, beating and shooting (He simply enjoyed raping and killing people for money)
• Leonard Ennis - 14 People, unspecified method (No reason given)
• William Cochran - 4 People, various methods (Due to underlying mental issues, he wanted revenge against Ellen Clark for supposedly insulting the memory of their son by leaving half of his blanket at one of her pieces of graffiti art. He would kill people in various exaggerated ways, including crushing a man with a giant mouse trap, in an effort to ruin the reputation of Ellen's alter-ego, Morpheus, who was known for making graffiti aft relating to current social issues)
• Matthew Franks - 3 People, stabbing (His fetish for cheerleaders spiralled out of control due to his psychopathic tendencies and would stab women who didn't live up to his fantasy)
• Jacob DuFour - 7 People, strangulation, post-mortem face removal (He suffered from severe mental illness and would stage his killings as drug related murder)
• Robert Boles - 5 People, various methods (He was delusional and believed that he could extend a human's life span by injecting them with the DNA of various animals known for living a long time and human blood. The victims would die from either exsanguination from him draining their blood or being injected with his formula)
• Catherine Adams/Miss .45/The Black Widow Killer - 204 People, shooting (She developed psychopathic tendencies after being abused by her father, resulting in her eventually joining a hit man network and would kill for money. The only times she betrayed her clients was when she was hired by men to kill their wives, since they reminded her of her father. After she was caught, she was determined to take down Spencer Reid, the only man who ever outsmarted her. On one occasion, she created an elaborate scheme to frame him for murder and try to get him locked up in prison, and on another she tried to ruin his relationship with his girlfriend by convincing her Reid was in love with her)
• Zac Rubenis/The Sniper - 10 People, shooting (No reason given, though he was most likely in it for the money)
• Barry Plyman/The Chemist - 10 People, poisoning (No reason given, though he was most likely in it for the money)
• Sharon Mayford/The Bomber - 181 People, bombing (No reason given, though she was most likely in it for the money)
• James O'Neill/The Beantown Beheader - 3 People, decapitation (He became easily upset by what he considers the unfairness of his life and easily holds on to grudges sparked by even slights, which he magnifies out of proportion. This was caused by constant abuse and being put on the "Wall of Shame" at the private school he went to)
• Flora Martin - 7 People, unspecified method (She wanted revenge against the truck driver who raped her, and would kill truck drivers that looked like him in an effort to find him)
• Randy Jacobs - 3 People, stabbing preceded by strangulation (He was mentally disturbed and began killing people in an effort to reconnect with his mother, Flora, possibly copying her M.O.)
• Patrick Sorenson - 4 People, various methods (He suffered a psychotic breakdown following the death of his mother, who was passed out drunk while he was abducted and raped by a pedophile. He began taking his anger out on mothers as surrogates, leaving hour-glasses at the crime scenes due to the pedophile who abducted him telling him that he would be killed if he cried before the sand in his hour-glass ran out)
• Chazz Montolo - 5 People, killed 5 people in a bank fire so he could stage his death, presumably more victims prior to this (He was a narcissistic psychopath who wanted revenge against Derek Morgan, blaming him for the death of his son, Giuseppe)
• Michael Lee Peterson - 9 People, usually shooting (He was a narcissistic copycat killer who developed a deep fascination with serial murder, a passion for extreme thrill-seeking, and a desire to gain the respect his father never had)
• Joseph Berzon - 3 People, death by botched surgery, post-mortem face mutilation (He was delusional and developed an attraction to women with disfigured faces after his mother was disfigured in a car accident. He snapped and suffered a psychotic break after his girlfriend, Sarah, who had a tumor on the right side of her face, committed suicide via drowning herself in her parents pool. He would abduct women and attempt to make their faces look like Sarah's, but they would end up dying during the operation)
• Antonia Slade/The Runaway Killer - 9 People, shooting (She was full of self-loathing and every time she killed one of her victims, she was really imagining killing herself or her boyfriend for lacking discipline. This was caused by her father severely disciplining her when she disobeyed him)
• Earl Roy Everton - 3 People, unknown method (No reason given)
• Daniel James Cullen/The Crimson King - 3 People, death by exposure (No reason given, though it is possible revenge was involved)
• John David Bates Jr. - 5 People, arson using lighter fluid (Psychopathy and pyromania, as well as the rejection that sent him over the edge)
• Stuart Barker - 4 People, usually drowning in concrete following a lobotomy (He snapped after discovering the woman he was infatuated with was actually his mother and that he was the result of her hyper sexuality. Following this, he developed a delusion that all mothers were just as hyper sexual as she was and he needed to literally turn them off by lobotomising them. He drowned them in concrete when his experiments failed)
• Cormac Burton - 8 People, stabbing and slashing (He and his brother was abused by his father, two of the most common methods being to forcing them to wear dog muzzle's and taking them to watch his father butcher pigs. All of this trauma warped Cormac's mind and led him to start killing men who reminded him of his father along the nearby Appalachian Trail)
• Kyle Ecklund - 7 People, usually shooting (After an abusive childhood and being bullied at school for years, he plotted a revenge scheme against the bullies: he killed the bullies families in order to traumatise them)
• Kevin Decker - 13 People, stabbing (After being severely abused by his religious father, he suffered a psychotic break and began killing women who he viewed as nothing more than loose and amoral prostitutes)
• Ezekiel Reginald Daniels - 6 People, shooting (He developed violent tendencies after being abused during his childhood and embarked on a cross-country burglary spree with several other people, later beginning to kill the homeowners after being manipulated by his lover, Bea)
• Bryce Jarvis - 7 People directly, 3 people indirectly, formerly strangulation, later enforced suicide (He suffered a psychotic break after his parents were incarcerated, resulting in him in strangling 6 women over a 3 year period. After his parents were killed in a sinkhole, he suffered another psychotic break, resulting in him offering sacrifices to Satan by forcing people to commit suicide after branding them with a symbol of Ophiuchus. His last direct murder was incidental; the wife of a victim saw the ordeal and he had to silence her)
• Daniel Allen White/The Bone Crusher - 4 People, usually exsanguination via crushing (He had psychopathic feelings and enjoyed breaking women's bones)
• Trey Gordon/The Day/Night Killer - 8 People, shooting while awake, stabbing while sleep walking (He was raised by his father, who was a poacher who took Trey with him whenever he went to visit a brothel. One night, he was molested by a prostitute while his father was busy in another room. When his father died, he began shooting men in the woods as surrogates for his father. However, unconsciously, this was not enough for him, and while sleepwalking, he began returning to the places the brothels used to be and killing anyone present in the now suburban homes)
• John Malone - 24 People, blunt-force head trauma (He suffered from xeroderma pigmentosum, which caused his skin to burn every time he was exposed to light, akin to a vampire. As a result, he was disowned by his parents and sent to live with his uncle, a Vietnam War veteran named Doug Jones who bonded with him. After he passed away, John developed a delusion that drinking the blood of women would cure his disease, so he would take them to the sewers and drain their blood. When the woman attempted to climb out of the sewer, they would fall due to disorientation form the blood loss, killing them)
• Ben Davis - 5 People, electrocution preceded by torture (He was cheated out of a successful future when another student, who ended up wasting the scholarship, got a scholarship while Ben was left with a dead end life. When he discovered the other student flunked out of university, he snapped and plotted a revenge scheme against Joey, killing other overachievers in order to build of confidence)
• Sara McLean - 4 People, radiation poisoning (She was a psychopath who devised a scheme to collect the insurance money of her husband Alex, who she had taken out a $5 million life insurance policy for. Sara stockpiled stolen radioactive materials that she had access to thanks to her job as a nurse who worked in the nuclear medical departments of fifteen different hospitals. She was able to escape detection by switching jobs frequently, not stealing from some of the hospitals she worked in, and hacking into the inventory logs of at least five of her workplaces to alter their content. She uses these materials to kill several random employees of federal government offices. before getting to her husband, in order to make it look like the work of Russian assassins)
• "Lindsey Vaughn" - 19 People, shooting (She was a hit woman who had followed in her fathers footsteps after leaving witness protection. She eventually began working with Cat Adams in an effort to ruin Spencer Reid's life by framing him for murder)
• William Lynch - 4 People, strangulation (He had several mental and abandonment issues caused by his father never being in his life, his grandfather being abusive, and his mother supposedly leaving the family. In reality, his mother was killed by his grandma in a fit of rage, but William repressed the memory. After his grandma died, William was pushed over the edge, and started killing women as surrogates for his mother)
• Gabriel Merza - 5 People, usually fatal emasculation (No reason given for becoming a hit man, killed his wife to stop her from telling the authorities about his profession, killed the men his daughter was sleeping with to remove any other men in her life)
• Jake Logan - 379 People, shooting or bombing via drone (Because of his fondness for first-person shooter games, he joined the military so he could assist in creating a drone that would be used to bomb certain areas. Jake became disturbed by killing real people instead of video game characters, and when he heard his co-workers referring to the bombings as "cutting the grass". Things took a disastrous turn when Jake mistakenly bombed an elementary school that Peakstone intelligence had indicated was an insurgent training camp in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, killing 372 children under the age of twelve, although Jake was apparently not aware of this at the time. This was covered up by the company, and Jake only found out what really happened after he was dismissed. He then set out to get revenge on the other coders who made him into a murderer, and the recruiter who he blamed for turning him into a murderer)
• Jeffrey Whitfiled/The Neon Terror - 9 People, shooting (After witnessing the murder of his babysitter at the age of six, he was bombarded with media attention since the incident was highly publicized. When he got older, he began to miss the fame he got from the incident, and after the death of his parents, he felt as though no one remembered him. He then decided to start killing people in a similar manor to the murder of his babysitter so that he could be remembered once again. The nickname comes from the fact that many of the killings were done near neon signs)
• Jess Carney - 5 People, usually drowning (After the death of his close friend Leland, who he was very close to and would commonly pretend to be pirates with, he felt as though he had broken the blood oath the two had taken, and began to fall into a downward spiral. He exhibited violent behavior which eventually resulted in him being institutionalized. After being released and a drought feel over his home town, skeletons of previous towns people who drowned began to be uncovered, which triggered the delusion that he was a pirate that had to add to buried "treasure" underneath the lake. He began killing residents of his town and tossing their belongings into the lake as offerings)
• Mitchell McCord/The Central Park Ripper - 5 People, throat tearing (He was deeply hurt by his wife blaming him for the death of his son, who had been killed in a mugging incident during a full moon while he tried to protect his mother, while Mitch stood back in shock. His wife said a real man would have protected the family and that she wished he had died instead. He began taking drugs to numb the pain, but the drugs induced psychosis in Mitch and caused him to have delusions. The result was clinical lycanthropy, a rare but recognized condition in which the affected person believes that he/she can transform into an animal, in Mitch's case, a wolf)
• Rafael Taveral/The Cure - 4 People, slashing or stabbing (He felt extreme resentment towards his father, who he rightfully felt should have more sympathy for his wife, who was suffering from cancer. Combined with his fathers previous affair, he devised a plan to kill him but cover up the fact that he was his true target. He killed other businessmen as surrogates for his father in order to make it look as if the killer had simply been targeting businessmen, not a specific target)
• Kevon Winters - 13 People, various methods (After his mother died due to the black mold in the apartment she lived in which was caused by flooding and the apartments owner, Walter Trudeau, ignoring the issue, he began killing other people who had similar ailments to his mother. Eventually, after the bodies of his victims were discovered in a crypt, he went after Walter himself and attempted to get his revenge)
• Justin Franco - 5 People, stabbing or suffocation (He was obsessed with a woman who had six roommates, and began killing them as he saw them as a threat to his relationship with her. He later staged it to look like another roommate was responsible for the killings and made it look like he died of an overdose, but he actually suffocated him with a plastic bag)
• Kevin Peck - 4 People, usually shooting (He killed high-end call girls who looked like his first victim: his step-sister Tracy Ferguson, who he killed via injecting her with a fatal dose of heroin after she rejected him)
• Sal Capilano - 4 People, beating (He was a thrill-seeking robber who was heavily abused by his alcoholic father. The first man he killed reminded him of his father, which triggered the rest of his killings)
• Cheryl Kaline - 5 People, stabbing (She was desperate and psychotic and wanted to win back her husbands love by killing all the other women he had been sleeping with. When he still rejected her, she tortured and killed him)
• Mark Henshaw - 12 People, poisoning (After his parents passed away, the restaurant they owned was closed due to less customers coming in. The deaths of his parents and the perceived betrayal by the former customers of his family's restaurant caused Mark to snap and start killing people with rat poison, which he had already been buying for the restaurant to kill any rats that got into it)
• Caleb Sands - 4 People, drilling (His wife suffered from the phenomenon known as "The Hum", which caused her to hear a low-pitched ringing sound only she could hear. Not being able to take it anymore, she committed suicide by drilling into the area in her brain the caused the sound. When Sands found his wife's body, the trauma caused him to have a delusion in which he began hearing the Hum as well. When he learned a local hobbyist was selling Hum-cancelling boxes, he bought one from him. After realizing the box would not work, he snapped, went to the hobbyists home and killed him in the same manner Sarah killed herself. He then began desperately trying to figure out where the Hum came form, and started killing people in a fit of rage when they could not help him)
• Benjamin David Merva/The Strangler/The Messiah - 299 People, strangulation (He was a cult leader who would murder people as sacrifices, removing people's hyoid bones before strangling them)
• Karl Elgin - 10 People, usually poisoning (He killed women who looked like their daughter, LeeAnne, who ran away from him and his wife due to their controlling parenting. He also killed the father of their daughters son, Steven Millburn, and his parents and staged it to look like a murder-suicide)
• Dorothy Elgin - 5 People, poisoning (She killed women who looked like their daughter, LeeAnne, who ran away from her and her husband due to their controlling parenting)
• "The Varnville Unsub" - 3 People, blunt-force trauma, live preservation (He was the result of a secret relationship between LeeAnne Elgin and Steven Millburn, the former of which abandoned him with Steven before running away, attempting to escape her parents Karl and Dorothy. He was then raised by Karl and Dorothy, who killed women as surrogates for LeeAnne, which evidently lead to mental issues and he eventually continued to kill after his grandparents were caught)
• Jacob Wallace - 3 People, usually blunt-force head trauma (He had a violent impulse and would pick fights with other students at school. When he attempted to discover the truth about his family, he discovered he was born from his mothers affair with another man. This caused him to snap and start killing his family in a fit of rage)
• Eduardo Ramos - 53 People, shooting preceded by forcing his victims to drink bleach (He was an extremely dangerous hit man, due to his complete lack of any moral code. He did not care who his target was, he would kill them without any remorse or afterthought. He was possibly sadistic as well, as her forced his victims to drink bleach before killing them. It is also possible it was simply done to bring even more fear to his name. No reason is ever given for him being this way)
• Jeremy Grant - 7 People, copying Eduardo Ramos (After Eduardo Ramos discovered that he was involved in his capture, he got his revenge by killing his entire family. The discovery of the bodies caused Jeremy to psychologically break and start killing all members of the cartel Eduardo was a part of)
• Jordan Halloran - 7 People, shooting (After giving birth to a girl, Jordan's wife Becky left him due to his increasingly abusive nature and put their daughter, whom she named Ashley, up for adoption on the condition that Jordan did not learn where Ashley ended up. Enraged, he eventually snapped and started targeting eight-year-old girls who were adopted by couples who were having marriage problems. He would kill the parents, kidnap the girl, then force her to act as if she was his real daughter)
• Douglas Knight - 40 People, usually overdosing on opioids (In 2013, his wife Daphne died as a result of a heroin overdose. This motivated Knight to start working at rehab centers to prevent the addicts he wanted to help from ending up like his wife. When he realized the help he was doing was not helping cure the rehab patients of their addictions, he snapped and decided to kill them instead, believing he was doing them a service)
• Dustin Eisworth - 6 People, usually stabbing (He was a visually impaired psychopath who become increasingly more violent when he was subjected to abuse from his parents when they attempted to cure his fear of the dark by locking him in a dark room and telling him he had to "toughen up". Later in life, after numerous offences and spending a long time in prison, he started killing people who were connected to him in some way, either directly or indirectly)
• Everett Lynch/The Chameleon - 26 People directly, 5 people indirectly, usually strangulation and post-mortem face removal (When Everett was a child, he aided his mother Roberta in conning men whom she would get to marry her to get their money by having him pretend to be a "blubbering seven-year-old" living on the street with his mother. His mother's cons not only caused him to develop a narcissistic personality, but made him unable to form an identity of his own. He also became a misogynist when his mother almost caused his daughter, grace, to drown in the bathtub. As an adult, he would con people in a similar manor to his mother, with one key difference: he killed the women he was with and removed their faces post-mortem)
• Stephanie Carter - 6 People, stabbing (She was delusional and believed that her husband was haunted by ghosts, resulting in her killing him by stabbing him in the stomach 22 times. She later continued killing people who lived in supposedly haunted houses in order to "exorcise" them from evil spirits)
• Sebastian Hurst - 3 People, asphyxiation, post-mortem torso skin removal (He developed a fetish for torso skin after suffering a disfiguring injury during his childhood. Through unknown means, Everett Lynch, who would cut off his victims face's, pushed Hurst over the edge and he began killing men and wearing their torso skin)
• Shelby Mattson - 3 People, bombing (He developed his fathers violent nature which resulted in him being in and out of prison. His mother was also murdered by an unnamed serial killer, and, feeling guilty that he couldn't protect her, he planted flowers in the front yard of the killers home. After witnessing a tourist step on the flowers, he snapped and decided to get his revenge on all the tourists who were a part of the group by sending letter bombs to their family members)
• George Kyle Peters - 6 People, decapitation (His son was decapitated in a car accident, which deeply affected him. Unable to get over his son's death, he began developing delusions where he was in a parallel universe and hoped to find a way to get him back. However, this also caused him to hallucinate a goat-like creature, "Rusty", who demands seven sacrifices in exchange for the return of his lost child)
• "The Beaumont Unsub" - 6 People, stabbing or strangulation, post-mortem ear, tongue and left hand removal (After his mother's death, the unsub began murdering prominent Beaumont men, and attempting to "rescue" young women in what he perceived to be bad situations, murdering any who refused his help)

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

• Antonio Cayetan - 3 People, throat slashing, post-mortem removal and consumption of hands, feet, and heart (After his wife was killed in a car accident caused by tourists, he developed a delusion that he was a Aztec warrior raising children with multiple wives. As a result, Cayetan began abducting tourist couples; killing the husbands; canonicalizing their hearts, hands, and feet; and keeping the wives for himself)
• Rafael Acosta - 7 People, stabbing (He murdered the eldest sons of families who were vacationing in Mexico as surrogates for another boy named Bryant Holt, who was in a church with Rafael's son during an earthquake. Rafael's son died, but Holt survived, which enraged Rafael and made him believe he had been forsaken by God)
• Curtis Miller - 3 People, drug overdose (He wanted revenge against the people who murdered his sister, and went about it by killing their children)
• Xavi Alonso - 5 People, spinal cord severing preceded by torture (He was part of a family of bull breeders who snapped due to the family businesses falling into ruin and his damaged social status. He, along with his son Simon, tortured and killed tourists who were chosen because they violated the rules of the Running of the Bulls)
• Simon Alonso - 5 People, spinal cord severing preceded by torture (He was extremely loyal to his father, so when he began a series of serial killings, he assisted him in the murders. He would also leave their victims' ears near Pamplona landmarks. He did feel some guilt for his crimes, however, and confessed to the murders to a priest under the Seal of Confession)
• Dominico Scarpa/The Monster of Florence - 14-16 People, shooting (He was enraged by feelings of temptation towards women due to him being catholic, resulting in him killing couples and severely mutilating the women's bodies. Later on, he instructed his son to continue his legacy after his death by killing the same way he did) Note: The Monster of Florence is a real unidentified serial killer. Dominico is a fictional version of him)
• Onario Alighieri - 5 People, usually copying his father, Dominico Scarpa (Due to his abusive grandmother, he developed violent and murderous impulses. Hoping to understand these urges after his grandmother's death, he sought out his father, who revealed he was a serial killer and convinced Onario to continue his legacy by killing people the same way he did)
• Su-bin Yoo - 3 People, throat slashing preceded by torture and mutilation (After being rejected by a wealthy and influential man named Geonwoo Lee due to his preference for Caucasian woman, she received plastic surgery in an attempt to make herself look more desirable to him. When he still rejected her, she got multiple more surgeries which resulted in her face becoming more and more disfigured. Finally, she snapped and began killing Caucasian women as surrogates for the ideal woman Geonwoo wanted)
• Michael Huang/The Vinegar Hill Slayer - 14 People, stabbing (After his sister committed suicide by stabbing herself in the heart, he snapped and convinced himself his mother's supposed neglect. He murdered women who resembled his mother in the same way his sister took her own life)
• Zion Andrews/The Sticker - 10 People, disembowelment (He became a member of his adoptive father's drug cartel and worked as a hit man for him. After refusing to kill a pregnant woman, his father took him to a secluded area and shot him in the head, then buried him. Zion survived, however, but not without severe brain damage. He then suffered a psychotic break and began hearing the voices of his earlier victims in his head, motivating him to kill random people and preform a Duppy ritual afterwards in hopes of getting rid of the voices)
• Damian Andrews - 7 People by Proxy, disembowelment (He was a cartel boss who ordered his son and presumably several others to kill their enemies)
• Ian Wilson - 8 People, mauling victims to death with his sharpened teeth and overgrown nails, post-mortem dismemberment and consumption (After suffering severe brain damage during an earthquake that claimed the lives of everyone in his tourist group, including his wife, he was reduced to a primal state and lived in a cave in the woods. Simply due to his primal instincts, he killed tourists or citizens of Nepal when they entered the woods. The locals attributed the killings and disappearances to the notorious legend of the Yeti, blaming the beast for Ian's crimes)
• Oleg Antakov/The Ripper of Riga - 10 People, various methods (He was a narcissistic sadist who found pleasure in inflicting pain on others because he couldn't feel anything himself, and the head interrogator of a secret Soviet Union torture base. No reason is given for him being this way)

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

• Davis Scolfield - 3 People, strangulation (Due to his violent temper problems, his wife took their daughter and ran away from him. He eventually caught up, however, and kidnapped and eventually killed their daughter. Feeling guilty, he buried her with a doll and set up a memorial for her. He then began kidnapping other girls of the exact same age and race as his daughter, hoping to have a new relationship with them. When it inevitably did not work out, he killed them too)
• Marcus Lee Graham - 3 people directly, 4 People indirectly, stabbing (Sadism; after his incarceration he manipulated a woman named Rachel Lancroft into killing people the same way he did)
• Rachel Lancroft - 4 People, copying Marcus Graham (She was manipulated by Marcus Graham into committing murders in the same way he did. Exactly why she was so submissive to him is unclear, though it may have had something to do with her being molested by her uncle when she was young)
• Margaret McKenna - 3 People, various methods preceded by staph infection (She suffered from Münchhausen by proxy; she would cause harm to others in order to get attention and recognition by treating them. She would induce staphylococcal ("staph" for short) infections in several patients. She would then write an anonymous letter to the hospital management about the increase in staph infections, planning to come forward once the information became publicly known and get recognized for "saving" the infected and preventing it from happening to more people. Unfortunately for her, the plan failed at all 6 hospitals she worked at, even more so at the sixth due to one of the patients dying from it. She then began killing people connected to the hospital according to the saying "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" in an attempt to raise awareness)
• Jason Wheeler - 8 People, usually shooting (He suffered from unstable behavior and rage issues, resulting in his father, who taught him marksmanship at an early age, to send letters to the Army, the Marine Corps, and the various private defense contractors he attempted to join, which eventually led Jason to killing his father. On the day of his father's memorial, he began shooting random people on the streets of Chicago. Prior to all of this, he killed a classmate while he was still in school as a show of skill)
• "The Butcher of Indianapolis" - 5 People, usually decapitation preceded by dismemberment (Infamy and sadism)
• Trevor Norris - 3 People, stabbing (He had a strong fetish for female breasts and after being rejected by a woman he was interested in, he assaulted her, mutilating her breast in the process. When he was released from juvenile detention, he began killing women with the help of his mentally unstable mother)
• Veronica Day - 6 People by Proxy, coerced teenage boys into killing their parents (Recreating the death other mother and narcissism)
• Clark Earle Page - 7 People, stabbing preceded by torture (He was a sadist who assisted Thomas Luca in the abduction of several women and girls to sell/auction off in human trafficking. He would also burn the inside of the woman's knee crease to denote days of "ownership")
• Rawlins - 59 People, various methods (Sadism and thrill)
• Richard Stahl - 58 People, various methods (He was the accomplice of Rawlins who suffered a troubled childhood and had a tendency to self-mutilate)

Criminal Minds: Evolution

• Elias Voit/Sicarius - 65 directly, 10 indirectly, various methods (sadism and to vent his anger directly, while his proxy victims were a mix of sadism and so could get police off his trail. Caused by his psychopathy and abuse inflicted on him by his uncle)
• Rory Gilcrest - 6 people, bludgeoning and then throat slashing (Targeted families, killing the parents so he could take the daughter to make the perfect family that he didn't have; originally, he failed)
• Gael and Jude Bruneau - 3 people, repeated stabbing (Brothers who replicated the murder of their mother by killing security guards in front of the homeowners on-camera, similar to how they watched their mother being killed by an intruder)
• Benjamin Reeves - 4 people, strangulation (Hatred towards his mother mixed with sexual sadism and a biting fetish. His mother coddled him and might have even sexually abused him, making him hate her and have an obsession with oral instincts that developed when he was a baby)
• Cyrus Lebrun - 7 people directly, 1 indirectly, various methods (Sexual sadism and control)
• Damien Booth - 16-18 people usually shooting (Murdered people involved with the Gold Star programs, whether it be accomplices or people hired to kill him and his friends. The torture inflicted on him made her vengeful to kill the people who abused him)
• Jade Waters - 13 people, usually bludgeoning (Same as Damien, except that she only killed accomplices and the ringleader instead. The torture and rape inflicted on her made her vengeful to kill the people who abused her)
• Kai Veneer - 5 people, suffocation with wrapping plastic (Wanted to punish neighborhoods by killing people, angry that he and his father didn't have a home)
• Roger Song - 4 people, acid (Murdered men that he believed gang-raped his wife, who he thought was still alive after she died in pregnancy. They were also killed as surrogates for himself when under a delusion, as he was an emotionally abusive husband)
• Frank Church - 19 people indirectly, 1 person directly, various indirectly, shooting directly (Manipulated Damien Booth and Jade Waters into killing people involved in torturing them, who were really accomplices that Church used to torture them instead; he killed directly after Dana Howe lost her use. Caused by his narcissism and partially because of his pedophilic tendencies to abuse girls)
• Franklin Fowler - 10 people, forced to go into the water until they drowned, and lastly, shooting (killed people to replicate how his father forced him to tread water despite him being asthmatic)
• Clyde Smets/The Zookeeper - 4 people, unknown before the series but used throat slashing on last victim (sexual sadism and control after being locked inside a cage by his mother)
• Malcom Ramsey - 4 people, skinning (Used the skin that he took from his victims in the hope he could graft it onto his daughter to make her skin normal)
• Brad Falco - 3 people, skinning (greed)
• Ronald Graber/The Brutal Man - 6 people, stabbing (Traumatized by his family's murder by Elias Voit, he copied the exact way that they were murdered, down to the action afterwards)
• Tessa Merrick - 14 people directly, 28 people indirectly, various methods (Misandry and to get FBI attention so she could abduct Elias Voit and corrupt him into being her accomplice after he lost his memories. She started killing as Cyrus Lebrun held her captive and tortured her)
• John Perry - 7 people directly, 19 people indirectly (sadism and to corrupt Voit)

Dexter

• Dexter Morgan/The Bay Harbour Butcher - 144 People, various methods, though most commonly a stab to the heart (Satisfying his urge to kill, which was created from severe trauma, by only killing other murderers)
• Robert Milson - 8 People, unspecified method (No reason given)
• Peter Thornton/Dark Echo - 3 People, various methods (Reason uncertain)
• Coleman Lindquist - 15 People, throat slashing (He viewed his mother, who abandoned the family to be with another man, to be a whore and killed prostitutes as surrogates)
• Max Lindquist - 14 People, unspecified method (He hated the man who his wife ran away with and killed the Johns the prostitutes that Coleman killed were with as surrogates)
• Michael "Mike" Donovan - 3 People, unknown method (He had an uncontrollable urge to rape and kill young boys)
• Brian Moser/Rudy Cooper/The Ice Truck Killer - 19 People, usually dismemberment and decapitation after being frozen, post-mortem draining of blood (As with his biological brother Dexter Morgan, Brian witnessed the brutal dismemberment of his mother at the age of five. This left him mentally scarred and gave him very strong inclinations toward homicidal acts. He also wanted to convince Dexter to stop using the code and embrace the darkness inside him)
• Nurse Mary - 9 People, overdose on morphine (She believed that she was taking her patients pain away)
• Jorge Castillo and Valerie Castillo - 4 People, drowning in a fish holding tank (Smuggled illegal immigrants and killed the ones who couldn't pay)
• Alex Timmons - 4 People, shooting (He developed an obsession with killing and became a professional sniper for the army until he was discharged for "accidentally" killing a civilian. He went on to use his training to kill people when he returned home)
• Cindy Landon - 3 People, various methods (She would marry an older man before killing him and making it look like an accident so she could inherit their money)
• Dr. Emmett Meridian - 3 People, coerced women into committing suicide via gunshot to the head (No reason given, though it's likely he enjoyed removing power from women, hence why he made them kill themselves instead of killing them directly)
• Jimmy Sensio - 3 People, poisoning with ricin (He claimed that his spirit Madoli told him to commit the murders, but he really did it to increase his business and reputation)
• Alfonso "Little Chino" Concepcion - 10 People, chopped his victims up with a machete (He was a gang enforcer who would butcher anyone who had evidence against the 29th Street Kings or people who disobeyed them)
• Jorge Orozco/George Washington King/The Skinner - 3 People, flayed them alive with a machete until they either died from the skinning or he strangled them to death (Jorge was looking for information on the location of Fred Bowman, who owed him money. He also simply enjoyed torturing and killing people and wanted to increase his reputation)
• Nikki Wald - 3 People, shooting (Gain enough money to buy a boat with her boyfriend Johnny and sail to Bermuda) Note: Johnny Rose is not included since he only killed 2 people, Nikki had 3 since she also killed Johnny in a fit of rage
• William "Billy" Fleeter - 3 People, bludgeoning with a baseball bat (He killed other gambling addicts who were in debt in order to pay off his own)
• Arthur Mitchell/The Trinity Killer - 279 People, burying a child live in cement, slicing a woman's femoral artery in a bathtub, forces a mother of two to jump to her death, and then beat a man to death with various objects (Re-Enacting his family's deaths)
• Timothy Brand - 4 People, dismemberment and decapitation (No reason given)
• Eugene Greer/Jordan Chase - 1 Person directly, 12 People on his orders, bludgeoned Emily Birch personally, ordered Boyd Fowler to electrocute 12 women after being raped and tortured by Cole Harmon, Dan Mendell, and Alex Tilden (He got sadistic pleasure from watching and filming his friends brutalize women. He killed Emily Birch because she annoyed him)
• Boyd Fowler - 12 People, electrocution following rape and torture from his friends (No reason given, though he was most likely convinced to do so by Jordan to protect his friends. It's possible he also enjoyed it)
• Dan Mendell - 12 People indirectly after he raped and tortured them (He got sadistic pleasure from what he did)
• Cole Harmon - 12 People indirectly after he raped and tortured them (he got sadistic please from what he did)
• Alex Tilden - 12 People indirectly after he raped and tortured them (he got sadistic please from what he did)
• Carlos and Marco Fuentes - 5 People, usually killed with a machete (Wanted to extort money from their victims so they could pay for their VIP service at Club Mayan)
• Lance Robinson - 4 People, various methods (No reason given)
• Ben and Roger - 3 People indirectly, allowed to die so they could harvest their organs (Selling organs to make more money)
• Travis Marshall/The Doomsday Killer - 12 People, various methods (Psychological issues leading him to believe that killing people and leaving them in tableaus would bring forth the end of the world)
• Julio Benes - 4 People, shooting (He kills local business owners who cross him and his gang, the Locos)
• Walter Kenney/The Tooth Fairy Killer - 17 People, beating and strangulation, post-mortem removal of the victims lateral incisor with a pair of pliers (He abuses and kills women the same way his mother abused him when he was young. During a beating, he lost his lateral incisor)
• Hannah McKay - 7 People, usually poisoning (She is Dexter Morgan's on-again-off-again girlfriend who either poisons wealthy men to steal their money or poisons people who harm or pose a threat to her in some way)
• Wayne Randall - 6 People, stabbing or shooting (No reason given)
• Ray Speltzer/The Minotaur Slayer - 3 People, beating with his bare hands or chopping with an axe (The women he killed acted as surrogates for his mother, who Ray had grown to both despise and desire due to her frequently having sex with different men)
• Joseph "Joe" Jensen/The Phantom Arsonist - 10 People, burning (Mental issues and pyromania caused by helping his friend Bobby set fire to a gymnasium, a fire that ended up killing Bobby)
• Walter Munro - 4 People, stabbing (No reason given)
• Daniel Vogel/Oliver Saxon/The Brain Surgeon - 15 People, various methods (He was born with a strong desire to kill and simply enjoyed doing it. He also sent pieces of brains to his mother in an attempt to reconnect with her, but ultimately ended up killing her)
• Albert J. "A.J." Yates - 6 People, single stab to the chest after breaking all of the victims toes with a pair of pliers (He was frequently abused by his mother when he was young and would hide under his bed to escape. He could only see his mothers shoes while she searched for him, causing him to develop an obsession with women's shoes and feet, specifically their toes)
• Kurt Caldwell/The Runaway Killer - 31 People, shooting (He claimed that he killed the runaways to protect them form any further abuse, but Dexter Morgan believes he just likes to be in control)
• Wiggles the Clown - 12 People, unknown method (No reason given, though it is likely he was a pedophile)

FBI

• Stepan "Snake" Tsarko - 19 People, beating and stabbing (Loves both the physical and psychological suffering he inflicts on women and kills when one of the trafficked girls he pimps out has outlived their usefulness)

Goosebumps

• Andrew Toggle - 7 People, unknown methods, followed by having his robot remove their hands (Obsessed with creating "perfect" music by inventing robotic hands that could play instruments. However, simply creating robotic hands was too much work for him, so he killed his students and took their hands to use for his experiments)

Harper's Island

• John Wakefield - 21 people, various methods
• Henry Dunn - 9 people, various methods

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

• Peter Ridley - 18 People, suffocation with a grocery bag (Misogyny and hatred towards prostitutes since his mother was a prostitute who locked him out of the apartment while servicing her clients.)
• Darryl Kern/The Bowery Stalker - 27 People, various methods (Sadistic psychopath who loves to kill and also wanted to create a new generation of neo-nazis by raping and impregnating captive women)
• Larry Moore/The Woodsman - 24 People, various torture methods finished off with waterboarding (Sexual sadism)
• Graham Winger/Brewster - 15 People, asphyxiation or strangulation (Misogyny towards women, particularly hookers because he thinks they lie to him about how they really feel. He also felt that he shouldn't have to pay for sex and that asking so, was basically them thinking that they are better than him)

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector

• Ethan Calder and Irene Antoni/The Wrath of the Gods/Nemesis - 15 People, methods relating to deaths/punishments in Greek mythology (They share a delusion and believe that killing people who embody the sins of various Greek mythological figures will send a message to fix the world)
• Garrett Harrison - 4 People, stabbing (As a child, he saw his mother stabbed to death by his father and when he heard his neighbors arguing, it brought back the memory, which caused him to snap)
• Hans Baker/The Tourist Killer - 3+ People, unspecified methods (No reason given)
• Peter Taylor/The Bone Collector - 28 People, various methods (Always had compulsion to kill and a feeling of insignificance, but when he met and worked with an arrogant detective named Lincoln Rhyme, he developed an obsessive hatred of him. So, in addition to quelling his compulsion, his murders serve as criminal mind games to Rhyme in order to toy with him and prove his superiority)
• Sabin Baldridge - 4 People, unspecified methods (No reason given)

Monk

• Stewart Babcock - 12 People, various methods (Didn't know which one of the jurors was blackmailing him, so he decided to kill them all)

Murder In Small Town X

• William Lambert/The Sunrise Killer - 15 people, shooting victims with a bang stick (Wanted to finish what father had started by killing the descendants of the members of the Order of the Scarlet Lupine who committed mass murder on his father's family; also "kill" the detectives in his game (it was actually eliminating them from a reality competition))

Murdoch Mysteries

• Beth Tipton - 3 People, various methods (Covering up her identity theft and scamming of women)
• Harland Orgill - 28 People, gutting with a knife (Unspecified trauma from his past caused him to have an uncontrollable rage towards women)
• Josiah Walker - 3 People, shooting victims with a crossbow (Revenge for the death of his fiancée)
• Maa-iingan - 6 People, ripping out throats with a mechanism that mimics wolf bites (Revenge against the men that shot him and left him for dead)

Psych

• Wes Hiltonbock - 3 People, holding the victim at gunpoint and forcing them to kill themselves (Resentment towards depressed people due to witnessing his brother's suicide)

Oz

• Richard L'Italien - 39 People, suffocation with a pillow (He was afraid that he would be "owned" by a woman, so he would kill her if she got to close to him)

The Shield

• Sean Taylor - 23 People, various methods (Simply derived sexual pleasure from murdering women. He also killed his friend Mike for unknown reasons)
• William Faulks/The Cuddler Rapist - 3 People, strangulation preceded by rape (Was sexually attracted to elderly women and would cuddle with them after raping them, but he only later began killing them once rape simply wasn't enough, and he worked up enough confidence to do so)

True Justice

• Salvatore "Sal" Forte - 6 People, strangling (Anger towards his ex-wife for ruining his life and strippers for always wanting more from him while giving him nothing in return)
• The Sniper - 5 People, sniping victims in the chest (Devoted Islamic terrorist who wanted to spread fear and keep people from attending church)
• Martin Zilkay/Dr. Zee - 17 People, euthanization, followed by vivisection post-mortem (Is being forced to harvest organs from trafficked Asian women by a crime lord named Darko Karadzic, who threatens to harvest his daughter's organs if he does not do as told)

Unsub

• Joe Kresser/The White Bone Demon - 3 People, stabbing and cutting down the back with a linoleum knife (He was abused horribly by his mother and one particular incident caused him to walk with a limp for the rest of his life. Despite this, he still loved her, but a hallucination named The White Bone Demon came to him, wanting him to kill her. However, he couldn't do it, so he started targeting surrogates for his mother to appease the demon)
• Officer Karen Samuels - 5 People, ligature strangulation with a belt, followed by cutting off the victims' genitals post-mortem (Her father was never proud of her because he wanted a son, so she spent most of her childhood doing manly things to impress him and this altered her identity, making her think she actually was a man. When her father died, she felt like she had to make him proud. So, any time she came across a male witness that refused to testify to a crime, she killed them and removed their genitals to show that they are not men)
• Dr. Francis Radford and Dr. Robert Jessics - 8 People, slashing throats with a scalpel (They kill the parents of their patients in order to liberate them, so they won't grow up coddled and spoiled. They believe they're doing the kids a favor because they themselves grew up without parents and are now successful)
• The Miami Metro Killer - 4 People, stabbing preceded by rape (Either for sexual pleasure or to steal their possessions)
• The Belgium Couple Killer - 26 People, unknown method (No reason given. He/she killed only on Valentine's Day, so it presumably could have something to do with rejection or jealousy)

What If...

• Hank Pym/Yellowjacket - 5 People, various methods (Revenge against Nick Fury to avenge his daughter)

You

• Joseph "Joe" Goldberg/Will Bettleheim/Jonathon Moore/Rhys Montrose/The Eat the Rich Killer - 18 People, various methods (Deludes himself into thinking he is the "perfect guy" for the women he becomes obsessed with and stalks them to insert himself into their lives. He usually kills when those around them stand in his way or in self-defense. In Season 4, Joe develops a split personality that contains every dark aspect of his personality after deciding to free the latest woman he was obsessed with, since he was unable to fully move on from her. This personality, represented by a man named Rhys, kills those around Joe while framing him for the murders, all the while Joe is completely unaware that he himself is Rhys. Rhys' goal is to force Joe to accept his dark side, which in the end, he does)
• Love Quinn - 5 People, various methods (Much like Joe, she becomes obsessed easily and kills those who threaten her, whether directly or perceived, or someone she loves. She becomes obsessed with Joe Goldberg, and kills those close to him so she can be with him forever)

Video Game Serial Killers

Ace Attorney

• Joe Darke - 6 People, unspecified methods (No reason given, though it was speculated that he accidentally ran over someone with his car and killed witnesses to cover it up)

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

• Billy Handsome - 121 People, various methods (He was a hitman for mob boss, Salvatore "Sal" DeLuca)

Dark Seed II

• Jack/The Shape Shifter - 5 People, decapitation with a butcher knife (Collecting heads for the Ancients, so they could power up The Behemoth and drain the Earth of its life and resources)

Deadly Premonition

• George Woodman/The Raincoat Killer - 4 People, cutting out their tongues and gashing open their stomachs to fill with red seeds (Sacrificing his cult to become immortal)

Grand Theft Auto IV

• Eddie Low - 14 People, various ways (Suffering trauma at a young age made him completely insane)

Grand Theft Auto V

• Merle Abrahams/The Infinity Killer - 8 People, unspecified methods (Psychosis and obsession with the number 8)

The Elder Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

• Calixto Corrium - 19 People, stabbing (Collect body parts from people in order to try and use Necromancy to revive his dead sister)

The Happyhills Homicide

• John Wade - 60 people, too many methods to list (Wanting to get revenge on the people who looked down upon him because he was a custodian)

Heavy Rain

• Scott Shelby/The Origami Killer - 35 People, drowning (Wanted to find a father that would do anything to save their son, unlike his own father who was too busy drinking to save his brother from drowning)

Papers, Please

• Simon Wens - 3 People, unknown method (Pedophilia; no reason given for killing)

Red Dead Redemption II

• Edmund Lowry Jr. - 51 People, Torture (Sadism, insanity, and gaining recognition to make sure he's never forgotten)