List of Murders and Assassins

Murders and assassinations

Bessinger murder, Sweden 1881
Last Call Killer
Overzier murder case
Popgun plot, failed assassination of George III of the UK in 1795
Potempa Case, Nazi murder of a communist miner
Riddle of Birdhurst Rise, poisoning in Croydon, UK

Murder-related

Assaulting or Killing a Federal Officer
Killer angel
Murder stable
Murder suspect
Murder Weapon murder weapon
Suicidal murder with an intention to be executed

Murderers

Alfred Cronhielm, Alfred Robert Cronhielm af Flosta, Swedish nobleman and murderer
Bernard LeGeros, US murderer
Christian Longo, US family murderer arrested in 2002
Daniel Good, UK murderer
Denise Labbe, UK, infanticide
George Gutteridge, UK murderer
George Schouters Canadian murderer
Gloria Sykes, UK murderer
Harry Fogger, German murderer
Hartmut Gürs, German man who killed his family
Helen Goles, US murderer
Henri Girard, French poisoner
Irenia Cother, US “witch”who planned to sacrifice a pregnant mother
Isakin Jonsson, Skara Cannibal, Swedish murderer
James Camb, British murderer
Jean Grenier (murderer), self-confessed “werewolf”
Johan Kroeger, Swedish murderer and long-time prison inmate
John Donald Merrett, Edinburgh murderer
Juhani Adaminpoika, Finnish murderer of 12 people
Klaus Grabowski, German murderer killed by Marianne Bachmeier, mother of his victim
Lawrence Crossman (1853-1892) British fraudster and murderer
Lutz Reinstrom, Austrian murderer
Marc Celilloa, French rugby player and murderer
Marc Fasquel & Jocelyne Bourdin, French murderers
Masaru Okinishi or Okinishi Masaru, sentenced Japanese poisoner
Michael L. Platt, US killer
Michelle Gustafsson , Vampire Woman, Swedish murderer
Murray Hooper (1945- ) US killer
Olga Sutterichmidt, US murderer
Patrizia Badiani & Gennaro Clausi, Italian murderers
Paul John Fitzpatrick, US murderer
Peter Griffith (murderer), UK child killer
Peter Scott (programmer), British computer programmer and would-be-murderer of Bernadette Scott
Pierre Voirbo, (d 1869) French police agent and murderer, committed suicide in prison
Ravindra Kantrulu, Indian murderer
Robert Haggart, US family murderer
Roland B. Molineux, Knickerbocker murderer
Samuel Dougal, British murderer
Samuel Green (murderer), arch-murderer (1817-1822)
Shinji Matsuda, Japanese murderer
Sophie Johannesdatter (d 1876), Swedish poisoner
Vikav Yadav, Indian killer
Walter Horst, German astrologer and murderer
Yoshio Yamasaki, Japanese murderer

Assassins and hitmen

Elmer Burke, US hitman
Gaby Anglade, would-be-assassin of De Gaulle
Joseph Mokoa, Bokassa’s hitman
Martin Rivera Benitez, Mexican hitman
Robert Blemant (1911- ?) French would-be-assassin of De Gaulle
Roberto Carlos Carmona (d. 2007), Mexican hitman of the Zetas
Sam Hunt (hitman), “Golf Bag”, Capone’s hitman
Shalom Schwarzband, assassin
Zisomo Montesino, Mexican killer for hire

Serial killers

Anthony Sewell (serial killer), serial killer
Beast of Florence, Italian serial killer
Cleveland Headhunter (1933-1937)
Dennis Rade, US serial killer
James B. Grinder, US serial killer
Johann Hoch, Chicago serial killer
Joshua Rodiger, US vampire killer
Kenneth Neu, US serial killer, executed 1935
Lloyd Robert Jeffress, US spree killer
Michel Fournivet, French serial killer
Moses Setoli, South African serial killer
Philip Anyancha, Kenyan serial killer
See-Ouy, Chinese serial killer in Thailand in 1954-1958
Shy Bland, US serial killer

See Also

List of International Organized Crime Entries
List of Criminal Law Online Journals
International criminal law: Organized Crime and Narcotics
International Criminal Law
List of Criminal Biographies (Gangs) Entries
List of International Organized Crime Entries
List of Legal Encyclopedias
List of international public law topics
List of Robberies, Heists and Capers Entries (9.7)
List of Scotish Reports (8.2)

Further Reading

Encyclopedia of Gangs, by Louis Kontos and David Brotherton
Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, by Bill O’Neal
The Encyclopedia of International Organized Crime, by Carlo Devito
The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers, by Michael Newton