More than 400 years after her death, the truth about "the Blood Countess," a Hungarian noblewoman alleged to have been the most prolific female serial killer of all time, remains elusive. From her castle atop a rugged peak in what is today Čachtice in western Slovakia, Elizabeth Báthory ...
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(Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of Hungarian nobility. Although in modern times she has been labeled the most prolific female serial killer in history, the number of murders a ...
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Harold Shipman Harold Shipman was an English doctor who killed at least 215 patients with lethal injections between 1975 and 1998, likely making him the most prolific serial killer ever. He hanged himself in prison in 2004 at age 57. This individual is a famous sociopath and possibly the most...
All told, Joel Rifkin claimed the lives of at least nine women, and likely many more. The estimate for his murders in New York total around seventeen, and he has been compared to the prolific and unidentified Long Island serial killer known as the Craigslist Ripper, who claimed as many as...
15 Notorious Female Serial Killers Louisiana Photo Credit:Wikimedia Commons Louisiana has had six serial killers who were responsible for the death of 344 victims. Samuel Little is known by many to be the most prolific killer in American history. He confessed to 93 murders, of which 60 are co...
With 49 victims (and many others suspected but never confirmed), the Green River Killer is the most prolific serial killer in the U.S. after Samuel Little. Most of Ridgway’s victims were sex workers and women in vulnerable circumstances, including teenage runaways. The press gave him his ni...
Born in 1560 in Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Bathory has been called “the most prolific female murderer” in history by the Guinness Book of World Records.It’s said that she murdered as many as 600 young servant girls, to bathe in their blood to keep her skin looking fresh and youthful....
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, with nearly 60 confirmed victims, died Wednesday in California. He was 80. Samuel Little, who had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments, died at a California hospital, according to the ...