Serial Killer Research Project Examples
Your group will select one serial killer from the following list or other with teacher approval. There will be no duplicates in the same class!
The Zodiac Killer- Sent letters containing codes to the press describing his murders
Donald Henry Gaskins- The Hitchhiker’s Killer
Tsutomu Miyazaki– The Human Dracula
Ted Bundy – The Crazy Necrophile, escaped from prison to continue his killing spree
Jack The Ripper- used surgical procedures to kill female prostitutes in London
Luis Garavito – believed to be the murderer of over 300 young boys in Columbia
Alexander Pichushkin- targeted homeless men by luring them with alcohol, wanted to kill as many people as there are on a chessboard
Andrei Chikatilo- “When I used my knife it brought, psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature.”
Charles Edmund Cullen- killed hospital patients to relieve their pain like an angel would
Patrick Wayne Kearney- killed young men and disposed of their bodies along the highway
Dennis Raider- sent taunting letters to police signing them BTK (Bind Torture Kill)
John George Haigh- dissolved his victim’s bodies in acid
Paul Knowles- cross-country killing spree
William Bonin- raped, tortured, and killed at least 21 men in California
Aileen Wuornos- prostitute who killed men who had raped or attempted to rape her
Jeffery Dahmer- murder and cannibal from Bath, Ohio
John Wayne Gacy- The Clown Killer
Tommy Lynn Sells –the most dangerous Texan in history
Pedro Rodriguez Filho –wreaked havoc on local drug dealers to revenge his girlfriend’s murder
Ed Gein- murder and body snatcher to fashion keepsakes from victim’s bones and skin
Ed Kemper- started his killer career by murdering his mother and grandparents
Albert Fish- child cannibal
David Berkowitz- responsible for the largest manhunt in NYC history
Richard Ramirez- home invasion killed spree, known as the Night Stalker
Albert Desalvo- The Boston Strangler
Ted Kaczynski- the individual person responsible for a nationwide bombing campaign
Wayne Williams- responsible for the Atlanta child murders
H.H. Holmes- one of the first documented serial killers
Nannie Doss- killed multiple husbands, children, sisters, mother and grandmother
Marybeth Tinning- murdered her nine children
Nicolas Claux- The Vampire of Paris
Dorothea Puente- killed the individuals who lived in the boarding house she ran
Fritz Haarmann- murdered and mutilated a minimum of 24 young men
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley- sexually assaulted and murdered five children
Andrei Chikatilo- confessed to killing 56 women in Russia
Joel Rifkin- murdered nine prostitutes in New York between 1989-1993
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