Murder in the UK - Serial Killers

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Click the name for more information KILLS YEARS NAME AKA 300+ ? 19?? - 1998 Dr. Harold Shipman Dr. Death 160? 1949 - 1983 Dr. John Bodkin Adams   26 1978 Peter Dinsdale Bruce Lee 21 1852 - 1872 Mary Ann Cotton 16+ 1828 William Burke & William Hare Body Snatchers 15+ 1944 - 1948 John George Haigh Acid Bath Murderer 15+ 1978 - 1983 Dennis Nilsen 15 1954 - 1958 Peter Manuel 13 1975 - 1980 Peter Sutcliffe Yorkshire Ripper 12+ 1967 - 1990 Fred & Rosemary West  12 ? 1974 - 1975 Patrick Mackay 11 ? 1982 - 1990 Robert Black 10+ 1842 - 1856 William Palmer 9+ 1853 - 1862 Catherine Wilson 9 1975 - 1983 Kiernan Kellly 8+ 1943 - 1953 John Reginald Christie 7 1964 - 1965 Jack the Stripper Identity unknown 7 1986 Keneth Erskine Stockwell Strangler 6 -1974 - 1978 John Childs 6 1974 - 1978 Harry McKenny 5 1963 -1964 Ian Brady & Myira Hindley The Moors Murders 5 ? 1995 - 1998 Stephen Akinmurele 5 1993 Colin Ireland The Gay Slayer 5 1888 Jack The Ripper Identity unknown 5 1977 - 1978 Archibald Hall Roy Fontaine 5 1881 - 1892 Dr. Neil Cream 5 1974 - 1975 Donald Neilson The Black Panther 5 2006 Steve Wright Suffolk Murders 4 Feb 1942 Gordon Cummins 4 2004 Daniel Gonzalez 4 1986 -1987 Michael Lupo 4 1975 -1976 Mark Rowntree 4 1974 - 1978 Robert Maudsley Hannibal the Cannibal 4 1955 -1957 Mary Wilson 4 1995 Peter Moore 4 1982 -1986 Beverly Allit Killer Nurse 4 2002 Colin Norris   3+ 1974 Trevor Hardy   3+ 1984 - 1985 Leslie Bailey, Sidney Cooke, Robert Oliver, Lennie Smith   3 1915 - 1939 William Burkitt 3 ? 1993 Steven Grieveson Sunderland Strangler   2009 - 2010 Stephen Griffiths Crossbow Cannibal 3 1946 Neville Heath 3 2007 Derek Brown 3 1982 - 1986 John Duffy Railway Rapist/Killer 3 2002 Anthony Hardy The Camden Ripper 3 1982 - 1986 David Mucahy Accomplice to Duffy 3 1951 - 1952 John Straffen 3 + ? 2000 Philip Smith 3+ 1828 Thomas Wainewright Wainewright The Poisoner 3 1962 - 1972 Graham Young 3 1960 Michael Copeland 3 1970 & 1974 Ronald Jebson Babes in the Wood 3 1897 - 1902 George Chapman The Borough Poisoner 3 1913 - 1914 George Smith Brides in the Bath 3 2004 Mark Martin 3 1982 Barry Pruden 3 1968 - 1969 Bible John Identity unknown 3+ 1991 - 2006 Peter Tobin