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Harold Shipman, an English doctor, became known as one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history and is believed to have had as many as 250 victims. Shipman would kill his victims, who were mostly elderly patients, by giving lethal doses of drugs.
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According to Inside Edition, "She terrorized senior females in Mexico City as a serial killer who strangled women with a stethoscope. She was sentenced to 759 years in prison in 2015, convicted of killing 16 women."
According to the Guardian, "Miyazaki's crimes provoked widespread revulsion after it emerged that he had slept next to his victims' corpses and drank their blood, left the remains of one on her parents' doorstep, and eaten the hands of another." Miyazaki was executed in June 2008.
According to CNN, "Högel was accused of giving his victims various non-prescribed drugs, in an attempt to show off his resuscitation skills to colleagues and fight off boredom." He is currently serving a life sentence.
According to the Highway of Tears Governing Body, "From 1989 to 2006, nine young women went missing or were found murdered along the 724-kilometer length of Highway 16 — now commonly referred to as the "Highway of Tears." All but one of these victims were Indigenous women. Additionally, they explain, "There is still much debate over the exact number of women who have gone missing in northern BC, but many people living in the north believe that the number exceeds 30."
According to Yahoo News, the Stoneman was active from 1985 until 1988 in Mumbai. However, in 1989, a similar series of murders started happening in Kolkata.
Reportedly, according to eyewitnesses, he may have killed as many as 43 people. Yapıcıoğlu was sentenced to 44 years in prison for his crimes.
According to a report by the Guardian, a police spokesman at the time said, "This is clearly the work of a highly intelligent, ritual psychopath, as you can see from the way the body parts are cut, the way they are wrapped, and the places in which they are deposited." The same article reported some of the bags had been found in locations with suspiciously specific names like "Worry Street" and "Deposit Street."
According to the Guardian, "To his child victims the killer would appear in different disguises: as a beggar, a cripple, and as a monk. Only 114 of the bodies have been found. The victims were mostly poor, and many were the children of street vendors. They were often left unattended in parks or worked at city stoplights soliciting money from motorists."
According to the India Times, "He was found guilty in December 2018, at the age of 54, of 56 murders. He was already in jail for 22 killings. Between 1992 and 2007, he raped and killed women with an axe or hammer after offering them late-night rides, sometimes in his police car. He also killed a male policeman."
According to the Namibian newspaper the Villager, "The police arrested an unnamed German-born Namibian as a suspect but had to let him go for lack of evidence."
According to BBC News, "He used a hammer to carry out some of the attacks in four provinces, sometimes murdering entire families. Some reports suggested he was angry after being rejected by his girlfriend, but others said he was a motiveless killer who simply enjoyed death." Yang was executed in 2004.
According to Rolling Stone, "He never gave a motive for his crimes, seemingly killing indiscriminately, as two of his victims were asleep at the time of their deaths. These nighttime visitations helped earn him the nickname of the 'Angel of Death.' A judge eventually deemed him a psychopath, to which he replied, 'Someday, I'm going to get out and kill you all.' He was sentenced to life in prison in 1980 and has never been granted parole."
According to the Guardian, "The novelist Thomas Harris, sitting in on the original hearings, seemed to share suspicions that a society figure had masterminded the gore and so made his fictional killer, Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist."