The Most Dangerous and Violent Serial Killers to Give You the Chills (Part 3)
11.Charles Edmund Cullen (The Angel of Death)
Cullen worked as a nurse in several hospitals, but was fired for his bizarre behavior. He confessed to killing 40 elderly patients in New Jersey from 1984 to 2003 by poisoning them with over-the-counter drugs. He said he wanted to put them out of their misery 'as an angel would'. Cullen was sentenced to life in prison.
12.Andrei Chikatilo (The Butcher of Rostov)
Andrei, nicknamed the 'Butcher of Rostov', says he experiences psychological relief when he uses his knife and he must be exterminated. Calling himself 'an error of nature', Chikatilo is known to have attacked, maimed and killed 53 women and children in Russia between 1978 and 1990. After his capture in 1992, he was killed by firing squad in 1994.
13.Alexander Pichushkin (Chessboard Killer)
Known as the 'Chessboard Killer' and the 'Bitsevsky Maniac', Pichushkin was a Russian serial killer who murdered homeless men whom he invited to his home by offering them vodka. He is known to be responsible for 49 murders. He would repeatedly crack his victims' heads open with a hammer and insert a vodka bottle into their heads. He initially said he wanted to kill 64 people to complete the number of squares on a chessboard.
14.Ahmad Suradji
Suradji, an Indonesian cattle farmer, confessed to killing 42 women between 1986 and 1997. As part of his ritual, Suradji would bury his victims up to their waist and turn them to face his house. He believed this would give him more power. When the bodies found in the sugarcane field were definitively proven to be his killers, Suradji was executed in 2008.
15.Luis Garavito (La Bestia)
Dubbed 'Le Bestia' (The Monster) by the media, the Colombian has confessed to the torture, rape and murder of 147 children, although the real number is believed to be over 300. He was found guilty of 139 murders, corresponding to 1,853 years in prison. However, the maximum limit under Colombian law is 30 years. Garavito was jailed in 1999 and died at a hospital in Valledupar on 12 October 2023, at the age of 66.
