Notable perpetrators and victims
editSome notable perpetrators and victims include the following. The dates indicate the time of the crime or crimes. This list includes people in positions of power, serial killers, and war criminals.
Torture murderers
edit- Empress Lü Zhi (Han Dynasty, 241 to 180 BC)
- Emperor Caligula (Rome, 12 to 41 AD)
- Gilles de Rais (France, 1435 to 1440)
- Vlad the Impaler (Wallachia, 1444 to 1476)
- Elizabeth Báthory (Kingdom of Hungary, 1602 to 1610)
- Delphine LaLaurie (New Orleans, Louisiana, 1775 to 1842) (alleged)
- Jack the Ripper (London, England, 1888 to 1891)
- H. H. Holmes (Chicago, Illinois, 1893 to 1895)
- Peter Kürten (Düsseldorf, 1913 to 1929)
- Albert Fish (New York City, New York, 1910 to 1936)
- Hisao Tani (Nanjing, Republic of China, 1938 to 1945)
- Ilse Koch (Auschwitz, Nazi Germany, 1940 to 1945)
- Ian Brady and Myra Hindley (Moors murders) (Greater Manchester, England, 1963 to 1965)
- Gertrude Baniszewski (Indianapolis, Indiana, 1965)
- John Norman Collins (Michigan, 1967 to 1969)
- Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Bobby Beausoleil (The Manson Family) (Los Angeles, California, 1969)
- "Mad" Sam DeStefano (Chicago, Illinois, 1950s to 1970s)
- José Paz Bezerra (Brazil, 1960s to 1970s)
- Dean Corll and Wayne Henley (Houston, Texas, 1970 to 1973)
- Dale Selby Pierre, William Andrews and Keith Roberts (Ogden, Utah, 1974)
- Hamida Djandoubi (Marseille, France, 1974)
- John Wayne Gacy (Chicago, Illinois, 1972 to 1978)
- Ted Bundy (United States, 1974 to 1978)
- Rodney Alcala (California, 1971 to 1979)
- Rosemary and Fred West (Gloucester, England, 1973 to 1979)
- Kang Kek Iew (Tuol Sleng, Democratic Kampuchea, 1975 to 1979)
- Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. (Metropolitan Los Angeles, California, 1977 to 1979)
- Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris (Metropolitan Los Angeles, California, 1979)
- Richard Kuklinski (Metropolitan New York, United States, 1960s to 1980s)
- Richard Cottingham (New York City, New York, 1967 to 1980)
- Werner Kniesek (St. Pölten, Austria, 1980)
- Randy Steven Kraft (California, Michigan, Oregon, 1970s to 1980s)
- William Bonin (Metropolitan Los Angeles, California, 1978 to 1980)
- Lenny and John Murphy, William Moore, Robert Bates, and Sam McAllister (The Shankill Butchers) (Belfast, 1972 to 1982)
- Carl Eugene Watts (United States, 1974 to 1982)
- Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, and Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis (The Ripper Crew) (Chicago, Illinois, 1981 to 1982)
- Paul Luckman and Robin Reid (Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia, 1982)
- Theresa Knorr (Sacramento, California, 1982 to 1983)
- Christopher Wilder (United States, 1982 to 1984)
- Larry Eyler (Midwestern United States, 1982 to 1984)
- Bobby Joe Long (Florida, 1984)
- Charles Ng and Leonard Lake (Calaveras County, California, 1983 to 1985)
- Richard Ramirez (California, 1984 to 1985)
- Donna Hylton (New York, 1985)
- Gary Heidnik (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986 to 1987)
- Robert Berdella (Kansas City, Missouri, 1984 to 1988)
- Kerry Lyn Dalton (Live Oak Springs, California, 1988)
- Pietro De Negri ("Er Canaro") (Rome, Italy, 1988)
- Adolfo Constanzo (Mexico, 1986 to 1989)
- Robert Ben Rhoades (United States, 1975 to 1990)
- Andrei Chikatilo (Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union, 1978 to November 1990)
- Prince Johnson (Monrovia, Liberia, 1990)
- Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982 to 1990)
- Phillip Carl Jablonski (Utah and California, 1970 to 1991)
- Dennis Rader (Wichita, Kansas, 1974 to 1991)
- Jeffrey Dahmer (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1978 to 1991)
- William Suff (Riverside County, California, 1989 to 1991)
- Kenneth McDuff (Texas, 1966 to 1992)
- Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 1990 to 1992)
- Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence (Madison, Indiana, 1992)
- Scott Erskine (San Diego, California, 1989 to 1993)
- Robert Thompson and Jon Venables (Kirkby, England, 1993)
- Georges Rutaganda (Rwanda, 1994)
- Antonio Angles and Miguel Ricart (Alcasser, Valencia, Spain, 1994)
- Veselin Vlahović (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992 to 1995)
- Christa Pike (Knoxville, Tennessee, 1995)
- Uday Hussein (Iraq, 1986 to 1996)
- Daniel Conahan (Charlotte County, Florida, 1994 to 1996)
- Chevie Kehoe and Daniel Lewis Lee (Arkansas, 1996)
- James Patterson Smith (Manchester, 1996)
- Junko Ogata and Futoshi Matsunaga (Japan, 1996 to 1998)
- David Parker Ray (Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, 1950s to 1999)
- Ershad Sikder (Bangladesh, 1991 to 1999)
- Luis Garavito (Colombia, 1992 to 1999)
- John Bunting and Robert Wagner (Snowtown murders) (Adelaide, South Australia, 1992 to 1999)
- Sam Bockarie (Sierra Leone, 1992 to 2000)
- Gary Ridgway (Washington, 1988 to 2001)
- Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Brazil, 1967 to 2003)
- Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1997 to 2003)
- Yang Xinhai (China, 1999 to 2003)
- Huang Yong (China, 2001 to 2003)
- Joseph E. Duncan III (Idaho, California, 1996 to 2005)
- Raul Osiel Marroquin (Ciudad de Mexico, 2005)
- Volker Eckert (Europe, 1974 to 2006)
- Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk (The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs) (Metropolitan Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 2007)
- Edgar Valdez Villarreal (Mexico, 1992 to 2010)
- Brittany Norwood (Bethesda, Maryland, 2011)
- Isauro Aguirre (California, 2012 to 2013)
- Daniel William Marsh (Davis, California, 2013)
- Peter Scully (Philippines, 2011 to 2015)
- Blake Leibel (West Hollywood, California, 2016)
Torture murder victims
edit- Consort Qi (Han Dynasty, 194 BC)
- Jesus Christ (Jerusalem, between 30 and 33 AD)
- György Dózsa (Transylvania, 1514)
- Matija Gubec (Zagreb, Croatia, 1573)
- Balthasar Gérard (Dutch Republic, 1584)
- Sambhaji (Tulapur, 1689)
- Giles Corey (Salem, Massachusetts, 1692)
- John B. McClelland (Wakatomika, Ohio, 1782)
- Jesse Washington (Waco, Texas, 1916)
- Lation Scott (Dyersburg, Tennessee, 1917)
- Jim McIlherron (Estill Springs, Tennessee, 1918)
- Aurore Gagnon (Quebec, 1920)
- Pamela Werner (Beijing, 1937)
- Frank Pickersgill (Buchenwald, Nazi Germany, 1944)
- Elizabeth Short, "The Black Dahlia" (Los Angeles, 1947)
- Emmett Till (Mississippi, 1955)
- William "Action" Jackson (Chicago, 1961)
- Sylvia Likens (Indianapolis, 1965)
- Pierre Mulele (Zaire, 1968)
- Donald Shea (Chatsworth, California, 1969)
- Alex Rackley (Connecticut, 1969)
- Rubens Paiva (Brazil, 1971)
- Dolores Della Penna (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1972)
- Stanley Walker, Sherry Michelle Ansley, and Carol Naisbitt (Ogden, Utah, 1974)
- Carla Walker (Texas, 1974)
- Vladimir Herzog (São Paulo, 1975)
- Hu Nim (Tuol Sleng, Democratic Kampuchea, 1977)
- Gordon Sanderson (Alberta, 1977)
- Archimedes Trajano (Manila, Philippines, 1977)
- Stephanie Roper (Maryland, 1982)
- Lisa Ann Millican (Alabama, 1982)
- Danny Katz (Israel, 1983)
- Kiki Camarena (Mexico, 1985)
- Hugo Spadafora (Panama, 1985)
- Junko Furuta (Tokyo, 1989)
- Mark Kilroy (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 1989)
- William R. Higgins (Lebanon, 1990)
- Samuel Doe (Monrovia, Liberia, 1990)
- Leslie Mahaffy (St. Catharines, Ontario, 1991)
- Thomas Oliver (Belleeks, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1991)
- Shanda Sharer (Madison, Indiana, 1992)
- Kristen French (St. Catharines, Ontario, 1992)
- Miriam García Iborra, Antonia Gómez Rodríguez, and Desirée Hernández Folch (The Alcàsser Girls) (Valencia, Spain, 1992)
- Suzanne Capper (Manchester, 1992)
- James Bulger (Kirkby, England, 1993)
- Charlie Keever and Jonathan Sellers (San Diego County, California, 1993)
- Kelly Anne Bates (Manchester, 1996)
- Mohammad Najibullah (Kabul, Afghanistan, 1996)
- Pai Hsiao-yen (Taipei, Taiwan, 1997)
- Mun Song-sul (North Korea, 1997)
- James Byrd, Jr. (Texas, 1998)
- Matthew Shepard (Wyoming, 1998)
- Fan Man-yee (Hong Kong, 1999)
- Saurabh Kalia (Kargil, 1999)
- Jesse Dirkhising (Rogers, Arkansas, 1999)
- Victoria Climbié (London, 2000)
- Chester Poage (Spearfish, South Dakota, 2000)
- Tim Lopes (Brazil, 2002)
- Romona Moore (New York City, 2003)
- Kriss Donald (Glasgow, Scotland, 2004)
- Akku Yadav (India, 2004)
- Ilan Halimi (Paris, France, 2006)
- Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom (Knoxville, Tennessee, 2007)
- Necati Aydin, Ugur Yuksel, and Tilmann Geske (Malatya, Turkey, 2007)
- Gabriel Kuhn (Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2007)
- Donna Jones (Ottawa, 2009)
- Jennifer Daugherty (Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 2010)
- Gemma Hayter (Rugby, Warwickshire, England, 2010)
- Tia Rigg (Manchester, England, 2010)
- Hamza Al-Khateeb (Daraa, Syria, 2011)
- Muammar Gaddafi (Sirte, Libya, 2011)
- Jourdan Bobbish and Jacob Kudla (Detroit, Michigan, 2012)
- Gabriel Fernandez (California, 2012 to 2013)
- Claudia Maupin and Oliver Northup (Davis, California, 2013)
- Giulio Regeni (Egypt, 2016)
- Iana Kasian (West Hollywood, California, 2016)
- Zainab Ansari (Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan, 2018)
- Anthony Avalos (Lancaster, California, 2018)
- Jamal Khashoggi (Istanbul, Turkey, 2018)
- Richard Huckle (Ashford, Kent, England, 2019)
- Genivaldo de Jesus (Umbaúba, Sergipe, Brazil, 2022)