America's deadliest serial killers

In September 2022, Netflix debuted a scripted series on the Jeffrey Dahmer murders, casting Evan Peters (right) in the title role of the killer (left). 


The series took some artistic license. But some facts aren't up for debate: Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.


What follows is a look at some of the most prolific serial killers the country has ever seen, including one murderer whose identity eluded authorities for decades, until his eventual capture in 2018. 


Some of the murderers here are believed to have killed even more people than they were convicted of killing, and the true toll may never be known.


In January 2022, a new documentary explored the origins, motives and eventual capture of Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK Killer," who terrorized Witchita, Kansas, starting in the mid-1970s.


"I lived a normal life, yet I had a real dark mind," Rader says in the documentary, which aired on A&E in early January.


During a 17-year crime spree, ending in 1991, Rader was linked to 10 murders. 


In this photo, Dennis Rader appears on a video screen as he makes his first court appearance, on March 1, 2005 in Wichita. 


Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer, is believed to be the East Area Rapist, also dubbed the "Golden State Killer," who engaged in at least three crime sprees from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s.


In June 2020, as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, DeAngelo pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder and as well as 13 counts of kidnapping. He later received multiple consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. 


DeAngelo later offered a short apology, saying, "I've listened to all your statements, each one of them, and I'm truly sorry to everyone I have hurt."


Robert Lee Yates pleaded guilty to murdering 13 women in Spokane, Washington, killing them and dumping their bodies in rural areas. He was later convicted of two additional murders.


Yates's death sentence was commuted to life in prison after the state abolished the death penalty. 


Chester Turner was convicted of killing 14 people in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of his victims were raped and strangled.


Prosecutors called Turner "one of the most prolific serial killers in the city's history." He is on death row. 


Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, known as "The Railroad Killer," killed at least 15 people across the U.S. and Mexico in the 1990s.


He would jump off trains and kill people in nearby homes, attacking with a knife, a pick axe, rocks and other blunt objects. He would often steal their belongings and sometimes raped his female victims. 


He was executed in Texas in 2006. 



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