World's Most Evil Killers

Vincent Tabak strangled his neighbour to death in her own flat in December 2010. In 2011, he was given a life sentence.

Serial killer John Cooper, known as The Bullseye Killer, killed four people between 1983 and 1996. He was given four life sentences.

Christopher Halliwell strangled a twenty-year-old woman and evaded justice for eight years until his arrest for killing another young female. He finally got a whole life sentence in 2016.

30-year-old Trevor Hardy, known as The Beast of Manchester, killed three teenage girls in a series of brutal attacks in the mid- to late 1970s and was one of Britain's longest-serving prisoners.

Dennis Rader, known to the World as the BTK Killer, killed ten people, including young children, between 1974 and 1991 in Wichita, Kansas.

In Cumbria, 2010 taxi driver Derek Bird took his gun and, in less than 24 hours, shot dead 12 people and injured 11 more. The callous killer only stopped when he had run out of ammunition, finally turning the gun on himself.

Twenty-one year old David Heiss stabbed twenty-year old Matthew Pyke eighty-six times after he became infatuated with Matthew's girlfriend, Joanna.

Rader killed ten people in Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and newspapers detailing his crimes.

Danny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five university students in Florida in 1990. Rolling also confessed to murdering a family in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.

David Heiss' obsession with Joanna Witton ends with him stabbing her boyfriend 86 times.

Danny Rolling murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida, in August 1990.

In Cumbria, 2010, taxi driver Derrick Bird took his gun and, in less than 24 hours, shot dead 12 people and injured 11 more. The callous killer only stopped when he had run out of ammunition, finally turning the gun on himself.

Robert Berdella was an American serial killer, known as The Kansas City Butcher, who was responsible for drugging, raping, torturing and murdering six young men.

Mark Hobson killed four people in North Yorkshire, England in July 2004. Hobson committed his first 2 murders within 6 days of each other. He is currently serving a whole life sentence.

Bobby Joe Long is an American serial killer and rapist who terrorised the Tampa Bay Area in Florida during 1984. During his eight-month sadistic killing spree, he murdered ten women.

Mark Hobson killed four people in North Yorkshire, England in July 2004. Hobson committed his first two murders within six days of each other. He is currently serving a whole life sentence.

Bobby Joe Long abducts, sexually assaults and murders at least 10 women in the Tampa Bay area.

Robert Black was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who was convicted of the kidnap, rape, sexual assault and murder of four girls aged between five and eleven.

Robert Lee Yates Junior was a well-respected family man and war hero, but by night he was a cold-blooded serial killer. He was convicted of killing fourteen young women and one man.

Aileen Wuornos, one of America's most prolific serial killers, murdered seven men in Florida by shooting them at point-blank range. She was eventually convicted and sentenced to death.

In 1977, Angus Sinclair kidnapped, raped and murdered two seventeen-year-old girls after meeting them in a pub in Glasgow, Scotland.

Colin Ireland made a New Year's resolution in 1993 to become a serial killer and then murdered five gay men in London. In 2006, he got a whole life term.

America's most notorious serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to the murder of thirty young women across the US between 1974 and 1978. He was executed in 1989.

Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Killer, got away with mass murder across the Pacific Northwest for nearly twenty years. He was finally caught in 2001 and was convicted of 49 murders.