What serial killer killed the most people?

My guess is that Ted Bundy is near the top.

Ted Bundy was my fist guess too after Glenn Beck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_murderers_by_number_of_victims

If it isn’t Ted Bundy, it’d probably be the BTK

Wikipedia has a list of murderers by number of victims, which is a good place to start. It cites Luis Garavito as having killed the most (with speculations that the number is likely much higher than reported.)

Bundy’s 35 is still horrifying, anyway.

Killer Clown John Wayne Gacey killed 33.
Don’t know if that is the record

If I’m not mistaken there was a crocodile in Africa with over 400 “murders” attributed to him.

@kenmc My girlfriend and I watched that movie on the weekend. Disturbing.

@mama_cakes I’ve never seen the movie… I’ve only heard about him on the radio…

@tedd serial killers are generally associated with people but just for you I will say it. I am talking about people serial killers only.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18483_the-5-creepiest-serial-killers-who-were-animals.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_16998_5-horrific-serial-killers-who-are-free-right-now.html

Wasn’t it some Latin American guy from Peru or something ??

@johnpowell 3000 GAs.

Hitler

I seem to remember reading about a Russian that killed at least 60+ people.

@weeveeship I would more likely categorize him as a mass murderer. Doesn’t really count. You could make a good debate on him though.

Dexter!!!!

j/k.. I don’t know.. I just couldn’t resist :p

@johnpowell: oh, i just love you

@kheredia what is everyone’s obsession with Dexter?

@daytonamisticrip: Dexter is good! not incredible but certainly fun to watch

@daytonamisticrip Have you tried watching it? I didn’t think I was going to like it at first but I have to admit.. I’m hooked!!! Lol.. it’s a good series!!!

@kheredia yes I have.

In history the most prolific serial killer is possibly Elizabeth Bathory who is speculated to have nearly as many as 650 kills (everyone is pretty sure that it was at least above 600).

@rangerr Wow! Interesting link. The Columbians/South Americans really seem to be whoopin’ everyone else’s ass when it comes to serial killing!

@Winters I read about that women. What a monster and to think that she pretty much got away with it!!! It’s just unbelievable!!

Joseph Stalin. 20 million or so killed.

looks like the Green River Killer is tops in the US. that list makes Juan Corona and the Zodiac (both from near where I live) look like underachievers.

I was going to say Elizabeth Báthory as well, a Hungarian serial killer in the 16th century. However, her numbers are unclear and debated and estimates range anywhere from 80 to over 600 victims.

Could Caligula be considered a serial killer? How many people died at his orders to keep the citizens of Rome appeased?

Aaaaah….time for bed with visions of bloodbaths dancing in my head. Thanks Liz Where the hell is my sweet dreamies lullaby cd? lol

Ronald McDonald.

Some sources claim that Mao Tse Tung is directly responsible for many as 45 million deaths from starvation during the ‘Great Leap Forward’ and tens of thousands more killed and millions of lives ruined during the ‘Cultural Revolution’. Mao was an evil monster and yet he is still honored in communist China. Even today there is a colossal picture of Mao in Beijing.

@judochop Ronald McDonald is a good answer, yes, but I think the tobacco industry probably tops him in in the serial killer category.

Jim Jones ~ 918 people died

Richard Kuklinski, known as the Iceman killed a lot of people over a long number of years. You can watch an interview with him here

Harold Shipman, a “much loved” family GP in Hyde, England, killed at least 218 of his patients (and possibly hundreds more) by injecting them with diamorphine, and then falsifying the death certificate.

Tony Blair and George Bush lied about and falsified evidence about WMD’s in iraq and killed 90,000 and counting.

GOD!
Billions & counting

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there’s a difference between a serial killer and a mass murderer.

There can be, but one could conceivably commit mass murder serially.

I’m from Wisconsin. Our serial killers might not get the highest totals, but they get maximum points for style.

I was going to say i thought it was Harold Shipman, but looking at @rangerr ‘s answer, I see he is 4th.

I always thought it was Gary Ridgeway, “The Green River Killer”.

Pol Pot ~ 1.7 to 2.5 million people

@Deja_vu link us