SERIAL KILLERS
IN THE USA
Birth name: Gary Leon Ridgway
Alias(es): 'Green River KillerGR Nickname at Kenworth Trucking company'
Born: February 18, 1949
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Penalty: Life
Birth name: Gary Leon Ridgway
Alias(es): 'Green River KillerGR Nickname at Kenworth Trucking company'
Born: February 18, 1949
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Penalty: Life
Number of victims: convicted of 48 - admitted to 71+ then closer to 90
Span of killings: 1982–1998
State(s): Washington
Date apprehended: November 30, 2001
Donald Harvey
Born April 15, 1952 (1952-04-15) (age 56)
Butler County, Ohio, U.S.
Conviction(s) Aggravated murder,
Felonious assault
Penalty Life sentence plus £125000 in fines
Status Incarcerated in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
Occupation Medical orderly
Spouse Carl Hoeweler
Parents Goldie Harvey
Ted Bundy
Birth name: Theodore Robert Cowell
Alias(es): Chris Hagen, Ken Misner, Richard Burton, Officer Roseland, James Thurston,
Born: November 24, 1946
Burlington, Vermont, United States
Died: January 24, 1989 (aged 42)
Cause of death: Execution by electric chair
Penalty: Death
Number of victims: 26–35+
Span of killings: 1974–1978
State(s): Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Florida
Date apprehended: August 16, 1975; escaped December 30, 1977; re-apprehended February 15, 1978
Birth name: John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Known as the Killer Clown
Born: March 17, 1942
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died: May 10, 1994 (aged 52)
Cause of death: Lethal injection
Penalty: Death
Killings
Number of victims: 33
Span of killings: January 1972–1978
State(s): Illinois
Date apprehended: December 1978
Jerry Brudos
Birth name: Jerome Henry Brudos
Alias(es): The Lust Killer, Shoe Fetish Slayer
Born: January 31, 1939
Webster, South Dakota
Died: March 28, 2006 (aged 67)
Cause of death: Natural causes
Penalty: Life
Killings
Number of victims: 4
Span of killings: January, 1968–March, 1969
State(s): Oregon
Date apprehended: May 25, 1969
David Carpenter
Born: May 6, 1930
Alias: The Trailside Killer
Penalty: Death (still on death row)
State: San Francisco, California
