List of serial rapists

A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time.[1] Some serial rapists target children.[2][3][4] The terms sexual predator, repeat rape and multiple offending can also be used to describe the activities of those who commit a number of consecutive rapes, but remain unprosecuted when self-reported in research.[5]

This list does not include serial killers who raped their victims then killed them; only serial rapists who non-fatally attacked their victims and raped them should be included here. This list should include serial rapists with at least three victims. Serial killers that raped at least three victims without murdering them are also included.

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Notes
Mustapha Tabet	Morocco	1986–1992	518	Corrupt police commissioner who kidnapped and raped young girls and women at his apartment in Casablanca, always recording his assaults on tape. His case was infamous for the fact that he used his power and influence to destroy evidence of his wrongdoings. Tabet was convicted, sentenced to death and executed for his crimes in 1993, the last person to be executed in Moroccan history.[6]
Juan Carlos Sánchez Latorre	Colombia  Venezuela (suspected)	2008–2011	267	Known as "The Big Bad Wolf"; lured young boys to hotels, where he raped and recorded videos of the assaults; suspected of more than 500, with some occurring in Venezuela; sentenced to 60 years' imprisonment.[7]
Jimmy Savile	United Kingdom	1955–2009	217	British celebrity who sexually abused hundreds of children during a fifty-year period. After Savile's death, an inquiry revealed that he was quite possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history.[8]
Joji Obara	Japan	1992–2000	150	Korean–Japanese businessman who drugged and raped between 150 and 400 women, at least two of which died. Obara was tried for one of the deaths, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Obara has been described as the worst serial rapist in the country's history, and his case received international coverage due to most of his victims being foreign tourists.[9]
Fanwell Khumalo	South Africa	1998-2001	103	Convicted on 103 counts of rape, kidnapping and indecent assault.[10] Raped his victims by pretending to be a policeman, or approaching girls and asking for directions, he took girls from busy spots to deserted areas such as parks, open fields, and empty houses, where he raped them in daylight.
Marcelo Sajen	Argentina	1991–2004	93	Car thief who raped young women in the City of Cordoba, Argentina. He committed suicide with a shot to the head to avoid arrest. Before and after his death, DNA tests linked him to 93 cases of rape, but his actual number of victims is believed to be 200.[11][12]
Johann Eichhorn	Weimar Republic  Nazi Germany	1928–1939	90	Known as "The Beast of Aubing"; raped, beat and sometimes robbed women in western Munich at knife/gunpoint, killing at least five victims if they resisted fiercely; executed 1939.[13]
Richard Huckle	Malaysia (convicted)  Cambodia  Singapore  Laos  India (suspected)	2006–2014	71	British paedophile who assaulted underage children in Malaysia, possibly up to 200 across Southeast Asia, posing in appropriate jobs to lure his victims; described as one of Britain's worst, and youngest, paedophiles; given 22 life sentences, murdered in prison in England in 2019.[14]
Sunil Rastogi	India	Unknown	60	Indian paedophile who was arrested on 15 January 2017, on charges of raping numerous underaged girls. He had been targeting girls walking home from school for at least 13 years before his apprehension. Around 60+ girls were sexually assaulted by him.
Wang Wanming	China	1981–1998	54	Committed two rapes in his native Liaoning in 1981 and in the mid-1980s, for which he was imprisoned for a combined total of 24 years. He later escaped from a prison hospital and moved to Shaanxi, where he subsequently raped a further 52 women from 1992 to 1998, killing 20. Wang was later arrested, convicted and executed in 1999.[15]
Roger Abdelmassih	Brazil	2009	52	In early 2009 he was accused of sexually abusing sedated patients.[16] Abdelmassih was sentenced to 278 years in prison for 52 rapes.
Bobby Joe Long	United States	1980–1984	50	Known as "The Classified Ad Rapist"; raped women in several locations around Florida, contacting victims through classified ads published in newspapers; later moved to the Tampa Bay Area, where he murdered at least ten women; executed 2019.[17]
Joseph James DeAngelo	United States	1974–1986	50	Serial rapist, murderer, burglar, and former police officer who committed at least 13 murders, 50 rapes, and over 100 burglaries in the 1970s and 1980s. He carried out three crime sprees, each of which spawned a different nickname in the press. His known offenses began series of burglaries which culminated in a murder, and he became known as the Visalia Ransacker during this spree. He then moved to the Sacramento area, where he carried out a serial rape spree and became known as the East Area Rapist before moving to Southern California and committed a series of murders, often accompanied with sexual assaults, becoming known as the Original Night Stalker. He later became known as the EARONS (East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker} and the Golden State Killer. He was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to 13 murders. As required by his plea deal, he also admitted to the rapes, which could not be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations.
Reynhard Sinaga	United Kingdom	2015–2017	48[18][19]	An Indonesian student in Manchester, UK, who was convicted on 136 counts of rape, 14 counts of sexual assault, eight counts of attempted rape and one count of assault by penetration. He targeted young heterosexual men who were leaving nightclubs and raped his victims by bringing them to his flat under non-sexual pretences and drugging them with GHB. He filmed the assaults, and police claim there are at least 195 victims.[20]
Yap Weng Wah	Singapore	2009–2012	45	A Malaysian quality assurance engineer who gained employment in Singapore. He was notorious for having raped 31 teenage boys aged between 11 and 14 in Singapore between 2009 and 2012, as well as committing 14 additional rapes of teenage males in Malaysia. Yap was arrested in Singapore in September 2012 and charged with 76 offences of sexual assault of minors, which included charges of oral sex and anal sex and filming of his illegal sexual acts. However, his charges were only applied for those committed in Singapore and he did not face charges of his sexual crimes committed in Malaysia due to lack of jurisdiction. Yap was found to be suffering from hebephilia, a sexual disorder which dictates a sexual interest in pubescent males. Three years later, in March 2015, in view of his high propensity to reoffend, the highly aggravating nature of his crimes and his lack of remorse, Yap Weng Wah, then 31 years old, was sentenced to serve a 30-year term of imprisonment and he also received 24 strokes of the cane, after he was convicted of 12 out of 76 charges (the remaining were taken into consideration during sentencing). Yap Weng Wah was known to be one of Singapore's worst sexual predators of young children in the city state's history.[21][22]
Kevin Coe	United States	1978–1981	43	Known as the "South Hill Rapist"; former Las Vegas radio announcer who sexually assaulted and injured women in Spokane, Washington, ramming his fist down the victims' mouths or throats; sentenced to life imprisonment.[23]
Oleksandr Berlizov	Soviet Union	1969–1972	42	Known as "The Night Demon"; attacked and raped women in Dnipropetrovsk between 1969 and 1972, strangling most of them into unconsciousness; killed 9 who recognized him; executed 1972
Eugênio Chipkevitch	Brazil	Unknown	40	Ukrainian-born physician and psychotherapist who molested his adolescent patients in São Paulo, also recording the assaults on a camcorder. The recordings were later discovered in a trash bag by a telephone technician, who reported them to media and police, eventually leading to his arrest. Chipkevitch was sentenced to 128 years' imprisonment, later reduced to 114 years, and is currently serving at an unnamed prison in Sorocaba.[24]
Oleg Kosarev	Soviet Union  Russia	1984–2011	40	Known as the "Elevator"; robber and pedophilic rapist who assaulted teenage girls in elevators around several cities in Moscow Oblast; claims to have committed at least 140 rapes; sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.[25]
Akku Yadav	India	1991–2004	40	Rapist and murderer in India who was lynched by a mob of around 200 women. Yadav was stabbed over seventy times, and chili powder and stones were thrown in his face. One of his alleged victims also hacked off his penis.
Martin Ney	Germany  France (possible)	1992–2004	40	He wore a mask while killing three and sexual assaulting at least 40 children in school camps. He also did some of his activities in camps, private homes and other places. Also known as the “Masked Man” and the “Black Man”.
Henrique Sotero	Portugal	2008–2009	40	Known as the "Telheiras Rapist"; engineer who raped predominantly underage girls in the Greater Lisbon area at knifepoint; sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.[26]
Peter Moore	United Kingdom	1975–1995	39	British gay serial killer who murdered four men at random in north Wales in 1995, but who was also convicted of 39 sex attacks on men across Merseyside and north Wales over the proceeding 20 years.[27]
Roland Cazaux	France	1987–2002	36	Known as "The Cat"; raped women in Arcachon and Landes, sneakily entering through open windows at night and managing to avoid detection. Sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment, but paroled in 2012.[28]
The Teardrop rapist	United States	1996–2012	35	The Teardrop rapist is a moniker for an unidentified rapist responsible for 35 sexual assaults on women, including minors, in Los Angeles, California.[29]
Delroy Grant	United Kingdom	1990–2009	34	Convicted rapist who carried out a series of offences of burglary, rape and sexual assault dating between October 1992 and May 2009 in the South East London area of England, targeting primarily elderly women. He is positively linked to four reported rapes and around 30 other sexual assaults. Police believe he is also responsible for at least another two rapes where the victims felt unable to make any official allegation. The true total may be higher as his victims are often too traumatised to speak to police.
Paul Ogorzow	Nazi Germany	1939-1941	31	Serial killer known as the "S-Bahn Murderer". Executed for the murders of eight women, but also convicted of thirty-one rapes committed before his murder spree.
Anatoly Nagiyev	Soviet Union	1975–1980	30	Known as "The Mad One"; committed rapes across the USSR, killing at least six women in the Komi ASSR; suspected of numerous other crimes; executed 1981.[30]
Ronnie Shelton	United States	1980s	30	Known as "The West Side Rapist"; broke into homes in Cleveland, Ohio and raped the inhabitants; may have been responsible for over 50 rapes; committed suicide in prison in 2018.[31]
Kirk Reid	United Kingdom	1995–2007	28	Raped and sexually assaulted women in South London, most frequently in the districts of Wandsworth, Balham and Tooting; suspected of over 70 assaults, beginning in 1984; sentenced to life imprisonment.[32]
Andrzej Kunowski	Poland/ United Kingdom	1972–1997	27	Known as "The Beast of Mława"; sexually assaulted young girls in and around Warsaw; fled to London, England in 1997, where he murdered a young girl and was sentenced to life imprisonment; suspect in three other murders in both countries; died of heart failure in 2009.[33]
Rochdale child sex abuse ring	United Kingdom	1997–2013	24	28 members of a grooming ring have been convicted as of 2022 for the systematic rape and sexual abuse of young girls, many younger than 16, in Rochdale between 2004 and 2013, although "thousands" of men are said to have been involved in the crimes and they are believed to have started in around 1997. The men have between them been convicted of 24 counts of rape, but were also convicted of multiple other counts of attempts to rape, conspiracy to rape and for other sexual crimes. The ring gained notoriety in the UK as the men were mostly British Pakistani men, which led to inflamed racial tensions.[34][35][36][37][38][39]
Benny Sela	Israel	1985–1999	24	According to police, Sela committed at least 24 and possibly as many as 34 rapes, sexual assaults, and sexual molestations of women and girls in central Israel over the course of five years in the 1990s, though it is suspected that he committed his first rape as a teenager in 1985. In 1995, he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for having systematically molested his cousin from the time she was eight to when she was fifteen and resumed his rape spree upon his release. After being arrested for an attempted rape in 1999, he was identified as a serial rapist. He pled guilty as part of a plea bargain and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Yang Xinhai	China	1999–2003	23	Chinese rapist-killer who committed 67 murders and 23 rapes. Executed in 2004.
Aaron H. Thomas	United States	1991–2009	22	Rapist Aaron H. Thomas was arrested on March 4, 2011, after police matched his DNA to that of the rapist from a cigarette butt he discarded. On March 5, 2011, jailers reported that Thomas attempted to hang himself while in a jail cell.
John Svahlstedt	Sweden	1971–2013	22	Known as the "Södermannen"; raped and assaulted women in Södermalm and Haga during the 1970s and 1980s; after release, arrested again in 2013 for the rape of a child; sentenced to four years' imprisonment.[40]
Uni-Phantom	Germany	1994–2002	21	Unidentified sex offender responsible for 21 rapes of predominantly young women, first starting in Sprockhövel before moving into the vicinity of the Ruhr University Bochum. The Phantom usually threatened his victims with a knife at public transport stops before raping them. For unknown reasons, there were large gaps between his rape series, and the investigation into his crimes in still ongoing.[41]
Jack Mogale	South Africa	2008–2009	19	Dubbed the West-End Serial Killer by police, is a South African serial killer who killed 16 people in 2008 and 2009. On 17 February 2011, Mogale was convicted on 52 of 61 charges related to 16 murders, 19 rapes, and 9 kidnappings.
Patrick Trémeau	France	1983–2005	19	Known as the "Parking Rapist"; active in Paris, he would follow young women to buildings with underground car parks, where he would subsequently threaten them with a knife and rape them. His case influenced the debate on recidivism in France, and currently, he is serving a 20-year sentence.[42]
Li Feng	China	1998–2002	19	Chinese teacher who was executed for sexually molesting and raping 19 girls. Li was an elementary school teacher in the city of Tonghua, in northeast China's Jilin province. He began teaching in 1998, and he began molesting his students in August of that year. He assaulted various girls in his class for the next four years. The victims were all under the age of 14.
Julio Kopseng	Norway	2001–2013	18	Colombian-born dancer and minor celebrity who drugged and raped women he invited over for job interviews in Oslo; sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment, the harshest penalty for a rape case in Norwegian history.[43]
Batman rapist	United Kingdom	since 1991	17	The Batman rapist is an English unidentified serial sex offender who has committed at least 17 attacks on women in the city of Bath, Somerset. He was nicknamed after leaving a baseball cap bearing a logo from the Batman film series at the scene of one attack.
Darren Sharper	United States	2011–2014	16	Darren Sharper was a former NFL football player who played in the league for 14 seasons with three different teams. During that time he was a 5x Pro Bowler 2x 1st Team All-Pro as well as a Super Bowl Champion and 2000's All decade Team member.[44] In 2014 he pled guilty to the drugging and raping of 16 different women across 4 different states and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.[45]
Mark Wayne Rathbun	United States	1997-2002	16	Known as the "Belmont Shore Rapist"; responsible for a series of break-in rapes of numerous women in the Los Angeles and Orange Counties in California. Was convicted in August 2004 and October 2008 on dozens of charges regarding the rape spree.
Mark Goudeau	United States	2005–2006	15	Known as "The Baseline Killer"; raped women and young girls in the North Central area of Phoenix, Arizona, during a crime spree in which he also kidnapped and killed other victims. Sentenced to death.[46]
Francisco Antonio Laureana	Argentina	1974–1975	15	Known as "The Satyr of San Isidro"; raped at least 15 women around San Isidro, Buenos Aires, killing 13 of them, always attacking Wednesdays and Thursdays near 6:00 PM. Shot dead by police in 1975.[47]
George Joseph Cvek	United States	1940–1941	15	Known as "The Aspirin Bandit"; Pennsylvanian who robbed and raped at least 15 women around New York City, with possibly at least 66 others, including in Maine and New Orleans, Louisiana; nicknamed "The Gentleman Killer" after being convicted of raping and killing Kitty Pappas in the Bronx, for which he was later executed in 1942.[48]
Kansas College Rapist	United States	2000–2015	14	An unidentified serial rapist in a now reopened case, tied to fourteen rapes in Lawrence and Manhattan, Kansas, targeting college students at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. The rapist stopped in 2008 in the majority of the spree, but was tied to another rape in 2015, leading to the case being reopened. The rapist has never been affirmatively identified.[49]
Mark Wayne Rathbun	United States	1997–2002	14	Between 1997 and 2002, Rathbun committed at least fourteen rapes in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California. Many of Rathbun's attacks were committed in the Belmont Shore district of Long Beach, California, hence his nickname. In addition to striking in Long Beach, Rathbun was also active in the cities of Huntington Beach and Los Alamitos.
Cedric Maake	South Africa	1996–1997	14	Attacked couples parked in cars around the Wemmer Pan area whom Maake would assault, shooting the men and raping the women.
Niklas Eliasson	Sweden	2005–2010	14	Known as the "Örebro Rapist"; considered one of Sweden's worst serial rapists, Eliasson was active in Örebro, acting upon an inner voice that told his to attack women; sentenced to 12 years in prison, and released on parole in 2018.[50]
Baekuni	Indonesia	1993–2010	14	Indonesian serial killer who raped street children between the ages of 4 and 14, mutilating 4 of them.
Dennis Rabbitt	United States	1988–1997	14	Known as "The South Side Rapist"; burgled into various homes in St. Louis and surrounding counties, where he raped female victims ranging from young girls to elderly women. Although convicted of only 14 rapes, Rabbitt is suspected in more than 100+ rapes across Missouri and Illinois, starting in 1973.[51]
Naceur Damergi	Tunisia	1980s	14	Raped 14 minors, killing 13. Executed in 1990.
Willi Kimmritz	East Germany	1946–1948	13	Known as "The Horror of the Brandenburg Forest"; robbed and raped women in the forests around Berlin, killing four. In order to shorten the trial, Kimmritz was convicted of only 13 rapes and three murders, but his true count of rape victims is known to be around 45. He was executed in 1950.[52]
Roy Charles Waller	United States	1991–2006	12	American man who was arrested in September 2018 as a suspect in a series of more than ten rapes and kidnappings committed between 1991 and 2006 in six Northern California counties (the "Norcal Rapist"). DNA evidence from crime scenes were matched on GEDmatch to a relative of Waller, and he was identified through genetic genealogy.
Levith Rúa	Colombia	2010–2019	12	Known as "The Beast from the Slaughterhouse"; former police officer who lured victims with false offers for jobs, then raped and tortured them at a hut in Malambo; also responsible for the murder of a student; sentenced to 37 years' imprisonment.[53]
Lassana Coulibaly	France	2002–2005	12	Known as the "Sock Rapist"; delinquent who kidnapped and raped women in several areas around France, always gagging his victim with a sock or other items, thus the nickname. Convicted and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.[54]
John Lambe	United Kingdom	1975–1980	12	Known as the "M5 Rapist"; builder and lorry driver who raped women across the M5 motorway, as a way to get at the police force, who had convicted him of a buglary charge; sentenced to life imprisonment.[55]
John Taylor	United Kingdom	1970s–2001	11+	Known mostly for the murder of Leanne Tiernan, Leeds man John Taylor was also further convicted in 2003 of two rapes in the city in 1988 and 1989 respectively. In 2018 he was convicted of 16 further historical offences, including at least 9 rapes and sexual offences. He is suspected of many other offences.[56]
Angus Sinclair	United Kingdom	1960s–1980s	11	A Scottish serial killer who murdered at least four women and who was suspected of murdering at least another four. In 1982 he was convicted of 11 rapes and sexual assaults of children aged 6 to 14.[57]
Melvin Carter	United States	1971–1980	11	Known as the "College Terrace Rapist"; raped women at knifepoint in College Terrace, Palo Alto, California; confessed to over 100 rapes in multiple cities across California.[58]
Erich Hauert	Switzerland	1982–1983	11	Sex offender who committed 11 rapes and 3 murders from 1982 to 1983; sentenced to life imprisonment; his case impacted treatment of dangerous sexual offenders in Switzerland tremendously.
Joseph McCann	United Kingdom	2019	11	English-born Scottish traveller career criminal who sexually assaulted and raped victims, ranging from children to elderly women; sentenced to 33 counts of life imprisonment.[59]
Luc Tangorre	France	1979–2019	10	Known as the "Marseille Southern Districts Rapist"; assaulted 10 women and children, possibly more, in the span of a few decades. Tangorre was partially exonerated for his first series of rapes, but was later reconvicted after raping two American students. He was given an additional three and a half years for raping three minors between 2012 and 2019, and is due to stand trial for another such rape in Lyon, from 2018.[60]
Thomas Grettenberg	United States	1977	10	Known as the "Austin Choker"; attacked and sexually assaulted predominantly Jewish co-eds at the University of Texas, choking them into unconsciousness before raping them; suspected of 24 rapes in total; died in prison from cancer in 1989
Georgi Yordanov	Bulgaria	1970s	10	In the beginning of the 1970s, a serial rapist, known as "Joro the Paver, the Second", raped 10 victims and committed a double murder. In 1975, the perpetrator Georgi Yordanov was captured, sentenced to death and subsequently executed by firing squad.
Viktor Selikhov	Soviet Union	1962–1964	10	Known as "The Naked Demon"; attacked and raped young girls and women around Frunze and its surroundings, raping 10 and killing at least three; wore a wreath around his neck, and appeared shirtless and barefoot to confuse his victims; executed 1965.[61]
Potomac River Rapist	United States	1991–1997	9	The Potomac River Rapist is a serial rapist and murderer who was active in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area from 1991 to 1998. Ten sexual assaults and one murder were linked to the suspect by DNA. Fatal rape attack on August 1, 1998, not included. A suspect was arrested and charged on November 13, 2019.
John Duffy and David Mulcahy	United Kingdom	1982–1986	9	Known as the "Railway Rapists" and later as the "Railway Killers" after progressing onto murdering their victims, serial killers and childhood friends John Duffy and David Mulcahy were also convicted of nine rapes between them, which were committed near railway stations in or near London.[62]
Troy Graves	United States	1997–2001	9	Known as "The Center City Rapist"; burgled into homes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Fort Collins, Colorado, raping the female occupants; killed a doctoral student in 1998; sentenced to life imprisonment.[63]
Antoni Imiela	United Kingdom	2001-2002	9	A German-born convicted rapist, Antoni raped nine women and girls. The crimes took place in Surrey, Kent, Berkshire, London, Hertfordshire and Birmingham. He died in HMP Wakefield prison on 8 March 2018.
Jean-Luc Blanche	France	1990–2003	9	Known as the "Backpacker Rapist"; active in several departments around France, Blanche would often kidnap and drive his victims to isolated areas, where he would repeatedly rape them. After he was finished, he acted nicely towards the victims, even driving them back to their homes. His case, which was highly publicized, contributed to the creation of the automated judicial file for sex offenders in the country.[64]
Niklas Lindgren	Sweden	1998–2005	9	Known as "Hagamannen"; convicted of sexual assaults in and around the area of Umeå, after one of Sweden's largest police investigations, which was marred with setbacks; sentenced to 9 years and released on parole in 2015.[65]
Altemio Sanchez	United States	1981–2006	9	Known as the "Bike Path Rapist/Killer"; Puerto Rican man who raped between 9 and 15 women in Buffalo, New York, killing at least three of them; another man was wrongfully convicted for his crimes; sentenced to 75 years to life.[66]
Francis Evrard	France  Belgium	1962–2007	9	French-Belgian pedophile who sexually abused young boys in both countries, who admitted to about 40 assaults. Following a notorious abduction, kidnapping and rape of a 5-year-old boy from his hometown of Roubaix in 2007, Evrard was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment. His case led to a renewal on the debate concerning the treatment of sex offenders in France.[67]
Stephen Port	United Kingdom	Early 2010s-2015	8	Gay serial killer who murdered four men in sexual acts between 2014 and 2015, but who also was convicted of four rapes and four sexual assaults on other men. Suspected of being responsible for more rapes.[68]
Vince Champ	United States	1996–1997	8	American stand-up comedian who raped at least eight women.[69] He had a consistent method of operation in each of the rapes, he covered their heads so they could not identify him, he asked about their sexual history, engaged in anal sex, used his own saliva for lubrication, and he asked each of the women to pray for him afterward.
Andrei Yurkin	Russia	1994–1995	8	Known as "The Mordovian Maniac"; policeman who, together with two accomplices, robbed and raped women in Saransk from 1994 to 1995, killing five of them in the process. Initially sentenced to death, his sentence was commuted to 15 years due to the moratorium on capital punishment in the country. Yurkin served his full term and was released in 2009, and has not committed any crimes since.[70]
Reginald Kimbro	United States	2012-2017	8	Plead guilty to the rapes and murders of Molly Jane Matheson and Megan Getrum in 2017. Was later indicted and plead guilty to four rapes in different counties across Texas between 2012 and 2014, the reports previously not being followed through with. Four more women came forward and also accused Kimbro of rape, but no legal measures have been taken as of yet. Reports mention accounts of Kimbro "charming" women and then drugging, strangling, and raping them when that failed. Kimbro dated Molly Matheson before raping, beating, and strangling her to death, then washing her in the shower and running a load of laundry where his underwear was later found. Kimbro and Megan Getrum never knew each other, and Kimbro raped and strangled her while she was out hiking. All crimes Kimbro was convicted of were based on DNA evidence and witness accounts. Kimbro took pleas to avoid the death penalty and waived all appeals.[71] [72]
Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira	Brazil	Unknown	8	Brazilian rapist and serial killer who committed at least 8 rapes, one in Atibaia municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and seven more in Bragança Paulista municipality in the state of São Paulo. Besides from raping, he killed five children.
Igor Irtyshov	Russia	1993–1994	8	Pedophile who raped young boys in St. Petersburg, killing two of them; sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.[73]
Larry Murphy	Ireland	2001	8	Irishman convicted of kidnapping, repeatedly raping, and attempting to murder a young woman. Suspected in the disappearance of 8 women.
The Creeper	Sweden  Norway	1990s–2003	8	Broke into the houses of female victims around Gothenburg, watching over them before eventually raping them under the threat of a knife. The perpetrator, whose name was not released, was later identified via DNA evidence as a man serving a rape sentence in neighboring Norway. Sentenced to forensic psychiatric care.[74]
Daniel Holtzclaw	United States	2013–2014	8	Used his authority as a police officer to target African American women in his community. Convicted of raping or assaulting eight women, but his true number of victims is believed to be eighteen.[75]
Shlomo Haliva	Israel	1969–1975	7	Known as "The Weeping Rapist"; sexually assaulted and raped at least seven women around Acre and murdered one in Netanya; suspected of other rapes and possibly four additional murders; sentenced to life imprisonment, but expecting release on parole in 2024.[76]
Phillip Pizzo	United States	1983–1984	7	Known as "The Mall Rapist"; kidnapped young girls from malls in Natick and Peabody, Massachusetts, taking them to his home in Westford, where he would repeatedly abuse and sodomize them; confessed to 20 rapes in total; sentenced to 11 terms of life imprisonment with a chance of parole.[77]
Joro the Paver	Bulgaria	1968	6–7	Active in Sofia's Konyovitsa neighborhood, Joro the Paver earned his nickname from the handkerchiefs he left on pavements next to the victims. As a result of one of his attacks, one victim died from her injuries in hospital. A deaf-mute named Milcho Milanov, from Rakita, was initially convicted and served time for the crimes, but was later released due to lack of evidence.[78]
Peter Samuel Cook	United Kingdom	1974–1975	6	Serial rapist who attacked women in Cambridge, England and so became known in the press as the Cambridge Rapist. He was active between October 1974 and April 1975, and was also called the 'hooded rapist' because of a distinctive leather mask he wore whilst carrying out his crimes.
Tomasz Włodarek	Poland	1997–2000	6	Known as the "Vampire of Świnoujście"; raped young girls and women under the threat of a knife in the Świnoujście area, killing one woman and a female customs officer; sentenced to two counts of life imprisonment.[79]
Marc O'Leary	United States	2008–2012	6	Stalked and broke into the homes of six women with various ages, backgrounds, and other personal information in suburbs near Seattle and Denver, raping them while holding them captive for prolonged time in their own homes. The first woman identified, publicly named Marie, was never believed in her report and harassed by the despondent local officers assigned to her case into saying she lied, resulting in her being charged, convicted, and briefly imprisoned for her statement allegedly being "false". Combined efforts from departments in Washington and Colorado led to O'Leary, a previously nearby stationed army veteran, being identified and arrested in Colorado, with evidence of all rapes, including the rape of Marie, found in O'Leary's home. Revelations leading to Marie's exoneration and settlement by the city also led to changes in the Lynwood police department's protocol and ethics once its excessive rejections of sex offense cases was revealed. An article published in ProPublica detailed the case, An Unbelievable Story of Rape, as well as an adapted miniseries Unbelievable.
John Worboys	United Kingdom	2002–2008	6–100+	Known as the "Black Cab Rapist"; cab driver who drugged and subsequently raped across England. Police have concluded that he amassed more than 100 victims; his case resulted in scrutiny towards the investigating team's incompetence. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.[80][81]
Marcel Hansen	Denmark	1995–2010	6	Known as the "Amager Man"; football coach who raped six women between around Amager, in addition to murdering another two on separate occasions in 1987 and 1990; was also indicted for a seventh rape, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence; sentenced to life imprisonment.[82]
Edgar Antonsen	Norway	1971–1993	5+	Violent sex offender and serial killer who raped young women and children, sometimes killing them with the aid of his half-brother Terje, and was later linked to another murder dating back to 1962. Sentenced to life imprisonment but released in 1988, whereupon he moved to the north, where he committed suicide in 1993 to avoid arrest for sexually abusing a young girl.[83]
John Cannan	United Kingdom	1980–1987	5+	Cannan is infamous for the 1987 murder of Shirley Banks and for being suspected of being responsible for the murder of Suzy Lamplugh, who disappeared in 1986 and has never been found. He is also suspected of another abduction and murder and has been convicted of three separate rapes and two attempted rapes. He will be eligible for parole in 2022.[84]
Gabriel Turgeman	Israel	2002–2004	5	Known as "The Evasive Pedophile"; abducted, beat and raped 5, possibly 10, young girls in Ashdod and Ashkelon; sentenced to 45 years imprisonment, the highest sentence imposed on a sex offender in the country.[85]
Ronald Janssen	Belgium	2001–2010	5	Known as "Le Prof"; serial killer and rapist who targeted lone women and young couples, killing at least three and raping at least; confessed to 20 rapes in total; sentenced to life imprisonment.[86]
John Jamelske	United States	1998–2003	5	Serial kidnapper and rapist of five different women of various ages and backgrounds in Fayetteville, New York. Jamelske, a reclusive hoarder that came into a lot of money, constructed a basement cell before regularly kidnapping a woman from the street, imprisoning her in the cell for months, and raping her repeatedly while directing and recording her activities. The woman would then be released, with Jamelske searching for another woman to abduct to repeat the cycle. After Jamelske was arrested, one woman who was held captive openly spoke out about her trauma and elaborated Jamelske's crimes on a radio show.
John Williams Jr.	United States	1996	5	Homeless drifter who raped five women in the Raleigh, North Carolina area between January and December 1996, killing two of them; sentenced to death.[87]
Mamadou Traoré	France	1996	5	Senegalese-born man who assaulted at least six female victims in Paris, raping five and killing two of them. At trial, he claimed to have been cursed by evil Vodun spirits, which caused him to kill. Sentenced to life imprisonment.[88]
Paul Callow	Canada	1980s	5	Known as the "Balcony Rapist"; after stalking his victims, he would break into their homes in Toronto by climbing onto balconies or entering through broken windows or doors; his last victim later successfully sued the Toronto police for their inaction regarding the rapist; Callow received a 20-year-to-life sentence, but was released in 2007.[89]
Guido Zingerle	Italy  Austria	1946–1950	5	Italian murderer and possible serial killer who killed at least 2 women in the 1940s and raped another 3.
Jonathan King	United Kingdom	1980s	5	Music mogul and paedophile who lured teenage boys to his home before having sex with them.[90] A later trial in 2018 resulted in King's acquittal on eighteen further charges.
Robert Napper, a.k.a. the "Green Chain rapist"	United Kingdom	1989–1994	4–106	Infamous for the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell, one of Britain's best-known murders, Robert Napper also killed two others in 1993 and is suspected of being the "Green Chain rapist", the name given to the perpetrator of up to 106 rapes across the South East London Green Chain walk in the early 1990s. The rapes stopped in 1994, the same year Napper was sent to prison. He has been convicted of three of these rapes and later confessed to a further rape.[91]
Trent Benson	United States	2004–2007	4+	Abducted, raped and beat women in Mesa and Phoenix from 2004 to 2007, resulting in the deaths of two victims. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the two murders and to 135 years imprisonment for two other sexual assaults, and is currently on death row. Police believe he might be responsible for further rapes and murders.[92]
Mark Dixie	United Kingdom	1980s to 2006	4	Best known for the rape and murder of Sally Ann Bowman in 2005, Dixie was also convicted in 2017 of two separate rapes committed in 1987 and 2002. He has also confessed to other attacks, including a sexual assault in Spain in 2005, and has also been convicted for and linked to other sex attacks in Britain and Australia.[93]
Andrew Luster	United States	2000	4	Heir to cosmetics fortune and adoptive grandson of Max Factor, Sr.. Was arrested for four counts of drug-induced aggravated rape when a college student accused Luster of drugging and raping her at his home and search revealed tapes of more unconscious rapes. Luster fled prosecution into Central America, but was convicted in abesntia for the rapes and captured by bounty hunter Duane Chapman to be extradited back to the US. Luster is now serving life in prison for the rapes.
Dimitris Aspiotis	Greece	2010, 2020	4+	Known as "The Beast of Kavos". Responsible for the kidnappings and rapes of between three and seven women on the island of Corfu, Greece, suspected of around 100 rapes total. Aspiotis targeted British female tourists, having a consistent M.O. of forcing them out into the island's woods before raping them. Aspiotis was convicted and served time, then was released on parole. Police chased him down in 2020 on suspicion of another rape, but Aspiotis plunged off a cliff and broke his back during a fall. While receiving medical treatment, Aspiotis was again taken into custody convicted, and is serving over 20 years of another sentence for aggravated rape and evading authority.[94]
River Park rapist	United States	1996	4	In 1996 a suspected serial rapist dubbed by local media the "River Park Rapist" preyed on female residents of South Bend, Indiana. Police arrested Richard Alexander (then 30 years old) in August 1996 for four of the rapes, largely on the basis of the statements of the victims. DNA evidence definitively excluded him as a suspect in one of the rapes, although both the victim and her fiancé continued to insist that Alexander was the perpetrator. Alexander was later found innocent of all charges.
James Lloyd	United Kingdom	1980s	4	For a period of a least four years during the 1980s, a man violently attacked and raped at least four lone women and attempted to assault at least two others in the Rotherham area. His victims were aged between 18 and 54 and were typically attacked during the early hours of the morning while returning from a night out. In April 2006, Lloyd was arrested and charged. He pled guilty to four rapes and two attempted rapes in July 2006, but denied responsibility for one other rape.
Arohn Kee	United States	1991–1998	4+	Known as the "East-Harlem rapist", Raped four women and killed another three in East-Harlem, Manhattan, New York. After his exposure in 1999, he kidnapped a 15-year-old girl from Brooklyn and vanished with her, causing a manhunt to occur across the east coast of the United States. He was eventually found with the girl in a hotel room in Miami three months later. He was sentenced to life in prison, and has denied responsibility other rapes and murders.
Robert Lee Walden	United States	1989–1991	4	Stalked women around apartment complexes in Tucson, Arizona from 1989 to 1991, later breaking into their apartment and raping them under the threat of a knife. During the rapes, surviving victims noted that Walden frequently taunted them, and always pretended to leave several times before finally fleeing. He was convicted of two murders and four rapes, for which he was given a death sentence and five life terms, respectively. He has also confessed to a third murder, for which he has never been charged.[95]
Robert Hohenberger	United States	1978	4	Former California police deputy and kidnapper who raped women in several counties at gunpoint; suspect in the murders of five teenagers in Morgan City, Louisiana, committed between March and May 1978; later committed suicide to avoid arrest.[96]
David Parker Ray	United States	1957-1999	4-74	New Mexico native and pathological sexual sadist. With the help of several accomplices, including family, Ray kidnapped women from the street, held them captive in a trailer torture chamber known as the "toy box", and raped and tortured them while intermittently drugging them. Ray is suspected of being a prolific serial killer of 70 women across New Mexico and Arizona. Ray was convicted on confirmed crimes of the rapes and tortures of three women, as well as a fourth woman one of his accomplices murdered. The first two living women's reports were rejected by police, leading to their lives being ruined, even though one woman survived nearly being murdered and left on a roadside, while the third woman escaped with her life fighting one of the accomplices and running, before reaching a homeowner who sheltered her and called the police. Ray was convicted and imprisoned for life on all confirmed charges, dying within a year of the sentence from a heart attack.
Brian Lunn Field	United Kingdom	1960s–2001	3+	Brian Lunn Field is a peadophile and serial offender against young boys who was also convicted in 2001 of the murder of Roy Tutill, who he also buggered. He has 6 other criminal convictions for sexual offences against young boys, including for a sexual assault in the 1970s and two counts of buggery in the early 1980s. He was also convicted for abducting two young boys in his car in 1986 and attempting to rape them, but they managed to escape after jumping from the car. He is the prime suspect in the case of two boys, Patrick Warren and David Spencer who vanished from the street in Solihull in December 1996 when he was driving around in a van in the area. He is also suspected of another murder of a boy in the area in 1984.[97]
São Paulo Monster	Brazil	1973	3	Serial pedophile rapist who attacked 3 girls in São Paulo, Brazil at the Bari and Pari regions. Unsuccessfully attempted to rape other girls.
James Edward Wood	United States	1977–1993	3	Violent sex offender who confessed to raping at least 10 women in various states, but was convicted of only three in Louisiana and Idaho from 1977 to 1993. He was later convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of an 11-year-old girl in Idaho, and was suspected in other killings in Louisiana, but died on death row in 2004.[98]
Mr. Cruel	Australia	1987–1990	3	Serial pedophile rapist who attacked 3 girls in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of a fourth girl.
David Smith	United Kingdom	1976–1999	3	Murderer of prostitutes who infamously was acquitted of a murder of a sex worker in 1993 only to go on to murder another. Also convicted of a rape of a mother in front of her children in 1976 and committed two other attempted rapes.[99]
Interstate 80 rapist	United States	2013–2014	3	Series of rapes that was committed by a unidentified serial rapist in Sacramento, California. While many have been convinced that other assaults took place by the same man, only three have been successfully linked by DNA.