Top 5 Most Prolific Serial Killers
“Cold,” “calculated,” and apparently “South American*” are all ways to describe the most ruthless serial killers after 1900. Check out our Top 5 Most Prolific Serial Killers list and you will discover what true evil looks like!
1) Luis Garavito (Colombia)
Published:
- Suspected of murdering over 400 victims, mostly street children
- Known as ”La Bestia” (“The Beast")
- Child-murderer, torture-killer, and rapist
- Possible Victims: 172-400+
- Proven Victims: 138
2) Pedro López (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
- Child-murderer and rapist (targeted young girls, between the ages of 8 and 12)
- Known as "The Monster of the Andes"
- He was released from prison in 1998 and his current whereabouts are unknown
- Possible Victims: 310-350+
- Proven Victims: 110
3) Daniel Camargo (Colombia, Ecuador)
- Child-murderer, believed to have possibly raped and killed over 150 victims, primarily young virgin girls
- Believed to have been motivated to kill from his stepmother abusing him as a child
- Escaped from Colombian prison and started killing in Ecuador; was rearrested in 1989 and was killed in jail
- Possible Victims: 150
- Proven Victims: 72
4) Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Brazil)
- Convicted and sentenced to 128 years, but the maximum one can serve in Brazil is 30 years
- Claimed to have killed over 100 victims, 47 of them inmates
- Killed his father and ate a piece of his heart
- Possible Victims: 100+
- Proven Victims: 71
5) Kampatimar Shankariya (India)
- Murdered at least 70 people with a hammer
- Sentenced to death
- Hanged on May 16, 1979
- Possible Victims: 70
- Proven Victims: 71+
