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Erzsébet Báthory, the Blood Countess

In short Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), a Hungarian noblewoman, was accused with four servants of torturing and killing hundreds of girls

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In short In 1968 in Scotswood, near Newcastle, Mary Bell, aged 10 and 11, strangled two little boys, 4-year-old Martin

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In short Giorgio William Vizzardelli (1922-1973), the “monster of Sarzana”, killed five people between 1937 and 1938, starting at 14

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In short Peter Kürten (1883-1931), the “Vampire of Düsseldorf”, was a German serial killer who in 1929 terrorised Düsseldorf with

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In short In June 1983, in California, two teenagers who had escaped from a juvenile correctional facility, Cindy Collier and

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In short On 22 July 2011 the Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people: 8 with a car

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In short On 13 November 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr., 23, shot dead his parents and four siblings in their sleep

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In short Darya Saltykova (1730-1801), a Russian noblewoman widowed in 1755, tortured and killed dozens of serfs on her estate

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In short Kerri Rawson is the daughter of Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, who murdered at least ten people in

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In short On 6 July 2001 in Witten, Germany, Daniel and Manuela Ruda, a married couple of Satanists who saw

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In short On July 16, 2011 in Port St. Lucie, Florida, 17-year-old Tyler Hadley beat his parents, Blake and Mary-Jo,

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In short In July 2015 in Voronezh, Russia, a 23-year-old punk musician, Aleksandr U., killed and beheaded his girlfriend Viktoria

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