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PHOTOS: America's most infamous serial killers

Thursday, April 30, 2015
Ted Bundy: Raped and murdered young women in several states during the 1970s. Executed in Florida in 1989.
Tommy Lynn Sells: Claimed responsibility for dozens of murders across the country in the 1980s and 90s. Executed in Texas in 2014
Dennis Rader (The BTK Killer): Pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first-degree murder in 2005 to crime committed between 1974 and 1991. Serving 10 life sentences in a Kansas prison.
Aileen Wuornos: Killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Executed in 2002.
The Zodiac Killer: Believed to be responsible for at least five murders between 1968 and 1969 around the San Francisco Bay Area. A suspect has never been apprehended.
Gary Ridgway (The Green River Killer): Pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder during the 1980s and 90s, although later claimed to as many as 75-80 women. Serving a life sentence.
John Wayne Gacy (The Killer Clown): Murder 33 young men between 1972 and 1978. Executed by lethal injection in 1994.
Charles Ng: Believed to have killed as many as 25 people in Northern California with his accomplice Leonard Lake. Currently on death row.
Jeffrey Dahmer (The Milwaukee Cannibal): Killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991 as well as committed acts of necrophilia and cannibalism. Murdered by a fellow prison inmate in 1994.
Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker): Convicted in 1989 of 13 murders committed in California between 1984 and 1985. Died in 2013 awaiting execution.
Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi (The Hillside Stranglers): Killed 10 girls and women in the Los Angeles hills in 1977 and 1978. Sentenced to life in prison. Buono died in 2002.
Edmund Kemper (The Co-ed Killer): Found guilty of eight murders in California in the 1970s -- six female hitchhikers, his mother and her friend. Sentenced to life in prison.
David Berkowitz (Son of Sam): Confessed to killing six people in New York City between 1976 and 1977. Sentenced to 25 years to life for each murder, remains in prison today.
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Ted Bundy: Raped and murdered young women in several states during the 1970s. Executed in Florida in 1989.
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