This is a list of serial killers who were active between 2020 and the present. A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who murders more than two people with a cooling-off period. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone".
Convicted serial killers
2020 NameCountryYears activeProven victimsCurrent statusNotesRosario Alfonso2018–20203Serving a sentence of 70 years in prisonMurdered at least three women between December 2018 and January 2020. Absolved of a fourth murder.Kenyel Brown2019–20206Committed suicide before apprehensionKnown as the "Metro Detroit Serial Killer". Robbed and murdered six people from 2019 to 2020 in Wayne County, Michigan, later committing suicide.Travis Lewis1996–20203Committed suicide before apprehensionMurdered three members of a family in the same house from 1996 to 2020. After murdering his third victim, he drowned himself in Horseshoe Lake.Andrey Yezhov2010–20207Committed suicide before trialKnown as "The Kashirsky Maniac"; linked to nine sexually motivated attacks against elderly women and young girls, seven of which were fatal. A month after he was arrested, he hanged himself in his prison cell.Omar Santos Loera2010–20203Committed suicide before trialMurdered two people with a saber in 2010 and was arrested, but escaped in less than a year. He later murdered his girlfriend in 2020.Ismael Antonio Sánchez and José Rojas2019–20203Serving a sentence of life imprisonment Along with other two men, they murdered an agricultural producer in June 2020, and were later linked to two other murders which took place between November 2019 and January 2020.Hugo Bustamante Pérez2005–20203Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentMurdered his girlfriend and her son in 2005 and hid their bodies in a metal barrel. Released in 2016 just to kill the daughter of his new girlfriend in 2020. In 2024, while in prison, he confessed to two other homicides.Lissa María Caiza20204Serving a sentence of 56 years in prisonKnown as "Mrs. Poison"; murdered her children, her boyfriend and a friend, and it is believed that she killed one more man. She is accused of having tried to murder ten people, including her mother and brothers.Karel Šťovíček1998–20203Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentCaused the death of a pensioner during a robbery; after release, he murdered two women in the Bohemian Paradise area during sexual encounters.Yuri Sparikhin1980–20204Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentKnown as "The Novorossiysk Maniac"; violent recidivist and sex offender who raped a woman and killed another in Krasnodar shortly after being released from prison. Previously convicted for murdering a neighbor in 1980 and two children in 2001.Diego Ruiz Restrepo20208Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentKnown as "The Psychopath of Meiggs"; Murdered random homeless people by stabbing them in November 2020.Harold Haulman1999–20203Serving a sentence of life imprisonment without paroleConvicted of murdering three people in the United States and Germany and suspected of an additional one. He lured his last two victims through dating apps.Omar Fernandez Herrada2017–20204Serving a sentence of 30 years in prison Murdered four people, including his cousin, with two accomplices.Siyamcela Sobambela2020325 years imprisonmentKnown as "The Breede Valley Serial Killer". Murdered three female acquaintances and then buried them in shallow graves.Maina Ramulu2003–202016Convicted; awaiting sentencingConvicted of murdering sixteen women during three separate murder sprees due to his hatred of women. He has now been charged with the murders of two more women committed after he was released from prison in 2020.Rustam Kiknadze2004–20205Sentenced to 26 years imprisonmentRaped, murdered two women and set their bodies on fire in 2004; paroled in 2014, but re-arrested for sexually abusing a disabled young girl; paroled on a second occasion in 2020 and killed three more women in Taraz that year; sentenced to 26 years imprisonment.Wellington Kachidza2019–20206Life imprisonmentKnown as "The Tshwane Extortionist Serial Murderer". Illegal immigrant from Zimbabwe who kidnapped and bludgeoned to death six people in Tshwane to extort money from their families.Maniram Sen2000–20205Convicted of five murders; awaiting trial for sixthAfter being released from prison in 2017 for murdering five people in 2000, Sen allegedly bludgeoned a journalist to death with a stone on November 8, 2020.Adre Baroz20205Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences plus 140 yearsMurdered five people in seven weeks in southern Colorado.Joshua Dotson20205Serving a sentence of 261 years in prisonA young man shot and killed five people, including his girlfriend and her unborn child. He called himself a serial killer and compared himself to Michael Myers.
2021 NameCountryYears activeProven victimsCurrent statusNotesKevin Gavin2015–20213Sentenced to 30 years to life in prisonKilled three residents of the Carter G. Woodson Houses in Brooklyn, where he also lived. He was arrested after using the third victim's credit card. He pleaded guilty in 2026.Tracy Walker1991–20214Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentStabbed three homeless people to death in Rancho Dominguez; previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Los Angeles.Sean Michael Lannon20215Serving a combined sentence of 95 years in prisonBludgeoned a man to death in New Jersey and murdered four other people, including his ex-wife, in New Mexico. He confessed to murdering an additional 11 people, most of whom were drug dealers, but his claims have not been substantiated.Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez2019–202114Serving a sentence of seventy years in prisonRaped and murdered fourteen women and girls with nine accomplices, and is suspected of having raped and murdered a further four to 26.Andrés Mendoza2001–202119Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentMurdered and cannibalized seventeen women, a man, and a child.Masten Milimu Wanjala2015–202110Lynched by mob while awaiting trialMurdered young boys in Nairobi and drank their blood. After escaping from prison, he was lynched by a mob.Karen Oviedo 2019–20212Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentKnown as «the Guaymallén poisoner», poisoned her partner Rolando Ángel Aquino and his 9-year-old stepson, Elián Aquino with ethylene glycol (car antifreeze).Fabricio Eloy Ludeña2017–20213Committed suicide before trialKnown as "The Undertaker of Dayuma", murdered three men and is believed to have killed a fourth in 2017. While awaiting trial, he hanged himself in his jail cell.José Tiago Correia Soroka20213One hundred and four years in prisonFatally strangled three gay men he contacted through a dating app. He is also a suspect in two other homicides; the death of a doctor in 2016, and his former boss, a gay man. He was captured after attempting to murder another victim.Richard Choque2009–20214Serving a sentence of 30 years in prisonConvicted of murdering a woman in 2013. He bribed a judge and kidnapped, raped, and murdered at least two more women once released. He had already killed his cousin in 2009.Shavkat Shayakhmedov1994–20215Died in prisonKnown as "The Zalegoshchensky Maniac"; Uzbekistani-Russian who raped and murdered four children and one adult woman in the Sughd Region and the Oryol Oblast.Dmitry Kazakov2009–20216Committed suicide before trialMurdered security guards and one woman during robberies in Novosibirsk and Tomsk Oblasts.Keith Gibson2008–20213Serving a life sentenceKilled a man in a robbery in Wilmington, Delaware in 2008. Convicted of two shooting deaths that occurred in May and June 2021 in Delaware, and is suspected of four other murders that occurred in Philadelphia that same year.Jason Thornburg2017–20213Sentenced to death in Texas in 2024. Currently incarcerated on death row.Convicted of murdering, dismembering and cannibalising three people in Fort Worth, Texas in September 2021. Additionally confessed to the murder of his missing girlfriend in Arizona in 2017 and the murder of his friend in Texas in May 2021.Themba Dube20216Life imprisonmentKnown as "The Polokwane Serial Killer." Illegal immigrant from Zimbabwe who lured six women to isolated areas under the pretense of offering them jobs, where he robbed, raped, and then strangled them to death. Acquitted in one murder due to a lack of evidence.Kwon Jae-chan2003–20213Serving a death sentenceRobbed and murdered three people in Incheon between 2003 and 2021.William Marcano Hernández2018–20216One hundred years and five months in prisonPuerto Rican who shot and killed a father and son in 2018, another man in 2020, and three 19-year-old males in an abandoned park in 2021.
2022 NameCountryYears activeProven victimsCurrent statusNotesAlexander Kiselev2003–2022313.5 years imprisonmentKnown as "The Tie Maniac"; strangled two female acquaintances in Perm, using a tie that matched the color of their socks; paroled from a 20-year sentence in 2022, after which he killed another woman in an identical manner.Necati Akpınar1984–20223Life imprisonmentMurdered three of his wives during arguments in Manisa, receiving a life sentence for the final one.Nhlanhla Mlotshwa2021–20223Life imprisonmentRaped and murdered three women in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.William Devonshire2003–20223Died before trialMurdered a woman in Sarasota, Florida, after being released from prison for a murder he committed in Delaware in 2003. On June 5, 2022, he died in the Sarasota County Jail after refusing to take his medication. Shortly after his death, he was linked by DNA to the murder of another woman in the same area.Roula Pispirigou2019–20223Life imprisonmentKnown as "the modern Medea," she murdered her three daughters: the first, a 5-year-old girl, was allegedly suffocated in 2019, a 6-month-old baby in 2021, and finally, her eldest, a 9-year-old daughter, was poisoned with ketamine. She was sentenced to life in prison.Freddrick Jackson 2020–20224Serving a 50 year sentenceFatally shot four people in Little Rock, Arkansas.Jeremy Skibicki20224IncarceratedMurdered four Indigenous-Canadian women between March and May 2022. Found guilty of first-degree murder on all counts on July 11, 2024.Brenda Agüero20225Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentMurdered five newborn babies and tried to kill eight others.Tyrone Steele20224Serving four life sentencesShot four to five people to death in New Orleans in a 45-day span.John Mark Richardson20223Serving three sentences of life imprisonmentShot three black men to death in Greensboro, North Carolina, one of whom he dismembered.Sifiso Mkhwanazi20226Life imprisonmentRaped and murdered six women in Johannesburg from April to October 2022.Malachi Uwem202215Shot and killed by police during an attempted escapeLeader of a gang who robbed and murdered fifteen people with accomplices. He and another gang member were shot and killed while attempting to escape police custody.Roberto José Carmona1986–20224Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentKnown as "The Human Hyena", in 1986 he kidnapped, raped and murdered a young woman named Gabriela Ceppi. Once in prison, he killed two other inmates. In 2022 he escaped from prison, during which he kidnapped and murdered a taxi driver in order to steal his vehicle.Andrew Hammond2020–20223Serving three sentences of life without paroleShot and killed three men in Fresno, California.Rease Pence20223Serving a 122 year and 6 month sentence for two of his murders and a 40 to 60 year sentence for the third murderMurdered 3 people in Michigan in the span of just over a month.Alonzo Brown20223Serving a sentence of 56 years to life in prisonShot and killed three people, two of whom were randomly chosen, between January and June 2022 in Las Vegas.Harvey Marcelin1963–20223Serving a sentence of life imprisonmentMurdered 3 women in New York.
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