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Born	1909 • Germany
Died	April 8, 1944 (aged 35) • Vienna • Austria

Peter Kürten

German serial killer

Marc Dutroux

Belgian serial killer

John Wayne Gacy

American serial killer

Javed Iqbal

Pakistani serial killer

William Burke

Irish criminal

William Hare

Irish criminal

Mary Ann Cotton

British serial killer

Dennis Rader

American serial killer

Jack the Ripper

English murderer

Richard Kuklinski

American criminal

Andrei Chikatilo

Soviet serial killer

Harold Shipman

British physician and serial killer

H.H. Holmes

American serial killer

Richard Speck

American murderer

Marcel Petiot

French serial killer

Boston Strangler

American serial killer

Richard Ramirez

American serial killer

Zodiac killer

American serial killer

Ed Gein

American serial killer

David Berkowitz

American serial killer

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