List of serial killers active in the 2020s

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.^[1] 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".^[2]

Convicted serial killers

2020

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes
Rosario Alfonso	Mexico	2018–2020	3	4	Serving a sentence of 70 years in prison	Murdered at least three women between December 2018 and January 2020. Absolved of a fourth murder.[3]
Esteban Lorenzo Duarte	Argentina	2004–2020	2	5	Committed suicide before apprehension	Known as "The Butcher/Bluebeard of Villa Astolfi"; murdered his wife in 2004, then murdered and dismembered a girlfriend in 2020. He is suspected of the disappearances of three neighbors.[4][5]
Kenyel Brown	United States	2019–2020	6	6	Committed suicide before apprehension	Known as the "Metro Detroit Serial Killer". Robbed and murdered six people from 2019 to 2020 in Wayne County, Michigan, later committing suicide.[6]
Travis Lewis	United States	1996–2020	3	3	Committed suicide before apprehension	Murdered three members of a family in the same house from 1996 to 2020. After murdering his third victim, he drowned himself in Horseshoe Lake.[7]
Anil Vala	India	?–2020	2	3	Convicted of two murders; awaiting trial for third	Sexually assaulted and strangled women in Gujarat.[8]
Andrey Yezhov	Russia	2010–2020	7	7	Committed suicide before trial	Known 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 hung himself in his prison cell.[9]
Omar Santos Loera	Mexico	2010–2020	3	3	Committed suicide before trial	Murdered two people with a saber in 2010 and was arrested, but escaped in less than a year. He later murdered his girlfriend in 2020.[10]
Ismael Antonio Sánchez and José Rojas	Argentina	2019–2020	3	3	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Along with other two men, they murdered an agricultural producer in June of 2020, and were later linked to two other murders which took place between November 2019 and January 2020.[11][12]
Hugo Bustamante Pérez	Chile	2005–2020	3	5	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Murdered 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.[13] In 2024, while in prison, he confessed to two other homicides.[14]
Lissa María Caiza	Ecuador	2020	4	5	Serving a sentence of 56 years in prison	Known 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.[15][16]
Karel Šťovíček	Czech Republic	1998–2020	3	3	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Caused the death of a pensioner during a robbery; after release, he murdered two women in the Bohemian Paradise area during sexual encounters.[17]
Yuri Sparikhin	Soviet Union Russia	1980–2020	4	4	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Known 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.[18]
Diego Ruiz Restrepo	Chile	2020	8	15–20	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Known as "The Psychopath of Meiggs"; Murdered random homeless people by stabbing them in November 2020.[19]
Harold Haulman	Germany  United States	1999–2020	3	4	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole	Convicted 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.[20]
Omar Fernandez Herrada	Bolivia	2017–2020	4	4	Serving a sentence of 30 years in prison	Murdered four people, including his cousin, with two accomplices.[21]
Maina Ramulu	India	2003–2020	16	18	Convicted; awaiting sentencing	Convicted 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.[22]
Rustam Kiknadze	Kazakhstan	2004–2020	5	5	Sentenced to 26 years imprisonment	Raped, 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.[23]
Nikolay Tishov	Russia Spain (accused)	2020	1	3	Serving an indefinite sentence in a psychiatric hospital	Suspected of murdering two people in Alicante, Spain, between August and November 2020. He later murdered another person in Russia, and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being declared mentally ill.[24][25]
Maniram Sen	India	2000–2020	5	6	Convicted of five murders; awaiting trial for sixth	After 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.[26]
Adre Baroz	United States	2020	5	5	Sentenced to five consecutive life sentences plus 140 years	Murdered five people in seven weeks in southern Colorado.[27][28]

2021

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes
Tracy Walker	United States	1991–2021	4	4	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Stabbed three homeless people to death in Rancho Dominguez; previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Los Angeles.[29]
Sean Michael Lannon	United States	2021	5	16	Serving a combined sentence of 95 years in prison	Bludgeoned a man to death in New Jersey and murdered five 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.[30]
Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez	El Salvador	2019–2021	14	18–40	Serving a sentence of seventy years in prison	Raped and murdered fourteen women and girls with nine accomplices, and is suspected of having raped and murdered a further four to 26.[31][32]
Andrés Mendoza	Mexico	2001–2021	19	30	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Murdered and cannibalized seventeen women, a man, and a child.[33]
Masten Milimu Wanjala	Kenya	2015–2021	10	10	Lynched by mob while awaiting trial	Murdered young boys in Nairobi and drank their blood. After escaping from prison, he was lynched by a mob.[34]
Charles Rowland	United States	2021	2	9	Serving two life sentences	Shot a couple to death in their Georgia home in September 2021 and later confessed to seven other murders in Georgia, including a triple homicide that another man had been imprisoned for.[35]
Daniel Printz	United States	2017–2021	1	4	Serving a sentence of life without parole	Convicted of murdering a woman in 2021 and later confessed to murdering three others.[36]
Fabricio Eloy Ludeña	Ecuador	2017–2021	3	4	Committed suicide before trial	Known 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.[37]
José Tiago Correia Soroka	Brazil	2021	3	5	One hundred and four years in prison	Fatally 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.[38]
Richard Choque	Bolivia	2009–2021	4	4+	Serving a sentence of 30 years in prison	Convicted 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.[39]
Shavkat Shayakhmedov	Tajikistan Russia	1994–2021	5	6+	Died in prison	Known as "The Zalegoshchensky Maniac"; Uzbekistani-Russian who raped and murdered four children and one adult woman in the Sughd Region and the Oryol Oblast.[40]
Dmitry Kazakov	Russia	2009–2021	6	6	Committed suicide before trial	Murdered security guards and one woman during robberies in Novosibirsk and Tomsk Oblasts.[41]
Keith Gibson	United States	2008–2021	3	7	Serving a life sentence	Killed 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.[42][43]
Jason Thornburg	United States	2017–2021	3	5	Sentenced 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.[44]
Kwon Jae-chan	South Korea	2003–2021	3	3	Serving a death sentence	Robbed and murdered three people in Incheon between 2003 and 2021.[45]

2022

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes
Alexander Kiselev	Russia	2003–2022	3	3	13.5 years imprisonment	Known 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.[46]
William Devonshire	United States	2003–2022	3	3	Died before trial	Murdered 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.[47][48]
Freddrick Jackson	United States	2020–2022	4	4	Serving a 50 year sentence	Fatally shot four people in Little Rock, Arkansas.[49]
Jeremy Skibicki	Canada	2022	4	4	Incarcerated	Murdered four Indigenous-Canadian women between March and May 2022. Found guilty of first-degree murder on all counts on July 11, 2024.[50]
Brenda Agüero	Argentina	2022	5	+5	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Murdered five newborn babies and tried to kill eight others.[51]
Tyrone Steele	United States	2022	4	5	Serving four life sentences	Shot four to five people to death in New Orleans in a 45-day span.[52][53]
John Mark Richardson	United States	2022	3	3+	Serving three sentences of life imprisonment	Shot three black men to death in Greensboro, North Carolina, one of whom he dismembered.[54]
Malachi Uwem	Nigeria	2022	15	15	Shot and killed by police during an attempted escape	Leader 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.[55]
Neftalí Valencia Torrijos	Colombia	2013–2022	1	4	Convicted of one murder; awaiting trial for another	Allegedly attacked a couple while on house arrest for a murder, killing the woman and wounding the man. He is also suspected of two additional murders.[56]
Roberto José Carmona	Argentina	1986–2022	4	4	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Known 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.[57]
Andrew Hammond	United States	2020–2022	3	3	Serving three sentences of life without parole	Shot and killed three men in Fresno, California.[58]

2023

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes
Mario Alberto Berrios Muñoz	Mexico	2021–2023	2	5–10+	Killed by intended victim	In 2022, he murdered a US citizen and on February 5, 2023, an elderly man, from whom he stole their cell phones. He is suspected of having killed another man and two women, whom he would also have raped. He is the main suspect in the Cuauhtémoc murders,[59] where five women were raped and murdered. He was killed on February 6, 2023 by one of his relatives whom he also tried to kill during the commission of a robbery.[60]
Slamet Tohari	Indonesia	2020–2023	12	12+	Serving a death sentence	Scammed and poisoned people with cyanide before burying them near his home in Banjarnegara.[61]
Efraín Sarmiento Cuero	Colombia	2017–2023	3	3	Serving a sentence of forty four years in prison	Murdered his two girlfriends between 2017 and 2019, and his wife in 2023 during a prison visit.[62]
Raul Meza Jr.	United States	1982–2023	3	13	Convicted of three murders	Murdered an 8-year-old girl in 1982 in Austin, Texas. He has also pleaded guilty and confessed to the murder of Gloria Lofton in mid-2019, and the murder of his roommate Jesse Fraga on May 20, 2023. Suspect in as many as ten other homicides.[63][64][65]
Juan Carlos Villa	Colombia	2012–2023	11	11	Serving a sentence of forty five years in prison	Known as "The Dwarf" for his short height. He tortured and killed eleven elderly people and one minor.[66]
Denis Kazungu	Rwanda	2023	14	14	Serving a life sentence	Lured 14 people to his home in Kigali, where he robbed and murdered them before dumping them in a hole in the kitchen.[67]
Alexei Varakin	Russia	2010–2023	4	4	Judged unfit to stand trial and interned at a psychiatric institution	Sentenced to compulsory treatment after murdering two prostitutes in St. Petersburg in 2010. After his release in 2021, he killed two more prostitutes in Moscow in 2023 and was arrested.[68]
Heather Pressdee	United States	2022–2023	3	17	Sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 380 to 760 years	Intentionally administered lethal doses of insulin to nursing patients throughout five Pennsylvania nursing homes. Sentenced on charges related to three murders and 19 attempts of committing murder,[69] while being connected to the deaths of 17 patients in total.[70][71]
Lucho Plátano	Chile	2022–2023	4	4	Incarcerated	Criminal who murdered four people in the Santiago Metropolitan Region between 2022 and 2023.[72]
José Leonardo Quevedo Turizo	Colombia	2022–2023	4	6+	Serving a 39 year sentence	Formed romantic relationships with gay men and hanged them in their homes.[73]
Ayumi Yamashita	Japan	2018–2023	1	3	Serving a sentence of six years in prison	A mother who killed at least one baby in her home, whose three babies were found dead, was sentenced to six years in prison for one count of murder and two counts of abandoning a corpse after her arrest.[74][75][76]

2024

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes
Larry Dewayne Reed	United States	2012–2024	1	4	Convicted of one murder; awaiting trial for others	Murdered 18-year-old Obeth Hernandez in 2012. Arrested as a suspect in a triple homicide that took place in January 2024.[77]
Mark Ford	United States	2003–2024	3	3	Died by suicide before he could be arrested for the 2024 murders	Convicted of one murder in 2003; confirmed to have committed two more plus one attempted murder in 2024.[78]
Nikolai Ageyev	Russia	2006–2024	4	4	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Murdered a cellmate while serving a sentence for robbery; paroled in 2018, whereupon he raped and murdered an elderly woman and a young girl in separate incidents; while serving a life sentence, he murdered a second cellmate.[79]
Miguel Cortés Miranda	Mexico	2012–2024	3	30+	Died awaiting trial	Known as "The Monster of Iztacalco"; chemist who raped and murdered young women and teenagers across Mexico City.[80]
David Brinson	United States	1990–2024	5	5	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Massacred four men on June 12, 1990 and murdered his wife who came to visit him in prison in California on November 13, 2024.[81][82]
Tavakal Khamidov	Russia  Ukraine	2000s–2024	11	17	Sentenced to life imprisonment	Uzbekistani who strangled and stoned 11 people, first killing a roommate in Russia before fleeing to Ukraine, where he resumed his killing spree. He was apprehended in early 2024 after committing his final murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in May 2025.[83]

Unsolved serial killings

Alias	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Notes
Highway of Death	Mexico	2020–present	71	86–200+	A 136-mile stretch of Federal Highway 85 where, since 2020, at least seventy-one men, women, and children have disappeared or been murdered. The eighteen survivors said that they were abducted by armed men and tortured. It's suspected that cartels are responsible for many of the murders, but there is also a possibility that lone criminals are responsible for some of them.[84][85]
Highway of Tears	Canada	1970–present	80	80+	A corridor of Highway 16 where, since 1970, at least eighty girls and women, primarily indigenous, have gone missing or been murdered.[86]
Toy Car Murders	Mexico	2019–2023	5	6	Alleged vigilante who killed car thieves in Sinaloa with a shot to the head minutes after stealing. Toy cars were found on the body of all the victims. Due to this distinctive mark, the alleged murderer is popularly known as "El Asesino del Carrito" (The Toy Car Killer) or "El Juguetero" (The Toy-Maker). It is believed that they would be vigilante justice actions by one or more organized persons.[87][88][89]
Cuauhtémoc killings	Mexico	2021	5	5	The rapes and murders of five women in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico. The victims were found in vacant lots with their throats slit. One of the victims is unidentified. Mario Alberto Berrios Muñoz, a serial killer murdered in 2023, is the main suspect.[90]
Little Rock serial stabbings	United States	2020–2021	3	3	The fatal stabbings of three people in Little Rock, Arkansas.[91]
Janikhel grave	Pakistan	2020	4	4	A grave containing the mutilated bodies of four teenage boys. One victim was decapitated, one was shot, and two were stoned to death.[92]
Fana beheadings	Mali	2018–2020	10	10	The ritualistic decapitations of ten Fana residents.[93]
"Vampire"	Kenya	2022–2024	42	42	A 33-year-old Kenyan man was accused of killing 42 women in Nairobi between 2022 and 2024. After his arrest, he escaped custody and has not been heard from since.[94]

See also

• List of serial killers in the United States
• List of serial killers by country
• List of serial killers by number of victims
• List of serial killers before 1900