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]

Identified serial killers

2020

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes	Ref
Rosario Alfonso	Mexico	2018–2020	3	4	Serving a sentence of seventy years in prison	Murdered at least three women between December 2018 and January 2020. Absolved of a 4th murder.	^[3]
Esteban Lorenzo Duarte	Argentina	2004–2020	2	5	Committed suicide before apprehension	Bluebeard. 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	2001–2020	7	7	Committed suicide before apprehension	Known as the "Metro Detroit killer". Robbed and murdered six people from 2019 to 2020 in Wayne County, Michigan, later dying by 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]
Andrey Yezhov	Russia	2010–2020	7	7	Committed suicide before trial	Known as "The Kashirsky Maniac"; linked to nine sexually-motivated attacks against young girls, seven of which were fatal. A month after he was arrested, he hanged himself in his jail cell.	^[8]
Ryan Scott Blinston	United States	2020	3	3	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole	Stabbed three people to death in Oroville, California. He murdered an acquaintance of his, and a couple for whom he had worked for as a tree trimmer.	^[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	3	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]
Lissa María Caiza	Ecuador	2020	4	5	Serving a sentence of fifty-six 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.	^[14]^[15]
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.	^[16]
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.	^[17]
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.	^[18]
Omar Fernandez Herrada	Bolivia	2017–2020	4	4	Serving a sentence of thirty years in prison	Murdered four people, including his cousin, with two accomplices.	^[19]
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.	^[20]
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.	^[21]
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.	^[22]^[23]

2021

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes	Ref.
Sean Michael Lannon	United States	2021	1	5–16	Serving a sentence of 35 years in prison	Bludgeoned a man to death in New Jersey and allegedly 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.	^[24]
Kwon Jae-chan	South Korea	2003–2021	3	3	Serving a death sentence	Robbed and murdered three people in Icheon between 2003 and 2021.	^[25]
Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chavez	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 twenty-six.	^[26]^[27]
Andrés Mendoza	Mexico	2001–2021	19	19+	Serving a sentence of life imprisonment	Murdered and cannibalized seventeen women, a man, and a child.	^[28]
Lázaro Barbosa de Sousa	Brazil	2007–2021	6	6	Shot and killed by police during apprehension	Convicted of a double murder in 2007. Later escaped prison and killed a family of four. After a 19-day-long manhunt, he died in a shootout with the police.	^[29]
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.	^[30]
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 another man was imprisoned for.	^[31]
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.	^[32]
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.	^[33]
José Tiago Correia Soroka	Brasil	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 supect in two other homicides; the death of a doctor in 2016, and his former boss, a gay man, in April. He was captured after attempting to murder another victim.	^[34]
Richard Choque	Bolivia	2009–2021	4	4+	Serving a sentence of thirty 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.	^[35]
Shavkat Shayakhmedov	Russia	2000–2021	4	4	Died in prison	Known as "The Zalegoshchensky Maniac"; raped and murdered three children and one adult woman in the Oryol Oblast	^[36]

2022

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes	Ref.
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 a third woman in the same area.	^[37]^[38]
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.	^[39]
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.	^[40]

2023

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Current status	Notes	Ref.
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,^[41] where 5 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.	^[42]
Sararat Rangsiwutthaporn	Thailand	2015–2023	14	20+	Sentence to death	“Am” Sararat Rangsiwutthaporn poisoned creditors in 15 cases in 8 provinces. The first case occurred in 2015 and continued until 2023. There were 14 deaths, 1 survivor, 75 charges filed, mobilizing the largest investigative team in Thailand.
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.	^[43]
Raul Meza Jr.	United States	1982–2023	1	13	Convicted of one murder; awaiting trial for others	Murdered an 8-year-old girl in 1982 in Austin, Texas. He has been charged with 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.	^[44]^[45]
Denis Kazungu	Rwanda	2023	14	14	Pleaded guilty; awaiting sentencing	Lured 14 people to his home in Kigali, where he robbed and murdered them before dumping them in a hole in the kitchen.	^[46]

Unsolved serial killings

Alias	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Possible victims	Notes	Ref.
Highway of Death	Mexico	2020–present	71	86–200+	A 13-mile stretch of Federal Highway 86 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.	^[47]
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.	^[48]
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.	^[49]^[50]^[51]
2022 Winnipeg serial killings	Canada	2022	4	4	Four indigenous women were murdered in Winnipeg in May 2022. The suspect was charged on the same month for the murder of one of the women, and accused six months later for killing the other three.	^[52]
Rome serial killings	Italy	2022	0	3	Three women were murdered at two different locations in Rome in November 2022. The killer initially murdered a Colombian prostitute before moving to another brothel and killing two Chinese women. A suspect, Giandavide De Pau, was arrested in connection to the murders.	^[53]
Columbus drugging murders	United States	2023	4	4+	Rebecca Auborn is charged with the fatal drugging robberies of at least four men between January and June of 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. She is accused of giving her victims fentanyl without their knowledge while meeting them for sex at hotels.	^[54]
Stockton serial shootings	United States	2021–2022	7	7	The fatal shootings of five people in Stockton, California and one in Oakland. Police believe the suspect also shot and wounded another woman in Stockton. A suspect was arrested and is awaiting trial.	^[55]
New Mexico Muslim killings	United States	2021–2022	2	4	Shootings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A Muslim man was arrested and charged with two of the murders.	^[56]
Shopping Cart Killer	United States	2021	2	5–6	DC metro area authorities believe Anthony Robinson, 35, who they have dubbed the “shopping cart killer,” meets his victims on dating websites and allegedly lures them into motels where he then kills them and transports their bodies in shopping carts. He has been charged with the murders of two victims and is suspected to be responsible for the murders of four additional women.	^[57]
Kansas City and St. Louis shootings	United States	2021	7	7	Perez Reed is charged with seven shooting murders of various people in Kansas City, Kansas and St. Louis, Missouri. He was arrested and found to be in possession of the gun with ballistics matching the homicides evidence.	^[58]
Little Rock serial stabbings	United States	2020–2021	3	3	The fatal stabbings of three people in Little Rock, Arkansas.	^[59]
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.	^[60]
Fana beheadings	Mali	2018–2020	9	9	The ritualistic decapitations of nine Fana residents.	^[61]
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.	^[62]

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

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