Most Prolific United States Serial Killers

#1 The Milwaukee Cannibal

Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer is most famously known as the Milwaukee Cannibal and is ranked number one on my list. Dahmer would rape, murder, dismember, and eat young men and boys. Jeffrey claims that he began his love for necrophila began when he turned 14. This is rather young, but given his family situation, it is highly possible that as a child he did things that would not be considered normal. He has been sentenced to having 17 victims. Dahmer recorded his first victim in June 1978 at his parents house. His first victim's name is Steve Hicks, a hitchhiker that Jeffrey found on the road. Jeffrey picked up Mr. Hicks, drove him to his parent's house and continued to drink beer and have sex. After Hicks tried to leave their house, Dahmer struck him on the head with a barbell and dismembered the body. He proceeded to place these body parts in ziplock bags that he would then take and bury in the backyard. This was Dahmer's only kill for a few years. After a brief two-year stint in the military (discharged for alcoholism), Dahmer returned to the woods where he dug up Hicks's body parts. He then smashed up these pieces into more parts and reburied them. Dahmer took his second victim from a gay bar in 1987. This was what is described as his hunting grounds. Jeffery would target primarily African-American, gay men at gay bars. He would take him to his grandmother's basement where he would promise sex and money. Jeffrey would drug and feed them enormous amounts of alcohol before strangling and murdering them. This is where his story gets weird. He most enjoyed having sex with the body's post-mortem. After finishing his desires he would cut the body up and put them in bags, sometimes keeping male genitals and skulls as trophies. Jeffery was in operation from 1978-1991 and was sentenced to fifteen life sentences. While serving his sentence Dahmer was murdered by an inmate.

Ted Bundy

#2 The Lady Killer

Electric Chair

Ted Bundy was given this nickname due to literal, and figurative meanings. A lady killer can be classified as a person with great charisma, charm, and good-looks. The literal meaning in Ted's case is that he killed only women. Ted was convicted of killing, raping (pre- and post-mortem), and disposing 35 women's bodies, but is believed to have possibly hit 100 plus victims. Ted had one of the craziest upbringing I have ever heard of. He was born an illegitimate child and to hide this, he was raised as an adopted child by his grandparents. They told him and others that his mother, was actually his sister. Bundy grew up with an interest in death and a fascination with knives. Bundy grew up with no killings until college when he met his ideal girlfriend. He became enraged when she broke up with him; many of his future victims resembled this girlfriend. Ted would lure his victims in to his car by acting like he was hurt and requesting their assistance. Throughout his life Bundy would move around the country. Everywhere he went women would go missing; the police began linking him to these murders when people came out saying, "a dark-haired man named Ted", was connected to the victims. Bundy had a crazy way of escaping from the law, sort of like the Houdini of serial killers. Ted escaped custody, through a cell, and from an courthouse. His final escape led him to the location where he would end his life, Tallahassee, Florida. In Tallahassee Ted snuck into a sorority and attacked four women, killing two. In 1989, Bundy was given execution via the electric chair. Ted, as odd as it sounds, became a rockstar during his trial. The American public found him compelling enough to create a movie called The Deliberate Strangler. Ted can be classified as one of the most glorified serial killers of all time due to his charm and good-looks. These characteristics caused many of his followers to believe that he was a normal human being.

#3 The Green River Killer

Gary Ridgway

Gary Ridgway, also known as The Green River Killer, ranks number three on this list. He is ranked number one because he is expected to have the largest body count of serial killers in the United States. Gary has been proven to have murdered 49 women, and has admitted that he had more than 90 women in total. These extra victims have not been proven yet, and it is believed to be a publicity ploy by Gary. The Green River Killer would prey on runaway females and prostitutes along the state Route 99 in South King County, Washington. Gary's tactics included a few steps; the first of these being he would abduct them along Route 99. He would then bring them back to his home and strangle them. Gary received his nickname because he left his beginning victims in what is now known as the Green River. Growing up Gary had a rough life. He was a serious bed-wetter. His mother would embarrass him in front of his father and brother. This was devastating to Gary's confidence which led to his difficult high school life. Gary's situation was rather interesting because of how religious he was. Despite his religious views on divorce, Gary had three different wives. Most of his divorces came about because of his strong will to have sexual relations. When he could not get what he wanted from his wives, he would seek out prostitutes to quench his needs. After Gary was done with the prostitutes services he would extinguish them. Gary is on the record for saying, "most of the time I killed them the first time I met them and I do not have a good memory of their faces. I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight." This statement shows little remorse and that he was simply using these women fairly quickly for their sexual favors. Ridgway was acting from between 1982-2000. Gary was convicted in 2001 and sentenced with two life sentences after he made a plea deal with the judge to reveal where he was stashing bodies.