This is a list of serial killers who are still alive. When serial killers are caught, after a long period of horrific, evil crimes, it’s almost expected that their lives will be coming to an end. The usual sentence for multiple murders, especially ones committed by serial killers, is death. So that’s why it’s so remarkable to hear about serial killers who are currently still alive, most of whom are serving life sentences in prison. Very few serial killers who have been caught have been released from prison, but there are still some odd exceptions where the law and morality don’t intersect.
Who are these serial killers who are still among the living? How did they escape a death sentence while on trial? What were their crimes and who were their victims? How did these serial killers murder their victims? This list answers these questions and more about some of the world’s most notorious living serial killers.
Many famous serial killers were murdered in jail. The male and female serial killers on this list either received life sentences or managed to avoid life in prison. These rare serial killers may have taken the lives of at least three people, some with victim numbers over 50, yet are still alive.
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Beverly Allitt
Beverly Allitt worked as a nurse in an English hospital when she killed four children and tried to kill three more. She also caused many other children to be grievously harmed through her insulin overdoses, although they survived. In 1993, she was sentenced to 13 life sentences.
Charles Cullen
While working as a nurse over the course of 16 years, Charles Cullen killed at least 35 victims, with the number suspected to actually be in the hundreds. He killed patients through overdoses and medical contamination in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals. Cullen was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 127 years in prison. Since then, investigations into the hospitals that employed Cullen have revealed that some may have been aware that he was harming patients without taking any measures to stop it.
David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, terrorized the people of NYC in 1976-1977. Berkowitz claimed he was told by a demon dog to shoot his victims. He killed 6 people and wounded 7 more before getting caught in August 1977. Berkowitz received 6 life sentences.
Donald Harvey
From 1970 to 1987, Donald Harvey killed between 37 to 57 people. While most of his victims were patients in the hospital where he worked, he also poisoned people he knew, including his lover and neighbors. While Harvey claimed to be an Angel of Death, who kills to take away people's pain, he used painful poisons and methods of killing including suffocation, arsenic, cyanide and hepatitis B. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Hu Wanlin
During the early 1990s, Hu Wanlin was in prison for human trafficking. That didn't stop him from opening a medical practice while jailed. Once he was released after a retrial in 1997, Hu treated hundreds of patients with an herbal remedy that actually contained sodium sulphate. 146 people died of his treatments. He was arrested in 1999 and sentenced to 15 years in prison for practicing medicine without a license.
Juan Corona
In 1971, Juan Corona, a Mexican man working on fruit ranches in California, killed at least 25 men. His victims had worked as laborers on the fruit ranches and were buried in the area. When Corona was caught, he plead not guilty by reason of insanity but was found guilty. He was given 25 life sentences, however he is up for parole in 2016.
Kristen Gilbert
Kristen Gilbert worked as a nurse in Massachusetts when she killed four patients by injecting them with epinephrine. The drug caused the patients to have heart attacks. Gilbert allegedly used these medical emergencies to get the attention of a police officer. In 1998, she called a bomb threat into the hospital as revenge for her coworkers suspecting her of murder. In 2001, she was finally convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Wayne Williams
Throughout 1979-1981, Atlanta was terrorized by the Atlanta Child Murders where 29 children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered. After Wayne Williams was arrested in 1981 for the murder of two adults, police began to suspect that he was the dreaded child serial killer. Although Williams still maintains he is innocent of the child murders, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Donato Bilancia
In Italy, Donato Bilancia was responsible for the seven-month long crime spree in 1997 that resulted in the deaths of 17 people, both men and women. His motives for each crime were different, from robbery to sexual assault. He was arrested in 1998 and given 13 life sentences, along with 20 extra years for his sex crimes.
Maxim Petrov
Russian doctor Maxim Petrov was arrested in 2000 for murdering at least 19 people through a lethal drug combination. He stole from them and then set fire to the homes of his victims. He is currently serving a life sentence.