# 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. 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".

## 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. |
| 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. |
| Kenyel Brown | United States | 2001–2020 | 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 dying by suicide. |
| 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. |
| Anil Vala | India | ?–2020 | 2 | 3 | Convicted of two murders; awaiting trial for third | Sexually assaulted and strangled women in Gujarat. |
| 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 hanged himself in his prison cell. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. In 2024, while in prison, he confessed to two other homicides. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |

### 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Andrés Mendoza | Mexico | 2001–2021 | 19 | 30 | Serving a sentence of life imprisonment | Murdered and cannibalized seventeen women, a man, and a child. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 supect 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Kwon Jae-chan | South Korea | 2003–2021 | 3 | 3 | Serving a death sentence | Robbed and murdered three people in Incheon between 2003 and 2021. |

### 2022

| Name | Country | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Current status | Notes |
| 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. |
| Freddrick Jackson | United States | 2020–2022 | 4 | 4 | Serving a 50 year sentence | Fatally shot four people in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lucho Plátano | Chile | 2022–2023 | 4 | 4 | Incarcerated | Criminal who murdered four people in the Santiago Metropolitan Region between 2022 and 2023. |
| Andrew Hammond | United States | 2020–2022 | 3 | 3 | Serving three sentences of life without parole | Shot and killed three men in Fresno, California. |

### 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, 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Alexei Varakin | Russia | 2010–2023 | 2 | 4 | Convicted of two murders; awaiting trial for others | 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. |
| 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, while being connected to the deaths of 17 patients in total. |

### 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |

## Suspected serial killers

| Name | Country | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Notes |
| Pete Renteria | United States | 2023 | 4 | 4 | A man is charged with fatally shooting his grandparents and uncle at their home in San Bernardino, California, on January 30. He allegedly murdered another man at a park eight months later. |
| Ronaldo Ricketts | Jamaica | 2023 | 4 | 9 | A man is charged with stabbing four homeless people to death. He was arrested in August 2023 after abducting and attempting to rape a woman. |
| Rebecca Auborn | United States | 2023 | 4 | 4+ | A woman 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. |
| Sushant Singh and Shiva Pariyar | Nepal | 2022–2023 | 3 | 3+ | A husband and wife allegedly robbed and murdered three women between September 2022 and January 2023. |
| Sararat and Vithul Rangsiwutthaporn | Thailand | 2015–2023 | 14 | 20+ | A woman is charged with poisoning creditors in 8 provinces. The first case occurred in 2015 and the cyanide killings continued until 2023. The police also arrested the woman's ex-husband. |
| Kulthum Akbari | Iran | 2001–2023 | 11 | 20+ | A woman named Kulthum Akbari confessed to murdering ten of her former husbands for money after being arrested for suffocating her most recent husband to death. |
| Kenwood Allen | United States | 2022 | 5 | 5 | A man is accused of drugging 21 victims during robberies outside of downtown Manhattan nightclubs using fentanyl and other opioids, resulting in five deaths between March and December of 2022. |
| Giandavide De Pau | 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. |
| Christopher Martell | United States | 2022 | 3 | 3+ | A man is accused of fatally stabbing at least three homeless people between February and September 2022. Two other victims survived. |
| Dr. Abass Adio Adeyemi | Nigeria | 2022 | 4 | 4 | A medical doctor is accused of murdering four people, most in Kwara State, for the purposes of organ harvesting. |
| Wesley Brownlee | United States | 2021–2022 | 7 | 7 | The fatal shootings of six 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. |
| Muhammad Atif Syed | 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. |
| Renato Teixeira | Brazil | 2020–2022 | 3 | 9–14 | A man charged with fatally stabbing two men and a woman between 2020 and 2022 confessed to murdering six additional people he met through dating apps, and is suspected of a further five murders. |
| Anthony Robinson | United States | 2021 | 2 | 5–6 | DC metro area authorities believe a man, whom they have dubbed the "Shopping Cart Killer," met his victims on dating websites and allegedly lured them into motels, where he then killed them and transported 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. |
| Perez Reed | United States | 2021 | 7 | 7 | A man 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. |
| Gurpartap Singh | India | 2020–2021 | 5 | 5 | A man allegedly murdered five truck drivers and looted their vehicles with an accomplice. |
| Richard Bradley Jr. | United States | 2019–2021 | 4 | 4+ | A man has been charged with four murders committed between July 2019 and May 2021 in Washington. He allegedly lured his victims by asking them for help in digging up his stolen buried gold. |
| Jayson Theuri | Kenya | 2018–2020 | 4 | 4+ | A man allegedly murdered women and children in Nyandarua West with accomplices. |
| Savara Ramesh | India | 2016–2020 | 3 | 3+ | A man is charged with murdering three women. |
| Pedro José Silva Ochoa | Chile | 2022–2023 | 3 | 3 | A Colombian citizen is awaiting trial for a double homicide committed in Quinta Normal in November 2022, and one of their relatives, whom he allegedly killed when they went to his home to confront him in May 2023. |
| Kuldeep Gangwar | India | 2023–2024 | 6 | 11+ | Between 2023 and 2024, between six and at least eleven women were strangled with their saris in rural villages near Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. A suspect was detained in August 2024 following the initiation of Operation Talash, and has confessed to six of the killings so far. |
| Jerrid Joseph Powell | United States | 2023 | 4 | 4 | A man is charged with and awaiting trial for the fatal shootings of three homeless men in Los Angeles, California, as well as a home invasion shooting before the spree. |
| Kenichi Hosoya and Shiho Hosoya | Japan | 2018–2023 | 3 | 4 | He was arrested on suspicion of poisoning four family members, including his daughter. |

## 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Little Rock serial stabbings | United States | 2020–2021 | 3 | 3 | The fatal stabbings of three people in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| 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. |
| Fana beheadings | Mali | 2018–2020 | 10 | 10 | The ritualistic decapitations of ten Fana residents. |
| "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. |