List of major crimes in the United Kingdom

Columns: Date | Name | No . of Deaths | Location | Details
1827-1828 | The Burke and Hare murders | 17 | Edinburgh , Scotland | William Burke and William Hare sold the corpses of 17 victims to provide material for dissection | 1865-1873 | The Mary Ann Cotton murders | 21 | England | Believed to have murdered up to 21 people , mainly by arsenic poisoning . Many of her victims had married her | 1896 | The Amelia Dyer case | 247 ( attributed ) | Reading , Berkshire London England | Amelia Elizabeth Dyer ( née Hobley ) , was the most prolific baby farm murderer of Victorian England . She was tried and hanged for one murder , but there is little doubt she was responsible for many more similar deaths - possibly 400 or more - over a period of about 20 years | 1888 | Jack the Ripper | 5+ | Whitechapel , London , England | At least five prostitutes were murdered and mutilated by an unidentified serial killer , dubbed Jack the Ripper by the press . The killer was never apprehended | 1943-1953 | The John Reginald Halliday Christie Killings | 6-8 | Notting Hill , London . England | John Reginald Halliday Christie murdered at least six women - including his wife Ethel - by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place , Notting Hill , London . Christie moved out of Rillington Place in March 1953 , and shortly afterwards the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in an alcove in his kitchen . Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife 's murder , for which he was hanged in 1953 | 1944-1949 | The John George Haigh case ( The Acid Bath Murderer ) | 6-8 | London , England | John George Haigh murdered six people and disposed of their bodies in drums of sulphuric acid . He then forged documents turning the murder victims ' possessions over to himself . Haigh was eventually caught after the disappearance and eventual murder of socialite Henrietta Durand-Deacon , apparently believing the police would be unable to prosecute him without her body | 1956-1958 | Peter Manuel ( The Beast of Birkenshaw ) | 7-9 | Glasgow & Lanarkshire , Scotland | Peter Manuel was an American-born Scottish serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958 , and is believed to have murdered two more . Prior to his arrest , the media nicknamed the unidentified killer the Beast of Birkenshaw . Manuel was hanged at Glasgow 's Barlinnie Prison ; he was one of the last prisoners to die on the Barlinnie gallows

Example questions:
How old was the girl that was murdered by the English serial killer Levi Bellfield ? | When was the Scottish serial killer and paedophile who committed murders in the united kingdom beginning in 1982 convicted ? | Where did the young brunette victims meet the unidentified serial murderer who strangled three women between 1968 and 1969 ? | What was the address of the residence where the murders were committed by an English serial killer and necrophile over a 10 year period beginning in 1943 ? | Where was the body of the English serial killer and necrophile murderer 's wife found at the crime committed in Notting Hill ?

Answers:
13 | 19 May 1994 | Barrowland Ballroom | 10 Rillington Place , Notting Hill , London | beneath the floorboards of the front room