American people convicted of murder

Melanie Lyn McGuire is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the "Suitcase Murder". She was sentenced to life in prison, on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey. She will not be eligible for parole until she is 101 years old.

Charley Wingate, better known by his stage name Max B, is an American rapper, singer, and convicted criminal. He is best known for his solo Public Domain and Million Dollar Baby series of mixtapes. He introduced the term "wavy" as a slang in popular lexicon.

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

John Lennon's killer

American record producer (1939–2021)

American nightclub operator who killed American presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

American pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)

American crime boss (1940–2002)

American serial killer (1960–2013)

American criminal, convicted for the murder of civil rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968

American folk and blues musician (1888–1949)

Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women, including his own mother, and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer", as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his murders included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment and possibly cannibalism.

American serial killer

American serial killer

Irish-American gangster and crime boss (1929-2018)

American convicted murderer from California (1948-2009)

American serial killer (1943–2021)

American serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac (1950–1980)

American criminal (1935–2006)

Italian-American Costa Nostra mobster

American convicted murderer and claimed serial killer (1936–2001)

American white supremacist, convicted felon

US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)

American serial killer (1939–2014)

Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.

American kidnapper-murderer duo, committed "the crime of the century"

American serial killer

Joseph Lyle Menendez and Erik Galen Menendez, commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.

American convicted murderer of Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer (as well as a previous murder conviction)

American serial killer (1947–2022)

American mobster (1904–1971)

American mobster

American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer

American serial killer (1949–1992)

American murderer; member of Charles Manson's "Family"

American mass murderer, perpetrator of the July 20, 2012 mass shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado

American musician (1945–2023)

American mass murderer (1925–2008)

American actor

American heir to the Du Pont family fortune, ornithologist, conchologist, murderer (1938–2010)

American convicted murderer

American domestic terrorist incarcerated in a US federal prison

American mass murderer (1951–2021)

Manson family member, convicted murderer

American outlaw (1862-1892)

American gangster (1907–1979)

American white supremacist and neo nazi (born April 3nd 1994)

Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence by stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. Speck also raped one victim before killing her. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding beneath a bed.

American murderer and hitman, father of Woody Harrelson (1939–2007)

American serial killer (1947–1996)

Kyrgyz-American man convicted of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15th, 2013

Medical doctor implicated in the Lincoln assassination (1833-1883)

three teenage boys convicted of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas

American mobster of Italian descent (1929–1972)

American murderer (1929–1990)

American serial killer

American real-estate heir and convicted murderer (1943–2022)