Laceniare?
I am not sure about Pierre Laceniare - he is recalled for one murder and an attempted murder that got botched (which was of a bank messanger - it was a murder for profit). He did supposedly kill a man (a nephew of the writer Benjamin Constant) in a duel about 1830 but it is a duel.
Similarly the murder of Jean Kinck, his son, and then his wife and other children by Jean Baptiste Troppman is a murder for profit, and I hesitate to consider that too - although there were time gaps in the Kinck murders.
I am glad you included Doctor Warder - the forgotten Victorian poison killer, who was once an expert witness (for Dr. Palmer, of all people) at a homicide trial.
Voirbo is also confusing - The murder of Bodace (a well-planned one if ever there was one) was for gain. He is responsible for the death (from delerium tremens) of an alcoholic suspect (Jefer?), but that killing was not planned. There is a possibility he killed a young woman at a cottage, but that has never been firmly established. His record of multiple killings is reminiscent of John Alexander Dickman - convicted of killing John Nisbet on that Newcastle train, and suspected in the death of Mrs. Luard and that moneylender.
Pritchard too is confusing. He certainly poisoned his wife and mother in law
(for which he hanged in 1865) but that was in one long instance. He probably also killed a maid he may have gotten pregnant in 1863. But the methods are different (poison for the wife and in-law; drug the maid and let her burn to death or die of smoke inhalation).
One might also consider secret poisoner (and hanged as a wife murderer) Eugene Chantrelle, who may have killed an earlier acquaintance with a doctored luncheon in the 1870s.
A late 19th Century practitioner who may have branched out and offered his ideas to others was Arthur J. Monson of the Ardlamont Mystery. Check out the essay on him by Roughead (as well as the essay on Chantrelle).
Jeff
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19th Century Serial Killers
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Pierre Voirbo
Thomas Wainright
Alfred Warder
Margaret Waters
Edmund de la Pommerais
Edward Pritchard
Jean Raies
Stephen Richards
Sarah Jane Richards
Lydia Newman
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Marie Jeanneret
Helene Jegado
Pierre Lacenaire
Sarah Jane Newman
Charles Peace
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Thomas Carr
George Caraway
Williamina Dean
Martin Dumollard
Gessina Gottfried
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NP Jeff
Anna Zwanziger
Joseph Briggen
Lucretia Cannon
I have 20 more when I get the time.
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Newton's The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers does list some wild west types including Bonney and Hardin.
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I wonder if the list should also include such wackos like John Wesley Hardin and William Bonney ("Billy the Kid"), both of whom are listed as old West gunslingers - but who are both killing men by the same method all the time: shooting.
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Walter Horsford
Frederick Deeming
Catherine Flannagan
Margaret Higgins
Louisa Jane Taylor
Henri Pineux ("Count Henri de Tourville")
Roland P. Molineux
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Sorry, I've been away for awhile....
Jack the Ripper
H. H. Holmes
Amelia Dyer
Mary Ann Cotton
Jane Toppan
George Chapman
Belle Gunness
Joseph Vacher
Servant Girl Annihilator
William Palmer
Johann Otto Hoch
The Bloody Benders
Thomas Neill Cream
Thug Behram
Delphin LaLaurie
Burke and Hare
Catherine Wilson
Joseph Philipe
W. H. Theodore Durrant
Thames Torso Murderer
Amelia Sach
Annie Walters
Interesting, very interesting. I would like to learn more about all these serial killers.
I think I've heard of Walters before, though. Let me go check for a mo'-
Nope, I was confusing the name with Waters.... Would known baby farmers, besides Amelia Dyer, count as serial killers?
Do Burke And Hare really count as they were in it for the money? I saw a great Black And White film about them. I think Boris Karloff was in itLast edited by Madam Red; 05-19-2010, 06:16 PM.
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I didn't know there were so many serial killers around in the 19th Century :0
Do Burke And Hare really count as they were in it for the money? I saw a great Black And White film about them. I think Boris Karloff was in it
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