Vintage Photos of History’s Most Notorious Killers

Murderers are always hiding in plain sight. And when you read about some of history’s most notorious killers, you’ll be convinced that the scale of good and evil have tipped in the favor of unadulterated darkness…

H.H. Holmes

H.H. Holmes may have murdered 20 to 200 people between 1891 and 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, Irvington, Indiana, and Toronto, Canada. He was also married to three women – Clara, Myrta, and Georgiana at the same time.

Belle Gunness

Around 1893, Belle Gunness killed her two kids with strychnine and then her husband, Mads Sorenson, to collect his insurance policies. She then moved to LaPorte, Indiana, where she married Peter Gunness and possibly killed one of his kids.

Then, a meat grinder “accidentally” fell on his head and killed him. But Gunnnes bloodbath wasn’t over. She also murdered at least 14 people.

Francisco Guerrero

In his first murder trial in 1890, Francisco Guerrero was convicted of killing several local women in Mexico City and given the death penalty. He terrorized the city in the late 1880s.

He was released in 1905, but a few years later, he was back on trial after murdering an elderly woman.

Albert Fish

Albert Fish’s cannibalistic tendencies led him to eat three children in the early 1900s, after assaulting and killing them. He targeted people he thought wouldn’t be missed, like mentally handicapped and African-American kids.

The media ended up nicknaming him, “The Boogeyman,” after he claimed to have murdered over 100 kids.