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DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1987

MO: Necrophile slayer of female victims

DISPOSITION: Life terms on three counts, 1974; life
Giugliano, Maurizio
(?– ) AKA: Monster of Rome term on fourth count + 15 years on lesser felonies, SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./PC

1977

DATE(S): 1983–84/92 VENUE: Rome, Italy VIC-

TIMS: Eight

Gillis, Lester M.
(1908–34) AKA: George (“Baby MO: Strangled/stabbed/shot women; smothered cell-Face”) Nelson

mate with pillow after capture

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

DISPOSITION: Confined to lunatic asylum, 1984

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Glanton, John Joel
(1815–50)

MO: Career criminal and contract killer; possible parSEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

ticipant in 1929 St. Valentine’s Day massacre

DATE(S): 1841–50 VENUE: Tex./Mexico VIC-

DISPOSITION: Murdered by BARKER-KARPIS GANG,

TIMS: 100+

Mar. 22, 1934

MO: Ex-convict and gunman for hire; later led scalp-hunting gang that often murdered Mexicans and

Goldstein, Martin
(?–1941) AKA: Buggsy

sold their hair as “Apache” scalps

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DISPOSITION: Killed by Indians, with most of his DATE(S): 1930s–40 VENUE: N.Y./N.J. VICTIMS:

gang, Apr. 1850

30+

MO: Contract killer for “MURDER, INC.”

Glatman, Harvey Murray
(1928–59)

DISPOSITION: Executed at Sing Sing, June 12, 1941

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1957–58 VENUE: South Calif. VIC-

Golovkin, Anatoly (?– )

TIMS: Three

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

MO: Rape-murders of young women

DATE(S): 1986–94 VENUE: Moscow, Russia VIC-

DISPOSITION: Executed Sept. 18, 1959

TIMS: 11

MO: “Straightforward maniac” who killed boys

Glaze, Billy Richard
(1953– )

DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1994

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DATE(S): 1986–87 VENUE: Minneapolis, Minn.

Gomez, Lloyd
(d. 1953)

VICTIMS: Three

SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

MO: Bludgeon slayer of Native American women

DATE(S): 1949–51 VENUE: Calif. VICTIMS: Nine

MO: Killed/robbed hoboes

DISPOSITION: Life term with 50-year minimum, 1989

DISPOSITION: Executed Oct. 17, 1953

Glover, John Wayne
(1932– ) AKA: Granny Killer
Goodin, Anthony J.
(1965– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1989–90 VENUE: Sydney, Australia VIC-

DATE(S): 1982–87 VENUE: Okla./Ala./Ga./Fla.

TIMS: Six

VICTIMS: Seven suspected

MO: Bludgeoned elderly women with hammers in pub-MO: Drifter linked to random murders; three identified lic places, then strangled them with their own under-victims were male, including two gays

wear

DISPOSITION: Life sentence on one count in Ga., DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty in November 1991 and 1988

received a life prison term

Gore, Marshall Lee
(1963– )

Goble, Sean Patrick
(1967– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/Sex.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1988 VENUE: Fla. VICTIMS: Two

DATE(S): 1980s–95 VENUE: Southern U.S. VIC-

MO: Killed robber/kidnap victims in Columbia and TIMS: “Dozens” suspected

Dade Countries; child victim raped

MO: Long-haul trucker; rape-slayer of women

DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts, 1990 and DISPOSITION: Two consecutive life terms in Tenn., 1995; seven life terms + 110 years on other felony 1995

counts.

Goebbels, Peter
(1961– )

Gorobets, Paval
(?– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

DATE(S): 1984–85 VENUE: Berlin, Germany VIC-

specific

TIMS: Four

DATE(S): 1997–98 VENUE: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

MO: Rape-slayer of females age 17–22

VICTIMS: Two

DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1985

MO: Killed a male tenant and his own girlfriend, dismembering and cannibalizing their bodies

Goetz, Fred
(1897–1934)

DISPOSITION: Condemned on March 5, 1999

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1920s–34 VENUE: Midwestern U.S.

Gorton, Jeffrey W.
(?– )

VICTIMS: 12+

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

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DATE(S): 1986/1991 VENUE: Eastern Michigan

Graham, William Brocius
(1857–82) AKA: Curly Bill VICTIMS: Two

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC

MO: Rape-slayer of women in Flint and Wayne

DATE(S): 1870s–82 VENUE: Mexico/Ariz. VIC-

County

TIMS: “Numerous”

DISPOSITION: Three life terms in Wayne County, MO: Old West outlaw and feudist

August 2002; pleaded guilty in Flint on second DISPOSITION: Killed by WYATT EARP, Mar. 24, 1882

count, 2003

Grant, Gary G.
(?– )

Goss, Dean Neel
(1936–92)

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC-

specific

domestic

DATE(S): 1971 VENUE: Renton, Wash. VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1982–85 VENUE: Houston, Tex. VIC-

Four

TIMS: Three suspected

MO: U.S. Navy enlistee who stabbed/strangled two six-MO:Alleged “Bluebeard” slayer of two wives and male year-old boys and two teenage girls, all dumped in employee

woods near his home

DISPOSITION: Shot dead in disputed circumstances, DISPOSITION: Life prison term

Nov. 1992

Grant, Sam
(d. 1876)

Gossman, Klaus
(1941– )

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/Sad.

DATE(S): 1870s VENUE: Western U.S. VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1960–64 VENUE: Nuremburg, Germany

“Numerous”

VICTIMS: Six

MO: Hired killer and scalp hunter

MO: Self-proclaimed “death’s agent”; shot victims in DISPOSITION: Killed by JOHN JOHNSTON, 1876

holdups and random street attacks

DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1965

Granviel, Kenneth
(1950– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

Gottfried, Gessina Margaretha (1798–1828)

DATE(S): 1976 VENUE: Tex. VICTIMS: Four

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-domes-

MO: Stabbed two women and two children in random tic/CE

attacks

DATE(S): 1822–25 VENUE: Bremen, Germany

DISPOSITION: Executed Feb. 27, 1996

VICTIMS: 16 confessed

MO: “Black widow” poisoner of relatives and

acquaintances

Grasso, Thomas Joseph
(1962–95)

DISPOSITION: Beheaded, 1828

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-

specific

Grace, James Willie
(1946– )

DATE(S): 1990–91 VENUE: Okla. N.Y. VICTIMS:

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

Two

specific

MO: “Thrill killer” of 87-year-old woman (Okla.) and DATE(S): 1976 VENUE: Durham, N.C. VICTIMS:

84-year-old man (N.Y.)

More than two suspected

DISPOSITION: Executed in Okla., Mar. 20, 1995

MO: Schizophrenic sniper; shot men in random attacks DISPOSITION: Three consecutive 10-year terms for
Gravano, Salvatore
(1945– ) AKA: Sammy the Bull attempted murder and assault with deadly weapon, SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC

1977 (released 1993)

DATE(S): 1970–90 VENUE: N.Y./N.J. VIC-

TIMS:19–36 admitted

Graham, Harrison
(1959– )

MO: Mafia “enforcer” and hit man

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Granted immunity in return for testi-DATE(S): 1983–87 VENUE: Philadelphia, Pa. VIC-

mony, 1990; 19-year sentence for drug offenses, TIMS: Seven

Oct. 30, 2002

MO: Retarded addict; strangled prostitutes and kept the remains in his apartment

Gray, Dana Sue
(1958– )

DISPOSITION: Convicted on all counts, 1988: life SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

term followed by six death penalties (to prevent DATE(S): 1977–78 VENUE: Riverside County, Calif.

parole)

VICTIMS: Three

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MO: Ex-nurse; robbed/strangled women aged 66–87; MO: Killed female prostitute (1971) and male stranger one victim also stabbed

(1990)

DISPOSITION: Life term without parole, 1998

DISPOSITION: Life term, 1971 (paroled 1989); life term, 1991

Gray, Josephine
(1946– ) AKA: Black Widow SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

Green, Ricky Lee
(1960–97)

DATE(S): 1974–96 VENUE: Maryland VICTIMS:

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

Three alleged

DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: Fort Worth, Tex. VIC-

MO: Named by police and prosecutors as the slayer of TIMS: Four

two husbands and a cousin-lover, shot for life insur-MO:Bisexual torture-slayer of two men and two women ance payments

DISPOSITION: Executed Oct. 9, 1997

DISPOSITION: Charged with murders of both hus-

bands in 1991, charges dismissed when witnesses
Green, Samuel
(d. 1822)

vanished or recanted testimony; convicted of mail SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/Sex.

fraud in federal court, August 2002; received the DATE(S): 19th century VENUE: New England VIC-maximum 40-year sentence on Dec. 2, 2002, with TIMS: “Numerous”

an order to repay $170,000 in life insurance proMO: Career criminal; killed rape and robbery victims ceeds

DISPOSITION: Hanged in Mass., Apr. 1822

Gray, Marvin
(1955– )

Greenawalt, Randy
(1949–97)

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE

DATE(S): 1980s–1993 VENUE: Denver, Colo. VIC-

DATE(S): 1973–74/78 VENUE: Ariz./Colo. VIC-

TIMS: 23 confessed

TIMS: Nine suspected

MO: Random slayer of victims in personal confronta-MO: Shot sleeping truckers for personal amusement; tions

helped TISON family kill five victims after prison DISPOSITION: Received life sentence as habitual crim-break

inal in 1993, for a 1992 armed robbery; received life DISPOSITION: Life term for death of one trucker, term with 30 years minimum in 2000, for a 1984

1974 (escaped 1978); condemned, 1979; executed in murder; confessed 23 murders in court, June 2001, Ariz. Jan. 23, 1997

while on trial for a second murder; convicted and received two more life terms, June 6, 2001

Greenberg, Bertram
(d. 1971)

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./CE-

Gray, Ronald Adrian
(1966– )

felony

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1971 VENUE: Calif./Ariz. VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1986–87 VENUE: Fayetteville, N.C. VIC-Three

TIMS: Four

MO: Raped/strangled woman; shot policemen during MO: Soldier at Fort Bragg; rape-slayer of women age manhunt

18–24

DISPOSITION: Killed running police roadblock in N.

DISPOSITION: Three consecutive life terms after Mex.

guilty plea, 1987; condemned by military court-martial, 1988

Greeson, Lloyd Donald, Jr.
(1924– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

Green, Cleo Joel, III
(1958– ) AKA: Red Demon DATE(S): 1964 VENUE: Fla./Pa. VICTIMS: Two

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

MO: Robbed/murdered women age 37 and 44

DATE(S): 1983 VENUE: Louisville, Ky. VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: 20 years on one count of second

Three

degree in Fla., 1964

MO: “Possessed” home-invader; rape-slayer of elderly women

Grenier, Jean
(?–?)

DISPOSITION: Ruled incompetent for trial, 1984

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

specific

Green, Malcolm
(1946– )

DATE(S): 1603 VENUE: Landes, France VICTIMS:

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-

“Several”

specific

MO: Deranged “werewolf” slayer of children

DATE(S): 1971/90 VENUE: Wales VICTIMS: Two

DISPOSITION: Confined to monastery for life, 1603

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Gribble, Timothy Lane
(1964–2000)

Gross, Dr. Heinrich
(1916– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-

DATE(S): 1985–87 VENUE: Galveston, Tex. VIC-

extremist

TIMS: Three confessed

DATE(S): 1930s VENUE: Austria VICTIMS: More

MO: Rape-slayer of women aged 23–36

than nine

DISPOSITION: Executed on one count, March 15,

MO: Nazi physician who killed “defective” children 2000

under state euthanasia program

DISPOSITION: Murder trial aborted on March 2,

Grieveson, Steven
(1970– )

2000, due to defendant’s advanced senile dementia SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DATE(S): 1993–94 VENUE: Sunderland, England

Grossmann, Georg Karl
(1863–1921)

VICTIMS: Three

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: Sex./CE

MO: Repressed homosexual who raped, murdered, and DATE(S): 1910–21 VENUE: Berlin, Germany VIC-burned three teenage male students from the same TIMS: 50+ suspected

school in separate incidents