Random Famous Serial Killers Who Are Still Alive (33 items)

(#7) Kristen Gilbert
- 11-13-1967
Kristen Gilbert worked as a nurse in Massachusetts when she killed four patients by injecting them with epinephrine. The drug caused the patients to have heart attacks. Gilbert allegedly used these medical emergencies to get the attention of a police officer. In 1998, she called a bomb threat into the hospital as revenge for her coworkers suspecting her of murder. In 2001, she was finally convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
(#5) Charles Cullen
- 02-22-1960
While working as a nurse over the course of 16 years, Charles Cullen killed at least 40 victims - although the suspected number is actually in the hundreds. He killed patients through overdoses and medical contamination in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals. Cullen was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 127 years in prison.
(#8) Beverley Allitt
- 10-04-1968
Beverley Allitt worked as a nurse in an English hospital when she killed four children and tried to kill three more. She also caused many other children to be grievously harmed through her insulin overdoses, although they survived. In 1993, she was sentenced to 13 life sentences.
(#31) William Patrick Fyfe
- 02-22-1955
Over 20 years, beginning in 1979, William Patrick Fyfe killed at least 5 women in Montreal, Canada. There are multiple other murders he's suspected of committing, but since he is serving his life sentence in a psychiatric hospital he isn't fit to stand trial.
(#27) Adnan Çolak
- 01-01-1952
Adnan Colak is a Turkish serial killer who raped and killed 11 women between the ages of 68 and 95. He also raped 6 other elderly women. He was caught in 1995, and his trial lasted over 5 years. He was sentenced to death, but when Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2004 his sentence was commuted to life.
(#21) Catherine Birnie
- 01-01-1951
In the 1980s, Catherine Birnie and her husband David killed four women. These brutal murders were known as the Moorhouse murders, named after their place of residence where they committed the crimes. After trying to kill a 5th victim, the girl escaped and brought the police to her abductors. David killed himself in jail, but Catherine is still serving out her life sentence in an Australian prison.