List of serial killers by country
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This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the killings occurred.
Convicted serial killers by country
Afghanistan
Abul Djabar: killed 65 men and boys by strangling them with turbans while raping them; suspected of over 300 murders; sentenced to death and hanged in 1970.
Abdullah Shah: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad while serving under warlord Zardad Khan; also killed his wife; executed with a single shot in the head in 2004.
Algeria
Madeleine Mouton: known as "The Berthelot Poisoner"; French immigrant who poisoned between four and seven people in Sidi Bel Abbès from 1943 to 1944 to pay off her debts; executed in 1948.
Argentina
Brenda Agüero: neonatal nurse who poisoned multiple babies in Córdoba, killing five; sentenced to life imprisonment.
Marcelo Antelo: known as "The San La Muerte Killer"; drug addict who killed at least four people in Buenos Aires between February and August 2010, allegedly in the name of a pagan saint; sentenced to life imprisonment.
Roberto José Carmona: known as "The Human Hyena"; abducted, raped and shot dead a teenage girl near Carlos Paz in 1986; sentenced to life, killed two inmates in prison; murdered a cab driver after a brief escape from prison in 2022. Carmona got two additional life sentences for his latest crimes.
Diego Casanova: known as El Matapresos ("The Convicts' Killer"); murdered five inmates in the Boulogne Sur Mer prison in Mendoza Province while serving a jail term for a murder he committed in 2004.
Juan Catalino Domínguez: ranch hand who killed eight people around southeast Buenos Aires Province from 1944 to 1948 while on the run; shot dead by police agents in Madariaga in 1948.
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