List of serial rapists

A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time.[1] Some serial rapists target children.[2][3][4] The terms sexual predator, repeat rape and multiple offending can also be used to describe the activities of those who commit a number of consecutive rapes, but remain unprosecuted when self-reported in research.[5]

This list does not include serial killers who raped their victims then killed them; only serial rapists who non-fatally attacked their victims and raped them should be included here. This list should include serial rapists with at least 3 victims. Serial killers that only raped their victims are also included.

Name	Country	Years active	Proven victims	Notes
Richard Huckle	Malaysia (convicted)  Cambodia  Singapore  Laos  India (suspected)	2006–2014	71	British paedophile who assaulted underage children in Malaysia, possibly up to 200 across Southeast Asia, posing in appropriate jobs to lure his victims; described as one of Britain's worst, and youngest, paedophiles; given 22 life sentences, murdered in prison in 2019.[6]
Sunil Rastogi	India	Unknown	60	A presumed paedophiliac is a serial rapist who was arrested on 15 January 2017, on charges of raping numerous minor girls. Rastogi, had been targeting girls walking home from school since 13 years. About 60+ girls were sexually abused by him.
Roger Abdelmassih	Brazil	2009	52	In early 2009 he was accused of sexually abusing sedated patients.[7] Abdelmassih was sentenced to 278 years in prison for 52 rapes.
Reynhard Sinaga	England	2015–2017	48[8][9]	An Indonesian student in Manchester, UK, who was convicted on 136 counts of rape, 14 counts of sexual assault, eight counts of attempted rape and one count of assault by penetration. He targeted young heterosexual men who were leaving nightclubs and raped his victims by bringing them to his flat under non-sexual pretenses and drugging them with GHB. He filmed the assaults, and police claim there are at least 195 victims.[10]
Kevin Coe	United States	1978–1981	43	Known as the "South Hill Rapist"; former Las Vegas radio announcer who sexually assaulted and injured women in Spokane, Washington, ramming his fist down the victims' mouths or throats; sentenced to life imprisonment.[11]
Eugênio Chipkevitch	Brazil	Unknown	40	Ukrainian-born physician and psychotherapist who molested his adolescent patients in São Paulo, also recording the assaults on a camcorder. The recordings were later discovered in a trash bag by a telephone technician, who reported them to media and police, eventually leading to his arrest. Chipkevitch was sentenced to 128 years imprisonment, later reduced to 114 years, and is currently serving at an unnamed prison in Sorocaba.[12]
Oleg Kosarev	Soviet Union  Russia	1984–2011	40	Known as the "Elevator"; robber and pedophilic rapist who assaulted teenage girls in elevators around several cities in Moscow Oblast; claims to have committed at least 140 rapes; sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.[13]
Martin Ney	Germany  France (possible)	1992–2004	40	He wore a mask while killing 3 and sexual assaulting at least 40 children in school camps. He also did some of his activities in camps, private homes and other places. Also known as the “Masked Man” and the “Black Man”.
Henrique Sotero	Portugal	2008–2009	40	Known as the "Telheiras Rapist"; engineer who raped predominantly underage girls in the Greater Lisbon area at knifepoint; sentenced to 25 years imprisonment.[14]
The Teardrop rapist	United States	1996–2012	35	The Teardrop rapist is a moniker for an unidentified rapist responsible for 35 sexual assaults on women, including minors, in Los Angeles, California.[15]
Delroy Grant	England	1990–2009	34	Convicted rapist who carried out a series of offences of burglary, rape and sexual assault dating between October 1992 and May 2009 in the South East London area of England. He is positively linked to four reported rapes and around 30 other sexual assaults. Police believe he is also responsible for at least another two rapes where the victims felt unable to make any official allegation. The true total may be higher as his victims are often too traumatised to speak to police.
Kirk Reid	England	1995–2007	28	Raped and sexually assaulted women in South London, most frequently in the districts of Wandsworth, Balham and Tooting; suspected of over 70 assaults, beginning in 1984; sentenced to life imprisonment.[16]
Benny Sela	Israel	1985–1989	24	According to police, Sela committed at least 24 and possibly as many as 34 rapes, sexual assaults, and sexual molestations of women and girls in central Israel over the course of five years. In 1995, he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for having systematically molested his cousin from the time she was eight to when she was fifteen.
Yang Xinhai	China	1999–2003	23	Chinese rapist-killer who committed 67 murders and 23 rapes. Executed in 2004.
Aaron H. Thomas	United States	1991–2009	22	Rapist Aaron H. Thomas was arrested on March 4, 2011, after police matched his DNA to that of the rapist from a cigarette butt he discarded. On March 5, 2011, jailers reported that Thomas attempted to hang himself while in a jail cell.
John Svahlstedt	Sweden	1971–2013	22	Known as the "Södermannen"; raped and assaulted women in Södermalm and Haga during the 1970s and 1980s; after release, arrested again in 2013 for the rape of a child; sentenced to four years imprisonment.[17]
Uni-Phantom	Germany	1994–2002	21	Unidentified sex offender responsible for 21 rapes of predominantly young women, first starting in Sprockhövel before moving into the vicinity of the Ruhr University Bochum. The Phantom usually threatened his victims with a knife at public transport stops before raping them. For unknown reasons, there were large gaps between his rape series, and the investigation into his crimes in still ongoing.[18]
Jack Mogale	South Africa	2008–2009	19	Dubbed the West-End Serial Killer by police, is a South African serial killer who killed 16 people in 2008 and 2009. On 17 February 2011, Mogale was convicted on 52 of 61 charges related to 16 murders, 19 rapes, and 9 kidnappings.
Patrick Trémeau	France	1983–2005	19	Known as the "Parking Rapist"; active in Paris, he would follow young women to buildings with underground car parks, where he would subsequently threaten them with a knife and rape them. His case influenced the debate on recidivism in France, and currently, he is serving a 20-year sentence.[19]
Li Feng	China	1998–2002	19	Chinese teacher who was executed for sexually molesting and raping 19 girls. Li was an elementary school teacher in the city of Tonghua, in northeast China's Jilin province. He began teaching in 1998, and he began molesting his students in August of that year. He assaulted various girls in his class for the next four years. The victims were all under the age of 14.
Batman rapist	England	since 1991	17	The Batman rapist is an English unidentified serial sex offender who has committed at least 17 attacks on women in the city of Bath, Somerset. He was nicknamed after leaving a baseball cap bearing a logo from the Batman film series at the scene of one attack.
George Joseph Cvek	United States	1940–1941	15	Known as "The Aspirin Bandit"; Pennsylvanian who robbed and raped at least 15 women around New York City, with possibly at least 66 others, including in Maine and New Orleans, Louisiana; nicknamed "The Gentleman Killer" after being convicted of raping and killing Kitty Pappas in the Bronx, for which he was later executed in 1942.[20]
Mark Wayne Rathbun	United States	1997–2002	14	Between 1997 and 2002, Rathbun committed at least fourteen rapes in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California. Many of Rathbun's attacks were committed in the Belmont Shore district of Long Beach, California, hence his nickname. In addition to striking in Long Beach, Rathbun was also active in the cities of Huntington Beach and Los Alamitos.
Cedric Maake	South Africa	1996–1997	14	Attacked couples parked in cars around the Wemmer Pan area whom Maake would assault, shooting the men and raping the women.
Niklas Eliasson	Sweden	2005–2010	14	Known as the "Örebro Rapist"; considered one of Sweden's worst serial rapists, Eliasson was active in Örebro, acting upon an inner voice that told his to attack women; sentenced to 12 years in prison, and released on parole in 2018.[21]
Baekuni	Indonesia	1993–2010	14	Indonesian serial killer who raped street children between the ages of 4 and 14, mutilating 4 of them.
Naceur Damergi	Tunisia	1980s	14	Raped 14 minors, killing 13. Executed in 1990.
Roy Charles Waller	United States	1991–2006	12	American man who was arrested in September 2018 as a suspect in a series of more than ten rapes and kidnappings committed between 1991–2006 in six Northern California counties (the "Norcal Rapist"). DNA evidence from crime scenes were matched on GEDmatch to a relative of Waller, and he was identified through genetic genealogy.
Lassana Coulibaly	France	2002–2005	12	Known as the "Sock Rapist"; delinquent who kidnapped and raped women in several areas around France, always gagging his victim with a sock or other items, thus the nickname. Convicted and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.[22]
John Lambe	England	1975–1980	12	Known as the "M5 Rapist"; builder and lorry driver who raped women across the M5 motorway, as a way to get at the police force, who had convicted him of a buglary charge; sentenced to life imprisonment.[23]
Erich Hauert	Switzerland	1982–1983	11	Sex offender who committed 11 rapes and 3 murders from 1982-1983; sentenced to life imprisonment; his case impacted treatment of dangerous sexual offenders in Switzerland tremendously.
Joseph McCann	England	2019	11	English-born Scottish traveller career criminal who sexually assaulted and raped victims, ranging from children to elderly women; sentenced to 33 counts of life imprisonment.[24]
Luc Tangorre	France	1979–2019	10	Known as the "Marseille Southern Districts Rapist"; assaulted 10 women and children, possibly more, in the span of a few decades. Tangorre was partially exonerated for his first series of rapes, but was later reconvicted after raping two American students. He was given an additional three and a half years for raping three minors between 2012 and 2019, and is due to stand trial for another such rape in Lyon, from 2018.[25]
Georgi Yordanov	Bulgaria	1970s	10	In the beginning of the 1970s, a serial rapist, known as "Joro the Paver, the Second", raped 10 victims and committed a double murder. In 1975, the perpetrator Georgi Yordanov was captured, sentenced to death and subsequently executed by firing squad.
Potomac River Rapist	United States	1991–1997	9	The Potomac River Rapist is a serial rapist and murderer who was active in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area from 1991 to 1998. Ten sexual assaults and one murder were linked to the suspect by DNA. Fatal rape attack on August 1, 1998 not included. A suspect was arrested and charged on November 13, 2019.
Antoni Imiela	England	by September 2002	9	A German-born convicted rapist, Antoni raped nine women and girls. The crimes took place in Surrey, Kent, Berkshire, London, Hertfordshire and Birmingham. He died in HMP Wakefield prison on 8 March 2018.
Jean-Luc Blanche	France	1990–2003	9	Known as the "Backpacker Rapist"; active in several departments around France, Blanche would often kidnap and drive his victims to isolated areas, where he would repeatedly rape them. After he was finished, he acted nicely towards the victims, even driving them back to their homes. His case, which was highly publicized, contributed to the creation of the automated judicial file for sex offenders in the country.[26]
Niklas Lindgren	Sweden	1998–2005	9	Known as "Hagamannen"; convicted of sexual assaults in and around the area of Umeå, after one of Sweden's largest police investigations, which was marred with setbacks; sentenced to 9 years and released on parole in 2015.[27]
Altemio Sanchez	United States	1981–2006	9	Known as the "Bike Path Rapist/Killer"; Puerto Rican man who raped between 9 and 15 women in Buffalo, New York, killing at least three of them; another man was wrongfully convicted for his crimes; sentenced to 75 years to life.[28]
Francis Evrard	France  Belgium	1962–2007	9	French-Belgian pedophile who sexually abused young boys in both countries, who admitted to about 40 assaults. Following a notorious abduction, kidnapping and rape of a 5-year-old boy from his hometown of Roubaix in 2007, Evrard was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. His case led to a renewal on the debate concerning the treatment of sex offenders in France.[29]
Vince Champ	United States	Unknown	8	American stand-up comedian who raped at least eight women.[30] He had a consistent method of operation in each of the rapes, he covered their heads so they could not identify him, he asked about their sexual history, engaged in anal sex, used his own saliva for lubrication, and he asked each of the women to pray for him afterward.
Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira	Brazil	Unknown	8	Brazilian rapist and serial killer who committed at least 8 rapes, one in Atibaia municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and seven more in Bragança Paulista municipality in the state of São Paulo. Besides from raping, he killed five children.
Larry Murphy	Ireland	2001	8	Irishman convicted of kidnapping, repeatedly raping, and attempting to murder a young woman. Suspected in the disappearance of 8 women.
The Creeper	Sweden  Norway	1990s–2003	8	Broke into the houses of female victims around Gothenburg, watching over them before eventually raping them under the threat of a knife. The perpetrator, whose name was not released, was later identified via DNA evidence as a man serving a rape sentence in neighboring Norway. Sentenced to forensic psychiatric care.[31]
Joro the Paver	Bulgaria	1968	6–7	Active in Sofia's Konyovitsa neighborhood, Joro the Paver earned his nickname from the handkerchiefs he left on pavements next to the victims. As a result of one of his attacks, one victim died from her injuries in hospital. A deaf-mute named Milcho Milanov, from Rakita, was initially convicted and served time for the crimes, but was later released due to lack of evidence.[32]
Peter Samuel Cook	England	1974–1975	6	Serial rapist who attacked women in Cambridge, England and so became known in the press as the Cambridge Rapist. The majority of Cook's victims were students of the University of Cambridge, whom he attacked after breaking into their bedsits and flats. He was active between October 1974 and April 1975, and was also called the 'hooded rapist' because of a distinctive leather mask he wore whilst carrying out his crimes.
Tomasz Włodarek	Poland	1997–2000	6	Known as the "Vampire of Świnoujście"; raped young girls and women under the threat of a knife in the Świnoujście area, killing one woman and a female customs officer; sentenced to two counts of life imprisonment.[33]
John Worboys	England	2007–2008	6	Known as the "Black Cab Rapist"; cab driver who drugged and subsequently raped across England, possibly amassing more than 100 victims; his case resulted into scrutiny towards the investigating team's incompetence; sentenced to life imprisonment.[34]
Marcel Hansen	Denmark	1995–2010	6	Known as the "Amager Man"; football coach who raped six women between around Amager, in addition to murdering another two on separate occasions in 1987 and 1990; was also indicted for a seventh rape, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence; sentenced to life imprisonment.[35]
Ronald Janssen	Belgium	2001–2010	5	Known as "Le Prof"; serial killer and rapist who targeted lone women and young couples, killing at least three and raping at least; confessed to 20 rapes in total; sentenced to life imprisonment.[36]
Mamadou Traoré	France	1996	5	Senegalese-born man who assaulted at least six female victims in Paris, raping five and killing two of them. At trial, he claimed to have been cursed by evil Vodun spirits, which caused him to kill. Sentenced to life imprisonment.[37]
Paul Callow	Canada	1980s	5	Known as the "Balcony Rapist"; after stalking his victims, he would break into their homes in Toronto by climbing onto balconies or entering through broken windows or doors; his last victim later successfully sued the Toronto police for their inaction regarding the rapist; Callow received a 20-year-to-life sentence, but was released in 2007.[38]
Guido Zingerle	Italy  Austria	1946–1950	5	Italian murderer and possible serial killer who killed at least 2 women in the 1940s and raped another 3.
River Park rapist	United States	1996	4	In 1996 a suspected serial rapist dubbed by local media the "River Park Rapist" preyed on female residents of South Bend, Indiana. Police arrested Richard Alexander (then 30 years old) in August 1996 for four of the rapes, largely on the basis of the statements of the victims. DNA evidence definitively excluded him as a suspect in one of the rapes, although both the victim and her fiancé continued to insist that Alexander was the perpetrator. Alexander was later found innocent of all charges.
James Lloyd	England	1980s	4	For a period of a least four years during the 1980s, a man violently attacked and raped at least four lone women and attempted to assault at least two others in the Rotherham area. His victims were aged between 18 and 54 and were typically attacked during the early hours of the morning while returning from a night out. In April 2006, Lloyd was arrested and charged. He pled guilty to four rapes and two attempted rapes in July 2006, but denied responsibility for one other rape.
São Paulo Monster	Brazil	1973	3	Serial pedophile rapist who attacked 3 girls in São Paulo, Brazil at the Bari and Pari regions. Unsuccessfully attempted to rape other girls.
Mr. Cruel	Australia	1987–1990	3	Serial pedophile rapist who attacked 3 girls in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of a fourth girl.
Akku Yadav	India	2004 and earlier	3	Rapist and murderer in India who was lynched by a mob of around 200 women. Yadav was stabbed over seventy times, and chili powder and stones were thrown in his face. One of his alleged victims also hacked off his penis.
Interstate 80 rapist	United States	2013–2014	3	Series of rapes that was committed by a unidentified serial rapist in Sacramento, California. While many have been convinced that other assaults took place by the same man, only three have been successfully linked by DNA
Fanwell Khumalo	South Africa	Unknown	?	Convicted on 103 counts of rape, kidnapping and indecent assault.[39] Raped his victims by pretending to be a policeman, or approaching girls and asking for directions, he took girls from busy spots to deserted areas such as parks, open fields, and empty houses, where he raped them in daylight.