After murder, crimes against sexual freedom are the worst offenses that exist. Therefore, we are going to uncover the most famous serial rapists in history; as well as their identities and lives.
Unfortunately, sexual assaults are a scourge that has not been eradicated, and new cases continue to be known. Many serial rapists have been characterized by a varied criminal career, which also included crimes such as robbery or murder, so some cases also share this position with another on the list of the worst serial killers.
9 most infamously famous serial rapists
These serial rapists have committed some of the most horrific crimes in the history of criminology, although not all ended up killing their victims.
9. Juan Carlos Sánchez, "the fierce wolf"
At the end of January 2018, news broke of the arrest in Venezuela of Juan Carlos Sánchez, a terrible serial rapist, famous in the area for his nickname "the Fierce Wolf," which he has earned: he is accused of at least 274 rapes of minors.
This terrible serial rapist also dedicated himself to selling videos in which he recorded himself committing the abuses. Apparently, the prolific sexual predator had been developing his criminal career for years (he was already arrested in 2008 for having relations with a minor of 14 years), so it is feared that the final count of victims could be close to 500.
8. Julio César Grassi
In recent years, countless cases of abuse and rape of minors by priests have been uncovered. In May 2017, a list came to light with no less than 62 priests reported for these abhorrent practices in Argentina.
One of the most notorious is that of Father Julio César Grassi, director of the Felices los Niños Foundation, well known in his country for appearing on different television programs to raise funds for his cause.
Accused in 1991 of abusing minors without the case being closed, repeated cases were opened against him for the same in 2000, 2002, and 2006. It would not be until 2009 that it was proven that he had continuously abused a minor living in his organization, for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
7. Arlindo Carvalho, "the Pyramids rapist"
The following individual used to prefer young girls (the age range of his victims ranged from 17 to 22 years old), whom he threatened with a knife or a pen and took to some nearby secluded area (wastelands or parks) to rape them without being discovered. After the act, he would steal their valuables and flee. On some occasions, he spent more than an hour with one of the young women and committed up to two rapes in one day.
Carvalho was sentenced to 514 years in prison for 35 crimes of illegal detention with aggravated sexual assault and for 27 robberies. Like many other sexual predators and criminals, he combined his dark hobbies with an idyllic life as a family man respected by everyone in his neighborhood.
Considering the time he kept the police on edge, the number of victims (up to 140 women claimed to have been attacked by Arlindo Carvalho), and his time in action (between 1988 and 1996), "the Pyramids rapist" is considered one of the most famous serial rapists in the history of Spain.
6. Jimmy Savile
The case of Jimmy Savile is one of those where under an appearance of kindness and altruism hid a true insatiable monster. This man was a well-known presenter of flagship programs of the BBC network, including Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It, and was as loved as he was respected by the English public; to the point of receiving the title of "Sir." Additionally, he was involved in several charitable works, so it was common to see him visiting patients in hospitals.
However, it was all mere appearances, as behind the cameras, Savile took advantage of the opportunity to abuse up to 200 minors interned in the hospital centers he visited, as well as an unknown number of adults, which could increase the number of victims to 500. It took some time after his death (in 2011) for his dark secret to be known: he had been committing this type of abuse from 1955 to 2009.
We are probably facing the most well-known serial rapist in the judicial history of the United Kingdom.
5. Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas is the archetype of the antisocial maladjusted criminal: an alcoholic mother who abused both him and his father (yes, you read that right), subjecting Henry to all kinds of humiliations and causing him to grow up with no social skills. From a young age, he began to commit crimes, carrying out petty thefts and going from reformatory to reformatory.
Henry established a fatal link between sex and death at an early age, as a teenager he dedicated himself to raping farm animals to slit their throats during the act. At 23, he returned home to rape and slit his mother's throat. After serving his sentence, he got out of prison and joined Ottis Toole, a former cellmate with whom he would form a malevolent alliance. Together they dedicated themselves to assaulting minors to rape them, robbing, and leaving a trail of bodies wherever they went.
Henry Lee Lucas has always been considered one of the most famous and prolific serial killers and rapists in the criminal history of the United States; it is believed that he left more than 300 mortal victims, whom he would have raped pre and post-mortem.
4. Richard Ramírez, "the night stalker"
Richard Ramírez is one of the most difficult cases in criminology to categorize. "The night stalker" did not follow any pattern when committing crimes: he assaulted, raped, and killed; sometimes he planned his actions and other times he acted on impulse, neglecting details that could have betrayed him. He also had no preference for a specific victim profile, nor for the methods to murder, which increased the difficulty for the police to catch him.
He committed 14 murders, although he also attempted to kill on 5 other occasions. He was called "the night stalker" because he would sneak into houses through windows in the middle of the night and there he would unleash his perversions. If he encountered couples, he would kill the man and then rape the woman, committing up to 9 rapes and sexually assaulting minors two more times.
3. Albert Fish, "the Brooklyn vampire"
It seems that a characteristic feature of the worst scum that history has produced is having lived a traumatic childhood where emotional deprivation and abuse were the order of the day. When he was barely 12 years old, Albert Fish began to discover extreme pleasure in masochism and had his first homosexual relationships.
The most famous serial rapist of this New York district raped for the first time at 20 years old and could no longer stop doing it, even after getting married. He spent a period behind bars for minor offenses (where he would constantly have sexual encounters with other inmates), only to return to raping small children no older than 6 years once out. This spiral of sexual assaults would become more twisted when, at 58 years old, he began to torture and feed on the flesh of the minors he kidnapped and murdered.
He died in 1936 in the electric chair at 66 years old, accused of 15 crimes in total, although he claimed to be responsible for more than 100. However, almost a century after his death, it is believed that the count could rise to around half a thousand. Due to his insatiability and being a well-known case for his frenzy and savagery, we place Albert Fish in the third position on our list of the most famous serial rapists.
2. Andrei Chikatilo, "the Rostov butcher"
Russia's criminal history also has its names associated with horror. Andrei Chikatilo was the perpetrator of 53 crimes despite initially being accused of 36.
From his first foray into crime in 1978, he established an unhealthy association between blood and sex that would determine his criminal record. Self-conscious since adolescence about his physical appearance (he wore glasses due to acute myopia), he compensated for his sexual impotence by raping his victims and savagely indulging in their corpses, mutilating them and, on occasions, feeding on some of their parts.
"The Rostov butcher" is one of the most famous serial killers and rapists for his sadism that the 20th century has produced, so he can't be missing from this unfortunate list.
1. Peter Kürten, "The vampire of Dusseldorf" (Germany)
During the 1920s, the German city of Dusseldorf experienced a wave of sexual assaults and murders that plunged its inhabitants into constant fear every time night fell.
The victims did not fit any specific profile, as among them were adult men and women, as well as young children. The perpetrator was also an accomplished serial rapist who sexually assaulted before torturing and robbing the unfortunate person who fell into his clutches. No one expected that the one they had cataloged as "the vampire of Dusseldorf" was actually a respectable gentleman with good manners named Peter Kürten.
His criminal record began in 1913, after petty thefts, rapes, and the robbery of an apparently solitary house that ended with the strangulation of a thirteen-year-old girl. However, the peak of depravity took place from 1925 and lasted until Kürten's capture in 1930. This sadist's case still fascinates psychiatrists, as it encompasses all perversions in a single individual, so we did not hesitate to consider Kürten the worst and most famous serial rapist in history.
The final count amounts to, as far as is known, 8 murders and 14 sexual assaults.
Peter Kürten's last words before being guillotined were:
"Tell me: when my head has been cut off, will I be able to hear, even for a moment, the sound of my own blood gurgling from the stump that remains on my neck? Because that would be the pleasure that puts an end to all pleasures."
