Editing Torture (section)

===Notable torture murderers===
* [[Empress Lü Zhi]] (Han Dynasty, 241 to 180 BC)
* [[Caligula|Emperor Caligula]] (Rome, 12 to 41 AD) 
* [[Gilles de Rais]] (France, 1435 to 1440)
* [[Vlad the Impaler]] (Wallachia, 1444 to 1476) 
* [[Elizabeth Báthory]] (Kingdom of Hungary, 1602 to 1610)
* [[Delphine LaLaurie]] (New Orleans, Louisiana, 1775 to 1842)
* [[Jack the Ripper]] (London, England, 1888 to 1891)
* [[H. H. Holmes]] (Chicago, Illinois, 1893 to 1895)
* [[Peter Kürten]] (Düsseldorf, 1913 to 1929)
* [[Albert Fish]] (New York City, New York, 1910 to 1936)
* [[William Hickman]] (Los Angeles, California, 1927)
* [[Hisao Tani]] (Nanjing, Republic of China, 1938 to 1945)
* [[Ilse Koch]] ([[Auschwitz Birkenau|Auschwitz]], [[Nazi Party|Nazi Germany]], 1940 to 1945)
* [[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] (Moors murders) (Greater Manchester, England, 1963 to 1965)
* [[Gertrude Baniszewski]] (Indianapolis, Indiana, 1965)
* [[John Norman Collins]] (Michigan, 1967 to 1969)
* [[Charles "Tex" Watson]], [[Susan Atkins]], [[Patricia Krenwinkel]], and [[Bobby Beausoleil]] ([[The Manson Family]]) (Los Angeles, California, 1969)
* [[Sam DeStefano]] (Chicago, Illinois, 1950s to 1970s)
* [[José Paz Bezerra]] (Brazil, 1960s to 1970s)
* [[Dean Corll]] and [[Elmer Wayne Henley Jr.|Wayne Henley]] (Houston, Texas, 1970 to 1973)
* [[Dale Pierre]], [[William Andrews]] and [[Keith Roberts]] ([[Hi-Fi murders]]) (Ogden, Utah, 1974)
* [[Hamida Djandoubi]] (Marseille, France, 1974)
* [[John Wayne Gacy]] (Chicago, Illinois, 1972 to 1978)
* [[Ted Bundy]] (United States, 1974 to 1978)
* [[Rodney Alcala]] (California, 1971 to 1979)
* [[Rosemary West|Rosemary]] and [[Fred West]] (Gloucester, England, 1973 to 1979)
* [[Kang Kek Iew]] ([[Tuol Sleng]], Democratic Kampuchea, 1975 to 1979) 
* [[Kenneth Bianchi]] and [[Angelo Buono]] (Metropolitan Los Angeles, California, 1977 to 1979)
* [[Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris]] (Metropolitan Los Angeles, California, 1979)
* [[Richard Kuklinski]] (Metropolitan New York, United States, 1960s to 1980s)
* [[Richard Cottingham]] (New York City, New York, 1967 to 1980)
* [[Werner Kniesek]] (St. Pölten, Austria, 1980)
* [[Randy Kraft]] (California, Michigan, Oregon, 1970s to 1980s)
* [[William Bonin]] (Metropolitan Los Angeles, California, 1978 to 1980)
* Lenny and John Murphy, William Moore, Robert Bates, and Sam McAllister ([[Shankill Butchers|The Shankill Butchers]]) (Belfast, 1972 to 1982)
* [[Carl Eugene Watts]] (United States, 1974 to 1982)
* Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, and Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis ([[Ripper Crew|The Ripper Crew]]) (Chicago, Illinois, 1981 to 1982)
* [[Paul Luckman and Robin Reid]] (Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia, 1982)
* [[Theresa Knorr]] (Sacramento, California, 1982 to 1983)
* [[Christopher Wilder]] (United States, 1982 to 1984)
* [[Larry Eyler]] (Midwestern United States, 1982 to 1984)
* [[Bobby Joe Long]] (Florida, 1984)
* [[Charles Ng]] and [[Leonard Lake]] (Calaveras County, California, 1983 to 1985)
* [[Richard Ramirez]] (California, 1984 to 1985)
* [[Donna Hylton]] (New York, 1985)
* [[Gary Heidnik]] (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986 to 1987)
* [[Robert Berdella]] (Kansas City, Missouri, 1984 to 1988) 
* [[Kerry Lyn Dalton]] (Live Oak Springs, California, 1988)
* [[Pietro De Negri]] ("Er Canaro") (Rome, Italy, 1988)
* [[Adolfo Constanzo]] (Mexico, 1986 to 1989)
* [[Robert Ben Rhoades]] (United States, 1975 to 1990)
* [[Andrei Chikatilo]] (Soviet Union, 1978 to November 1990)
* [[Prince Johnson]] (Monrovia, Liberia, 1990)
* [[Hissène Habré]] (Chad, 1982 to 1990)
* [[Phillip Carl Jablonski]] (Utah and California, 1970 to 1991)
* [[Dennis Rader]] (Wichita, Kansas, 1974 to 1991)
* [[Jeffrey Dahmer]] (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1978 to 1991)
* [[Mel Ignatow]] & [[Mary Ann Shore]] (Lousiville, Kentucky, 1988)
* [[William Suff]] (Riverside County, California, 1989 to 1991)
* [[Kenneth McDuff]] (Texas, 1966 to 1992)
* [[Paul Bernardo]] and [[Karla Homolka]] (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 1990 to 1992)
* [[Melinda Loveless]], [[Laurie Tackett]], [[Hope Rippey]], and [[Toni Lawrence]] (Madison, Indiana, 1992)
* [[Scott Erskine]] (San Diego, California, 1989 to 1993)
* [[Robert Thompson and Jon Venables]] (Kirkby, England, 1993)
* [[Jason Massey]] (Ellis County, Texas, 1993)
* [[Georges Rutaganda]] (Rwanda, 1994)
* [[Antonio Anglés]] and [[Miguel Ricart]] (Alcasser, Valencia, Spain, 1994)
* [[Veselin Vlahović]] (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992 to 1995)
* [[Jack Spillman]] (Washington, 1994 to 1995)
* [[Christa Pike]] (Knoxville, Tennessee, 1995)
* [[Uday Hussein]] (Iraq, 1986 to 1996)
* [[Daniel Conahan]] (Charlotte County, Florida, 1994 to 1996)
* [[Chevie Kehoe]] and [[Daniel Lewis Lee]] (Arkansas, 1996)
* [[James Patterson Smith]] (Manchester, 1996)
* [[Andrew Cunanan]] (Chicago, 1997)
* [[Junko Ogata]] and [[Futoshi Matsunaga]] (Japan, 1996 to 1998)
* [[John William King]], [[Lawrence Russell Brewer]], and [[Shawn Allen Berry]] (Jasper, Texas, 1998)
* [[David Parker Ray]] (Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, 1950s to 1999)
* [[Ershad Sikder]] (Bangladesh, 1991 to 1999)
* [[Luis Garavito]] (Colombia, 1992 to 1999) 
* [[John Bunting]] and [[Robert Wagner]] (Snowtown murders) (Adelaide, South Australia, 1992 to 1999)
* [[Sam Bockarie]] (Sierra Leone, 1992 to 2000)
* [[Gary Ridgway]] (Washington, 1988 to 2001) 
* [[Pedro Rodrigues Filho]] (Brazil, 1967 to 2003)
* [[Charles Taylor]] (Liberia, 1997 to 2003) 
* [[Yang Xinhai]] (China, 1999 to 2003)
* [[Huang Yong]] (China, 2001 to 2003)
* [[Yoo Young-chul]] (South Korea, 2003 to 2004)
* [[Joseph E. Duncan III]] (Idaho, California, 1996 to 2005)
* [[Raul Osiel Marroquin]] (Ciudad de Mexico, 2005)
* [[Volker Eckert]] (Europe, 1974 to 2006)
* [[Daniel Petry]] (Brazil, 2007)
* Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk ([[Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs|The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs]]) (Metropolitan Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 2007)
* [[Edgar Valdez Villarreal]] (Mexico, 1992 to 2010)
* [[Brittany Norwood]] (Bethesda, Maryland, 2011)
* [[Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano]] (Mexico, 1998 to 2012)
* [[Isauro Aguirre]] (California, 2012 to 2013)
* [[Daniel William Marsh]] (Davis, California, 2013)
* [[Peter Scully]] (Philippines, 2011 to 2015)
* [[Blake Leibel]] (West Hollywood, California, 2016)