Locations connected to America's most prolific serial killers. From hunting grounds to apartments and homes where the crimes took place.
Active 1974–1979 · Executed 1989
Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered young women and girls across at least seven states during the 1970s. Charismatic and intelligent, Bundy weaponized his appearance — often feigning injury or impersonating authority figures to gain the trust of his victims before attacking them. Bundy's killing spree began in Washington State in 1974, where he abducted at least eight women from college campuses and public parks before moving on to Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. After escaping custody twice — once by jumping from a courthouse window in Aspen — he fled to Florida, where he committed his most frenzied attacks, storming a Florida State University sorority house in the middle of the night and killing two women before attacking three others. Bundy was arrested for the final time in February 1978 and convicted of the Chi Omega murders and the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. He was executed in the electric chair at Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989. In his final days he confessed to 30 murders, though investigators believe the true number may be significantly higher. The locations below represent the verified sites connected to his decade-long reign of terror — from the Seattle neighborhood where he grew up to the Florida sorority house where his spree finally ended.
Active 1967–1969 · Died 2017
Charles Milles Manson was an American cult leader whose followers carried out a series of nine murders across two nights in August 1969 that shocked the nation and signaled the violent end of the 1960s counterculture. Manson himself never directly participated in the killings — instead he commanded absolute psychological control over a group of young followers known as the Manson Family, directing them to commit murder on his behalf. Manson's influence over his followers grew from a toxic blend of Beatles lyrics, apocalyptic race war prophecy, and Scientology-influenced mind control he called "Helter Skelter" — his belief that a race war was imminent and that the murders would help ignite it. On the night of August 8, 1969, Family members entered 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills and murdered five people including actress Sharon Tate, who was eight and a half months pregnant. The following night they killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home across town. Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy in January 1971 and sentenced to death — a sentence later commuted to life imprisonment when California briefly abolished the death penalty in 1972. He was denied parole twelve times and died in prison on November 19, 2017 at the age of 83. The locations below span the full geography of the Manson Family's reign of terror — from the remote desert ranches where the Family lived to the Beverly Hills homes where they killed.
Serial killer Ed Gein's house was filled with items made from human body parts.
The Gilgo Beach Serial Killer, Rex Heuermann, killed 8 women in this Long Island home.
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy buried most of his victims under the floorboards of his suburban home.
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Serial killer Ed Kemper lived in this apartment where he killed his mother & buried some of his victims.
The house where the Manson Family killed Rosemary and Leno LaBianca.
The "Castle" where serial killer HH Holmes lured and murdered his many victims.
Sacramento landlady Dorothea Puente poisoned nine of her boarders in the 1980s and buried seven of them in the yard.
Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono raped and murdered ten young women at Buono's Glendale upholstery shop in 1977 and 1978.
Richard Speck tortured and murdered 8 women in this house in 1966.
The house where the Manson Family killed 6 people, including Sharon Tate.
The Lonely Hearts Killer lived on this farm in West Virginia where he killed at least 5 people.
The small apartment where cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer tortured, murdered, and ate some of his victims.
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Charles Manson and members of his Family were captured at this remote Death Valley hideout in October 1969.
A movie ranch turned hideout for the Manson Family.
Donna Lauria was shot and killed by serial killer David Berkowitz aka "Son of Sam"
On August 31, 1985, residents of a Boyle Heights street cornered serial killer Richard Ramirez as he tried to steal a car.
Arthur Shawcross, the Genesee River Killer, lived in this Rochester apartment building while he murdered women across the city between 1988 and 1990.
Serial killer Ted Bundy abducted 23-year-old Janice Ott and 19-year-old Denise Naslund from this Washington state park in broad daylight in 1974.
The Sorority House where Ted Bundy killed two women and severely injured two others.
Infamous serial killer Ted Bundy grew up in this modest suburban home.
Anchorage serial killer Israel Keyes abducted and killed 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in a shed at his Spurr Lane home in 2012.
Caryn Campbell was abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy from this resort inn.
The small apartment that serial killer Ted Bundy lived in while living in Utah
Golden State Serial Killer Joseph James DeAngelo lived in this quiet Citrus Heights home.
The Park City home where BTK killer Dennis Rader lived a double life for 25 years was demolished in 2007.
The final victim of Ted Bundy, Kimberly Leach, was abducted from this Middle School.
Christine Freund was shot and killed by serial killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam.
The apartment where serial killer Son of Sam lived while he went on a murderous rampage.
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The Milwaukee Hotel where Jeffrey Dahmer killed one of his first victims.
The Seattle home where Ted Bundy killed his first confirmed victim, Lynda Ann Healy.
The Tallahassee house where serial killer Ted Bundy lived after his prison escape.
The house where serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer lived with his grandmother and killed 3 men.
Ted Bundy abducted and later killed Georgeann Hawkins from outside this Sorority House
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Serial killer Ted Bundy abducted 18 year old Susan Elaine Rancourt from this campus.
The Olympia campus where serial killer Ted Bundy abducted Donna Manson
Serial killer Ted Bundy abducted and later murdered Kathy Parks from this campus.
BTK killer Dennis Rader murdered 4 members of the Otero Family in their Kansas home.
Serial killer Herb Baumeister killed 11 men and hid their bodies on his large property.
The serial killer known as the "Toy Box Killer" had a torture trailer located here.
Missoula couple Doug and Kris Wells fatally shot suspected serial killer Wayne Nance during a 1986 home invasion, ending his decade-long spree.
Long Beach serial killer Randy Kraft raped, tortured, and killed at least 16 young men from his east side home between 1971 and 1983.
Ted Bundy escaped from the second story of this Aspen courthouse while awaiting a murder trial
Carol DaRonch was abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy, but ultimately escaped.
The Pasadena bungalow where serial killer Dean Corll lived, killed, and was shot dead in August 1973, ending the Houston Mass Murders.
In 1989, 15-year-old Craig Price stabbed Joan Heaton and her two young daughters to death inside their Warwick, Rhode Island home.
In 1987, 27-year-old Rebecca Spencer was stabbed to death inside her home by a 13-year-old neighbor, Craig Price.
