World's 10 Most Horrifying Young Serial Killers

Jun 03, 2023, 11:03 IST

Moohita Kaur Garg

1. Amarjeet Sada, Age: 8

Born in Musahahar village of Bihar, India, eight-year-old Sada, in 2006, confessed to killing six infants, including his own sister and cousin.

2. Cayetano Santos Godino, Age: 9

Dubbed El Petiso Orejudo or "the big-eared midget," he terrorised Buenos Aires from the ages of 9 to 16. In 1912, he admitted to murder. His victims included four children, while he attempted to murder seven others and committed arson seven times.

3. Mary Bell, Age: 10

In 1968, Bell strangled two preschool-age boys in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle in England. She reportedly killed her victims on the pretext of scratching their throats.

4. Jasmine Richardson, Age: 12

In April 2006, in Alberta, Canada, Richardson along with her 23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke, stabbed her parents and younger brother to death.

5. Craig Price, Age: 13

Arrested in 1989, Price committed his crimes in Warwick, Rhode Island, US, between the ages of 13 and 15. He brutally killed four female victims.

6. Ida Schell, Age: 13

In 1907, in Germany, Munich, the thirteen-year-old girl confessed to killing at least six infants by sticking hairpins in their skulls.

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8. Michael Hernandez, Age: 14

In 2004, he killed his classmate, Jaime Gough, inside a bathroom at their Florida middle school. He confessed to the crime and expressed a desire to become a serial killer.

9. Pedro Rodrigues Filho, Age: 14

'Lil Petey Killer' is a serial vigilante killer. Between the ages of 14 and 19, he targeted and killed suspected criminals. In 1973, he was convicted of 71 murders. Filho claimed responsibility for killing over 100 drug dealers, rapists, and murderers.

10. Caril Ann Fugate, Age: 14

She is the youngest female in US history to be convicted of first-degree murder. As the girlfriend of Charles Starkweather, a spree killer, she participated in the murder of six people in the 1950s. She was ultimately convicted for two of those murders.

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