History's Biggest Villains

David Carrick (born 4 January 1975) is an English serial rapist and a former police officer who worked for the Metropolitan Police. He joined the police force in 2001 and worked as an armed police officer in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection from 2009 until his initial suspension without pay and subsequent sacking from his position.  Carrick was arrested in 2021 and in 2022 pleaded...

Frank Davidson Fraser (13 December 1923 – 26 November 2014), better known as "Mad" Frankie Fraser, was an English gangster who spent 42 years in prison for numerous violent offenses.

Leopold II ( Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and the autocratic prime colonizer of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Leopold's administration of the Congo Free State was characterized by atrocities and systematic brutality, including forced labor, torture, murder, kidnapping, and the amputation of the hands of men, women, and childre...

On February 12, 1993, 2-year-old James Bulger was abducted from the New Strand Shopping Center in Liverpool, England by two 10-year-old boys, Robert  Thompson and Jon Venables. His body was found near a railroad track by a group of children. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with abduction and murder. They were found guilty on 24 November, making them the youngest convict...

Mary Ann Cotton (October 31,1832 – March 24,1873) was an English convicted murderer who was executed for poisoning her stepson. Despite her sole conviction for murder, she is believed to have been a serial killer who killed many others including 11 of her 13 children and three of her four husbands for their insurance policies. Her preferred method of killing was poisoning with arsenic.  Cotto...

Viktor Anatolyevich Bout ( born January, 13th 1967) is a Russian arms dealer. An entrepreneur and former Soviet military translator, he used his multiple companies to smuggle weapons since the collapse of the Soviet Union from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s. Bout gained the nicknames the Merchant of Death and Sanctions Buster after Peter Hain of the B...

On February 9th, 1983 at the Cranley Gardens apartments in London, Dyno-Rod employee Micheal Cattran was responding to plumbing complaints made by tenants. Opening a drain cover at the side of the house, Cattran discovered the drain was packed with a flesh-like substance and numerous small bones of unknown origin. Cattran reported his suspicions to his supervisor, Gary Wheeler. As Cattran had arri...

Jack the Ripper terrorized London in 1888, killing at least five women and mutilating their bodies in an unusual manner, indicating that the killer had a substantial knowledge of human anatomy. The culprit was never captured—or even identified—and Jack the Ripper remains one of England’s, and the world’s, most infamous criminals.  All five killings attributed to Jack the Ripper took place wit...

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE KCSG  (October 31, 1926 – October 29, 2011) was an English DJ, television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. In obituaries, Savile was praised for his personal qualities and his work raising an estimated £40 million for charities. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse made against him w...

Ted Bundy (1946-1989) was an American serial killer who kidnapped and murdered numerous young women during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 murders committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. His true victim total is unknown and is likely significantly higher.

From August 16-18, 1988, Germans Hans Jurgen Rosner, Dieter Degowski & Marion Loblich robbed a bank, and held dozens of people hostage at gunpoint, while news reporters followed their every move, capturing the hostage situation on live TV while it happened. They were conducting interviews with the abductors and the hostages, asking them to pose for photographs, and aiding them by giving them r...

Pol Pot ruled over Cambodia for many years and his rule was very barbaric, as millions of people died due to his evil communist tactics. 

Josef Mengele was a German doctor during the Nazi regime. Nicknamed "The Angel of Death", he performed unsafe experiments on Jewish prisoners, often leading to their deaths. He was never arrested for his war crimes, remaining on the run until his death in 1979.

Felicien Kabuga was a Rwandan millionaire that financed the Rwandan genocide that claimed over 800,000 lives, evading capture for over 25 years until he was finally caught in May 2020.

Peter Sutcliffe was a serial killer from Yorkshire who killed 13 women in 12 years, all while the police struggled to find him.

Today, I look at Austrian man Josef Fritzl, who abducted his daughter, keeping her in his basement and fathering 7 children with her.

Vlad the Impaler , in full Vlad III Dracula or Romanian Vlad III Drăculea , also called Vlad III or Romanian Vlad Țepeș , (born 1431, Sighișoara , Transylvania [now in Romania]—died 1476, north of present-day Bucharest , Romania), voivode (military governor, or prince) of Walachia (1448; 1456–1462; 1476) whose cruel methods of punishing his enemies gained notoriety in 15th-century Europe . Some in...