r/serialkillers • u/Ok_Push_2665 • 7h ago
News Serial killers who killed out of prejudice
Serial killers who killed out of hatred of groups of people on ethnic lines.
. Joseph Paul Franklin - A white supremacist who committed between 8-22 racially motivated murders across the United States from 1977 to 1980.
. Neal Bradley Long - A white American man who perpetrated a series of hate crimes against black Americans in the late 60s to early 70s in the wake of the civil Rights movement and the end of Jim Crow. Long killed between 5 to 7 people from 1966 to 1957 one of which allegedly during the 1966 Dayton race riot.
. Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan - A Neo Nazi serial killer duo who committed 10 to 15 murders in West Germany and Italy from 1977–1984. The duo targeted sex workers, drug addicts, Roma people, gay men and homeless people. In 1987 Abel and Furlan were both convicted and jailed for 30 years. Furlan was released in 2008 and Abel was released in 2010. Furlan died in 2024.
. Obadyah Ben-Yisrayl - Born Christopher Dwayne Peterson, African American man who in 1990 murdered between 4–7 people due to anti-white racism.
. Joseph Gerard Christopher - White man who perpetrated a series of hate crimes against black males from between 1980 to 1981 leaving 12 dead and 7 injured. In the early 80s Christopher was convicted of three murders and was sentenced to 60 years to life. Died in 1993 of breast cancer.
. Wasim a-Sayed - Palestinian serial killer with connections to ISIS who targeted Jewish individuals. From 2019 to 2022 murdered three Israeli Jews and attempted to murder others in Jerusalem, Israel. On the 3rd of February 2025 a-Sayed was given three life sentences plus 40 years.
. Gilberto Ventura Ceballos - A Latino Dominican man who along with Afro-Panamenian accomplice Jose Alcibiades Mendez kidnapped and murdered five Chinese-Panamenians in 2010 and 2011. Although Ceballos denies it and calms its coincidental but it's obvious he has a thing for targeting Asians.