Ian Brady
Toys and tributes left by the family of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett are seen tied to a fence on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester northern England, Aug. 17, 2012. Reuters

One of the most notorious murderers in world history, Ian Brady, died Monday at the age of 79, reports said. From 1963 to 1965, Brady along with his then-girlfriend Myra Hindley, killed five children aged between 10 and 17 years after sexually assaulting them and then buried the bodies at Yorkshire moors in England.

Brady, who was called "Moors murderer" breathed his last at Merseyside’s Ashworth Hospital in England, a high-security facility where he was held since 1985, BBC reported.

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Brady, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, was jailed at Chester Assizes 51 years ago for murders of 12-year-old John Kilbride, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey and 17-year-old Edward Evans. In 1985, Brady also confessed to murdering 16-year-old Pauline Reade and 12-year-old Keith Bennett.

Akin to Brady's Moors murders that shocked the world in the 1960s, there have been other serial killers who have shocked the world with their crimes. Here's a list of seven of the most notorious serial killers in the world:

1. Pedro Alonzo Lopez

One of the most infamous serial killers in world, Pedro Alonzo Lopez was from Colombia. Known as "the Monster of the Andes," in 1980, he led police to the graves of 53 of his victims in Ecuador, all girls aged between nine and 12 years old. He admitted to killing 110 children in 1983 and claimed to have been responsible for around 200 more deaths in the neighboring countries of Peru and Colombia, according to his biography.

2. Daniel Camargo Barbosa

Between 1970s and 1980s, Daniel Camargo Barbosa raped, murdered and dismembered over 150 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador. He was known as "the Sadist of El Charquito" for his brutal way of killing his victims with a machete. While Barbosa was suspected in the deaths of 80 women, he was eventually arrested in Columbia for rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl. Although, he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in jail on May 3, 1974, he escaped in 1984 and continued his heinous crimes of butchering 70 more people. He was again arrested and sentenced to 16 years in prison. However, he never made his way out of the prison as he was killed by a fellow inmate in 1994, according to Rolling Stone.

3. Kampatimar Shankariya

An Indian serial killer, Kampatimar Shankariya's motive behind his killings was pure pleasure. He killed 70 people with just a hammer between 1977 and 1978. He was executed by hanging at Jaipur in Rajasthan district on May 16, 1979. His last words were: “I have murdered in vain. Nobody should become like me."

4. Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy was an U.S. serial killer, kidnapper, rapist and a necrophile. He targeted his victims from various states. He had admitted to having killed 30 women, even though his lawyer had revealed in 1980s that he had slaughtered more than 100 women. He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept their heads as trophies in his apartment. On Jan. 24, 1989, Bundy met his fate at Florida state prison where he was put to death in the morning in an electric chair sometimes known as "Old Sparky" according to his biography.

5. Alexander Pichushkin

Also known as "the Chessboard Killer", Russsian-origin Alexander Pichushkin killed more than 50 people in southwest Moscow's Bitsa Park between 1992 and 2006. When police searched Alexander Pichushkin's Moscow apartment in June 2006, they found a chessboard with numbers on 61 of the 64 squares, each number denoting a murder by him. Hence, he was named "the Chessboard Killer," by the press.

"He dreamed of surpassing Chikatilo and going down in history," Moscow prosecutor Yury Syomin had said during Pichushkin's trial, referring to Andrei Chikatilo, Russia's most infamous serial killer, who was convicted in 1992 of killing and mutilating 52 people.

6. Luis Alfredo Garavito

Luis Alfredo Garavito has been known by many names — La Bestia (“the Beast”), Goofy, El Loco or the Priest. In 1999, he admitted to raping, torturing and murdering 147 young boys in the 1990s in Colombia. He would approach his victims in different disguises, such as a beggar, a cripple or as a monk. His victims were found with their throats slit, and according to a court session held in 1999, prosecutor Alfonso Gómez said that the victims' bodies have showed signs of being tied up and mutilitated. Gomez had said during the hearing: "This has no precedent in Colombia," the Guardian had reported.

7. Charles Edmund Cullen

Charles Edmund Cullen is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history and was called as "the Angel Of Death." He was handed down six life sentences in 2006 after he admitted to poisoning at least 40 people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania during his 16-year nursing career. He said he wanted to end sufferings of his patients, despite many of them being in good health when killed by Cullen.

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