Roll of terror

Some of the most well-known recent serial killers in the US:

❚ 2007-2009: Anthony Sowell was convicted of killing 11 women and hiding the remains in and around his home in Cleveland, Ohio. He is on death row in Ohio.

❚ 2005-2006: Mark Goudeau, a former construction worker also known as the ‘‘Baseline Killer’’, was convicted of killing eight women and a man in Phoenix, Arizona. He was sentenced to death in 2011 and is on death row.

❚ 2002: Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad randomly killed 10 people in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland during a three-week period in 2002. Malvo is serving several life sentences at a Virginia prison; Muhammad was executed in Virginia in 2009.

❚ 1997-1999: Angel Maturino Resendiz was convicted of murdering a Houston woman, but was linked by confessions and evidence to at least 12 other killings nationwide. He is on death row in Texas.

❚ 1996-1998: Robert L Yates Jr was convicted of two murders but admitted to 15. He is on death row in Washington state.

❚ 1985-2007: Lonnie Franklin, known as the ‘‘Grim Sleeper’’, was convicted in the deaths of nine women and a teenage girl in Los Angeles. Franklin was linked at trial to 14 slayings, including four women he wasn’t charged with killing. Police have said he may have had as many as 25 victims. He is on death row in California.