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- See also: Ad Killers
"Lonely Hearts Killers" (or want-ad killers) find their victims by either posted advertisements to or answered advertisements via newspaper classified ads and personal or lonely hearts ads.
Notable lonely hearts and want-ad killers[]
- Rodney Alcala (born 1943) — known as "the Dating Game killer"
- Rodney Cameron is known as "the Lonely Hearts Killer"
- Harvey Carignan (born 1927) — known as "the Want-Ad Killer"
- Nannie Doss (1905 — 1965) — known as "The Lonely Hearts Killer," among other names
- Raymond Fernandez (1914 — 1951) and Martha Beck (1920 — 1951) — known as "The Honeymoon Killers" and "The lonely hearts killers".
- Emma Heppermann (1883 — 1968) Known as "the Serial Soup Killer" she killed several lovers between the years of 1925 and 1940, she knew them through Lonely Hearts personal ads
- Harvey Glatman (1927 — 1959) — known as "the lonely hearts killer"
- Denis Gorbunov (1977 — 2006)
- Belle Gunness (1859 — 1908?) — she became part of American criminal folklore, a female Bluebeard.
- Robert Hansen (1939 — 2014)
- Béla Kiss (1877 — 19?)
- Sheila LaBarre (born 1959) — serving two consecutive life sentences for two murders on the farm she inherited from deceased husband. Boyfriend later died, as did a man who replied to her personal ad.
- Henri Désiré Landru (1869 — 1922)
- Bobby Joe Long (1953 — 2019) — known as "the classified ad rapist"
- Philip Markoff (1986 — 2010) — known as "the Craigslist killer"
- Harry Powers (1892 — 1932) — known as "the lonely hearts killer", "the West Virginia Bluebeard", and "the butcher of Clarksburg"
- Alfredo Stranieri (born 1956) killed 4 people between 1997 and 1999 in France
