List of nicknames of serial killers


List of nicknames of serial killers


This is a list of nicknames of serial killers.

List

0–9

  • ".22 Caliber Killer":
    • Donna Perry
    • Joseph Christopher
  • ".22 Caliber Killers" – Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon
  • ".44 Caliber Killer" – David Berkowitz
  • "60 Freeway Slayer" – Ivan Hill

A

  • "ABC Serial Killer" – Moses Sithole
  • "Accra Strangler" – Charles Quansah
  • "Acid Bath Murderer" – John Haigh
  • "Adman Rapist" – Bobby Joe Long
  • "Alligator Man" – Joe Ball
  • "American Bluebeard" – Helmuth Schmidt
  • "American Jack the Ripper" – William Dean Christensen
  • "Angarsk Maniac" – Mikhail Popkov
  • "Angel Face" – Robledo Puch (Spanish: Cara de Ángel)
  • "Angel Makers of Nagyrév" – Group of Hungarian killers active in 1914–1929
  • "Angel of Bremen" – Gesche Gottfried
  • "Angel of Death"
    • Beverley Allitt
    • Roger Andermatt
    • Richard Angelo
    • Charles Cullen
    • Kristen Gilbert
    • Donald Harvey
    • Robledo Puch (Spanish: El Angel de la Muerte)
    • Efren Saldivar
    • Harold Shipman
  • "Anthrax Killer" – Unsolved
  • "Apache" – Yves Trudeau
  • "Ape Man" – Gordon Stewart Northcott
  • "Aqueduct Murderer" – Diogo Alves
  • "Arch Murderer of Marrakech" – Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi
  • "Artvin Monster" – Adnan Çolak
  • "Asghar the Murderer" – Ali Asghar Borujerdi
  • "Assistant Death in Luzem" – Roger Andermatt
  • "Athens Ripper" – Antonis Daglis
  • "Atlanta Child Killer" – Wayne Williams
  • "Atlanta Ripper" – Unsolved
  • "Atteridgeville Mutilator" – Moses Sithole
  • "Aunt Thally" – Caroline Grills
  • "Auto Shankar" – Gowri Shankar
  • "Axe Killer" – Elifasi Msomi
  • "Axeman of New Orleans" – Unsolved

B

  • "B1 Butcher" – Unsolved
  • "Babe" – Baekuni
  • "Babysitter" – Unsolved
  • "Babyface Killer" – Lesley Eugene Warren
  • "Backpack Killer" – Ivan Milat
  • "Backpack Murderer" – Francis Heaulme
  • "Bahadurgarh Baby Killer" – Satish
  • "Barnaul Maniac" – Unsolved
  • "Baseline Killer" – Mark Goudeau
  • "Baton Rouge Serial Killer" – Derrick Todd Lee
  • "Beast" – Luis Garavito (Spanish: La Bestia)
  • "Beast of Atteridgeville" – Johannes Mashiane
  • "Beast of Birkenshaw" – Peter Manuel
  • "Beast of British Columbia" – Clifford Olson
  • "Beast of Manchester" – Trevor Hardy
  • "Beast of Montmartre" – Thierry Paulin
  • "Beast of Oberfranken" – Manfred Wittmann
  • "Beast of the Andes" – Daniel Camargo Barbosa
  • "Beast of the Bastille" – Guy Georges
  • "Beast of the Black Forest" – Heinrich Pommerenke
  • "Beast of the Railway Station" – Carl Großmann
  • "Beast of Ukraine" – Anatoly Onoprienko
  • "Beasts of Satan" – Group of Italian killers active in 1998–2004
  • "Bedroom Basher" – Gerald Parker
  • "Bedroom Strangler" – Russell Maurice Johnson
  • "Beer Man" – Unsolved 2006–2007 murders in Mumbai, India
  • "Beltway Sniper" – John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
  • "Bentong Kali" – Kalimuthu a/l Pakirisamy
  • "Berrima Axe Murderer" – John Lynch
  • "Bible John" – Unsolved
  • "Big Harpe" – Micajah Harpe
  • "Big-Eared Midget" – Cayetano Santos Godino (Spanish: El Petiso Orejudo)
  • "Bigfoot"
    • Unsolved 1975 American murders
    • Philip Smith
  • "Bike Path Rapist" – Altemio Sanchez
  • "Bitsa Park Maniac" – Alexander Pichushkin
  • "Black Angel" – Robledo Puch (Spanish: El Ángel Negro)
  • "Black Doodler" – Unsolved
  • "Black Panther" – Donald Neilson
  • "Black Widow"
    • Elfriede Blauensteiner
    • Judy Buenoano
  • "Black Widower"
    • Lowell Amos
    • Gabriel Garza Hoth
  • "Blackout Ripper" – Gordon Cummins
  • "Bloody Benders" – Family of American killers active in 1872–1873
  • "Blood Countess" – Elizabeth Báthory
  • "Bludgeon Killer" – Gerald Parker
  • "Bluebeard" – Gilles de Rais
  • "Bluebeard of Paris" – Henri Désiré Landru
  • "Bluebeard of Quiet Dell" – Harm Drenth Harry Powers
  • "Bluebeard of South Texas" – Joe Ball
  • "Boa" – Sergey Golovkin
  • "Bodenfelde Black Widows" – Pair of German killers active in 1994–2000
  • "Boetie Boer" – Stewart Wilken
  • "Boksburg Killer" – Moses Sithole
  • "Bondage Killer" – Robert Berdella
  • "Boogey Man" – Albert Fish
  • "Boozing Barber" – Gilbert Paul Jordan
  • "Borgia of America" – Martha Wise
  • "Boston Belfry Murderer" – Thomas W. Piper
  • "Boston Strangler" – Albert DeSalvo
  • "Boxcar Killer" – Robert Joseph Silveria Jr.
  • "Bremerhaven Serial Killer" – Olaf Däter
  • "Brick Killer" – Amir Qayyum
  • "Brick Moron" – Robert Nixon
  • "Brides-in-the-Bath Murderer" – George Joseph Smith
  • "Britain’s Own Hannibal" – Robert Maudsley
  • "Brooklyn Strangler" – Vincent Johnson
  • "Brooklyn Vampire" – Albert Fish
  • "Broomstick Killer" – Kenneth McDuff
  • "Brownout Strangler" – Eddie Leonski
  • "B.T.K. Strangler" – Dennis Rader
  • "Bullseye Killer" – John William Cooper
  • "Butcher Baker" – Robert Hansen
  • "Butcher Knife Billy" – Billy Glaze
  • "Butcher of Berlin" – Carl Großmann
  • "Butcher of Elmendorf" – Joe Ball
  • "Butcher of Hanover" – Fritz Haarmann
  • "Butcher of Iași" – Vasile Tcaciuc
  • "Butcher of Mons" – Unsolved
  • "Butcher of Niebuszewo" – Józef Cyppek
  • "Butcher of Plainfield" – Ed Gein
  • "Butcher of Rostov" – Andrei Chikatilo
  • "Butterbox Baby Killers" – Lila and William Young
  • "Buttermilk Bluebeard" – Alfred Leonard Cline

C

  • "Cabo Bruno" – Florisvaldo de Oliveira
  • "Camden Ripper" – Anthony Hardy
  • "Campus Killer" – Ted Bundy
  • "Candlelight Killer" – Robert Liberty
  • "Candyman" – Dean Corll
  • "Cannibal" – Peter Bryan
  • "Cannibal of Ankara" – Özgür Dengiz
  • "Cannibal of Kosovo" – Kosovar serial killer active in 1997–1999
  • "Cannibal of Ziębice" – Karl Denke
  • "Cape Cod Vampire" – Tony Costa
  • "Capital Park Killer" – Samuel Sidyno
  • "Carlos the Jackal" – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
  • "Caruga of Zagorje" – Vinko Pintarić
  • "Casanova Killer"
    • Paul John Knowles
    • Glen Edward Rogers
  • "Chambermaid Slayer" – Gerald Thomas Archer
  • "Charlie Chop-off" – Unsolved
  • "Chessboard Killer" – Alexander Pichushkin
  • "Chicago Rippers" – Group of Illinois killers
  • "Chijon Family" – Group of Korean killers active in 1994
  • "Chikatilo" – List of Soviet and post-Soviet serial killers nicknamed after Andrei Chikatilo
  • "Choke and Stroke Killer" – Samuel Little
  • "Chopper" – Mark Read
  • "Cincinnati Strangler" – Posteal Laskey
  • "Citizen O" – Anatoly Onoprienko
  • "Clairemont Killer" – Cleophus Prince Jr.
  • "Classified Ad Rapist" – Bobby Joe Long
  • "Cleveland Killer" – Moses Sithole
  • "Cleveland Strangler" – Anthony Sowell
  • "Cleveland Torso Murderer" – Unsolved
  • "Confession Killer" – Henry Lee Lucas
  • "Connecticut Borgia" – Amy Archer-Gilligan
  • "Co-Ed Butcher" – Edmund Kemper
    • "Co-Ed Killer" – John Norman Collins
  • "Corridor Killer" – Steven Brian Pennell
  • "Cop Killer" – Barry Prudom
  • "Costa Killer" – Tony Alexander King
  • "Craigslist Killer" – Richard Beasley
  • "Craigslist Ripper" – Nickname for the Long Island serial killer.
  • "Crazy Charles" – Charles Ray Hatcher
  • "Crazy Dave" – David Edward Maust
  • "Crazy Joe" – Joseph Naso
  • "Cross Country Killer" – Glen Edward Rogers
  • "Crossbow Cannibal" – Stephen Griffiths
  • "Crow Killer" – John Johnson
  • "Cul-De-Sac Killer" – Stephen Akinmurele
  • "Cyanide Mallika" – KD Kempamma
  • "Cyanide Mohan" – Mohan Kumar

D

  • "D.C. Sniper" – John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
  • "Dallas Ripper" – Charles Albright
  • "Damsel of Death" - Aileen Wuornos
  • "Danilovsky Maniac" – Unsolved
  • "Dark Strangler" – Earle Nelson
  • "Dating Game Killer" – Rodney Alcala
  • "Death Angel" – Robledo Puch
  • "Death Angels" – Group of American killers active in 1969–1974
  • "Demon Midwife" – Miyuki Ishikawa
  • "Demon in the Belfry" – Theodore Durrant
  • "Der Totmacher" – Rudolf Pleil
  • "Detroit Serial Killer" – Benjamin Atkins
  • "Doctor Death"/"Dr. Death"
    • Jack Kevorkian
    • Maxim Petrov
    • Harold Shipman
    • Santosh Pol
    • Christopher Duntsch
  • "Donnybrook Serial Killer" – Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode
  • "Doodler" – Unsolved
  • "Double Initial Killer" – Joseph Naso
  • "Doubles Killer" – Werner Boost
  • "Dracula Killer" – Richard Chase
  • "Duck Island Killer" – Clarence Hill
  • "Duisburg Man-Eater" – Joachim Kroll
  • "Dusseldorf Doubles Killer" – Werner Boost

E

  • "East Area Rapist" – Joseph James DeAngelo
  • "East-Harlem Rapist" – Arohn Kee
  • "East Paris Killer" – Guy Georges
  • "Eastbound Strangler" – Unsolved
  • "Educated Killer" – Edward H. Rulloff
  • "El Coqueta" – César Armando Librado Legorreta
  • "El Cura" – Luis Garavito
  • "El Gato Imperial" – Raúl Osiel Marroquín
  • "Eyeball Killer" – Charles Albright

F

  • "Father Bluebeard" – András Pándy
  • "February 9 Killer" – Unsolved
  • "First Nations Killer" – John Martin Crawford
  • "Flying Nightmare" – Robert Hansen
  • "Forces of Evil" – William Henry Hance
  • "Forest Park (Serial) Killer" – Todd Alan Reed
  • "Forest Strip Killer" – Andrei Chikatilo
  • "Frankford Slasher" – Leonard Christopher
  • "Frankston Killer" – Paula Denyer
  • "Freeway Killer"
    • Vernon Butts
    • William Bonin
    • Patrick Kearney
    • Randy Kraft
    • William Pugh
  • "Freeway Phantom" – Unsolved
  • "French Ripper" – Joseph Vacher

G

  • "Gainesville Ripper" – Danny Rolling
  • "Gansu Ripper" – Gao Chengyong
  • "Gas Man" – Harald Sassak
  • "Gatchina Psychopath" – Vasily Smirnov
  • "Gay Slayer" – Colin Ireland
  • "Genesee County Serial Slasher" – Elias Abuelazam
  • "Genesee River Killer" – Arthur Shawcross
  • "Gentleman Killer" – Władysław Mazurkiewicz
  • "Georgia Black Widow" – Janie Lou Gibbs
  • "Gert" – Gert van Rooyen
  • "Ghoul of Grays Harbor" – Billy Gohl
  • "Giggling Grandma" – Nannie Doss
  • "Glamour Girl Slayer" – Harvey Glatman
  • "Godfather of Matamoros" – Adolfo Constanzo (Spanish: El Padrino de Matamoros)
  • "Godmother" – Sara Aldrete (Spanish: La Madrina)
  • "Goiânia Serial Killer" – Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha
  • "Golden State Killer" – Joseph James DeAngelo
  • "Good Doctor" – Harold Shipman
  • "Good Lady of Loudun" – Marie Besnard
  • "Gorilla Killer" – Earle Nelson
  • "Granny Killer" – John Wayne Glover
  • "Granny Ripper" – Tamara Samsonova
  • "Gray Man" – Albert Fish
  • "Green Man" – Albert DeSalvo
  • "Green River Killer" – Gary Ridgway
  • "Grim Maniac" – Nikolai Dudin
  • "Grim Reaper of Paris" – Thierry Paulin
  • "Grim Sleeper" – Lonnie David Franklin Jr.
  • "Grocery Bag Killer" – Robert Lee Yates
  • "Guangzhou Ripper" – Li Wenxiang

H

  • "Hairy One" – Augustine Chacon
  • "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer" – Seisaku Nakamura
  • "Hamburg Rubble Murderer" – Unsolved
  • "Hammer Killer" – Norbert Poehlke
  • "Hammer Killer of Frankfurt" – Arthur Gatter
  • "Hannibal" – Scott Lee Kimball
  • "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes" – Dorángel Vargas
  • "Hanover Werewolf" – Fritz Haarmann
  • "Happy Face Killer" – Keith Hunter Jesperson
  • "Headbanger" – Peter Sutcliffe
  • "Heidemörder (Heath Muderer)" – Thomas Holst
  • "Hell's Belle" – Belle Gunness
  • "Hermit of St. Bonnot" – Gilles Garnier
  • "Highway Hooker" - Aileen Wuornos
  • "Highway Killer" – Larry Eyler
  • "Hillside Stranglers" – Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr.
  • "Hippopotamus" – Sergei Ryakhovsky
  • "Hog Trail Murderer" – Daniel Conahan
  • "Holiday Killer" – Ulrich Schmidt
  • "Holloway Stranger" – Tony Alexander King
  • "Hollywood Slasher" – Doug Clark
  • "Homicidal Slasher" – Michael Wayne McGray
  • "Honolulu Strangler" – Unsolved
  • "Human Tiger" – Jean-Baptiste Troppmann
  • "Huttenkloas" – Klaas Annink

I

  • "I-5 Bandit" – Randall Woodfield
  • "I-5 Killer" – Roger Kibbe
  • "Iceman" – Richard Kuklinski
  • "Imperial Avenue Murderer" – Anthony Sowell
  • "Index Killer" – Unsolved 1988 murders in Seattle, United States
  • "Industrial Maniac" – Marcos Antunes Trigueiro
  • "Internet Black Widow" – Melissa Ann Shepard
  • "Internet Slavemaster" – John Edward Robinson
  • "Interstate Killer" – Larry Eyler
  • "Ipswich Ripper" – Steve Wright
  • "Iron Man" – Craig Price

J

  • "Jack the Butcher" – Unsolved
  • "Jack the Ripper"
    • Unsolved 1880s and 1890s murders in London, United Kingdom
    • Unsolved 1911–1912 murders in Atlanta, United States
    • Unsolved 1915 murders in New York, United States
  • "Jack the Strangler"
    • Unsolved 1894–1903 murders in Denver, United States
    • Unsolved 1900s murders in Dayton, United States
  • "Jack the Stripper" – Unresloved
  • "Jackal"
    • Robin Jackson
    • Robledo Puch (Spanish: El Chacal)
  • "Japanese Bluebeard" – Yoshio Kodaira
  • "Jeffries the Monster" – Thomas Jeffries
  • "Jesse Sitting Crow" – Billy Glaze
  • "Jesus Killer" – Jimmy Maketta
  • "Joel the Ripper" – Joel Rifkin
  • "Jolly Black Widow" – Nannie Doss

K

  • "Kanpatimar" – Shankariya
  • "Kansas City Butcher" – Robert Berdella
  • "Kansas City Strangler" – Lorenzo Gilyard
  • "Kansas City Vampire" – Marc Sappington
  • "Katóka Street Killer" – Gusztáv Nemeskéri
  • "Ken and Barbie Killers" – Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
  • "Killer Butler" – Archibald Hall
  • "Killer Clown" – John Wayne Gacy
  • "Killer from the Shadows" – Marcel Barbeault
  • "Killer Handyman" – William Patrick Fyfe
  • "Killer Petey" – Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Portuguese: Pedrinho Matador)
  • "Killing Cousins" – David Alan Gore and Fred Waterfield
  • "Killing Dentist" – Glennon Engleman
  • "Kindly Killer" – Dennis Nilsen
  • "King of the Thugs" – Behram
  • "Kirmes Killer" – Jürgen Bartsch
  • "Kranskop Killer" – Samuel Bongani Mfeka
  • "Krasnoyarsk Beast" – Vadim Ershov
  • "Kukri" – Javed Iqbal

L

  • "La Bestia" – Luis Garavito
  • "Lady Blue Beard" – Nannie Doss
  • "Lady Death" – Daisy de Melker
  • "Lady Dracula" – Elizabeth Báthory
  • "Lady Killer" – Ricardo Caputo
  • "Lainz Angels of Death" – Group of Austrian killers active in 1983–1989
  • "Lake Elsinore Killer" – William Suff
  • "Lambeth Poisoner" – Thomas Neill Cream
  • "Las Poquianchis" – Group of Mexican killers active in 1950s–1960s
  • "Laser Man" – John Ausonius
  • "Last Call Killer" – Richard Rogers
  • "Leather Apron" – Alternate nickname for "Jack the Ripper". Unsolved
  • "Lethal Lovers" – Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood
  • "Limpopo Serial Killer" – Mukosi Freddy Mulaudzi
  • "Limpopo Serial Rapist" – Fanuel Makamu
  • "Lipstick Killer" – William Heirens
  • "Lisbon Ripper" – Unsolved
  • "Little Harpe" – Wiley Harpe
  • "Little Old Lady Killer" – Juana Barraza
  • "Little Peter the Killer" – Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Portuguese: Pedrinho Matador)
  • "Liver-Eating Johnson" – John Johnson
  • "Łódź Gay Murderer" – Unsolved
  • "London Chambermaid Killer" – Gerald Thomas Archer
  • "London Hammer Killer" – Levi Bellfield
  • "Lonely Hearts Killer"
    • Nannie Doss
    • Harvey Glatman
  • "Lonely Hearts Killers" – Raymond Fernandez
  • "Long Beach Bluebeard" – William Johansen
  • "Lust Killer" – Jerry Brudos
  • Ludwig – Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan

M

  • "Machete Murderer" – Juan Corona
  • "Macedonian Raskolnikov" – Viktor Karamarkov
  • "Mad Beast" – Andrei Chikatilo
  • "Mad Butcher" – Ed Gein
  • "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" – Also known as the "Cleveland Torso Murderer". Unsolved
  • "Mad Dog"
    • Leslie Irvin
    • Marion Albert Pruett
  • "Mad Killers of Brabant" – Unsolved
  • "Mad Strangler of Boston" – Albert DeSalvo
  • "Maid Killer" – Martin Dumollard
  • "Mail-Order Bluebeard" – Harry Powers
  • "Mall Passer" – Mike DeBardeleben
  • "Man in Black" – Peter Moore
  • "Man with the Hammer" – Romulus Vereș
  • "Manny" – Manuel Pardo
  • "Marahao Boy Mutilator" – Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito
  • "Marty" – Harrison Graham
  • "Mataviejitas" – Juana Barraza
  • "Meanest Man in America" – Donald Henry Gaskins
  • "Measuring Man" – Albert DeSalvo
  • "Metal Fang" – Nikolai Dzhumagaliev
  • "Mexican Jack" – Macario Alcala Canchola
  • "Mexican Ripper" – Francisco Guerrero Pérez
  • "Midday Murderer" – Klaus Gossmann
  • "Midtown Torso Slasher" – Richard Cottingham
  • "Milwaukee Cannibal" – Jeffrey Dahmer
  • "Milwaukee North Side Strangler" – Walter E. Ellis
  • "Minnie" – Williamina Dean
  • "Mobster of Wyoming" – Mark Allen Hopkinson
  • "Molalla Forest Killer" – Dayton Leroy Rogers
  • "Monster Butler" – Archibald Hall
  • "Monster Killer" – Yang Xinhai
  • "Monster of Aosta" – Andrea Matteucci
  • "Monster of Bolzano" – Marco Bergamo
  • "Monster of Brussels" – Junior Kabunda
  • "Monster of Cannock Chase" – Raymond Leslie Morris
  • "Monster of Czinkota" – Béla Kiss
  • "Monster of Düsseldorf" – Peter Kürten
  • "Monster of Florence" – Unsolved
  • "Monster of Foligno" – Luigi Chiatti
  • "Monster of Machala" – Gilberto Chamba
  • "Monster of Merano" – Ferdinand Gamper
  • "Monster of Miramichi" – Allan Legere
  • "Monster of Montluel" – Martin Dumollard
  • "Monster of Montmartre" – Thierry Paulin
  • "Monster of Montserrat" – Fredy Armando Valencia
  • "Monster of Nerola" – Ernesto Picchioni
  • "Monster of Pont-Rouge" – Léopold Dion
  • "Monster of Rome" – Ralph Brydges
  • "Monster of Sarzana" – Giorgio Vizzardelli
  • "Monster of the Andes" – Pedro López
  • "Monster of the Ardennes" – Michel Fourniret
  • "Monster of the Cane Fields" – Manuel Octavio Bermúdez
  • "Monster of the Rivers" – Arthur Shawcross
  • "Monster of Thuleni" – Bulelani Mabhayi
  • "Monster of Udine" – Unsolved
  • "Monster of Zollikerburg" – Erich Hauert
  • "Monsters of Ecatepec" – Pair of Mexican serial killers active in 2012–2018
  • "Moon Maniac" – Albert Fish
  • "Moors Murderers" – Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
  • "Morumbi Monster" – José Paz Bezerra
  • "Mr. Sam" – Samuel Little
  • "Muswell Hill Murderer" – Dennis Nilsen
  • "Muti Serial Killer" – Moses Sithole

N

  • "Namibia's B1 Butcher" – Unsolved
  • "Nebraska Boy Snatcher" – John Joubert
  • "Nebraska Fiend" – Stephen Dee Richards
  • "Necrophile Rebel" – Mikhail Novosyolov
  • "Night Caller" – Eric Edgar Cooke
  • "Night Demon" – Oleksandr Berlizov
  • "Night Stalker" – Richard Ramirez
  • "Nighttime Killers" – Pair of Ukrainian serial killers active in 1991–1996
  • "Niterói Vampire" – Marcelo Costa de Andrade
  • "Notting Hill Nassen Killer" – John Christie
  • "Novokuznetsk Monster" – Alexander Spesivtsev
  • "Novosibirsk Maniac" – Yevgeny Chuplinsky
  • "Novouralsk Ripper" – Yevgeny Petrov

O

  • "Ogress of Colonia Roma" – Felícitas Sánchez Aguillón
  • "Ogress of Reading" – Amelia Dyer
  • "Old Lady Killer"
    • Juana Barraza
    • Thierry Paulin
  • "Original Night Stalker" – Joseph James DeAngelo
  • "Otaku Murderer" – Tsutomu Miyazaki
  • "Other Baton Rouge Killer" – Sean Vincent Gillis

P

  • "Panama/Costa Rica Serial Killer" – William Dathan Holbert
  • "Pancho López" – Fernando Hernández Leyva
  • "Pangaman" – Elias Xitavhudzi
  • "Papa Denke" – Karl Denke
  • "Patches the Clown" – John Wayne Gacy
  • "Piranha Family" – Group of Japanese serial killers active in 2011
  • "Paris Serial Killer" – Yoni Palmier
  • "Park Maniac" – Francisco de Assis Pereira
  • "Pee Wee" – Donald Henry Gaskins
  • "Peterborough Ditch Murders" – Joanna Dennehy
  • "Phantom Killer" – Unsolved
  • "Phantom of Heilbronn" – Debunked
  • "Phantom Sniper" – Frank Carter
  • "Phoenix Strangler" – Sipho Thwala
  • "Pied Piper" – Dean Corll
  • "Pied Piper of Staten Island" – Andre Rand
  • "Pied Piper of Tucson" – Charles Schmid
  • "Pig Farmer Killer" – Robert Pickton
  • "Pig Man" – Robert Pickton'
  • "Pigheaded Killer" – Robert Pickton
  • "Pillow Killer" – Yvan Keller
  • "Plainfield Ghoul" – Ed Gein
  • "Playing Card Killer" – Alfredo Galán
  • "Pliers" – Lawrence Bittaker
  • "Pogo the Clown" – John Wayne Gacy
  • "Poisoner" – Catherine Monvoisin (French: La Voison)
  • "Poisoner of Monserrat" – Yiya Murano (Spanish: La Envenenadora de Monserrat)
  • "Pops" – James Edward Pough
  • "Pork Chop Rob" – Robert Pickton
  • "Potton Poisoner" – Sarah Dazley
  • "Poughkeepsie Killer" – Kendall Francois
  • "Povorino Maniac" – Vladimir Retunsky
  • "Prime Evil" – Eugene de Kock
  • "Psycho Raman" – Raman Raghav
  • "Psycho Shankar" – M. Jai Shankar

Q

  • "Queen of Poisoners" – Marie Besnard
  • "Queen Poisoner" – Lydia Sherman

R

  • "Rae Bareli Serial Killer" – Raman Raghav
  • "Railroad Killer"
    • Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
    • Rudy Bladel
    • Themba Vilakazi
  • "Railway Killers" – John Duffy and David Mulcahy
  • "Railway Sniper" – Rudy Bladel
  • "Rainbow Maniac" – Jairo Francisco Franco
  • "Raincoat Killer" – Yoo Young-chul
  • "Rainy Night Butcher" – Lam Kor-wan
  • "Ratcliff Highway Demon" – John Williams
  • "Reading Baby Farmer" – Amelia Dyer
  • "Red Phantom" – Alternate nickname of the Zodiac Killer. Unsolved
  • "Red Ripper" – Andrei Chikatilo
  • "Redneck Charles Manson" – Donald Henry Gaskins
  • "Rest Area Killer" – Donald Leroy Evans
  • "Rhein-Ruhr Ripper" – Frank Gust
  • "Ripper Jayanandan" – K. P. Jayanandan
  • "Rio Bravo Assassin" – Pedro Padilla Flores
  • "River Man" – Thozamile Taki
  • "Riverside Killer" – William Suff
  • "Rochester Strangler" – Arthur Shawcross
  • "Rostov Ripper" – Andrei Chikatilo
  • "Ruhr Cannibal" – Joachim Kroll

S

  • "Sacramento Slayer" – Morris Solomon Jr.
  • "Sadist of El Chanquito" – Daniel Camargo Barbosa
  • "Saloon Killer" – Velaphi Ndlangamandla
  • "San Francisco Sex Slayer" – William Johansen
  • "San La Muerte Killer" – Marcelo Antelo (Spanish: Asesino de San La Muerte)
  • "San Mateo Slasher – Unsolved
  • "Sana’a Ripper" – Mohammed Adam Omar
  • "Santa Strangler" – Adolph Theodore Laudenberg
  • "Sätermannen" – Unsolved
  • "Satyr of San Isidro" – Francisco Antonio Laureana
  • "Saw-Killer of Hanover" – Unsolved.
  • "S-Bahn Murderer" – Paul Ogorzow
  • "Scarborough Rapist" – Paul Bernardo
  • "Schoolgirl Strangler" – Arnold Sodeman
  • "Scorecard Killer" – Randy Kraft
  • "Seashore Serial Killer" – Nickname for the Long Island serial killer. Unsolved
  • "Serial Killer of Merano" – Ferdinand Gamper
  • "Serial Shooters" – Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman
  • "Serial Street Shooter" – Unsolved
  • "Servant Girl Annihilator" – Unsolved
  • "Seven Bridges Killer" – Unsolved
  • "Sex Beast" – Melvin Rees
  • "Sex Devil" – Lam Kwok-wai (Chinese: 色魔, Sik Moh)
  • "Shabolovka Street Killer" – Vasili Komaroff
  • "Shadow Killer" – Marcel Barbeault
  • "Shoe Fetish Slayer" – Jerry Brudos
  • "Shoe Maker" – Joseph Kallinger
  • "Shotgun Killer" – Christopher Peterson
  • "Shotgun Man" – Unsolved
  • "Shotgun Stalker" – James Swann
  • "Siberian Ripper" – Alexander Spesivtsev
  • "Sidetrack" – Robert Joseph Silveria Jr.
  • "Singing Serial Killer" – K. P. Jayanandan
  • "Singing Stranger" – Eddie Leonski
  • "Sister Godfrida" – Cecile Bombeek
  • "Skid Row Slasher" – Vaughn Greenwood
  • "Skid Row Slayer" – Michael Player
  • "Skin Hunters" – Group of Polish killers, active in the early 2000s
  • "Slavemaster" – John Edward Robinson
  • "Sleepy Hollow Killer" – Unsolved
  • "Slitter of Women’s Throats" – Francisco Guerrero Pérez
  • "Smelly Bob" – Robert Black
  • "Smolensky Strangler" – Vladimir Storozhenko
  • "Soap Maker of Correggio" – Leonarda Cianciulli
  • "Son of Sam" – David Berkowitz
  • "Sons of Death" – Nickname for the Thuggee cult
  • "Southern California Strangler" – Randy Kraft
  • "Southland Strangler" – John Floyd Thomas Jr.
  • "Southside Rapist" – Timothy Wilson Spencer
  • "Speed Freak Killers" – Pair of American killers active in 1984–1990
  • "Spider Killer" – Saeed Hanaei
  • "Spokane Serial Killer" – Robert Lee Yates
  • "Springfield Strangler" – Alfred Gaynor
  • "Station Strangler" – Norman Afzal Simons
  • "Stocking Strangler" – Carlton Gary
  • "Stockwell Strangler" – Kenneth Erskine
  • "Stoneman" – Unsolved 1985–1989 Indian murders
  • "Strangler Bill" – Wayne Boden
  • "Strangler of Aachen" – Egidius Schiffer
  • "Strangler of Valpocevera" – Maurizio Minghella
  • "Suffolk Strangler" – Steve Wright
  • "Sugarcane Serial Killer" – Thozamile Taki
  • "Suicide Website Murderer" – Hiroshi Maeue
  • "Sunday Morning Slasher" – Carl Eugene Watts
  • "Sunderland Slayer" – Steven Grieveson
  • "Sunset Strip Killers" – Doug Clark and Carol Bundy
  • "Svietlahorsk Nightmare" – Igor Mirenkov
  • "Sydney Mutilator" – William MacDonald

T

  • "Taco Bell Strangler" – Henry Louis Wallace
  • "Tacoma Axe Murderer" – Jake Bird
  • "Tamiami Strangler" – Rory Enrique Conde
  • "Terminator" – Anatoly Onoprienko
  • "Terror of Brandenburg Forest" – Willi Kimmritz
  • "Thrill Killer" – Richard Biegenwald
  • "Thug Behram" – Behram
  • "Timber Town Killer" – Billy Gohl
  • "Tipster killer" – Robert Maury
  • "Tool Box Killers" – Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris
  • "Torso Killer" – Richard Cottingham
  • "Torture Doctor" – H. H. Holmes
  • "Toy-Box Killer" – David Parker Ray
  • "Trailside Killer" – David Carpenter
  • "Trash Bag Killer" – Patrick Kearney
  • "Tribilin" – Luis Garavito
  • "Tube Sock Killer" – Unsolved
  • "Truck Stop Killer"
    • Bruce Mendenhall
    • Robert Ben Rhoades
  • "Twitter Killer" – Takahiro Shiraishi

U

  • "Unabomber" – Ted Kaczynski
  • "Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac" – Yuri Ivanov

V

  • "Valley Intruder" – Richard Ramirez
  • "Vampire Killer"
    • John Brennan Crutchley
    • John Haigh
    • Dio Brando
  • "Vampire of Argentina" – Florencio Fernández
  • "Vampire of Bucharest" – Ion Rîmaru
  • "Vampire of Bytów" – Leszek Pękalski
  • "Vampire of Düsseldorf" – Peter Kürten
  • "Vampire of Gałkówek" – Stanisław Modzelewski
  • "Vampire of London" – John Haigh
  • "Vampire of Niterói" – Marcelo Costa de Andrade
  • "Vampire of Sacramento" – Richard Chase
  • "Vampire Rapist" – Wayne Boden
  • "Vampires of the Tehran Desert" – Mohammed Bijeh
  • "Vienna Strangler" – Jack Unterweger
  • "Volga Maniac" – Radik Tagirov
  • "Voroshilovgrad Maniac" – Zaven Almazyan

W

  • "Walk-In Killer" – Richard Ramirez
  • "Want-Ad Killer" – Harvey Carignan
  • "Warwick Slasher" – Craig Price
  • "Weekend Murderer" – Milton Johnson
  • "Weepy Voice Killer" – Paul Michael Stephani
  • "Wemmer Pan Killer" – Cedric Maake
  • "Werewolf" – Mikhail Popkov
  • "Werewolf Butcher" – Jack Owen Spillman
  • "Werewolf of Dole" – Gilles Garnier
  • "Werewolf of Wysteria" – Albert Fish
  • "West Virginia Bluebeard" – Harry Powers
  • "West-End Serial Killer" – Jack Mogale
  • "Westside Rapist" – John Floyd Thomas Jr.
  • "Whitechapel Murderer" – Alternate nickname for "Jack the Ripper". Unsolved
  • "Window cleaner from Deurne" – Stephaan Du Lion
  • "Witch Doctor" – Adolfo Constanzo
  • "Witch of Corregio" – Leonarda Cianciulli
  • "Wolf Man" – Michael Lupo
  • "Wolf of Moscow" – Vasili Komaroff
  • "Woodford Slasher" – John Joubert
  • "Woodward Corridor Killer" – Benjamin Atkins

Y

  • "Yorkshire Ripper" – Peter Sutcliffe
  • "Yosemite (Park) Killer" – Cary Stayner
  • "Ypsilanti Ripper" – John Norman Collins

Z

  • "Zama Suicide Pact Killer" – Takahiro Shiraishi
  • "Zardad's Dog" – Abdullah Shah
  • "Zodiac (Killer)"
    • Unsolved 1960s–1970s American murders
    • Heriberto Seda

References

Sources

  • Gibson, Dirk C. (28 November 2014). Serial Killers Around the World: The Global Dimensions of Serial Murder. Bentham Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60805-842-6.
  • Hall, Susan (2020). "Facts and Figures". The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: T-Z. Vol. 4. Denver, Colorado: WildBlue Press. ISBN 9781952225369.
  • Mellor, Lee (3 March 2012). Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder. Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-4597-0125-0.
  • Newton, Michael (February 2006). The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-6987-3.
  • Rosewood, Jack; Lo, Rebecca (19 June 2017). The Big Book of Serial Killers: 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers. LAK Publishing. ISBN 978-1-64845-040-2.
  • Schechter, Harold; Everitt, David (4 July 2006). The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-2174-7.

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