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This is a list of nicknames of serial killers.
List
0–9
- ".22 Caliber Killer":
- Joseph Christopher
- Salvatore Perrone
- Ronald Glenn West
- Unsolved 1990 murders in Spokane, United States[1]
- ".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
- "Acres Homes Killer" – LaMarques Devon McWilliams
- "Adman Rapist" – Bobby Joe Long
- "Alligator Man" – Joe Ball
- "American Bluebeard" – Helmuth Schmidt
- "Angarsk Maniac" – Mikhail Popkov
- "Angel Face" – Robledo Puch (Spanish: Cara de Ángel)[2]
- "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
- Kristen Gilbert
- Donald Harvey
- Edson Isadora Guimaraes
- Colin Campbell Norris
- Robledo Puch (Spanish: El Angel de la Muerte)[3]
- Michaela Roeder
- Efren Saldivar
- Harold Shipman
- "Anthrax Killer" – Unsolved
- "Apache" – Yves Trudeau
- "Ape Man" – Gordon Stewart Northcott
- "Apulia Slasher" – Ben Mohamed Ezzedine Sebai
- "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"
- Unsolved 1956 murders in Atteridgeville, South Africa
- Moses Sithole
- "Aunt Thally" – Caroline Grills
- "Axe Killer" – Elifasi Msomi
- "Axeman of New Orleans" – Unsolved
B
- "B1 Butcher" – Unsolved
- "Babe" – Baekuni
- "Babyface" – Richard Jameswhite
- "Babysitter" – Unsolved
- "Backpack Killer" – Ivan Milat
- "Backpack Murderer"
- Francis Heaulme
- Ivan Milat
- "Bahadurgarh Baby Killer" – Surinder Koli
- "Barbarian" – Konstantin Chermukhin
- "Barnaul Maniac" – Unsolved
- "Baseline Killer" – Mark Goudeau
- "Baton Rouge Serial Killer" – Derrick Todd Lee
- "Bathtub Killer" – James Samuel Walraven
- "Bavarian Ripper" – Andreas Bichel
- "Beast" – Luis Garavito (Spanish: La Bestia)
- "Beast of Atteridgeville" – Johannes Mashiane
- "Beast of Birkenshaw" – Peter Manuel
- "Beast of British Columbia" – Clifford Olson
- "Beast of Lysva" – Vladimir Bratislav
- "Beast of Manchester" – Trevor Hardy
- "Beast of Montmartre" – Thierry Paulin
- "Beast of Oberfranken" – Manfred Wittmann
- "Beast of Taganrog" – Yury Tsuiman
- "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[4]
- "Beltway Sniper" – John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
- "Berrima Axe Murderer" – John Lynch
- "Bible John" – Unsolved
- "Big Harpe" – Micajah Harpe
- "Big Jim" – James Waybern Hall
- "Big Soul" – Martin Rivera Benitez
- "Big-Eared Midget" – Cayetano Santos Godino (Spanish: El Petiso Orejudo)[5]
- "Bigfoot"
- "Bike Path Rapist" – Altemio Sanchez
- "Bitsa Park Maniac" – Alexander Pichushkin
- "Black Angel"
- Timea Faludi
- Robledo Puch (Spanish: El Ángel Negro)[2]
- "Black Doodler" – Unsolved
- "Black Satin Killer" – Christian James Edward
- "Black Panther" – Donald Neilson
- "Black Widow"
- Lyda Catherine Ambrose
- Elfriede Blauensteiner
- Judy Buenoano
- Josephine Gray
- "Black Widower"
- "Blackout Ripper" – Gordon Cummins
- "Blanco" – Unsolved 2001 Guatemalan murders
- "Bloody Benders" – Family of American killers active in 1872–1873
- "Blood Countess" – Elizabeth Báthory
- "Bloody Countess" – Elizabeth Báthory
- "Bludgeon Killer" – Gerald Parker
- "Blue Boy" – Monroe Hickson
- "Bluebeard" – Gilles de Rais
- "Bluebeard of Fehman" – Arwed Erich Imiela
- "Bluebeard of Paris" – Henri Désiré Landru
- "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
- "Boksburg Serial 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
- "Boussemma" – Abdelali Amer
- "Boxcar Killer" – Robert Joseph Silveria Jr.
- "Bremerhaven Serial Killer" – Olaf Däter
- "Brick Killer" – Amir Qayyum
- "Brick Moron" – Robert Nixon
- "Brick Top" – Mary Jane Jackson
- "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
- "Broomstick Murderer" – Kenneth McDuff
- "Brownout Strangler" – Eddie Leonski
- "B.T.K. (Killer)" – Dennis Rader
- "B.T.K. Strangler" – Dennis Rader
- "Buffalo Killer" – George Kearon Joseph Fitzsimmons
- "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 Hooshiarpore" – Sharafudin
- "Butcher of Iași" – Vasile Tcaciuc
- "Butcher of Mons" – Unsolved
- "Butcher of Niebuszewo" – Józef Cyppek
- "Butcher of Plainfield" – Ed Gein
- "Butcher of Rostov" – Andrei Chikatilo
- "Butcher of St. Eustache" – Serge Archambault
- "Butterbox Baby Killers" – Lila and William Young
- "Buttermilk Bastard" – Alfred Leonard Cline
- "Buzzard" – Alan Michael Stevens
C
- "Cabo Bruno" – Florisvaldo de Oliveira
- "Camden Ripper" – Anthony Hardy
- "Campus Killer" – Ted Bundy
- "Candlelight Killer" – Robert Willard 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
- "Cape Town Strangler" – Unsolved 1990s South African murders
- "Capital Park Killer" – Samuel Sidyno
- "Carlos the Jackal" – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
- "Caruga of Zagorje" – Vinko Pintarić
- "Casanova Killer"
- "Catweazle" – Leslie Bailey
- "Centurion Serial Killer" – Richard Jabulani Nyauza
- "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
- "Chilly" – Matthew Emmanuel Macon
- "Chopper" – Mark Read
- "Cincinnati Strangler" – Posteal Laskey
- "Citizen O" – Anatoly Onoprienko
- "Clairemont Killer" – Cleophus Prince Jr.
- "Classified Ad Rapist" – Bobby Joe Long
- "Claw" – Paul Hadley
- "Cleveland Black Widow" – Serial killer active in Cleveland in the early 1920s
- "Cleveland Killer" – Moses Sithole
- "Cleveland Strangler"
- David Selepe
- Anthony Sowell
- "Cleveland Torso Murderer" – Unsolved
- "Co-Ed Butcher" – Edmund Kemper
- "Co-Ed Killer"
- John Norman Collins
- Edmund Kemper
- "Corridor Killer" – Steven Brian Pennell
- "Cop Killer" – Barry Prudom
- "Costa Killer" – Tony Alexander King
- "Costa Rica/Panama Serial Killer" – William Dathan Holbert
- "Cottage Killer" – David Snow
- "Cowboy Mike" – Michael J. Braae
- "Crackhead Killer" – Cory D. Morris
- "Craigs List Killer" – Richard Beasley
- "Craigslist Ripper" – Nickname for the Long Island serial killer. Unsolved
- "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
- "Dallas Slasher" – Charles Albright
- "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
- "Demon of the Belfry" – Theodore Durrant
- "Demon Tailor" – Also known as the "Werewolf of Châlons". French serial killer active in the 1590s
- "Der Totmacher" – Rudolf Pleil
- "Detroit Serial Killer" – Benjamin Atkins
- "Devil of Turin" – Giancarlo Giudice
- "Doctor Death"
- "Donnybrook Serial Killer" – Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode
- "Doodler" – Unsolved
- "Doorbell Killer" – Vicytor Szczepinski
- "Double Initial Killer" – Joseph Naso
- "Doubles Killer" – Werner Boost
- "Dr. Death" – Harold Shipman
- "Dracula Killer" – Richard Chase
- "Duck Island Killer" – Clarence Hill
- "Duisburg Man-Eater" – Joachim Kroll
- "Dumpster Killer" – Bryan M. Jones
- "Dusseldorf Doubles Killer" – Werner Boost and Franz Lorbach
E
- "East Area Rapist" – Joseph James DeAngelo
- "East Harlem Rapist" – Arhon Kee
- "East Paris Killer" – Guy Georges
- "Eastbound Strangler" – Unsolved
- "Educated Killer" – Edward H. Rulloff
- "Egypt Bluebeard" – Serial killer in Egypt active in the 1910s and 1920s
- "El Coqueta" – César Armando Librado Legorreta
- "El Cura" – Luis Garavito
- "El Gato Imperial" – Raúl Osiel Marroquín
- "El Loco" – Luis Garavito
- "El Loco de la Ruta" – Unsolved 1990s Argentine murders
- "El Psicópata" – Unsolved 1993–1998 Mexican murders
- "Eyeball Killer" – Charles Albright
F
- "Father Bluebeard" – András Pándy
- "February 9 Killer" – Unsolved
- "First Nations Killer" – John Martin Crawford
- "Flint Slasher" – Unsolved 2010 American murders
- "Flying Nightmare" – Robert Hansen
- "Forces of Evil" – William Henry Hance
- "Forest Park (Serial) Killer" – Todd Alan Reed
- "Forest Strip Killer" – Andrei Chikatilo
- "Fort Rouge Sex Maniac" – Michael Vescio
- "Foxglove Murders" – Unsolved 1984–1994 American murders
- "Frankford Slasher" – Leonard Christopher
- "Frankston Killer" – Paula Denyer
- "Freeway Killer"
- "Freeway Phantom" – Unsolved
- "Freight Train" – William Guatney
- "French Ripper" – Joseph Vacher
G
- "Gainesville Killers" – William Glen Henry and Davy Crockett
- "Gainesville Ripper" – Danny Rolling
- "Gator" – Darrell Wayne Ferguson
- "Gansu Ripper" – Gao Chengyong
- "Gary Serial Killer" – Eugene Victor Britt
- "Gas Man" – Harald Sassak
- "Gatchina Psychopath" – Vasily Smirnov
- "Genesee County Serial Slasher" – Elias Abuelazam
- "Genesee River Killer" – Arthur Shawcross
- "Gentleman Killer" – Władysław Mazurkiewicz
- "Gert" – Gert van Rooyen
- "Ghoul of Grays Harbor" – Billy Gohl
- "Giggling Grandma" – Nannie Doss
- "Giggling Granny" – Nannie Doss
- "Gilham Park Stranger" – Ray Shawn Jackson
- "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
- "Golden Years Killer" – Leslie Leon Burchart
- "Good Lady of Loudun" – Marie Besnard
- "Gorilla Killer" – Earle Nelson
- "Gorilla Man" – Earle Nelson
- "Gorilla Murderer" – Earle Nelson
- "Granny Killer"
- John Wayne Glover
- Edwin Bernard Kaprat III
- "Gray Man" – Albert Fish
- "Great Basin Serial Killer" – Dale Wayne Eaton
- "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.
- "Groblersdal Serial Killer" – Petrus Madiba
- "Guangzhou Ripper" – Li Wenxian
H
- "Haifa Killer" – Nicolai Bonner
- "Hairy One" – Augustine Chacon
- "Hamamatsu Deaf Killer" – Seisaku Nakamura
- "Hamburg Rubble Murderer" – Unsolved
- "Hammer" – William Reinbold
- "Hammer Group" – Unsolved 1970s murders in Lahore, Pakistan
- "Hammer Killer" – Norbert Poehlke
- "Hammer Killer of Frankfurt" – Arthur Gatter
- "Hammer Man" – Unsolved 2007 Indian murders
- "Hampton Roads Killer" – Elton Manning Jackson
- "Hannibal" – Scott Lee Kimball
- "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes" – Dorángel Vargas
- "Hanover Werewolf" – Fritz Haarmann
- "Happy Face Killer" – Keith Hunter Jesperson
- "Happy Loving Couples Killer" – Unsolved 1988–2000 murders in New York City, United States
- "Heidi Killer" – Thomas Holst
- "Headbanger" – Peter Sutcliffe
- "Hermit of St. Bonnot" – Gilles Garnier
- "Highway Killer" – Larry Eyler
- "Highway Murderer" – Larry Eyler
- "Highwayman Serial Killer" – Elias Chauke
- "Hillside Stranglers" – Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr.
- "Hilltop Rapist" – Darrell Keith Rich
- "Hippopotamus" – Sergei Ryakhovsky
- "Hitch-Hike Murderer" – Anthony J. Jackson
- "Hog Trail Murderer" – Daniel Conahan
- "Holiday Murderer" – 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
- Randall Woodfield
- "I-5 Strangler" – Roger Kibbe
- "Iceman" – Richard Kuklinski
- "Imperial Avenue Murderer" – Anthony Sowell
- "Incubus" – Jeff Adams
- "Index Killer" – Unsolved 1988 murders in Seattle, United States[1]
- "India’s Youngest Serial Killer" – Amarjeet Sada
- "Industrial Maniac" – Marcos Antunes Trigueiro
- "Insurance Killer" – Pierre Basson
- "Internet Black Widow" – Melissa Ann Shepard
- "Internet Slavemaster" – John Edward Robinson
- "Interstate Killer" – Larry Eyler
- "Ipswich Ripper" – Steve Wright
- "Iron Man" – Craig Price
- "Ironman" – Unsolved 1970s and 1980s South African murders
- "Ivan the Ripper" – Unsolved 1990s murders in Moscow, Russia
J
- "Jack the Butcher" – Unsolved
- "Jack the Ripper"
- Unsloved 1880s and 1890s murders in London, United Kingdom
- Unsloved 1911–1912 murders in Atlanta, United States
- Unsloved 1915 murders in New York, United States
- "Jack the Strangler"
- Unsloved 1894–1903 murders in Denver, United States
- Unsloved 1900s murders in Dayton, United States
- "Jack the Stripper" – Unresloved
- "Jackal"
- Robin Jackson
- Juan Martin Medrano
- Robledo Puch (Spanish: El Chacal)[2]
- "Japanese Bluebeard" – Yoshio Kodaira
- "Jeffries the Monster" – Thomas Jeffries
- "Jesse Sitting Crow" – Billy Glaze
- "Jesus Killer" – Jimmy Maketta
- "Joel the Ripper" – Joel Rifkin
- "Johannesburg Mine-Dump Serial Killer" – Sipho Dube
- "Johannesburg Mutilator Killer" – Unsolved 1960s South African murders
- "Jolly Black Widow" – Nannie Doss
- "Juiz de Fora Strangler" – André Luis Cassimiro
K
- "Kabab Killer" – Shirin Gul
- "Kansas City Butcher" – Robert Berdella
- "Kansas City Strangler" – Lorenzo Gilyard
- "Kansas City Vampire" – Marc Sappington
- "Karate Chop Killer" – George Kearon Joseph Fitzsimmons
- "Katóka Street Killer" – Gusztáv Nemeskéri
- "Kebab Killer" – Unsolved 2000s German murders
- "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 Dentist" – Glennon Engleman
- "Killing Team" – Mitchell Carlton Sims and Ruby Carolyn Padgett
- "Kindly Killer" – Dennis Nilsen
- "Kirmes Killer" – Jürgen Bartsch
- "Koreantown Slasher" – Joseph Danks
- "Kranskop Killer" – Samuel Bongani Mfeka
- "Krasnoyarsk Beast" – Vadim Ershov
- "Kukri" – Javed Iqbal
L
- "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 W. Rogers Jr.
- "Latin Jack the Ripper" – Unsolved 1995–1998 murders in Perpignan, France
- "Le Prof" – Ronald Janssen
- "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
- "London Chambermaid Killer" – Gerald Thomas Archer
- "London Hammer Killer" – Levi Bellfield
- "Lonely Hearts Killer"
- Rodney Francis Cameron
- Nannie Doss
- Harvey Glatman
- "Lonely Hearts Killers" – Raymond Fernandez
- "Long-Haul Territory Killer" – John Wayne Boyer
- "Los Angeles ATM Killer" – Juan Chavez
- "Los Angeles Southside Slayer" – Unsolved 1983–1987 murders
- "Loskop Killer" – Mtimane Msundwana
- "Lovers' Lane Killer" – Mbulaheni David Mmbengwa
- "Lusaka Serial Killer" – Bernard Gilbert Chilala
- "Lust Killer" – Jerry Brudos
M
- "Machete Murderer" – Juan Corona
- "Mad Beast" – Andrei Chikatilo
- "Mad Biter" – Richard O. Macek
- "Mad Butcher" – Ed Gein
- "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" – Also know as the "Cleveland Torso Murderer". Unsolved
- "Mad Dog"
- Leslie Irvin
- Archibald Beattie McCafferty
- Marion Albert Pruett
- "Mad Dogs" – Juergen Dohmeyer and Kurt Leuking
- "Mad Killers of Brabant" – Unsolved
- "Mad Mossy" – Albert Andrew Moss
- "Mad Paddler" – George Kent Wallace
- "Mad Slasher" – Christian Herbert Magee
- "Mad Strangler of Boston" – Albert DeSalvo
- "Mad Trapper" – Unsolved 1930–1931 murders in Arkansas, United States
- "Maid Killer" – Martin Dumollard
- "Mail-Order Bluebeard"
- Herman Drenth
- 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
- "Massachusetts Woodsman Killer(s)" – Unsolved 2003–2008 murders
- "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
- "Midlands Ripper" – Alun Kyte
- "Midtown Torso Slasher" – Richard Cottingham
- "Mild Bill" – William Ernest Leasure
- "Milwaukee Cannibal" – Jeffrey Dahmer
- "Milwaukee Monster" – Jeffrey Dahmer
- "Milwaukee North Side Strangler" – Walter E. Ellis
- "Minnie" – Williamina Dean
- "Moffat Park Serial Killer" – Richman Makhwekwe
- "Molalla Forest Killer" – Dayton Leroy Rogers
- "Molalla Forest Murderer" – Dayton Leroy Rogers
- "Monster Butler" – Archibald Hall
- "Monster Killer" – Yang Xinhai
- "Monster Murderer" – Zhang Lisong
- "Monster of Aosta" – Andrea Matteucci
- "Monster of Arbus" – Sergio Curreli
- "Monster of Bolzano" – Marco Bergamo
- "Monster of Cannock Chase" – Raymond Leslie Morris
- "Monster of Caserta" – Peter Santonastaso
- "Monster of Circeo" – Group of Italian gang rapists active in 1975
- "Monster of Czinkota" – Béla Kiss
- "Monster of Düsseldorf" – Peter Kürten
- "Monster of Florence" – Unsolved
- "Monster of Foligno" – Luigi Chiatti
- "Monster of Genoa" – Valentino Presenti
- "Monster of Leffe" – Pier Luigi Corio
- "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 Norma" – Simone Cassandra
- "Monster of Palermo" – Vincenzo Campanella
- "Monster of Pont-Rouge" – Léopold Dion
- "Monster of Portoglio" – Vitalino Morandini
- "Monster of Rome"
- Ralph Brydges
- Maurizio Giugliano
- "Monster of Sarzana" – Giorgio Vizzardelli
- "Monster of SS-10" – Unsolved 1990s Italian murders
- "Monster of St. Remo" – Paul Savini
- "Monster of the Andes" – Pedro López
- "Monster of the Ardennes" – Michel Fourniret
- "Monster of the Cane Fields" – Manuel Octavio Bermúdez
- "Monster of the Railway Line" – Cesare Serviatti
- "Monster of the Rivers" – Arthur Shawcross
- "Monster of the Wedge" – Arrigo Candle
- "Monster of Thuleni" – Bulelani Mabhayi
- "Monster of Torino" – Giancarlo Giudice
- "Monster of Udine" – Unsolved
- "Monster of Vimercate" – Alberto Motto
- "Monster of Zollikerburg" – Erich Hauert
- "Monsters of Ecatepec" – Pair of Mexican serial killers active in 2012–2018
- "Montreal Boys Slasher" – Unsolved 1984–1985 Canadian murders
- "Moon Maniac" – Albert Fish
- "Moors Murderers" – Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
- "Morumbi Monster" – José Paz Bezerra
- "Mudman" – Robert R. Simon
- "Muswell Hill Murderer" – Dennis Nilsen
- "Muti Serial Killer" – Moses Sithole
- "Mutilator of Perpignan" – Unsolved 1960s French murders
N
- "Nailing Killer" – Süleyman Aktaş
- "Namibia's B1 Butcher" – Unsolved
- "Nasrec Strangler"
- Lazarus Tshidiso Mazingane
- Unsolved 1995–1996 South African murders
- "Nebraska Boy Snatcher" – John Joubert
- "Nebraska Fiend" – Stephen Dee Richards
- "Necrophile Rebel" – Mikhail Novosyolov
- "Negev Desert Psychopath"
- Unsolved 1985–1987 Israeli murders
- Daniel Okev
- "Night Caller" – Eric Edgar Cooke
- "Night Demon" – Oleksandr Berlizov
- "Night Stalker" – Richard Ramirez
- "Nighttime Killers" – Pair of Ukrainian serial killers active in 1991–1996
- "Ninja Killer" – Louis Bernard Gaskin
- "Ninja of God" – Samuel Ivery
- "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
- "Ohio Prostitute Killer" – Samuel W. Legg III
- "Old Lady Killer"
- "Original Night Stalker" – Joseph James DeAngelo
- "Otaku Murderer" – Tsutomu Miyazaki
P
- "Panama/Costa Rica Serial Killer" – William Dathan Holbert
- "Pancho López" – Fernando Hernández Leyva
- "Pangaman" – Elias Xitavhudzi
- "Papa Denke" – Karl Denke
- "Piranha Family" – Group of Japanese serial killers active in 2011
- "Paris Serial Killer" – Yoni Palmier
- "Park Maniac" – Francisco de Assis Pereira
- "Pedophile of Taroudante" – Abdelali Hida
- "Pee Wee" – Donald Henry Gaskins
- "Peeping Tom Killer" – Ricky Henry Brogsdale
- "Peninsula Serial Killer" – Jon Scott Dunkle
- "Penn Station Sniper" – Also known as the ".25 Caliber Killer". Unsolved 1983–1984 murders in New York City, United States[6]
- "Pervert Killer" – Duan Guocheng
- "Phantom Killer" – Unsolved
- "Phantom of Heilbronn" – Unsolved
- "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
- "Poisoner" – Catherine Monvoisin (French: La Voison)
- "Poisoner of Monserrat" – Yiya Murano (Spanish: La Envenenadora de Monserrat)[7]
- "Polish Jack the Ripper" – Lucian Staniak
- "Pomona Strangler" – Unsolved 1993–1995 murders in California, United States
- "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 Killer" – Duan Guocheng
Q
- "Queen of Poisoners" – Marie Besnard
- "Queen Poisoner" – Lydia Sherman
R
- "Rae Bareli Serial Killer" – Raman Raghav
- "Railroad Killer" – Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
- "Railway Killers" – John Duffy and David Mulcahy
- "Railway Murderers" – 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
- "Razor" – Ramon Torres Hernandez
- "Red Demon" – Cleo Joel Green III
- "Red Dress Killer" – Duan Guocheng
- "Red Phantom" – Alternate nickname of the Zodiac Killer. Unsolved
- "Red Ripper"
- Andrei Chikatilo
- Lucian Staniak
- "Red Spider" – Lucian Staniak
- "Redneck Charles Manson" – Donald Henry Gaskins
- "Rest Area Killer" – Donald Leroy Evans
- "Rhein-Ruhr Ripper" – Frank Gust
- "Rhode Island Ripper" – Jeff Mailhot
- "Rio Bravo Assassin" – Pedro Padilla Flores
- "River Man" – Thozamile Taki
- "River Monster" – Unsolved 1997–1998 murders in Transkei, South Africa
- "Riverman " – Unsolved 1999–2001 South African murders
- "Riverside Killer" – William Suff
- "Rochester Strangler" – Arthur Shawcross
- "Roseland Killer" – Geoffrey Griffin
- "Rostov Ripper" – Andrei Chikatilo
- "Ruhr Cannibal" – Joachim Kroll
- "Ruhr Hunter" – Joachim Kroll
S
- "Sacramento Slayer" – Morris Solomon Jr.
- "Sadist of Chanquito" – Daniel Camargo Barbosa
- "Salerno Strangler" – Eugene McWatters
- "Sally Skull" – Sarah Jane Newman
- "Saloon Killer" – Velaphi Ndlangamandla
- "San Diego Slayer" – Unsolved 1985–1990 American murders
- "San La Muerte Killer" – Marcelo Antelo (Spanish: Asesino de San La Muerte)[8]
- "San Mateo Slasher – Unsolved
- "Sana’a Ripper" – Mohammed Adam Omar
- "Sätermannen" – Unsolved
- "Saturday Slayers" – Unsolved 2003 murders in Brooklyn, United States
- "Saturday Night Strangler" – Paul Kappen
- "Satyr of San Isidro" – Francisco Antonio Laureana
- "Saw-Killer of Hanover" – Unsolved
- "S-Bahn Murderer" – Paul Ogorzow
- "Scarborough Rapist" – Paul Bernardo
- "School Girl Rapist" – Paul Bernardo
- "Schoolgirl Killer" – Paul Bernardo
- "Schoolgirl Strangler" – Arnold Sodeman
- "Scissors Man" – Jerry Dale Bobbitt
- "Scorecard Killer" – Randy Kraft
- "Seashore Serial Killer" – Nickname for the Long Island serial killer. Unsolved
- "Senior Citizen Killer" – James William Stuard
- "Serial Killer of Merano" – Ferdinand Gamper
- "Serial Killer of the Caribbean" – Adam Beniquez
- "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)
- "Sex Pervert" – Donald Sherman Staley
- "Shabolovka Street Killer" – Vasili Komaroff
- "Shadow Killer" – Marcel Barbeault
- "Shoe Fetish Slayer" – Jerry Brudos
- "Shoebox Annie Mayer" – Anne French
- "Shotgun Killer" – Christopher Peterson
- "Shotgun Man" – Unsolved
- "Shotgun Stalker" – James Swann
- "Siberian Ripper" – Alexander Spesivtsev
- "Sidetrack" – Robert Joseph Silveria Jr.
- "Singing Stranger" – Eddie Leonski
- "Sister Godfrida" – Cecile Bombeek
- "Skid Row Slasher" – Vaughn Greenwood
- "Skid Row Slayer" – Michael Player
- "Skid Row Stabber" – Bobby Joe Maxwell
- "Skin Hunters" – Group of Polish killers, active in the early 2000s
- "Slasher" – Ronald Sears
- "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
- "Southside Slayer"
- Unsolved 1980s American murders
- Timothy Wilson Spencer
- "Southside Strangler" – Timothy Wilson Spencer
- "Speed Freak Killers" – Pair of American killers active in 1984–1990
- "Spider" – Saeed Hanaei
- "Spider Killer" – Saeed Hanaei
- "Spokane Serial Killer" – Robert Lee Yates
- "Springfield Strangler" – Alfred Gaynor
- "Station Strangler" – Norman Afzal Simons
- "Steubenville Killers" – Stephen Moorehead and Fred Horner Jr.
- "Stocking Strangler" – Carlton Gary
- "Stockwell Strangler" – Kenneth Erskine
- "Stoneman"
- Unsolved 1985–1989 Indian murders
- Maheshwar Padhi
- "Strangler Bill" – Wayne Boden
- "Strangler of Aachen" – Egidius Schiffer
- "Strangler of Milan" – Unsolved 1988–1992 Italian murders
- "Strangler of the Hills" – Gianni Conz
- "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 M. Bundy
- "Sunset Strip Slayer" – Doug Clark
- "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
- "Taxi Demon" – Zhou Wen
- "Taxi Devil" – Zhou Wen
- "Tehran Vampire" – Ali Reza Kordiyeh
- "Tel Aviv Strangler" – Mohammed Halabi
- "Terminator" – Anatoly Onoprienko
- "Terror of Brandenburg Forest" – Willi Kimmritz
- "Terror of Paris" – Joseph Philippe
- "Thrill Killer"
- Richard Biegenwald
- Juan Rodriguez Chavez
- Eric Royce Leonard
- "Timber Town Killer" – Billy Gohl
- "Toledo Clubber" – Also known as the "Toledo Slugger". Unsolved 1925–1926 murders in Toledo, United States
- "Toledo Slugger" – Also known as the "Toledo Clubbers". Unsolved 1925–1926 murders in Toledo, United States
- "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
- "Trash Bag Murderer" – Patrick Kearney
- "Tribilin" – Luis Garavito
- "Truck Stop Killer"
- "Truckstop Killer" – Unsolved 1969–1992 murders in eastern USA
- "Truman Veterans Hospital Killer" – Richard Allen Williams
- "Twitter Killer" – Takahiro Shiraishi
U
- "Unabomber" – Ted Kaczynski
- "Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac" – Yuri Ivanov
V
- "Valley Intruder" – Richard Ramirez
- "Vampire Killer"
- "Vampire of Argentina" – Florencio Fernández
- "Vampire of Bergamo" – Vincenzo Verzeni
- "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 Paris" – Nicolas Claux
- "Vampire of Sacramento" – Richard Chase
- "Vampire Rapist" – Wayne Boden
- "Vampires of the Tehran Desert" – Mohammed Bijeh and Ali Baghi
- "Velsk Chikatilo" – Sergey Shipilov
- "Vienna Strangler" – Jack Unterweger
- "Volga Maniac" – Unsolved
- "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
- "Weepy-Voiced Killer" – Paul Michael Stephani
- "Wemmer Pan Killer" – Cedric Maake
- "Werewolf" – Mikhail Popkov
- "Werewolf Butcher" – Jack Owen Spillman
- "Werewolf Killer" – Unsolved 1996 Indian murders
- "Werewolf of Châlons" – Also known as the "Demon Tailor". French serial killer active in the 1590s
- "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
- "Witch Doctor" – Adolfo Constanzo
- "Witch of Corregio" – Leonarda Cianciulli
- "Wolf Man" – Michael Lupo
- "Wolf of Agro Romano" – Maurizio Giugliano
- "Wolf of Moscow" – Vasili Komaroff
- "Woodford Slasher" – John Joubert
- "Woodward Corridor Killer" – Benjamin Atkins
Y
- "Yellow Scorpion" – Yaghoub Ali Mirshekari
- "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[9]
- "Zodiac (Killer)"
- "Zoo Man" – Thomas Dee Huskey
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