List of nicknames of serial killers

This is a list of nicknames of serial killers.

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

• "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)^[1]
• "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)^[2]
  • 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

• "B1 Butcher" – Unsolved
• "Babe" – Baekuni
• "Babysitter" – Unsolved
• "Babyface Killer" – Lesley Eugene Warren
• "Backpacker Killer" – Ivan Milat
• "Backpacker Murderer" – Francis Heaulme
• "Bahadurgarh Baby Killer" – Satish
• "Baotouge" – Zhou Kehua (Chinese: 爆头哥; lit. 'Mr. Headshot' or 'Brother Headshot')
• "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^[3]
• "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)^[4]
• "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)^[1]
• "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

• "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 serial 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.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

• "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

• "Father Bluebeard" – András Pándy
• "February 9 Killer" – Juan Antonio Arreola Murillo
• "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^{[broken anchor]}
• "Freeway Phantom" – Unsolved
• "French Ripper" – Joseph Vacher

• "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

• "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-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^[5]
• "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

• "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" – Unresolved
• "Jackal"
  • Robin Jackson
  • Robledo Puch (Spanish: El Chacal)^[1]
• "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

• "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
• "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

• "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

• "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

• "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

• "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

• "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)^[6]
• "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

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

• "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
• "Rambo Bentong" – Rabidin Satir
• "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

• "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)^[7]
• "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

• "Taco Bell Strangler" – Henry Louis Wallace
• "Tacoma Axe Murderer" – Jake Bird
• "Tamiami Strangler" – Rory Enrique Conde
• "Teacup Poisoner" – Graham Young
• "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

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

• "Valley Intruder" – Richard Ramirez
• "Vampire Killer"
  • John Brennan Crutchley
  • John Haigh
• "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

• "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

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

• "Zama Suicide Pact Killer" – Takahiro Shiraishi
• "Zardad's Dog" – Abdullah Shah^[8]
• "Zodiac (Killer)"
  • Unsolved 1960s–1970s American murders
  • Heriberto Seda

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