List of Serial Killer Nicknames
Serial Killers & Their Widely Used Nicknames
Albert DeSalvo - The Boston Strangler
Albert Fish - The Brooklyn Vampire
Andrei Chikatilo - Citizen X
Bianchi & Buono - The Hillside Stranglers
Carlton Gary - The Stocking Strangler
Charles H. Schmid - The Pied Piper of Tucson
Cleo Green - The Red Demon
Coral Eugene Watts - The Sunday Morning Slasher
Danny Rolling - The Gainesville Slasher
David Berkowitz - Son of Sam
David Carpenter - The Trailside Killer
Dean Corll - The Candyman
Donald Harvey - The Angel of Death
Ed Gein - The Butcher of Plainfield
Edmund Kemper - The Coed Killer
Edward H. Rulloff - The Educated Murderer
Gerard John Schaefer - The Killer Cop
Glen Rojers - The Cross-Country Killer
Harvey Louis Carigna - The Want Ad Killer
H.H. Holmes - The Torture Doctor
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley - The Moors Murderers
Ivan Milat - The Backpacker Murderer
Jake Bird - The Takoma Axe Killer
Jeffrey Dahmer - The Milwaukee Cannibal
John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer
John N. Collins - The Coed Murderer
John Wayne Gacy - The Killer Klown
Keith Jesperson - The Happy Face Killer
Lucian Staniak - The Red Spider
Melvin David Rees - The Sex Beast
Michael Lupo - The Wolf
Moses Sithole - The ABC Murderer
Norman Simons - The Station Strangler
Pedro Lopez - The Monster of the Andes
Peter Kurten - The Monster of Dusseldorf
Peter Sutcliffe - The Yorkshire Ripper
Posteal Laskey - The Cincinnati Strangler
Randall Woodfield - The I-5 Killer
Richard Cottingham - The Ripper
Richard F. Biegenwald - The Thrill Killer
Richard Macek - The Mad Biter
Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker
Richard Trenton Chase - The Dracula Killer
Stephen Lee Richards - The Nebraska Fiend
Vaughn Greenwood - The Skid Row Slasher
Vernon Butts - The Freeway Killer
Wayne Williams - The Atlanta Child Murderer
Serial Killers - Identity Unknown
Axeman of New Orleans
Cleveland Torso Killer
The Green River Killer
Jack the Ripper
The Zodiac Killer
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