# List of nicknames of serial killers

This is a list of nicknames of serial killers.
* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
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* Z

## 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
* "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
* "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 serial killer" – Samuel Sidyno
* "Carlos the Jackal" – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
* "Čaruga 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" – 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" – Paul 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" – Unresolved
* "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
* "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
* "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
* "Piranha Family" – Group of Japanese serial killers active in 2011
* "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
* "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

### 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
* "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

### U

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

### V

* "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

### 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