This is a list of nicknames of serial killers.
List
edit0–9
edit- ".22 Caliber Killer":
- ".22 Caliber Killers" – Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon
- ".44 Caliber Killer" – David Berkowitz
- "60 Freeway Slayer" – Ivan Hill
A
edit- "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
B
edit- "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"
- "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"
- "Black Widower"
- "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
edit- "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"
- "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
edit- "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"
- "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
edit- "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
edit- "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"
- "Freeway Phantom" – Unsolved
- "French Ripper" – Joseph Vacher
G
edit- "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
edit- "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
edit- "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
J
edit- "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
K
edit- "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
edit- "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"
- "Lonely Hearts Killers" – Raymond Fernandez
- "Long Beach Bluebeard" – William Johansen
- "Lust Killer" – Jerry Brudos
- Ludwig – Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan
M
edit- "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"
- "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
edit- "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
edit- "Ogress of Colonia Roma" – Felícitas Sánchez Aguillón
- "Ogress of Reading" – Amelia Dyer
- "Old Lady Killer"
- "Original Night Stalker" – Joseph James DeAngelo
- "Otaku Murderer" – Tsutomu Miyazaki
- "Other Baton Rouge Killer" – Sean Vincent Gillis
P
edit- "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)[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
Q
edit- "Queen of Poisoners" – Marie Besnard
- "Queen Poisoner" – Lydia Sherman
R
edit- "Rae Bareli Serial Killer" – Raman Raghav
- "Railroad Killer"
- "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
edit- "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
T
edit- "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"
- "Twitter Killer" – Takahiro Shiraishi
U
edit- "Unabomber" – Ted Kaczynski
- "Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac" – Yuri Ivanov
V
edit- "Valley Intruder" – Richard Ramirez
- "Vampire Killer"
- "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
edit- "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
edit- "Yorkshire Ripper" – Peter Sutcliffe
- "Yosemite (Park) Killer" – Cary Stayner
- "Ypsilanti Ripper" – John Norman Collins
Z
edit- "Zama Suicide Pact Killer" – Takahiro Shiraishi
- "Zardad's Dog" – Abdullah Shah[8]
- "Zodiac (Killer)"
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