Monikers Given to Male Serial Killers in the United States

1846-1871 Edward H. Rulloff -The Educated Murderer
1874-1909 James P. Miller -"Deacon" Jim
1879 Stephen Lee Richards -Nebraska Fiend
1890-1905 Johann Otto Hoch - Bluebeard
1892-1896 Harry Howard Holmes -The Torture Doctor
1895 William H. T. Durrant -Demon of the Belfry
1910-1920 James P. Watson -Bluebeard
1910-1934 Albert Fish -The Cannibal
- The Moon Maniac
1911-1919 Joseph Mumfre- New Orleans Axeman
1921-1931 Harry Powers(a.k.a. Herman Drenth)- American Bluebeard
1926-1927 Earle L. Nelson -The Gorilla Murderer
1933-1935 Major Raymond Lisemba -Rattlesnake Lisemba
1942-1947 Jake Bird -Tacoma Axe Killer
1945-1946 William George Heirens -The Lipstick Murderer
1949 Harvey Louis Carignan -The Want Ad Killer
1957-1960 Melvin David Rees - Sex Beast
1958-1983 Richard F. Biegenwald -The Thrill Killer
1962-1964 Albert Henry DeSalvo -The Measuring Man
-The Green Man
-The Boston Strangler
1964-1965 Charles H. Schmid - Pied Piper of Tucson
1964-1973 Edmund Emil Kemper III -Coed Killer
1965 Posteal Laskey - Cincinnati Strangler
1967-1969 John N. Collins - Coed Murderer
1970 Richard Macek - The Mad Biter
1970-1987 Donald Harvey -Angel of Death
1972-1978 John Wayne Gacy -Killer Clown
1972-1978 Vernon Butts -Freeway Killer
1974-1975 Vaughn Greenwood -Skid Row Slasher
1974-1978 Theodore Robert Bundy -Ted
1975-1980 William G. Bonin - Freeway Kille
1976-1977 David R. Berkowitz - Son of Sam
-.44-Caliber Killer
1977-1978 Carlton Gary -Stocking Strangler
1977-1980 Richard Cottingham -The Ripper
-Jekyll/Hyde
1980-1981 David Carpenter -Trailside Killer
1980-1982 Randall Woodfield -The I-5 Killer
1981-1982 Coral Eugene Watts -Sunday Morning Slasher
1984 Cleo Green -Red Demon
1985 Richard Ramirez -Night Stalker
1987 Richard Angelo -Angel of Death

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