Random Dangerous Serial Killers Who Had Nicknames (41 items)

(#8) Andrei Chikatilo
- Dec. at 57 (1936-1994)
Nickname: The Butcher of Rostov

Chikatilo was a Soviet slayer who committed the sexual assault, murder, and mutilation of at least 52 women and children in Russia between 1978 and 1990. Believing he was the killer, police carried out surveillance on Chikatilo, which eventually provided adequate grounds for an arrest.

He confessed to a total of 56 slayings and was tried for 53 of them in April 1992. Victims' relatives demanded that authorities release him so they could end him themselves. However, he was convicted and sentenced to capital punishment for 52 of the slayings in October 1992. He was the subjected to a firing squad in February 1994.
(#12) Jeffrey Dahmer
- Dec. at 34 (1960-1994)
Nickname: The Milwaukee Cannibal

Dahmer was an American slayer and sex offender who forced himself on, slayed, and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He also committed necrophilia and ate parts of his later victims, dismembering and cooking parts of their bodies in his home.

Dahmer was caught after a would-be victim managed to overpower him and alert police. In 1992 Dahmer was convicted of 15 of the incidents and sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment. However just two years into his sentence he was beaten until he was no longer breathing by a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution.
(#25) Karl Denke
- Dec. at 64 (1860-1924)
Nickname: The Ziębice Cannibal

Everyone knew and seemed to like Karl Denke at first. He was a "good" Christian and supported himself with a small business selling a variety of goods door to door. He was held in such high regard that he was known affectionately as Papa Denke. But in December of 1924, a man stumbled into police headquarters claiming Denke had accosted him with an axe. Although police initially found this impossible to believe, Denke was arrested and put in jail.

As authorities went to search his home, he took his own life. This should have been their first clue to Ziebice Cannibal’s murderous history. The body count, composed mostly of beggars and journeymen to whom Denke extended the courtesy of a place to stay, reached anywhere from 20 to 40.
(#33) Louis Van Schoor

Nickname: The Hammerman

In South Africa, Louis Van Schoor salyed at least seven men who he claimed were burglars. After each incident, he was cleared by officials without so much as a caution. However, he was finally discovered in 1992.

After serving only 12 years, he was released in 2004.
(#26) Karla Homolka
- 53
Nickname: Barbie

Karla Homolka was one half of the murderous couple that haunted the people of Canada. Homolka, along with her husband Paul Bernardo, forced themselves on and slayed multiple women, including her own sister.

When the couple was discovered in 1993, Homolka turned over evidence on her husband in exchange for a reduced sentence. She was released in 2005 after serving just 12 years in prison.
(#9) Fritz Haarmann
- Dec. at 45 (1879-1925)
Nickname: The Butcher from Hanover

Fritz Haarmann, an unassuming and sympathetic-looking man, used his friendly manner to serve him well as both a police informant and a sexual sadist. Over six years he murdered at least 24 vagrants and male harlots — slayings he considered an act of love. Haarman claimed he only wanted to bring peace to his victims and had a strict preference for boys he found handsome.

It all came to an end when the discarded skulls of his victims began washing up on the shore of the river Leine in Germany. In 1925, while in prison awaiting to be beheaded, he was shown a photo of a missing boy whom the police believed Haarmann had slain. After one look at the ugly boy’s picture he scoffed at the idea of killing such an ungainly kid.