Random Dangerous Serial Killers Who Had Nicknames (41 items)

(#26) Karla Homolka
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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.
(#30) Peter Sutcliffe

Nickname: The Yorkshire Ripper

Peter William Sutcliffe is a British man who was convicted in 1981 of slaying 13 women and attempting to slay seven others. He targeted harlots in the Leeds and Bradford areas causing a climate of fear across northern England. When arrested in January 1981 for driving with false license plates, police questioned him about the women, and he confessed.

At his trial, he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility, but his defense was rejected by the jury. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and remains in Broadmoor Maximum Security Mental Hospital to this day.
(#10) Joe Metheny

Nickname: The Cannibal Killer

Beginning in 1976, at the age of 21, Metheny would slay his victims and bury their bodies, sometimes stripping them for meat he would claim to use at his roadside open-pit food stand. The Cannibal Killer was said to have viewed his victims as meat rather than people and said that people couldn't tell the difference between the human meat and the pork he mixed it in with.

Metheny was caught in 1996 and later sentenced to end his life for the slayings of three women (though he confessed to stabbing or strangling a total of four women and three men), a ruling that would be overturned to a life sentence in 2000. He perished in prison in 2017 at the age of 62.
(#22) Pedro Rodrigues Filho
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Nickname: Pedrinho Matador (Killer Petey)

Pedro Rodrigues Filho is a Brazilian man who slayed many. Arrested in 1973, he was convicted in 2003 of slaying at least 71 people and sentenced to 128 years imprisonment. Committing his first heinous act at the age of 14, he began a series of burglaries and carried out a spree against local drug dealers, in revenge for his girlfriend's perishment at the hand of inmates while he was in prison.

By the age of 18 years old, he had slain 10 people. While imprisoned, he took the life of his own father who was also serving time for slaying. He went on to take the lives of at least 47 inmates while imprisoned. Initially sentenced to just 30 years imprisonment, his continued atrocities have led to further convictions and his sentence has been increased to 400 years.
(#16) Javed Iqbal
- Dec. at 45 (1956-2001)
Nickname: Killer of 100 Boys

Hailing from Punjab, Pakistan, Javed Iqbal, arguably one of the most detested men in history, went to great lengths to surround himself with young boys. He opened video arcades, schools, aquariums, and gyms. Iqbal was arrested a number of times on charges of sodomy, but his father’s money always got him off. In his eventual confession he claimed to have slain 100 boys in just five months, drugging, forcing himself on, and strangling them, then chopping them into pieces. Iqbal would either store the bodies in a vat of acid near his house or dump them into the sewer.

When the judge sentenced Iqbal to capital punishment in 2000, it was suggested that he be slain as his victims were. Official reports state that he took his own life while in prison, but an autopsy suggested he may have been slain. It was irrelevant to his family, as they refused to collect his remains, claiming he had perished, to them, the day he confessed.
(#2) David Berkowitz
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Nicknames: Son of Sam, the .44 Caliber Killer

David Berkowitz carried out a series of shootings in the summer of 1976. Using a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver, he shot six people until they passed and wounded seven others. Berkowitz sent a series of taunting letters to police and the press promising further shootings, terrorizing the people of New York City.

Berkowitz was captured in August 1977 and confessed to everything. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each life he took, to be served consecutively and is unlikely to ever be released.