Killer Names

Here is another witty London shop name.  

"It's a cut throat business" say the owners of Jack the Clipper.

 I thought this name was pretty funny until I remembered my Ripper history.  I had read the graphic novel 'From Hell'.  Graphic it was.

Then I also did some googling and read details about the first five Ripper murders.  Brutal.

For those who can stomach a large dose of gore, click on this Ripper link.

When it is ok to have a laugh about a gruesome murderer?

Would you grab a bite at Jeffrey Dahmer's Diner?

Would you bring the kids to John Wayne Gacy's Big Top Circus?

And why do we give our serial killers cool nicknames?  Here are a few I found in my research:

Vlad the Impaler-Dracula

Elizabeth Bathory-The Blood Countess

Andreas Bichel-The Bavarian Ripper

The Bender Family-The Bloody Benders

Herman Mudgett-H.H.Holmes/The Torture Doctor

Theo Durrant-The Demon in the Belfry

Joseph Vacher-The French Ripper

Bela Kiss-The Monster of Czinkota

Henri Landru-The Bluebeard of Paris

Vasili Komaroff-The Wolf of Moscow

Fritz Haarmann-The Vampire of Hanover

Earle Nelson-The Gorilla Murderer

Peter Kurten-The Vampire of Duselldorf

Albert Fish-The Moon Maniac

Gordon Cummins-The Blackout Ripper

Louise Pette-The Duchess of Death

Alfred Cline-The Buttermilk Bluebeard

Rudolf Pleil-The Death Maker

John George Haigh-The Acid-Bath Killer

Raymond Fernandez/Martha Beck-The Lonely Hearts Killers

Reg Christie-The Monster of Rillington Place

Ed Gein-The Plainfield Ghoul

Melvin David Rees-The Sex Beast

Heinrich Pommerencke-The Beast of the Black Forest

Albert DeSalvo-The Boston Strangler

Charles Schmid-The Pied Piper of Tucson

Gertrude Baniszewski-The Torture Mother

Juan Corona-The Machete Murderer

Paul John Knowles-The Cassanova Killer

David Berkowitz-Son of Sam

John Wayne Gacy-The Killer Clown

Kenneth Bianchi/Angelo Buono-The Hillside Stranglers

Peter Sutcliffe-The Yorkshire Ripper

Pedro Lopez-The Monster of the Andes

Richard Ramirez-The Night Stalker

Keith Hunter Jesperson-The Happy Face Killer

Richard Angelo-The Angel of Death

Adolfo De Jesus Constanzo-The Godfather of Matamoros

Jeffrey Dahmer-The Milwaukee Monster

Andrei Chikatilo-The Mad Beast

Ted Bundy-Lady Killer

Joe Ball-The Alligator Man

William Heirens-The Lipstick Killer

Jerry Brudos-The Shoe-Fetish Slayer

Dean Corll-The Candy Man

Carol Eugene Watts-The Sunday Morning Slasher

Timothy William Spencer-The Southside Slayer

Vicytor Szczepinski-The Doorbell Killer

Lucian Staniak-The Red Spider

Joseph Smith-The Brides in the Bath Murderer

John Scripps-The Tourist From Hell

Thierry Paulin-The Monster of Montmarte

Anatoly Onoprienko-The Terminator

George Metesky-The Mad Bomber

William McDonald-The Sydney Mutilator

Archie McCafferty-The Mad Dog

Jean-Thierry Mathurin-The Old Ladies Killer

Richard Macek-The Mad Biter

Edward Leonski-The Singing Strangler

Bobby Joe Long-The Classified Ad Rapist

Patrick Kearney-The Trash Bag Murderer

Colin Ireland-The Gay Slayer

Archibald Hall-The Monster Butler

Georg Karl Grossman-The Berlin Butcher

Vaughn Greenwood-The Skid Row Slasher

Cleo Green-The Red Demon

John Wayne Glover-The Granny Killer

Raymond Fernandez-The Lonely Hearts Killer

Nikolai Dzumagalies-Metal Fang

Nannie Doss-The Giggling Granny

Karl Denke-The Mass Murderer of Munsterberg

Dr. Thomas Neill Cream-The Lambeth Poisoner

Doug Clark-The Sunset Strip Slayer

John Reginald Christie-The Monster of Rillington Place

Richard Chase-The Vampire of Sacremento

Gary Carlton-The Stocking Strangler

Wayne Boden-The Vampire Rapist

William Bonin-The Freeway Killer

Nicolas Claux-The Vampire of Paris

OK, a few of these are not cool names.

The Shoe Fetish Slayer and The Classical Ad Rapist need a better public relations person.

I'm sure a psychologist would say something about how we need to make light of these horrific crimes as a defence mechanism.  So I guess I won't feel guilty if I feel a tinge of morbid enjoyment when I get a straight blade razor shave at Jack the Clipper's.