I'm writing a story, and I need an alias for my serial killer.

[Goldeneye1989]

What about
Murder mcFacestabbington the Cutter of Murdertown the 4th

 

[conflictofinterests]

I'd call him caught. People that sloppy don't tend to manage the "serial" part of "serial killer" well.

 

[Wintermoot]

The LA Butcher

 

[2xDouble]

I assume calling him "The Crazy Fuckwad" is out? ok... how about...
The LA Butcher
William Murderface (how has nobody suggested this one yet? lol)
Squid Slasher
the Meat Grinder,
Body Dicer, Mincer, Blender (just pick a button on a food processor and add "-er")
Choppy McHackenslash
...i'll try to think of more later.

 

[zehydra]

The Ringtailed Lethal

 

[Ekonk]

What with the hacking stuff, he'd probably be dubbed 'The L.A. Butcher' in real life.

"John Doe" seems perfectly reasonable. Make it so that he mutilates his victims, making it impossible to tell their identities. When someone unknown is found dead, they are named "John Doe"

Wasen't the serial killer in Se7en called John Doe?

 

[GoGummiBear]

How about Craig?
Never trust a man called Craig.

 

[Bealzibob]

Hmmmmmmm...

Angel City Butcher
The Cheap Hack
L.A Body Snatcher
The worlds most uninteresting murderer

No but seriously, cutting the throat and then hacking up the body is the most boring MO ever =[

 

[Dr. Dice Lord]

Thormac the Vertimizer.

 

[DeadMix]

I'd call him caught. People that sloppy don't tend to manage the "serial" part of "serial killer" well.

I think how he eludes capture while committing these messy murders would be pretty intense.

OT: The Messy Eater, Back-Alley Hack, Malformed Individual. "Catharsis" as a nickname would work well.

 

[kwagamon]

I don't know about something the news would call him, but Headcase seems good to me. For something the news might actually use, how about "The 'Headcase' Killer" or something like that?

 

[Zersy]

Whats the word for the oppisite of a murderer ?

that would be cool cause it's ironic

 

[stabhappy]

Samedi Slicer.
Its some cultures (I can't remember which) god of the dead.
It seems fitting.

 

[Satin6T]

I'm thinking Satin6T
<--------maybe shorten it to Satin
cuz the murder so cuddly soft

 

[nightwolf667]

He is completely batshit, lives in L.A and basically mutilates just about anyone he can get his hands on. Any ideas?

EDIT: Like his serial killer name ie. Jack the Ripper, the Happy Face Killer, something that the news people call him.

EDIT EDIT: He's nuts, and he kills people because of it (yeah, I know most crazy people aren't actually violent). He only kills in LA, but he's not specific to one part of the city. There's really no link between his victims, but his MO is to cut their throats, then hack up the bodies. This is done really poorly, as he has no medical knowledge. He is pretty non-specific as to where he dumps the bodies.

If you want to write a serial killer you need to study them first, especially since the psychological profile you've given in this post doesn't actually describe a serial killer. A random whackjob? yes. Serial killer? No. For someone to actually be a serial killer, they have to fit a very distinct profile, more of a specific personality type and just being crazy and killing people isn't actually enough. If you're really interested in writing a serial killer, then I recommend looking up Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Hunting Serial Killers for the FBI by Robert K. Resser and Tom Shachtman. It covers a lot of the biggies like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Charles Manson, etc. It'll give you a better idea of what it actually takes to hunt serial killers and what they're like.

Good luck.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

The Oragmi Killer

The Little Big Killer

The Toy Axe Killer

The infamous one

The Ratchet killer

Oblivion's Grace

Black Rose

The Fable End

 

[Frosty_Shadrach]

Quick idea for ya,
Maybe one of his favourite things to do in a mutilation is to give the victim a Glasgow Smile (or a chelsea Smile as Superbatranger previously stated, think the jokers scars from the newest Batman, or look it up online for a full description)
and the media/police simply call him Glasgow
Simple and to the point, as it has been previously stated, Police dont go for too complex of names, you could possibly use something along the lines of "the police call him something but he refers to himself by a different name, Like Son of Sam (Sam btw was his dog, i believe, pretty messed up if you ask me)
Another idea is to put a hold on the name for a bit and continue to write the story and when you have a stroke of brilliance regarding the name you can go back and fill in the blanks
Hope I was of some help
Take Care
-Frosty

 

[Brazzlefrazz]

Barry the Chopper?

Or "The Litterer" ! Because he just dumps these bodies wherever the fuck he wants!