...how odd criminal nicknames can be? I mean the names that are given to criminals before they had been identified. I'd like to know who comes up with these names and why. Some of them, of course, are down right chilling, while some are much more comedic than threatening. For example:

"Abbadabba" — Otto Berman, U.S. Mafia accountant

"The Alphabet Killer" — Unidentified American serial killer

"Apples" — Hugh MacIntosh, U.S. gangster

"Big Eared Du" or "Big Ears Du" — Du Yuesheng, Chinese gang leader

"Big Greenie" — Harry Greenberg, U.S. gangster

"The Boozing Barber" — Gilbert Paul Jordan, Canadian serial killer

"Fifi" — Fiore Buccieri, U.S. Mafia hitman

"The Hippopotamus" - Sergei Ryakhovsky, Russian serial killer

"Johnness" — Dominique You, Haitian pirate

"Stupid Marty" — Martin Bryant, Australian spree killer

"The Kissing Bandit" — Edna Murray (d.1966), U.S. outlaw

"The Queen of Mean" — Leona Helmsley (1920-2007), U.S. tax evader