Charlie Chop-Off: A Haunting Story of an Uncaught Kid Killer

Charlie Chop-Off: A Haunting Story of an Uncaught Kid Killer

In 1972 and 1973, panic gripped Black and Puerto Rican families in New York City as young boys' bodies began turning up hideously mutilated and often missing their penises. The press started calling the killer "Charlie Chop-Off" due to his habit of going after his victims' genitals. Two of the four boys killed had been stabbed precisely 38 times in what authorities at the time believed was a "religious" or "ritualistic" fashion, but the NYPD appeared powerless to stop the killer, leading to protests and wild rumors.⁠

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One victim of "Charlie Chop-Off" survived with his life, though his penis was also cut off, and managed to give police a vague description of the killer as a tall, slim Hispanic man "with a strange gait, almost like a limp." A haunting composite sketch was distributed — but to this day, the killer's identity remains a mystery. 

Charlie Chop-off is the pseudonym given to an unidentified American serial killer known to have killed three black children and one Puerto Rican child in Manhattan between 1972 and 1973. This assailant is also known to have attempted to murder one other child.

All the victims of this assailant were male, and the majority of murders committed by this individual involved the genital mutilation or attempted genital mutilation of the victims.

While the case is still considered an open one, Erno Soto was held as a suspect and confessed to one of the murders, but was considered unfit for trial and sent back to a mental institution.

On March 9, 1972, eight-year-old Douglas Owens was found dead, stabbed 38 times. His penis had been cut, but not severed from his body. On April 20, another black youth was repeatedly stabbed; his genitals were severed from his body, although he survived his injuries. On October 23, nine-year-old Wendell Hubbard was stabbed to death on the roof of an East Harlem tenement block. His penis had also been severed from his body.

On March 6, 1973, a nine-year-old Puerto Rican child named Luis Ortiz was stabbed 38 times and likewise mutilated. Finally, on August 17, 1973, eight-year-old Steven Cropper was repeatedly slashed with a razor on the roof of a tenement block. He bled to death from an injury to his arm, although his penis was left intact.

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