# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earle-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:12:24.097Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earle-nelson"
name: "Earle Nelson"
slug: "earle-nelson"
description: "Earle Leonard Nelson, also known as the Gorilla Man, the Gorilla Killer, and the Dark Strangler, was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who killed at least twenty women in various U.S. states and two in Canada between 1926 and 1927. He is perhaps the first known serial sex murderer of the twentieth century."
tagline: "American serial killer (1897–1928)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Earle_Nelson.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1897-05-12"
deathDate: "1928-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.62
  momentum:             2.390243902439024
  historical:           12.20178
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Earle Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إيرل نيلسون"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Earle Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Nelson"
    title: "Earle Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Nelson"
    title: "Earle Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Nelson"
    title: "Earle Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Nelson"
    title: "Earle Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D6%80%D5%AC_%D4%BC%D5%A5%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4_%D5%86%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%B6"
    title: "Էրլ Լեոնարդ Նելսոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Nelson"
    title: "Earle Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Nelson"
    title: "Earle Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Nelson"
    title: "Earle Nelson"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Нельсон, Эрл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Earle Nelson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q604235"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump