Dean Jarrod Gatz (born February 28, 1968) is a noted serial killer, infamous for the murder of eleven young women, aged between 16 and 24 in New York City, from 2003 to 2008. As many of his victims were prostitutes, and all of his victims were tortured and knifed to death, he was given the nicknames "Whore Slaughterer" and "The New York Ripper" by the media. Gatz's first victim was Pamela Melanie Browne, a 21-year-old prostitute, whose body was found in Queens, on November 12, 2003, brutally knifed, and having "Bitches deserve this!" written in blood on her chest.