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.

On October 23, nine-year-old Wendell Hubbard was stabbed to death on the roof of an East Harlem tenement block.

[5] On March 6, 1973, a nine-year-old Puerto Rican child named Luis Ortiz was stabbed 38 times and likewise mutilated.

[2] After the botched abduction of a Puerto Rican boy on May 15, 1974, Ernesto Soto,[3] 33, was arrested by the police while "babbling a religious slogan."

[2] Despite a lack of evidence, investigators still believe that he is a likely suspect, citing the fact that the murders ceased after his arrest and that an anonymous source placed him as a potential culprit on the first killing.