1. A–B
    Pekka-Eric Auvinen  Axeman of New Orleans  Elizabeth Báthory  Mary Bell  Robert Berdella  David Berkowitz  Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono  Lizzie Borden  Ian Brady & Myra Hindley  David Brom  Jerry Brudos  Ted Bundy 

2. C–F
    Richard Chase  Andrei Chikatilo  Seung-Hui Cho  Adolfo Constanzo  Billy Cook  Dean Corll  Jeffrey Dahmer  Albert DeSalvo  Dnepropetrovsk maniacs  Mark Essex  Albert Fish  Lavinia Fisher  Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd 

3. G–J
    John Wayne Gacy  Ed Gein  Gary Gilmore  Harvey Murray Glatman  Jack Gilbert Graham  Belle Gunness  Fritz Haarmann  John George Haigh  Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold  Gary M. Heidnik  James Huberty  Jack the Ripper  Jim Jones 

4. K–M
    Theodore Kaczynski  Edmund Kemper  Joachim Kroll  Richard Kuklinski  Peter Kürten  Leonard Lake & Charles Ng  Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole  Marc Lépine  Jeffrey R. MacDonald  Charles Manson & The Family  Timothy McVeigh  Josef Mengele  Herman Mudgett (a.k.a. H. H. Holmes)  Herbert Mullin 

5. N–R
    Dennis Nilsen  Alfred Packer  Stephen Paddock  Carl Panzram  Bruce Jeffrey Pardo  Christopher Peterson  Alexander Pichushkin  Robert Pickton  James Edward Pough  Dorothea Puente  Dennis Rader  Gilles de Rais  Richard Ramirez  Gary Ridgway  Danny Rolling 

6. S
    Shankill Butchers  Patrick Sherrill  Harold Shipman  Ronald Gene Simmons  Richard Speck  Brenda Spencer  Charles Starkweather  Peter Stumpp  Peter Sutcliffe 

7. T–Z
    Howard Unruh  Dorángel Vargas  Fred West/Rose West  Charles Whitman  Stanley Williams  Wayne Williams  Aileen Wuornos  Graham Frederick Young  Zodiac Killer 

8. See also

9. References

10. Further reading

11. Further listening (recorded compilations)

This is a list of songs about or referencing killers. The songs are divided into groups by the last name of the killer the song is about or mentions.

A–B

Pekka-Eric Auvinen

• "Helsinki — Shangri-La" – Paleface
• "Jokela" – Mikael Gabriel
• "Sturmgeist_89" – Sturmgeist

Axeman of New Orleans

• "Axeman" – Amebix
• "The Axeman's Jazz" – Beasts of Bourbon
• "The Mysterious Axman's Jazz (Don't Scare Me Papa)" – Joseph John Davilla^[1]

Elizabeth Báthory

• "An Execution" – Siouxsie and the Banshees^[2]
• "Bathe in Blood" – Evile^[3]
• "Bathory" – Katarína Knechtová
• "Bathory Erzsebet" – Sunn O)))
• "Bathory's Sainthood" – Boy Sets Fire
• "Beauty Through Order" – Slayer^[3]
• "The Bleeding Baroness" – Candlemass^[5]
• "Countess Bathory" – Venom
• "Countess Erszebeth Nadasdy" – Barathrum^[4]
• Cruelty and the Beast album by Cradle of Filth^[5]
• Die Blutgräfin album by Untoten
• "Elizabeth" – Aiden^[4]
• "Elizabeth" – Ghost^[4]
• Elizabeth album – Kamelot^[4]
• "Elizabeth" – XIII. Století
• "Elizabeth Bathory" – Sadistik
• "Elisabeth Bathory" – Tormentor^[5]
• "Erszebet" – Paths of Possession
• Resurrection album – Forever Slave
• "Rose of Pain" – X-Japan^[6]
• "Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)" - Death Grips
• "To the Memory of the Dark Countess" – Mütiilation^[6]
• "Torquemada 71" – Electric Wizard^[6]
• "The Sonology of Sex II (La Comtesse De Sang)" – Clock DVA
• "Villa Vampiria" – God Dethroned
• "Woman of Dark Desires" – Bathory^[7]
• "The Wrath of Satan's Whore" – Countess^[5]

Mary Bell

• "Look Out, Look Out" – Perfume Genius
• "Mary Bell" – Macabre
• "Mary Bell" – Monte Cazazza
• "Mary Bell" – Oomph!
• "Mary Bell" – Stina Nordenstam
• "Mary Bell Reprise" – Macabre

Robert Berdella

• "Diary of Torture" – Macabre

David Berkowitz

• ".44 Magnum Opus" - Exodus
• "Bay of Pigs" – The Acacia Strain
• "Cereal Killer" – Green Jellÿ^[8]
• "Death 2" – Meechy Darko
• "Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear The Voices)" – Hall & Oates^[9]
• "I Hear Black" – Overkill^[10]
• "Hello From the Gutter" – Overkill^[11]
• "Hot Damn" – Ivy Levan
• "Insane in the Brain" – Cypress Hill^[12]
• "Jumping at Shadows" – Benediction
• "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" – Beastie Boys^[12]
• "Mr. 44" – Electric Hellfire Club^[13]
• "Reign In Blood" – Necro
• "(Sam), Son of Man" – Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids
• "Stay Wide Awake" – Eminem
• "Son of A Gun (David Berkowitz)" – Church of Misery
• "Son of Sam" - Chain Gang
• "Son of Sam" – Dead Boys
• "Son of Sam" – Elliott Smith
• "Son of Sam" – Macabre
• "Son of Sam" – Shinedown
• "Son of Sam" – Violent Soho
• "Summer Of Sam" – Lana Del Rey
• "Unseen Darkness" – Sinister

Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono

• "Hillside Strangler" – The Destructors
• "Hillside Strangler" – The Hollywood Squares
• "The Hillside Stranglers" – Macabre
• "I Wanna Make You Scream" – Battalion of Saints
• "Notown Blues" – The Black Lips^[2]

Lizzie Borden

• "Ballad of Lizzie Borden" – Rasputina
• "Lizzie Borden" – Chad Mitchell Trio
• "Lizzie Borden" – Macabre
• "She Took An Axe" – Flotsam and Jetsam

Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

• "Archives of Pain" – Manic Street Preachers
• "Lambs to the Slaughter" – Church of Misery
• "Mother Earth" – Crass^[14]
• "No One Is Innocent" – The Sex Pistols
• "Suffer Little Children" – The Smiths
• "Very Friendly" – Throbbing Gristle

David Brom

• "David Brom Took An Axe" – Macabre

Jerry Brudos

• "Fatal Foot Fetish" – Macabre
• "Truest Shade of Crimson – Through the Eyes of the Dead

Ted Bundy

• "Anne" – Bloodbath
• "Black Friday" – Lil' Kim
• "Blackest Eyes" – Porcupine Tree
• "Blow" – Tyler, the Creator
• "Bundy" – Animal Alpha
• "Bundy's DNA" – Acid Drinkers^[15]
• "Death 2" Meechy Darko
• "The Drifter" – Green on Red
• "I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)" – Church of Misery
• "Meticulous Invagination" – Aborted
• "Mr. Gore" – Blitzkid^[16]
• "Murder Dividead" – Edge Of Sanity
• "Reign In Blood" - Necro
• "Serial Killer" – Vio-lence^[17]
• "Stay Wide Awake" – Eminem
• "Stripped, Raped and Strangled" – Cannibal Corpse
• "The Ted Bundy Song" – Macabre
• "Ted, Just Admit It" – Jane's Addiction^[2]
• "Till Death" – Lord Infamous
• "Warrior" - Swollen Members
• "We Want Cunt" – Jeffree Star
• "What Turns You on?" – The Cassandra Complex

C–F

Richard Chase

• "Blood Sucking Freaks (Richard Chase)" – Church of Misery
• "House Sparrow" – Xiu Xiu

Andrei Chikatilo

• "Psychopathy Red" – Slayer
• "Red Ripper Blues (Andrei Chikatilo)" – Church of Misery
• "Ripper von Rostow" – Eisregen
• "Rostov Ripper" – Impious
• "The Butcher of Rostov" – Blood Tsunami

Seung-Hui Cho

• "Rise Up" – R. Kelly

Adolfo Constanzo

• "El Padrino (Adolfo Constanzo)" – Church of Misery
• "Sacrifical Shack" – Pain Teens

Billy Cook

• "Riders on the Storm" – The Doors

Dean Corll

• "Candyman" – Monte Cazazza
• "Candyman (Dean Corll)" – Church of Misery

Jeffrey Dahmer

• "213" – Slayer^[2]
• "Apartment 213" – Macabre
• "Arcarsenal" – At The Drive-In
• "Bagpipes from Baghdad" – Eminem
• "Brainless" – Eminem
• "Cannibal" – Kesha
• "Celebrity Cannibalism" – Creaming Jesus
• "Choklit Factory" – Marilyn Manson
• "Control" – The Black Dahlia Murder
• "Da Graveyard" – Big L
• The entire album Dahmer – Macabre
• "Dahmer and the Limbs" – Nicole Dollanganger
• "Dahmer is Dead" – Violent Femmes
• "Danger Zone" – Big L
• "Dark Horse" – Katy Perry ft. Juicy J
• "Death 2" Meechy Darko
• "Dirty Frank" – Pearl Jam
• "Freeze Dried Man" – Macabre
• "God Bless" – Combichrist
• "I'm On It" – J. Cole
• "Jeffrey" – Juice WRLD
• "Jeffrey Dahmer" – Soulfly
• "Jeffrey Dahmer and the Chocolate Factory" – Macabre
• "Keep it Underground" – Lords of the Underground
• "KKKill the Fetus" - Esham
• "Killer" - Phoebe Bridgers
• "Lift Me Up" - Vince Staples
• "Lord Dahmer" - Final Solution
• "Marlon JD" – Manic Street Preachers{{Dubious|date=August 2009}}
• "Moonshine" - Swollen Members
• "Must Be The Ganja" - Eminem
• "Nature of the threat" - Ras Kass
• "Natural Born Killaz - Dr. Dre ft. Ice Cube
• "Orange Juice" - EarlWolf
• "Pretty Boy Swag" - Tyga
• "Psycopath Killer" - Eminem ft Slaughterhouse & Yelawolf
• "Rap, Soda y Bohemia" – Molotov
• "Reign In Blood" - Necro
• "Room 213" – Church of Misery
• "Room 213" – Dead Moon
• "Room 213" - G.G.F.H.
• "Said the Spider to the Fly" - the pAper chAse
• "Siccmade" - Brotha Lynch Hung
• "Sinthasomphone" – Venetian Snares
• "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream" - Andrew Rannells
• "Still Born/Still Life" – Christian Death
• "Straight Boys" - Jeffree Star
• "The Ballad Of Jeffrey Dahmer" – Pinkard & Bowden
• "Things Get Worse" - Eminem Ft. B.o.B
• "Tom Dahmer Mixtape Freestyle" – Necro
• "Transformer" – Future ft. Nicki Minaj^[18]
• "Trigger Inside" - Therapy?
• "You're Gonna Love This"- 3OH!3
• "What's That Smell?" – Macabre

Albert DeSalvo

• "Boston Strangler (Albert DeSalvo)" – Church of Misery
• "Dedicated to Albert De Salvo" – Whitehouse
• "Dirty Water" – The Standells
• "Midnight Rambler" – The Rolling Stones^[19]
• "The Boston Strangler" – Macabre

Dnepropetrovsk maniacs

• "Dealers of Fame" - Oh, Sleeper

Mark Essex

• "Soul Discharge (Mark Essex)" – Church of Misery

Albert Fish

• "27 Needles" – John 5
• "Albert Fish/Liverwurst" – Green Jellÿ
• "Albert Was Worse Than Any Fish In The Sea" – Macabre
• "Document: Grace Budd" – The Number Twelve Looks Like You
• "Fish" - Tyler, the Creator
• "Fishtales" – Macabre
• "Instruments of Hell" – Exhumed^[20]
• "Human Consumption" - Necro
• "Letter to Mother" - Divine Heresy
• "Mr. Albert Fish (Was Children Your Favourite Dish?)" – Macabre
• "Mr Fish" – Sparzanza
• "The Gray Man (Albert Fish)" – Church of Misery
• "The Werewolf of Westeria" – John 5

Lavinia Fisher

• "Pretty Lavinia" – American Murder Song

Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd

• "Pretty Boy Floyd" - Bob Dylan
• "Pretty Boy Floyd" – Woody Guthrie
• "Pretty Boy Floyd/Stoney Point" – The Duhks

G–J

John Wayne Gacy

• "33 Something" – Bathory
• "Clownin' Around" - Deer Tick^[2]
• "Finger Paintings of The Insane" - Acid Bath
• "Gacy's Lot" – Macabre
• "Gacy's Place" - The Mentally Ill
• "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." – Sufjan Stevens
• "Johnny's in love with you" - The Bang
• "Master of Brutality (John Wayne Gacy)" – Church of Misery
• "Pogo The Clown" – Dog Fashion Disco
• "Pogo The Clown" – Hubert Kah
• "Reign In Blood" - Necro
• "Suffer Age" – Fear Factory
• "Three for Flinching (Revenge of the Porno Clowns)" – The Dillinger Escape Plan

Ed Gein

• "Addicted to Vaginal Skin" – Cannibal Corpse^[21]
• "Ballad of Ed Gein" – Swamp Zombies
• "Deadache" – Lordi
• "Dead Skin Mask" – Slayer^[22]
• "Dead Art in Plainfield" – John 5
• "Ed Gein" – Cornbugs
• "Ed Gein" – Killdozer
• "Edward Gein" – The Fibonaccis
• "Gein With Envy" - John 5
• "The Geins" – Macabre^[21]
• "In Gein We Trust" – Manilla Road
• "Nipple Belt" – Tad
• "Nothing to Gein" – Mudvayne^[21]
• "Old Mean Ed Gein" – Fibonaccis
• "Plainfield" – Church of Misery
• "Skin" – Siouxsie and the Banshees
• "Skinned" – Blind Melon^[2]
• "Sweetheart" – Died Pretty
• "Young God" - Swans

Gary Gilmore

• "Bring On The Night" – The Police
• "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" – The Adverts
• "Gary Gilmore And The Island Of Dr. Moreau" - Chain Gang

Harvey Murray Glatman

• "Harvey Glatman (Your Soul Will Forever Rot)" – Macabre

Jack Gilbert Graham

• "There Was A Young Man Who Blew Up A Plane" – Macabre

Belle Gunness

• "The Ballad Of Belle Gunness" – TJ McFarland
• "Bella The Butcher" – Macabre
• "Belle Gunness" – Cassius
• "Black Widow of La Porte" – John 5

Fritz Haarmann

• "Fritz Haarman der Metzger" – Macabre
• "Fritz Haarman the Butcher" – Macabre

John George Haigh

• "Acid Bath Vampire" – Macabre

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

• "The Anatomy of a School Shooting" – Ill Bill
• "Cassie" – Flyleaf
• "Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer)" - Exodus
• "Columind" – Filter
• "Disposable Teens" – Marilyn Manson
• "Hallway Homicide" – The Orwells
• "Hero" – Superchick
• "The Kinslayer" – Nightwish
• "One by One" – The Calling
• "A New Hope" – Five Iron Frenzy
• "The Nobodies" – Marilyn Manson
• "Nobody Thinks About Me" – Michale Graves
• "Pigs" – Tyler, The Creator
• "Pumped Up Kicks" – Foster The People
• "Rampage" – Nicole Dollanganger
• "Rap God", "Remember Me", "I'm Back", "The Way I Am", "White America" – Eminem
• "Rival" – Pearl Jam
• "Strength Through Music" – Amanda Palmer
• "TeenWitch" – Bones
• "This is Your Time" – Michael W. Smith
• "Thoughtless" – Korn
• "Völkermord" – Apostasy
• "We Hate You" – Electric Wizard
• "Wicked Young Man" – Alice Cooper
• "Witch Hunt" – MDFMK

Gary M. Heidnik

• "Brother Bishop" – Church of Misery
• "Morbid Minister" – Macabre

James Huberty

• "McMassacre" – Macabre
• "Shotgun Boogie (James Oliver Huberty)" – Church of Misery

Jack the Ripper

• "Blood Red Sandman" – Lordi^[21]
• "The Death of Jack the Ripper" – The Legendary Pink Dots
• "Down on Whores" – Benediction
• "In the Mind of a Lunatic" – Sigh
• "Jack" – Iced Earth^[21]
• "Jack the Knife" – The Electric Hellfire Club
• "Jack Ripper" – Nationalteatern
• "Jack the Ripper" – Screaming Lord Sutch
• "Jack the Ripper" – Buckethead
• "Jack the Ripper" – LL Cool J
• "Jack The Ripper" – Macabre^[21]
• "Jack the Ripper" – Morrissey
• "Jack the Ripper" – Motorhead^[21]
• "Jack the Ripper" – Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
• "Jack The Ripper" – The Horrors
• "Killer on the loose" - Thin Lizzy
• "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" – Reunion
• "Maxwell Murder" – Rancid
• "Music Box" - Eminem
• "Must be the Ganja" - Eminem
• "Reconstruction of the Female Anatomy"- Through the Eyes of the Dead
• "The Ripper" – Judas Priest^[21]
• "Saucy Jack" – Spinal Tap
• The Somatic Defilement – Whitechapel^[21]
• "Unsolved Mysteries" – Animal Collective^[2]

Jim Jones

• "Ballad of Jim Jones" – Brian Jonestown Massacre
• "Carnage in the Temple of the Damned" – Deicide
• "Guyana (Cult of the Damned)" – Manowar
• "Hypnotized" – Heathen
• "Jim Jones Posse" – Dre Dog
• "Jimmie Jones" – The Vapors
• "Jonestown" – Concrete Blonde
• "Jonestown" - The Acacia Strain
• "Jonestown (Interlude)" - Post Malone
• "Jonestown Mind" – The Almighty
• "Jonestown Slumber Party" - Loch Vostok
• "Jonestown Tea" - Otep
• "Koolaid" - Accept
• "Reverend" – Church of Misery
• "The Riverflow" – The Levellers

K–M

Theodore Kaczynski

• "Exploding Octopus" – Ill Bill
• "FC: The Freedom Club" – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
• "Free The Unabomber" – Code 13
• "I Wanna Be a Unabomber" – Donnas
• "Killer Kaczynski" – Mando Diao
• "Unabomber" – J. Cole
• "The Unabomber" – Macabre
• "Unabomber" – M.I.R.V.
• "Unabomber" – The Acacia Strain
• "Unabomber" – Underground Resistance

Edmund Kemper

• "Abomination Unseen" - Devourment
• "Edmund Kemper Had a Horrible Temper" – Macabre
• "Forever" – The Berzerker
• "Fortress/Outer Space/Forever" – System of a Down
• "Killifornia (Edmund Kemper III)" – Church of Misery
• "Murder" - Seabound
• "Severed Head" – Suicide Commando
• "Temper Temper Mr. Kemper" - The Celibate Rifles
• "Urge to Kill" – Throbbing Gristle

Joachim Kroll

• "Evil Ole Soul" – Macabre

Richard Kuklinski

• "The Iceman" – Macabre
• "Lyrical Hitman (Richard Kuklinski)" – Royce Da 5'9" and Marvwon

Peter Kürten

• Dedicated to Peter Kurten – Whitehouse
• "Dusseldorf Monster" - Church of Misery
• "In Germany Before the War" – Randy Newman
• "Vampire of Düsseldorf" – Macabre

Leonard Lake & Charles Ng

• "The Balled of Leonard and Charles" – Exodus

Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole

• "Henry Lee Lucas" - Dahmer
• "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" - Fantômas
• "Lucas Toole" - Downthesun
• "Murder Company" – Church of Misery
• "Serial Killer" – Macabre

Marc Lépine

• "This Memory" – Wyrd Sisters
• "Montreal" – The Tragically Hip
• "Montreal Massacre" – Macabre
• "Montreal, December '89" – Judy Small

Jeffrey R. MacDonald

• "Killer" - Riot

Charles Manson & The Family

• "ATWA" – System of a Down
• "The Ballad of Tom Jones" - Space
• "Beausoleil" – Current 93
• "Beware" – Death Grips
• "Bloodbath in Paradise" – Ozzy Osbourne
• "California Hippy Murders" - Red River Dave McEnery
• "Charlie Manson Blues" – The Flaming Lips
• "Creepy Crawl" – Necro
• "Creepy Crawl" – Superjoint Ritual
• "Dancin' With Manson" - Therapy?
• "Death Valley '69" – Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch
• "Devil's Hole Girls and the Big Revolution" – Rob Zombie
• "DI-1-9026" – J. G. Thirlwell
• "Do The Charles Manson" – Necro
• "Freak" - Lana Del Rey
• "Heroin"- Lana Del Rey
• "Linda's in Custody" – Death Grips
• "Lunatic of God's Creation" – Deicide
• "Mister Manson" – Klaatu
• "My Monkey" - Marilyn Manson
• "Night of the long knives" - Machine Head
• "A Poem About An Old Prison Man" – Decapitated
• "Real Solution #9" – White Zombie
• "Reflection of Children Coming Up in the Grave" – Necro
• "Reign In Blood" - Necro
• "Revolution Blues" – Neil Young
• "Sadie" – Alkaline Trio
• "Servants of Evol" – Electric Hellfire Club
• "Sharron's Fetus (The Pre-Kill)" – Necro
• "Spahn Ranch" – Church of Misery
• "Straight Outta Compton" - N.W.A.

Timothy McVeigh

• "Agent Orange" – Pharoahe Monch
• "The Ballad of Timothy McVeigh" – Snog
• "Framed" – U.S. Bombs
• "Little Timmy Scumbag" - Cruachan
• "McVeigh" - The Indelicates
• "The Proud" – Talib Kweli

Josef Mengele

• "Angel of Death" - Slayer

Herman Mudgett (a.k.a. H. H. Holmes)

• "Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones)" – Macabre
• "From the Cradle to the Grave" - Havok
• "Infecting them with Falsehood" – Deeds of Flesh
• "The Torture Doctor"- Alkaline Trio

Herbert Mullin

• "Megalomania (Herbert Mullin)" – Church of Misery

N–R

Dennis Nilsen

• "Cranley Gardens" (Denis Nilsen) – Church of Misery
• "Killing for Company" – Swans^[23]
• "Turnabout" — Moth Wranglers
• "You're Dying To Be With Me" – Macabre

Alfred Packer

• "The Ballad of Alfred Packer" – Phil Ochs^[2]
• "Coming Back For More" – C. W. McCall
• Eaten Back To Life – Cannibal Corpse
• "In the Mountains" – Macabre

Stephen Paddock

• "Greatest" – Eminem

Carl Panzram

• "Reminiscenses of a Minnesota State Training School Alumni, Class of 1905" – Flare Acoustic Arts League

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo

• "Black Christmas" – Poly Styrene

Christopher Peterson

• "Shotgun Peterson" – Macabre

Alexander Pichushkin

• "Sewers" – Torture Killer

Robert Pickton

• "Fed To The Pigs" – Devourment
• "Hooker Fortified Pork Products"- The Accüsed
• "Pigfarm" – Mad Sin

James Edward Pough

• "James Pough, What the Hell Did You Do?" – Macabre

Dorothea Puente

• "Dorthea's Dead Folks Home" – Macabre

Dennis Rader

• "Bind, Torture and Kill" – Suicide Commando
• "Bind Torture Kill" – Suffocation
• "B.T.K." - Church of Misery
• "BTK" - Exodus
• "Raider II" - Steven Wilson

Gilles de Rais

• "Barbazul versus el amor letal" - Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota
• "The Black Knight" – Macabre
• Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder - Cradle of Filth
• "Into the Crypts of Rays" – Celtic Frost
• "Tritt Ein" – Saltatio Mortis
• "The Window" - The Black Dahlia Murder

Richard Ramirez

• "Acosador Nocturno" - Soulfly
• "Going Going Gone" – Exodus
• "Kamikaze" - Eminem
• "Killer" – King Diamond
• "Knight Stalker" - Shadow Project
• "The Night Stalker" – Bewitched
• "Night Stalker" – Macabre
• "Night Stalker" – Super Heroines
• "Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes" - Sun Kil Moon
• "Noche Acosador" – John 5
• "Nocturnal Predator" - Legion of the Damned
• "Ramirez" - The Acacia Strain
• "Where Evil Dwells (Richard Ramirez)" – Church of Misery

Gary Ridgway

• "Deep Red Bells" – Neko Case
• "Green River" – Church of Misery
• "The Green River Murderer (He's Still Out There)" – Macabre
• "Ozzie" - Green River
• "I Wanna Know What Love Is" - Julie Ruin
• "Sane vs. Normal" - Mnemic

Danny Rolling

• "Danny Rolling" – The Murder Junkies

S

Shankill Butchers

• "Shankill Butchers" – The Decemberists
• "Shankill Butchers" – Sarah Jarosz

Patrick Sherrill

• "Killing Spree (Postal Killer)" – Macabre

Harold Shipman

• "Lips of Ashes" – Porcupine Tree
• "What About Us?" - The Fall

Ronald Gene Simmons

• "Holidays of Horror" – Macabre

Richard Speck

• "The Ballad of T.V. Violence (I'm Not The Only Boy)" – Cheap Trick
• "Born To Raise Hell" (Richard Speck) – Church of Misery
• "Richard Speck" – Mojo Nixon
• "Richard Speck" – The Viletones
• "Richard Speck" – Wesley Willis
• "What The Heck Richard Speck (Eight Nurses Did You Wreck)" – Macabre

Brenda Spencer

• "I Don't Like Mondays" – The Boomtown Rats
• "Terrorist" – The Feederz

Charles Starkweather

• "All I Want" – Kenny Brown
• "Badlands (Charles Starkweather)" – Church of Misery
• "Hate So Real" – J Church
• "Nebraska" – Bruce Springsteen
• "Nebraska" - Nicole Dollanganger
• "We Didn't Start the Fire" - Billy Joel

Peter Stumpp

• "Werewolf of Bedburg" – Macabre

Peter Sutcliffe

• "Archives of Pain" - Manic Street Preachers
• "Leeds Ripper" – Throbbing Gristle
• "Leeds United" – Luke Haines
• "Night Shift" – Siouxsie and the Banshees
• "The Ripper" – Pallas
• "Ripping Into Pieces (Peter Sutcliffe)" – Church of Misery

T–Z

Howard Unruh

• "Howard Unrah (What Have You Done Now?)" – Macabre
• "(R) Retaliate" - The Mark of Cain
• "Retal" – Church of Misery

Dorángel Vargas

• "El Comegente" - Soulfly

Fred West/Rose West

• "25 Cromwell St." - Apoptygma Berzerk
• "Evil" – Interpol

Charles Whitman

• "The Ballad of Charles Whitman" – Kinky Friedman
• "Charles Joseph Whitman" - Deathday
• "Road To Ruin (Charles Whitman)" – Church of Misery
• "Sniper" – Harry Chapin
• "Sniper in the Sky" – Macabre
• "The Tower" – Insane Clown Posse

Stanley Williams

• "Real Talk" – Snoop Dogg

Wayne Williams

• "Annie Christian" – Prince
• "Creeks" – Big Gipp and Witchdoctor
• "the ends" - Travis Scott (featuring André 3000)
• "Wrong Man" – Deep Purple
• “Wayne” - Black Lips

Aileen Wuornos

• "Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wuornos)" – Church of Misery
• "Poor Aileen" – Superheaven
• "Sixth Of June" – It Dies Today

Graham Frederick Young

• "Poison" – Macabre
• "Taste the Pain (Graham Young)" – Church Of Misery

Zodiac Killer

• "Dear Editor" – Kamelot
• "Death 2" – Meechy Darko
• "Gemini" – Slayer
• "Sick of Living (Zodiac)" – Church of Misery
• "Soul Sacrifice" – Santana
• "Summer of Sam" – Lana Del Rey
• "Venus in Furs" – Electric Wizard
• "The Zodiac" – Kamelot
• "Zodiac" – Macabre
• "Zodiac" – Melvins
• "Zodiac (he is still out there...)" – Christian Death
• "Zodiac Shit" – Flying Lotus

See also

• Serial killer
• List of serial killers
• Murder ballad

References

Further reading

• Olive W. Burt, American Murder Ballads and their Stories, Oxford University Press, New York, 1958
• Olive W. Burt, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1496481 "Murder Ballads of Mormondom"], Western Folklore, 18:2, April 1959, pp. 141–156
• Olive W. Burt, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1496190 "The Minstrelsy of Murder"], Western Folklore, 17:4, October 1958, pp. 263–272
• Daniel A. Cohen, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3789940 "The Beautiful Female Murder Victim: Literary Genres and Courtship Practices in the Origins of a Cultural Motif, 1590–1850"], Journal of Social History, 31:2, Winter 1997, pp. 277–306
• Chet Flippo, "Nashville Skyline: The Subject Was Murder", CMT.com, February 5, 2004
• Will Robinson Sheff, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927123937/http://www.audiogalaxy.com/articles?&a=205 "The Dark Side of Folk: Songs about Murder"], Audiogalaxy
• Michael E. Bush, "Murder Ballads in Appalachia", (thesis) Marshal University, Huntington, West Virginia, 1977
• Kenneth D. Tunnel, "99 Years is Almost For Life: Punishment for Violent Crime in Bluegrass Music", The Journal of Popular Culture, 26:3, Winter 1992, pp. 165–181
• Ellen L. O'Brien, "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MURDER”: THE TRANSGRESSIVE AESTHETICS OF MURDER IN VICTORIAN STREET BALLADS", Victorian Literature and Culture, 28, 2000, pp. 15–37

Further listening (recorded compilations)

• Bloody Ballads: Classic British and American Murder Ballads, Sung by Paul Clayton, Ed. by Kenneth S. Goldstein, Riverside Records, New York, 1956 (includes cover notes)
• Blood Booze 'n Bones, Sung by Ed McCurdy, banjo accompaniment by Erik Darling, Elektra Records, 1956 (includes 12 page booklet)
• Murder Ballads, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mute Records, 1996
• Murder Metal, Macabre, 2003 (This band appears to have become known for a death metal variation of the murder ballad)

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