List of songs about or referencing serial killers

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

A–B

Axeman of New Orleans "Axeman Jazz (Don't Scare Me Papa)" - Squirrel Nut Zippers The Axeman's Jazz - Beasts of Bourbon "Axtmann" - Eisregen "The Mysterious Axman's Jazz (Don't Scare Me Papa)" – Joseph John Davilla

Joe Ball "Joe Ball was his name" – Macabre

Elizabeth Báthory "An Execution" – Siouxsie and the Banshees "Bathe in Blood" – Evile "Báthory Erzsébet" - Sunn O))) "Beauty Through Order" – Slayer "The Bleeding Baroness" – Candlemass "Blissfully Exsanguinated" - Defeated Sanity "Countess Bathory" - Venom "Countess Erszebeth Nadasdy" – Barathrum Cruelty and the Beast album by Cradle of Filth Die Blutgräfin album by Untoten "Elizabeth" – Aiden "Elizabeth" – Ghost Elizabeth album – Kamelot "Elizabeth Bathory" – Tormentor "Rose of Pain" – X Japan "To the Memory of the Dark Countess" – Mütiilation "Torquemada 71" – Electric Wizard "Woman of Dark Desires" – Bathory "The Wrath of Satan's Whore" – Countess

Robert Berdella "Diary of Torture" – Macabre

David Berkowitz ".44 Magnum Opus" - Exodus "6 Foot 7 Foot" - Lil Wayne feat. Cory Gunz "Bay of Pigs" – The Acacia Strain "Black Privilege" - Dr. Dre "Cereal Killer" – Green Jellÿ "Death 2" – Flatbush Zombies "Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear The Voices)" – Hall & Oates "Ditty" – Barkmarket "I Hear Black" – Overkill "Hello From the Gutter" – Overkill "Hot Damn" – Ivy Levan "Insane in the Brain" – Cypress Hill "Jumping at Shadows" – Benediction "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" – Beastie Boys "Mr. 44" – Electric Hellfire Club "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

Paul Bernardo "Choking Games" − Nicole Dollanganger

Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono "Hillside Strangler" – The Destructors "The Hillside Stranglers" – Macabre "I Wanna Make You Scream" – Battalion of Saints "Notown Blues" – The Black Lips

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris "The Murder Mack" – Macabre

Ian Brady & Myra Hindley "Archives of Pain" – Manic Street Preachers "Lambs to the Slaughter" – Church of Misery "Mother Earth" – Crass "No One Is Innocent" – The Sex Pistols "Suffer Little Children" – The Smiths "Very Friendly" – Throbbing Gristle

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 "Crack" – Slowthai "Death 2" – Flatbush Zombies "The Drifter" – Green on Red "epaR" – Earl Sweatshirt "I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)" – Church of Misery "Just another psycho" - Mötley Crüe "Lotta True Crime"- Penelope Scott "Meticulous Invagination" – Aborted "Mr. Gore" – Blitzkid "Murder Dividead" – Edge Of Sanity "Reign In Blood" - Necro "Serial Killer" – Vio-lence "Stay Wide Awake" – Eminem "Stripped, Raped and Strangled" – Cannibal Corpse "Ted Bundy" – Theory of a Deadman "The Ted Bundy Song" – Macabre "Ted Bundy's Thanksgiving Dinner" – A Lot Like Birds "Ted, Just Admit It…" – Jane's Addiction "Till Death" – Lord Infamous "Torch Song Trilogy" - Handsome Boy Modeling School "Video Crimes" - Tin Machine "Warrior" - Swollen Members "We Want Cunt" – Jeffree Star "What Turns You on?" – The Cassandra Complex "The Wheels on the Bug" – Macabre

C–F

Richard Chase "Blood Sucking Freaks (Richard Chase)" – Church of Misery "House Sparrow" – Xiu Xiu "Refuse 2 Lose" - Brotha Lynch Hung

Andrei Chikatilo "Andrei Chikatilo" – SKYND "How Are You, Kid?" – Macabre "Psychopathy Red" – Slayer "Red Ripper Blues (Andrei Chikatilo)" – Church of Misery "Ripper von Rostow" – Eisregen "Rostov Ripper" – Impious "The Butcher of Rostov" – Blood Tsunami

Leonarda Cianciulli "Confessions of an Embittered Soul (Leonarda Cianciulli)" by Church of Misery "Teacakes" – Macabre

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

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

Jeffrey Dahmer "213" – Slayer "Arcarsenal" – At The Drive-In "Bagpipes from Baghdad" – Eminem "Bandit" – Juice WRLD ft. NBA YoungBoy "Benz or Beamer" – Outkast "Big Boy’s Neighborhood Freestyle" - Kendrick Lamar "Black Friday"- Lil Kim "Body Parts" – Three 6 Mafia "Brainless" – Eminem "Break the Law"- Mac Miller "Cannibal" – Kesha "Celebrity Cannibalism" – Creaming Jesus "Choklit Factory" – Marilyn Manson "Control" – The Black Dahlia Murder "Da Graveyard" – Big L Dahmer – Macabre "Dahmer and the Limbs" – Nicole Dollanganger "Dahmer Does Hollywood" - Amigo the Devil "Dahmer is Dead" – Violent Femmes "Danger Zone" – Big L "Dark Horse" – Katy Perry ft. Juicy J "Death 2" – Meechy Darko "Designer Sadness" – Zheani "Dirty Frank" – Pearl Jam "Electric City" – Black Eyed Peas "Freak Like Me" – Brooke Candy ft. TOOPOOR "Freeze Dried Man" – Macabre "God Bless" – Combichrist "I'm On It" – J. Cole "Jeffrey" – Juice WRLD "Jeffrey Dahmer" – Soulfly "Keep it Underground" – Lords of the Underground "KKKill the Fetus" - Esham "Killer" - Phoebe Bridgers "Lift Me Up" - Vince Staples "Lil' Drummer Boy’ "- Lil Kim "Marlon JD" – Manic Street Preachers "Moonshine" - Swollen Members "Must Be The Ganja" - Eminem "Murder Avenue" - Geto Boys "Nature of the threat" - Ras Kass "Natural Born Killaz" - Dr. Dre ft. Ice Cube "Now I'm High, Really High" − Three 6 Mafia "Orange Juice" - EarlWolf "Particle Accelerator" - Tad "Pretty Boy Swag" - Tyga "Psycopath Killer" - Eminem ft Slaughterhouse & Yelawolf "Rage All Over" - Wargasm "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 "Sandwitches" - Tyler the Creator "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 "The Joker's Wild" – Insane Clown Posse "Things Get Worse" - Eminem Ft. B.o.B "Tom Dahmer Mixtape Freestyle" – Necro "Transformer" – Future ft. Nicki Minaj "Trigger Inside" - Therapy? "Usual Suspects" – Hollywood Undead "You're Gonna Love This"- 3OH!3 "What's That Smell?" – Macabre "What Will Happen Will Happen"- Lemon Demon

Albert DeSalvo "The Boston Strangler" – Macabre "Boston Strangler (Albert DeSalvo)" – Church of Misery "Dedicated to Albert De Salvo" – Whitehouse "Dirty Water" – The Standells "Little Engine" – Eminem "Midnight Rambler" – The Rolling Stones

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 "Better Ways To Fry A Fish" - Amigo the Devil "Document: Grace Budd" – The Number Twelve Looks Like You "Fish" - Tyler, the Creator "Fishtales" – Macabre "The Gray Man (Albert Fish)" – Church of Misery "Human Consumption" - Necro "Instruments of Hell" – Exhumed "Letter to Mother" - Divine Heresy "Mr. Albert Fish (Was Children Your Favourite Dish?)" – Macabre "Mr Fish" – Sparzanza "Slaughter House" – Macabre "Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood" − Death Grips "The Werewolf of Westeria" – John 5

Lavinia Fisher "Pretty Lavinia" – American Murder Song

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. "Twistin'" – Lil Ugly Mane (featuring Denzel Curry)

G–J

John Wayne Gacy "33 Something" – Bathory "Clownin' Around" - Deer Tick "Finger Paintings of The Insane" - Acid Bath "Gacy's Lot" – Macabre "Gacy's Place" - The Mentally Ill "John Wayne Gacy" – SKYND "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." – Sufjan Stevens "Master of Brutality (John Wayne Gacy)" – Church of Misery "Melmac" - The Cribs "Panty Shot" – Mindless Self Indulgence "Pogo The Clown" – Dog Fashion Disco "Pogo The Clown" – Hubert Kah "Reign In Blood" - Necro "Stinky" – Macabre "Suffer Age" – Fear Factory "Three for Flinching (Revenge of the Porno Clowns)" – The Dillinger Escape Plan "Unaccommodating" – Eminem "Under the Floor" – Hail the Sun

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

Carl Großmann "The Sweet Tender Meat Vendor" - Macabre

Belle Gunness "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 "Most Evil (Fritz Harmann)" – Church of Misery "Warte Warte" – Macabre

John George Haigh "Acid Bath Vampire" – Macabre "Make Them Die Slowly (John George Haigh)" – Church of Misery

Robert Hansen "Butcher Baker (Robert Hansen)" – Church of Misery "Robert Hansen" – SKYND

Karla Homolka "Choking Games" − Nicole Dollanganger

Jack the Ripper "Blood Red Sandman" – Lordi "Catch Me If You Can" - Leathermouth "The Death of Jack the Ripper" – The Legendary Pink Dots "Down on Whores" – Benediction "Fall" - Eminem "In the Mind of a Lunatic" – Sigh "Jack" – Iced Earth "Jack the Knife" – The Electric Hellfire Club "Jack the Ripper" – Buckethead "Jack the Ripper" - Hobbs' Angel of Death "Jack the Ripper" – LL Cool J "Jack The Ripper" – Macabre "Jack the Ripper" – Morrissey "Jack the Ripper" – Motörhead "Jack the Ripper" – Nationalteatern "Jack the Ripper" – Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds "Jack the Ripper" – Rob Kelly "Jack the Ripper" – Screaming Lord Sutch "Jack The Ripper" – The Horrors "Jack the Ripper" – The Fuzztones "Jack the Ripper in Heaven" – Club Moral "Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter" - Epic Rap Battles of History "Killer on the Loose" - Thin Lizzy "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" – Reunion "London In Terror" - Motionless In White "Maxwell Murder" – Rancid "Music Box" - Eminem "Must be the Ganja" - Eminem "Reconstruction of the Female Anatomy" - Through the Eyes of the Dead "Respite on the Spitalfields" - Ghost "The Ripper" – Judas Priest "Saucy Jack" – Spinal Tap "She Knows" – Ne-Yo Feat. Juicy J The Somatic Defilement – Whitechapel "Tombstone Blues" − Bob Dylan "Unsolved Mysteries" – Animal Collective

K–M

Theodore Kaczynski "Body Parts" – Three 6 Mafia "Exploding Octopus" – Ill Bill "FC: The Freedom Club" – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum "I Wanna Be a Unabomber" – Donnas "Killer Kaczynski" – Mando Diao "Militia Song" – Camper Van Beethoven "Unabomber" – J. Cole "The Unabomber" – Macabre "Unabomber" – M.I.R.V. "Unabomber" – The Acacia Strain "Unabomber" – Underground Resistance "What Will Happen Will Happen" - Lemon Demon

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

Béla Kiss "Bela Kiss" – Gazpacho "Bella Kiss" – John 5 "The Kiss of Death" - Macabre

Randy Kraft "Freeway Madness Boogie (Randy Kraft)" – Church of Misery

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 Ballad of Leonard and Charles" – Exodus "The Lake Of Fire" – Macabre "Leonard's Lake" - Lil Ugly Mane "Macerate and Petrify" – Venetian Snares

Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole