List of songs about or referencing serial killers

===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 • "The Bleeding Baroness" – Candlemass • "Countess Erszebeth Nadasdy" – Barathrum • Cruelty and the Beast album by Cradle of Filth • Die Blutgräfin album by Untoten • "Elizabeth" – Aiden • "To the Memory of the Dark Countess" – Mütiilation • "The Wrath of Satan's Whore" – Countess • "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 • "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 • "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 • "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 • "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 • "Lord Dahmer" - Final Solution • "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 • "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 • "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 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 • "While You Sleep, I Destroy Your World"- Nailbomb ===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 • "Murder Castle Blues (H.H. Holmes)" – Church of Misery • "Them Dry Bones" - Macabre • "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 • "Turnabout" — Moth Wranglers • "When Lovers Die" – Children on Stun • "You're Dying To Be With Me" – Macabre ===Carl Panzram=== • "The Nobodies" - Marilyn Manson • "Reminiscences of a Minnesota State Training School Alumni, Class of 1905" – Flare Acoustic Arts League ===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 ===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 • "Lotta True Crime" - Penelope Scott • "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 • "City of Angels" - Testament • "Disappearing Syndrome" – Hail the Sun • "Godzilla" - Eminem • "Going Going Gone" – Exodus • "Kamikaze" - Eminem • "Killer" – King Diamond • "Knight Stalker" - Shadow Project • "Night Crawler" - Judas Priest • "Night Crawling" - Miley Cyrus featuring Billy Idol • "The Night Stalker" – Bewitched • "Night Stalker" – Macabre • "Night Stalker" – Super Heroines • "Noche Acosador" – John 5 • "Nocturnal Predator" - Legion of the Damned • "Ramirez" - The Acacia Strain • "The Reflecting God" - Marilyn Manson • "Richard Ramirez" - SKYND • "Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes" - Sun Kil Moon • "Smooth Criminal" - Michael Jackson • "Snake Eyes and Sissies" - Marilyn Manson • "Where Evil Dwells (Richard Ramirez)" – Church of Misery • "Your Window Is Open" – Macabre ===Gary Ridgway=== • "Come On Down" - Green River • "Deep Red Bells" – Neko Case • "Green River" – Church of Misery • "The Green River Murderer (He's Still Out There)" – Macabre • "I Wanna Know What Love Is" - Julie Ruin • "Sane vs. Normal" - Mnemic • "You Can't Slip" - Sir Mix A Lot ===Danny Rolling=== • "Danny Rolling" – The Murder Junkies ==S–Z==

===Shankill Butchers=== • "Shankill Butchers" – The Decemberists • "Shankill Butchers" – Sarah Jarosz ===Harold Shipman=== • "Doctor Death ((Harold Shipman))" - Church of Misery • "Lips of Ashes" – Porcupine Tree • "What About Us?" - The Fall ===Peter Stumpp=== • "1589" - Powerwolf • "Werewolf of Bedburg" – Macabre === Peter Sutcliffe === • "Archives of Pain" - Manic Street Preachers • "The Chapeltown Rag" - Slipknot • "Leeds Ripper" – Throbbing Gristle • "Leeds United" – Luke Haines • "Night Shift" – Siouxsie and the Banshees • "The Ripper" – Pallas • "Ripper" - The Exploited • "Ripping Into Pieces (Peter Sutcliffe)" – Church of Misery === Jack Unterweger === • "Disappearing Syndrome" – Hail the Sun ===Joseph Vacher=== • "The Ripper Tramp from France" - Macabre ===Dorángel Vargas=== • "El Comegente" - Soulfly ===Fred West/Rose West=== • "25 Cromwell St." - Apoptygma Berzerk • "Evil" – Interpol • "Strip the Soul" - Porcupine Tree ===Wayne Williams=== • "Aquemini" - Outkast • "Atlanta, GA" - Shawty Lo feat. Gucci Mane, The-Dream, and Ludacris • "the ends" - Travis Scott feat. André 3000 • "Growing Pains" - Ludacris feat. Fate Wilson and Keon Bryce • "Thought Process" - Goodie Mob feat. André 3000 ===Aileen Wuornos=== • "Aileen" – Willam • "Aileen Wuornos" – SKYND • "Disease of Men" – Kristin Hayter • "Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wuornos)" – Church of Misery • "For I Am the Light (And Mine Is the Only Way Now)" - Kristin Hayter • "Holy Is the Name (Of My Ruthless Axe)" − Kristin Hayter • "If the Poison Won't Take You My Dogs Will" – Kristin Hayter • "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" – Flatbush Zombies • "Gemini" – Slayer • "Nostalgia in Lemonade" − Avey Tare • "Sick of Living (Zodiac)" – Church of Misery • "Venus in Furs" – Electric Wizard • "The Zodiac" – Kamelot • "Zodiac" – Macabre • "Zodiac" – Melvins • "Zodiac" - Six Feet Under • "Zodiac (He Is Still Out There.....)" – Christian Death • "Zodiac Shit" – Flying Lotus ==See also==

• 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)