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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.

• 1A–B
• 2C–F
• 3G–J
• 4K–M
• 5N–R
• 6S
• 7T–Z

A–B[edit]

Pekka-Eric Auvinen[edit]

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

Axeman of New Orleans[edit]

• '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[edit]

• '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^[4]
• 'The Bleeding Baroness' – Candlemass^[5]
• 'Countess Bathory' – Venom
• 'Countess Erszebeth Nadasdy' – Barathrum^[6]
• Cruelty and the Beast album by Cradle of Filth^[3]
• Die Blutgräfin album by Untoten
• 'Elizabeth' – Aiden^[6]
• 'Elizabeth' – Ghost^[6]
• Elizabeth album – Kamelot^[6]
• 'Elizabeth' – XIII. Století
• 'Elizabeth Bathory' – Sadistik
• 'Elisabeth Bathory' – Tormentor^[3]
• 'Erszebet' – Paths of Possession
• Resurrection album – Forever Slave
• 'Rose of Pain' – X-Japan^[5]
• 'Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)' - Death Grips
• 'To the Memory of the Dark Countess' – Mütiilation^[5]
• 'Torquemada 71' – Electric Wizard^[5]
• '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^[3]

Mary Bell[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Diary of Torture' – Macabre

David Berkowitz[edit]

• '.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[edit]

• '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[edit]

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

Ian Brady & Myra Hindley[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'David Brom Took An Axe' – Macabre

Jerry Brudos[edit]

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

Ted Bundy[edit]

• '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
• 'epaR' – Earl Sweatshirt
• '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
• 'Torch Song Trilogy' - Handsome Boy Modeling School^[18]
• 'Warrior' - Swollen Members
• 'We Want Cunt' – Jeffree Star
• 'Crack' – Slowthai
• 'What Turns You on?' – The Cassandra Complex

C–F[edit]

Richard Chase[edit]

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

Andrei Chikatilo[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Rise Up' – R. Kelly

Adolfo Constanzo[edit]

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

Billy Cook[edit]

• 'Riders on the Storm' – The Doors

Dean Corll[edit]

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

Jeffrey Dahmer[edit]

• '213' – Slayer^[2]
• 'Arcarsenal' – At The Drive-In
• 'Bagpipes from Baghdad' – Eminem
• 'Body Parts' – Three 6 Mafia
• 'Brainless' – Eminem
• '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 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
• '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]
• '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
• 'Trigger Inside' - Therapy?
• 'You're Gonna Love This'- 3OH!3
• 'What's That Smell?' – Macabre
• 'Now I'm High, Really High' − Three 6 Mafia

Albert DeSalvo[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Dealers of Fame' - Oh, Sleeper

Mark Essex[edit]

Voxengo Redunoise

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

Albert Fish[edit]

• '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
• 'Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood' − Death Grips

Lavinia Fisher[edit]

• 'Pretty Lavinia' – American Murder Song

Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd[edit]

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

G–J[edit]

John Wayne Gacy[edit]

• '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[edit]

• '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
• ”Ed Gein” - Twisted Insane
• '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[edit]

• '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[edit]

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

Jack Gilbert Graham[edit]

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

Grim Sleeper[edit]

• 'Twistin' – Lil Ugly Mane (featuring Denzel Curry)

Belle Gunness[edit]

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

Fritz Haarmann[edit]

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

John George Haigh[edit]

• 'Acid Bath Vampire' – Macabre

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Brother Bishop' – Church of Misery
• 'Gary Heidnik' - Skynd
• 'Morbid Minister' – Macabre

James Huberty[edit]

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

Jack the Ripper[edit]

• '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 the 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]
• 'Tombstone Blues' − Bob Dylan

Jim Jones[edit]

• '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[edit]

Theodore Kaczynski[edit]

• 'Body Parts' – Three 6 Mafia
• '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[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Evil Ole Soul' – Macabre

Richard Kuklinski[edit]

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

Peter Kürten[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 'The Balled of Leonard and Charles' – Exodus
• 'Macerate and Petrify' – Venetian Snares

Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole[edit]

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

Marc Lépine[edit]

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

Jeffrey R. MacDonald[edit]

• 'Killer' - Riot

Charles Manson & The Family[edit]

• '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[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Angel of Death' - Slayer

Herman Mudgett (a.k.a. H. H. Holmes)[edit]

• '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[edit]

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

N–R[edit]

Dennis Nilsen[edit]

• '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[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Greatest' – Eminem

Carl Panzram[edit]

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

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo[edit]

Top 3 Serial Killers

• 'Black Christmas' – Poly Styrene

Christopher Peterson[edit]

• 'Shotgun Peterson' – Macabre

Alexander Pichushkin[edit]

• 'Sewers' – Torture Killer

Robert Pickton[edit]

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

James Edward Pough[edit]

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

Dorothea Puente[edit]

• 'Dorthea's Dead Folks Home' – Macabre

Dennis Rader[edit]

• '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[edit]

• '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[edit]

• '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[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Danny Rolling' – The Murder Junkies

S[edit]

Shankill Butchers[edit]

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

Patrick Sherrill[edit]

• 'Killing Spree (Postal Killer)' – Macabre

Harold Shipman[edit]

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

Ronald Gene Simmons[edit]

• 'Holidays of Horror' – Macabre

Richard Speck[edit]

• '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[edit]

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

Charles Starkweather[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Werewolf of Bedburg' – Macabre

Peter Sutcliffe[edit]

• '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[edit]

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Howard Unruh[edit]

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

Dorángel Vargas[edit]

• 'El Comegente' - Soulfly

Fred West/Rose West[edit]

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

Charles Whitman[edit]

• '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[edit]

• 'Real Talk' – Snoop Dogg

Wayne Williams[edit]

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

Aileen Wuornos[edit]

• 'Disease of Men' – Kristin Hayter^[24]
• 'Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wuornos)' – Church of Misery
• '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[edit]

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

Zodiac Killer[edit]

• '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
• 'Nostalgia in Lemonade' − Avey Tare

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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24. ^{{cite web| work= Music & Riots | title=Lingua Ignota (aka Kristin Hayter) talked to us about sampling Aileen Wuornos, redefining “heavy” & the humans who inspire her art. | url=http://musicandriots.com/interview-with-kristin-hayter-aka-lingua-ignota1/

Further reading[edit]

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• Olive W. Burt, American Murder Ballads and their Stories, Oxford University Press, New York, 1958
• Olive W. Burt, 'Murder Ballads of Mormondom', Western Folklore, 18:2, April 1959, pp. 141–156
• Olive W. Burt, 'The Minstrelsy of Murder', Western Folklore, 17:4, October 1958, pp. 263–272
• Daniel A. Cohen, '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, '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)[edit]

• 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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