# List of songs about or referencing serial killers

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
### 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
* "Hillside Strangler" – The Hollywood Squares
* "The Hillside Stranglers" – Macabre
* "I Wanna Make You Scream" – Battalion of Saints
* "Notown Blues" – The Black Lips

### 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" - Motley 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

* "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

### 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
* "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
* "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
* "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
* "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

### 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

### Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris

* "The Murder Mack" – 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

### Leonarda Cianciulli

* "Teacakes" – Macabre

### Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole

* "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" - Fantômas
* "Let's Be Bad, Henry" - the pAper chAse
* "Lucas Toole" - Downthesun
* "Murder Company" – Church of Misery
* "Serial Killer" – Macabre
* "They Like Me, They Love Me" – Jason Hill
* "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

* "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

### Richard Speck

* "Born to Raise Hell (Richard Speck)" - Church of Misery
* "Richard Speck Grew Big Breasts" – Macabre
* "What the Heck Richard Speck? (Eight Nurses You Wrecked)" – Macabre

## 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