Ví dụ về những kẻ giết người hàng loạt bao gồm Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Anders Behring Breivik, Timothy McVeigh, Jack Gilbert Graham, Adam Peter Lanza, Seung-Hui Cho, Devin Patrick Kelley, Eric Harris và Dylan Klebold, Julio González, Robert Steinhauser, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Matti Juhani Saari, Thomas Watt Hamilton, Tim Kretschmer, Richard Speck, Marc Lépine, Aaron Alexis, William Unek, Friedrich Leibacher, Campo Elías Delgado, Derrick Bird, Jeff Weise, Jiverly Antares Wong, Farda Gadirov, Michael McLendon, Woo Bum-kon, Martin Bryant, Ahmed Ibragimov, Alexandre Bissonnette, Baruch Goldstein, Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, Robert Bales, Jared Lee Loughner, David A. Burke, Omar Thornton, James Huberty, Andrew Kehoe, Christopher Harper, George Hennard, Stephen Paddock, Omar Mateen, Nidal Hasan, James Holmes, Dylann Mái, Andreas Lubitz, Nikolas Jacob Cruz, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Vladislav Roslyakov, Elliot Rodger , Robert Bowers, và Brenton Tarrant