List of songs about or referencing serial killers

This is a list of songs about murderers. The songs are devided into groups by the killer the song is about.

Albert De Salvo

• "The Boston Strangler" - Macrabre

Albert Fish

• "Albert Was Worse Then Any Fish In The Sea" - Macrabre
• "Document.Gracebudd" - The Number Twelve Looks Like You
• "Fishtales" - Macrabre
• "Mr. Albert Fish (Was Children Your Favourite Dish?)" - Macrabre

Armin Meiwes

• "Eaten" - Bloodbath
• "Mein Teil" - Rammstein
• "The Wüstenfeld Man Eater" - Macrabre

Charles Manson

• "Bloodbath in Paradise" - Ozzy Osborne
• "Charlie Manson's Birthday" - Otis Ball
• "Charlie Manson Blues" - Flaming Lips
• "Manson Clan" - Righteous Pigs
• "Manson Family Feud" - Diesel Queens
• "Mister Manson" - Klaatu

Charles Whitman

• "Sniper in the Sky" - Macrabre

Christopher Peterson

• "Shotgun Peterson" - Macrabre

Daniel Rakowitz

• "Is It Soup Yet?" - Macrabre

David Berkowitz

• "Ballad to the Son of Sam" - Consumers
• "Jumping at Shadows" - Benediction
• "Son of Sam" - Dead Boys
• "Son of Sam" - Elliot Smith
• "Son of Sam" - Macrabre
• "Son of Sam" - Neitherworld

David Brom

• "David Brom Took An Axe" - Macrabre

Dennis Nilsen

• "You're Dying To Be With Me" - Macrabre

Dorothea Puente

• "Dorthea's Dead Folks Home" - Macrabre

Ed Gein

• "Ballad of Ed Gein" - Swamp Zombies
• "Dead Skin Mask" - Slayer
• "Ed Gein" - Killdozer
• "Ed Gein" - Macrabre
• "Edward Gein" - The Fibonaccis
• "Nothing to Gein" - Mudvayne
• "Old Mean Ed Gein" - Fibonaccis
• "Skinned" - Blind Melon

Edmund Kemper

• "Edmond Kemper had a Horrible Temper" - Macrabre

Elizabeth Báthory

• "Báthory Aria" - Cradle of Filth
• "Bathory Erzsebet" - Sunn O)))
• "Bathory's Sainthood" - Boy Sets Fire
• "Beneath The Howling Stars" - Cradle of Filth
• "Countess Bathory" - Venom
• "Cruelty Beneath Thee Orchards" - Cradle of Filth
• "Desire in Violent Overture" - Cradle of Filth
• "Elisabeth Bathory" - Dissection
• "Elisabeth Bathory" - Tormentor
• "Elizabeth" - Kamelot
• "Lustmord and Wargasm (The Lick of Carnivorous Winds) - Cradle of Filth
• "Once Upon Atrocity" - Cradle of Filth
• "Portrait of the Dead Countess" - Cradle of Filth
• "The Twisted Nails of Faith" - Cradle of Filth
• "Thirteen Autumns and a Widow" - Cradle of Filth
• "Venus in Fear" - Cradle of Filth
• "Woman of Dark Desires" - Bathory

Fritz Haarmann

• "Fritz Haarman der Metzger" - Macrabre
• "Fritz Haarman the Butcher" - Macrabre

Gary Gilmore

• "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - The Adverts

Gary M. Heidnik

• "Morbid Minister" - Macrabre

Gary Ridgway

• "The Green River Murderer (He's Still Out There)" - Macrabre

Graham Frederick Young

• "Poison" - Macrabre

Harvey Murray Glatman

• "Harvey Glatman (Your Soul Will Forever Rot)" - Macrabre

Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole

• "Serial Killer" - Macrabre

Herman Mudgett

• "Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones)" - Macrabre

Howard Unrah

• "Howard Unrah (What Have You Done Now?)" - Macrabre

Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

• "Suffer Little Children" - The Smiths

Jack Gilbert Graham

• "There Was A Young Man Who Blew Up A Plane" - Macrabre

Jack the Ripper

• "Jack the Ripper" - Colin Meloy
• "Jack the Ripper" - Fuzztones
• "Jack the Ripper" - Gruesomes
• "Jack the Ripper" - Judas Priest
• "Jack the Ripper" - Link Ray
• "Jack the Ripper" - Macrabre
• "Jack the Ripper" - Morrissey
• "Jack the Ripper" - Nick Cave
• "Jack the Ripper" - One Way Streets
• "Jack the Ripper" - Satelliters
• "Jack the Ripper" - Screaming Lord Sutch
• "Jack the Ripper" - Sons of Krypton
• "Jack the Ripper" - Sun City Girls
• "Jack the Ripper" - The Smiths
• "The Ripper" - Headboys

James Edward Pough

• "James Pough, What the Hell Did You Do?" - Macrabre

James Huberty

• "McMassacre" - Macrabre

Jeffrey Dahmer

• "213" - Slayer
• "Ambassador Hotel" - Macrabre
• "Apartment 213" - Macrabre
• "Arc Arsenal" - At the Drive-In
• "Dahmer is Dead" - Violent Femmes
• "Freeze Dried Man" - Macrabre
• "Jeffrey Dahmer's CookBook" - Bloody Tea vs. Human Raise
• "Sinthasomphone" - Venetian Snares
• "Still Born/Still Life" - Christian Death
• "The Brain" - Macrabre
• "What's That Smell?" - Macrabre

Jerry Brudos

• "Fatal Foot Fetish" - Macrabre

Joachim Kroll

• "Evil Ole Soul" - Macrabre

John George Haigh

• "Acid Bath Vampire" - Macrabre

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

• "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." - Sufjan Stevens
• "Gacy's Lot" - Macrabre

Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono

• "I am the Hillside Strangler" - Child Molesters
• "The Hillside Stranglers" - Macrabre

Laurie Dann

• "Hey Laurie Dann" - Macrabre

Lee Sheldon

• "Stack Shot Billy" - Black Keys
• "Stagger Lee" - Bill Haley & His Comets
• "Stagger Lee" - Duke Ellington
• "Stagger Lee" - Lloyd Price
• "Stagger Lee" - Mississippi John Hurt
• "Stagger Lee" - Nick Cave
• "Stagger Lee" - Taj Mahal
• "Stagger Lee" - The Isley Brothers
• "Stagger Lee" - The Greatful Dead
• "Stagger Lee" - Woody Guthrie
• "Wrong 'Em Boyo" - The Clash

Lizzie Borden

• "Lizzie Borden" - Chad Mitchell Trio

Marc Lépine

• "Montreal Massacre" - Macrabre

Mary Bell

• "Mary Bell" - Macrabre
• "Mary Bell Reprise" - Macrabre

Michael Bethke

• "White Hen Decapitator" - Macrabre

Patrick Sherrill

• "Killing Spree (Postal Killer)" - Macrabre

Peter Kürten

• "Vampire of Dusselhorf" - Macrabre

Peter Stumpp

• "Werewolf of Beburg" - Macrabre

Richard Kuklinski

• "Kuklinski" - Fatal Riot
• "The Iceman" - Macrabre

Richard Ramirez

• "Night Prowler" - AC/DC
• "Night Stalker" - Macrabre

Richard Speck

• "Richard Speck" - Mojo Nixon
• "What The Heck Richard Speck (Eight Nurses Did You Wreck)" - Macrabre

Robert Berdella

• "Diary of Torture" - Macrabre

Ronald Gene Simmons

• "Holidays of Horror" - Macrabre

Ted Bundy

• "Meticulous Invagination" - Aborted
• "Ted, Just Admit It" - Jane's Addiction
• "The Ted Bundy Song" - Macrabre

Theodore Kaczynski

• "The Unabomber" - Macrabre

Tom Dula

• "Tom Dooly" - Brothers Four
• "Tom Dooly" - Doc Watson
• "Tom Dooly" - Kingston Trio

Zodiac Killer

• "Gemini" - Slayer
• "The Zodiac" - Silt Is...
• "Zodiac" - Macrabre
• "Zodiac Killer" - Third Sight

See Also

• Serial Killer
• List of Serial Killers
• List of lists of songs