List of songs about or referencing serial killers
This is a list of songs about or referencing to 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" – Amebix
- "The Axeman's Jazz" – Beasts of Bourbon
- "Deathjazz" – One Ton Project
- "The Mysterious Axman's Jazz (Don't Scare Me Papa)" – Joseph John Davilla
- "Axeman of New Orleans" - The Tombstones
Frankie Banker
- "Frankie and Johnny" copyrighted by Hughie Cannon and covered by at least 256 artists, including Johnny Cash and Stevie Wonder. The original artist was Mississippi John Hurt.
Elizabeth Báthory
- "An Execution" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
- "Bathe in Blood" - Evile
- "Bathory Erzsebet" – Sunn O)))
- "Bathory's Sainthood" – Boy Sets Fire
- "Beauty Through Order" – Slayer
- The 1614 album by Opera Diabolicus
- "Countess Bathory" – Venom
- "Elisabeth Bathory" – Tormentor
- "Elizabeth" – Aiden
- "Elizabeth" – Kamelot
- The whole Cruelty and the Beast album by Cradle of Filth
- "Woman of Dark Desires" – Bathory
- "Under the Twilight" – Aeon Dust
- "Elizabeth" – Ghost B.C.
- "Elizabeth" – XIII. Století
- "Rose of Pain" - X-Japan
- "Torquemada 71" - Electric Wizard
- "The Wrath of Satan's Whore" - Countess
- "The Bleeding Baroness" - Candlemass
- "Countess Erszebeth Nadasdy" - Barathrum
- "To the Memory of the Dark Countess" - Mütiilation
- "Erszebet" - Paths of Possession
- Forever Slave's Resurrection album
- "The Sonology of Sex II (La Comtesse De Sang)" - Clock DVA
- "Villa Vampiria" - God Dethroned
- "Elizabeth Bathory" - Sadistik
- The entire Die Blutgräfin album by Untoten
- "Bathory" - Katarína Knechtová
Mary Bell
- "Mary Bell" – Macabre
- "Mary Bell" – Monte Cazazza
- "Mary Bell" – Stina Nordenstam
- "Mary Bell Reprise" – Macabre
- "Look Out, Look Out" - Perfume Genius
Chris Benoit
- "Chris Benoit" - Insane Clown Posse
- "Chris Benoit (Remix)" - Insane Clown Posse, Scarface and Ice Cube
Robert Berdella
- "Diary of Torture" – Macabre
David Berkowitz
- "Cereal Killer" – Green Jellÿ
- "Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear The Voices)" – Hall & Oates
- "I Hear Black" – Overkill
- "Insane in the Brain" – Cypress Hill
- "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" – Beastie Boys
- "Jumping at Shadows" – Benediction
- "Mr. 44" – Electric Hellfire Club
- "(Sam), Son of Man" – Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids
- "Son of A Gun (David Berkowitz)" – Church of Misery
- "Son of Sam" – Dead Boys
- "Son of Sam" – Macabre
- "Son of Sam" – Neither/Neither World
- "Son of Sam" – Shinedown
- "Son of Sam" – Violent Soho
- "Death 2" - Meechy Darko
- "Summer Of Sam" - Lana Del Rey
- "Reign In Blood" - Necro
- "Son of Sam" - Elliott Smith
Michael Bethke
- "White Hen Decapitator" – Macabre
Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono
- "The Hillside Stranglers" – Macabre
- "I Wanna Make You Scream" – Battalion of Saints
- "Notown Blues" – The Black Lips
- "I'm the Hillside Strangler" - The Child Molesters
- "Hillside Strangler" - Demented Scumcats
- "Hillside Strangler" - The Hollywood Squares
- "Hillside Strangler" - The Destructors
Lizzie Borden
- "Lizzie Borden" – Chad Mitchell Trio
- "She Took An Axe" – Flotsam and Jetsam
- "Lizzie Borden" – Macabre
- "Ballad of Lizzie Borden"- Rasputina
- "Lizzy Borden"-Bukkwheat Bill
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley
- "Mother Earth" – Crass
- "No One Is Innocent" – The Sex Pistols
- "Love in a Faithless Country" – Richard Thompson
- "Suffer Little Children" – The Smiths
- "Very Friendly" – Throbbing Gristle
- "Lambs to the Slaughter" - Church of Misery
David Brom
- "David Brom Took An Axe" – Macabre
Jerry Brudos
- "Fatal Foot Fetish" – Macabre
- "Truest Shade of Crimson- Through the Eyes of the Dead
Ted Bundy
- "Ball" - T.I.
- "Blackest Eyes" - Porcupine Tree
- "Anne" - Bloodbath
- "Blow" - Tyler, the Creator
- "Bundy" – Animal Alpha
- "The Drifter" – Green on Red
- "I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)" – Church of Misery
- "Meticulous Invagination" – Aborted
- "Mr. Gore" - Blitzkid[1]
- "Murder Dividead" - Edge Of Sanity
- "The Ted Bundy Song" – Macabre
- "Ted, Just Admit It" – Jane's Addiction
- "Stay Wide Awake" – Eminem
- Black Friday - Lil Kim
- "Death 2" Meechy Darko
- "what turns you on?" - cassandra complex
- "Till Death" - Lord Infamous
- "Ted, What's the Porn Like in Heaven?" - Allusondrugs
- "Ted Bundy" - Mr. Morbid & Melph
C–F
Robert Chambers
- "Eliminator Jr." – Sonic Youth
- "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" – The Killers
- "Leave The Bourbon On The Shelf" – The Killers
- "Midnight Show" – The Killers
Mark David Chapman
- "I Just Shot John Lennon" – The Cranberries
- "Mark David Chapman" – ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- "Mark David Chapman" – Mindless Self Indulgence
- "Sign of a Madman" - Demon[2]
- "The Taste of Vinegar" - V Shape Mind
- "Murder" - David Gilmour
- "Mr. Superstar" - Marilyn Manson
- "Lamb of God" Marilyn Manson
Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
- "Dealers of Fame" - Oh, Sleeper
Richard Chase
- "Blood Sucking Freaks (Richard Chase)" – Church of Misery
- "House Sparrow" – Xiu Xiu
Andrei Chikatilo
- "Psychopathy Red" – Slayer
- "Red Ripper Blues (Andrei Chikatilo)" – Church of Misery
- "Ripper von Rostow" - Eisregen
- "The Rostov Ripper" - Corpse Cook
Seung-Hui Cho
- "Rise Up" - R. Kelly
Christopher Columbus
- "In 1492" - Traditional/Children's Song
- "Sleep Now In The Fire" - Rage Against The Machine
- "Christopher Columbus" - Burning Spear
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
- "Apartment 213" – Macabre
- "Arcarsenal" – At The Drive-In
- "Cannibal" - Kesha
- "Celebrity Cannibalism" – Creaming Jesus
- "Choklit Factory" - Marilyn Manson
- "Da Graveyard" - Big L
- "Dahmer Does Hollywood" - Amigo The Devil
- "Dahmer is Dead" – Violent Femmes
- "Dark Horse" - Katy Perry ft. Juicy J
- "Danger Zone" - Big L
- "Dirty Frank" – Pearl Jam
- "Freeze Dried Man" – Macabre
- "God Bless" – Combichrist
- "Jeffrey Dahmer" – Soulfly
- "Jeffrey Dahmer and the Chocolate Factory" - Macabre
- "Jeffrey Dahmer's Cookbook" - Fuck, I'm Dead
- "Keep it Underground" - Lords of the Underground
- "Lord Dahmer" - Final Solution
- "Marlon JD" – Manic Street Preachers
- "The Milwaukee Cannibal" – Evil Anger
- "Must Be The Ganja" - Eminem
- "Natural Born Killaz - Dr. Dre ft. Ice Cube
- "Rap, Soda y Bohemia" – Molotov
- "Room 213" – Dead Moon
- "Room 213" – Church of Misery
- "Said the Spider to the Fly" - the pAper chAse
- "Sinthasomphone" – Venetian Snares
- "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream" - Andrew Rannells
- "Still Born/Still Life" – Christian Death
- "The Ballad Of Jeffrey Dahmer" – Pinkard & Bowden
- "Tom Dahmer Mixtape Freestyle" – Necro
- "Trigger Inside" - Therapy?
- "What's That Smell?" – Macabre
- The entire album Dahmer – Macabre
- "Control" - The Black Dahlia Murder (band)
- Room 213 and Room 213(Frozen Heart Mix) by G.G.F.H.
- "To Catch A Killer" - Gorerotted
- "Dahmer and the Limbs" - Nicole Dollanganger
- Pretty Boy Swag - Tyga
- Lil Kim - Black Friday
- You're Gonna Love This - 3OH!3
- Dancin Dirty - Ludacris Ft. Chris Brown
- "Things Get Worse" - Eminem Ft. B.o.B
- "I'm On It" - J. Cole
- "Brainless" - Eminem
- "Death 2" Meechy Darko
- "Jeffrey Says"-The World Famous Crawlspace Brothers
- "Reign In Blood" - Necro
- "Siccmade" - Brotha Lynch Hung
- "KKKill the Fetus" - Esham
Laurie Dann
- "Hey Laurie Dann" – Macabre
Albert DeSalvo
- "Boston Strangler (Albert DeSalvo)" – Church of Misery
- "Dedicated to Albert De Salvo" – Whitehouse
- "Midnight Rambler" – The Rolling Stones
- "The Boston Strangler" – Macabre
- "Dirty Water" – The Standells
Melissa Drexler
- "Throw Yourself Away" – Nickelback
Tom Dula
- "Tom Dooly" – Doc Watson
- "Tom Dooly" – Kingston Trio
- "Tom Dooley" – Macabre Minstrels
- "Tom Dooly" – The Brothers Four
- "Tom Dula" – Neil Young with Crazy Horse
- "Tom Dooly" - Frank Proffitt
Mark Essex
- "Soul Discharge (Mark Essex)" – Church of Misery
Albert Fish
- "27 Needles" – John 5
- "Albert 'Cannibal' Fish" – Postmortem
- "Albert Fish/Liverwurst" – Green Jellÿ[3]
- "Albert Was Worse Than Any Fish In The Sea" – Macabre
- "Document: Grace Budd" – The Number Twelve Looks Like You
- "Fishtales" – Macabre
- "Instruments of Hell" – Exhumed[4]
- "Mr. Albert Fish (Was Children Your Favourite Dish?)" – Macabre
- "The Gray Man (Albert Fish)" – Church of Misery
- "The Werewolf of Westeria" – John 5
- "Fish" - Tyler, the Creator
- "Smell the Children" – Evil Anger
- "Mr Fish" - Sparzanza
- "Letter to Mother" - Divine Heresy
- "Secrets of Wysteria" - Steampianist
- "Human Consumption" - Necro
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
- "Pretty Boy Floyd" – Woody Guthrie
- "Pretty Boy Floyd/Stoney Point" – The Duhks
- "Pretty Boy Floyd" - Bob Dylan
G–J
John Wayne Gacy
- "33 Something" – Bathory
- "Clownin' Around" - Deer Tick
- "Gacy's Lot" – Macabre
- "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." – Sufjan Stevens
- "Master of Brutality (John Wayne Gacy)" – Church of Misery
- "Pogo The Clown" – Dog Fashion Disco
- "Pogo The Clown" – Hubert Kah
- "Suffer Age" – Fear Factory
- "Three for Flinching (Revenge of the Porno Clowns)" – The Dillinger Escape Plan
- "Johnny's in love with you" - The Bang
- "To Catch A Killer" - Gorerotted
- "Finger Paintings of The Insane" - Acid Bath
- "Gacy's Place" - The Mentally Ill
- "Serial Killers" - Cleaning of Death
- "John Wayne Gacy"-The World Famous Crawlspace Brothers
- "Reign In Blood" - Necro
- "Boogalion Mafia" - Bawdy Festival
- "Dead In The Suburbs" - Los Reactors
Ed Gein
- "Ed Gein" - Southern Hustlers Inc.
- "Ed Gein" - Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
- "Ballad of Ed Gein" – Swamp Zombies
- "Deadache" – Lordi
- "Blood Red Sandman" - Lordi
- "Dead Skin Mask" – Slayer
- "Dead Art in Plainfield" – John 5
- "Ed Gein" – Cornbugs
- "Ed Gein" – Killdozer
- "The Geins" – Macabre
- "Edward Gein" – The Fibonaccis
- "Gein With Envy" - John 5
- "In Gein We Trust" - Manilla Road
- "Nipple Belt" – Tad
- "Nothing to Gein" – Mudvayne
- "Old Mean Ed Gein" – Fibonaccis
- "Plainfield" – Church of Misery
- "Skin" – Siouxsie and the Banshees
- "Skinned" – Blind Melon
- "Sweetheart" - Died Pretty
- "The Geins" – Macabre Minstrels
- "Addicted to Vaginal Skin" – Cannibal Corpse
- "Ed Gein" - Mr. Morbid
- "Eddie's Got A Lot To Do"-The World Famous Crawlspace Brothers
Gary Gilmore
- "Bring On The Night" – The Police
- "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" – Die Toten Hosen
- "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" – The Adverts
Harvey Murray Glatman
- "Harvey Glatman (Your Soul Will Forever Rot)" – Macabre
Jack Gilbert Graham
- "There Was A Young Man Who Blew Up A Plane" – Macabre
Belle Gunness
- "Belle Gunness" – Cassius
- "Bella The Butcher" – Macabre
- "Black Widow of La Porte" – John 5
- "The Ballad Of Belle Gunness" - TJ McFarland
Fritz Haarmann
John George Haigh
- "Acid Bath Vampire" – Macabre
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
- "Hero" – Superchick
- "A New Hope" – Five Iron Frenzy
- "Cassie" – Flyleaf
- "Columind" – Filter
- "Who shot the jock?" - GrimDaze Stoners (band)
- "Völkermord" - Apostasy
- "Friend Of Mine" – Jonathan and Stephen Cohen (survivors of the columbine shooting)
- "One by One" – The Calling
- "The Anatomy of a School Shooting" – Ill Bill
- "Disposable Teens", "The Nobodies" – Marilyn Manson
- "This is Your Time" – Michael W. Smith
- "Hitmen for Hire" – Evil Anger
- "The Kinslayer" - Nightwish
- "We Hate You" - Electric Wizard
- "Pigs" - Tyler, The Creator
- "Witch Hunt" - MDFMK
- "Rampage" - Nicole Dollanganger
- "Lividity" - Nicole Dollanganger
- "Rap God", "Remember Me", "I'm Back", "The Way I Am", "White America" - Eminem
- "Rival" - Pearl Jam
- "Wicked Young Man" - Alice Cooper
- "Halt" - Rammstein
- "Strength Through Music" - Amanda Palmer
- "Hallway Homicide" - The Orwells
- "Nobody Thinks About Me" - Michale Graves
- "Pumped Up Kicks" - Foster the People
- The entire TeenWitch album by Bones
Gary M. Heidnik
- "Heidnik's House of Horrors" – Serial Killers
- "Morbid Minister" – Macabre
- "Shock Pit" - Intrinsic Action
- "Brother Bishop" - Church of Misery
James Huberty
- "McMassacre" – Macabre
- "Shotgun Boogie (James Oliver Huberty)" – Church of Misery
Jack the Ripper
- "Unsolved Mysteries" – Animal Collective
- "Blood Red Sandman" – Lordi
- "The Death of Jack the Ripper" – The Legendary Pink Dots
- "Down on Whores" – Benediction
- "In the Mind of a Lunatic" – Sigh
- "Jack" – Iced Earth
- "Jack Ripper" – Nationalteatern
- "Jack the Ripper" - Screaming Lord Sutch
- "Jack the Ripper" - Buckethead
- "Jack the Ripper" - LL Cool J
- "Jack the Ripper" – Morrissey
- "Jack the Ripper" – Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
- "Maxwell Murder" – Rancid
- "The Ripper" – Judas Priest
- The entire album The Somatic Defilement – Whitechapel
- "Jack The Ripper" – Macabre
- "Saucy Jack" – Spinal Tap
- "Reconstruction of the Female Anatomy"- Through the Eyes of the Dead
- "Jack The Ripper" - The Horrors
- "To Catch A Killer" - Gorerotted
- "Jack The Ripper" - Motorhead
- "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" - Reunion
- "Music Box" - Eminem
Jim Jones
- "Ballad of Jim Jones" – Brian Jonestown Massacre
- "Carnage in the Temple of the Damned" – Deicide
- "Guyana (Cult of the Damned)" – Manowar
- "Jim Jones Posse" – Dre Dog
- "Jimmie Jones" – The Vapors
- "Jonestown" – Concrete Blonde
- "Reverend" – Church of Misery
- "Cyanide Salvation" - Kugra
- "The Riverflow" – The Levellers
- "Jonestown Mind" – The Almighty
- "Jesus Jones" – RKP
- "Hypnotized" – Heathen (band)
- "Jonestown" - The Acacia Strain
- "Jonestown Suicide" - Nasty Nigel & The Teenage Hellcats
- "Last Call In Jonestown" - Polkadot Cadaver
K–M
Theodore Kaczynski
- "Free The Unabomber" – Code 13
- "I Wanna Be a Unabomber" – Donnas
- "Killer Kaczynski" – Mando Diao
- "FC: The Freedom Club" – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- "The Unabomber" – Macabre
- "Unabomber" – Fragile
- "Unabomber" – J. Cole
- "Unabomber" – M.I.R.V.
- "Unabomber" – The Acacia Strain
- "Unabomber" – Underground Resistance
- "Exploding Octopus" – Ill Bill
Ricky Kasso
- "Psychedelic Sacrifice" – The Electric Hellfire Club
Edmund Kemper
- "Edmund Kemper Had a Horrible Temper" – Macabre
- "Fortress/Outer Space/Forever" – System of a Down
- "Killifornia (Edmund Kemper III)" – Church of Misery
- "Urge to Kill" – Throbbing Gristle
- "Forever" – The Berzerker
- "Severed Head" – Suicide Commando
- "Temper Temper Mr. Kemper" - The Celibate Rifles
- "Abomination Unseen" - Devourment
Joachim Kroll
- "Evil Ole Soul" – Macabre
Richard Kuklinski
- "Iceman: The Ballad of Richard Kuklinski" – Bryon White and the Damn Quails
- "Lyrical Hitman (Richard Kuklinski)" – Royce Da 5'9" and Marvwon
- "The Iceman" – Macabre
Peter Kürten
- "In Germany Before the War" – Randy Newman
- "Dedicated to Peter Kurten" (entire concept album) – Whitehouse
- "Vampire of Düsseldorf" – Macabre
- "Dusseldorf Monster" - Church of Misery
Leonard Lake & Charles Ng
- "The Balled of Leonard and Charles" – Exodus
Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole
- "Murder Company" – Church of Misery
- "Serial Killer" – Macabre
- "Henry" - Os Catalepticos
- "Henry Lee Lucas" - Bizarre Scums
- "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" - Fantômas
- "Henry Lee Lucas" - Dahmer
- "Lucas Toole" - Downthesun
Marc Lépine
- "Montreal" – The Tragically Hip
- "Montreal Massacre" – Macabre
- "This Memory" – Wyrd Sisters
Locusta
- "Locusta" – Macabre
Long Island Ripper
- "Ocean Parkway" - Brent City Mafia
Jeffrey R. MacDonald
- "Killer" - Riot
Patrick Mahon
- "Dead Eyes Opened" – Severed Heads
Charles Manson & The Family
- "A Poem About An Old Prison Man" – Decapitated
- "ATWA" – System of a Down
- "Beausoleil" – Current 93
- "Bloodbath in Paradise" – Ozzy Osbourne
- "California Hippy Murders" Red River Dave McEnery
- "Charlie Manson Blues" – The Flaming Lips
- "Charlie Manson's eyes" – People Haters
- "Creepy Crawl" – Necro
- "Creepy Crawl" – Superjoint Ritual
- "Devil's Hole Girls and the Big Revolution" – Rob Zombie
- "Death Valley '69" – Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch
- "DI-1-9026" – J. G. Thirlwell
- "Do The Charles Manson" – Necro
- "Work of God" – Evil Anger
- "Love and Terror" – Krookid Hooks
- "Lunatic of God's Creation" – Deicide
- "Mister Manson" – Klaatu
- "My Monkey" - Marilyn Manson
- "Manson" – Evil Anger
- "Real Solution #9" – White Zombie
- "Reflection of Children Coming Up in the Grave" – Necro
- "Revolution Blues" – Neil Young
- "Sadie" – Alkaline Trio
- "Sharron's Fetus (The Pre-Kill)" – Necro
- "Spahn Ranch (Charles Manson)" – Church of Misery
- "Servants of Evol" – Electric Hellfire Club
- "The Infected Age" – Evil Anger
- "Reign In Blood" - Necro
Timothy McVeigh
- "Chaos Aggressor" – Hexen
- "Framed" – U.S. Bombs
- "The Ballad of Timothy McVeigh" – Snog
- "The Proud" – Talib Kweli
- "Little Timmy Scumbag" - Cruachan
- "Agent Orange" – Pharoahe Monch
Lyle and Erik Menendez
- "Hermanos Menendez" – Brujeria
- "Death 2" Meechy Darko
Josef Mengele
- "Angel of Death" - Slayer
Armin Meiwes
- "Eaten" – Bloodbath
- "Mein Teil" – Rammstein
- "The Wüstenfeld Man Eater" – Macabre
- "The Wüstenfeld Ripper" – Evil Anger
Tsutomu Miyazaki
- "Tell the World I was a Gentleman" - The Phantom Sensation
Luke Mitchell
- "Where Is She?" – The Killers
Herman Mudgett (a.k.a. H. H. Holmes)
- "Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones)" – Macabre
- "Infecting them with Falsehood" – Deeds of Flesh
- "From the Cradle to the Grave" - Havok
- "The Torture Doctor"- Alkaline Trio
- "Killer Holmes"- Elbowdrop
Herbert Mullin
- "Megalomania (Herbert Mullin)" – Church of Misery
N–R
Dennis Nilsen
- "Cranley Gardens" (Denis Nilsen) – Church of Misery
- "Killing for Company" – Swans[5]
- "You're Dying To Be With Me" – Macabre
- "Turnabout" — Moth Wranglers
Alfred Packer
- Death metal band Cannibal Corpse's 1990 debut, Eaten Back To Life is dedicated to Packer with the inscription "This Album is dedicated to the memory of Alfred Packer, The First American Cannibal (R.I.P.)"
- "In the Mountains" - Macabre
- "The Ballad of Alfred Packer" - Phil Ochs
Carl Panzram
- Experimental pop band Flare Acoustic Arts League laud the career of Mr. Panzram in the song "Reminiscenses of a Minnesota State Training School Alumni, Class of 1905" on their 2009 album, Cut.
- "Just Born Bad"-The World Famous Crawlspace Brothers
Bruce Jeffrey Pardo
- "Black Christmas" – Poly Styrene
Robert Pickton
- "Fed To The Pigs" – Devourment
- "Hooker Fortified Pork Products"- The Accüsed
- "Pigfarm" – Mad Sin
- "Le Seigneur des Agneaux" – Exterio
Christopher Peterson
- "Shotgun Peterson" – Macabre
James Edward Pough
- "James Pough, What the Hell Did You Do?" – Macabre
Dorothea Puente
- "Dorthea's Dead Folks Home" – Macabre
Dennis Rader
- "Bind Torture Kill" – Suffocation
- "Bind, Torture and Kill" – Suicide Commando
- "Raider II" - Steven Wilson
- "B.T.K." - Church of Misery
- "BTK" - Exodus
Gilles de Rais
- "Into the Crypts of Rays" – Celtic Frost
- "Tritt Ein" – Saltatio Mortis
- The whole Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder album by Cradle of Filth
- "The Black Knight" – Macabre
- "The Window" - The Black Dahlia Murder
- "Barbazul versus el amor letal" - Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota
Daniel Rakowitz
- "Is It Soup Yet?" – Macabre
Richard Ramirez
- "Going Going Gone" – Exodus
- "Killer" – King Diamond
- "Night Stalker" – Macabre
- "Night Stalker" – Super Heroines
- "The Night Stalker" – Bewitched
- "Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes" - Sun Kil Moon
- "Where Evil Dwells (Richard Ramirez)" – Church of Misery
- "Nightstalker" - Impact Unit
- "Noche Acosador" – John 5
- "Rock Around The Clock, Richard Ramirez" - Adolf Sasquatch
- "See You In Disneyland" - Adolf Sasquatch
- "Jack the Knife" - The Electric Hellfire Club
- "Ramirez" - The Acacia Strain
- "Shut Up And Spoon Me"-The World Famous Crawlspace Brothers
- "Knight Stalker" - Shadow Project
- "Smooth Criminal" - Michael Jackson
Elliot Rodger
- "Supreme Gentleman" - The RoBBa
Gary Ridgway
- "Deep Red Bells" – Neko Case
- "Green River" – Church of Misery
- "The Green River Murderer (He's Still Out There)" – Macabre
- "Ozzie" - Green_River_(band)
- "I Wanna Know What Love Is" - Julie Ruin
- "Dumpsites" - Jakprogresso
S
Issei Sagawa
- "La Folie" - The Stranglers
- "Too Much Blood" - The Rolling Stones
Shankill Butchers
- "Shankill Butchers" – Sarah Jarosz
- "Shankill Butchers" – The Decemberists
Lee Sheldon
- "Folk Bloodbath" – Josh Ritter
- "Stack Shot Billy" – The Black Keys
- "Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee", "Stackerlee", "Stack O'Lee", and "Stack-a-Lee"
- "Wrong 'Em Boyo" – The Clash
Patrick Sherrill
- "Killing Spree (Postal Killer)" – Macabre
Ronald Gene Simmons
- "Holidays of Horror" – Macabre
Richard Speck
- "Born To Raise Hell" (Richard Speck) – Church of Misery
- "Richard Speck" – Mojo Nixon
- "Richard Speck" – The Viletones
- "Richard Speck" – Wesley Willis
- "The Ballad of T.V. Violence (I'm Not The Only Boy)" – Cheap Trick
- "What The Heck Richard Speck (Eight Nurses Did You Wreck)" – Macabre
- "Speck"-The World Famous Crawlspace Brothers
Brenda Spencer
- "I Don't Like Mondays" – The Boomtown Rats
- "Terrorist" – The Feederz
Charles Starkweather
- "All I Want" – Kenny Brown
- "Badlands (Charles Starkweather)" – Church of Misery
- "Hate So Real" – J Church
- "Nebraska" – Bruce Springsteen
- "We Didn't Start the Fire" - Billy Joel
- "Nebraska" - Nicole Dollanganger
Peter Stumpp
- "Werewolf of Beburg" – Macabre
Peter Sutcliffe
- "Leeds Ripper" – Throbbing Gristle
- "Leeds United" – Luke Haines
- "Night Shift" – Siouxsie and the Banshees
- "Ripping Into Pieces (Peter Sutcliffe)" – Church of Misery
- "The Ripper" – Pallas
- "Archives of Pain" - Manic Street Preachers
T–Z
Howard Unruh
- "Howard Unrah (What Have You Done Now?)" – Macabre
- "Retal" – Church of Misery
- "(R) Retaliate" - The Mark of Cain
Fred West/Rose West
- "Evil" – Interpol
- "25 Cromwell St." - Apoptygma Berzerk
Charles Whitman
- "Road To Ruin (Charles Whitman)" – Church of Misery
- "Sniper" – Harry Chapin
- "Sniper in the Sky" – Macabre
- "The Ballad of Charles Whitman" – Kinky Friedman
- "The Tower" – Insane Clown Posse
- "Charles Joseph Whitman" - Deathday AKA Deathday Party
Stanley Williams
- "Real Talk" – Snoop Dogg
Wayne Williams
- "Annie Christian" – Prince
- "Creeks" – Big Gipp and Witchdoctor
- "Wrong Man" – Deep Purple
Aileen Wuornos
- "Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wuornos)" – Church of Misery
- "Sixth Of June" – It Dies Today
- "Slut" – Evil Anger
Graham Frederick Young
- "Poison" – Macabre
- "Taste the Pain (Graham Young)" – Church Of Misery
Zodiac Killer
- "Gemini" – Slayer
- "Sick of Living (Zodiac)" – Church of Misery
- "Zodiac" – Macabre
- "Zodiac" – Melvins
- "Zodiac Shit" – Flying Lotus
- "Soul Sacrifice" – Santana
- "The Zodiac" – Kamelot
- "Venus in Furs" – Electric Wizard
- "Dear Editor" – Kamelot
- "Summer of Sam" – Lana Del Rey
- "Death 2" – Meechy Darko
- "Zodiac ( he is still out there... )" – Christian Death
- Any material by Zodiac
See also
References
Further reading
- 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)
- 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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