List of songs about or referencing serial killers

"Bonnie & Clyde" - Big Japan
"'97 Bonnie and Clyde" - Eminem (covered by Tori Amos)
"B&C" - Utada Hikaru
"The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" - Georgie Fame and His Blue Flames
"Bonnie and Clyde" - Belinda Carlisle
"Bonnie and Clyde" - Martina Sorbara
"Bonnie and Clyde" - Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot
"Bonnie Parker's 115th Dream" - Johnny Boy
"Bonnie Und Clyde" - Die Toten Hosen
"Demolition Lovers" - My Chemical Romance
"Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" - Merle Haggard
"Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde" - Travis Tritt
"Who Stole The Marker from The Grave Of Bonnie Parker" by Gene Summers. Issued by Domino Records, 1968 (written by Deanna Summers)

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Brenda Spencer

"I Don't Like Mondays" - The Boomtown Rats
"Terrorist" - The Feederz

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Charles Manson

"ATWA" - System of a Down
"Bloodbath in Paradise" - Ozzy Osborne
"Charles in Charge" - Ian Brady Bunch
"Charlie Manson's Birthday" - Otis Ball
"Charlie Manson Blues" - The Flaming Lips
"Death Valley '69" - Sonic Youth
"DI-1-9026" - J. G. Thirlwell
"Do The Charles Manson" - Necro
"Lunatic of God's Creation" - Deicide
"Manson Clan" - Righteous Pigs
"Manson Family Feud" - Diesel Queens
"Mister Manson" - Klaatu
"Revolution Blues" - Neil Young
"Spahn Ranch (Charles Manson)" - Church of Misery
"SST Superstar Charles Manson" - Ultraviolet Eye

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Charles Starkweather

"All I Want" - Kenny Brown
"Hate So Real" - J Church
"Nebraska" - Bruce Springsteen
"Badlands (Charles Starkweather)" - Church of Misery

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Charles Whitman

"Chest Explodes" - Bottom Feeder
"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

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David Berkowitz

"Ballad to the Son of Sam" - Consumers
"Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear The Voices)" - Hall & Oates
"I Hear Black" - Overkill
"Jumping at Shadows" - Benediction
"Mr. 44" - Electric Hellfire Club
"S.O.S." - Camarosmith
"Son of A Gun (David Berkowitz)" - Church of Misery
"Son of Sam" - Dead Boys
"Son of Sam" - Elliott Smith
"Son of Sam" - Macabre
"Son of Sam" - Neitherworld

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David Brom

"David Brom Took An Axe" - Macabre

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Dean Corll

"Candyman (Dean Corll)" - Church of Misery
"Castrated and Sodomized" - Divine Pustulence

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Dennis Nilsen

"Killing for Company" - Swans<ref>According to Michael Gira, in this documentary</ref>
"You're Dying To Be With Me" - Macabre
"Cranley Gardens" (Denis Nilsen) - Church of Misery

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Dennis Rader

"Bind Torture Kill" - Suffocation
"Bind, Torture and Kill" - Suicide Commando

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Dorothea Puente

"Dorthea's Dead Folks Home" - Macabre

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Ed Gein

"Ballad of Ed Gein" - Swamp Zombies
"Dead Skin Mask" - Slayer
"Ed Gein" - Killdozer
"Ed Gein" - Macabre
"Edward Gein" - The Fibonaccis
"Nipple Belt" - Tad
"Nothing to Gein" - Mudvayne
"Old Mean Ed Gein" - Fibonaccis
"Plainfield" - Church of Misery
"Sex Is Bad Eddie" - The Tenth Stage
"Skinned" - Blind Melon
"Young God" - Swans

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Edmund Kemper

"Edmond Kemper had a Horrible Temper" - Macabre
"Killifornia (Edmund Kemper III)" - Church of Misery
"Urge to Kill" - Throbbing Gristle

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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 Brought Thee Orchids" - Cradle of Filth
"Desire in Violent Overture" - Cradle of Filth
"Elisabeth Bathory" - Dissection
"Elisabeth Bathory" - Tormentor
"Elizabeth" - Kamelot
"Love" - Unusual Suspect
"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

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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

"A New Hope"- Five Iron Frenzy
"Cassie" - Flyleaf
"Columind" - Filter
"Disposable Teens" - Marilyn Manson
"Friend Of Mine" - Jonathan and Stephen Cohen
"One by One" - The Calling
"The Fight Song" - Marilyn Manson
"The Kinslayer" - Nightwish
"The Nobodies" - Marilyn Manson
"This is Your Time" - Michael W. Smith
"We Don't Want To Sing Along" - Chumbawamba

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Frankie Banker

"Frankie and Johnny" - Big Bill Broonzy
"Frankie and Johnny" - Bob Dylan
"Frankie and Johnny" - Charlie Poole
"Frankie and Johnny" - Lead Belly
"Frankie and Johnny" - Mississippi John Hurt
"Frankie and Johnny" - Taj Mahal

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Fritz Haarmann

"Fritz Haarman der Metzger" - Macabre
"Fritz Haarman the Butcher" - Macabre

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Gary Gilmore

"Bring On The Night" - The Police
"Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - Die Toten Hosen
"Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - The Adverts

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Gary Ridgway

"Deep Red Bells" - Neko Case
"Green River" - Church of Misery
"Skeletons in the River" - Divine Pustulence
"The Green River Murderer (He's Still Out There)" - Macabre

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Gilles de Rais

"The 13th Caesar" - Cradle of Filth
"Corpseflower" - Cradle of Filth
"Darkness Incarnate" - Cradle of Filth
"The Death of Love" - Cradle of Filth
"Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder" - Cradle of Filth
"Honey and Sulphur" - Cradle of Filth
"In Grandeur and Frankincense Devilment Stirs" - Cradle of Filth
"Midnight Shadows Crawl to Darken Counsel with Life" - Cradle of Filth
"Shat Out of Hell" - Cradle of Filth
"Sweetest Maleficia" - Cradle of Filth
"Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt" - Cradle of Filth
"Tiffauges" - Cradle of Filth
"Tragic Kingdom" - Cradle of Filth
"Into the Crypts of Rays" - Celtic Frost

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Graham Frederick Young

"Poison" - Macabre
"Taste the Pain (Graham Young)" - Church Of Misery

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Harvey Murray Glatman

"Harvey Glatman (Your Soul Will Forever Rot)" - Macabre

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Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole

"Murder Company" - Church of Misery
"Serial Killer" - Macabre

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Herbert Mullin

"Megalomania (Herbert Mullin)" - Church of Misery

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Herman Mudgett

"Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones)" - Macabre

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Howard Unruh

"Howard Unrah (What Have You Done Now?)" - Macabre
"Retal" - Church of Misery

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Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

"Mother Earth" - Crass
"Suffer Little Children" - The Smiths
"Very Friendly" - Throbbing Gristle

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Jack Gilbert Graham

"There Was A Young Man Who Blew Up A Plane" - Macabre

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Jack the Ripper

"I'm the Woman Who Killed Jack the Ripper" - Scary Bitches
"Jack" - Iced Earth
"Jack Ripper" - Nationalteatern
"Jack the Ripper" - AFI
"Jack the Ripper" - Colin Meloy
"Jack the Ripper" - Deja Voodoo
"Jack the Ripper" - Fuzztones
"Jack the Ripper" - Gruesomes
"Jack the Ripper" - Judas Priest
"Jack the Ripper" - Link Wray
"Jack the Ripper" - Macabre
"Jack the Ripper" - Morrissey
"Jack the Ripper" - Motörhead
"Jack the Ripper" - My Chemical Romance
"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 Horrors
"Maxwell Murder" - Rancid
"The Ripper" - Headboys
"The Ripper" - Judas Priest

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James Edward Pough

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

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James Huberty

"McMassacre" - Macabre
"Shotgun Boogie (James Oliver Huberty)" - Church of Misery

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Jeffrey Dahmer

"213" - Slayer
"Ambassador Hotel" - Macabre
"Apartment 213" - HotrodboB
"Apartment 213" - Macabre
"Arc Arsenal" - At the Drive-In
"Cold" - Unusual Suspect
Dahmer, 2001 album by Macabre
"Dahmer is Dead" - Violent Femmes
"Dirty Frank" - Pearl Jam
"Freeze Dried Man" - Macabre
"Jeffrey Dahmer's CookBook" - Bloody Tea vs. Human Raise
"Room 213" - Dead Moon
"Room 213 (Jeffrey Dahmer)" - Church of Misery
"Sinthasomphone" - Venetian Snares
"Still Born/Still Life" - Christian Death
"The Ballad Of Jeffrey Dahmer" - Pinkard & Bowden
"The Brain" - Macabre
"Tom Dahmer Mixtape Freestyle" - Necro
"What's That Smell?" - Macabre

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Jim Jones

"Ballad of Jim Jones" - Brian Jonestown Massacre
"Carnage in the Temple of the Damned" – Deicide
"Guyana (Cult of the Damned)" - Manowar
"Jimmie Jones" - The Vapors
"Reverend" - Church of Misery
"The Riverflow" - The Levellers

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John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

"33 Something" - Bathory
"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

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Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono

"I am the Hillside Strangler" - Child Molesters
"The Hillside Stranglers" - Macabre

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Lee Sheldon

"Stack Shot Billy" - The Black Keys
"Stack-A-Lee" - Rudy Ray Moore
"Stagger Lee" - Bill Haley & His Comets
"Stagger Lee" - Cliff Edwards
"Stagger Lee" - Duke Ellington
"Stagger Lee" - Lloyd Price
"Stagger Lee" - Mississippi John Hurt
"Stagger Lee" - Modern Life Is War
"Stagger Lee" - Nick Cave
"Stagger Lee" - Taj Mahal
"Stagger Lee" - The Isley Brothers
"Stagger Lee" - Grateful Dead
"Stagger Lee" - Woody Guthrie
"Wrong 'Em Boyo" - The Clash

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Lizzie Borden

"Lizzie Borden" - Chad Mitchell Trio
"Oh, Mother Borden" - The Dubious Brothers
"She Took An Axe" - Flotsam and Jetsam

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Marc Lépine

"Montreal" - The Tragically Hip
"Montreal Massacre" - Macabre
"This Memory" - Wyrd Sisters

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Mark Essex

"Soul Discharge (Mark Essex)" - Church of Misery

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Mary Bell

"Mary Bell" - Macabre
"Mary Bell" - Monte Cazazza
"Mary Bell" - Stina Nordenstam
"Mary Bell Reprise" - Macabre

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Patrick Mahon

"Dead Eyes Opened" - Severed Heads

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Patrick Sherrill

"Killing Spree (Postal Killer)" - Macabre

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Peter Kürten

"Dedicated To Peter Kürten (entire concept album)" - Whitehouse
"Vampire of Dusseldorf" - Macabre

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Peter Sutcliffe

"Leeds Ripper" - Throbbing Gristle
"Leeds United" - Luke Haines
"Night Shift" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
"Ripping Into Pieces (Peter Sutcliffe)" - Church of Misery

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Pretty Boy Floyd

"Pretty Boy Floyd" (written by Jimmy Velvit) - The original Jimmy Velvit
"Pretty Boy Floyd" (written by Woody Guthrie) - Woody Guthrie, The Byrds, Wall of Voodoo

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Richard Chase

"Blood Sucking Freaks (Richard Chase)" - Church of Misery

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Richard Kuklinski

"Kuklinski" - Fatal Riot
"The Iceman" - Macabre

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Richard Ramirez

"Knightstalker" - Ian Brady Bunch
"Murderous Unholy Rampage" - Divine Pustulence
"Night Prowler" - AC/DC
"Night Stalker" - Macabre
"Richard Ramirez" - Hairy Patt Band
"Nightstalker" - Impact Unit

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Richard Speck

"Richard Speck" - Mojo Nixon
"Richard Speck" - The Viletones
"Richard Speck" - Wesley Willis
"What The Heck Richard Speck (Eight Nurses Did You Wreck)" - Macabre
"Born To Raise Hell" (Richard Speck) - Church of Misery

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Shankill Butchers

"Shankill Butchers" - The Decemberists

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Ted Bundy

"I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)" - Church of Misery
"Meticulous Invagination" - Aborted
"Stripped, Raped, and Strangled" - Cannibal Corpse
"Ted, Just Admit It" - Jane's Addiction
"The Drifter" - Green on Red
"The Ted Bundy Song" - Macabre

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Theodore Kaczynski

"I Wanna Be a Unabomber" - Donnas
"Killer Kaczynski" - Mando Diao
"The Freedom Club" - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
"The Unabomber" - Macabre

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Tom Dula

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

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Zodiac Killer

"Answers In The Stars" - Unusual Suspect
"Gemini" - Slayer
"Sick of Living (Zodiac)" - Church of Misery
"The Zodiac" - Silt Is...
"Zodiac" - Macabre
"Zodiac" - Melvins
"Zodiac Killer" - Third Sight

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References

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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, Electra 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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