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

This is an incomplete list of songs, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Contents 1 Aileen Wournos 2 Albert DeSalvo 3 Albert Fish 4 Andrei Chikatilo 5 Armin Meiwes 6 Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow 7 Brenda Spencer 8 Charles Manson 9 Charles Starkweather 10 Charles Whitman 11 Christopher Peterson 12 Daniel Rakowitz 13 David Berkowitz 14 David Brom 15 Dean Corll 16 Dennis Nilsen 17 Dennis Rader 18 Dorothea Puente 19 Ed Gein 20 Edmund Kemper 21 Elizabeth Báthory 22 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold 23 Frankie Banker 24 Fritz Haarmann 25 Gary Gilmore 26 Gary M. Heidnik 27 Gary Ridgway 28 Graham Frederick Young 29 Harvey Murray Glatman 30 Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole 31 Herbert Mullin 32 Herman Mudgett 33 Howard Unruh 34 Ian Brady & Myra Hindley 35 Jack Gilbert Graham 36 Jack the Ripper 37 James Edward Pough 38 James Huberty 39 Jeffrey Dahmer 40 Jerry Brudos 41 Jim Jones 42 Joachim Kroll 43 John George Haigh 44 John Wayne Gacy, Jr. 45 Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono 46 Laurie Dann 47 Lee Sheldon 48 Leonard Lake & Charles Ng 49 Lizzie Borden 50 Marc Lépine 51 Mark Essex 52 Mary Bell 53 Michael Bethke 54 Patrick Mahon 55 Patrick Sherrill 56 Peter Kürten 57 Peter Stumpp 58 Peter Sutcliffe 59 Pretty Boy Floyd 60 Richard Kuklinski 61 Richard Ramirez 62 Richard Speck 63 Robert Berdella 64 Ronald Gene Simmons 65 Susan Atkins 66 Shankill Butchers 67 Ted Bundy 68 Theodore Kaczynski 69 Tom Dula 70 Zodiac Killer 71 See also 72 References 73 Further reading 74 Further listening (recorded compilations)

[edit] Aileen Wournos

• "Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wournos)" - Church of Misery
• "Sixth Of June" - It Dies Today

[edit] Albert DeSalvo

• "Boston Strangler (Albert DeSalvo)" - Church of Misery
• "Dedicated to Albert De Salvo" - Whitehouse
• "Midnight Rambler" - The Rolling Stones
• "The Boston Strangler" - Macabre

[edit] Albert Fish

• "Albert Was Worse Than Any Fish In The Sea" - Macabre
• "Document.Gracebudd" - The Number Twelve Looks Like You
• "Fishtales" - Macabre
• "Instruments of Hell" - Exhumed ^[1]
• "Mr. Albert Fish (Was Children Your Favourite Dish?)" - Macabre
• "Needleshark" - Unusual Suspect

[edit] Andrei Chikatilo

• "Citizen X (Erotophonophilia)" - Divine Pustulence
• "Red Ripper Blues (Andrei Chikatilo)" - Church of Misery

[edit] Armin Meiwes

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

[edit] Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow

• "03 Bonnie and Clyde" - Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé
• "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)

[edit] Brenda Spencer

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Charles Starkweather

• "All I Want" - Kenny Brown
• "Hate So Real" - J Church
• "Nebraska" - Bruce Springsteen

[edit] 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

[edit] Christopher Peterson

• "Shotgun Peterson" - Macabre

[edit] Daniel Rakowitz

• "Is It Soup Yet?" - Macabre

[edit] 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

[edit] David Brom

• "David Brom Took An Axe" - Macabre

[edit] Dean Corll

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

[edit] Dennis Nilsen

• "Killing for Company" - Swans^[2]
• "You're Dying To Be With Me" - Macabre

[edit] Dennis Rader

• "Bind Torture Kill" - Suffocation

[edit] Dorothea Puente

• "Dorthea's Dead Folks Home" - Macabre

[edit] 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

[edit] Edmund Kemper

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

• "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

[edit] 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

[edit] Fritz Haarmann

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

[edit] Gary Gilmore

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

[edit] Gary M. Heidnik

• "Morbid Minister" - Macabre

[edit] 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

[edit] Graham Frederick Young

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

[edit] Harvey Murray Glatman

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

[edit] Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole

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

[edit] Herbert Mullin

• "Megalomania (Herbert Mullin)" - Church of Misery

[edit] Herman Mudgett

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

[edit] Howard Unruh

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

[edit] Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

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

[edit] Jack Gilbert Graham

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

[edit] Jack the Ripper

• "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

[edit] James Edward Pough

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

[edit] James Huberty

• "McMassacre" - Macabre

[edit] 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 (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

[edit] Jerry Brudos

• "Fatal Foot Fetish" - Macabre

[edit] Jim Jones

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

[edit] Joachim Kroll

• "Evil Ole Soul" - Macabre

[edit] John George Haigh

• "Acid Bath Vampire" - Macabre

[edit] 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

[edit] Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono

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

[edit] Laurie Dann

• "Hey Laurie Dann" - Macabre

[edit] 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" - Nick Cave
• "Stagger Lee" - Taj Mahal
• "Stagger Lee" - The Isley Brothers
• "Stagger Lee" - Grateful Dead
• "Stagger Lee" - Woody Guthrie
• "Wrong 'Em Boyo" - The Clash

[edit] Leonard Lake & Charles Ng

• "Snuff Fetish" - Ian Brady Bunch

[edit] Lizzie Borden

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

[edit] Marc Lépine

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

[edit] Mark Essex

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

[edit] Mary Bell

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

[edit] Michael Bethke

• "White Hen Decapitator" - Macabre

[edit] Patrick Mahon

• "Dead Eyes Opened" - Severed Heads

[edit] Patrick Sherrill

• "Killing Spree (Postal Killer)" - Macabre

[edit] Peter Kürten

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

[edit] Peter Stumpp

• "Werewolf of Beburg" - Macabre

[edit] Peter Sutcliffe

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Richard Kuklinski

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

[edit] Richard Ramirez

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Robert Berdella

• "Diary of Torture" - Macabre

[edit] Ronald Gene Simmons

• "Holidays of Horror" - Macabre

[edit] Susan Atkins

• "Sadie" - Alkaline Trio

[edit] Shankill Butchers

• "Shankill Butchers" - The Decemberists

[edit] 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

[edit] Theodore Kaczynski

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

[edit] Tom Dula

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

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Serial Killer
• List of Serial Killers
• Murder ballad

[edit] References

[edit] 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, WV, 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

[edit] 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)