A list of events in 1942 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 2 — Gen Sekine is born.
- 14 — Herman Allen is apprehended.
February[]
- 1 — Richard Steeves is born.
- 16 — Gordon Cummins is apprehended.
- 28 — Dennis Stanworth is born.
March[]
- 17 — John Wayne Gacy is born.
- 22 — Jerry Fletcher is born.
April[]
- 4 — Michel Fourniret is born.
May[]
- 1 — Major Lisenba died.
- 22 — Ted Kaczynski is born.
- 22 — Eddie Leonski is apprehended.
June[]
- 11 — Marie Becker died.
- 25 — Gordon Cummins died.
July[]
- 23 — Myra Hindley is born.
- 26 — Gary Srery is born.
August[]
- 1 — George Williams is born.
- 7 — Stella Nickell is born.
- 7 — Stanley Rice is born.
- 26 — Carol Bundy is born.
September[]
- 7 — Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández is apprehended.
- 11 — Marybeth Tinning is born.
October[]
- 5 — Bruce M. Davis is born.
- 30 — Herman Allen died.
November[]
- 9 — Eddie Leonski died.
December[]
Unknown[]
- ? — Antonio Busnelli is born.
- ? — Masamichi Ida is born.
- ? — Peppino Pisanu is born.
- ? — Siegfried Rautenberg is born.
- ? — Ward Weaver Jr. is born.