A list of events in 1952 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 16 — Genzo Kurita is apprehended.
- 22 — Robledo Puch is born.
February[]
March[]
- 11 — Giancarlo Giudice is born.
- 15 — William Wickline is born.
- 30 — Michel Asanovic is born.
April[]
- 15 — Donald Harvey is born.
May[]
- 3 — Martin Lee Sanders is born.
- 9 — Stanley Buckowski died.
- 17 — William Zamastil is born.
- 27 — Robert Lee Yates is born.
June[]
- 18 — Florentino Lluva Macho died.
July[]
- 19 — Lucius Crawford is born.
- 31 — Hadden Clark is born.
August[]
- 2 — Major Morris is born.
- 24 — Patrick Tissier is born.
- 29 — Benedito Moreira de Carvalho is apprehended.
- 30 — Lonnie Franklin is born.
September[]
- 2 — Larry D. Hubbard is born.
- 5 — Adnan Çolak is born.
- 8 — Joachim Knychała is born.
- 25 — Patrick Mackay is born.
- 29 — Arthur Gary Bishop is born.
- 29 — Fred Waterfield is born.
October[]
- 31 — Robert Charles Browne is born.
November[]
- 15 — Nikolai Dzhumagaliev is born.
December[]
- 11 — Robert Boyd Rhoades is born.
- 12 — Ahmad Suradji is born.
- 21 — Larry Eyler is born.
- 28 — Leon Means is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — Apollonia Angiulli is born.
- ? — Celso Luis Arrastía is born.
- ? — Aleksandr Artamonov is born.
- ? — Michel Asanovic is born.
- ? — Irene Becker is born.
- ? — Gregory Bowman is born.
- ? — José Manuel Brito Rodríguez is born.
- ? — Paul David Crews is born.
- ? — Curtis Grantham is born.
- ? — Anna Kuzmina is born.
- ? — Alfred Lundy is born.
- ? — John William Peek is born.
- ? — Yuri Raevsky is born.
- ? — Kampatimar Shankariya is born (c.).