A list of events in 1971 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 2 — Harold Jones died.
- 5 — Alexander Gerashchenko is born.
- 18 — Manuel Delgado Villegas is apprehended.
- 19 — Claude Lastennet is born.
- 20 — Robert Liberty died.
- 27 — Lam Kwok-wai is born.
February[]
- 6 — Ronald Janssen is born.
- 23 — Steven Hobbs is born.
- ? — Gerald Thomas Archer is apprehended.
March[]
- 7 — Todd Kohlhepp is born.
- 8 — Yevgeny Litovchenko is born.
- 8 — William Pierce is apprehended.
- 21 — Darren Vann is born.
- 23 — Brian Steven Smith is born.
- 28 — Alexander Pavlenko is born.
- 31 — Alexander Murylev is born.
April[]
- 2 — Lorenzo Fayne is born.
- 11 — Kathy Bilek is murdered by Karl F. Werner.
- 12 — Karl F. Werner's 3rd known victim, Kathy Bilek, is found.
- 13 — Roman Burtsev is born.
- 25 — Carol Denise Spinks is murdered by the "Freeway Phantom".
- 28 — Daisuke Mori is born.
- 30 — Gary Grant is apprehended.
- ? — Terry McDonald is allegedly murdered by Mike DeBardeleben (suspected victim).
May[]
- 12 — Clinton Bankston is born.
- 14 — Lyudmila Andaralova is murdered by Gennady Mikhasevich.
- 14 — Kiyoshi Ōkubo is apprehended.
- 17 — Elizabeth Anne Porteous is murdered by Wayne Boden.
- 18 — Wayne Boden's victim, Elizabeth Anne Porteous, is found.
- 19 — Wayne Boden is apprehended.
- 19 — Wiesław Wiszniewski is born.
- 26 — Juan Corona is apprehended.
- 26 — Susan Ibrahim is born.
- 29 — David Hilligiest and Malley Winkle are murdered by Dean Corll.
June[]
- 5 — Ramon Escobar is born.
- 6 — Vyacheslav Gibovich is born.
- 11 — Raymont Hopewell is born.
- 14 — Jamey Harris is born.
- 28 — Martha Wise died.
July[]
- 17 — Edward Paisnel is apprehended.
- 26 — Samuel Fernbach died.
- 26 — Kendall Francois is born.
- 29 — Dmitry Voronenko is born.
August[]
- 9 — Dallen Bounds is born.
- 17 — Ruben Watson (victim) is found.
September[]
- 13 — Gary Dion Davis is born.
- 16 — Orhan Aksoy is born.
- 25 — Nikolai Kozlenya is born.
- ? — Ensio Koivunen is apprehended.
October[]
- 7 — Trent Benson is born.
- 9 — Claudette Kibble is born.
- 20 — Gaddafi Farag is born.
- 25 — Nikolai Kozlenya is born.
- ? — Yuri Raevsky is apprehended.
November[]
- 8 — Ramon Hernandez is born.
- 12 — José Paz Bezerra is apprehended.
- 18 — "Alphabet murders"'s suspected victim, Carmen Colón, is found.
- 28 — Robert Wagner is born.
December[]
- 11 — James David Martin is born.
- 16 — Gustavo Romero Tercero is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — Giuseppe Belloli is apprehended.
- ? — Darrell Billingslea is born.
- ? — Jermaine Burgess is born.
- ? — Gerhard Börner is apprehended.
- ? — Tomás Maldonado Cera is born.
- ? — Jacques Coetzee is born.
- ? — Delroy Denton is born.
- ? — Eliana Goldberg Fuentes died.
- ? — Geoffrey Griffin is born.
- ? — James Gunning is born.
- ? — Jacob Isaac Henderson is born.
- ? — Hu Daoping is born.
- ? — Anthony Knoppa is apprehended.
- ? — Harry Lanham is apprehended.
- ? — Czesław Musiński is apprehended.
- ? — Javier Ortega Rojas is born.
- ? — Dennis Rader marries Paula Dietz.
- ? — Anatoly Rudnitsky is born.
- ? — Anna Villeda is born.
- ? — Boris Serebryakov died.
- ? — Antanas Varnelis is born.
- ? — Igor Yuferev is born.