A list of events in 1973 related to serial killers.
January[]
February[]
- 4 — Dale Hausner is born.
- 9 — Anatoly Utkin is apprehended.
- 13 — Herbert Mullin is apprehended.
- 15 — Vadim Ershov is born.
- 23 — Ronnie Johns is born.
- 28 — Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña is born.
March[]
- 29 — Edward George McGregor is born.
April[]
- 2 — Wanda Walkowicz is murdered by the "Alphabet Killer".
- 3 — The "Alphabet Killer"'s victim, Wanda Walkowicz, is found.
- 4 — Margaret Hittle and Henry Hittle are murdered by Daniel Hittle.
- 6 — Vladimir Krishtopa is born.
- 7 — Gerard Schaefer is apprehended.
- 7 — Abdufatto Zamanov is born.
- 9 — Kevin Bailey is murdered by Randy Kraft.[citation needed]
- 9 — Bakhtiyor Matyakubov is born.
- 11 — Larysa Siarhiejeva is murdered by Gennady Mikhasevich.
- 12 — Jeremy Bryan Jones is born.
- 19 — Jerry Fletcher is apprehended.
- 20 — Clarnell Elizabeth Strandberg is murdered by Ed Kemper.
- 20 — Lynda Gough is murdered by Fred and Rose West (c.).
- 21 — Sara Taylor "Sally" Hallett is murdered by Ed Kemper.
- 24 — Ed Kemper is apprehended (second and final arrest).
- 27 — Timothy Joseph McGhee is born.
May[]
- 7 — Dale Scheanette is born.
- 24 — Pedro Rodrigues Filho is apprehended.
- 29 — Leesa Jo Shaner is murdered by William Zamastil.
- ? — Cai Bin is born.
June[]
- 7 — Anthony Garcia is born.
- 7 — Billy Lawrence is murdered by Dean Corll.
- 22 — Sergey Tsukanov is born.
- 29 — Rita Lorraine Jolly is allegedly murdered by Ted Bundy (suspected victim).
July[]
- 9 — Clarence Hill died.
- 19 — Jesse Sumner is apprehended.
August[]
- 1 — Darcie Jo Baum is born.
- 1 — Marc Hoffmann is born.
- 5 — Oto Biederman is born.
- 8 — Dean Corll is murdered by Wayne Henley and Henley is apprehended.
- 9 — David Brooks is apprehended.
- 11 — Giorgio Vizzardelli died.
- 13 — Lester Harrison is apprehended.
- 14 — Jacques Plumain is born.
- ? — Aleksandr Berlizov is apprehended.
September[]
October[]
- 1 — Darci Warde (victim) is born.
- 11 — Craig Price is born.
November[]
- 3 — Kimberly Clark Saenz is born.
- 6 — David Torgerson died.
- 8 — Douglas Gretzler is apprehended.
- 8 — Willie Steelman is apprehended.
- 14-15 — Karel Dvořák died.
- 18 — George Fitzsimmons is apprehended.
- 23 — John Armstrong is born.
- 25 — Albert DeSalvo died.
December[]
- 8 — Yuri Raevsky died.
- 11 — Bernard Giles is apprehended.
- 19 — Michael Sumpter is apprehended.
- 22 — Nikolai Dudin is born.
- 30 — Harry Lanham died.
- ? — Robert Smallwood is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — Juan Acevedo Agriela is born.
- ? — Zaven Almazyan died.
- ? — Joseph Kelly Banks is born.
- ? — Billy Boyette is born.
- ? — Keith Doolin is born.
- ? — Karel Dvořák is apprehended.
- ? — Richard Jameswhite is born.
- ? — Donnie Burl Lemons is apprehended.
- ? — Dmitry Lobakin is born.
- ? — Oleg Murayenko is born.
- ? — Irineu Carlos Nórdio is born.
- ? — Satish is born.
- ? — Dionny Seijas Cárdenas is born.
- ? — Renuka Shinde is born.
- ? — David Torgerson is apprehended.
- ? — Miyuki Ueta is born.
- ? — Silvano Ward Brown is apprehended.
- ? — Kiyoshi Watanabe is apprehended.