A list of events in 1977 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 1 — Patrick Soultana is born.
- 10 — Waldo Grant is apprehended.
- 12 — Samuel Cooper is born.
- 23 — Andrei Melyukh is born.
- 30 — Christine Freund is murdered by David Berkowitz.
February[]
- 5 — Lyle Brummett is apprehended.
- 19 — Christopher Worrell died.
March[]
- 27 — Richard Dorrough is born.
- 30 — Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah are apprehended.
- ? — Robert Askins is apprehended.
April[]
- 10 — Aletha Byrd is murdered by Montie Rissell.
- 13 — Warren Harris is apprehended.
- 16 — Valentina Suriani and Alexander Esau are murdered by David Berkowitz.
- 17 — Stacie L. Swofford is murdered by Lorenzo Gilyard.
- 20 — Karen Nills, Robert Nills and Sandra Harris are murdered by Ted Carr in 1977.
- 20 — Ted Carr died.
- 22 — Chantal Gras is murdered by Émile Louis.
- 23 — Patricia Atkinson is murdered by Peter Sutcliffe.
- 29 — Montie Rissell's victim, Gladys Ross Bradley, is found.
- 29 — Zdzisław Marchwicki died.
- ? — Gladys Ross Bradley is murdered by Montie Rissell.
May[]
- 5 — Jeanette McClelland is murdered by Montie Rissell.
- 11 — Sergey Chyorny is born.
- 14 — Mykhailo Feskiv is born.
- 17 — Montie Rissell's victim, Aletha Byrd, is found.
- 18 — Montie Rissell is apprehended.
June[]
- 24 — Stewart Weldon is born.
- 26 — Jayne MacDonald is murdered by Peter Sutcliffe.
July[]
- 1 — Patrick Kearney is apprehended.
- 4 — Kim Do-ryong is born.
- ? — Russell Maurice Johnson is apprehended.
August[]
- 10 — David Berkowitz is apprehended.
- 19 — Lemuel Smith is apprehended.
- 30 — Ralph Faba is born.
September[]
- 1 — Charlie Davis is apprehended.
October[]
- 4 — Leola Bryant is discovered.
- 15 — Michael Madison is born.
- 24 — Anatoly Biryukov is apprehended.
- 29 — William Dale Archerd died.
November[]
- 15 — Larry Ralston is apprehended.
- 20 — Oleg Petrosyan is born.
December[]
- 4 — Anjette Lyles died.
- 10 — Rocky Beamon is born.
- 15 — Nikolay Sakharov is apprehended.
- 28 — Andrei Evseev is apprehended.
Unknown[]
- ? — George Adorno is apprehended.
- ? — Aleksandr Borotbenko is born.
- ? — Konstantin Burov is born.
- ? — Nuri Çalışır is born.
- ? — Negru Cosmin is born.
- ? — Stanislaw Gonerka is apprehended.
- ? — Helal Hossain is born.
- ? — Hwang Ho-jin is born.
- ? — Irina Ikonnikova is apprehended.
- ? — Yuri Ivanov is apprehended.
- ? — Vladimir Kabanets is born.
- ? — Jacqueline López González is born.
- ? — Susan MacLeod is born.
- ? — Yevgeny Melnikov is born.
- ? — Pamela Selani is born.
- ? — Ray Dell Sims is apprehended.
- ? — Russell Smrekar is apprehended.
- ? — Mahin Qadiri is born.
- ? — Karel Šťovíček is born.
- ? — Laura Taroni is born.
- ? — Yevgeny Trotsenko is born.
- ? — Nikolai Trunov is apprehended.
- ? — Juan Sebastían Zabielewicz is born.