A list of events in 1980 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 8 — Jurn Norris is apprehended.
- 26 — Donald Harding is apprehended.
February[]
- 3 — Lillie Mae Curtis died.
- 5 — Patricia Martínez is born.
- 6 — John Phuko Kgabi died.
- 14 — Marie Besnard died.
- 21 — Luiz Baú is apprehended.
- 24 — Glennon Engleman is apprehended.
March[]
- 9 — Pedro López is apprehended.
- 13 — Josh Wade is born.
- 28 — Robert Joseph Zani is apprehended.
- ? — Stanley Bernson is apprehended.
April[]
- 1 — Gerald Stano is apprehended.
- 3 — John Charles Bolsinger is apprehended.
- 3 — Emy den Boer is murdered by Koos Hertogs.
- 4 — Steven John Wood is murdered by William Bonin.
- 5 — Koos Hertogs's victim, Emy den Boer, is found.
- 24 — Stacy Redican and Karen Twiggs are murdered by Gerald Gallego.
- 29 — Darin Lee Kendrick is murdered by William Bonin.
- 29 — Alicja M. is murdered by Paweł Tuchlin.
- ? — David Courtney is apprehended.
- ? — Donna Courtney is apprehended.
May[]
- 1 — William Bonin's victim, Darin Kendrick is found.
- 10 — Lawrence Eugene Sharp is murdered by William Bonin.
- 12 — Alexander Hernandez is born.
- 17 — Martyn Duffey is murdered by Dennis Nilsen.
- 17 — Marcelo Fabián Gómez is born.
- 17 — David Lefèvre is born.
- 18 — Eric Middlebrooks is allegedly murdered by Wayne Williams (suspected victim).
- 18 — William Bonin's victim, Lawrence Sharp is found.
- 19 — Joanna Messina is murdered by Robert Hansen.
- 19 — Sean King is allegedly murdered by William Bonin (suspected victim).
- 20 — William Bonin's suspected victim, Sean King is found.
- 22 — Richard Cottingham is apprehended.
- 23 — David Van Dyke is apprehended.
- 26 — Stephen Wayne Anderson is apprehended.
June[]
- 2 — Steven Wells is murdered by William Bonin.
- 3 — William Bonin's victim, Steve Wells is found.
- 7 — Linda Aguilar is murdered by Gerald Gallego.
- 11 — William Bonin is apprehended.
July[]
August[]
- 7 — Anthony LaRette is apprehended.
- 11 — Carol Bundy is apprehended.
- 12 — Doug Clark is apprehended.
- 15 — Gerald Stanley is apprehended.
- 25 — Fernando Caro is apprehended.
September[]
- 1 — Raúl Osiel Marroquín is born.
- 16 — Wilson Chouest is apprehended.
- 23 — Alexander Greba is born.
- 30 — Luis Gregorio Ramírez Maestre is born.
October[]
- 3 — Koos Hertogs is apprehended.
- 7 — Juan Arreola-Murillo is born.
- 28 — Joseph Paul Franklin is apprehended.
- 30 — Joseph Ture Jr. is apprehended.
November[]
- 17 — Gerald Gallego and Charlene Gallego (the "Love Slave Killers") are apprehended.
- 26 — Malcolm Robbins is apprehended.
December[]
- 11 — Peter Barber died.
- 25 — Aleksandr Rubel is born.
- 26 — Richard Chase died.
Unknown[]
- ? — Patrick Franklin Andrews is born (c.).
- ? — Sergio Armendaríz Diaz is born.
- ? — Andrés Castillo is born.
- ? — Carroll Cole is apprehended.
- ? — Osman Bora Çuhaci is born.
- ? — Eliomar Ferreira da Silva is born.
- ? — "Abu Tubar" died.
- ? — Ali Kaya is born.
- ? — Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour is born.
- ? — Lamont Marshall is apprehended.
- ? — Oleg Mayer is born.
- ? — Aaron Michael is born.
- ? — Diego Fernando Ramírez is born.
- ? — Altemio Sanchez marries Kathleen Sanchez.
- ? — Ramiro Matildes Siqueira is apprehended.
- ? — Jason Thornburg is born.
- ? — Alexander Yurpalov is apprehended.