A list of events in 1987 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 15 — Edward Castro is apprehended.
February[]
- 9 — Warren James Bland is apprehended.
- 11 — Juan Guillermo Nájera Monge and Damaris Rodríguez Martínez are murdered by "El Psicópata".
- 26 — Audrey Marie Hilley died.
March[]
- 2 — Richard Macek died.
- 8 — Hensley Neville is apprehended.
- 24 — Gary Heidnik is apprehended.
- 25 — Louis Chaves is apprehended.
- 26 — Paul Rhoades is apprehended.
April[]
- 2 — Martin Lee Sanders is apprehended.
- 4 — Umberto Zadnich is apprehended.
- 6 — Donald Harvey is apprehended.
- 6 — Michael Torrence is apprehended.
- 8 — Kang Chang-gu is apprehended.
- 10 — Kathy Allen is murdered by Andrew Six.
- 10 — Ayumi Kuboki is born.
- 14 — Charles Anthony Boyd is apprehended.
- 14 — Curtis Don Brown is apprehended.
- 17 — Ann Barnes is murdered by Lorenzo Gilyard.
- 22 — Morris Solomon Jr. is apprehended.
- 23 — Lee Choon-jae's victim, Kwon Jung-bon, is found.
- 28 — Sergey Kashintsev is apprehended.
- 29 — Gilles Politi and Irmgard Mueller are murdered by François Vérove.
- 30 — Guillermo Arturo Calzada Sánchez, Rosalía Ibarra de Calzada, Guadalupe Calzada Sánchez, José de Jesús González Rolón, Federico de la Vega Lostolot, Gabriela Mondragón Vargas and Célia Campos de Klein are murdered by Adolfo Constanzo.
May[]
- 1 — Suzanne Korcz is murdered by Tommy Lynn Sells.
- 2 — Audrey Gygi is murdered by Frank A. Walls.
- 2 — Park Eun-joo is murdered by Lee Choon-jae.
- 6 — Debra Anne Stevens is murdered by Frank Duane Welch.
- 9 — Lee Choon-jae's victim, Park Eun-joo, is found.
- 17 — Eddie Mosley is apprehended.
- 20 — Leola Douglas is murdered by Anthony Kirkland.
- 25 — Paweł Tuchlin died.
- 26 — Robert Dean Weeks is apprehended.
- 29 — Louis Craine is apprehended.
- 30 — Miyuki Ishikawa died.
June[]
- 2 — Desiree Wheatley is murdered by David Wood.
- 5 — Karen Baker is murdered by David Wood.
- 6 — Michelle Walker is murdered by Patrick Baxter.
- 7 — Patrick Baxter's victim, Michelle Walker, is found.
- 15 — Catherine Clampitt is murdered by John Robinson.
- 17 — Joshua Anderson is born.
- 28 — Cheryl Lynn Vasquez-Dismukes is allegedly murdered by David Wood (suspected victim).
July[]
- 14 — Ligia Camacho Bermúdez is murdered by "El Psicópata".
- 24 — Frank A. Walls is apprehended.
- 29 — Aleksey Sukletin died.
August[]
- 4 — Howard Allen is apprehended.
- 6 — Nathaniel Code is apprehended.
- 6 — Joran van der Sloot is born.
- 12 — Raymond Eugene Brown is apprehended.
- 16 — Clinton Bankston is apprehended.
- 17 — Harrison Graham is apprehended.
- 31 — Billy Glaze is apprehended.
September[]
- 3 — Lawrence Paul Mills is born.
- 15 — Donna Lee White is killed by Dellmus Charles Colvin.
- 19 — Colin Pitchfork is apprehended.
- 22 — Darren O'Neall is apprehended.
- 25 — Gennady Mikhasevich died.
- 30 — Timothy Gribble is apprehended.
October[]
- 13 — Mark Smich is born.
- 14 — Franklin Lynch is apprehended.
- 27 — David Wood is apprehended.
- 28 — Teet Härm is apprehended.
- 29 — John Cannan is apprehended.
November[]
- 7 — Robert Maury is apprehended.
- 15 — Richard Angelo is apprehended.
- 29 — Roger Kibbe is apprehended.
December[]
- 9 — Stella Nickell is apprehended.
- 29 — Clarence Victor is apprehended.
Unknown[]
- ? — Abass Adeyemi is born.
- ? — Sergey Akimov is apprehended.
- ? — Russell M. Anderson is apprehended.
- ? — Raymond Bammy is apprehended.
- ? — Abdelaziz Bouajila is apprehended.
- ? — Robert Breton is apprehended.
- ? — Ricky Brogsdale is apprehended.
- ? — Herbert Coddington is apprehended.
- ? — Fred Howard Coffey is apprehended.
- ? — Jorge Fuentealba Plaza is born.
- ? — Rosita Garnier is apprehended.
- ? — Daniel Gingras is apprehended.
- ? — Jairo Humberto Giraldo is born.
- ? — Stanislaw Gonerka died.
- ? — Yuri Ivanov is apprehended.
- ? — Lois Jurgens is apprehended.
- ? — Dorothy Matajke is apprehended.
- ? — Thierry Paulin is apprehended.
- ? — Ivan Rodin is born.
- ? — Dayton Leroy Rogers is apprehended.
- ? — Karim Salim is born.
- ? — Ismael Antonio Sánchez is born.
- ? — Artur Strugaru is born.
- ? — Andrei Tregubenko is born.
- ? — Sherzod Zakirov is born.
- ? — Nikita Zavyazkin is born.