A list of events in 1988 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 18 — Megan Waterman (Victim) is born.
- 20 — Timothy Wilson Spencer is apprehended.
February[]
- 4 — Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha is born.
- 7 — David James Roberts is apprehended.
March[]
- 1 — Viktor Sayenko is born.
- 2 — Dmitry Kopylov is born.
- 23 — John Charles Bolsinger died.
April[]
- 1 — Alexander Bychkov is born.
- 2 — Robert Berdella is apprehended.
- 3 — Victoria Bell is murdered by William Choyce.
- 3 — John Cannan's victim, Shirley Banks, is found.
- 12 — Farida Hammiche is murdered by Michel Fourniret.
- 14 — Gary Robbins died.
- 20 — Igor Suprunyuk is born.
- 25 — Nikolai Fefilov is apprehended.
May[]
- 19 — José Antonio Rodríguez Vega is apprehended.
- 23 — Elaine Shereika is murdered by Alexander Wayne Watson.
- 26 — Bai Jie is murdered by Gao Chengyong.
- 30 — Gary Ridgway's victim, Debra Lorraine Estes, is found.
June[]
- 10 — Arthur Gary Bishop died.
July[]
- 1 — Gary Heidnik is sentenced to Death.
- 3 — Wesley Peery died.
- ? — Pedro Roberto da Silva is apprehended.
- ? — Marcelo di Pietro is apprehended.
August[]
- 9 — Pierre Chanal is apprehended.
- 18 — Jorge Avila-Torrez is born.
- 20 — Víctor Julio Hernández Sánchez and Aracelly María Astúa Calderón are murdered by "El Psicópata".
- 27 — Lázaro Barbosa de Sousa is born.
- 30 — Nikolai Fefilov died.
September[]
- 1 — Vincent Groves is apprehended.
- 2 — Kim Sun-ja is apprehended.
- 26 — Sergey Shcherbakov died.
- ? — Derrick Todd Lee marries Jacqueline Denise Sims.
October[]
- 28 — Antonio Rodriguez is born.
November[]
- 9 — Richard Choque is born.
- 10 — James Antonio Barnes is apprehended.
- 25 — Catherine Tan Mui Choo died.
- 29 — Steven Pennell is apprehended.
December[]
- 9 — Sek Kim Wah died.
- 12 — Bruce Davis died.
- ? — Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood ("The Lethal Lovers") are apprehended.
Unknown[]
- ? — Michael Abner is apprehended.
- ? — Marcelo Antelo is born.
- ? — Celso Luis Arrastía is apprehended.
- ? — Joel Brewer is born.
- ? — Stanley Chatman is born.
- ? — Ronis de Oliveira Bastos is born.
- ? — Michael Downes is apprehended.
- ? — Fabricio Eloy Ludeña is born.
- ? — Mark Ford is born.
- ? — Curtis Grantham is apprehended.
- ? — Mikhail Makarov died.
- ? — Alexander Mitroshenkov is apprehended.
- ? — Zokhid Otaboev is born.
- ? — Roula Pispirigou is born.
- ? — Raymond Rafuse is apprehended.
- ? — Andre Rand is apprehended.
- ? — Maxim Semyonov is born.
- ? — Xolisa Sojada is born.
- ? — Michael Tenneson is apprehended.
- ? — Mariusz Trynkiewicz is apprehended.