A list of events in 1989 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 24 — Ted Bundy died.
- ? — Bert Leroy Hunter is apprehended.
- ? — Andrei Sibiryakov is apprehended.
February[]
- 20 — Bartolomeo Gagliano is apprehended.
March[]
- 25 — Anthony Sears (victim) died.
April[]
- 1 — Víctor Saúl Sauceda Galván is murdered by Adolfo Constanzo.
- 3 — Leslie Ann Noyer is murdered by Charles Stevens.
- 4 — Lin Zongcheng, Lin Benjian, Hong Minxiong and Wen Jinlong are executed by firing squad.
- 16 — Thaddeus Lewingdon died.
- 16 — Thierry Paulin died.
- 20 — Edwin Mata Madrigal and Marta Miriam Navarro Carpio are murdered by "El Psicópata".
- 25 — Delos Gedzius Sr. is allegedly murdered by Deborah Fornuto (suspected victim).
- ? — Martin Woods is apprehended.
May[]
- 3 — Paul J. Cowart is murdered by Ray and Faye Copeland (possibly killed on May 4).
- 6 — Sara Aldrete is apprehended.
- 6 — Adolfo Constanzo died.
- 24 — Stephen McCoy died.
June[]
- 1 — Stephanie Anne Isaacson is murdered by Darren Marchand.
- 6 — Ayako Nomoto is murdered by Tsutomu Miyazaki.
July[]
- 3 — Martha Johnson is apprehended.
- 3 — Viktor Metlinsky is born.
- 7 — Richard Grissom Jr. is apprehended.
- 18 — Thierry El Borgi is apprehended.
- 18 — Philippe Siauve is apprehended.
- 18 — Blanche Taylor Moore is apprehended.
- 19 — Thierry Jaouen is apprehended.
- 19 — William Paul Thompson died.
- 23 — Tsutomu Miyazaki is apprehended.
- 27 — Charles Stevens is apprehended.
August[]
- 10 — Tammy Corbett is apprehended.
- 10 — Jeffrey Feltner is apprehended.
- 29 — John Gambill died.
September[]
- 1 — Fyodor Kozlov is apprehended.
- 6 — Dorothy Williams is apprehended.
- 16 — Anatoly Slivko died.
- 20 — James Paster died.
- 29 — Dale R. Anderson is apprehended.
October[]
- 11 — "Green River Killer"'s victim, Andrea Childers is found.
- 17 — Ray Copeland and Faye Copeland are apprehended.
- ? — Johannes Mashiane died.
November[]
- 3 — Louis Craine died.
- 13 — Westley Allan Dodd is apprehended.
- 15 — Daniel Hittle is apprehended.
- 24 — Allan Legere is apprehended.
- 25 — Dmitry Gridin is apprehended.
- 25 — Xie Fuyuan and Huang Zongkun are executed by firing squad.
December[]
- 8 — David Emery Misch is apprehended.
- 30 — Louis Gaskin is apprehended.
- 30 — Paul Mason died.
Unknown[]
- ? — John Annibel is apprehended.
- ? — Edward Augustine is born.
- ? — Rostislav Boguslavsky is born.
- ? — Fortunato Botton Neto is apprehended.
- ? — Chavdar Boyadjiev is born.
- ? — Oleg Bykov is apprehended.
- ? — Konstantin Cheryomushkhin is apprehended.
- ? — Charles M. Cohen is apprehended.
- ? — Clifton Cousins is apprehended.
- ? — Sailson José das Graças is born.
- ? — Werner Ferrari is apprehended.
- ? — Manfred Fiedler is apprehended.
- ? — Margitta Fiedler is apprehended.
- ? — Nikolai Grebennikov is born.
- ? — Thomas Hawkins is apprehended.
- ? — Huang Hanguang is apprehended.
- ? — Huang Zongkun is apprehended.
- ? — Yuri Ivanov died.
- ? — Denis Kazungu is born (c.).
- ? — Vladimir Khudyakov is apprehended.
- ? — Fyodor Kozlov is sentenced to Death.
- ? — Derrick Todd Lee divorces Jacqueline Denise Sims.
- ? — Mustafa Lokono is born.
- ? — The "Manjacaze serial killer" is born.
- ? — Paul Mason is apprehended.
- ? — Naomi Easley Moore is apprehended.
- ? — Alexander Pozdnyakov is apprehended.
- ? — Byagari Praveen is born.
- ? — Craig Price is apprehended.
- ? — Michael Reeves is apprehended.
- ? — Siyamcela Sobambela is born.
- ? — Wang Xiaohua is apprehended.
- ? — Yang Dexiang is apprehended.
- ? — Xie Fuyuan is apprehended.