A list of events in 1990 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 4 — Lucy Letby is born.
- 5 — Arthur Shawcross is apprehended.
- 16 — Stephen Snedegar died.
- 18 — Darla Ferguson is murdered by William Suff.
- 21 — Cody Legebokoff is born.
- 21 — Taunja Bennett is murdered by Keith Jesperson.
- 22 — Shim Young-gu is apprehended.
- 26 — Vernon Lee Clark is apprehended.
- ? — William Schmidt died.
February[]
- 2 — Oscar García Guzmán is born.
- 28 — Jerrid Powell is born.
March[]
- 14 — Diego Ruiz Restrepo is born.
- 19 — John Wayne Glover is apprehended.
- 31 — Alvin Andrew Kelly is apprehended.
April[]
- 1 — Robert Ben Rhoades is apprehended.
- 2 — Helmut R. is murdered by Arthur Gatter.
- 3 — Holly Suzanne Tarr is murdered by Cleophus Prince Jr..
- 4 — Debra Harris and Ambria Halliburton are murdered by Tommy Lynn Sells.
- 4 — Genevieve Zitricki is murdered by Robert Brashers.
- 5 — Anthony Keith Thurman is murdered by Andrew David Edwards.
- 17 — Kang Chang-gu is born.
- 24 — Darci Warde is allegedly murdered by Gary Ridgway (suspected victim).
- 25 — Suzanne Marie Sevakis is allegedly murdered by Franklin Delano Floyd (suspected victim).
- 26 — James Ray Cable is apprehended.
- 29 — Carol Dowd is murdered by the "Frankford Slasher".
- ? — Ray Shawn Jackson is apprehended.
- ? — Lise Roy is murdered by Camille Cléroux.
May[]
- 4 — David Morton is apprehended.
- 5 — Leonard Christopher is arrested for being the "Frankford Slasher".
- 11 — Winford Stokes died.
- 15 — Donna Perry's victim, Kathleen A. Brisbois, is found.
- 15 — Kathy Brisbois is allegedly murdered by Robert Lee Yates (suspected victim).
- 16 — Joanna Parrish is murdered by Michel Fourniret.
- 17 — Michel Fourniret's victim, Joanna Parrish, is found.
- 17 — Henry Eugene Hodges is apprehended.
- 17 — Louis Philippe died.
- 19 — David Andrew Spears is murdered by Aileen Wuornos.
- 20 — Ricky Beeks (Raymond Lamont Smith) is murdered by Jeffrey Dahmer.
- 21 — Elissa Naomi Keller is murdered by Cleophus Prince Jr..
- 22 — Arthur Gatter is apprehended.
- 24 — Christa Naujoks is murdered by Beate Schmidt.
- 28 — Sharon Taylor is murdered by Gregory Brazel.
- 31 — Charles Edmund Carskaddon is murdered by Aileen Wuornos.
June[]
- 1 — Aileen Wuornos's victim, David Spears, is found.
- 1 — Wang Xiaohua, Yang Dexiang & Huang Hanguang are executed by firing squad.
- 4 — Tony Ables is apprehended.
- 6 — Aileen Wuornos's victim, Charles Carskaddon, is found.
- 7 — Peter Siems is murdered by Aileen Wuornos.
- 17 — Michael Carl George is apprehended.
- 18 — John Edward Swindler died.
July[]
- 14 — Robert Black is apprehended.
- 21 — Lesley Warren is apprehended.
- 26 — Brian Peter Arp is apprehended.
August[]
- ? — Graham Young died.
September[]
- 1 — Fyodor Kozlov died.
- 6 — Alfredo Prieto is apprehended.
- 7 — Danny Rolling is apprehended.
- 12 — George Waterfield Russell is apprehended.
- 14 — Sergey Akimov died.
- 26 — Gregory Brazel is apprehended.
- 28 — Luciano Fernandes Gomes is born.
October[]
- 7 — Mikhail Moskalyov is apprehended.
- 9 — Takahiro Shiraishi is born.
- 11 — Michael Lefthand is apprehended.
- 18 — Rebecca Auborn is born.
- 31 — William Dean Christensen died.
November[]
- 20 — Andrei Chikatilo is apprehended.
- ? — Willie Jones is apprehended.
December[]
- 5 — Alejandro Henriquez is apprehended.
- 12 — Arthur Gatter died.
Unknown[]
- ? — Firuz Aituganov is born.
- ? — Valery Asratyan is apprehended.
- ? — William Bannister is apprehended.
- ? — Fyodor Beshnery is born.
- ? — John Edward Brewer is apprehended.
- ? — José Manuel Brito Rodríguez is apprehended.
- ? — Leroy Bullock is apprehended.
- ? — Louis Burgess is apprehended.
- ? — Antonio Busnelli is apprehended.
- ? — Rodney Cameron is apprehended.
- ? — Paul David Crews is apprehended.
- ? — Cyril Darville is apprehended.
- ? — Natan de Melo Furtado is born.
- ? — Marcelo di Pietro died.
- ? — André Esterhuizen is apprehended.
- ? — Sergey Maduev is apprehended.
- ? — Claudette Kibble is apprehended.
- ? — Diana Lumbrera is apprehended.
- ? — Donna Perry is apprehended.
- ? — Stanislav Pesterev is born.
- ? — Juan Salvo Zúñiga is apprehended.
- ? — Vitaly Serdyukov is born.
- ? — Diane Louise Spencer is apprehended.
- ? — Ivan Strack is born.