A list of events in 1996 related to serial killers.
January[]
- ? — Elfriede Blauensteiner is apprehended.
- ? — Gerald Parker is apprehended.
February[]
- 23 — William Bonin died.
- 27 — Kenneth Granviel died.
March[]
- 1 — Ferdinand Gamper died.
- 2 — Robert Silveria is apprehended.
- 16 — Karl Myers is apprehended.
- 26 — Joseph Kallinger died.
- 31 — William Guatney died.
April[]
- 3 — Ted Kaczynski is apprehended.
- 6 — Robert Shulman is apprehended.
- 9 — Vladimir Stankevich is apprehended.
- 13 — Jacques Coetzee is apprehended.
- 16 — Anatoly Onoprienko is apprehended.
- 19 — John Martin Scripps died.
- 20 — Khalil Wheeler-Weaver is born.
- 23 — Patricia Scott is murdered by Gregory Clepper.
May[]
- 2 — Gregory Clepper is apprehended.
- 16 — Michael Allen Lyons is murdered by Robert Boyd Rhoades.
- 17 — Robert Boyd Rhoades's victim, Michael Allen Lyons, is found.
- 20 — Efraín Sarmiento Cuero is born.
- 29 — Andre Luiz Cassimiro is apprehended.
- ? — Donald Broadnax is apprehended.
June[]
- 3 — Francisco del Junco is apprehended.
- 18 — Patrick Schaff is apprehended.
- 18 — Heriberto Seda is apprehended.
July[]
- 1 — James Randall is apprehended.
- 3 — Herb Baumeister died.
- 17 — Roman Burtsev is apprehended.
- 17 — John Joubert died.
- ? — Leslie Burchart is apprehended.
- ? — Rik Debrabandere is apprehended.
August[]
- 2 — Sergey Golovkin died.
- 6 — Siswanto is apprehended.
- 8 — Anthony Balaam is apprehended.
- 13 — Marc Dutroux is apprehended.
September[]
- 6 — Michael Torrence died.
- 6 — Douglas Wright died.
- 15 — Ottis Toole died.
- 20 — Robert Dean Weeks died.
October[]
- 4 — Larry Bell died.
- 4 — Valery Skoptsov is apprehended.
- 10 — William Sapp is apprehended.
- 26 — Mauricio Cordero López and Ileana Álvarez Blandón are murdered by "El Psicópata".
- 30 — Alexander Spesivtsev is apprehended.
- 31 — Vincent Groves died.
November[]
- ? — Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde are apprehended.
December[]
- 15 — Joe Metheny is apprehended.
- ? — William Darrell Lindsey is apprehended.
Unknown[]
- ? — Rahiied A. is born.
- ? — Rudzija Adzovic is apprehended.
- ? — Sergio Armendaríz Diaz is apprehended.
- ? — Valery Asratyan died.
- ? — Oto Biederman is apprehended.
- ? — Luis Cabrera is apprehended.
- ? — Juan Contreras Jurado is apprehended.
- ? — Mustafa Khader is apprehended.
- ? — Mustafa Khader died.
- ? — Anatolijus Kiseliovas is apprehended.
- ? — Kristen Gilbert is apprehended.
- ? — Ramon Rogers is apprehended.
- ? — Abdul Latif Sharif is apprehended.
- ? — Jack Owen Spillman is apprehended.
- ? — Marthinus Stapelberg is apprehended.
- ? — Astini Sumiasih is apprehended.
- ? — Floyd Tapson is apprehended.
- ? — Martha U. is apprehended.
- ? — Dmitry Verichev is born.