A list of events in 1997 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 2 — Major Morris is sentenced to Life imprisonment.
- 17 — Jüri Mosin is apprehended.
- 23 — Randy Greenawalt died.
February[]
- 4 — John Williams Jr. (suspect) is apprehended.
- 6 — Michael Carl George died.
- ? — Fortunato Botton Neto died.
- ? — Vladimir Retunsky is apprehended.
March[]
- 7 — Yuri Artamonov is apprehended.
April[]
- 3 — Laura Smither is murdered by William Reece.
- 3 — Bradley Edwards's victim, Ciara Glennon, is found.
- 4 — Jacqueline Weiss is murdered by Émile Louis.
- 6 — Dimitris Vakrinos is apprehended.
- 7 — Alis Johns is apprehended.
- 10 — Lindsey Robert Rose is apprehended.
- 11 — Andrew Six is apprehended.
- 20 — Laura Smither's victim, William Reece, is found.
- 23 — Andrew Urdiales is apprehended.
- 30 — Ahmad Suradji is apprehended.
- ? — Jacques Coetzee died.
May[]
- 2 — Walter Hill died.
- 6 — Elton Manning Jackson is apprehended.
- 12 — Dimitris Vakrinos died.
- 16 — Valdek Laas is apprehended.
- 21 — Frederick Cox is apprehended.
- 21 — Igor Yuferev is apprehended.
June[]
- 16 — Gerd Wenzinger died.
- 25 — Paul Dennis Reid is apprehended.
- 28 — Shinichiro Azuma is apprehended.
- ? — Michael Swango is apprehended.
July[]
- 1 — Oleg Rylkov is apprehended.
- 21 — Aleksandr Komin is apprehended.
- 21 — Kimberly McCarthy is apprehended.
- 22 — Gholamreza Khoshroo Kurdieh is apprehended.
August[]
- 2 — Antonis Daglis died.
- 5 — Charles Duffy is apprehended.
- 20 — Andrew Six died.
- 22 — Gholamreza Khoshroo Kurdieh died.
- 23 — Regina Kaye is apprehended.
September[]
- 5 — Patrice Alègre is apprehended.
- 5 — Bai Baoshan is apprehended.
- 17 — Benjamin Atkins died.
- 17 — Brydon Brandt is apprehended.
- ? — Mariusz Sowiński is apprehended.
October[]
- 1 — Ricardo Caputo died.
- 15 — John Rodney McRae is apprehended.
- ? — Sukhwinder Dhillon is apprehended.
- ? — András Pándy is apprehended.
November[]
- 14 — Daniel Blank is apprehended.
- 19 — Michael Sharp died.
December[]
- 12 — James Phillip Barnes is apprehended.
- 30 — Kim Sun-ja died.
- ? — Alexander Ershov is apprehended.
- ? — Alun Kyte is apprehended.
Unknown[]
- ? — Jahallah Al-Bashir is apprehended.
- ? — Jahallah Al-Bashir died.
- ? — Yuri Artamonov is apprehended.
- ? — Jack Bokin is apprehended.
- ? — Dorothy Booth is murdered by Kimberly McCarthy
- ? — Calogero Consales is apprehended.
- ? — Marius Csampar is apprehended.
- ? — Marvin Gabrion is apprehended.
- ? — James Hicks is apprehended.
- ? — Joseph Kondro is apprehended.
- ? — Orville Lynn Majors is apprehended.
- ? — Robert Molinari is apprehended.
- ? — Eugene Protsman is apprehended.
- ? — William Reece is apprehended.
- ? — Darryl Turner is apprehended.
- ? — Mikhail Vedekhin is apprehended.
- ? — Tony Vick is apprehended.
- ? — Gerd Wenzinger is apprehended.
- ? — Stewart Wilken is apprehended.
- ? — Cameron Wilson is born.