A list of events in 1998 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 6 — Franklin Alix is apprehended.
- ? — David Mmbengwa is apprehended.
February[]
- 2 — Manuel Delgado Villegas died.
- 12 — Oscar Sanchez Garcia is born.
- 13 — Nathaniel Cook is apprehended.
- 19 — Susumu Nakayama is apprehended.
March[]
- 1 — Tony Amati is apprehended.
- 4 — Russell Ellwood is apprehended.
- 13 — Efren Saldivar is apprehended.
- 17 — Anatoli Neželski is apprehended.
- 23 — Gerald Stano died.
- 26 — Guy Georges is apprehended.
- 30 — Judy Buenoano died.
- ? — James B. Grinder is apprehended.
April[]
- 1 — Linda Marie Maybin is murdered by Robert Lee Yates.
- 10 — Alfred Gaynor is apprehended.
- 14 — Gerald Patrick Lewis is apprehended.
- ? — Bai Baoshan died.
May[]
- 6 — Donato Bilancia is apprehended.
- 6 — Matija Sovdat is apprehended.
- 12 — Melody Ann Murfin is murdered by Robert Lee Yates.
- 20 — Eric Matthews is apprehended.
- 27 — Gary Evans is apprehended.
- ? — Yevgeny Nagorny is apprehended.
June[]
- 3 — Douglas Gretzler died.
- 10 — Vladimir Bratilov is apprehended.
- 12 — Paul Stephani died.
July[]
- 25 — Richard Eberling died.
- 29 — Joaquín Ferrándiz Ventura is apprehended.
- 31 — Jean-Marc Petroff is apprehended.
- ? — Sante Kimes is apprehended.
August[]
- 4 — Francisco de Assis Pereira is apprehended.
- 5 — James Fairweather is born.
- 13 — Waneta Hoyt died.
- 14 — Gary Evans died.
- 16 — Abdallah al-Hubal died.
September[]
- 2 — Kendall Francois is apprehended.
- 7 — Harold Shipman is apprehended.
- 22 — Bilal Musa and Susan Ibrahim are apprehended.
October[]
- 19 — Fritz Honka died.
November[]
- 3 — Wayne Adam Ford is apprehended.
- 17 — Kenneth McDuff died.
- 19 — Terry Hyatt is apprehended.
- 19 — Masamichi Ida died.
- 20 — Satish is apprehended.
- 22 — Jacques Fruminet is apprehended.
December[]
- 1 — Jamey Harris is apprehended.
- 20 — Danny Figueroa died.
Unknown[]
- ? — Alexander Artyomov is apprehended.
- ? — Konstantin Babkin is apprehended.
- ? — Andrei Barausov is sentenced to 18 years in prison.
- ? — Arthur Bomar is apprehended.
- ? — Miguel Bouchán Velázquez is apprehended.
- ? — Daniel Campos Castro is apprehended.
- ? — Donna Courtney died.
- ? — Cecil Jenkins is apprehended.
- ? — Chandrakant Jha is apprehended.
- ? — Christine Malèvre is apprehended.
- ? — Rubén Millatureo Vargas is apprehended.
- ? — Julius Mndawe is born.
- ? — Yuri Moon is apprehended.
- ? — Marie Noe is apprehended.
- ? — Gilberto Ortega Ortega is apprehended.
- ? — Amarjeet Sada is born.
- ? — Eduard Shemyakov is apprehended.
- ? — Reuben Smith is apprehended.
- ? — Bradley Steckman is apprehended.