A list of events in 2001 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 6 — Daisuke Mori is apprehended.
- 12 — Rio Alex Bulo is apprehended.
- 26 — Orhan Aksoy is apprehended.
- 30 — Alexey Ryzhkov is apprehended.
- ? — Ronald James Ward is apprehended.
February[]
- 3 — Alexander Pavlenko is apprehended.
March[]
- 7 — Maurizio Minghella is apprehended.
- 8 — Daniel O. Jones is apprehended.
- 12 — Henry Lee Lucas died.
- 21 — Nikolai Kozlenya is apprehended.
- 23 — John Sweeney is apprehended.
- ? — Krzysztof Gawlik is apprehended.
April[]
- 4 — Ramon Hernandez is apprehended.
- 13 — Émile Louis's victim, Madeleine Dejust, is identified.
- 13 — Émile Louis's 6th known victim, Jacqueline Weiss, is identified.
- 17 — William Darrell Lindsey died.
- 19 — Kathleen Folbigg is apprehended.
- ? — Vladimir Piniov died.
May[]
- 5 — Mananya Thumpong is murdered by Michel Fourniret.
- 17 — Samuel Dixon is apprehended.
- 22 — Zhang Jing is murdered by Gao Chengyong.
- 23 — Chang Lin is murdered by Gao Chengyong.
- 30 — Richard Rogers is apprehended.
June[]
- 5 — Alexander Lobanov is apprehended.
- 24 — Sergey Chyorny died.
- ? — Roger Andermatt is apprehended.
- ? — Aleksandr Artamonov is apprehended.
- ? — Kazys Jonaitis is apprehended.
July[]
- 2 — Timothy Burkhart died.
- 16 — Wu Yinghong died.
- 20 — Michael Braae is apprehended.
- 25 — Alexander Pirovskih is apprehended.
- ? — Saeed Hanaei is apprehended.
August[]
- 5 — Robert Spangler died.
- 10 — Aladár Donászi died.
- 10 — Michael Sumpter died.
- 20 — Kevin Taylor is apprehended.
- 28 — Terry Hankins is apprehended.
- 30 — Warren James Bland died.
September[]
- 6 — Petrică Ciucă is apprehended.
- 8 — Brookey Lee West is apprehended.
- 15 — Giordano Pasinelli is apprehended.
October[]
- 1 — Leroy Snyder died.
- 4 — Julio Pérez Silva is apprehended.
- 8 — Javed Iqbal died.
- 15 — Lê Thanh Vân is apprehended.
- 16 — Milena Quaglini died.
- 16 — John Taylor is apprehended.
November[]
- 5 — Susan Ibrahim died.
- 30 — Gary Ridgway is apprehended.
December[]
- 5 — Josephine Gray is apprehended.
- 27 — Toshihiko Hasegawa died.
Unknown[]
- ? — Alexey Babenko is apprehended.
- ? — Mohamed Belahrach is apprehended.
- ? — Primo Bisi is apprehended.
- ? — Gregory Bowen is apprehended.
- ? — Alexander Brendyuchkov is apprehended.
- ? — Ufuk Salih Hantal is apprehended.
- ? — James Kinney is apprehended.
- ? — Raja Kolander is apprehended.
- ? — Tibor Kruchió is apprehended.
- ? — Nikolai Kudryavtsev is apprehended.
- ? — Susan MacLeod is apprehended.
- ? — Timur Nedogon is apprehended.
- ? — Shiva Pariyar is born.
- ? — Santiago Romo is apprehended.
- ? — Mario Oscar Sallago is apprehended.
- ? — Zenon Šoblinskas is apprehended.
- ? — Masten Wanjala is born.