A list of events in 2002 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 8 — Joshua Andrews is apprehended.
- 13 — Matthew Steven Johnson is apprehended.
- 29 — Stephen Wayne Anderson died.
February[]
- 8 — Andrei Melyukh is apprehended.
- 9 — John Ingvar Lövgren died.
- 15 — Charles Jackson died.
- 22 — Robert Pickton is apprehended.
- ? — Jurijus Kadamovas is apprehended.
- ? — Iouri Mikhel is apprehended.
March[]
- 6 — Alexander Lobanov died.
- 6 — Zoltán Szabó is apprehended.
- 12 — Tracy Housel died.
- 12 — Viktor Malyuk is apprehended.
- 14 — Guy Muldavin died.
- 23 — Robert Howard is apprehended.
- 23 — Liu Mingwu is apprehended.
- 30 — John Brennan Crutchley died.
April[]
- 6 — Patricia Bentley is murdered by Charles Helem.
- 8 — Saeed Hanaei died.
- 26 — Alton Coleman died.
May[]
- 5 — Dmitry Medvedev died.
- 5 — Lucho Plátano is born.
- 8 — Yuri Ustimenko is apprehended.
- 17 — Artur Frolkov and Atso Simovich are murdered by Sergei Dovzhenko.
- 17 — Sergei Dovzhenko is apprehended.
- 28 — David Parker Ray died.
- ? — Nasser Kara is apprehended.
June[]
- 5 — Ulrich Muenstermann is apprehended.
- 7 — Maury Travis is apprehended.
- 10 — Maury Travis died.
- 21 — Lucious Boyd is sentenced to Death.
- 27 — Richard Evonitz died.
July[]
- 11 — Deborah Fornuto died.
- 16 — Vickie Dawn Jackson is apprehended.
- 17 — Nikolai Dudin is apprehended.
- 18 — Gerald Gallego died.
- 29 — David Spanbauer died.
August[]
- 1 — Leslie Burchart died.
- 14 — Quincy Allen is apprehended.
- ? — Tom Begeja died.
September[]
- 10 — Tony Lee Walker died.
- 18 — Yoshiteru Hamada died.
- 21 — Angelo Buono died.
- 24 — Robert Anthony Buell died.
October[]
- 9 — Aileen Wuornos died.
- 13 — Arlie Ray Davis died.
- 24 — John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo ("Beltway snipers") are apprehended.
- 24 — José Antonio Rodríguez Vega died.
- 25 — Jairo Humberto Giraldo is apprehended.
November[]
- 6 — Liu Mingwu died.
- 14 — Andrei Meshcheryakov is apprehended.
- 15 — Myra Hindley died.
- 22 — Konstantin Subbotin is apprehended.
December[]
Unknown[]
- ? — Durmuş Anuçin is apprehended.
- ? — Levan Aroyan is apprehended.
- ? — "Ashraf" is apprehended.
- ? — Beni Nasser Bantsiélé is born.
- ? — Vladimir Belov is apprehended.
- ? — Helfried Berger is apprehended.
- ? — Yusuf Bilgi is apprehended.
- ? — Alexander Burdenko is apprehended.
- ? — Alexander Bushuyev is apprehended.
- ? — Luis Alberto Cabrera is born.
- ? — Elias Chauke is apprehended.
- ? — Roman Emelyantsev is apprehended.
- ? — Futoshi Matsunaga is apprehended.
- ? — Volodymyr Konovalchuk is apprehended.
- ? — Dmitry Lobakin is apprehended.
- ? — Sifiso Mkhwanazi is born.
- ? — Oleg Murayenko died.
- ? — Colin Norris is apprehended.
- ? — Junko Ogata is apprehended.
- ? — Sergey Pugachev is apprehended.
- ? — José Quevedo is born.
- ? — Terry Rasmussen is apprehended.
- ? — Sérgio Brasil Rolim is apprehended.
- ? — Clyde Wilkerson is apprehended.