A list of events in 2005 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 19 — Donald Beardslee died.
- 20 — Larry Bright is apprehended.
- 21 — Sergei Ryakhovsky died.
- ? — Gribaldi Handayani is apprehended.
February[]
- 25 — Dennis Rader is apprehended.
March[]
- 8 — Themba Sukude is apprehended.
- 10 — Yasunori Suzuki is apprehended.
- 15 — Peter Bryan is sentenced to Life imprisonment.
- 16 — Mohammed Bijeh died.
- 20 — Astini Sumiasih died.
- 25 — John Eichinger is apprehended.
- 29 — Terry Samuel Arnold died.
- 29 — José Vicente Matias is apprehended.
April[]
- 19 — Juan Segundo is apprehended.
- 22 — Wendy Dehoop is allegedly murdered by Israel Keyes (suspected victim).
- ? — August Watkins and Kurt Cunningham are murdered by Ronald Dominique.
May[]
- 5 — Elikutty is murdered by K P Jayanandan.
- 6 — Earl Richmond died.
- 13 — Michael Ross died.
- 16 — Gayno Smith died.
- 17 — Patricia "Trish" McDermott is murdered by Juan Covington.
- 18 — Vernon Brown died.
- 20 — Loretta Lewis is murdered by the "Jeff Davis 8".
- 25 — Andrea Arrigoni died.
- 29 — Nicolai Bonner is apprehended.
- 30 — Kim Young-soon is murdered by Jeong Nam-gyu.
- ? — William Devin Howell is apprehended.
June[]
- 6 — Norman Flowers is apprehended.
- 10 — Kim Yong-won is apprehended.
- 16 — The "Jeff Davis 8"'s victim, Ernestine Patterson, is found.
- 28 — John Rodney McRae died.
- ? — Gertraud Arzberger is apprehended.
July[]
- 12 — Juan Covington is apprehended.
- 18 — Amir Qayyum is apprehended.
- 26 — Eugene Burney is paroled.
- ? — Charles Kembo is apprehended.
August[]
- 1 — Sabine Hilschenz is apprehended.
- 9 — Abdelali Amer is apprehended.
- 29 — Anne Grigg-Booth died.
- ? — Deniz Yağmur is apprehended.
September[]
- 9 — John Wayne Glover died.
- 10 — Hu Daoping is apprehended.
- 20 — Raymont Hopewell is apprehended.
- 26 — Francisca Ballesteros is sentenced to 84 years in prison.
- ? — Alexander Astashev is apprehended.
- ? — Dmitry Kopylov is apprehended.
October[]
- 7 — David Birnie died.
- 9 — Michael Ihde died.
- 14 — Donald Miller died.
- 16 — Luis Aguilar Perez is apprehended.
- 21 — Alvin Neelley died.
- 25 — Willie Williams died.
- 26 — Lê Thanh Vân died.
November[]
- 11 — Märt Ringmaa is apprehended.
- 28 — Abdelali Amer receives the Death penalty.
- ? — Dellmus Colvin is apprehended.
- ? — Osman Bora Çuhaci is apprehended.
- ? — Robert Spahalski is apprehended.
- ? — Emanuel Lovell Webb is apprehended.
December[]
- 4 — Jesse Sumner died.
- 10 — Roberto Fernandes died.
- 25 — Muchio Fukuoka died.
- 31 — Michael Nicholaou died.
Unknown[]
- ? — Alexander Astashev is apprehended.
- ? — Antonio Gali Balaguer is apprehended.
- ? — David M. Bell is apprehended.
- ? — Vladimir Belov is sentenced to Life imprisonment.
- ? — Sergey Biryulin is apprehended.
- ? — Vasily Bolgarov is sentenced to 9 years imprisonment.
- ? — Alexander Bondarenko is apprehended.
- ? — Abdelaziz Bouajila is paroled.
- ? — Michael Fogt is apprehended.
- ? — Vyacheslav Gibovich is apprehended.
- ? — Nikolai Grebennikov is apprehended.
- ? — Vincent Hudson is apprehended.
- ? — Magomed Luguyev is apprehended.
- ? — James David Martin is apprehended.
- ? — Michael Moon is apprehended.
- ? — John William Peek is apprehended.
- ? — Sergey Pugachev died.
- ? — Dennis Rader divorces Paula Dietz.
- ? — Maxim Semyonov is apprehended.
- ? — Gheorghe Toma is apprehended.