April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years). There are 251 days remaining.
- 1874 — Jesse Pomeroy is apprehended.
- 1888 — Bertha Whiteling is murdered by Sarah Whiteling.
- 1891 — Carrie Brown is allegedly murdered by "Jack the Ripper" (suspected victim).
- 1954 — Michael Sharp is born.
- 1958 — Steven Wright is born.
- 1961 — Orville Lynn Majors is born.
- 1962 — Andrea Matteucci is born.
- 1973 — Ed Kemper is apprehended (second and final arrest).
- 1980 — Stacy Redican and Karen Twiggs are murdered by Gerald Gallego.
- 1984 — Robert Hansen's victims, Malai Larsen and Sue Luna, are found.
- 1990 — Darci Warde is allegedly murdered by Gary Ridgway (suspected victim).
- 1997 — John Middleton receives the death penalty.
- 2009 — Nancy Cobbs is murdered by Anthony Sowell.
- 2014 — Kenan Öner is apprehended.
- 2017 — Silas Boston died.
- 2017 — Ronis de Oliveira Bastos died.
- 2017 — Jack Harold Jones died.
- 2018 — Joseph DeAngelo is apprehended.
- 2020 — Lawrence Paul Mills is apprehended.