A list of events in 2008 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 5 — Gary Hilton is apprehended.
- 5 — Ronald Lee Moore died.
- 13 — Larry D. Hubbard died.
- 31 — Gary Hilton is sentenced to Life imprisonment in Georgia, United States.
- ? — Davey Mato Butorac is apprehended.
February[]
- 12 — David Avendaño Ballina is apprehended.
March[]
- 10 — Richard Biegenwald died.
- 10 — Bill Bradford died.
- 16 — Jeong Seong-hyeon is apprehended.
- 19 — Alexander Gerashchenko is apprehended.
- ? — Yuri Starostin is apprehended.
April[]
- 5 — Engla Juncosa Höglund is murdered by Anders Eklund.
- 13 — Nathaniel Bar-Jonah died.
- 13 — Anders Eklund's victim, Engla Juncosa Höglund, is found.
- 13 — Anders Eklund is apprehended.
- 18 — Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen Golay are apprehended.
- 22 — Daniel Lee Siebert died.
May[]
- ? — Laconia "Muggy" Brown is murdered by the "Jeff Davis 8".
- ? — Betty Neumar is apprehended.
June[]
- 4 — Anatoly Sedykh is apprehended.
- 6 — Michael Gargiulo is apprehended.
- 9 — Maria Velten died.
- 14 — Daniel Poirier is apprehended.
- 17 — Tsutomu Miyazaki died.
- 27 — Earl Daughtrey died.
- ? — Tishana Culver is murdered by Anthony Sowell.
July[]
- 1 — Clifton Bloomfield is apprehended.
- 10 — Omid Barak is apprehended.
- 10 — Isabel Padilla Maiquez died.
- 10 — Ahmad Suradji died.
- 15 — Very Idham Henyansyah is apprehended.
- ? — Daniel Steven Jones died.
August[]
- 8 — Rio Alex Bulo died.
- 12 — Leon Dorsey died.
- 29 — Ivars Grantiņš is apprehended.
September[]
- 3 — Vladimir Guryanov and Elvira Yegorycheva are apprehended.
- 27 — Zhang Youtian died.
October[]
- 2 — Pierre Bodein is sentenced to Life imprisonment.
- 6 — Ivan Panchenko is apprehended.
- 13 — Dmitry Golubev is apprehended.
- 14 — Alvin Andrew Kelly died.
- 17 — Sergey Lozovoi is apprehended.
- 21 — James Miller died.
- 25 — Giancarlo Giudice is paroled.
November[]
- 1 — Patrick Salameh is apprehended.
- 8 — Arthur Shawcross died.
- 20 — Özkan Zengin is apprehended.
- ? — Farid Baghlani is apprehended.
December[]
- 2 — Vyacheslav Solovyov died.
- 27 — Heinrich Pommerenke died.
- ? — Vladimir Dolin is apprehended.
Unknown[]
- ? — Kamal Al-Ahwal is apprehended.
- ? — André Barboza is apprehended.
- ? — Darrell Billingslea is apprehended.
- ? — Raymond Eugene Brown died.
- ? — Jermaine Burgess is apprehended.
- ? — Negru Cosmin is apprehended.
- ? — Jozef Kafrík is apprehended.
- ? — Alexander Konoplyov is apprehended.
- ? — Sergey Kopay died.
- ? — Mail Malpartida Achón died.
- ? — Oleg Petrosyan is apprehended.
- ? — Sergey Pushnin is apprehended.
- ? — Thomas Randolph is apprehended.
- ? — Kimberly Clark Saenz is apprehended.
- ? — Alexander Taran is apprehended.
- ? — Darryl Walters is apprehended.
- ? — Tommy Williams is apprehended.
- ? — Vasily Yuzepchuk is apprehended.