A list of events in 2016 related to serial killers.
January
- 6 — Andrés Castillo is apprehended.
- 7 — Oscar Bolin died.
- 12 — Robert Black died.
- 12 — Samuel Evans died.
- 21 — Derrick Todd Lee died.
February
March
- 5 — Alexey Mikhalenya is apprehended.
- 16 — Gregory Bowman died.
- 28 — Winston Moseley died.
April
- 1 — Diego Verdugo-Sanchez is murdered by Aaron Saucedo.
- 16 — Madison Nygard is attacked by Jeffrey Willis.
- 21 — "Nikopol Maniac" is apprehended.
- 23 — Yevgeny Chuplinsky is apprehended.
- 28 — Kelly Cochran is apprehended.
May
- 4 — He Tiandai died.
- 5 — Marie Noe died.
- 14 — Phyllis Payne is murdered by Billy Chemirmir.
- 29 — Kim Hak-bong is apprehended.
June
- 5 — Phoebe Perry is murdered by Billy Chemirmir.
- 6 — Candice Cunningham is murdered by Shawn Michael Grate.
- 12 — Atalay Filiz is apprehended.
July
- 12 — Clyde Wilkerson died.
August
- 26 — Gao Chengyong is apprehended.
September
- 13 — Shawn Michael Grate is apprehended.
October
- 25 — Elizabeth Wettlaufer is apprehended.
November
- 3 — Todd Kohlhepp is apprehended.
- 5 — Ivan Kulesh died.
- 12 — James Dale Ritchie died.
- 13 — André Pauletto died.
December
- 5 — Zoltán Szabó died.
- 15 — Theodore Johnson is apprehended.
- 22 — Bradley Edwards is apprehended.
- 26 — Murad Nurmagomedov is apprehended.
- 30 — John Arthur Ackroyd died.
- ? — Silas Boston is apprehended.
Unknown
- ? — Rooplall Abrahim is apprehended.
- ? — Herbert Arnold is apprehended.
- ? — Yurgis Bagayuv is apprehended.
- ? — Fyodor Beshnery is apprehended.
- ? — Man Bahadur Budhathoki is apprehended.
- ? — Rik Debrabandere died.
- ? — Jairo Díaz Aragón is apprehended.
- ? — Andrzej G. is apprehended.
- ? — Gregory Green is apprehended.
- ? — Farzad Nasser Jourshari is apprehended.
- ? — Yevgeny Kolesnikov died.
- ? — Shannon Dawn Rayner is apprehended.
- ? — Denis Zubov is apprehended.