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This is a list of songs about or referencing killers. The songs are divided into groups by the last name of the killer the song is about or mentions. This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Murder ballads (135 P) P. Songs about police brutality (1 C, 45 P) Songs about prison (72 P) S. ... Colors (Ice-T song) Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)
Dance with the Devil (Immortal Technique song) Daylight (Drake song) The Death of Emmett Till; The Death of Parcy Reed; Delilah (Tom Jones song) Destroying Angels (song) Don't Take Your Guns to Town; Down by the River (Neil Young song) Down in the Willow Garden; The Downfall of William Grismond; Duncan and Brady
A murder ballad featuring styles of Americana, country, country rock, and country pop, "No Body, No Crime" is about the killing of a woman named Este, narrated by her friend who avenges her. Republic Records in partnership with MCA Nashville sent the song to US country radio on January 11, 2021, as a single from Evermore.
Within ballads, the "event song" is dedicated to narrating a particular event, and the murder ballad is a type of event song in which the event is a murder. This definition can be applied also to songs composed self-consciously within, or with reference to, the traditional generic conventions. [1]
The song was inspired by the videotaped confession to police that Robert Chambers made the morning after the death of Jennifer Levin. [3] It is a part of the Killers' alleged "Murder Trilogy", three songs detailing the murder of a girl named Jenny, [4] the other two being "Midnight Show" and "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf".
The killer’s lame excuse came in 2003 while serving a life sentence for a murder he committed in 1989. The cold case was reopened in 2016 by a new branch inside the Fremont Police Department.
"Murder Most Foul" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, the 10th and final track on his 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020). It was released as the album's lead single on March 27, 2020, through Columbia Records .