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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.
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.
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)
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971. Denied writing credit by Fox and Gimbel, Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart.
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
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 Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" is a topical song written by the American musician Bob Dylan. Recorded on October 23, 1963, the song was released on Dylan's 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin' and gives a generally factual account of the killing of a 51-year-old African-American barmaid, Hattie Carroll (née Curtis; March 3, 1911 – February 9, 1963), [1] by then 24-year-old ...
Tom Dooley" (Roud 4192) is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley").