'Zombie' by The Cranberries - The iconic 'Zombie' by the Irish rock band is about the 1993 Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombing in Warrington, England. The terror attack killed two children.
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'Darkness' by Eminem - Eminem raps this tune from the perspective of mass murderer Stephen Paddock, who killed 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas in 2017.
'Jenny Was a Friend of Mine' by The Killers - This song by The Killers is said to be about the murder of Jennifer Levin, also known as "the Preppy Murder," in 1986.
'The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)' by Rod Stewart - The song is about a hate crime. It's based on the murder of a gay man Stewart's former keyboardist knew.
'Tom Dula' by Neil Young & Crazy Horse - The song is about the murder of a Confederate soldier named Tom Dula who was accused of murdering a woman named Laura Foster.
'Georgia Lee' by Tom Waits - This Tom Waits song is about the 1997 murder of Georgia Lee Moses, a 12-year-old black girl in Petaluma, California.
'Bullet' by The Misfits - This Misfits song is about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
'John Wayne Gacy Jr.' by Sufjan Stevens - The song is about serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who killed at least 33 boys and young men in the 1970s.
'Jenny Was a Friend of Mine' by The Killers - This song by The Killers is said to be about the murder of Jennifer Levin, also known as "the Preppy Murder," in 1986.
'Son of Sam' by Dead Boys - The punk rockers wrote this song based on the infamous serial killer David Berkowitz, better known as the Son of Sam.