On this day: February 16

  1. 1978
    Victim William Kindred · John Wayne Gacy
  2. 1997
    Victim Sarah Jackson · Paul Dennis Reid

    A Captain D's employee.

  3. 1997
    Victim Steve Hampton · Paul Dennis Reid

    The Captain D's manager.

  4. 2016
    Court / trial Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center · Lonnie Franklin Jr.

    Franklin's trial opened in February 2016. The jury convicted him of ten murders and one attempted murder on May 5, 2016, and recommended death; he was formally sentenced on August 10, 2016.