On this day: April 18

1. 1966
   Court / trial City-County Building, Indianapolis · Murder of Sylvia Likens

   The five defendants were tried together before Judge Saul Isaac Rabb. On May 19, 1966, the jury convicted Gertrude Baniszewski of first-degree murder and Paula Baniszewski of second-degree murder; John Baniszewski Jr., Richard Hobbs and Coy Hubbard were convicted of manslaughter.

2. 1995
   Other Geary Lake, Kansas · Oklahoma City bombing

   McVeigh and Nichols assembled the bomb in the rented truck at Geary Lake on April 17-18, 1995.

3. 1998
   Victim Randi Mebruer · Derrick Todd Lee

   She disappeared from her Zachary home; her body was never found.

4. 2000
   Arrest Near Kaiser Aluminum Mead Works · Robert Lee Yates Jr.

   Police pulled Yates over on April 18, 2000, as he drove to his job at Kaiser Aluminum in Mead, just before he reached the plant. He was charged the next day with killing Jennifer Joseph.