On this day: May 8

1. 1963
   Victim Beverly Florence Samans · Boston Strangler
2. 1978
   Court / trial State Supreme Court, Brooklyn · David Berkowitz

   In a Brooklyn courtroom, Berkowitz pleaded guilty before judges from Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens to all six murders and to the attempted murders. On June 12, 1978, he received the maximum of 25 years to life for each murder.

3. 1990
   Victim Rebecca "Becky" O'Connell · Donald Moeller

   A Sioux Falls girl born in Glens Falls, New York; her mother said, "She didn't deserve what happened to her."

4. 1997
   Court / trial Kidnapping trial, Mitchell · Robert Leroy Anderson

   Anderson was convicted of kidnapping Piper Streyle on May 8, 1997, and sentenced to life in prison that July.