On this day: September 19
- 1987Victim David Knobling · Colonial Parkway murders
Attributed: Virginia State Police named Alan W. Wilmer Sr. in January 2024 after a DNA match.
- 1987Victim Robin M. Edwards · Colonial Parkway murders
Attributed: Virginia State Police named Alan W. Wilmer Sr. in January 2024 after a DNA match.
- 2002Court / trial Pierce County Superior Court, Tacoma · Robert Lee Yates Jr.
Pierce County prosecutors, who had not joined the plea deal, tried Yates in Tacoma. A jury convicted him of the aggravated murders of Melinda Mercer and Connie Ellis on September 19, 2002, and sentenced him to death on October 3.
- 2011Prison James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, Smyrna · Thomas Capano
Capano was serving his life sentence here when he was found dead in his cell at 61.