On this day: October 26

1. 1965
   Victim Sylvia Marie Likens · Murder of Sylvia Likens

   Born in Lebanon, Indiana, the third of five children of carnival workers. Friends called her "Cookie", and she looked out for her younger sister.

2. 1983
   Victim Pammy Annette Avent · Gary Ridgway

   Ridgway led investigators to her remains in 2003. Sources give her age as 15 or 16.

3. 1998
   Court / trial Delaware Superior Court, Wilmington · Thomas Capano

   Capano was tried before Judge William Swain Lee. After three days of deliberation, the jury convicted him of first-degree murder; he was sentenced to death, later reduced to life without parole.