On this day: December 7

1. 1997
   Victim Melinda Mercer · Robert Lee Yates Jr.

   Last seen in Seattle the night before she was found in Tacoma.

2. 2016
   Court / trial Federal courthouse, Charleston · Charleston church shooting

   Before Judge Richard Gergel, a jury convicted him of all 33 federal counts on December 15, 2016, and voted for death on January 10, 2017; the judge formally imposed the sentence the next day.