Today in True Crime History: January 18

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1967 — Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, is sentenced to life in prison. He murdered approximately 13 women in the Boston area over a period of two years.

2015 — Brock Turner rapes a 22-year-old student. Turner is arrested after two grad students intervene. Turner was convicted of three charges of felony sexual assault. His case became widely publicized when Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to just six months in jail. Turner lost an appeal in 2018. Judge Persky was recalled by voters the same year. In 2019, Chanel Miller, formerly only known as Emily Doe, wrote a book about her ordeal.

2016 — Daniel Leetin Shaver is shot and killed by a Philip Brailsford at a La Quinta Inn & Suites in Mesa, Arizona. Local officers were responding to a report that somebody in Shaver’s hotel had brandished a rifle. After Shaver was killed, officers discovered that the only weapon in the room was a pellet gun. Office Brailsford was charged with second-degree murder but was found not guilty by a jury. Brailsford was reinstated by the department and then granted retirement and a pension.