Facts of the Crime:

Triple killer David Allen Lucas, a Casa de Oro carpet cleaner, was convicted for slashing the throats of two women and a three-year-old boy. The jury had convicted Lucas of first-degree murder in the May 4, 1979 killings of Suzanne Jacobs, 31, her son, Colin, 3, and the November 20, 1984 death of University of San Diego student Anne Catherine Swanke, 22.

On September 19, 1989, Lucas was sentenced to death in San Diego County.