World & Nation
Mitchell Carleton Sims and his girlfriend robbed and murdered a Glendale pizza deliveryman for money and the “sadistic pleasure of committing crimes,” a prosecuting attorney told a Pasadena Superior Court jury this week during opening arguments in the South Carolina man’s trial.
April 30, 1987
California
A Los Angeles police officer and his wife have been charged with masterminding an armed robbery scheme against a chain of check-cashing stores and then using bribes and intimidation in an attempt to keep an accomplice from implicating them, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.
March 28, 1992
Warren Matthew Sims, the man whom Glendale police mistakenly believed to be the “Cowboy Bandit,” has been sentenced to 92 months in federal prison, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
Jan. 25, 1995
After deliberating fewer than six hours, a Pasadena Superior Court jury convicted a South Carolina man on Wednesday of first-degree murder in the torture slaying of a Glendale pizza deliveryman.
May 21, 1987
A jury deadlock Tuesday led to a mistrial of charges that a Los Angeles police officer plotted to rob a chain of check-cashing stores where his wife once worked.
Aug. 26, 1992
Mitchell Sims, convicted in the torture-murder of a Domino’s Pizza deliveryman, was sentenced today to die in the gas chamber.
Sept. 11, 1987
A South Carolina woman and her boyfriend strangled a Glendale pizza deliveryman, then left his bound and gagged body submerged in water in their hotel bathtub “for fun and for kicks,” the prosecutor in the case said in opening statements to the jury Wednesday.
Jan. 22, 1987
A fugitive couple from South Carolina were charged in the torture slaying of pizza deliveryman John Harrigan, 21, who allegedly was lured to their Glendale motel room where he was robbed and strangled.
Dec. 17, 1985
A man and woman suspected of robbing and killing a 21-year-old pizza deliveryman in Glendale early Tuesday are also being sought in connection with a double murder and robbery last week at a South Carolina restaurant in the same pizza chain, police said Wednesday.
Dec. 12, 1985
Archives
A substantial amount of evidence and eyewitness testimony has implicated a South Carolina couple in the torture slaying of a Domino’s Pizza deliveryman Dec. 9 and the attempted murder of two other employees of the Glendale restaurant, according to court records.
Jan. 2, 1986