The State - News from March 28, 1986

A convicted murderer should get the death penalty for killing an 81-year-old woman during a 1981 burglary, a judge ruled. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Don Turner said Stephen Wayne Anderson, 32, should be returned to Death Row at San Quentin State Prison. In refusing to overturn the jury’s verdict reached last month, Turner cited the methodical style of the killing. Anderson initially was sentenced to death in 1981. The state Supreme Court overturned the sentence in 1985 and said a jury must find that Anderson specifically intended to kill Elizabeth Lyman during a burglary at her home in Bloomington, about five miles south of San Bernardino.