On this day, Jan. 10, in 1997, 3-year-old Shelby Lynne Barrackman was strangled in Houston by her grandfather because she licked the icing off of cupcakes. David Andrew Douglas, 49, a restaurant dishwasher, drank a bottle of brandy while he was baby-sitting Shelby. When he found that she had eaten the icing, Douglas went into a drunken rage.

The little girl began crying, and Douglas grabbed her neck and squeezed the life out of her.