Published by admin on Wed, 08/09/2023 - 11:23am
The last man to be convicted for murder in Custer County has died, it was announced early last week.
Samuel Boston, 60, died July 29 in a Sioux Falls Hospital. The cause of death was not listed.
Boston was sentenced at the Custer County Courthouse to life in prison in 2001 for the 2000 murder of Richard Gitter at Valley Hi Apartments in Custer.
Gitter was found naked and unresponsive in Boston’s bathtub in March of 2000. Boston had placed the call to 911 and claimed that Gitter was inebriated and had passed out on Boston’s couch before he placed him in the tub.