Steven Howard Oken (January 22, 1962 – June 17, 2004) was an American spree killer who raped and murdered three women in Maryland and Maine in November 1987.

She was found by her father on the bed in her White Marsh apartment, naked, with a condiment bottle protruding from her vagina and blood streaming from her forehead.

An autopsy later revealed that she had died as the result of two contact gunshot wounds; one of the bullets entered at her left eyebrow and the other at her right ear.

[5] Following his conviction for Garvin's murder Oken pleaded guilty to killing Patricia Hirt, and received an additional life sentence.

Then-Governor Robert Ehrlich declined clemency[6][3] and on June 17, 2004, at 9:18 p.m. local time, Steven Oken was pronounced dead after his execution by lethal injection at the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore at age 42.