Hugues de la PlazaTwo years have come and gone since Hugues de la Plaza was found dead in his blood-stained Hayes Valley apartment. He had been stabbed twice in his torso and once in the throat, and the knife was nowhere to be found -- and witnesses reported the door repeatedly slamming at 2:30 in the morning. Astoundingly, the San Francisco Police Department's operating theory was suicide -- it was postulated that the 36-year-old may have taken the time to toss the knife out the window, where s
Hugues de la PlazaNot quite three years ago, dual French citizen Hugues de la Plaza was found stabbed three times in his blood-soaked Hayes Valley apartment with no knife nearby. The San Francisco Police Department, astoundingly, adopted the operating theory of suicide -- an astonishing move inaugurating a series of bungles that would culminate with a judge ordering the SFPD to hand over he key evidence in the case to French authorities, who packed it back to Paris. This was an unprecedented sla
Hugues de la PlazaThe San Francisco Examiner last week reported that newly minted Police Chief George Gascon will be making time to personally look into a case that has spurred European mothers to urge their children to avoid vacationing in San Francisco and go someplace safe -- like the Middle East. We've written plenty about the Hugues de La Plaza case -- but we'll do our best to sum it up succinctly. Nearly three years ago, dual French citizen de La Plaza was found dead in his Hayes Valley
Hugues de la PlazaNew San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon continues to prove that he certainly knows how to make a first impression (other than being spotted around town in baggy shorts and flip-flops). Yesterday, the Chronicle reported that Gascon's old boss, LAPD Chief William Bratton, has agreed send a pair of detectives to pore over the SFPD's files on the Hugues de La Plaza case.De La Plaza, you may remember, is the French dual citizen found stabbed three times in his bloody Hayes V
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