Your ringmasters...At a ridiculously well-attended press conference this afternoon in front of the San Francisco Chronicle, a histrionic red-headed woman named Deborah Perez announced that she had solved perhaps the greatest mystery in the history of Bay Area crime. Her father, she claims, was the Zodiac killer. His name was Guy Ward Hendrickson, apparently a Jekyll-and-Hyde type and a carpenter who died of cancer 26 years ago.
Perez claims to ha
Questions arise...The carnival-like Wednesday press conference in which Deborah Perez claimed her father was the Zodiac Killer -- alongside her lawyer Kevin McLean (disbarred this month), other lawyer William DeGarmo (who paid out $54,332 in a Securities and Exchange Commission settlement regarding insider trading) and a handwriting expert who also stands to gain as a producer of her pending documentary -- certainly brings to mind the phrase "guilt by association." And never mind the fact that
Who's your daddy?Chris Sorensen, a mortgage bank and real estate expert who says he recently employed Deborah Perez, claims the woman who on Wednesday told throngs of reporters her stepfather was the Zodiac Killer last year told him she was actually the illegitimate daughter of President John F. Kennedy. "Long story short, she trapped me outside my office and told me she wanted me to be aware that there was going to be a lot of publicity surrounding her very, very soon," recalls Sorensen of an e
Wanna mulligan on this one? We're trying not to give a hard time to our journalistic colleagues more than we should. You don't need to be religious nor Christian -- and we're neither -- to glean the wisdom of Matthew 7:1 -- "Judge not, that ye not be judged." That being said, our relatives from Brooklyn (that'd be all of them) would put it this way: "I'm entitled to my own goddamn opinions." So we're going with the latter and wondering -- out loud -- what the hell the Examiner was thinking when
So far, two have given it a shot -- but if credulous local media outlets have anything to say about it, then we should probably enlist more.The past several months have seen two disbarred lawyers presenting dubious Zodiac revelations via the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, and the stories have provided just the kind of undeserved attention that encourages Zodiac obsessives and publicity weasels to keep it up.
First, the Examiner published a c
A police mugshot of Richard RamirezThe San Francisco Police Department just issued an advisory stating that a press conference to be held at 3 p.m. today at the Hall of Justice will explore the possibility that serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka "the Night Stalker," (so named for his propensity to break into victims' homes in the wee hours) was responsible for an unsolved Bay Area murder that occurred in 1984. The majority of Ramirez' killings took place in and around Los Angeles. Ramirez, wh
Anna McCarthyDid you hang around the 'Loin in 1984? Does this face ring a bell?On April 10, 1984, San Francisco police found 9-year-old Mei Leung's dead body in the basement area of the residential hotel at 765 O'Farrell Street where she lived with her family. Her 8-year-old brother was the last one to see her alive -- they had walked home from a friend's house together just before the slaying. Police never found her killer. Now, two-and-a-half decades later, the SFPD say they have new DNA ev
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