Serial Killers

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Alcatraz: Inmates Return from Dead, Start Shit in S.F.

Because it became too expensive to house nearly 250 criminals on a rock in the middle of the ocean, Alcatraz officially shut down in 1963... or did it? And after it shut down, all of the inmates were transferred to other prisons... or were they? In the new J.J. Abrams-produced supernatural thrille ... More >>

Bouncer Laments the Lack of Maniacs at Glen Park Station

Because it became too expensive to house nearly 250 criminals on a rock in the middle of the ocean, Alcatraz officially shut down in 1963... or did it? And after it shut down, all of the inmates were transferred to other prisons... or were they? In the new J.J. Abrams-produced supernatural thrille ... More >>

Bouncer: Why Psychopaths Make Good Bartenders

​From this week's Bouncer column: When you start to spend a lot of time with people who are on the autism spectrum, it becomes quite clear that we all have quirks, foibles, aspects, facets, and traits that could also be called "autistic" -- like the crushing need to make a lengthy list of sy ... More >>

Kamala Harris Touts Use of Familial DNA Testing in Santa Cruz Sex Crime Arrest

​A controversial form of DNA testing is back in the limelight as law-enforcement officials praise its use in the investigation into an attack on a barista in Santa Cruz.Elvis Garcia, 21, was arrested Friday on charges of sexual assault, robbery, and false imprisonment. He is being held on $1 milli ... More >>

Killer Groupie Samantha Spiegel

​A controversial form of DNA testing is back in the limelight as law-enforcement officials praise its use in the investigation into an attack on a barista in Santa Cruz.Elvis Garcia, 21, was arrested Friday on charges of sexual assault, robbery, and false imprisonment. He is being held on $1 milli ... More >>

Eyes on the Horizon

​A controversial form of DNA testing is back in the limelight as law-enforcement officials praise its use in the investigation into an attack on a barista in Santa Cruz.Elvis Garcia, 21, was arrested Friday on charges of sexual assault, robbery, and false imprisonment. He is being held on $1 milli ... More >>

Is 'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez Responsible for an Unsolved 1984 S.F. Murder?

A police mugshot of Richard Ramirez​The 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 t ... More >>

New DNA Evidence in Old Homicide Case Points to the 'Night Stalker'

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 ... More >>

Aunt Charlie and Uncle Newsom

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 ... More >>

How Many Disbarred Lawyers Does It Take To Solve the Zodiac Murders?

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 Francisc ... More >>

Examiner Backpedaling On Screaming Zodiac Killer Front-Page Headline -- Fast

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 Broo ... More >>

Former Employer of Woman Who Claims Dad Was Zodiac Says She Told Him Her Dad Was John F. Kennedy

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. Ken ... More >>

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise: Holes Emerging in Woman's Zodiac Killer Claim

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 ... More >>

Daughter of Alleged Zodiac Killer Chose Recently Disbarred Lawyer as Her Spokesman

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 fath ... More >>

It's Leap Year!

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 fath ... More >>

Making a Killing

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 fath ... More >>

Cold Serial

The infamous Zodiac killer inspires another dead-end film

Girl Talk

The perverse, provocative writings of Dodie Bellamy challenge standard notions of both poetry and female sexuality

Dead Woman Walking

The true story of lesbian serial killer Aileen Wuornos becomes an opera

Letters

The true story of lesbian serial killer Aileen Wuornos becomes an opera

Cold Blood

The Coen brothers' Fargo fuses farce and thriller