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Articles by Bob Calhoun
Yesterday’s Crimes: The Ghost of the Curran
by Bob Calhoun • 10/31/2019 11:13 am

Is one of San Francisco’s most famous theater’s haunted?

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Yesterday’s Crimes: The State Sanctioned Lynch Mob
by Bob Calhoun • 08/01/2019 2:23 pm

San Jose became the center of attention in the worst way possible when a mob stormed its jail and lynched two men from trees in 1933.

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Yesterday’s Crimes: Murder on the San Mateo Bridge
by Bob Calhoun • 07/09/2019 4:21 pm

Before the 1933 lynch mob that shocked San Jose, there was the inept kidnapping and brutal murder that filled the South Bay’s biggest city with blood lust.

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Yesterday’s Crimes: The Chinatown Boss in Chainmail
by Bob Calhoun • 06/25/2019 10:20 am

Little Pete was the king of Chinatown in the 1890s, but he learned the hard way that his fellow Chinese immigrants preferred to be ruled by committee.

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Yesterday’s Crimes: The Hero Eyewitnesses Behind Some of...
by Bob Calhoun • 06/03/2019 11:46 am

Badass regular people dealing with unfathomable true-life horror, ranked (in no particular order).

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Yesterday’s Crimes: The White Night Riot at 40
by Bob Calhoun • 05/16/2019 5:19 pm

The controversial verdict in the trial of Dan White for the killings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk sparked off the LGBT revolt that changed San Francisco forever.

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Yesterday’s Crimes: Ted Bundy’s Image Rehab         
by Bob Calhoun • 05/07/2019 12:46 pm

Netflix’s new Ted Bundy biopic, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, is as depraved as its title suggests.

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Yesterday’s Crimes: The TV Huckster Who Defrauded Apple
by Bob Calhoun • 04/08/2019 12:30 pm

There was a time in this town when a TV pitchman with a cramped stereo store on Mission Street could bilk a Silicon Valley tech giant.

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For Sale: Awesome Castle in the Tenderloin
by Peter-Astrid Kane and Bob Calhoun • 03/26/2019 11:38 am

UPDATED: Uh-oh, listed for $3.995 million, Edinburgh Castle might be the next S.F. institution on the chopping block.

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Yesterday’s Crimes: The EST Confession
by Bob Calhoun • 03/25/2019 1:26 pm

How a 1970s fad helped solve one of the Bay Area’s most notorious murders of the 1960s.

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