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Bay Briefing: This is a vaccine for our land FacebookTwitterEmail Volunteer Jiordi Rosales leaves a trail of fire with a driptorch during a preventative vegetation burn in Healdsburg.Alvin A.H. Jornada / Special to The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, April 27, and we’re tracking what’s changing in Bay Area transit. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. A little bit of fire to prevent much worse Dripping small flames from handheld fuel canisters, two dozen peopl...

The DoodlerA sixth victim? And maybe more the outside Bay Area The deeper the investigation goes, the more questions pile up. One thing is fairly certain: The Doodler may have claimed another victim at Lands End. His name: Warren Andrews. Head smashed by a rock. April 27, 2021 4:00 a.m. I’m with San Francisco cold-case detective Dan Cunningham. We’re poking through bushes near Lands End, where we think the Doodler killed a man. We’ve done this before. We find it under overhanging brush. A...

The Janesville City Council voted in February to help fight climate change and save money. A group of people from around the area who worked on that council resolution got together Thursday to talk about the complexities of doing both. One thing was clear: Janesville will not be on its own. Other cities, government agencies and businesses are working on the problem, and Janesville is behind some, such as Eau Claire, speakers said. “Never in our history has it been so clear to so many that ...

The DoodlerPossible confession sparks search for a psychiatrist In late 1975, a psychiatrist contacted San Francisco police to say he knew who the Doodler serial killer was. Nearly half a century later, his identity has been maddeningly difficult to pin down. What answers would he have? April 20, 2021 4:00 a.m. The psychiatrist was the breakthrough. Said he had a confession. And a name. San Francisco homicide inspectors Rotea Gilford and Earl Sanders thought they were about to nab the Doodler, ...

The DoodlerSketch snares suspects, but cases far from solved A San Francisco beat cop thought he’d nabbed the Doodler on a lucky hunch — no such luck. And then an explosive new lead emerged. April 13, 2021 4:00 a.m. Something about the guy was hinky, as cops like to say. He was walking on Castro Street and looked like he had something to hide. Held his arm stiff against his side over a bulge in his long pea coat. Officer James Andre Boles was on foot patrol and zeroed in. It was Nov. 20, 19...

Listen ⇢the doodler podcast ⇠ The DoodlerKiller notches fifth victim — then he gets sloppy As the Doodler continues to terrorize gay men in San Francisco, the cops develop some important clues. And a victim lives to generate a suspect sketch April 6, 2021 4:00 a.m. The summer sun was sinking low when a hiker found the body. Decayed. The coroner determined the man had been lying there about 10 days. Stabbed and slashed to death. San Francisco police detective Dan Cunningham and I retraced ...

DUBLIN — Hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil and wrote condolences and prayers on social media this week to pay tribute to Dublin Unified School District (DUSD) Trustee Catherine Kuo, who was struck and killed by a car while distributing food outside at Fallon Middle School. Kuo, a 48-year-old wife and mother of a son and daughter, died March 24 at Eden Memorial Medical Center in Castro Valley, where she was taken following the morning accident. “We would like to honor one of...

The call came in just before 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 27, 1974. “I believe there might be a dead person ... on the beach ... across from Ulloa Street, if you follow the street right down to the water,” the caller told a San Francisco police dispatcher. Didn’t give his name, just hung up. Cops rushed down to Ocean Beach. Sprawled at the water’s edge, about to be washed out by the waves, was a man’s body. They dragged him back onto dry sand and took a close look. Seemed to be about 50 years ol...

At the end of 1975, The Doodler murders Harald Gullberg, the fifth and final suspected fatality that investigators have tied to this case. The Doodler’s sixth victim actually survives a brutal knife attack. Investigating today, Kevin is desperate to talk to an eyewitness, but investigator Dan Cunningham says the man wants to put the events of 1975 behind him. Private investigator Mike Taylor looks into rumors that this surviving victim may have been a Swedish diplomat, and some new leads emer...

February 9, 2021 Forward Janesville postpones it’s virtual trip to Washington D.C. in order to focus on what it considers a much bigger issue – the City of Janesville’s proposed transportation utility. Vice President of Government Relations and Education Dan Cunningham says under the proposed transportation utility, commercial properties would pay much more than residential properties, as they generate many more car trips. Cunningham says Forward Janesville will be working with busine...