Zebra Killers News Today

The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn't aware of that and bought into the "failed city" and "doom loop" narratives too hard.

San Franciscos new wave band Romeo Void exists in a curious interstice between the social context of the early ‘80s while being wholly prescient of our era of #MeToo.

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...

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...

Scene in many ways. with few resources, we had to figure out what we were going to do next so we couldnt sustain this for very long if we had to rob banks all the time to live. we had the police and every jurisdiction in the bay area wanted to be the ones that caught or killed us. police were mobilized not only to deal with us, but they were dealing with these zebra killers, you know? >> the zebra killings were some of the most notorious crimes in american history. you had a group of black musli...