Ten years after the tragic death of Diane Whipple, attacked by two dogs outside of her Pacific Heights Apartment, the Bay Area Reporter looks back on the lasting legacy her case has had on the LGBT community. While prosecution of the dog owners landed one 15 years in prison for second-degree murder and the other an involuntary manslaughter conviction, it was Whipple's partner Sharon Smith who would put a new face on LGBT struggles by fighting for her rights as a surviving partner. more ›

We are deeply, deeply regretful that the cityblog format had not been launched back in 2001 and 2002, when we were totally obsessed with the Diane Whipple dog mauling case. more ›

As entertaining as the Gavin years have been, SFist always kind of wished they were around for the Dog Mauling case, you know the one where a couple of Presa Canario dogs killed Diane Whipple in the hallway of the apartment complex they all lived in. Now that was a trial-- there was the creepy couple who owned the dogs (Marjorie Knoller and her husband Robert Noel), their prison pen pal and Nazi skinhead Paul "Cornfed" Schneider who they also adopted, the lawyer who got on all fours and pretended she was a dog, and rumors of all sorts of nasty pornographic pictures involving Knoller and the dogs. Oh, and how could we forget the fact that one of the lawyers on the case was a then unknown Kimberly Guilfoyle. Now that, my friends, was good times. more ›

See The Lady From Shanghai tonight at the Balboa's Reel SF Festival! A true lady from Shanghai, Julie Lee got indicted by the feds yesterday, for mail fraud and witness tampering, over her alleged money laundering for Kevin Shelley. Her attorney says he's never seen someone get busted by the city, the state, and the feds. Yahtzee! We are so sorry that SFist wasn't around at the time of the Noel-Knoller dog mauling case (RIP, Diane Whipple). The best were those line drawings! Hott! But we'll be covering the latest round of legal shenanigans: the California Court of Appeals just reinstated the second-degree murder charges against Knoller, ruling that the DA didn't need to prove that Knoller knew that the dogs would kill someone, just that she knew she couldn't control them. We've said it before, we'll say it again -- you name a dog "Bane," you probably have some kind of idea it might be a crazed killer. And we're going to cover this latest item briefly, but reluctantly, and we were really hoping not to cover it at all: the son of Oakland City Counsel president Ignacio de la Fuente was arrested on two charges of rape last week. De la Fuente, considered a leading candidate for Oakland City mayor, was understandably pretty upset about the news and has been accepting the condolences of the Oakland community. When asked how this would affect his mayoral chances, de la Fuente said, "The last thing on my mind is the mayor's race." more ›