Today we get the disturbing tale of a 19-year-old woman who narrowly escaped getting kidnapped and roofied on Sunday while walking along Mission Street. She was walking near the corner of Mission and 19th at 1 a.m. Sunday when a 25-year-old suspect approached her with a gun. He dragged her to a nearby van, threatening to shoot her, and forced her to get in back. more ›

A 52-year-old man convicted of raping two women in 1998 had his conviction upheld by a state appeals judge yesterday. Larry White was convicted in 2005 of the crimes, via DNA evidence, of kidnapping and raping a homeless woman as well as a 21-year-old Japanese tourist who had chosen to spend the night sleeping on the corner of Kearny of Market before catching her flight home. White and a second man woke the young woman up around 2 a.m. telling her it was dangerous to sleep on the street, forcing her to come with them to a parking lot, where White raped her. On appeal, all he was challenging was the kidnapping conviction. [Bay City News/Appeal] more ›

Last November's harrowing story about a Glen Park woman being raped twice by the same man, it seems, was just that: a story. It turns out that she fabricated the tale of first being raped as she walked from the Glen Park BART station on Bosworth Street, and then assaulted again by the same man at gunpoint just few days later in her garage. The victim-cum-suspect has yet to have any false-report charges filed... more ›

From November 16 to November 18, Denton Geiger, 42, a San Francisco resident, held his (ex)girlfriend captive in their former home, where beat and raped her. (Jesus.) According to the Examiner, "Geiger allegedly approached the victim on Haight as she sold marijuana and persuaded her to go to their former home...[t]he victim escaped on Nov. 18 when an acquaintance entered the residence and intervened as she fled to a neighbor’s house." After a good... more ›