In response to allegations by deceased Stanford engineering grad student May Zhou's father earlier this week that his daughter's death was a homicide and not self-inflicted, the Santa Rosa police released additional information from their investigation. Namely, they said they have videotape and receipts of her buying four bottles of sleeping pills from local drugstores in two days, and they have an email she sent to her younger sister a few days before she disappeared that reads like a suicide note. Three of the bottles were found in the trunk along with her body.

And in the murder case of Cambodian immigrant Sany San, who was brutally raped and assaulted on her way to work in San Jose, the court has ruled that the papers in the court file that detail what happened in the assault will be made available to the public, at the SJ Merc News's request. The defense attorneys for the accused are planning to file an appeal, claiming that the allegations in the papers are so "highly inflammatory" that their clients won't be able to get a fair trial if they're released.

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