SF News Kidnapped at Age 6 in 1951, Man Finally Reunited With Oakland Family 73 Years Later It's a stunning happy ending to a 73-year-old cold case, as a man who was kidnapped in Oakland when he was six years old was finally reunited with his family once he was 79 years old.
SF News Arrest Made in Brutal 1982 Cold Case Murder and Rape of a 13-Year-Old Girl in Cloverdale The ruthless killing of 13-year-old Sarah Ann Geer was a case that had gone cold for 42 years, but Cloverdale police used genetic tests to finally determine and arrest a 62-year-old suspect.
SF News DNA Evidence Reopens 1987 Cold Case of Abused and Murdered Solano County Boy, New Suspect Arrested While both the victim and the wrongly accused are now deceased, Solano County prosecutors have identified and arrested a suspect in the 1987 kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy thanks to new DNA evidence.
SF News Victim In 1998 Santa Cruz Murder Case Finally Identified Though Forensic Technology The John Doe in a 24-year-old Santa Cruz murder case is no longer a John Doe, as he has been identified as Eric Cupo, though the suspects pleaded guilty back in 2000 and have been locked up since.
SF News SFPD Offering $100K Reward for Info About 2002 Cold Case Murder of San Francisco Woman, Thea Slater Police believe that Slater was targeted while she was remodeling carpets in a Bayview apartment, where she was found dead with multiple stab wounds, but the homicide remains unsolved.
SF News SFPD Offering $100,000 for Information In 21-Year-Old SoMa Cold Case Homicide Paula Brien was last seen alive outside a SoMa bar in June 2001. Now SFPD is reopening the cold case of her killing, and offering $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of her killer.
SF News 1993 Cold Case Killing of San Carlos Store Owner Likely Solved After Oklahoma Cops Find Confession In Suspect's Journal A San Mateo County cold case from 1993 may finally be reaching the justice phase after what appears to have been a happenstance discovery of a confession by investigators probing a separate case in Oklahoma.
SF News SFPD Arrests 76-Year-Old Colorado Man in Cold-Case Murder From 1978 Teenager Marissa Rolf Harvey was found dead in Sutro Heights in 1978, but thanks to “advanced forensic investigative techniques,” SFPD found a suspect in Colorado and arrested him for that murder on Thursday.
SF News Suspect Identified In 2004 Cold Case Involving Bible Camp Workers Murdered On Sonoma Beach SoCo sheriff says it made no promises in getting suspect confession. #abc7now #jennerUpdates pic.twitter.com/ExK5ks9FrW— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) May 5, 2017 A 38-year-old Forestville man has been identified as the "likely"
SF News Attempt To Identify John Wayne Gacy's Victims Leads To Cold Case In San Francisco The San Francisco Police Department has reopened an unsolved homicide after genetic information submitted to identify victims of prolific serial killer John Wayne Gacy led to a break in the California case. In
SF News Skeletal Remains Found In Fremont Turn Up Positive Match For 1982 Cold Case Involving Swedish Student 33 years later, investigators have been able to positively identify some remains that turned up in the vicinity of Morrison Canyon, near Niles and Fremont, and connect them to a cold case involving
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Sunday's Fall TV Premieres Tonight's Fall premieres contain only one show we'll actually be watching (see above). But let's start with some of the shows we won't be watching. CBS has moved the James Woods law drama
SF News Political Junkie: Hair Of The Mayor That Bit You Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back to the swept-back, visible-comb-lines-through-the-front (scroll down), crunchy-gelled 'do you all
SF News SFist Rants: We Want to Drink More and Later Imagine one of those "from the past" montages like thay have on "Cold Case". Some early 90s dance music (maybe Rhythm is a Dancer) plays in the background as a thinner, younger, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Whodunnit TV SFist celebrated a birthday yesterday and was unable to post. Apologies. But the little gap in posting also gave us time to think some about the current state of television, and the conclusion