SF News Saturday Links: Thumbprint on Cigarette Carton Cracks 1977 San Mateo Cold Case Three women were airlifted after a fire pit explosion during an Antioch barbecue; the mayor of Newark was arrested during the reopening of a New Jersey detention center; and the 1977 murder of Jeanette Ralston has been solved using DNA evidence.
SF News Cold Case Murder of Woman Found In Tilden Park In 1990 Is Solved Through DNA A 35-year-old unsolved mystery from the East Bay has been solved, however the murder suspect is not around to face justice.
SF News Trial Begins For Alleged Serial Killer Accused In Cold Case East Bay Double-Murder From 1986 David Misch, a man who's been imprisoned for murder since 1990, has yet to be tried for three homicides that took place in the Bay Area in 1986 and 1988. But one of those trials just kicked off on Monday in Dublin.
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 Gay Dad From Danville, Turned In By His Husband For 1998 Murder, Sentenced to 16 Years A man who had been living the suburban dream in the East Bay with twin daughters and a doctor husband ended up in a messy divorce. And perhaps in a bid for custody of their children, his husband turned him in to police for a crime he had privately confessed to years earlier.
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 1992 Cold Case Murder of Laurie Houts Once Again Left In Limbo as Longtime Suspect Is Cleared on Double-Jeopardy Grounds A Bay Area slaying that has gone without any justice for nearly 30 years was back in the news this week, as the case against longtime suspect John Kevin Woodward was dismissed by a judge on double-jeopardy grounds.
SF News Police and FBI Dig For Possible Remains In Redwood City In Cold Case From 1996 The disappearance of Ylva Hagner has not made headlines in decades, but it was a big Bay Area story in October 1996, and the case has never been solved. Some sudden activity by FBI and police investigators Wednesday in Redwood City makes it look like there's been a break in the case.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Conviction In Carmel Cold-Case Murder From 1981 The SoCal doctor accused of trying to kill his wife and kids by driving over a Pacifica cliff is due in court, a 67-year-old Seaside man has been convicted in a 1981 murder in Carmel, and the 2019 Texas Walmart shooter has pleaded guilty.
SF News SFPD Again Raises Reward Money for Info In 'Doodler' Case, This Time to $250,000 Following a 2021 podcast that shed some new light on the long cold Doodler serial-killer case from the 197os, the SFPD said they were "closer than ever" to solving the case at this time last year. But they are still coming up short on evidence.
SF News SFPD Now Offering $50,000 Reward For Information On Cold-Case Shooting In Marina That Killed Visitor 32-year-old Samuel St. Pierre was visiting SF from Placer County when he was shot and killed on June 19, and police are now offering $50,000 for information that could help lead to an arrest.
SF News 1983 Santa Cruz Murder Case Solved Thanks to New DNA Technology The body of 33-year-old chef and restaurant owner Joette Marie Smith was found floating, caught on a tree limb in the San Lorenzo River in Ben Lomond, in Santa Cruz County, on March 29, 1983.
SF News Bay Area Tech CEO Arrested for 1992 Cold Case Murder In Mountain View A 1992 cold case in which a 25-year-old woman, Laurie Houts, was strangled to death in Mountain View has now led to a re-arrest of a prime suspect who was already tried twice for the crime, and the suspect is a Bay Area tech CEO who has been living abroad.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Body of Woman Missing Since 2004 Found In West Oakland The remains of Cynthia "Linda" Alonzo were accidentally uncovered by a construction crew in West Oakland, the SFMTA has announced the return of three bus lines gone since the pandemic began, and the Buchanan Street Mall in the Western Addition is getting renovated.
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 Newly Unsealed Court Documents Suggest Accused Kristin Smart Killer 'Hunted' Her For Months Ahead of the start of a preliminary hearing in the murder trial of Paul Flores, the San Luis Obispo County court has unsealed the prosecution's statement of evidence in the case, and it's fairly damning.
SF News SFPD Offers Reward to Find Man Who Killed a Mission District Homeless Couple In 2016 The San Francisco Police Department has released a suspect sketch and is offering a $75,000 reward for information to help solve a cold case from 2016 in which a homeless couple was shot and killed.
SF News Convicted Killer Charged In 32-Year-Old Cold-Case Kidnapping and Murder of 9-Year-Old in the East Bay The disappearance of nine-year-old Michaela Garecht, who was grabbed in a supermarket parking lot in Hayward a few days before Thanksgiving in 1988, made national headlines. And only now have investigators charged a man who was already in prison for another murder.
SF News Pleasanton Cold-Case Murder Solved Nine Years Ago Involved a Killer and a Victim Who Were Both Victims of Bullying The April 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tina Faelz shocked the small, still mostly rural community of Pleasanton to its core. Now the killer has finally confessed.
SF News Suspect Arrested in 2016 Cold-Case Murder at Sonoma State A suspect has been taken into custody in Sonoma County in connection with the October 2016 murder of Sonoma State University student Kirk Kimberly.
SF News Confessed Bay Area Killer Linked Through DNA To Tahoe Cold Case From 1982 A confessed murderer who committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial in 1983 has been definitively linked to the 1982 murder of Mary Edith Silvani near Lake Tahoe
SF News SFPD Reexamines Ten-Year-Old Cold Case Murder Of Aubrey Abrakasa, Reveals New Info On the afternoon of August 14, 2006 a Monday 17-year-old Aubrey Abrakasa was leaving his mother's home in the Western Addition and headed to his job as a youth counselor at a park
SF News Suspect In A Florida Cold Case Turns Up In S.F. 19 Years Later Here's a bit of real-life crime drama for your afternoon: 47-year-old Antonio Calvillo, who had been wanted in connection with the 1995 murder of 27-year-old Shirley Laseter in Palm Beach County and who
