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 Tabloid Posts Video of Slain Tech Exec Bob Lee's Tragic Final Moments, Says It Shows 'San Fran OUT OF CONTROL' The British tabloid the Daily Mail has gotten ahold of the surveillance video from the Portside condominium building, outside of which CashApp founder and crypto exec Bob Lee was frantically trying to find help after being brutally stabbed early Tuesday morning.
SF News Grandmother of Tortured and Murdered Hayward Girl Sues Alameda County for 'Horrifying Inaction' The family of Sophia Mason, the eight-year-old girl whose body was found a year ago in a bathtub in Merced following months of abuse and neglect, has now formally filed suit against Alameda County over social workers' failure to identify and address that abuse.
SF News Oakland Mother Says Body of Woman Found Wrapped In Plastic and Carpet Is Her Daughter Oakland police aren't saying much about the “suspicious death” of a victim found Monday in the city's Uptown neighborhood, but a mother has come forward and said it was her 33-year-old daughter, and that the body was found wrapped in plastic and rolled in a carpet.
SF News In Blow to New Alameda Co. DA, Judge Tosses Plea Deal In Murder Case Newly elected Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price appeared in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing in a plea deal that marked one of the first significant moves of her tenure. And the news was not good.
SF News Fairfield Police Find Remains of Missing Woman, Husband Already Charged With Murder The burnt remains of Fairfield woman Anu Anand Hobson, missing since Valentine’s Day, were found in Fresno County. And it does not look good for her husband, who’s been charged with murder.
SF News Pittsburg Construction Worker Found Guilty In 2021 Murder of His Supervisor in San Rafael 33-year-old Miguel Jimenez Alejandre had already confessed to police that he killed his own boss and dumped his body at a construction site in San Rafael, but a Marin County Superior Court jury found him guilty this week.
SF News SF Mom Accused of Killing Two Daughters Can Be Tried For Murder, Judge Rules An SF Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that the Hunters Point mother accused of killing her two young daughters can be charged with felony murder, but prosecutors may hit a snag because the children’s cause of death is still not determined.
SF News More Details Emerge In Tragic Killing of Two SF Children; Mother May Have Had Postpartum Psychosis The Chronicle has obtained the police report for the December 23 discovery of a dead five-year-old and one-year-old in a Hunters Point home, and the senseless killings may have been the result of their mother’s case of postpartum psychosis.
SF News SFPD: Woman Admitted to Killing Her Two Daughters In Hunters Point Home More tragic details have now come out in court documents about the case against Paulesha Green-Pulliam, who pleaded not guilty last week to the double-murder of her young daughters two days before Christmas.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two Teens For Fatal Shooting of Japantown Security Guard A 15-year-old and a 14-year-old are in custody for the Wednesday night shooting of a security guard at the Japantown mall, who was declared dead at the scene shortly after SFPD arrived.
SF News San Francisco Mother Accused of Killing Two Young Daughters Enters Not-Guilty Plea There was confusion after police released their initial statements about a double-murder last week that claimed the lives of two young children in Hunters Point about the woman they arrested for the crime. But it's been confirmed that she was the mother of the children.
SF News Remains of Two-Year-Old Boy Who Police Say Was Killed In Oakland Found In Napa Oakland police are investigating the possible murder of a toddler two days before Christmas, whose body was later found buried in a shallow grave in Napa County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Suspects Arrested In 24th & Mission Shooting A 19-year-old and a 20-year-old have been arrested in connection with a fatal Dec. 18 shooting at 24th and Mission; a dramatic car chase ended with lanes closed on I-80 in Vallejo; and Muni has announced free service all night on New Year's Eve.
SF News SF Woman Charged With Murder In Incident That Killed Two Children In Bayview Details are scarce, but a one-year-old and five-year-old were found dead in a Bayview home Friday morning, and the DA’s office just announced murder charges against a 34-year-old San Francisco woman in connection with the two children’s deaths.
SF News Two Alleged Mac Block Gang Members Get Life In Prison For 2019 Fillmore Shooting Outside Funeral Reception Two men, reportedly members of the Mac Block gang in the Fillmore District, have been sentenced in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old East Bay man who engaged them in a shootout outside a funeral reception in March 2019.
SF News Body Found In East Bay House That Appeared to Be Set On Fire Investigators in the East Bay city of Concord suspect foul play in the death of a person whose remains were found in a house that was likely set on fire Thursday evening.
SF News Alleged Gunman In Oakland Dentist Lili Xu Murder-For-Hire Case Pleads Not Guilty The suspected hitman who stands accused of pulling the trigger on Oakland dentist Lili Xu pleaded not guilty Wednesday, but prosecutors appear to be seeking a life sentence with no parole for the 33-year-old alleged killer Hasheem Bason.
SF News Five Hells Angels Members Charged In Murder That Happened During Chris Stapleton Concert at Shoreline An assault that turned deadly at a Shoreline Amphitheater concert in June has led today to arrests and charges facing five alleged members of the notorious Hells Angels Motorcycle Club — including FBI raids on homes in SF.
SF News Man's Partially Clothed Body Pulled From Bay Near Port of Oakland, Investigation Begins An investigation into a suspicious death has begun after a man's body was pulled out of the water near the Port of Oakland on Monday morning.
SF News Boyfriend and Murder Suspect of Oakland Dentist Lili Xu Kills Himself in Jail An August fatal shooting shooting of beloved Oakland dentist Lili Xu initially spurred hate-crime speculation, but it turned out to be a suspected murder-for-hire by her boyfriend, and now that boyfriend has taken his own life in jail.
SF News Two Arrested In Slaying of Oakland Dentist; One Is Victim's Longtime Boyfriend Two men were arrested Thursday in connection with the August murder of Lili Xu in Oakland's Little Saigon neighborhood, and one of the suspects is Xu's longtime boyfriend who was with her at the time of the killing.
SF News Pair of Suspects Charged With Arson In Antioch Case of Woman Found Burned, But No Murder Charges Yet The death of 25-year-old Mykaella Sharlman, whose family reported her missing the same day her burned remains were found on an Antioch trail last week, remains under investigation. But two men are in custody and have been charged in connection with her death.
SF News Mystery Unfolding In Atherton As Mercedes Is Found Buried In Yard, Likely From 30 Years Ago Some serious intrigue began Thursday when some landscapers working at a property in Atherton unearthed a car buried four to five feet deep in the yard — and it's not yet clear whether there may be a body in it.
SF News Suspect In Merced Murder of Four Family Members Is Formally Charged, Arraigned One of two suspects in a quadruple homicide last week in Merced was arraigned Monday morning in Merced County court, four days after he was arrested for their kidnapping.