SF News Milpitas Woman Goes Missing, and Neighbor Is Arrested After Her Body Is Discovered In His Backyard A Milpitas man is now in jail after police say he killed a woman and then buried her in a backyard.
SF News Hillsborough Heiress and Accused Murder Mastermind Tiffany Li Avoids Civil Trial and Settles Wrongful Death Case Tiffany Li, the wealthy daughter of a Chinese developer who prosecutors say got away with the 2016 murder of the father of her two children, has agreed to settle a civil case brought by the victim's mother rather than go to trial this month.
SF News Details Emerge on Milpitas Murder and Car Chase Where Ex-Boyfriend Allegedly Stalked, Killed Victim We now know the identity of the victim and the alleged killer in Sunday’s grisly Milpitas high-speed chase, where the victim was an aspiring realtor, and her ex-boyfriend a registered sex offender.
SF News Serial Armed Robbery Suspect From Stockton Charged With Nov. Murder of Young Woman at Lake Merritt A 33-year-old man from Stockton has been charged with the November 11 murder and attempted robbery of 22-year-old Devani Aleman Sanchez, on a street next to Lake Merritt — and he's been connected to multiple other armed robberies.
SF News Arrests Made In Murder of TV News Security Guard Kevin Nishita, Third Suspect Still at Large Two individuals have been arrested in the Nov. 24 fatal shooting of TV news security guard and former police officer Kevin Nishita, and a third suspect is still being sought.
SF News Santa Cruz Man Sentenced to 20 Years to Life for Murder of Ghost Ship Survivor Girlfriend A 30-year-old Santa Cruz man has been sentenced in the June killing of his former girlfriend — a crime to which he confessed before pleading not guilty, and then later confessed again and changed his plea.
SF News Two Found Dead of Gunshot Wounds In Uptown Oakland High-rise A man and a woman were found dead of gunshot wounds in an Oakland high-rise apartment just after midnight on Wednesday night, and the circumstances have not yet been explained.
SF News Few More Details Emerge From Deposition of Hillsborough Heiress in 2016 Murder; Could Civil Case Eventually Lead to Conviction? There is still no smoking gun or particularly revealing detail in a recent deposition given in a civil case by heiress and acquitted murder suspect Tiffany Li, but things could get interesting in the civil trial.
SF News Mother Shot By Estranged Husband In Daly City While 4-Year-Old Was In Next Room A 26-year-old woman was murdered over the weekend in Daly City, and some disturbing details have emerged about the case, including the fact that her four-year-old was in the next room when it happened.
SF News Two Laptop Thieves Convicted In Oakland Killing Outside Montclair Starbucks A jury in Alameda County today returned guilty verdicts on charges of murder and manslaughter against two men accused in a New Year's Eve 2019 laptop robbery that ended in the robbery victim's death.
SF News Three Bay Area Residents Charged In Murder of 19-Year-Old Carmel Woman In Fairfield Following Halloween Party Three Bay Area residents, including an airman assigned to Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, have been charged in connection with the murder of a 19-year-old woman from Carmel following a Halloween party in Sacramento, whose remains were found in Monterey County on Sunday.
SF News Hillsborough Heiress, Now in Civil Trial Over 2016 Murder, Unsurprisingly Blames Other Two Suspects A high-profile murder case that produced no guilty verdicts is now in a civil trial, with the accused billionaire heiress in China, but the depositions show the suspects are all still pinning it on the others.
SF News Murder Charge to Be Filed In Case of Woman Repeatedly Run Over at Millbrae Starbucks After Victim Dies An attempted murder charge will be escalated to murder in San Mateo County in the case of a woman who was repeatedly struck and run over in a Millbrae parking lot on September 20, after the victim succumbed to her injuries Wednesday morning.
SF News Three Arrested In Solano County For Oakland Teen's Murder Authorities in Solano County arrested three people in connection with the death of an Oakland teenager whose body was found Tuesday in a ditch in Dixon.
SF News Woman Arrested In Mountain View For Murder of Newborn Infant A woman was arrested Wednesday in Mountain View after an autopsy revealed that an infant boy she claimed was stillborn was actually alive at birth and died from "significant injuries."
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 Mother of East Bay Man Killed at Oroville Campsite Seeks Answers The mother of the young man who was fatally shot in his tent over the July 4th weekend at a campsite by Lake Oroville remains in shock and still has no information from investigators about why her son was killed.
SF News East Bay Man, 20, Found Dead at Lake Oroville Campground A San Pablo man was found dead inside a tent at Lake Oroville over the holiday weekend, and the death is being investigated as a murder.
SF Politics DA Boudin Pushes Back on Police About Evidence Delay In Shooting Case Involving Murder Suspect Robert Newt DA Chesa Boudin tried to make it clear to the Police Commission this week that blame for the release of Robert Newt last month should be focused on the police and lengthy delays in forensic evidence testing.
SF News Suspect In Two Potrero Homicides Was Released Without Charges After April 4 Shooting; SFPD Seeks Public's Help Finding Him San Francisco police linked a man to dozens of spent shell casings from a shooting on April 4 in which no one was injured. The District Attorney's Office released him without charges, pending further evidence. He's now wanted for murder and attempted murder.
SF News Nebraska Dad Arrested In Pacifica After Two Small Children Found Dead In His Home A 35-year-old Nebraska man apparently drove to the Bay Area after killing his two small children amid a custody dispute with his estranged wife, and he was arrested Sunday in Pacifica.
SF News Pittsburg Landscaping Contractor Found Dead at Job Site In Marin County; Employee Confesses A 42-year-old Pittsburg man working for a landscaping company was found dead at a job site in San Rafael on Wednesday, one day after he was reported missing.
SF News One Wildfire In 2020's LNU Complex Believed to Have Been Arson to Cover Up Murder One of last August's wildfires that merged with others to become the LNU Lightning Complex fires is now believed to have been the result of arson — and the culprit, according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office, is a 29-year-old man who likely set the blaze to cover up an earlier murder.
SF News Two Arrested In November Slaying of Bay Area Rapper Lil Yase Authorities in the East Bay have arrested two individuals, a man and a woman, in connection with the murder of Lil Yase — a.k.a. Mark Alexander, Jr. — who was fatally shot over Thanksgiving weekend last year under circumstances that baffled his friends.
SF News SF Man With Alleged Domestic Violence History Charged In Killing of Infant In His Care A suspect with a history of prior arrests for domestic incidents has been arrested and charged in the April 20 death of a 7-month-old boy in San Francisco who had been left in his care.