SF News Golden State Killer Pleads Guilty, Admits to 13 Murders In Ceremonial Proceeding Coincidentally the day after an HBO documentary about the hunt for the Golden State Killer premiered, the man law enforcement identified as the perpetrator of a decade-long spree of brutal rapes and murders across California has pleaded guilty to his crimes in exchange for avoiding a death sentence.
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Most Infamous San Francisco Murders Of The 20th Century Though San Francisco has a long way to go before becoming a crime-free utopia, the city's 21st-century murder rate is pretty low compared to the homicide numbers we saw in the years beginning
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Were The Zebra Killings Really That Terrifying? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
SF News Batsh*t 'Witch Killer' From 1980s Suzan Carson Denied Parole As briefly noted last week, a notorious local serial killer from the 1980s, one of a husband-and-wife pair known as the San Francisco Witch Killers, was up for parole this week, and as
SF News Psycho Killer Joseph Naso Flips Off Jurors, Gets Death Sentence The sordid, horrifying tale of serial killer Joseph Naso may finally be finished as he was officially handed a death sentence in a Marin County court on Friday. Naturally, because he's a psychopath
SF News Convicted Serial Killer Joseph Naso Is So Effing Crazy Convicted serial killer Joseph Naso whined in court today that he was "being pushed out" of court without getting a proper hearing for the various motions he would like to file before he's
SF News Joseph Naso Found Guilty Joseph Naso, the man accused of murdering four women in the Bay Area and Yuba County between 1977 and 1994, was found guilty by a jury today. Naso was found guilty of killing
SF News Deliberations Begin In Trial Of Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso Closing arguments were heard Friday and Monday in the two-month-long trial of accused serial killer Joseph Naso in Marin County, and jurors began deliberations by Monday afternoon. As we've discussed earlier, Naso is,
SF News Prosecution Reveals Fifth Potential Naso Victim In Opening Statement Investigators have suggested that they believe that accused serial killer Joseph Naso has many more victims out there, and the prosecution in his quadruple murder trial in Marin County yesterday revealed the identity
SF News Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso Stands Trial Today In Marin Remember Joseph Naso, the 79-year-old guy who was arrested two years ago on suspicion of multiple murders of women in northern California between the 1970s and the 1990s? Well, his trial is finally
SF News 'The Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez Has Died Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as "the Night Stalker," died of natural causes while on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison today. Ramirez terrorized California during the summer of 1986 when
SF News FBI Searches Upper Haight Home In 1984 Cold Case, Finds Skeletal Remains The FBI, SFPD and the Sheriff's Department served a search warrant at an Upper Haight home Tuesday morning searching for clues to the 1984 disappearance of Kevin Collins. Investigators on the scene discovered
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Sweeney Todd Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd stands as one of his most popular shows, thanks in large part to that iffy Tim Burton film released in 2007 (which boasted Johnny Depp as the titular barber
SF News Zodiac Killer Is Alive And Living In Solano County, Says Former Cop It seems that each year or so we get another claim about the true identify and/or whereabouts of the Zodiac Killer. Today another claim presents itself for your consideration: According to former
SF News Speed Freak Killer Wants His Money Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine, whose tips recently led investigators to three separate abandoned well sites in San Joaquin County containing over 1000 bones and fragments from murder victims of decades past, is
SF News Speed Freak Killers' Body Count On the Rise Earlier this week it was estimated that the Central Valley's notorious Speed Freak Killers, one of whom recently disclosed the locations of victims' remains to authorities for the first time, had killed about
SF News Joseph Naso Arraignment Scheduled; He Will Defend Himself, Still Thinks He'll Get Off Accused serial killer Joseph Naso, who has a mound of circumstantial and at least a few bits of physical evidence againt him in four decades-old Northern California murders, will be allowed to defend
SF News Speed-Freak Killer's Tips Lead To Discovery Of 300 Bones In Abandoned Well Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine, one half of the duo dubbed The Speed-Freak Killers for their meth-fueled killing spree in the 80s and 90s, has been opening up to investigators about the whereabouts
SF News Joseph Naso Might Have Murdered Someone In The Tenderloin It's no surprise that a Marin judge Monday ordered accused serial killer Joseph Naso to stand trial for the murders of four women in Northern California, given all the scary photographic evidence of
SF News Joseph Naso Defends Photos Of Dead Women As Just His 'Dark Side' Accused serial killer Joseph Naso, who's currently in a pre-trial hearing and being his own attorney up in Marin County, is a scary bastard. In yesterday's proceedings, we heard from Detective Ryan Petersen
SF News Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso Defends Pictures Of Weirdly Posed, Apparently Dead Women As 'Art' Like we said yesterday, the preliminary hearing of accused serial killer (and winner of the Grim Reaper costume contest) Joseph Naso was bound to reveal some disturbing evidence in the case right out
SF News Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso Back In Court Today Joseph Naso, the scary-looking man who stands accused of multiple murders of young women with double-initials in Northern California from the 1970s to the 1990s, returns to a Marin courtroom today for a
SF News Serial Killer Ted Bundy Being Investigated As Possible Suspect in Early 1970s Sonoma County Murders A series of unsolved murders in Sonoma County, all involving women who were hitchhiking on country roads during the trusting, hippie era of 1972 to 1973, has a new suspect in the mix:
SF News Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso Allowed to Act As His Own Attorney Confirming what everyone already suspects about the scary, lunatic-seeming man who's about to stand trial for the murders of four women in Northern California between 1977 and the mid-1990s, Joseph Naso has refused
SF News SFist Remembers: 1970s Serial Killer 'The Doodler' What with Joseph Naso so close to the Bay Area zeitgeist right now, SFist thought we'd look back at one a serial killer from back in the day, one who police failed to
