He Drew His Victims Before He Killed Them: The Doodler Case
He Drew His Victims Before He Killed Them: The Doodler, San Francisco's Unsolved Serial Killer
At 1:25 a.m. on January 27, 1974, a caller told San Francisco police there might be a dead man on Ocean Beach. He was the first of at least five, probably six, gay men murdered between 1974 and 1975 by a killer who sketched his targets in Castro bars before luring them to the foggy edges of the city. Police had a detailed composite by 1975, a name from tipsters, and a "strong suspect" in an interview room by January 1976. So why was no one ever charged? Because the three men who survived his…
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