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Nov 4, 2024

Was that the Zodiac Speaking?

A new Netflix documentary series finds even more compelling evidence that Vallejo pedophile Arthur Leigh Allen was the Zodiac Killer, but…

Was that the Zodiac Speaking?

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Mar 22, 2024

Another Octopus Murder: American Conspiracies and True Crime Stories

Netflix’s American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders connected a cold case I wrote about to another unsolved murder I was barely aware of.

Mugshot of California murderer and rapist Phillip Arthur Thompson

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Aug 29, 2025

The Unifying theory of Serial Killers

Why did so many serial killers stalk the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s & 80s? In her new book Murderland, Caroline Fraser has a compelling…

Green-tinted book cover with an image of a man’s head and face superimposed over a landscape with a large smokestack in the background. Cover lines read: “Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires. Carline Fraser. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers.”

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Jan 11, 2020

2012 vs. 2112: Neil Peart, Rush and Forgotten Disaster Films

A now forgotten disaster flick led me to write this essay pondering Neil Peart of Rush way back in 2009. I feared it was lost forever but…

2012 vs. 2112: Neil Peart, Rush and Forgotten Disaster Films

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Apr 23, 2017

Silicon Valley Comic Con is not like other comic cons

The crowd follows Steve Wozniak around the floor of the Glass House in downtown San Jose, but nobody gets too close. It’s like he’s…

Silicon Valley Comic Con is not like other comic cons

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Nov 10, 2016

The KKK Took SFPD Away

A botched Klan raid in Los Angeles County in 1922 exposed the Invisible Empire’s once-extensive infiltration of the SFPD.

The KKK Took SFPD Away

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Sep 28, 2015

Yesterday’s Crimes: Oddities and Endities

This blog is supplemental material to my 9/24/2015 “Yesterday’s Crimes” column in the SF Weekly. Click here to check it out, but it’s about…

Yesterday’s Crimes: Oddities and Endities

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Aug 25, 2015

Hunter S. Thompson wants Joe Biden to run.

Joe Biden isn’t running for president right now, but SFist is reporting a rumor that Joe will announce his 2016 presidential bid in San…

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Aug 4, 2015

Hunter S. Thompson on Joe Biden

Joe Biden isn’t running for president right now, but there does seem to be interest in this sort of thing, even if it’s mostly from bored…

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May 18, 2015

Giving The Brady Bunch the Mad Men Series Finale Treatment

Breaking Brady part 2

Giving The Brady Bunch the Mad Men Series Finale Treatment

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bob calhoun

Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling, Black Dragon FS. He/him

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