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Today in San Francisco History - "Demon of the Belfry" goes to the gallows (SFist)
Timecapsule: January 7, 1898 The most notorious criminal of San Francisco's Gilded Age was executed 111 years ago today. Sure, Jack the Ripper had set a certain tone for serial killing just a few years earlier, but the crimes of Theodore Durrant were even more shocking. See, Jack's victims had been prostitutes, but San Francisco's "Demon of the Belfry" had murdered a pair of girls ...
Mixed doubles loss bumps U.S. at Hopman Cup (Houston Chronicle)
Murder verdict in 1982 King Arthur plot upheld (San Francisco Chronicle)
A federal appeals court reinstated a Marin County man's murder conviction Tuesday for a 1982 killing that was part of his employer's bizarre plot to take over the county in a paramilitary coup and rule it as a modern-day King Arthur. A federal magistrate had...
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