San Francisco police are stepping up efforts to try to catch a serial killer who has eluded authorities for almost 50 years.. Cold case inspectors hope a big reward and a new sketch will finally lead to an arrest. The sister of one victim is still searching for answers.
The DoodlerSketch snares suspects, but cases far from solved
A San Francisco beat cop thought he’d nabbed the Doodler on a lucky hunch no such luck. And then an explosive new lead emerged.
April 13, 2021 4:00 a.m.
Something about the guy was hinky, as cops like to say. He was walking on Castro Street and looked like he had something to hide. Held his arm stiff against his side over a bulge in his long pea coat.
Officer James Andre Boles was on foot patrol and zeroed in. It was Nov. 20, 1975, and everyone at police headquarters was talking about the Doodler. How he’d picked up five men over the previous year and a half at gay bars, drawing their likenesses before knifing them to death at hideaway sex hookup spots.