The Brief
- The San Francisco Police Department has upped the reward for information to help solve the murders of six men that occurred in the city’s Ocean Beach neighborhood in the mid 1970s.
- Authorities have attributed the murders to a single killer dubbed “the Doodler.”
- It’s possible “the Doodler” is also dead, but police estimate if he’s alive today the killer would likely be in his 60s.
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Police Department has upped the reward for information to help solve the murders of six men that occurred in the city’s Ocean Beach neighborhood in the mid 1970s.
The department on Wednesday reiterated its call for help from the public and the $250,000 reward for information in the murders of Gerald Cavanaugh, Frederick Capin, Warren Andrews, Klaus Christmann, Harald Gullberg and Joseph Stephens between 1974 and 1975.
The backstory
What we know:
Authorities have attributed the murders to a single killer dubbed “the Doodler,” who has never been positively identified. “The Doodler” was so nicknamed for his supposed habit of sketching his victims prior to the killings.…