San Francisco police have interviewed ‘a few new people’ as well as a longterm person of interest in a case that became legendary in the city’s gay nightlife of the 1970s
On Jan. 27, 1974, the San Francisco Police Department arrived at Ocean Beach where the victim of a “grisly” murder had been found.
It was the first of at least six stabbings of gay men by a serial killer who would become known as “The Doodler” for his penchant to sketch his potential victims’ faces on a cocktail napkin.
Fifty years later, the Doodler’s identity is still unknown and the case has been reopened. At least 10 other unsolved area murders could also have been due to his bloodlust.
“We’ve actually interviewed a few new people,” SFPD Investigator Daniel Cunningham tells The Messenger.
The serial killer ‘s nickname emerged from the lore of San Francisco’s gay community of the 1970s as well as the account of a survivor who had met a man believed to be the Doodler late one night at a diner in 1975.
