Resolved CA - Pacifica, UP10587, WhtMale, 18-30, torso/legs, Linda Del Mar State Beach, killed 1973, May'74

[Richard]

So 50 years after his murder, they just quietly close the books on him?!

 

[The4TierBridge]

So 50 years after his murder, they just quietly close the books on him?!

Since his murder is solved and the killers are known and in prison the choice to publicly release his identity was probably left up to his next of kin.

 

[Richard]

Since his murder is solved and the killers are known and in prison the choice to publicly release his identity was probably left up to his next of kin.

Murder is a capital crime, and any such criminal trial, outcome, or appeal is public information.

If some individuals are in prison for killing this young man - who are they? Were they charged with killing a named person or for killing an unidentified (at the time) person?

 

[The4TierBridge]

Murder is a capital crime, and any such criminal trial, outcome, or appeal is public information.

If some individuals are in prison for killing this young man - who are they? Were they charged with killing a named person or for killing an unidentified (at the time) person?

The Zebra Murders were committed by Manuel Moore, Larry Craig Green, Jessie Lee Cooks, and J. C. X. Simon. All of these people are now deceased except for Larry Craig Green who was actually denied parole last year. They were all convicted in 1975 of 15 murders including that of this formerly unknown man.

 

[Vern]

Murder is a capital crime, and any such criminal trial, outcome, or appeal is public information.

If some individuals are in prison for killing this young man - who are they? Were they charged with killing a named person or for killing an unidentified (at the time) person?

This article refers to this John Doe being found deceased:

The San Francisco Examiner​

San Francisco, California • Mon, Dec 24, 1973Page 1

Ocean Beach yields body

Clipping found in The San Francisco Examiner published in San Francisco, California on 12/24/1973. Ocean Beach yields body

www.newspapers.com

He was then known as John Doe #169. This individual was tortured and murdered by the "The "Death Angels" who were responsible for a string of racially motivated murders and related attacks committed by a group of four black serial killers in San Francisco, California, United States, from October 1973 to April 1974; they killed at least 15 white people and wounded eight others. Police gave the case the name "Zebra" after the special police radio band they assigned to the investigation. Many victims.

On December 24, 1973, a dismembered body, named John Doe #169, cut with surgical precision, wrapped in plastic, and stuffed in a cardboard box, was found at Ocean Beach. His head, hands, and feet were missing. It was testified that the remaining Death Angels took turns hacking off his limbs, "starting with his fingers, and toes, until he was disassembled like a hog in a butcher's shop".