Cold Cases in San Francisco, California
ColdCaseIndex documents 4 cases in San Francisco, California, dated 1921 to 1997. 3 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Virginia Rappe (1921) and the most recent is Kristen Modafferi (1997).
- Unsolved 3 (75%)
- Closed without conviction 1 (25%)
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Kristen Modafferi
Kristen Modafferi, an 18-year-old North Carolina State University student spending the summer in the Bay Area, vanished on June 23, 1997, after finishing her shift at a coffee shop in San Francisco's Crocker Galleria.
The Doodler
An unidentified serial killer nicknamed 'The Doodler' stabbed to death at least five, and possibly many more, gay men in San Francisco between January 1974 and September 1975.
Paul Stine
Cab driver and graduate student Paul Lee Stine, 29, was shot in the head by a passenger at Washington and Cherry streets in San Francisco's Presidio Heights on October 11, 1969.
Virginia Rappe
Actress Virginia Rappe died in San Francisco on September 9, 1921, of peritonitis from a ruptured bladder, four days after falling ill at a Labor Day party in Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's suite at the St. Francis Hotel.