The Best Serial Killer Documentaries, Ranked - MovieWeb Then one man began beating Alioto on the head with the sign he was holding, until the mayors aides stepped in, helping Alioto push through the crowd to his car. A majority of the San Franciscos whites supported the Zebra sweeps, as they were called, but they proved intensely unpopular with blacks, including detectives Gilford and Sanders. And the police and I are entitled to the opinion that the ring leaders who perpetrated the wave of terror in San Francisco are behind bars. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. The car headed south to a mixed-race neighborhood around Silver Ave. A laundromat stood at the corner of Brussels St. Several customers were present, but only one was white: 45-year-old Jane Holly. [13], The murders caused widespread panic in San Francisco. Two days later, 23-year-old Nelson Shields was helping a friend pick up a rug in the citys Ingleside neighborhood around 9:30 PM. [49] Harris, who was granted immunity, describing the machete slaying of Quita Hague, said "Larry grabbed the woman by her hair and took a machete knife and took her 20 feet from the van. Police gave the case the name "Zebra" after the special police radio band they assigned to the investigation. Simon died at San Quentin State Prison in 2015 at theage of 69. More than four months and 10 more shootings would pass before they could be brought to justice. He would not grant immunity to anyone who had actually killed someone. Witness identities remained protected due to an order banning extrajudicial statements. Ward Anderson cried out that he had been shot. . Harris subsequently recanted his recantation, claiming the reason he had written the letter was that he had not yet been given an attorney to represent him. Ten minutes later, and eight blocks away, Vincent Wollin, 69, was shot twice in the back while digging through trash cans for items to repair and sell to supplement his Social Security checks. The "Zebra" murders were 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;[1] they killed at least 15 people and wounded eight others.
