Shock breakthrough on serial killer The Doodler after horrid string of murdering gay men: investigator

A Bay Area cold case chief investigator said he thinks he’s identified the 1970s killer of six gay men known as “The Doodler,” and believes the man could still be arrested.Daniel Cunningham, the leader of San Francisco’s Police Department’s cold case unit told the San Francisco Standard he believes the suspected serial killer is living in East Bay as the department offers $250,000 for tips leading to his arrest fifty years later. Police believe at least six gay men were killed by “The Doodler” in or near Ocean Beach in the 1970s. The victims, Warren Andrews, Frederick Capin, Gerald Cavanaugh, Klaus Christmann, Harald Gullberg and Joseph Stevens were killed by the suspected serial killer between 1974 and 1975.Investigators named the suspect after discovering the killer lured his victims by promising to sketch them at gay bars and then inviting them to isolated places for a hookup where he would stab them in “rage killings,” the Standard reported.As part of the investigation, police found two more victims who survived a stabbing by “The Doodler” in 1975 at the Fox Plaza apartment where they lived.One of the victims told police the suspect-who said he was a cartoonist-was doodling while conversing with him in a late-night diner.

The victim ended up inviting the suspect back to his apartment where he was stabbed, per SFPD. The victim never returned to his apartment.He and other surviving victims were able to give a description to police that led to a forensic sketch of the suspect that was developed in 1975. “Investigators believed all the victims were targeted because they were gay, white adult males, and the victims met the suspect shortly before they were killed in isolated coastal locations,” police said in a recent statement to the San Francisco Chronicle.Victims described the alleged attacker as a handsome black man in his 20’s. One of the survivors identified his attacker and police brought a man in for questioning.“Once this ...