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This series contains depictions of violent assault and murder. Listener discretion is advised 4am on July 7, 1974, a little more than five months after the murder of Gerald Kavanaugh, only 10 days after the murder of Joseph J. Stevens, the sun was still below the horizon and the waning moon was hanging over the Pacific where the sea meets the sand. 49 year old Taube Weiss was walking on Ocean beach with her German shepherd Moondance before she went to work. And all of a sudden I see.
Taube Weiss (1:34)
The dog was smelling running, running I couldn't figure out. So I was walking, running after the dog.
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She chased Moondance over some sand dunes and that's when she saw him, a man lying face down on the beach. She called the police, she gave her name, but she didn't wait around for them to show up. Taube was a survivor of Auschwitz. She told me a body didn't shock her. One of the inspectors on the scene that morning wore a signature bow tie and brown leather shoulder holster. His name was David Taske, a charismatic cop well known for his work on the Zodiac case. Standing on this beach in front of this particular murder scene. It was too early to tell whether Toschi was looking at the work of someone like the Zodiac, a serial killer, but there were signs this killing was especially brutal. The victim's throat was slashed in three places and he had been stabbed at least 15 times. The cops were not immediately able to identify the body. He had no ID on him, finger and dental records didn't bring back any names. The victim was wearing a tan leather jacket, blue jeans and orange bikini briefs. Police found a makeup tube in his pocket and a gold wedding ring on his finger. But based on his clothes, the makeup tube and the fact that Ocean beach was a known cruising spot. Inspectors wrote that the victim had homosexual propensities. A pattern was emerging. This was the third man stabbed to death at a gay hookup spot within six months. The murders were especially brutal rage killings with no clear motive but to kill. A few weeks after Dave Toske saw that body on the beach, the city's crusading gay newspaper, the San Francisco Sentinel, published an article, police investigating Link in three Recent stabbings. In the article, the police listed the names of Gerald Kavanaugh and Joseph Stevens, two men they described, with that language I mentioned before, homosexual propensities. And the cops wanted help from Sentinel readers, help identifying this third victim. Altogether. You might think the SFPD was hot on the Doodler's trail. But that wasn't the case at all. This murder and the two before it were sidelined in a big way. Kevin I'm Kevin Fagan and from the San Francisco Chronicle, Ugly Duckling films and Neon Hum Media, this is the untold story of the Doodler.
