Throughout the year of 1974 to 1975 an African American male suspected to be between the years of 19 to 22 years, tall, slim and between 5’10’’ and 6 feet. In bloody year, the African American male scouts the San Francisco area looking for gay males. It is believed that his MO was homosexuals, he then doodles his victims (this it is how he got his name The Doodler or The Black Doodler) that he is interested in and stalks, harass and even rapes his victims before he kill them. Investigators noticed that all of the victims that were murdered all had stabbed wounds. Through just one year, the African American male killed over 14 men and assaulted 3.
The 3 men who were assaulted escaped and survived. The 3 men did not testify against The Doodler because coming out in the 70’s
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During the investigation, through autopsy investigators only found out that all of The Doodlers victims had multiple stab wounds with a knife and that incisions were deep in to the skin. From sources there weren’t anything to look at due to lack of evidence due to when the crime was committed when technology wasn't reliable. With no advanced technology there were not enough forensic tests to be done. Today if it was a option to open the case or to leave the case closed it would be better just to leave it closed for many reasons such costs. Investigating a murderous crime cost is very high. “ Then there is murder. The researchers, led by sociologist Matt DeLisi, put the price tag at a whopping $17,252,656. That means in 2009, according to the FBI, murder cost the United States almost $263 billion—nearly as much the federal government annually spends on Medicaid.” (Lowrey,2010,p. 3) IF the case were to be be open San Francisco would be in debt and San Francisco would request more taxes to be able to pay to investigate further. There is no new