BREAKING NEWS
Duffy’s front page coverage included the 1978 city hall killings, the shocking trial of Dan White, the Zebra murders, the Patty Hearst kidnap, taunting letters from the Zodiac killer, and life as an embedded reporter with fire fighters and homicide detectives.
Riding with Engine Co. 21
“You should do it. Live with them, work their shifts, fight fires with them, hang out in the firehouse, sleep and eat there, find out what it’s like every day.”
City Hall Assassinations
Looking over the anxious group of reporters in front of her, Feinstein fixes her gaze on me, her eyes drilling into mine as if we’re having a private meeting.
Dan White Trial
Mayor Dianne Feinstein, whose testimony at the trial reduced the stone-faced White to tears, greeted the verdicts with “disbelief.”
Dan White Cover
The Chronicle’s front page from May 22, 1979, covers the verdict in the trial of Dan White, the former supervisor who shot dead two of the city’s top officials.
40 Years of Zodiac
I looked much more carefully around corners, behind us, in parked cars and into the eyes of passing strangers.
Zodiac vs. The City Desk
When David Fincher’s film, “Zodiac,” opened in 2007, the Chronicle asked me to write about the mood inside the paper during the serial killer’s reign of terror.
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