The hunt for 'The Doodler,' 1970s serial killer who targeted gay men; reward now at $200K

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It remains one of San Francisco's most notorious cold case murders that's never been solved, but investigators think they are close. 'The Doodler' was a serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1970s, and has never been caught.

SAN FRANCISCO -- It remains one of San Francisco's most notorious cold case murders that's never been solved, but investigators think they are close."The Doodler" was a serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1970s, and has never been caught.

Police have two sketches of the man that for the past 48 years San Francisco police have called the Doodler.He frequented gay bars in the Castro and in the Polk Gulch including this one, the Cinch Saloon, still around today and investigators say, in the 70s, one of the Doodler's so called hunting grounds.

Fagan told me that was the Doodler's pick up line and that's how, police say, he managed to lure and kill gay men including 27 year-old Jae Stevens who was found brutally stabbed at Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park.We found Jae's sister Melissa Stevens who lives in the North Bay.

 

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