In 1995, a beautiful rocket scientist-turned-stripper, Suzette McClure, killed her womanizing record promoter boyfriend, Charlie Minor, after finding him in bed with another woman.
In 1977, TK Harty was found shot to death in the office in his pub after he had served John Mooney, a business man in Harty's complex, with eviction papers.
In 1988, Berkeley's most radical city waterfront commissioner, Enrique Zambrano, was accused of savagely beating neighbor and friend, Berkeley professor Robert Mishell and is wife/lab assistant Barbara. When fellow waterfront commissioner Luis Reyna went to the police with incriminating information against Zambrano, Reyna was found dead only a week later.
In 1992, Dr. Rebecca Johnson was discovered missing after Alan Johnson, a con man allegedly working with Dr. Johnson to get money from the southern mafia, was found in an airport with a million dollars in cash.
In 1995, Tina Biggars disappeared one night after a date with her boyfriend Ken Trachida. Her body was discovered after Trachida confessed to killing Biggars, and Biggars double life as a grad student and prostitute came to life.
In 1988, a North Carolina State University student, Chris Pritchard, tried to live out his obsession with the fantasy game Dungeons and Dragons when he shot his mother and father-in-law, Bonnie and Lieth Von Stein.
In 1996, shortly before taking office as county prosecutor, Paul Gains, a vocally anti-mafia politician, was shot in his home by an intruder, and an investigation led the police to the link between Gains' murder and the top gangster in town, Lenny Stollo.
In 1984, the police received a 911 call from Sueann Ocrant saying her husband, Lawrence, had shot himself. When the police got to the Ocrant house, Lawrence was dead and suspicion turned to Sueann ad her story.
In 1996, Bobbi Holman was found dead in her bathtub, and , after the police started investigating her husband, Neil Williams, and his long-time mistress, Kathy Beach, were the prime suspects.
In 1997, Dr. John Malmstrom is found dead of five gunshot wounds in his house, and his wife, Geraldine, is the main suspect when her alibi falls through and the murder weapon is discovered to belong to her family.
