5 Encouraged by new attention in the cold-case investigation of a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco's gay community in the 1970s, police will announce Thursday that they are doubling the reward to $200,000 for information leading to the capture and conviction of the notorious "Doodler." The announcement will come 48 years to the day after the first victim was found lying at the water's edge off Ocean Beach on Jan. 27, 1974. The San Francisco Police Department is also expected to confirm it is adding a probable sixth victim to the total of gay men whose bodies were found along beaches and parklands on the western edge of the city in 1974 and 1975. The five known victims were stabbed to death, but the newly identified victim — a 52-year-old lawyer named Warren Andrews — was beaten with a rock and a tree branch. Andrews was left for dead on April 27, 1975, beneath overhanging brush at Lands End. He died of his injuries seven weeks after the attack, and wasn't considered a potential Doodler victim until 2021, when police investigators and Chronicle reporters looked deeply into his case. It turned out there were enough similarities to link Andrews… Read full this story
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