San Francisco Chronicle
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The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded on January 16, 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers C
The San Francisco Chronicle's front page, April 22, 1906
The Old Chronicle Building, at 690 Market Street
The current Chronicle Building, at 901 Mission Street, was commissioned in 1924 and is pictured here in 2017.
Bill German (left), the Chronicle's editor emeritus, and Page One editor Jack Breibart in the newsroom, March 1994
Zodiac Killer
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The Zodiac Killer is an unidentified serial killer who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969. The Zodiac attacked three couples and a cab d
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…as Pierre Salinger, who later played a prominent role in national politics, and Paul Avery, the staffer who pursued the trail of the self-named "Zodiac Killer", who sent a cryptogram in three sections in letters to the Chronicle and two other papers during his murder spree in the late 1960s. It also featured…
Composite sketch made in 1969 based on eyewitness accounts of the Presidio Heights murder
David Arthur Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen
Darlene Ferrin
A 1966 photo of Ferrin and a man who resembles the Zodiac composite sketch from the Stine murder.