Ward Anderson, surviving but in serious condition after being shot down at a city bus stop. Linda Story, surviving with nerve damage in her back. Roxanne McMillian, surviving but paralyzed from the waist down. “Ellen Linder,”, raped, ravaged, threatened with death.Īrthur Agnos, surviving after his insides were ripped up by bullets.Īngela Roselli, surviving with nerve damage in her back. I inserted ellipses, because Howard’s list contains both those who were murdered and those who were grievously wounded in San Francisco. The above passage is from Clark Howard’s 1979 book, Zebra: The true account of the 179 days of terror in San Francisco. Thomas Rainwater, shot down on the street as he walked to a market….Īnd Nelson Shields IV, shot three times in the back as he was straightening out the cargo deck on his station wagon. Jane Holly, murdered in a public Laundromat…. John Bambic, murdered while rummaging in a trash bin. Vincent Wollin, murdered on his sixty-ninth birthday. Tana Smith, murdered on her way to buy blouse material.

John Doe #169, kidnapped, tortured, butchered, decapitated. Mildred Hosler, shot down while walking toward her bus stop. Neal Moynihan, shot down while taking a teddy bear to his little sister. Ilario Bertuccio, killed while walking home from work…. Marietta DiGirolamo, thrown into a doorway and shot to death. Paul Dancik, shot down at a public telephone…. October 20 marked the 32nd anniversary of the beginning of the “Zebra Killings” in San Francisco.įrances Rose, her face blown apart by close-range gunshots. Like homicide detectives, journalists speak for the dead. If heinous crimes are forgotten or disappeared, a second injustice is added to the original crimes.

Zebra by Clark Howard