Andrew Chamings
Editor-at-Large at SFGate
british journalist in california. @sfgate editor-at-large. also @theatlantic, @vice, @longreads. I write about crime and history and misfits and buildings
Articles
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4 days ago |
sfgate.com | Andrew Chamings
Almost 50 years after a Bay Area high school teacher was stabbed to death while cleaning her classroom for the summer break, her killer has been named. On June 16, 1978, Diane Peterson, a 26-year-old English teacher at Branham High School in San Jose, was stabbed in the chest in the school corridor. Peterson ran, screaming, across the campus after the attack, as her assailant fled.
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1 week ago |
sanluisobispo.com | Andrew Chamings
May 29-A breakthrough has been made in the strange disappearance of a mother and daughter in Northern California, nine months after they were last seen - Authorities have now reported that a vehicle and human remains were found in a remote part of Shasta County. On July 21, 2024, Dolores Sakamoto, 84, and her daughter Vivian Luna, 64, were reported missing by a neighbor on East Avenue in Chico after the pair did not return from church.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Andrew Chamings
A breakthrough has been made in the strange disappearance of a mother and daughter in Northern California, nine months after they were last seen — Authorities have now reported that a vehicle and human remains were found in a remote part of Shasta County. On July 21, 2024, Dolores Sakamoto, 84, and her daughter Vivian Luna, 64, were reported missing by a neighbor on East Avenue in Chico after the pair did not return from church.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff |Gabe Lehman |Olivia Hebert |Andrew Chamings
To keep track of hyperlocal moments like these, we started Fogcutter, SFGATE’s weekly column of odds and ends. Every week, our journalists trawl through the Bay Area to report from bookstores, dive bar concerts and block parties to deliver a snapshot of local life between the headlines.
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2 weeks ago |
modbee.com | Andrew Chamings
May 21-Over a year after she was reported missing, a 43-year-old California woman's remains have been found buried in the desert. A man has now been arrested and is suspected of murder. Tyna Castillo was last heard from in December 2023. In February 2024, friends told authorities that she had not returned messages and reported her missing to the Colorado River Sheriff's Station in San Bernardino County.
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In 1959 a bloodied and beaten woman approached the front steps of one of the most famous homes in San Francisco. The person who saved her vanished a few years later. The identification of the ‘Marin County Jane Doe’ has unraveled a decades long mystery https://t.co/6sMXlENb0C
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