Matthias Gafni

3 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Matthias Gafni

Patrick McMillan, 81, is pushed in his wheelchair outside the courthouse in Fairfield. McMillan testified ahead of the murder trial in the killing of a Vallejo landlord he called his best friend. Sarah McGrew/SF ChronicleA key witness in the murder trial of two Zizian associates testified in graphic detail Tuesday about the 2022 attack on his best friend, Vallejo landlord Curtis Lind, but acknowledged that multiple strokes and heart attacks have ravaged his memory.

4 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Matthias Gafni |Susie Neilson

At least three priests who by the church’s definition faced credible accusations of sexually abusing minors stayed on the San Francisco Archdiocese’s list of clergy members with full status for years, including one, David Ghiorso, who faced five credible abuse accusations and remains on the good standing list.

1 month ago | fresnobee.com | Matthias Gafni

Walking into court humming a song and wearing his long black hair in two ponytails, Maximilian Snyder pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to murdering Vallejo landlord Curtis Lind with a knife to keep him from testifying in another homicide case. It took two months since his arrest for Snyder, an associate of the cultlike "Zizians," to enter a plea and find an attorney. He is accused of stabbing to death the 80-year-old Lind in January in front of his Vallejo trailer yard.

2 months ago | sfchronicle.com | Matthias Gafni

As bailiffs wheeled Alexander Leatham out in a wheelchair Friday afternoon, the murder defendant and "Zizian" associate began screaming what has become her ritual chant over the past two years. "This is a show trial to coordinate the genocide of transgender people!" Leatham, who is a transgender woman and uses female pronouns, repeated dozens of times inside a Solano County courtroom.

2 months ago | sacbee.com | Matthias Gafni

From a march and rally at Yosemite National Park to a protest hike at Muir Woods National Monument to a demonstration near the crater of Haleakala National Historic Park on Maui, fed-up rangers and supporters of the country's park system gathered Saturday to fight the "illegal firings" of full-time and seasonal workers.