San Francisco Murder of Five Spotlights Asian Gambling Addiction

What drove Binh Thai Luc, 35, to be charged on March 27 with slaying five people in a San Francisco home on March 23? The grisly murders have rocked the city and left investigators and the public searching for a motive. “We’re not discussing any potential motive for these killings,” stated Omid Talai, spokesman for […]

Family maintains Le is alive as police classify case as murder

HAYWARD, Calif. (Bay City News Service) — Family members of missing nursing student Michelle Le said June 7 they think Le is still alive even though the Hayward Police Department is treating the case as a homicide. “We are not giving up on finding Michelle alive,” Le’s father, Son Le, said. Le, 26, went missing […]

Man charged with English teacher’s murder releases a book about his years on the run

The man charged with killing a young English conversation teacher in Japan in 2007 has released a book about the 31 months he spent avoiding capture. In March 2007, Lindsay Ann Hawker, a 22-year-old British teacher, met Tatsuya Ichihashi at a cafe for an English lesson. She’d expressed some misgivings about him to her friends, […]

$50K reward offered for Ashley Yamauchi murder case

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger approved the offer of a $50,000 reward in the Ashley Yamauchi homicide — which officials hope will provide new information that will lead to an arrest — a statement issued by the San Rafael Police Department in December 2010, said. The partially clad body of Yamauchi was […]

Woman, 23, murdered in SF Japantown

A young woman who was shot to death in San Francisco’s Japantown neighborhood on Thursday night has been identified by the San Francisco medical examiner’s office as Medina Abdulkader. Abdulkader, 23, of San Francisco, was killed at about 8:55 p.m. Nov. 25 near the intersection of Buchanan Street and Geary Boulevard, police Lt. Troy Dangerfield […]