PRESIDIO STRANGLER August 30 1965 Diane Gerrish Murder Presidio San Francisco
August 30 1965, Diane Gerrish was found murdered in the Presidio of San Francisco. She was strangled with a garrote fashioned from her stockings and bra. Her face was beaten beyond recognition and her clothes were pulled up over her head. A black sapphire ring she wore was missing from her finger. Joseph DeAngelo returned from his first tour of Vietnam aboard the USS Canberra in August 1965. On September 24 1965 the USS Canberra hosted an open house at Pier 50 in San Francisco. Four years later former Exeter resident Paul Stine was murdered in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco on October 11 1969 by the Zodiac. The Zodiac sent a piece of Stine’s bloody shirt to the SF Chronicle along with a letter in which he claims to have hid in the Presidio while police searched. A man was seen running into the Presidio at Julius Kahn Playground after the murder. Is the Zodiac the Presidio Strangler?
August 30 1965 Diane Gerrish Murder San Francisco, CA
 
 
September 24 1965 USS Canberra Open House San Francisco, CA
October 22 1965 Joseph DeAngelo in Long Beach California
October 13 1969 Zodiac Letter about the Presidio San Francisco, CA
September 6 1970 Donna Lass missing South Lake Tahoe, CA. Victim works at Letterman Army Hospital in the Presidio.
PRESIDIO FREAK
May 29 1973 Rosa Vasquez Murder San Francisco, CA
Rosa Vasquez worked in the Presidio at the Letterman Hospital just like Donna Lass
July 2 1973 Angela Thomas Murder San Francisco, CA
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