Tracy Torture Case: You’ve probably all read about the horrific case of a 16-year-old boy who turned up at a Tracy fitness center, shivering, bloodied, and clad… Read more “Suburban Crime Roundup: Bound, Shackled, Jail-Suited Defendents in Court for Tracy Torture Case; Update on Lafayette Reservoir Killing”
Category: Suburban Crime
UPDATE: Man Convicted of 1978 Murder In Case Of Mom Killed While Jogging at Lafayette Reservoir
The Contra Costa Times reported that a jury this week convicted a 72-year-old man of first-degree murder in the 1978 slaying of a Lafayette woman. Darryl Kemp… Read more “UPDATE: Man Convicted of 1978 Murder In Case Of Mom Killed While Jogging at Lafayette Reservoir”
Suburban communities are reeling from two cases of horrific long-term abuse of kids that took place without neighbors apparently knowing
News reports were filled this week with the tragic cases of two teen-agers who had been imprisoned in suburban homes for nearly a year or more and… Read more “Suburban communities are reeling from two cases of horrific long-term abuse of kids that took place without neighbors apparently knowing”
Claycord.com Reports Suburban Mom Slain in San Mateo Was From Concord
The Mayor of Claycord has learned that the 24-year-old woman killed by a stalker after handing her small kids out of her San Mateo home to police… Read more “Claycord.com Reports Suburban Mom Slain in San Mateo Was From Concord”
Walnut Creek mom charged with holding Peruvian nanny as indentured servant
Apparently, it happens more than we’d like to think in affluent communities like Walnut Creek: locals bringing in people from poor countries to work for them in… Read more “Walnut Creek mom charged with holding Peruvian nanny as indentured servant”
Man stopped at gas station in Walnut Creek says he was carcjacked, kidnapped, robbed
Hmm. Sorry, to sound wary, but I gotta wonder about this alleged victim’s version of events. But maybe I’m just being a jaded former crime reporter. Anyway,… Read more “Man stopped at gas station in Walnut Creek says he was carcjacked, kidnapped, robbed”
Anti-Obama hate crimes in Pleasanton and elsewhere around the United States
This was reported in the Contra Costa Times this past week, that the home of a family in the suburb of Pleasanton, just south of my hometown… Read more “Anti-Obama hate crimes in Pleasanton and elsewhere around the United States”
Suburban dad arrested in Silicon Valley tech firm shooting spree that leaves three dead
An engineer and father of three, just laid off from a Silicon Valley semiconductor startup, was arrested Saturday for allegedly opening fire at his workplace the day… Read more “Suburban dad arrested in Silicon Valley tech firm shooting spree that leaves three dead”
Suburban Robbery Spree
Maybe the financial crisis has worried some people enough to resort to robbery to earn some extra $$$. Or maybe these malcontents are seeing how excutives from… Read more “Suburban Robbery Spree”
My Local Safeway Robbed!
So reports my favorite local news blog, Claycord.com: Early this morning, some guy, pretending to be buying stuff at the Safeway in my hometown of Walnut Creek,… Read more “My Local Safeway Robbed!”
Crazy in Suburbia 