Zebra murders

 

The "Zebra" murders were a string of racially motivated murders and related attacks committed by a group of four black serial killers in San Francisco, California, United States, from October 1973 to April 1974;  they killed at least 15 white people and wounded eight others. Police gave the case the name "Zebra" after the special police radio band they assigned to the investigation.

Some authorities believe that the Death Angels, as the perpetrators called themselves, may have killed as many as 73 or more victims since 1970.

Richard Hague, 30, and his wife, Quita, 28, were abducted at gunpoint and forced into a van Quita Hague's body was found nearly decapitated, over 4 miles away, on a railroad track. Richard Hague, who had been beaten unconscious, was later found wandering near her body with his hands bound and his head and face slashed. He survived and gave police description about the attackers.

On October 30, 1973, Frances Rose, 28, was shot repeatedly in her car. A witness to theshooting said a man sitting in the passenger seat shot Rose and then jumped out of her car.