Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a string of brutal crimes. In the retelling, the cold jargon of police files leaps starkly to life. The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco. “ pounding narrative meticulously describes the so-called Zebra killings of 1973–74, when 23 white San Franciscans were murdered or maimed by a group of Black Muslim extremists. They were members of a Black Muslim cult aspiring to earn the title “Death Angel” by slaughtering white victims.Ĭombining history and dramatic recreations, this is the “repellent but riveting” in-depth story of a horrifying killing spree and the fanatical hatred that drove it-and the SFPD’s desperate quest to take the culprits down (Kirkus Reviews). It took months before the culprits could be identified, with the help of an informer. According to Clark Howard, the author of the definitive work on the Zebra killings, Zebra: The true account of the 179 days of terror in San Francisco (1979), Manney lent his black Cadillac to the murderers, who used it in several of the killings. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket lightly bumped/scuffed, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib, owner impression front endpaper-20.00-ISBN 10: 0399900500ISBN 13: 9780399900501. The streets became deserted and tourism plunged.

Their victims ranged from a teenage Salvation Army cadet to a middle-aged Jordanian grocer to an eighty-one-year-old janitor. In the early 1970s, a small band of well-dressed, clean-cut African American men began terrorizing the residents of San Francisco with guns and machetes.

Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a string of brutal crimes committed in the name of religious fanaticism and racial hatred in 1970s San Francisco. The Zebra Killings Clark Howard In 1970s America, a gang of hate-filled fanatics in a vilely bigoted religious cult slaughtered their way through an unknown number of innocent victims who were chosen purely for the colour of their skin.

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