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A Serial Killer Across Four States: DNA Links Ricky Dawson to a 1992 San Francisco Murder

COLD CASES SOLVED by Circle Of Insight Productions

Jul 31, 20262:55True Crime

After more than three decades, San Francisco prosecutors have charged Ricky Dawson in the 1992 rape and strangulation of Nancy Hernandez, a 45-year-old woman found dead in a Chinatown alley. Dawson, already serving life...

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