The Gary Murphy Assassination, A San Francisco Cold Case

In this San Francisco investigative podcast episode, I dive into the snitch tapes and the suspet lineup,and discuss implications for the Gary Murphy case.  The tapes are part of the case file from the June 12, 1998 murder of the ex-con biker. It's a rare true crime murder podcast. Police seemed to have overwhelming evidence against Murphy's enemy in a child custody case, the grandmother of Murphy'...

This San Francisco investigative podcast reviews SF Police interviews Vol. 1 and what they reveal about the Gary Murphy case.  Host/Private Eye Mike Spencer's five-year battle to obtain records in the case pays off when police release audio of witness and suspect interviews to him. It's the first time the public has ever heard these tapes. It's clear that as early as a day after the June 12, 1998,...

In this San Francisco investigative podcast, true crime podcast host Spencer reviews his win of a public records battle that he has fought for five years. After several attorneys turned him down to represent him vs. San Francisco Police, the police legal division voluntarily released the case file on the 1998 uncharged murder case. The file does not hold back. It names the killers involved in the...

Host Mike Spencer private eye escalates his records battle with the DA and Police Department by the San Francisco Sunshine Records Ordinance Task Force. He addresses the Task Force committee, who will decide whether the full task force will hear his arguments for obtaining records in the June 1998 murder for hire of ex con Gary Murphy, gunned down in a halfway house he managed near Ocean Beach. Sp...

Host Mike Spencer private eye shines the light on the prime suspect in the broad daylight slaying of Gary Murphy, the grandmother who fought Murphy for custody of his then 6-year-old daughter. This is the 25th anniversary of the June 12, 1998, killing when a gunman chased Murphy through a halfway house that he managed near Ocean Beach in San Francisco, shooting him twice in the back. The hitman ra...

Host Mike Spencer obtains a San Francisco Police detective memo and copy of a returned search warrant regarding the June 12, 1998, murder for hire of independent biker Gary Vincent Murphy. However, the 6-page memo that details the police investigation ultimately just leads to more question than answers. Spencer also shares how suspects in the Murphy shooting death were also charged in a notorious...

Former reporter turned private eye Mike Spencer looks back at a case of his from 1998. Gary Murphy, a three-time convicted felon, came to the door of the halfway house he managed in San Francisco's quiet Outer Sunset District. A man wanted information about the program. When Murphy turned his back to get a business card, the man shot him twice in the back. In a panic, Murphy jumped through a secon...