Chief Responds/Sacramento Union/Nov. 17, 1988

 
This Page 3 story was totally overshadowed by what happened at 10:30 p.m. the night before and covered by the Union’s night police reporter Bill Crosby -- Dorothea Puente was finally captured. Chief Kearns’ admission that police erred by allowing the main suspect to get away set off a chain of internal events that roiled the department.