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I was the Union’s daytime police reporter from about mid-1987 until I left the paper in late 1989. While the Dorothea Puente boardinghouse murders dominated a lot of that period, there were still plenty of things happening that kept me busy. I couldn’t post everything I did during those years here, so I tried to focus on the mostly Page 1 stories and those that folks still seem to remember and talk about even today.

Martarano’s Archives

Cops and Crime Stories  1985-1989

I-5 Disaster/Sacramento Union/Oct. 7 1985

Confusion in Freeway Disaster/Sacramento Union/Oct. 8 1985

Tower Bridge Deaths/Sacramento Union/Sept. 26, 1987

Bridgetender Woman Talks/Sacramento Union/Sept. 30, 1987

DA Reviews Sex Allegations/Sacramento Union/Oct. 1, 1987

TV Weatherman Charged/Sacramento Union/Oct. 2, 1987

Postal Worker Murder-Suicide/Sacramento Union/Oct. 7, 1987

Murder Sets Record/Sacramento Union/Oct. 13, 1987

Downtown Pedestrian Killed/Sacramento Union/Oct. 14, 1987

3 Slain in South Area/Sacramento Union/Dec. 9, 1987

1987: Year of the Homicide/Sacramento Union/Jan. 2, 1988

Cops Kill Suspect/Sacramento Union/Jan. 6, 1988

Witnesses Back Police/Sacramento Union/Jan. 7, 1988

On the Trail of a Cop Killer/Sacramento Union/Jan. 26, 1988

Chance Encounter Leads to Death/Sacramento Union/Jan. 28, 1988

Program Focuses on Suspect/Sacramento Union/March, 1988

TV Program Nabs Suspect/Sacramento Union/March 24, 1988

TV Suspect Returned/Sacramento Union/March 25, 1988

4 Saved, 1 Dies in Fire/Sacramento Union/April 14, 1988

Sniper Kills Walker/Sacramento Union/May 14, 1988

Slaying Victim was Still Devastated/Sacramento Union/May 1988

Kidnapping Called Rare/Sacramento Union/June 8, 1988

Tension, Sightings Grow/Sacramento Union/July 12, 1988

Triple Murder Suspect Freed/Sacramento Union/July 12, 1988

Young Shooting Tragedies/Sacramento Union/Aug. 15, 1988

Paper Leads to Arrest/Sacramento Union/March 17, 1989

Crash at Executive/Sacramento Union/July 7, 1989

Crash Victims Happy to Be Alive/Sacramento Union/July 9, 1989

His Dad's Killer/Sacramento Union/Nov. 23, 1989