Episode 5: The Case File is Released. The Gary Murphy Assassination

Host Mike Spencer prevails in a 5-year public records battle for the release of the San Francisco police files in the 1998 murder conspiracy of independent biker and ex-con Gary Murphy. The episode details the case against Spencer's former client, the grandmother of a little girl who battled Murphy for custody. This is the first time case details have come to light in the June 1998 murder. Despite considerable evident, police made no arrests and no one was charged in the death by the San Francisco District Attorney.

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Episode 5: The Case File is Released. The Gary Murphy Assassination

Spencer private eye, the host, wins a public records battle on the case 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 conspiracy and details how prosecutors at least twice declined to charge anyone connected to the broad daylight shooting of the 41-year-old biker. T...

Oct 01, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode 4: Fighting the SF DA and Police for Records, Gary Murphy Assassination

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. Spencer has obtained some records that suggest his ex client was behind the murder, hiring two former ...

Mar 11, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode 3: Combative Grandma, Gary Murphy Assassination

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 ran to an awaring getaway car. The grandmother is Spencer's former client. Spencer digs deeper into gr...

Jun 08, 2023•34 min

Episode 2, Gary Murphy Assassination, An Intriguing Police Memo and a Search Warrant

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 Piedmont sex assault and robbery of a woman in June 1998. Until this podcast, no media has ever link...

Nov 22, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 2

The Gary Murphy Assassination, A San Francisco Cold Case

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 second floor window trying to escape. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The gunman fled to an awaiting...

Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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