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...from the bank. He got 16 years for that, but thanks to California's rules mandating early release for good behavior, Davis served only half; emerging just in time, if his confession is to be believed, to relax at a bucolic, vine-decorated "transitional living" facility in San Mateo County before arriving in Polly Klaas' bedroom with his knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robbing the Innocents | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...other women, bisexuality is a late discovery. "Many never had any sexual attraction to other women," notes psychiatrist Tim Wolf of San Diego. "But now they are in their 30s or 50s, and they fall in love with a particular woman." Lani Kaahumanu was a typical San Mateo, Calif., housewife, wed to her high school sweetheart for 11 years and the mother of two children. With the women's movement of the '70s, "all of a sudden there was this freedom to love women," says Kaahumanu, 48. She divorced and for four years lived what she calls a "very public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bisexuality What Is It? | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

FORENSIC SCIENCE. Amplified by PCR, the DNA in a single sperm cell can link a suspect to a rape victim. Theoretically, a single epithelial cell found in saliva can be traced back to the person who, say, licked a stamp on a letter bomb. In California's San Mateo County, charges against a man arrested and jailed for a brutal rape were dropped in 1988 after a PCR test showed he could not have been the attacker. A year later another man was arrested in another rape case. Not only did a DNA marker make him a suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ultimate Gene Machine | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Caring for such infants is frustrating. "You don't do things that come naturally," notes Diane Carleson, a foster mother in San Mateo, Calif. "The more you bounce them and coo at them, the more they arch their backs to get away. Their poor mothers want so badly to make contact, yet they are headed for rejection unless they learn how not to overstimulate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack Kids: Innocent Victims | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...murder from Susan Nason's older sister Shirley, who was present when the police visited the Nason family after the body had been found. A curious fact that can be used to different effect by both sides is that Eileen's older sister Janice went to San Mateo County authorities five years ago with her own suspicions about their father's involvement in the Nason murder. Police said they did not have enough to go on, and no investigation was pursued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daddy's Little Girl | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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