![]() ![]() Some of the restaurant’s 70 employees favored nightcaps at Frank’s bar. “But I think she’s still fighting the insurance company.” Duggan is co-owner with husband, John, of the iconic, 70-year-old restaurant up the block on Taylor Street. “I just wish Marie would open up,” Frank says, pausing at the end of the bar in a reference to Marie Duggan, the co-owner of Original Joe’s restaurant. Jimmy Buffett’s nostalgic tequila anthem, “Margaritaville,” wafts from the jukebox. The bar’s colored advertising lights wink like a miniature carnival. The smell of old booze and damp clothes hangs in the sweet and sour air. Hole in the ’hood Tenderloin’s not the same without Joe’s BY T OM C ARTER P HOTOS BY L ENNY L IMJOCO light. O RIGINAL J OE’ S Frank, owner and night bartender at the 21 Club near Original Joe’s, sorely misses the restaurant and like so many in the neighborhood, hopes it will reopen. They coddle their beers in the dim Original Joe’s has been closed since a kitchen fire Oct. Bundled-up customers fill every bar stool. 76 PUBLISHED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER MARCH 2008 P.O., WE WON’T GO Residents protest for full post office PAGE 2 PLUSH MYSTERY SOLVED Stuffed animals’ lives find meaning PAGE 4 DISTRICT 6 DRUG CASES SOARING Grim stories told at TL Safety Forum PAGE 8 CENTRAL CITY S A N F R A N C I S C O EARLY on a miserably cold and wet night in January, Frank, owner and night bartender at the grungy 21 Club in the middle of the Tenderloin, is doing a brisk business. “I thought it was worth looking at.” There were sufficient fluids from the crime scene for the lab to exam- “People don’t realize what impact a murder has on a family.” SFPD COLD CASE UNIT ➤ CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 no. “I pulled the Mei Leung case because I remembered it from my days as a patrol officer when I was at Northern Station,” Pera later told The Extra. Sometimes, as the Mei Leung case was with Pera, it’s a poignant memory. What resurrects a cold case is new evidence or other new interest. He was arrested in Stockton after a match with DNA that had been worked out of evidence preserved from the old crime scene. Puckett had DNA on file from previous sex-offender convictions. The team recently solved a 36year-old case with the murder conviction of John Puckett, 74, a repeat sex offender, guilty of assaulting and stabbing to death a 22-year-old UCSF nurse in her Sunset District flat. But now, a chemical spray can pop up invisible prints. Bloody prints on a wall were always easy to take. DNA has been used in court more effectively than fingerprints since the 1990s, but Toomey said fingerprint technology has greatly advanced, too. Most felons arrested in California in the last two years have their DNA on file. ![]() Toomey and his partner Inspector Holly Pera work out of the Hall of Justice, relying heavily on lab work and a statewide DNA identification bank in Sacramento. Police believe she was sexually assaulted, stabbed and strangled. Holly Pera Mike went to the basement and found his sister dead, hanging over a water pipe naked and bloody. It was nearly 15 minutes before she noticed Mei was not around. Mike took the elevator upstairs alone and went inside the family’s apartment but didn’t say anything to his mother. Mei told her brother she was going into the basement and would look for the bill near the elevator. Police believe the bill blew under a door to the basement or somewhere inside the building. As they got close to the building’s steps Mei dropped a dollar bill. On April 10, 1984, Mei Leung and her 8-year-old brother, Mike, were returning home. DNA is expected to play a major role, if the special investigative unit created a year ago is to solve the case. The crime occurred nearly 24 year ago in the five-story apartment building at 765 O’Farrell St. Thawing cold cases Several slayings on SFPD hot list are in District 6 BY T OM C ARTER THE murder of a 9-year girl in her Tenderloin apartment building is among several cold cases in District 6 that homicide Inspector Joseph Toomey and his partner are investigating, Toomey told those assembled at the Tender - loin police captain’s meeting Feb.
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