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Nearly 44 years after 13-year-old Sarah Geer was brutally raped and strangled to death in a Cloverdale alley, the girl’s murderer has been convicted, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office announced. On Friday, a Sonoma County jury found 66-year-old James Oliver Unick guilty of the May 23, 1982, murder and found true that he committed a sexual assault during the commission of murder. Unick was ultimately identified as the suspect and arrested on July 22, 2024, after a cigarette he had smoked was collected by FBI agents and analyzed to be a match of DNA evidence at the scene of...

SALEM - Police believe a Web site promoting Salem Willows Park as a meeting place for illicit gay activity has led to an increase in trespassing in the Fort Lee area. The Web site offers directions to the area, advice on where to park and suggests a "cruisy parking lot and nearby woods near Dead Horse Beach." After hearing complaints from neighbors, police have been targeting the area in recent weeks and have made several trespassing arrests over the summer. The wooded area, also known as Cannon Hills, is near the entrance to Salem Willows Park. "The people that frequent...