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Man Sentenced to Life for 1978 Murder of San Francisco Teenager

Original: Man Gets Life Sentence for Strangling 15-Year-Old Girl in San Francisco in 1978 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/us/sa

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for strangling 15-year-old Marissa Harvey in San Francisco in 1978. The sentencing, reported by the New York Times, closes a decades-old cold case that went unsolved for nearly half a century before investigators identified the killer. Details of how the case was cracked have not been widely reported, but the outcome is drawing attention as an example of long-delayed justice in a decades-old killing.

Why now: The conviction of a decades-old cold case murder after nearly 50 years is striking news of delayed justice

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• Man Gets Life Sentence for Strangling 15-Year-Old Girl in San Francisco in 1978 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/us/san-francisco-marissa-harvey-murder-sentencing.html # Crime # Justice # California · nyt_us@robot.villas · 1

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