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The Gary Murphy Assassination, A San Francisco Cold Case

The Gary Murphy Assassination, A San Francisco Cold Case

Auteur(s): Mike Spencer
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Former reporter turned private investigator Mike Spencer looks at a case of his from 1998. A gunman killed Murphy one morning at a halfway house in a quiet neighborhood near the ocean. Murphy, a biker and three time convicted felon, tried to escape by running through a window. He died at the scene. Spencer had Murphy under surveillance in a child custody case three months before the death. Did Murphy's criminal past catch up to him or was it the private eye's former client, Grandma, who orchestrated the hit? A.C. Thompson of ProPublica and Murphy's daughter join Spencer to discuss the case. Spencer fights San Francisco Police in a public records battle to win not only the case file to the crime but the witness and suspect audio interviews from the time. True Crime
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  • Ep. 7: The Snitch and The Suspects tapes, The Gary Murphy Assassination
    Jan 2 2026

    Host/private eye Mike Spencer airs parts of the tapes from the case file. These interviews have never been heard by the public. Spencer won the tapes in 2025 after a five-year battle with the San Francisco Police Department. The tapes are part of the case file from the June 12, 1998 murder of the ex-con biker.

    Police seemed to have overwhelming evidence against Murphy's enemy in a child custody case, the grandmother of Murphy's then 6-year-old daughter. Murphy had been winning in family law court against grandma at the time of his death. An informant arrested in a notrorious Piedmont home invasion rape told police that the grandmother had hired the hitman and the getaway driver through grandma's then boyfriend.

    The tapes reveal the desperation of the informant to try to get out of custody before giving police a more detailed statement. The two San Francisco detectives grilled the informant, the gunman, the driver, and grandma's boyfriend but they could not get a confesstion out of the suspects. Police would later lose the phone records and no one was ever arrested or charged with Murphy's murder.

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    56 min
  • Episode 6: SF Police Interviews Vol. 1, The Gary Murphy Assassination
    Sep 11 2025

    Host/Private Eye Mike Spencer's five-year battle to obtain records in the case pays off when police release audio of witness and suspect interviews to him. It's the first time the public has ever heard these tapes. It's clear that as early as a day after the June 12, 1998, shooting death of biker and ex-con Murphy, police had the name of the prime suspect. Witnesses referred to her as Grandma, the woman Murphy had battled for custody of this then 6-year-old daughter.

    The episode contains interviews of Murphy's brother and sister, who flew out to San Francisco for his wake. A close friend of Murphy's tells detectives that while Murphy got in fights and used to sell drugs, he does not believe Murf's criminal past played a part in the murder. The friend also lays out how the grandmother was mad at Murphy because her daughter, the mother of Murphy's child, had died from an accidental drug overdose.

    Towards the end, detectives interview grandma. She blames Murphy's lifestyle for his demise and brags about her knowledge of the criminal justice system. However, as the case file reveals, we know that grandma soon fled back to her native Canada with Murphy's daughter.

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    38 min
  • Episode 5: The Case File is Released. The Gary Murphy Assassination
    Oct 1 2024

    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.

    The case file confirms his initial theory: his former client hired the killers as she was losing a custody battle to Murphy for her then 6-year-old granddaughter.

    Did sloppiness of the orgininal detectives doom a prosecution? Possibly. Spencer finds the file to be unorganized despite containing some strong evidence in the forms of ballistics and from witnesses. The case file details that the Murphy suspects were also tied to a notorious home invasion and sexual assault of a pregnant mother that occurred a week after Murphy's murder.

    Another detective took up the case in 2012 and within two months had prepared an arrest affidavit for suspects. The case bounces around among prosecutors but ultimately the District Attorney opted not to charge despite considerable corroboration of details in the conspiracy.

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    39 min
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