MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Hugues de la Plaza
When a 36-year-old man is found stabbed to death in his apartment, it’s just the beginning of a locked room mystery that has his family convinced he was murdered, but the police convinced it might be something far stranger…
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Hugues’ father, who traveled to San Francisco from France to advocate for his son’s death as a homicide.
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Episode Source Material
- CBS News: 48 Hours: A Case For Murder (season 23, episode 7).
- Maville by Ouest France (Brest, France): Suspicious death of a Finisterian in San Francisco.
- SF Weekly (San Francisco, CA): Who Killed Hugues de la Plaza? by SF Weekly Staff.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Homicide or suicide? Man’s death a mystery by Jaxon Van Derbeken.
- Yahoo News (Sunnyvale, CA): French police come to Calif. to look into mysterious death by Jason Dearden via AP News.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): A city that knows how … to shrug by Caille Millner.
- Le Figaro (Paris, France): The death of a Frenchman in California, worthy of a thriller by San Francisco, Armelle Vincent.
- Le Journal du Dimanche (Paris, France): Suicide by three stab wounds by Jean-Pierre Verges.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Frustration With San Francisco Police by Karl Vick.
- San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA): French investigators launch probe into mysterious death by Examiner Staff.
- SF Weekly (San Francisco, CA): Stiffed by SF Weekly Staff.
- Paris Match (Paris, France): Who killed Hugues de la Plaza? by David Le Bailly and in San Francisco, Olivier O’Mahony.
- Le Journal du Dimanche (Paris, France): $100,000 to solve a murder by Jean-Pierre Verges.
- East Bay Times (Walnut Creek, CA): International whodunit: Parents ask SFPD to revive probe into son’s death by Bay Area News Group.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): French findings in mysterious S.F. death by Jaxon Van Derbeken.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Gascón brings in L.A. cops on high-profile case by Jaxon Van Derbeken.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): New look at S.F. stabbing leans toward suicide by Jaxon Van Derbeken.
- SF Weekly (San Francisco, CA): Murder or Suicide? by SF Weekly Staff.
- ABC 7 News (Glendale, CA): LAPD looks at French national’s death by ABC7.
- San Francisco Bay Guardian (San Francisco, CA): Mystery of the missing de la Plaza coroner’s report by Sarah Phelan.
- Hoodline (San Francisco, CA): In Pursuit of Justice: The Story of Hugues de la Plaza by Elizabeth Nolan.
- ABC 7 News (San Francisco, CA): New Twist in 2-year-old SF homicide by ABC7.
- SF Weekly (San Francisco, CA): Once a joke, SFPD is actually solving murders these days by SF Weekly Staff.
- The Collector (Montreal, QC, Canada ): Hara-kiri: The Samurai Ritual of Seppuku by Michael Smathers.
- Original Medical Examiners’ Report.
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