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Created on 2012-01-01 20:15:15 (#1360199), last updated 2012-02-26 (686 weeks ago)
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| Birthdate: | May 5 |
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME |
| Paul Avery was an American police reporter, best known for his stories on the infamous serial killer known as the Zodiac, and later for his work on the Patricia Hearst kidnapping. He was born in Honolulu, the son of U.S. Navy officer. He was raised and educated in Honolulu, Oakland, California, and Washington, D.C.. Mr. Avery started his career in journalism in 1955 working at a variety of newspapers before joining the San Francisco Chronicle in 1959. In the mid-1980s, after working for the Sacramento Bee and writing a book about the Hearst kidnapping, he signed up with the then- Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner, where he stayed until his retirement in August 1994. Perhaps the most intense story of Mr. Avery's career was the Zodiac case, a series of killings -- unsolved to this day -- that began in October 1966 and ostensibly ended with the death of a San Francisco cab driver in October 1969. At the time, Mr. Avery was a police reporter at San Francisco Chronicle. For a long time, it was thought that the Zodiac's activities were limited to the Bay Area, but Mr. Avery discovered a 1966 murder in Riverside that he linked to the Zodiac. The Zodiac soon wrote Mr. Avery (misspelled by the Zodiac as "Averly") a Halloween card, warning, "You are doomed." The front of the card read, "From your secret pal: I feel it in my bones/you ache to know my name/and so I'll clue you in . . ." Then inside: "But why spoil the game?" Just as quickly as the threat was made public, someone made up hundreds of campaign-style buttons, worn by nearly everyone on The Chronicle staff, including Mr. Avery, that said, "I Am Not Paul Avery." It was during this time that Mr. Avery began carrying a .38 caliber revolver. When Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in February 1974, Mr. Avery joined forces with Chronicle reporter Vin McLellan to produce a series of stories detailing the kidnapping and writing about the members of the little-known band of revolutionaries called the Symbionese Liberation Army. Mr. Avery covered the Hearst case until the newspaper heiress-turned-bank robber was arrested in September 1975. Mr. Avery then holed up on his houseboat at Gate 5 in Sausalito with Boston writer Vin McLellan to write "The Voices of Guns," a book on the SLA and the Hearst kidnapping.." Despite his progressive illness (Mr. Avery suffered from emphysema) the strong-willed reporter carried on his life-long love of crime and journalism until the end of his life. After joining the Sacramento Bee in 1976, Mr. Avery discovered that authorities had wrongly charged an innocent man with murder and the reporter was instrumental in convincing detectives to drop the charges. He had two children from an earlier marriage, Charlie Avery and Cristin Moak. DISCLAIMER: This version of Paul Avery is from David Fincher's Zodiac, and is the property of Paramount and Warner Brothers Pictures. He appears here solely for the purpose of role-playing, from which no profit whatsoever is being made. This journal is not affiliated with the actual Paul Avery, or any of his family. |
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