Klaus Achim Claus Christmann, a 31-year-old German-American immigrant, was found murdered on July 7, 1974, at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. His body was discovered fully clothed by a woman walking her dog. Christmann had been stabbed multiple times and his throat was slashed several times, a level of violence described as greater than that seen in earlier related victims.

Christmann had arrived in San Francisco in April 1974 after managing a bar in Germany. He was last seen the night before his death at Bojangles, a gay dance club in the Tenderloin. Investigators connected his killing to a series attributed to an unidentified offender known as The Doodler, who targeted men met at gay clubs and was said to have sketched victims before killing them. Christmann was noted as the third known victim and was described in reports as married with children; a makeup tube found on him led police to suggest he may have been closeted.

No arrests were made in Christmann’s murder. The suspect was described as a Black man about 19 to 25 years old, roughly six feet tall and slender. Does anyone have information about Christmann’s last known movements or who he might have been with the night he was seen at Bojangles?