Jon Kinyon

1st Place: 2021 California Journalism Awards

On Sept. 10, 2021, a story about my long-running private investigation into my dad's cold case made the front cover of my hometown newspaper, the Palo Alto Weekly. Evidence of a 40+ year police cover-up and continued stonewalling by the San Francisco Police Department are laid out in the article. A few months later, the story, "Searching For Their Father's Killer," won First Place for Investigative Reporting in the 2021 California Journalism Awards for print weeklies with a circulation of 25,000 and over: Presented by the California News Publishers Association.

This marked the first and, so far, the only time that the original lead detective spoke with media regarding our concerns and growing evidence of a police cover-up. He didn't help his case.  

KINYON COLD CASE WEBSITE