sentences:  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.Avery reported on the Zodiac case, a series of killings—unsolved to this day—that began in December 1968 and ostensibly ended with the death of a San Francisco cab driver in October 1969.At the time, Avery was a police reporter for the "San Francisco Chronicle".