The crooks ...

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Paul Drexler
Paul Drexler is the director and creator of Crooks Tour and has written extensively on San Francisco crime history. He designed the Crooks Tour Chinatown and Crooks Tour Waterfront and Barbary Coast walking tours . He also designed and co-produced the award winning “SFPD Homicide” True Crime CD-ROM game; a game that has been used to teach police procedures. He has appeared on the Investigation Discovery Network show Deadly Women as an expert on San Francisco murderesses. In 2017 He received the Oscar Lewis award from the San Francisco History Association for his writing on San Francisco.

Kevin Mullen (1935-2011)
Paul's mentor Kevin Mullen spent 26 years in the San Francisco Police Department and retired as Deputy Police Chief. He was the leading authority on San Francisco police history and the author of four books on San Francisco crime, including The Chinatown Squad and The Toughest Gang in Town.  Much of the research  for Crooks Tour and Notorious Crooks has been made possible courtesy of Kevin's files on San Francisco crime.