Kevin Fagan is a longtime, award-winning reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle, specializing in homelessness, enterprise news-feature writing, breaking news and crime. He has ridden the rails with modern-day hobos, witnessed seven prison executions, written extensively about serial killers including the Unabomber, Doodler and Zodiac, and covered disasters ranging from the Sept. 11 terror attacks at Ground Zero to California’s devastating wildfires. Homelessness remains a core focus of his, close to his heart as a journalist who cares passionately about the human condition.
Click the link below to see a collection of Kevin Fagan's latest articles published by the San Francisco Chronicle:
Kevin Fagan- San Francisco Chronicle
The links below provide a sampling of the articles that Kevin Fagan has written about many of the executions that he has witnessed during his time as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle:
`Freeway Killer' Put to Death / Bonin loses last-ditch appeals
Fewer Bear Witness to State Execution / Once fascinated, media now regards event as mundane
Witnesses to an execution via the small, surreal screen
THE EXECUTION OF STANLEY TOOKIE WILLIAMS / Eyewitness: Prisoner did not die meekly, quietly
Murderer slipped quietly into death
On March 23, I met with Kevin Fagan at his home in the Bay Area to learn more details about his experiences as a witness at 7 of the 12 executions that have been carried out by the state of California. His reports from these witnessing experiences are only part of a lengthy collection of articles he wrote that focused on notorious cases, such as those involving serial murder. Currently, Mr. Fagan is completing a book manuscript that he has written about homelessness. The title of his forthcoming book is Lost and Found: A Tale of Homelessness, Tragedy, and Redemption. It is an immersive narrative folllowing the lives of two chronically homeless people and of a larger group who live in horrific conditions on a concrete traffic island at one of the busiest intersections in the city, as their families find them due to the author's reporting, ending with both enormous tragedy and triumph.