Paul Drexler is the author of "Murder to Movies: The Real Story Behind Hollywood's Darkest Films," which will be published in May 2026. He was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and received a BS degree from Cornell University in 1968. He has been writing about crime since 1984 and is the author of "Notorious San Francisco: True tales of Crime, Passion, and Murder" published in 2019 Paul designed and co-produced SFPD Homicide, the interactive award-winning true crime video game that has been used to teach police procedures. His column, “Notorious Crooks,” appeared regularly in the Sunday San Francisco Examiner.
He has taught crime history at San Francisco State,and appeared on the Discovery ID Network show Deadly Women as an expert on San Francisco murderesses, and on Spike TV as an expert on the Zodiac Killer. Paul also directs Crooks Tours of San Francisco, which offers walking crime tours of Chinatown and the Barbary Coast. In July 2017 Paul received the Oscar Lewis Award from the San Francisco History Association for his writing on San Francisco.
