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Jack Richardson was an old-school cop with bull-dog determination to solve crimes. And one cold case in particular hounded him to the end.

Just days before he died at age 90 on June 12 as the result of a fall, he told friends he was still frustrated by the old Martin case, the bizarre double murder that stunned Oakland in 1964 when the mother and daughter of a prominent Oakland family were slain in their home.