A: You can find daily reports from Sacramento police officers at this site (this is not every call for service but it is the closest to what you want. The freshest information is about 24 hours old):

http://www.sacpd.org/dailyactivity/

The Bee, television and radio stations and other media use these reports as a tip service to find interesting stories.

A: On Sept. 25, 1993, Apolinar Martinez, 28, was stabbed eight or nine times and shot once in the head after assailants jumped him, gagged him and bound him with duct tape when he entered his Natomas apartment, The Bee reported.

Martinez's attackers included his girlfriend's son, who was angry because he believed Martinez had beaten her, police said.

However, the girlfriend had not filed police complaints against Martinez in the past, records showed.

The girlfriend's son, Marcos Gonzalez, then 21, was convicted of murder and given a 15-years-to-life sentence on Feb. 24, 1995, Sacramento Superior Court records show.

Jesus Orona, then 18, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison on June 12, 1997, court records show.

Francisco Orona, then 19, pleaded no contest to a murder charge and was sentenced to 15-years-to-life in prison on Sept. 6, 1996, court records show.

The Bee did not report the relationship, if any, between the Orona suspects.

A 21-year-old man and a 17-year-old youth boy also were arrested in the case. The Bee could not find any records indicating that those two were ever charged in the case.

A: For a trail transcript, call the Court Reporter's Office at (916) 874-5781 or contact the office at 800 H Street, Suite 300, Sacramento, CA 95814.

You will have to fill out a form with the case number of the proceeding for which you want a transcript. A court reporter will prepare a cost estimate and then contact you to see if you want to proceed.

Trial transcripts can be expensive. The Bee has paid hundreds of dollars for a transcript of a long trial.

A: Jeffrey Gerard Jones is on death row, according to state Corrections Department records.

Jones, now 50, received the death sentence for two fatal hammer attacks in Sacramento and Davis restrooms in 1985, apparently believing doctors had implanted a drill bit in his ear that made him hear voices.

Dr. Michael Corbett and Harry Dong died after Jones bludgeoned them in men's rooms at the Sacramento Medical Center and Sutter's Fort, respectively. A third man was partially paralyzed after an attack at the Medical Center.

Jones also confessed to the hammer slaying of Fred Morris in a University of California, Davis, restroom and was given an additional sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole.

Jones had a history of mental treatment for paranoid, but was found competent to stand trial.

A: Valdez, now 32, was paroled from an 18-year prison sentence he received on Oct. 13, 1995 after pleading guilty to counts of voluntary manslaughter, court records show.

Valdez, who was 16 when he shot and killed two men as they sat in their car, was eligible for parole at age 25, The Bee reported at the time of his sentencing.

Valdez was convicted for the 1993 slayings of Christopher Dominguez, 19, and Christopher Jiminez, 24.

Valdez claimed the men were about to run him over in the 3700 block of 21st Avenue off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and that he fired in self-defense. The prosecution said the shootings resulted from an argument over a girl.

Jail records show Valdez is being held without bail on suspicion of evading a police officer and driving in a reckless manner. He also is being held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon with the likelihood of causing great bodily harm.

The Bee could not determine the details of the case against Valdez.

A: Luis V. Rodriguez Jr., now 54, is serving a life sentence with no parole after being convicted in 1981 for the 1978 murders of California Highway Patrol officers William "Mike" Freeman, 35, and Roy P. Blecher, 50, after he was stopped on Interstate 80 in West Sacramento.

His companion, Margaret Klaess, served two years in prison for aiding and abetting Rodriguez and later testified against him.

Rodriguez's seven-month trial turned into a 16-year ordeal, including a number of appeals based on the claim that juror misconduct and a judge's pressuring of the jury deprived him of a fair trial, The Bee reported.

His only success, however, was getting his death sentence reduced to life without parole.

A: Sasaki, now 51, completed his 16-year prison sentence in 2000 and was living in Sacramento County as a registered sex offender, according to prison records and the California Attorney General's Office. The Bee could not confirm that he is living at the address listed as his residence, however.

Sasaki received the maximum prison terms for two "vicious and violent" sexual attacks in 1982, The Bee reported when Sasaki, then a 25-year-old salesman, was sentenced on Jan. 5, 1984.

Sasaki, a 1976 graduate of McClatchy High School, also admitted - but did not plead guilty to - a third assault in 1982 on a woman in the Greenhaven area. He also was a suspect in an attempted sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in March 1983.

He dropped a knife given to him at the supermarket where he once worked during a fifth attempted attack in 1983 as the victim fought him off.

The knife eventually led investigators to Sasaki and fingerprints connected him to one attack.

Police narrowly missed catching him after he assaulted his first victim when he jumped out a second-floor apartment window as officers burst through the front door, called by a concerned neighbor of the victim.

A: The death of Martha Negrete remains a mystery.

The skeletal remains of the 14-year-old McClathy High School student were found Jan. 31, 1980, among weeds near Pocket Road by a boy walking his dog, The Bee reported.

Negrete was reported missing almost a year before the remains were found. A Sacramento Police Department spokesman said her death was being investigated as a homicide.

A grammar textbook from McClatchy High with Negrete's name written on a pager was found next to the remains. A ring found on the body was identified by a member of the girl's family.

Negrete's mother reported her daughter missing on Feb. 28, 1979, after had had been notified by a school official that the girl failed to attend classes that day.

A friend reported seeing the girl near the school on Feb. 28. Negrete said she was going to see someone who lived on Stockton Boulevard, according to a police report.

A: As reported in The Bee, Deondre Terrell Hudson was a minor when he murdered his girlfriend, 18-year-old Quinnisha R. Thomas and her unborn fetus on Jan. 13, 2003.

Sacramento Superior Court Judge James L. Long, who called the killing "coldblooded," sentenced Hudson, age 18 at the time of sentencing, to prison with no hope of parole on June 22, 2004.

Hudson was convicted on two charges of murder of using a gun to kill Thomas, who was eight months pregnant with his daughter. He shot her execution-style as she walked through an opening in a fence behind a Greenhaven grocery store.

Kevin Duran Coleman, then age 20, and James Kaleo Ross, then age 21, previously pleaded guilty to acting as accessories to murder by helping Hudson dump the body in the bushes of nearby Sojourner Truth Park.

Coleman was sentenced to two years in prison, and Ross was sentenced to a year in jail.

A: Stone's homicide is unsolved.

Stone, 35, was killed when two men, one of them wearing a red bandana over half his face, rounded the corner of 18th Avenue and 38th Street around 8:46 p.m., The Bee reported. The men shot multiple rounds at a group of people socializing in the warm night air, according to police.

Two other men, not identified by police, were injured by the gunfire and treated at UC Davis Medical Center.

A: Cullen is scheduled to go to trial Nov. 6 in El Dorado County Superior Court on a charge of assault with a firearm, according the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.

Cullen, 60, is accused of shooting a 63-year-old neighbor in Placerville on Dec. 15, 2008, according to a report in The Bee's Sacto911. The neighbor survived.

On that date, Cullen called 911 about 5:15 a.m., reporting that she had just shot a man, The Bee reported.

Deputies went to the area in the 2500 block of Mortara Circle in Placerville. The found a man with a gunshot wound in his chest, The Bee reported.

No motive for the shooting was given.

Cullen and the shooting victim evidently knew each other and lived in separate residences on the same property, The Bee reported.

A: Greenberg faces a March 2 trial on a murder charge in connection with the shooting death of Anthony Dumont, according to the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.

Greenberg, 38, of Placerville allegedly shot himself after Dumont was shot on July 20, 2008, according to an El Dorado County Sheriff's Department spokesman. Greenberg is now well enough to stand trial, the spokesman said.

The shooting happened at a residence on Nutmeg Lane, perhaps the result of an unidentified dispute, The Bee reported shortly after the shooting.

Following a 911 call, deputies arrived at Nutmeg Lane, where Greenberg was found in a driveway with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head, The Bee reported.

A second call was made to 911 reporting that Dumont, 26, of Grizzly Flats received a gunshot wound at the residence on Nutmeg Lane, The Bee reported.

Dumont's family had driven him to El Dorado County Fire Station 19. Failing to find medics there, Dumont was driven to Bones Roadhouse restaurant, where a phone could be used to call for help.

He died at the location from his injuries, The Bee reported.