Reading this article can only confirm that you've heard or watched about notorious killers around the world. The Zodiac Killer is believed to be responsible for at least five murders in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s(excluding many widely unreported)
The Beginning
The history of the zodiac begins near Benisha, California, on the night of December 20, 1968, when the driver discovered the lifeless bodies of two teenagers in the spot of a "sailboat" along Lake Hermann Road. Victims of Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday were on their first "official" date, although they saw each other for at least two weeks. Earlier this evening, David and Betty Lou promised Mr. and Mrs. Jensen that they would return at 23:00, but the witnesses saw that the couple sitting on the shore of Lake Hermann Road was only 23:10. At the time when they were found, Betty Lu was dead with five gunshot wounds in the back, and David Faraday was dying from a gunshot wound in his head. The corpses return to the scene, and the witness reports that they saw a car parked near Rammor Faraday during the shooting. Recent studies investigating the possibility of a crime are somehow connected with drugs, but practice shows that none of the victims were involved in drugs. Faraday was involved in an accident with your local dealer afterwards; The teenager threatened to report on the activities of a man in the police, but the investigators concluded that the dispute was not connected with the murders. Another teenager was briefly considered a suspect because of his relationship with Beti Lu Jensen, but he had an alibi, and the authorities came to the conclusion that she was not responsible for the shooting. The investigation was not given by viable suspects and continued until the end of the summer of 1969
Serial Tendency Growth
More than seven months after the assassination of Faraday and Jensen on the night of July 4, 1969, the militant attacked a second young couple in the neighboring park "Blue Rock Springs" in the northwest of the crime scene at Lake Herman Road. Darlene Ferrin died of multiple gunshot wounds, but her friend Michael Mageou survived with injuries to the legs, neck and jaw. Magen told police that Darleyn took him home, and they intended to sit down for dinner with Mr. Ed, but instead decided to go to the park. Darlene Korvayar parked in the parking lot of the park "Blue Springs Road" and two spoke when the car was parked. The passengers laughed and refused the fireworks in honor of Independence Day, before disappearing. Shortly thereafter, another car parked and stopped behind Korvayra Darlin. The driver waited, and then took it off. A few minutes later the car returned and stopped. The driver came out and there was a bright light as he approached the puzzled Korvayr residents. Mike and Darleyn thought the man was a policeman. The stranger approached the passenger and sent a pistol to the driver and passengers of the car. The attacker shot several times, hitting Mike Darleyn. Then he turned and went to his car. Mike screamed in pain and the shooter returned to fire a few shots already wounded victim. The stranger then got into the car and disappeared. Later he used a phone that is in the immediate vicinity of the police station V Valeho and is called a station. When police dispatcher Nancy Zlover answered the caller spoke a quiet, monotonous voice, as if reading from a prepared script.
"You want to report a murder." If you go east of Columbus Parkway, you will find the child in a brown car. They were shot with nine millimeters Luger. I also killed these children last year. Bye ".Investigators from Vallejo and Benicia realized that they were searching for the same killer and the bold, sinister phone call raised fears that the gunman would strike again
Media And Popularity
Twenty-six days after shooting in the Blue Springs Road, three envelopes arrived at the offices of the three newspapers of the Bay Area. Each envelope contains handwritten letters and part of the encrypted message. The script provided a list of details in terms of shooting and explained that the encoded message would reveal his identity. The letter did not end with a warning: "If you do not print this cipher in the afternoon Fry August 1, I'll go on killing Fry night I'll be looking for all weekend killings of single people at night, then I'll continue to kill again and again until ... did not finish dozens of people on weekends. "At the bottom of the page is highlighted with a transverse circle of characters.
Each of the newspapers responded to a request for publication of the codes, and the new shooter's threats created problems that hit again. Experts and amateurs confuse the decode of the cipher, while the researchers have hundreds of useful tips from citizens, including those who believe they have solved the riddle. Deciphering the message does not reveal the identity of the killer, but the words suggest cooling the portrait of the author's state of mind. "I like to kill people, because it's so fun ... I will not give you his name, because you'll try to tilt (c) or stop collecting my slaves after life ..."
When the authorities expressed their doubts about the writer's claims, another letter came, beginning with the words that forever send chills in Northern California.
Weeks passed and when further investigation of the zodiac moved north in the Napa Valley and California, where he stabbed a young couple on Lake Berisesa. Tsetzilia Shepard later died of numerous wounds, but her boyfriend Brian Hartle survived. He told investigators that the attacker was wearing a black hood with a square white cross on his chest. In order to prove that he is responsible for the crimes the Zodiac used a black marker to draw a big cross on the door of Brian's car. Under his killer symbol, indicate the dates as a shooting and added the notation: "September 27 6:30 with a knife."
A Full Blown Serial Killer
The next Zodiac attack takes place in a prestigious area in San Francisco, known as Presidio Heights, on the night of October 11, 1969. Twenty-nine years old cabriolet Paul Steen raised the Zodiac and focused on crossing the streets in Washington and Clay. But the cabin was later found in the parking lot of one block west of Washington and Cherry streets. The lifeless body of Paul Stiyn was discovered in the cabin, died of a bullet wound in the head. [View photos from the crime scene]. The prints found in the cockpit and on the outside were photographed and collected. From the driver of the police station, the police found fingerprints, it seems, contain traces of blood. Researchers believe that these fingerprints can be left a killer. Three young witnesses observed the crime committed in the house right across the street and contacted the police. According to eyewitnesses, the killer was spotted recently in the exact location where they were found fingerprints and apparently touching the cockpit and used a piece of shirt of the victim to wipe the surface.
Researchers in San Francisco believed the kabinetsat of Paul Steen became a victim of routine robbery during the Zodiac began to send pieces of blood-soaked Steen blood to prove that they are wrong. Envelope with a postage stamp on October 13, 1969 contained a scrap shirt Steen and a letter of cooling. The letter ended with another terrible threat of violence. "Pupils make good goals, I think it will destroy the school bus in the morning just to remove the rubber tires + pick off the kiddies as they come bouncing out.” Patrol cars and aircraft followed buses to and from schools and armed officers rode onboard for added protection.
The continuing mystery attracts ordinary castles, wild boards, false confessions and fraudulent letters. Forgiveness defender Melvin White made a story during a television conversation over the phone with a man claiming to be Zodiac. The police traced the last call to White's house and determine the evil deceiver as a patient in a psychiatric hospital. [During one call at the White Zodiac house, the intruder said: "Today is my birthday!" The so-called "Bella Birthday" has since become controversial.] It seemed to restore publicity, the killer sent a letter to White and join another impregnated Blood scrap shirt convertible to prove it's true Zodiac Despite the public offer of bleach to help the killer, the real Zodiac has never contacted a well-known lawyer.
Another message from the killer was published November 8, 1969 Zodiac sent a postcard with the inscription: "I'm sorry that I did not write, but I just washed the pen ... and I can not help it," The obvious game is a false phrase from popular advertising time Shampoo. Envelope contains another encryption, consisting of 340 characters. This time, experts and lovers of code interrupters failed to decipher the called. "340 Cipher" and the message of the zodiac remains unknown.
The zodiac was followed by another letter with a postmark dated November 9, 1969. In six pages of the text of an obscene murderer, he said he was angry with the police that he was "lying" about him and that "his way of collecting slaves" of his crime would be "ordinary looting, killing anger and a somewhat fake incident "The sign also rejected the approval of the police, who left evidence of fingerprints on the scene of the murder in Stina and he wore in masks during his crime.The letters included a formula for creating a bomb with fertilizer and a hand-drawn diagram of the proposed Triplicity.
The Zodiac asked the people of the Bay area to wear "some good buttons of the Zodiac" bearing a selected cross symbolic chain. When the public does not meet his wishes, he wrote that he was "punished" as he shot a man sitting in a parked car. "Zodiac associates press releases with many other unsolved crimes, including a kidnapping of a young man in March 1970, a woman. Katliyn Jones told the authorities that the taken trip was a mysterious stranger who resembles the Zodiac, but the man became menacing and threatened his life. Jones supposedly managed to escape, jumping out of the car man. The zodiac later claimed that he was responsible for failing in office.
The letter includes a killer for a long time, incomprehensible descriptions of his fantasy of torture, as well as some excerpts from the music of Gilbert and Sullivan, Mikado. Some letters also contained a box that was attributed to the Zodiac with a growing number of victims, followed by the words "SFPD = 0" and mockery: "I hope you are fun trying to find out who I killed" Given the apparent freedom of the killer to do whatever the concrete The passage was difficult to refute. "The police never catch me because I was too smart for them." Failure to catch the Zodiac is a constant source of embarrassment for the chosen Nemes militia in San Francisco. Each new letter became a burden, as the psychotic writer wrote: "Hey, blue pig, you did not bring your nose to rub in your bombardment" And "I'm very angry with the police for lying about me.
The End
Disputes about the possible fate of the zodiac create several scenarios. Often cited explanation of the disappearance of the Zodiac public engineering suggests that the killer was either in prison for some other crime, or that he died, leaving no trace of his secret identity. This explanation was suggested to explain the disappearance of other elusive serial killers, such as the Green River killer and BTC Stranglar. The so-called "profiled" and experts on the issue of serial killings, often assume that signs and other killers were lonely, unable to maintain a permanent job or long-term relationship with women. Decades after he seemed to have disappeared from public attention, a killer from Green River and BTC Stranglar was identified and closed. Both men maintained regular work and long-term relationships with women. Ridgeway and were more likely to be in prison, and were not in the spotlight of the public. Both continued to be killed even after the authorities and the public believe that their criminal career ended calmly. Gary Ridgway, known as the killer of the "Green River" can be responsible for more than 100 murders for two decades. Denis Radar, known as BKI strangler, is known as a loving husband and father who was president of the church. Rather, Ridgeway and against the expectation of experts who believed that they were insane and frustrated criminals and amateurs are looking for the devil's genius, as the fictional villain Hannibal Lecturer. As a zodiac, rather sent many mocking messages to the media and others, including coded messages that remained unresolved. After his arrest, they were more likely asked to provide a solution to one of the codes, but could not remember the hidden message. Gary Ridgeway led the police to the remains of many victims, but does not give sufficient answers to those who question the motives of a seemingly meaningless crime. Denis Radar later admitted that he planned to leave evidence that would have identified him as a BKI strangler after his death. If the Zodiac really did look like his modern criminal contemporaries, they pursued the truth for his crimes, perhaps contrary to expectations and explanations.
Zodiac remains the most elusive and terrible ghost in the history of the American massacre. Although some believe that the killer has been dead for a long time or locked somewhere in his cell in prison, others believe that he is still there, looking at the world that the story is alive, enjoying his crime, waiting to write a step so shocking Unforgettable as his crimes.