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The Unsolved case of The Zodiac killer.
The Zodiac Killer was a serial murderer who stalked parts of Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Through a series of letters he sent to the media and others, the killer disclosed his motivation for the slayings, offered clues to future murders, and adopted the nickname Zodiac.He took responsibility for murdering as many as 37 people, but police investigators confirmed only five deaths and seven total attacks. The zodiac killer has NOT been caught till this day.
FIRST ATTACK
On December 20, 1968, Betty Lou Jensen, 16, and David Arthur Faraday, 17 ,became his first victims.The couple was discovered lying on the ground outside the bullet-riddled car.Sadly both could not survive this attack. Not many clues were found but Two hunters reported seeing a white Chevy parked at a gravel turn-around on Lake Herman Road.
SECOND ATTACK
On July 4, 1969, Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, 22, and Michael Renault Mageau, 19, became his third and forth victims.They were attacked four miles from where Jensen and Faraday were shot.Ferrin died before reaching the hospital but Mageau survived and gave authorities a description of the shooter: a short, heavyset white man, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and around 195 pounds.
At 12:40 a.m. an anonymous male caller contacted the Vallejo Police Department, And said
"I wish to report a double murder. If you will go one mile east on Columbus Parkway to a public park, you will find the kids in a brown car. They have been shot by a 9 mm Luger. I also killed those kids last year. Goodbye."
THE ZODIAC LETTERS
On Friday, August 1, the first known Zodiac letters were received by three newspapers.Each received almost identical letters written by a person taking credit for the attacks on the four teens.The self-proclaimed killer demanded that the letters be published on the newspapers' front pages by the next Friday or he would randomly kill a dozen people over the weekend. The letters were signed with a crossed-circle symbol.On August 4, investigators said they doubted the authenticity of the letter,in order to make the killer to contact them again. The plan worked. On August 4, another letter arrived at the San Francisco...
FIRST ATTACK
On December 20, 1968, Betty Lou Jensen, 16, and David Arthur Faraday, 17 ,became his first victims.The couple was discovered lying on the ground outside the bullet-riddled car.Sadly both could not survive this attack. Not many clues were found but Two hunters reported seeing a white Chevy parked at a gravel turn-around on Lake Herman Road.
SECOND ATTACK
On July 4, 1969, Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, 22, and Michael Renault Mageau, 19, became his third and forth victims.They were attacked four miles from where Jensen and Faraday were shot.Ferrin died before reaching the hospital but Mageau survived and gave authorities a description of the shooter: a short, heavyset white man, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and around 195 pounds.
At 12:40 a.m. an anonymous male caller contacted the Vallejo Police Department, And said
"I wish to report a double murder. If you will go one mile east on Columbus Parkway to a public park, you will find the kids in a brown car. They have been shot by a 9 mm Luger. I also killed those kids last year. Goodbye."
THE ZODIAC LETTERS
On Friday, August 1, the first known Zodiac letters were received by three newspapers.Each received almost identical letters written by a person taking credit for the attacks on the four teens.The self-proclaimed killer demanded that the letters be published on the newspapers' front pages by the next Friday or he would randomly kill a dozen people over the weekend. The letters were signed with a crossed-circle symbol.On August 4, investigators said they doubted the authenticity of the letter,in order to make the killer to contact them again. The plan worked. On August 4, another letter arrived at the San Francisco...
