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“This is the Zodiac speaking” An Infamous Anonymous introduction written by none other than the Zodiac himself. The Zodiac is an unknown man who murdered 7 known people in the San Francisco bay area and is suspected of 5 more. His reign of terror began in the late 1960’s and ended in the 70’s, during this time he kept in touch with news reporters and police detectives through incredibly thought out cryptograms 4 in total were sent out and 1 broken into 3 part this being indefinitely decoded. Each cypher like a game and always giving clues and hints to be clear that he was at the scene. The case was labeled inactive in 2003 but was reopened in 2007 for further investigation with modern technology and a new lead on a suspect.

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When the zodiac built up courage to finally boast he gave gruesome detail of the scene and would ultimately leave local police dumbfounded. Next murder committed July 5th 1969, scene secluded parking lot of Blue rock springs park. Darlene Ferrin was fatally shot 5 times and company Mike Renault wounded in the incident when a man exited his vehicle and brandished a flashlight and fired 5 times upon walking to the vehicle with a 9mm pistol. (these shots killed Ferrin) When wounded Renault screamed and then fired upon twice more. Renault was able to give slight description of the Zodiac a male being around 5’6 with dark hair (this being about the only description given.) Approximately 45 minutes after the murder a phone call was made to Vallejo county police dept. Where a man took claim for murders on July 5th and December 20th and gave details of the scene and description of his 9mm pistol over the next few weeks . July 31st 1969 the 5 year spree of taunting letters and cyphers began first the 3 separate cyphers sent to San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner (These cyphers in particularly include …show more content…

By the time he was even mentioned 20 years later the fingerprints were long gone. For me this is a hard case to even come close to evaluating each murder had to have some amount of thought put into it each witness only catching a glimpse of this man, the Zodiac killer’s either originates from the Zodiac brand of watch popular at the time or from the astrological symbols ( Leo, Capricorn, Aquarius, etc..) He was just insane and developed an ego in one of his letters he explained that each person he killed would be a slave in his after life. Not knowing who exactly the Zodiac is but going through his motives it's not right to call this monstrous madman a genius but that’s exactly what he was an insane genius, he couldn’t stop and by the time he had outsmarted police enough to keep in writing contact with editors had a sense of ease about him and as time passed so did his claim to be the Zodiac killer, but still I highly doubt he quit killing he would write editors saying that the chief of police deserved his and this and that but he is no more than a immorally wrong person who in the end didn’t get caught and this flaw is probably his greatest achievement in his life sending

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