The Zodiac

[BrownyMan]

In 1966 a young woman named Cheri Jo Bates was found dead in Riverside, California, her throat cut and stabed in the back. The police only found a man's wrist watch stopped a 10:23 PM. 2 days later her father, the police and several others all receaved this note:

Three years later in 1969, two teenagers: David Fareday and Betty Lou Jensen

were killed, shot to death by a 9mm pistol, when they went on their first date, two minutes later the police receaved a call, saying "I want to report a murder, no a double murder, there bodys can be found by Lake Herman Road...I'm the one who did it" and with that he hung up

After 6 months on the fourth of July another couple Darlene Faren and Mike Megaeu

were attacked and Darlene Faren was killed, Mike Megaeu lived, the next day three local newspapers all recieved a note and a third of a cipher of peice of code:

The code:

Basically what the code said was, "I like killing people because it is so much fun, it's more fun than killing wild game in the forest because humans are the most dangerous animals of all. And I will not tell you my name because you will try to slow down or stop my collecting of slaves for afterlife.

This was only the beginning...

 

[EndlessInfinity]

woah, thats spooky. Keep going, it sounds interesting!

 

[Sebu_NZ]

The scary

True or a story?

 

[Kisen_K]

It's certainly some freaky ****!!

 

[BrownyMan]

And so it continued.

As freaky as all this sounds it is in fact true, considered by every law enforcemnet agency to be the scariest, freakiest, and down right amazing case in all of history.

On monday september 27, 1969, Cecelia Sheperd and Brian Hartnell:

were relaxing on a blanket at a very remote location by lake Beriessa. Shepard noticed a man approaching them wearing an unusual costume:

He held a gun. He appeared to be more than 6'0" tall with a heavy build. The man claimed he was a prison escapee from Colorado, and needed money and a car to flee to Mexico. Hartnell offered his wallet and car keys, which weren't taken. After several minutes of conversation, the man tied the couple with plastic clothesline and and said as his voice became very deep, "I'm going to have to kill you people," he then began stabbing them. Hartnell was attacked first, then Shepard. After the assault, the man then walked casually away from the scene. After several minutes, a nearby fisherman heard the couple screaming and alerted park rangers. It took nearly an hour for an ambulance to arrive, at which time both victims were in critical condition. Just over an hour after the attack, the Napa Police Department received a call from a man claiming responsibility for the stabbing. Brian Survived, Cecelia died after twelve hours. This message was found on their car door:

The police found a foot print the only evidence besides the bindings left at the crime scene they were 10 and a half wing walker shoes:

The print indicated a man over 200 pounds.


Then after 3 month a cab driver was found dead, shot in the temple, Cab driver Paul Stine, age twenty-nine

was shot once in the head at point-blank range. The weapon was a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. There were three witnesses from a house on the southeast corner of the intersection. Bloody fingerprints, potentially of the suspect, were recovered from the vehicle. Stine's cab was hailed at Mason and Geary Streets, with the intended destination being Washington and Maple Streets near the Presidio. For reasons unknown, the cab ended up at Washington and Cherry Streets, a block away from the original destination. Stine's wallet and keys were taken and a large portion of his shirt was carefully torn off. The three witnesses watched the suspect from approximately 60 feet away as he wiped down the cab with a cloth. They called the police and described a white male, 25 to 30 years old, 5'8" to 5'9", stocky build, reddish-brown hair worn in a crew cut, heavy-rimmed glasses and dark clothing. They last saw him casually walking north on Cherry Street. Unfortunately, the police dispatcher mistakingly described the suspect as being a black male adult. As a result, when patrol officers Donald Foukes and Eric Zelms minutes later observed a white man walking east on Jackson Street, he was never stopped and questioned. The officers did get a good look at him, however. When the correct description of the suspect was finally broadcast, the officers realized they might have encountered him. The witnesses were able to give a describition and an artists remdition of him was put out:

as usual two days later a letter was recieved by the S.F Chronicle, enclosed with it was the blood stained piece of Paul Stines shirt:

All the letter so far had been signed by a crossed circle.

And it didn't stop there.

 

[Pretorious]

Man, that is some freaky crap. I think Im gonna keep the .45 close to me for a few nights. Very interesting indeed, would like to know more, keep the posting coming.

 

[poaw]

You guys have no idea how far this goes.....

Even though I have heard this before, Brown Cow's way of telling it makes it even more freaky.

 

[Kisen_K]

Lets hear the end of it...

 

[Sebu_NZ]

Do you want me to sleep?

Tell the rest

 

[Pretorious]

I found out very few things about him. All I know is that they caught him and I believe his name was Richard Ramirez or something like that. Browny fill in the holes.

 

[BrownyMan]

and so...

eventually, more letters and even post cards came pouring in:

This cipher has never been solved.

As if these weren't odd enough, a poem written by the Zodiac was found at Riverside Library, inside in the childrens books section for everyone to read:

Indeed the Zodiac was using the media to get to both the police and the public. Some people were apporoaching hysteria, from the sheer terror of all the murders and letters going on, surpisingly, no murders were comitted during this time, which were at any rate attributed to the Zodiac.

 

[BrownyMan]

Oh and Pretorious, unfortunatly no one is ever caught or charged with the Zodiac murders

 

[Jarvis Hamilton]

I know about the Zodiac.
He is (was?) a psychotic supergenious son of a bitch who deserves a shotgun to the face. He enjoyed killing.
I think he is way to smart to have left those clues like military boot prints and such. I think that's planted. This man is one of the smartest people in the world, and it's going to take someone smarter than him to catch him. He included the word radian in one of his letters. That word is not in the active vocabulary of 99.9% of Americans. Also, recently, a scientist looked at the note that included the radian and found that if you put a radian on mt.Diablo, you would find that each killing was on the radian line. That's why he went after the cab driver.
By the way, the Zodiac got no.1 on the top ten unsolved murders.
Here is what I want to do to the Zodiac.

 

[Kuroshio Apocal]

Man, have I ever wanted a Class III license....

 

[BrownyMan]

it continued

in 1971 the local newstand recieved this 6 page letter:

This was the largest letter The Zodiac had ever mailed to police. The layout was simple, he said he had commited 7 murders and had made a bomb to take out all the "kiddies" on a bus as he had promised. And he said he was going to change his method of killing he wasn't going to tell them he'd done it instead he was going to make them look like accidents, this coupled with the bomb horrified police. He also left his standard crossed circle but there were wierd x's on it, this would not be understood until 30 years later.

Further he sent another post card:

Zodiac buttons now that would be a switch

 

[Goat Fucker]

He's not quite as cool as Charles Manson, but im definately byuing a Zodiac button!