Foday and Zhan Sen are a couple. They are going on their first date to attend the Christmas concert at Hogan High School, which is only a few blocks from Zhan Sen's home. But they decided to visit a friend first, stop at a local restaurant, and then drive on Heman Lake Road. At about afternoon 10, at about afternoon 15, Farday parked his mother's rambler in a gravel bay on Hemanhu Road. It is a famous lover's alley in the local area.
Shortly after 1 1 in the evening, another car drove into the car-avoiding bay and stopped next to the two. The driver apparently got off the bus with a gun and asked Fadi and Zhan Sen to get off. Jason got off the bus first. When Farr was wearing it, the murderer shot him in the head. Zhan Sen tried to escape, ran 28 feet from the parking lot and was shot five times in the back. The murderer then drove away. A few minutes later, Shi Daila Burgess, who lives nearby, found their bodies. She immediately reported the case to the local police, but there was no obvious clue to the investigation results. 1969 Sometime in the middle of the night on July 4th to 5th, Delana Ferrian and Michael Marco drove to a golf course in the Blue Rock Springs in Vallejo, which is only four kilometers away from the last murder on Herman Lake Road. They drove there and stopped. While they were still sitting in Ferrian's car, a car also drove to the parking lot and stopped next to their car. The passing car left almost immediately, but about ten minutes later, the car came back and stopped behind two cars.
The killer got out of the car and walked to the passenger door, holding a flashlight and a 9 mm pistol. He blinded the victim temporarily with the bright light of a flashlight, and then fired several shots at the two victims. After that, he returned to the car. But it's not over yet. When he heard Marco groaning because of the pain, the killer slowly returned to the front of the car door, fired several shots at the two men, and then drove away.
At about 12: 45 the next morning, a man reported the case to the Valleyo police station by telephone and claimed responsibility for the attack. At the same time, he claimed to have killed David Arthur Faday and Betty Lo Zhan Sen six and a half months ago, which was the earlier murder of Herman Lake Road. The police traced the call and found that the murderer called from a telephone booth in the street, which is located at a gas station on the banks of Lu Quan and TuOlemyr River, only about three-tenths of a mile from the victim's home and only a few blocks from the security department in Vallejo.
Ferrian was pronounced dead in the hospital, and Marco was rescued, although he was hit in the cheek, neck and chest by the murderer. John lynch and Ed Raster, agents of Vallejo's security department, began to investigate the case. 1970, agent jack mirina took over and continued the investigation. In August 1969, 1, Vallejo Times Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco examiner received these three letters written by zodiac respectively. These basically the same letters claimed responsibility for the shootings at Lake Herman Road and Blue Rock Springs. Each letter also contains one-third of the 408-character password, and the killer claims that his specific identity is written in these encrypted words. The Zodiac killer demands that they be printed on the front page of every newspaper, otherwise he will "wander around [in situ] every weekend night, kill lonely people, kill one, and continue until he kills twelve". The Chronicle published a third of the coded part of the zodiac letter on the fourth page of its newspaper the next day. At the same time, at the bottom of the article, Jack Stiehl, the police chief of Vallejo, was quoted as saying: "We are not sure that this letter was written by the murderer." And asked the sender to write a second letter to provide more facts to prove his identity. The promise of threatening to kill was not fulfilled, and the last three ciphertexts were published.
On August 7th, 1969, the censor in San Francisco received another letter, the beginning of which was honorific: "Dear editor, this is the zodiac talking to you". This is the first time the murderer has used this name to refer to himself. This letter is in response to the request of Vallejo police chief Steele to provide him with more details to prove that he killed Faraday, Zhan Sen and Felling. Here, the Zodiac killer provided all the details about the murder, including those that were not made public, and sent a message to the police, telling them that when the police cracked his password, they would catch me.
1On August 8th, 969, Donald Harder and Betty Harder of Salinas, California cracked the code of 408 symbols, but no names appeared in the translation. 1On September 27th, 969, Brian Hartner and Cecelia Shepard were having a picnic on an island with a beach connected to Twin Oaks Ridge in Bayesa Lake. A man wore a hooded head in the style of a black executioner, sunglasses at the eyelets, suspenders and a white 3-inch x3-inch cross-ring pendant on his chest. He approached them with a gun, which Hartnell thought was a.45 caliber. The masked man claimed to be the criminal who escaped from Deer House in Montana, where he killed a guard and stole a car, and explained that he needed their car and money to go to Mexico. He brought the pre-cut plastic rope and asked Shepard to tie Hartner with the rope. Then he tied Shepard. Zodiac examines Hartner's binding and finds that Shepard's binding is a little loose, so he tightens the rope. Hartner initially thought it was just a weird robbery, but the man then started stabbing two people with a knife. Then, he walked 500 yards back to Knox Weir Road, drew a sign of cross circulation on Hartner's door with a soft black pen, and wrote the following words: Vallejo/12-20-68/7-4-69/September 27-69-6:30/ knife.
At 7: 40 pm, the man called the Naba County Public Security Bureau and informed him of the crime by pay phone. When KVON radio reporter Pat Stanley found this phone in Na Ba car wash shop on the main road of Naba, he found that the phone had just been hung up for a few minutes. Only a few blocks from the sheriff's office and only 27 miles from the crime scene. The police took a wet handprint from the telephone receiver, but they couldn't find any suspects.
A man and his son were fishing in a lake bay near the island when they heard the victim screaming and calling for help. They immediately contacted the Park Service for help. David Collings and Ray Rand, deputy sheriffs of Naba County Police Department, arrived at the scene first. When Collins arrived, Cecilia Shepard was sober and explained to him the details of the attack by the man who attacked them. Hartner and Shepard were then taken to Queen's Valley Hospital in Na Ba by ambulance. Shepard fell into a coma on the way to the hospital and never regained consciousness. She died two days later, but Hartner was lucky enough to survive and told the media what happened to her. Ken Narao, an inspector of Naba County Public Security Bureau, was assigned to start the investigation, which continued until he retired from the General Administration on 1987. 1969 65438+1October1Sunday, at the intersection of dajiang street and Gary road in San Francisco, a man got into Paul sting's taxi and said that he was going to Maple Street in presto Heights, Washington. For some unknown reason, after Sting drove out of Cherry Street for a block, the man pointed a 9mm pistol at his head and killed him, then snatched his wallet and car keys and tore off his skirt. At 9: 55 pm, three passing teenagers witnessed the murderer. They called the police when the crime was going on. They saw the man clean up the traces on the car and then turned to a block north of presto. The police arrived a few minutes later, and several teenage witnesses said that the murderer should still be nearby.
Police officer Dan Fogg, who was two blocks away from the incident, also received the alarm. He saw a white man walking along the sidewalk and then walking up the steps leading to the front yard of a house on the north side of the street. The meeting lasted only five to ten seconds, but his partner Eric Zem didn't see the man. Because the emergency dispatch of the radio station only told them to find a black suspect, not a white suspect, they had no reason to talk to that person, so they passed him without stopping. Various complicated reasons have caused such an inexplicable day. When they arrived at Cherry Street, Fogg learned that they were actually looking for a white suspect, and Fogg realized that the murderer must have passed by them. Fogg concluded that the Zodiac killer had fled to Pridio Heights along his original route, so they entered the base to look for him, but the killer had disappeared. The subsequent search found nothing. Three juvenile witnesses helped the police portrait experts summarize the characteristics of Sting's murderer, and a second version was obtained a few days later. The killer is estimated to be 35-45 years old. Agents Bill Armstrong and David Toki were assigned to investigate the case. The San Francisco Police Department investigated more than 2,500 suspects in a few years. 1Late at night on March 22nd, 970, Kathleen Jones drove from San Bernardino to Patrama to visit her mother. She is pregnant with 10-month-old daughter, who has been pregnant for 7 months. Westbound passing near modesto Expressway 132, a car behind her honked its horn and flashed its light, so she pulled over and the car behind her stopped. The man who got off the bus later told her that the rear of her right side was shaking and told her to tie it tightly. When the man finished speaking, the man drove away on airs. However, after Jones removed the wheel, the man suddenly stopped to reverse the car, and then said that he would take her to a nearby gas station for help, so she took her daughter to the man's car. However, there were many gas stations on the road, but the man didn't drive his car in. After about three gas stations, the man drove to a remote path near Tracy town. Jones began to ask him why he didn't go into the gas station, but the man just changed the subject.
When the man passed a crossroads, Jones jumped out of the car with his daughter and hid. The man also chased out. Fortunately, a truck came and the suspicious person drove away. Jones hitchhiked to Patterson police station. While taking a statement, she noticed that the police identified the man who kidnapped her and her daughter as being related to the incident of Paul Christine. In order to prevent the Zodiac killer from coming back to kill her, the police officer arranged for Jones to spend the night at the nearby Miles restaurant. It was later found that her car was set on fire.
However, there are many contradictions in the Jones case. The most controversial thing is that the suspect directly threatened to kill Jones and her daughter while carrying her back, but the police finally questioned her. Jones told the Chronicle through an interview with journalist Paul Avery that the kidnapper had got off the bus and searched for her with a flashlight. However, she provided two statements to the police that the man did not leave the car. Someone said that Jones' car had been moved and set on fire, so he found that it was not where Jones parked. However, after that, there were many contradictions, which made investigators more suspicious whether this incident was really related to the zodiac killer. Zodiac killers kept in touch with relevant units through letters and greeting cards from 65438 to 0970, making news. In the letter postmarked1April 20th, 970, the murderer wrote my name (my name is _ _ _ _ _ _), followed by thirteen password words. The murderer also claimed that he had nothing to do with the explosion of the San Francisco police station at that time (1970 February 18). The killer mentioned that' killing a policeman is much more glorious than killing a policeman, because the policeman may fight back'. In the letter, the murderer drew a bomb and claimed to use it to blow up the student bus. At the end of the letter, he drew a symbol and wrote "= 10, SFPD = 0".
Zodiac sent a greeting card to the San Francisco Chronicle with the postmark1April 28th, 970. The content is:' I hope you enjoy my blasting', followed by a signature pattern. Behind the card, the killer threatened to blow up the bus immediately if the news didn't publish what he wrote as soon as possible. At the same time, the killer also needs to see people wearing the zodiac sign.
In the letter1July 26, 970, the killer said that he was disappointed not to see anyone wearing the sign of the zodiac killer. The murderer wrote, "I shot a man sitting in a parked car with a.38 caliber gun." The murder mentioned in this letter should have been a week ago (1July 9). On the same day, sergeant Richard Radetich was writing a parking record in his car when an attacker hit him in the head with a.38 caliber pistol. Reddy Tiku also died fifteen hours later. The San Francisco police later denied that it was the zodiac killer. However, this incident has not been resolved.
This letter contains a map of No.66 Phillips gas station in San Francisco Bay Area. As before, the murderer drew a circle and a cross on the pattern of Mount Diablo. The cross is 0 on the top, 3 on the right, 6 on the bottom and 9 on the left, so it is interpreted as a clock. The killer also mentioned that this zero is:' Set it to mag. The letter also contains a 32-word password, and the murderer wrote that finding this password will lead to finding his hidden time bomb. The bomb was never found. At the end of the letter, the murderer drew the words "= 12, SFPD = 0".
Postmarked1June 24, 970, in a letter sent to the Chronicle, the murderer pointed out that he committed the case of Catherine Jones four months ago.
In his letter dated1June 26th, 970, the killer played a song of the Emperor and added some lyrics. The lyrics describe how he plans to torture his slaves in heaven. The signature of this letter is an oversized zodiac sign and a new number: "= 13, SFPD = 0". At the end, the killer wrote, "Note: Pay attention to the radian+# inch on the arc (in addition, Diablo Code pays attention to the radian+# inch)". 198 1 year, a secret investigation team led by Gareth Payne discovered what the murderer called' radian'. After making an appropriate arc according to the killer's instructions, it will point to the position where the killer attacked twice.
1970, 10 On June 7, the Chronicle received a three-fifths card with a killer symbol painted in blood. The contents of the card are words cut and pasted from the chronicle, and thirteen holes have been punched in the card. Investigators Armstrong and Toschi believe that this card is most likely from the zodiac. 197010/On October 27th, Paul Avery, a reporter from Chronicle, received a Halloween card with the sign of the zodiac. On the card, it was handwritten:' Hide and seek, you are dead.' The content of the card is threatening, and the front page news of the San Francisco Chronicle is posted on the envelope. Before long, Avery received an anonymous letter telling him that there was an unsolved murder pattern similar to Betty Lo Zhan Sen's Zodiac killer. The unsolved case happened at Riverside City University in greater los angeles area, California, just 400 miles south of San Francisco. Avery published his investigation in1970165438+10/0/6 Chronicle.
This happened on1October 30th, 1966, 10. Eighteen-year-old Betis stayed in the school library until nine o'clock in the evening. Her neighbors heard screams at night 10: 30. The next morning, Betis' body was found between the school library and Betis' dormitory, lying on the stone road being repaired by the school. The cover of the Flowserve car switchboard on the car body is still wrapped with wires. She was brutally abused to death. A male Timex watch and torn sleeves fell near the scene. Although the watch's pointer stopped at 12: 24, the police thought the attack should have happened earlier. Shoe prints of military boots were also found at the scene.
A month later,1October 29th, 1966 165438, a letter written on a typewriter was sent to the police station in Binjiang City, with the words of Binjiang Printing Company written on it. The title of this letter is confession. The author of the letter said that he would take responsibility for Betis' murder and disclose the details of the murder, and warned:' She is not the first and will not be the last. .
In 65438+February of the same year, a carved poem was found under the table in the library of Riverside City University. The title says that life is disgusting/death is unwilling, and the tone and writing of the poem are very similar to those of the zodiac. The signature on it looks like the abbreviation of rh. Sherwood Morel, California's top censor of questioned documents, thinks that the author of this poem is the Zodiac killer.
1April 30, 967, about half a year after the Betis case, Betis' father Joseph, Riverside Printing Company and the police received letters from the same source (presumably), and this time he wrote them himself. The version of the police and the printing company said:' Betis must die, and there will be more people'. The victim's father wrote:' She must die, and there will be more people afterwards'. The letter has the word "Z" written at the back.
March 197 1, 13. About four months after Avery first wrote the Betis case, the killer sent a letter to the Los Angeles Times, saying that he had let Avery's police discover the murder earlier. The letter also wrote:' This is only the easiest murder case to find, and there are more (victims) lying in hell.
Whether this murder case is related to the Zodiac killer has not yet been determined. The riverside police station did not believe that the murder was committed by the zodiac killer, but they admitted that the killer's letter was true, and the killer's purpose was to confuse the police. 1971March 22nd, there was a postcard sent to the Chronicle for Paul Alley, and it must be for Paul Alley. This letter may have been written by the zodiac killer, who claimed that the disappearance of Les on September 26th, 1970 in/kloc-0 was related to the killer. This letter is a collection of advertisements and magazines, with advertisements for forest pine trees on it. The card also says "Sierra Club", "Found the first 12 victim", "Look at that pine tree", "Walking through Lake Tahoe" and "Right in the snow". The sign of zodiac killer was painted in the reply.
Donna Rice is a nurse who works in the Sahara tahoe Casino. She worked until two o'clock in the morning. According to the last patient who was taken care of, she was taken care of at 1 40 in the morning and didn't see her leave her office. The next morning, her uniform and shoes were found in a paper bag in her office, which was too dirty to explain. Her car was found in her apartment, which was very clean. Soon, both her employer and landlord received a phone call from a strange man. The man mentioned on the phone that something had happened to Les's family and told her to leave the city at once. At first, the police thought that Les was just a simple case of disappearance. She just left, but Les disappeared. After that, the biggest development of this case was to dig out a pair of sunglasses in the Sierra Club Garden near Norden, California.
There is no evidence that this case has anything to do with zodiac. In the Vallejo Times Herald1972165438+1013, a police officer in Santa Barbara, Bill Baker, said that this case may be committed by an zodiac killer.
1June 4, 963, five and a half years have passed since the killer of the zodiac committed the case of River Manhu Road. Robert Domingo, a high school student, and his fiancee Linda Edwards were shot dead on the beach near Lombok after skipping classes. The police thought that the attacker tried to bind the victim, but the victim tried to escape, so the murderer killed the two with a.22 caliber pistol. So the murderer put their bodies in a nearby hut and tried to burn them, but failed.