Zodiac Killer

“I like killing people because it is so much fun, it is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experience it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl. The best part of it is that when I die I will be reborn in paradise and the ones I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow me down or stop my collecting of slaves for my afterlife.”

As if the Zodiac doesn’t know what run-on sentences are, who is the man that wrote this in a letter? This man is the Zodiac Killer, and those were words that he directed to several newspapers following two attacks on two couples, resulting in three deaths and one injury. This message is one of the few sent by him that has been able to be decoded, the rest remain a conundrum. The Zodiac Killer forbade to give his identity and the police have never been able to scrutinize who he really was. So, who was, or still is, the Zodiac Killer’s identity? The story remains unsolved.

The Zodiac Killer stalked Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s when he killed 5 people beginning in 1968 and claiming responsibility for 17 murders in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s. The Zodiac Killer claimed he chose his victims based on their astrological signs. The Zodiac has been profiled as a sexual sadist, a person who cannot achieve sexual fulfillment any other way than through torture and ultimate death of another human being

The only victims officially attributed to the Zodiac Killer are Cheri Jo Bates, 18 killed at Riverside City College. Betty Lou Jensen, 16 on a first date with David Faraday, 17 killed while trying to escape. Darlene Ferrin, 22, and Mike Mageau, 19, Mageau survived. Cecelia Shepard age 22 and Bryan Hartnell age 20 were tied and stabbed. Shepard died at the hospital. Hartnell survived. The last victim is Paul Stine age 29.

During the late 1960s and well into the early 1970s, the Zodiac Killer wrote many letters and these would be the questioned documents. He wrote several letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which is a widely known paper in the bay area. He also wrote a note on the side of a car door. He wanted people to know what he had done so he would also write about the crimes he committed. The Zodiac Killer would write details only he and the police officers would know. He would also