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Serial Killers: The Zodiac Killer

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Description: The unidentified killer terrorized the town of Vallego,
California by his vicious and evil work in the late 1960’s and early
1970’s. The killer named himself the name “The Zodiac,” in August 7,
1969 in a letter written to the Bay Area Press, the killer follows it with a cross within a circle. The Zodiac claimed 37 victims in a letter written to a publishing company but police were only able to confirm 7 of them. His victims were 3 couples between the ages of 16-
19 and a single man. Bryan Calvin Hartnell, one of the two victims that survived the brutal attack of The Zodiac was able to provide information on the killer. They both helped the SFPD provide a sketch of the killer. The case remains inactive but was opened during March …show more content…

I get awfully lonely when I am ignored so lonely that I could do my thing!
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This letter was the first letter that had the second code the Zodiac had created included in it. The letter was sent out to the San Francisco Chronicle on April 20, 1970. The letter reads as follows: This is the Zodiac speaking. By the way have you cracked the last cipher I sent you? My name is ____ I am mildly curious as to how much money you have on my head now. I hope you do not think that I was the one who wiped out that blue meannie with a bomb at the cop station. Even though I did talk about killing school children with one. It just wouldn't doo to move in on someone elses territory. But there is more glory in killing a cop than a kid because a cop can shoot back. I have killed ten people to the date. It would have been a lot more except that my bus bomb was a dod. I was swamped out by the rain we had a while back. Arthur Leigh Allen: The #1 …show more content…

There was one person who they kept their eye on for a very long time, his name is Arthur Leigh Allen. Allen's connections to the Zodiac started on October 30, 1966 when Cheri Jo Bates was stabbed to death at the university she attended in Riverside California. After her death, two letters were sent out to the local police confessing to her murder. The letters were typewritten by a Royal Elite or Pica model typewriter with Elite type. Allen was in Riverside when Bates was murdered, Allen then confirmed that he was at Riverside the weekend she was

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