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John Doe: The Zodiac Killer

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There are multiple serial killers and merciless murderers throughout the history of the United states. Yet the most intelligent and intriguing of them was the Zodiac Killer. The mystery of his personality has been supported by the fact the killer was never caught by law enforcement agents. Despite the joined efforts between the police and the FBI, the Zodiac killer managed to foil their efforts for a very long time. Nevertheless, the personality and image of the killer became the nominal cast that caught huge public attention and transcended into the influence of movie villains. Given the relevance of the topic, John Doe, a former detective of the case who wishes to remain anonymous, describes in detail the mystery that surrounds the Zodiac …show more content…

“The letters,” Doe claims, “openly confessed in committing the three-confirmed murders, along with threats of repeating the attacks if society did not live to his religiously chase standards that he commanded, and then he signed with his symbol, the bomb.” From what the detectives could gather from the two incidences, “The killer liked mentioning metaphysics, religion, theories of good and evil, and the lifestyles of young people.” Now, it was conventional for the police to recognize the Zodiac, as he named himself, had no intention of stopping anytime soon, whether or not society had been chase, religious, and wholesome, it was clear that the killer would find an alternative reason to continue. “The genius behind his letters,” Doe continues, “was his anagrams which indicated his education had to be far above that of an ordinary person; some of them we, the police, spent countless, sleepless nights deciphering and could not solve.” The Zodiac killer was known for the cipher to be at the end of his letters; one of them contained the following: “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 them …show more content…

“He sent the police buttons to distribute to the public,” Doe clarifies. When he noticed no one wearing any form of Zodiac propaganda, he shot people, as he did before (ones who sat in their car). A police officer, Sargent Richard Radetich, was found with a parking ticket, left slightly tilted, stapled to his chest, signed with the same insignia with a hole in his head. “Though the SFPD never acknowledged this as a Zodiac case, it remains to be unsolved, but my suspensions remain since he never claimed, as he always had done, that this was his, it may have been someone claiming to be him.” On October 27, 1970, Paul Avery, a reporter who covered the case, received a card with the letter ‘Z’ and the insignia, written inside Doe says, “peek-a-boo, you are doomed.” It was a bunch of ridiculous events after another that only said one thing about him, “He was mad and nobody could stop him,” said

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