The Genius Of The Zodiac Killer

The Genius of Serial killers Dennis Nilson stated “a mind can be evil without being abnormal”. If we are to keep this in mind, we can say that serial killers, who are considered crazy to many, may not actually be crazy or “abnormal” as Dennis said. We can also say that the minds of serial killers hold genius inside them. Although many will not acknowledge this, it may be true! Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, and the Axeman were some of the greatest, most complex, and most ingenious serial killers known worldwide. The famous Jack the Ripper is considered one of the most ingenious serial killers in the world. Why is this? First of all, he was a serial killer who was never caught. He executed no less than five female prostitutes and disfigured

The self-proclaimed Zodiac Killer is considered the most organized and most complex serial killer known. First of all, he is responsible for at least five murders in the San Francisco Bay area. He was also known for taunting the police through letters sent to the area newspaper. On August 1, 1969, the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle and Vallejo Times-Herald each got an indistinguishable hand written letter in an envelope without an arrival address. Starting “Dear Editor: I am the killer of the two teenagers last Christmas at Lake Herman…” the letter contained points of interest from murders that only the killer could have known. The executioner went ahead to undermine further assaults if the letters were not imprinted on the front page of the papers. Each closed with a symbol consisting of a circle with a cross through it and was joined by one piece of a three part cipher that he guaranteed contained his identity. The police could never crack any of the codes sent from the Zodiac Killer. These ciphers were what he was mostly known for. Apart from this, the most amazing fact would be that no one was ever arrested for the crimes and the case still remains

As well as the other two serial killers, the Axeman was never caught. His attacks were gruesome and terrifying. Several gruesome axe murders occurred in New Orleans. Despite the fact that records are sketchy, we realize that a New Orleans daily paper article printed amid the height of the Axeman murders (1918), contained a meeting with a retired police criminologist who contrasted the Axeman murders with a few Italian grocers who had been killed by an axe neurotic from 1911 through 1912. The casualties of the 1911 attacks, couples as a rule, had been sleeping when someone got through the panels in the back doors of their homes and killed them with an axe. He was also known for taunting the police by sending messages through the radio claiming to spare people in homes where jazz was playing. The editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune received a peculiar letter which would attack significantly more profound parallels to the prior Jack the Ripper murders. In the letter, which was published in all the local New Orleans newspapers, the Axeman said that he would kill again at 15 minutes past midnight on the night of March 19, yet would save anyone who had jazz music playing. The letter, dated March 13, 1919 with the words “Hell” composed at the highest point of the page. No one was murdered that night. Why was he called the Axeman? First, we must understand that he was a fan of jazz, and was also rumored