On 20 December 1968 Betty Lou Jensen, 16, and David Arthur Faraday, 17 were out on a date, and had parked on a country road outside of Vallejo city limits in California. Both were found shot dead, Faraday was still sitting in the car while Jensen had managed to make it to about 30 feet from the car before being gunned down. But the murderer didn't stop there: next were Darlene Ferrin & Mike Mageau, Brian Hartnell & Cecilia Ann Sheppard, and Paul Stine.
In between the killings, and for years after, the man who would call himself by the name Zodiac began taunting both the police and the news media with letters and encrypted messages.
Now, I'm going to be completely honest, I could never begin to write "the case" the way it should be written. For that, I suggest you go to Zodiac Killer, where you will find copies of the letters, details of the case, victim information and possible suspects. What I can write, and found most interesting is that decades after the last known killing, LE has began taking a closer look into the case, and has recently submitted evidence to a crime lab in California, hoping to gain information as to just who the Zodiac really is via advanced DNA testing.
It seems that the movie, coming out next month, featuring the Zodiac and his crimes has brought a new life to the case, and hopes that it will finally be possible to catch this mad man- and even up the scoreboard a little.
Interestingly enough, it's not just the police and Hollywood that has their eyes looking into the mystery behind the Zodiac... America's Most Wanted has lined him up in their sites, and tomorrow they will be airing a piece on the cases which will include "Walsh revealing, for the first time, details about threatening letters he received that include bizarre symbols similar to those the Zodiac put in his taunting letters to newspapers. The sender of these letters to the AMW host has never been identified. " (THE HUNT FOR THE ZODIAC KILLER- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007; 9 PM ON FOX)
I don't know about you, but I for one believe that if the Zodiac is alive today, he'd be pretty impressed with the attention his crimes are about to receive... and worried that time has turned on him, and is now, with the technology available to LE; on the side of his victims.
In between the killings, and for years after, the man who would call himself by the name Zodiac began taunting both the police and the news media with letters and encrypted messages.Now, I'm going to be completely honest, I could never begin to write "the case" the way it should be written. For that, I suggest you go to Zodiac Killer, where you will find copies of the letters, details of the case, victim information and possible suspects. What I can write, and found most interesting is that decades after the last known killing, LE has began taking a closer look into the case, and has recently submitted evidence to a crime lab in California, hoping to gain information as to just who the Zodiac really is via advanced DNA testing.
SOURCE- Vallejo police say three of the envelopes from those letters are being sent to the state crime lab for more tests. Police detectives hope advanced DNA technology will help them find their killer.
Ken Narlow was the lead detective on the Zodiac case for the Napa County Sheriff's Department. He investigated the stabbing of two college students at Lake Berryessa, which left one student dead.
The Zodiac marked the couple's car with the dates of his other attacks in Vallejo.
"He kept a score, taunting us all along," Narlow said. "He did that clear through the 70s to '74."
Many of the Zodiac's taunting letters went to the San Francisco Chronicle.
"The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them," he wrote in a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. "I enjoy needling the blue pigs."
It seems that the movie, coming out next month, featuring the Zodiac and his crimes has brought a new life to the case, and hopes that it will finally be possible to catch this mad man- and even up the scoreboard a little.
Interestingly enough, it's not just the police and Hollywood that has their eyes looking into the mystery behind the Zodiac... America's Most Wanted has lined him up in their sites, and tomorrow they will be airing a piece on the cases which will include "Walsh revealing, for the first time, details about threatening letters he received that include bizarre symbols similar to those the Zodiac put in his taunting letters to newspapers. The sender of these letters to the AMW host has never been identified. " (THE HUNT FOR THE ZODIAC KILLER- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007; 9 PM ON FOX)
I don't know about you, but I for one believe that if the Zodiac is alive today, he'd be pretty impressed with the attention his crimes are about to receive... and worried that time has turned on him, and is now, with the technology available to LE; on the side of his victims.