Zodiac killer may have been more than one person: new doc
10.07.2023 - 21:13
/ nypost.com
which weren’t cracked until 2021. This behavior would continue well into the 1970s; in the end, he would claim to have killed no less than 37 people.For half a century, the notorious killer — whose real identity remains a mystery — was believed to be a sole actor.“It’s very unusual for cold cases to have this much information. But if you read all the police files, you see that there’s very little linking these crimes together.
Different weapons, different M.O., different victim profile, even eyewitness statements, different locations -— or a trophy being taken from one, but none of the others,” director Andrew Nock told The Post.“The letters are really the only thing that anchors these crimes together. There’s strong evidence to suggest that not only were the crimes committed by separate people, but the letters were written by more than one person as well.”The Zodiac’s known actions began with the slaying of two teenagers, David Arthur Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen,16 on Lake Herman Road in Benicia, California, Dec. 20, 1968.
The high school couple on their first date had been shot dead inside their car. Half a year later, on the Fourth of July, the Zodiac struck again. He shot Michael Renault Mageau, 19, and Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, 22 inside their parked car at Vallejo’s Blue Rock Springs Park.
Mageau survived while Ferrin succumbed to the gunshot wound.The first letters were sent at the end of July 1969. In those letters was a confession to the two murders — along with an ultimatum that he would kill “a dozen” over the weekend, if the Chronicle did not print his cipher inside its next issue. The paper complied on Aug.
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