The Zodiac Killer's Identity?

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“I like killing people because it is so much fun, it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangerous animal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experence it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl. The best part of it is that when I die I will be reborn in paradice and thei have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to sloi down or atop my collectiog of slaves for my afterlife.” (Voigt,2011). Who is the man that wrote this in a letter? This man is the Zodiac Killer, and those were his words that he sent to several newspapers following two attacks on two couples, resulting in three deaths and one injury. This message is one of the few…show more content…
The Zodiac Killer refused to give his identity and the police have never been able to figure out who he really was. So, who was, or still is, the Zodiac Killer’s identity? The world will never know. When the Zodiac was rampaging through Northern California in the late 1960’s and 1970’s, he was operating against a law enforcement system that was unprepared for what they encountered.…show more content…
The forensic technology back then was not nearly like it is today, so none of the 2,500 suspects were nailed and the Zodiac killer’s identity remained anonymous throughout his killing spree (Wark). Between the years 1966 and 1974, the Zodiac Killer provided more than 20 written communications to police officials, some including ciphers that have not been cracked to this day. On August 1, 1969, three letters written by the killer were received at the Vallejo Times-Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner. The letters were all nearly identical that took credit for the first shootings at Lake Herman Road and Blue Rock Springs. Included with each letter was one-third of a 408-symbol cryptogram which the killer claimed contained his identity. The killer demanded the newspapers print these on each paper’s front page or he would go around all weekend killing lone people in the night. The Chronicle published its third of the cryptogram which the killer claimed contained his identity and the threatened murders did not happen (AMC TV, 2010). On August 7, 1969, the San Francisco Examiner received another letter with the salutation “Dear Editor this is the Zodiac speaking”. This was the first time the killer had used this name for himself and it was in response to the Vallejo Police Chief’s request for more details to prove he killed Faraday, Jensen,
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