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The Zodiac Killer

The late 1960’s and early 1970’s represented a great deal of things to a great deal of people. To the San Francisco Bay area, as well as the rest of California, the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s represented terror, fear, and death. What started out as a seemingly random, but brutal murder on the night of October 30th, 1966, turned out to be the start of a series of horrific murders that would span 2,500 suspects, 56 possible victims, and over 400 miles. On the calm, cool night of December 20th, 1968, a young seventeen year-old named David Arthur Faraday was getting ready to take a young sixteen year-old named Betty Lou Jensen on her first date. David arrived at Betty’s house, picked her up, and promptly proceeded to Lake Herman Road, a well known "lover’s lane" of the local teenagers.

After a while, a car, possibly a blue Valiant, pulled up next to David’s 1961 brown and beige four-door station wagon, and a man got out. "Framed only in silhouette, the man appeared to be stocky in build and slightly heavy, with an eerie sense about him" (Tina 3). The man requested that the teens get out of their car, but they refused. Upon hearing David and Betty’s refusal, the man pulled out a gun, and fired a round into the r


One of the final incidents of the proven Zodiac crimes was committed on March 22nd, 1970. Kathleen Johns and her daughter Jennifer, who was ten months old, had left for a trip to see Kathleen’s sick mother, who lived a few towns away. Kathleen was also seven months pregnant with her second child at the time.

From then on, after each new killing, the Zodiac mailed a letter to one of the local area papers, or the police, taunting and playing with them, as well as claiming responsibility for the murders. In all, the Zodiac killer claimed responsibility for thirty-seven murders, but the police could only identify seven as positively being Zodiac victims. After many years of research on the subject though, it has been found that the Zodiac may have been responsible for as many as fifty-six homicides.

The man searched the field with a flashlight, until a trucker saw the car on the side of the road, and stopped to help. Upon seeing the trucker, the man fleeted back to his car and hastily drove off. Kathleen refused a ride with the trucker, and waited until the next driver coming down the road, a woman, to ask for help. Once at the police station, Kathleen was startled by a police sketch on the wall. It was of the Zodiac killer, and she positively identified him as the man who attacked her.

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