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In their quest to inform, the media sometimes forgets the psychological and emotional influence they have on the population. Individual emotion and disposition enable us to become aware of the world we live in, and develops our ability to understand it better. Those people known as ‘copycats’ are influenced by the medias effect on their emotional values. This influence appears to depend upon their individual state of mind, and the circumstances that surround them. The copycat uses the media as an instructional model of their individual behavior, which seems to have a direct correlation to their psychological defects. Thus, we get copycat murders that work their way across America like a virus spread by the six o'clock news.

Twenty-two-year-old Heriberto “Eddie” Seda is an excellent example of a person that based his own reality on what he had learned from the media. Seda lived with his mother and half sister in East New York. He did not date girls. He was deeply religious and devoted his life to God and he attended church regularly. Seda had a school-age sister Gladys “Chachi” Reyes that he physically and mentally abused. Then around 1989, the abuse of Gladys stopped. It was at this time that Seda began to pursue his hobbies. He loved to read, particularly about guns, violence, and books on serial killers. He idolized Ted Bundy, but the killer he most admired was the Bay Area’s Zodiac. The Zodiac killer was a mystery because he had never been caught. He was smarter than the cops, Seda thought, and believed that he was a servant of God and his sinner victims would serve him in the afterlife. On Eddie Seda’s shelf was a well-worn copy of Robert Graysmith’s Zodiac. Many to be the definitive book on the original Zodiac case, which provided the blueprint for Seda’s carefully, considered it constructed identity.

At 3:00 a.m. on March 9, 1990, Seda’s symbolic reality was released on the world and he became known, through the media, as the New York Zodiac. He first stalked forty-nine-year-old Mario Orozco from the shadows of a nearby cemetery. Without warning, he emerged from his hiding place and shot Orozco in the back with a 9mm zip gun. Next Seda shot thirty-four-year-old Germaine Montenesdro, then shot and killed Joseph Proce, after that a homeless man named Larry Parham. At each crime scene Seda left evidence in the form of eerie handwritten notes emulating himself to the original Bay Area Zodiac. With the police’s failure make the correlation, Seda began sending letters similar to the one found at the scene of the shootings to The New York Post and “60 Minutes” corroborating his aggression and antisocial behavior to his hero, the Bay Area Zodiac. The letters were baffling, but was it a copycat or the original? (Madden)

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