Essay On The Zodiac Killer

Darlene Ferrin, a close friend of the first two victims, was the next victim of the Zodiac. On Friday, July 4th, 1969, Darlene made arrangements with friend Michael Mageau to go to the movies. Darlene picked Michael up from his apartment that evening, and from the beginning it was apparent that they were being followed. Darlene took many country back roads and traveled at very high speeds to try to lose the pursuing vehicle, but with no success. The vehicle forced Darlene’s car off of the road and into the parking lot of the Blue Rock Springs Golf course. Once the pursuer had sufficiently blocked them from any further movement in the car, he stepped out of his vehicle with a lantern in his hand. “Mike could feel intense heat throughout his body. He had been shot. The bullets were still being fired as Darlene slumped over the

Serial murder is one of the most baffling crimes that occur in the U.S. and all over the world. Knight (2006) defines serial murder as the killing of three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a significant cooling-off period. The cooling off period may be weeks, months or even years long. Researchers have proposed various psychological, biological and sociological theories that offer a partial understanding of the nature of serial murder. Some propose that the basis for criminal behavior is a predisposition to violence as well as a mix between environment, personality traits and biological factors. Serial killers are predominantly male. Only 3 percent of serial murders are committed by women (U.S. News and World Report,

In the late sixties and early seventies, California was haunted by dozens of unsolved murders. The offender remains unknown to this day. The murderer, who referred to himself as "the Zodiac," made contact with the police and area newspapers throughout his reign of terror through a series of menacing notes. Although the police were never able to apprehend Zodiac, they were able to gather information about him via the letters. Zodiac boasted of killing up to forty victims, however, police estimated he may have killed over 50.

Once again, he killed the female and failed to kill the male. It seems like he was intimidated by another man's power, maybe he was afraid to lose to a struggle. People say that killing women-for him-was the only intimate relationship he could have with one. The error was pointed out in the media that this serial killer seemed unable to kill the males. It was mysterious to people. This angered Zodiac enough for him to prove people wrong. Two weeks after his last attack, he shot a young male cab drive in the back of the head.

Death is the sixth highest fear in the US. The idea of death is very prominent in our society, as around 6,775 people die a day, in the US alone. Serial killers are the monsters of the real world and should be feared the most. Villains in comic books or movies are fake, and can only bring us entertainment or the sense of being afraid. Serial killers bring true fear into people’s lives. The Zodiac uses this knowledge of fear and implements it into his own style of killing mass amounts of people, and not be caught. The Zodiac Killer’s intelligence is used to get away from the police, with killing many people of all statuses, age, and gender, by using ciphers and encrypted messages slowly giving the police hints. These hints are used so that

A serial killer is traditional defined as the separate killings of three or more people by an individual over a certain period of time, usually with breaks between the murders. (Angela Pilson, p. 2, 2011) This definition has been accepted by both the police and academics and therefore provides a useful frame of reference (Kevin Haggerty, p.1, 2009). The paper will seek to provide the readers with an explanation of how serial killers came to be and how they are portrayed in the media.

The man then proceeded to fire multiple shots at them, resulting in the death of Darlene and seriously wounding Mike. Within an hour of the incident, a man called the Vallejo police department, giving them the location of the crime scene as well as claiming responsibility for both that attack and the attack that had occurred in 1968. Despite the evidence including fingerprints, the decoded ciphers, a wave of tips and leads, his confession, and Mageau’s description of him being “A young white male between the age of 26 and 30 having a stocky build with light brown curly hair” the police were unable to track down the zodiac (“The Zodiac Killer”). Then on the evening of September 27, 1969, he struck again, approaching a young couple Cecilia Shepard and Bryan Hartnell. Wearing an executioner styled hood with his symbol on it, he tied them up before brutally stabbing them, he scrawled a message for the police on their car door before leaving the scene. He then called the Napa police department to claim responsibility and provide the location of his victims. Shepard and Hartnell were both alive when emergency services arrived, however Shepard died shortly

The Zodiac’s first known victim is Cheri Jo Bates. His first letter, Confession, mentioned Cheri and said, “ she is not the first and she will not be the last”. Six months after Cheri’s death, the killer sent copies of the letters to the Riverside Press, the police, and her dad. Since the killer knew her dad, the police thought that Cheri knew her killer or he knew her. One of the suspects for her murder was her ex-boyfriend. Cheri’s murder was controversial and there is no evidence that the Zodiac was her killer( Wark,1).

The Zodiac claimed to have murdered all those people, although it was never confirmed. While there are many suspects in the case, none of them have been arrested (“Zodiac Killer Biography”). The first confirmed incident took place on “December 20, 1968, David Faraday was parked with his date, 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen, on a rural round

The Zodiac killer was first discovered in July 1960. The Zodiac killer has to have killed 37 people.The killings were all in Northern California in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The killer has remained unknown still to this day. There is a sketch that people think maybe him but still do not know who he is or why he killed so many people.

There have been a lot of theory’s on who the Zodiac Killer was. Many people have been accused of being the Zodiac Killer however his identity is still a mystery. One of the main suspects is Arthur Leigh Allen. He is the main suspect because there is a lot of evidence the police have linking him to the crimes. His former friend Don Cheney was the first person the alert the police that Allen could be the Zodiac Killer because Allen would tell Cheney that he wanted to kill couples at random and he want to be called Zodiac. Cheney also told them that he would go hunting and with a flashlight attached to his gun. This would make him look like a major suspect because a Zodiac

The zodiac killer is one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. He has killed somewhere between 23-38 people from the 1960’s to early in the 1970’s all of which were being done without leaving any clues behind. In the case of who was the Zodiac Killer, we have learned very little about what really happened to the Zodiac killer because of the fake names he would give himself, the coded messages he would send to cops, and the false information that was on these messages when and if they were solved.

Yes it was, his intent to kill was connected by the actions he took by reporting his killings by phoning and mailing evidence of his murderous actions.The Zodiac’s killer also had enough presence in his mind to kill in hided areas, he also brought rope to tie his victims, a knife to stab the couple, a gun to kill his victims, all these actions showed intent.

Law enforcement officers meet in San Francisco in 1969 to compare notes on the Zodiac Killer, who is believed to have killed five people in 1968 and 1969. The killer gained notoriety by writing several letters to police boasting of the slayings. He claimed to have killed as many as 37 people and has never been caught..Zodiac kill up to 45 people and more that they don't know about because he kill people in a different way in the different town that he was in but he word the same thing every time but the first time because that didn't think it was him.The cop and the FBI were on the case because that did not find any Custer on any of the murder vuter but that was so but not a lot but that can't prove it.Some story said that the Zodiac

What is a serial killer? Retired Special Agent Robert Ressler, a twenty-two year veteran of the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit in Quantico, Virginia, is responsible for creating the term “serial killer.” He defines this person as “one who commits a series of murders, usually three or more, the victims most often being strangers, and usually with a cooling-off period in between each kill” (Kelleher & Kelleher, 1998; Pearson, 1998; Ressler and Shactman, 1997). This precise definition is necessary to distinguish this type of predator from the mass murderer (who kills many simultaneously), mercenaries, war criminals, or mafia hit men.