Who Is The Zodiac?

The late 1960’s and early 1970’s were a time of great change in America. The Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution were just some of the issues on the evening news in American households. For citizens of the San Francisco Bay area, as well as the rest of California, the late 60’s early 70’represented terror, fear and death. “The bizarre and theatrical and still unresolved serial murders by real-life ghoul who called himself Zodiac, who claimed in letters to have killed 37 people (though police have focused on five homicides and two attempted murders in the greater Bay Area in 1968 and 1969” (Booth,2) have intrigued people for nearly four decades. How has Zodiac remained so elusive? What

Gardner’s Grendel is a novel containing twelve chapters which is parallel to the battle between Grendel and Hrothgar, the signs of the zodiac and the months of the year. These astrology references emphasize life’s cynical nature along with the inevitability of life.

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.

     Two days after Paul Stine's murder, Zodiac began a new era in his criminal career. For about 8 years, he would write to the San Francisco Chronicle-and occasionally others- off and on. From October 1969 until March 1971, the majority of Zodiac letters were filled with angry threats and bragging. At first he worked hard to prove his murders with information

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

Other than the former three topics, the Renaissance also influenced more abstract subjects such as, human anatomy. In the year 1512, a German Astronomer named, Johann Regiomontanus created a woodcut called “Zodiac Man” (Document D). This woodcut depicted a man seemingly cut open to reveal various internal organs hanging in a string-like structure. Around the man are 10 circles, each containing an image of a different creature from the zodiac. Regiomontanus believed that every muscle in our body was controlled by a creature of the zodiac. For instance the ram would control our head, while the scorpion controls our chest. Of course, following the pattern of the previous three documents, in the year 1543, a Belgian physician by the name of, Andreas

The Zodiac Killer was an infamous murderer who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. He killed with zero remorse and even stated in one of his letters that “I like killing people because it’s so much fun” (“Zodiac Killer”). Between December 1968 and October 1969 had killed a total of five people and severely injured two others. He made his first appearance on December 20, 1968, when he shot and killed 17-year-old David Faraday and his 16-year-old girlfriend Betty Lou Jensen. The police were unable to determine the motive for the crime or a suspect. However, on August 1, 1969, the zodiac sent letters to the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vallejo Times Herald. Each letter started the same “Dear Editor:

Many people have seen murder cases on the television or on the newspaper. However, many people fail to recognize one true—epic—murder mystery. In Cold Blood written by Truman capote explores a different dimension of mysterious characters in a Kansas murder case. In order to discover the crevasses the characters, Truman Capote utilizes psychology, through characterization and illusion, in order to create meaning from other texts. Furthermore, Capote mobilizes features such as letters, dream interpretations, psychological disorders, to fully develop the understanding of the characters: Perry, Dick, and Ms. Clutter.

What has the Zodiac done. The Zodiac left his fingerprints in the cab in which paul Stein was murdered in his own taxi. The Zodiac Killer is known for trickery that's why he is on their top ten unsolved murders of all time. The Zodiac was a mysterious killer that was never caught. The Zodiac said “I like killing people because people can fight back.” There's a lot we don’t know about the Zodiac Killer because we don’t know his identity. The Zodiac operated in Northern California. The Zodiac Killer is a killer that killed five people in California. The victims of The Zodiac Killer were killed in Benicia, ValleJo Lake, Berryessa, and San Francisco. He was never caught after forty-five years. Recently Jory Starliper solved one of the 340 ciphers.

Back in 1968 a couple of teens were murdered by the Zodiac Killer, they were on their first date. David was shot once in the head and died hours later, Betty was shot five times in the back and died instantly. This is the first case the Zodiac Killer was suspected for. The Zodiac killer’s motive & identity is unknown. I think his motive was He killed so it would be a wakeup call to San Francisco that he’s mad and wants them to solve his problems.San Francisco was terrified by the Zodiac Killer. His eerie murders, taunting letters and baffling codes.The Zodiac Killer killed a confirmed number of 7 people, though he claims to have killed 37. He sent letters mostly to the newspaper and demanded them to be in the paper. He claims his codes with

A woman named Deborah Perez, who had no involvement with the other man, claimed that her father was the Zodiac Killer. She suggested that she was even present during the murders when she was little. (Zodiac Killer Identified, 2009.)A man named Arthur Leigh Allen, completely unrelated to the other previous two people, was also thought to be the Zodiac Killer. With several different sources stating that their relatives are the Zodiac killer, it seems like the police will never really know for sure who is telling the truth and who is just making the claim for attention. The killer himself is very intelligent.

“Zodiac Killer.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 31 Jan. 2018, www.biography.com/people/zodiac-killer-236027. Accessed 22 February 2018. The author of this article went into detail about the facts of the Zodiac case. They explained what happened to each of the victims and how the Zodiac Killer contacted the police afterwards. They not only talked about the facts of the case, but about the movie that came out based on the Zodiac killings.

Theodore Robert Cowell or well known as infamous serial killer Ted Bundy is one of the most notorious criminals of the 1970s. He has been connected to at least 36 murders, however he has been suspected to have committed one hundred or more. With all these murders comes the idea of why, where does it come from and where did it start, among many other questions. Which leads us to our purpose of this paper, exploring the mind of Ted Bundy. I hope to analyze Ted Bundy’s life and pick apart aspects of them that lead him down this criminal life.

In my essay I will first talk about crime and what it means, I will

I have chosen the 'Pisces' constellation because February 26th (my birthday) is one of the dates that it represents. Another reason is its one of the zodiac constellations, which makes it one of the main constellations. Pisces lies between 'Aquarius' to the west and 'Aries' to the east. Its name is also the Latin plural of fish.