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    Lucas Kelleher/ Street Law 10/3/08 The Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer is a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. His identity to this day still remains unknown. The Zodiac coined his name in a series of taunting letters he sent to the press. His letters included four cryptograms (or ciphers), three of which have yet to be solved. The Zodiac murdered five known victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969.

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    was a psychopathic killer who killed without any remorse at all (Graysmith, Zodiac 1, 2, 3). In each one of his attacks, the killer would use a different weapon in order to confuse the police. In the search for the Zodiac, the police had almost 2,500 suspects. Having this many suspects made it extremely hard for the police to narrow it down to just one person. Even though the cops had so many people, they still had one main suspect: Arthur Leigh Allen. Allen and the Zodiac matched perfectly

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    The Zodiac Killer Project The crime spree murders of the Zodiac killer is one of the greatest unsolved murdered cases of all time. The Zodiac’s murders took place from later 1960s, through to about 1972. Most of The Zodiac’s murders took place in Northern California. Some main areas where murders took place are Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco, California. Two out of the four men that were attacked lived and three women out of the three were killed. The ages of the victims goes

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    California for two years, lurking in the shadows and having five murders under his name(Zodiac Killer). This man taunted police, seeing his murders as one giant game, sending cryptic messages to the newspapers, and forcing them to publish the letters on the front page. That man is the Zodiac Killer, an infamous mass murderer whose identity remains a mystery to this day. The Zodiac Killer is a notorious serial killer, who is a pop culture phenomenon and a superb example of man’s inhumanity to man, due

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    Who is the Zodiac Killer? He is one of the most infamous serial killers of the last one hundred years. He has a confirmed five kills and injured two more people, some have estimated that he had killed between eighteen and thirty people. The Zodiac Killer himself had claimed to have murdered thirty-seven people. His hunting ground was the Northern Area of California. The time period he was active during the late sixties and early seventies. The murders were committed in the cities of Benicia, San

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    In the San Francisco Bay area, as well as in the rest of California, the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s was a time of terror and fear. 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

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    Essay On The Zodiac Killer

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    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

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    The Zodiac Killer 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

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    who the Zodiac Killer was, but also how a serial killer is different from a normal homicide suspect. In addition, I will explain if the Zodiac Killer had specific criteria when he selected his victims and whether a forensic psychologist or criminal profiler provided input in this case. Finally, I will express my thoughts on why the Zodiac Killer was never captured and what else, if anything could have been done to help find the infamous Zodiac Killer. In order to explain how a serial killer is different

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    the Zodiac Killer were the shootings of high school students Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968, on Lake Herman Road, just inside Benicia city limits. Shortly after 11:00 p.m. their bodies were found. Robert Graysmith postulated that another car pulled into the turnout, just prior to 11:00 pm and parked beside the couple. Jensen appeared to have exited the car first, yet when Faraday was halfway out, the killer apparently shot Faraday in the head. Fleeing from the killer, Jensen

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