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    This is the Zodiac Speaking “I like killing people, because it is fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest, because man is the most dangerous animal of all.” These are the words spoken by a man who terrorized the area of San Francisco, California for two years, lurking in the shadows killing five people, but taking credit for 37 different murders. This man taunted police, seeing his murders as one giant game, sending cryptic messages to the newspapers, forcing them to publish them

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    always had a fascination with mystery books, it was my first favorite genre of books. I had a huge interests for mystery and crime and the psychology behind it. But the one crime that truly left me thinking for a while was the story of the Zodiac Killer. The Zodiac Killer is a murderer who taunted the bay area with sending descriptions of his brutal crimes to the San Francisco Chronicle to ultimately frighten them. His crimes were in the late 1960’s and up to this day he has never been caught despite his

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    According to his brother, Ronald, Allen was given a Zodiac watch as a Christmas gift from their mother in 1967. Allen believed he received the watch on July or August 1969. The logo for the Zodiac watch is a cross-circle symbol, the same symbol used by the Zodiac killer. According to police statements, within days of receiving the watch, Allen is alleged to have made these claims to his friend, Don Cheney: “I would like to kill couples at random. I would taunt the police with letters detailing my

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    letters from a killer called Zodiac with ciphers attached to reveal his identity. One of these papers was The San Francisco Chronicle where cartoonist Robert Graysmith worked. The Zodiac continued to send letters to the Chronicle describing his murders and leaving clues to be published in the newspaper. Graysmith wrote two books, Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer and Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed, which

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    The Zodiac Killings are some of the most gruesome and cerebral murders in American history. Between 1966 and 1968, at least five people in the bay area were confirmed slain by the assailant known only as, The Zodiac Killer. His criminology was unlike any seen before or since. Often after his murders, he would send cryptographic messages to various media outlets some even to the victims' families. Throughout the years, there have been many a copycat or emulation , One thing is for certain,all have

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    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. The Zodiac killed 5 people and injured 2. He claimed to have killed 37 people. The Zodiac killer sent 18 letters to the newspapers. He did this by using symbols

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    In northern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s the people were terrorized by an unknown serial killer nicknamed the Zodiac Killer. The Zodiac murdered four men and three woman between the ages of 16 and 29 throughout Benica, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco. This killer wasn’t always called the Zodiac, he originated the name on August 7, 1969 in one of a series of taunting letters. In said letters there were cryptograms (AKA ciphers), and in the many years only one has been

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    the Zodiac killer has never been caught since 1968. He claims to have murdered thirty seven people which is a mystery since he has not been caught . while there are many reasonable facts and theories surrounding the Zodiac such as if earl van best jr. is the Zodiac,further investigation regarding Earl looks a lot like the Zodiac’s sketch that was drawn in 1968,if evidence is true than the mystery will be solved. The Zodiac’s true identity is still a mystery,but the public can confirm that he

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    The Zodiac Killer, a notorious serial killer, claimed thirty-seven murders in Northern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s and terrorized the police and public and was never caught. With only seven confirmed victims, the Zodiac Killer seemingly disappeared in the 1970s. He committed murders and claimed them by sending ciphers to local police and journalist demanding to be published in a newspaper and broadcasted on television. “I get awfully lonely when I am ignored, so lonely I could

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    The Zodiac Killer was the mastermind who tricked the police with his Brain teasing ciphers imagine a real life supervillains out there plotting his next attack like a lion ready to pounce on a free gazelle. The Zodiac killer is famous for many things like how they never in fact caught the actual person, or the theories around it. The case of who the Zodiac killer was has yet to be solved but they have suspects, the evidence and theories which can be bringing them closer to the Identity of the Zodiac

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