Monday, 30 January 2012

The Zodiac Killer

 












I found this case interesting because The Zodiac Killer is not as "passive" as other killers, the Zodiac played and challenged the SFPD making jokes for his incompetence because they couldn't found him.Well,here is in short the Zodiac story. 
 
The Zodiac Killer was a murderer who attacked San Francisco's Bay in late 60s and early 70s, this character was a mystery for the police and society because the Zodiac never was caught and the case still un-solved. Dressed in black and wearing an executioner style hood with the symbol that recognized him in the chest, a cross circle, the Zodiac Killer terrified the area.

He attacked couples in lonely and isolated areas except for his seventh victim, Paul Stine a taxi driver, The Zodiac Killer claimed to kill 37 people but police only confirmed 7 attacks of which 5 died. Sometimes he attacked by knife and sometimes with guns, but always a different weapon of his others crimes.

The Zodiac Killer wasn't an ordinary serial killer who only attacks and cares for his trace, this Killer was a special case, he sent letters to 3 different newspapers and he demanded to be published in front page, that letters had been written with cryptic script, only one cryptogram was solved and it talked about the reason for the murders “When I die, will be reborn in paradise and the I have killed will become my slaves.” , but that is not the shocking part of his letter, in special this sentence was alarming “I like killing people because it is so much fun, it’s more fun that killing wild game because man is the most dangerous animal of all to kill.” 
  
As I say before, the Zodiac Killer case has not been resolved even after 40 years of developing in fingerprints and DNA technology.
P.S. I am not giving a lot information because in our presentation we are going to talk about The Zodiac Killer case. 
J'Ballesteros 


7 comments:

  1. I look forward to the presentation, thank you.

    Just tell me, why did he call himself the Zodiac Killer? Was the name not connected with the twelve signs of the Zodiac?

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    1. He gave not an explanation for his alias, his letters began with the phase “This is the Zodiac speaking” and he signed with the cross circle, that is why people call him the Zodiac Killer, but there is a theory that he took the name for the Zodiac watches it even has the same logo, the cross circle.
      Answering the question, I dont think the name is based in the signs of the zodiac.
      here is a zodiac watch where we can see 1)the name and 2)the symbol

      http://watchluxus.com/admin/ajax/image.php?src=114&maxwidth=550

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  3. What an interesting topic! I've never heard nothing about this guy, he has to be very smart to know how to evade the police. Even cause' he said that he killed 37 people and the police only found 7 victims. That's strange.

    When I read the alias of the killer I thought it was connected with the signs of the Zodiac too :P

    Can't wait to hear your presentation :)

    Can you please add my number to your labels? 10047019. Thanks :)

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  4. Janeth I think that you've figured out how to use he blog pretty well!

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