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Speaker 1: those of the podcast author or individuals participating in the podcast,

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Speaker 1: or its employees.

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Speaker 2: Lover's Lane a secret of destination for hopeful young people,

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Speaker 2: a lookout or secluded area where couples anticipate privacy. Betty

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Speaker 2: lou Jensen and David Faraday were just kids, ages sixteen

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Speaker 2: and seventeen. Privacy and intimacy was probably what they expected

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Speaker 2: from their night. What they got instead, they never could

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Speaker 2: have predicted. Their murder at Lake Herman Road was horrifying

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Speaker 2: and brutal. Why would someone do that to two kids?

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Speaker 2: There couldn't be anything more terrible. It couldn't get any worse,

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Speaker 2: but it did. The killer struck again at yet another

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Speaker 3: A man in a mask, robbed, tied, and stabbed them,

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Speaker 3: leaving them for dad. Subjects stated, I want to report

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Speaker 3: a murder, no a double murder. I did it a man.

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Speaker 2: Who wore a medieval style executioners hood, carried a knife

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Speaker 2: and gun and intended to use them.

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Speaker 4: They haven't arrested me because they can't prove a thing.

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Speaker 4: I'm not a damn Zodiac.

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Speaker 1: Who is the Zodiac and where is he from?

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Speaker 2: iHeartRadio, howstuff works and Tenderfoot TV. This is Monster, the

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Speaker 2: Zodiac Killer.

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Speaker 1: It's been six and a half months since the murders

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Speaker 1: at Lake Kerman Road. Like before, it's another couple in

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Speaker 1: a car and another attack.

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Speaker 3: My name is Clarence Edward rust are USD. I'm a

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Speaker 3: retired Blayo Police depart my lieutenant. On the night of

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Speaker 3: July fourth, nineteen sixty nine, I was working at a

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Speaker 3: late shift with white partner John Lynch when the Zodiac

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Speaker 3: killing occurred in Yo. We were in an unmarked police

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Speaker 3: the radio call came over about firecrackers at blue Ox

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Speaker 3: We pulled into the barket area and observed a vehicle

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Speaker 3: We got out of the car, observed the right passenger

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Speaker 3: and I walked around to the driver's zort and saw

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Speaker 3: later identified as Darlene Ferron. I talked to her, asked her,

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Speaker 3: can you tell me what happened? Her eyes were closed.

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Speaker 3: I could say she was still breathing, and she murmured

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Speaker 3: so I walked around the side where John Lynch was

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Speaker 3: trying to talk to the young male. He was laying

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Speaker 3: I told Dick Cofflin to go in the ambulance with

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Speaker 3: say anything. Darlene Farron was dead on a right or

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Speaker 1: Zodiac left a witness behind the male victim in the

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Speaker 1: emergency room. Michaelmajeaux survived. We went back to Michael Butterfield,

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Speaker 1: the Zodiac expert you heard in the first episode.

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Speaker 5: He was just very fortunate in the sense that none

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Speaker 5: of those bullets hit him in a vital area, and

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Speaker 5: that's just pure luck. That bullet might have gone right

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Speaker 5: And like most people who survive those kinds of traumatic events,

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Speaker 5: wondering why did I survive? Why did she die? And

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Speaker 5: next to you, that's got to be chilling. Michael Migau

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Speaker 5: has struggled a great deal with this over the years.

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Speaker 5: Not everyone walks away from a tragedy intact ed rust.

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Speaker 1: The copy you heard earlier not only arrived on The

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Speaker 1: Zodiac's second gruesome scene, he also interviewed Michael Migaux in

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Speaker 3: of terror after this, heavily involved in drugs and he

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Speaker 6: I'd like to see this case solved, and I think

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Speaker 6: it can be solved, but it just hasn't, and I

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Speaker 6: don't uh. I'm just kind of burned out, bummed out

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Speaker 6: by the whole whole situation and everything. I was there

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Speaker 6: that night, and obviously I saw it the guy I

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Speaker 1: Witnessing and surviving and attempted murder is obviously traumatizing. It

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Speaker 1: Not only did this impact Michaelmageaux, it also left its

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Speaker 1: mark on Darlene's parents, her daughter, and her husband, Dean Farren.

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Speaker 7: That fourth of July, I was working and she came

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Speaker 7: have beer and wine. And at that time you could

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Speaker 7: buy safe insane fireworks. We had a concrete pad in

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Speaker 7: There's no cell phones and anything that was a long

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Speaker 4: Accident and you need to come down the police station.

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Speaker 7: They took us in one little room kind of like

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Speaker 4: Just wondering where you've been tonight.

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Speaker 7: And I told him, well, I've been working up till

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Speaker 7: He said, yeah, he's been here all night, and then said, well,

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Speaker 1: Kind the end of days, that sense of shock Dean

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Speaker 7: Said, my daughter stayed with my parents for a little

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Speaker 7: I'm happy and got a nice family. And some people say, oh,

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Speaker 7: I talked to a TV news thing after the guy

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Speaker 7: Does The only thing that'll end is maybe I won't.

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Speaker 7: People won't talk about it as much, but I don't

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Speaker 5: So the police investigated the idea that Darlene Farren had

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Speaker 5: investigative avenue. Darlene Farren was a very popular person as

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Speaker 5: a waitress and a local diner. There, she had many

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Speaker 5: like many people her age, she liked having fun. I

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Speaker 5: been the Zodiac.

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Speaker 1: The police investigated multiple leads, and early on there were

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Speaker 1: two men who stood out as possible suspects, George and Gordon.

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Speaker 1: According to the Vallejo Police Department's reports, Darlene had some

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Speaker 1: problems with a guy named George. The report details how

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Speaker 1: But where did Mijau stand with Darlene As.

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Speaker 5: And although there are a lot of stories about Darlene

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Speaker 5: up years later. Darlene Farrin is like the Laura Palmer

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Speaker 5: Michael Mijau at the time of the shooting was apparently

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Speaker 5: I don't see any reason to believe that he knew

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Speaker 1: The following is a reenactment of a portion of Michael

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Speaker 8: This vehicle pulled up approximately ten feet behind us, to

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Speaker 1: Him as strange as many of the circumstances were. Michael

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Speaker 1: Majeaux has been cleared of any and all suspicion. The

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Speaker 1: unanswered questions surrounding the murder of Darlene farrin an attempted

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Speaker 1: It's made for an odd and complicated case. But it's

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Speaker 5: While Michael and Darlene were struggling to survive in Blue

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Speaker 5: until he found a payphone and he called the Valeo

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Speaker 6: I want to report a murder.

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Speaker 2: If you will go one mile east on Columbus Parkway,

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Speaker 1: They were shot with a nine millimeters luker.

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Speaker 5: I also killed those kids last year.

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Speaker 2: Goodbye, next time on Monster the Zodiac Killer.

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Speaker 3: A strange letter arrives at the offices of three Northern

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Speaker 1: I was among the copy boys sorting mail.

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Speaker 4: There was a box where letters. The editor went, we

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Speaker 5: It's chilling just to look at it. Each part consisted

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Speaker 9: They found symbols that were repeating next to each other. Well,

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Speaker 10: What I needed did was not a new weapon, not

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Speaker 4: When they searched his car, they found a couple of books.

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Speaker 5: One the books was my book on Sir Murder. He decided,

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Speaker 5: I need to look in their eyes and see them going, oh,

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