WEBVTT - Lover's Lane [2] 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.400 The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.440 those of the podcast author or individuals participating in the podcast, 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.520 and do not necessarily represent those of iHeartMedia, How Stuff Works, 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.560 or its employees. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.200 Lover's Lane a secret of destination for hopeful young people, 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:26.000 a lookout or secluded area where couples anticipate privacy. Betty 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.000 lou Jensen and David Faraday were just kids, ages sixteen 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.080 and seventeen. Privacy and intimacy was probably what they expected 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.400 from their night. What they got instead, they never could 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.240 have predicted. Their murder at Lake Herman Road was horrifying 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.640 and brutal. Why would someone do that to two kids? 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.280 There couldn't be anything more terrible. It couldn't get any worse, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.040 but it did. The killer struck again at yet another 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:56.920 Lover's Lane. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.040 A man in a mask, robbed, tied, and stabbed them, 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:09.160 leaving them for dad. Subjects stated, I want to report 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:14.399 a murder, no a double murder. I did it a man. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.000 Who wore a medieval style executioners hood, carried a knife 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.680 and gun and intended to use them. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.520 They haven't arrested me because they can't prove a thing. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:26.679 I'm not a damn Zodiac. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.319 Who is the Zodiac and where is he from? 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:36.040 iHeartRadio, howstuff works and Tenderfoot TV. This is Monster, the 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:37.000 Zodiac Killer. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.720 It's been six and a half months since the murders 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.760 at Lake Kerman Road. Like before, it's another couple in 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.400 a car and another attack. 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:58.480 My name is Clarence Edward rust are USD. I'm a 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.280 retired Blayo Police depart my lieutenant. On the night of 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.080 July fourth, nineteen sixty nine, I was working at a 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.560 late shift with white partner John Lynch when the Zodiac 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.920 killing occurred in Yo. We were in an unmarked police 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.200 unit and we're in the downtown area of Layo when 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.640 the radio call came over about firecrackers at blue Ox 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:30.240 Springs Park and they got a call that this was gunshots. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.400 We pulled into the barket area and observed a vehicle 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.359 in the parking lot, police car right next to it. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.480 We got out of the car, observed the right passenger 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.720 side door was open and a body was laying in 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:51.120 the ground with legs still parsely in the car. The 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.600 male victim had obviously had injuries appeared to be bullet wounds, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.880 and I walked around to the driver's zort and saw 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.680 a young white female behind the stream wheel, which was 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:12.960 later identified as Darlene Ferron. I talked to her, asked her, 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.360 can you tell me what happened? Her eyes were closed. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.640 I could say she was still breathing, and she murmured 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.920 a couple times, but never opened her eyes. Didn't say 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.919 anything to me. I knew an ambulance just on the way, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.880 so I walked around the side where John Lynch was 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:35.040 trying to talk to the young male. He was laying 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.920 on the ground and had an injury to his head 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:43.600 or neck, and he had difficulty talking. The ambulance arrived 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:48.040 shortly after that loaded both the victims into the ambulance. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.840 I told Dick Cofflin to go in the ambulance with 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:52.920 him in case either one of them were able to 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.520 say anything. Darlene Farron was dead on a right or 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.880 at the hospital, but the male victim was alive and 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.240 put in emergency care. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.280 Zodiac left a witness behind the male victim in the 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:17.440 emergency room. Michaelmajeaux survived. We went back to Michael Butterfield, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.560 the Zodiac expert you heard in the first episode. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.320 He was just very fortunate in the sense that none 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.320 of those bullets hit him in a vital area, and 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.520 that's just pure luck. That bullet might have gone right 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.760 through his head, So he's very lucky to be alive. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.440 And like most people who survive those kinds of traumatic events, 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.279 there's probably a certain amount of guilt attached to that, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.560 wondering why did I survive? Why did she die? And 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.800 then also there's the horrifying realization of how close you 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.559 came to dying. There's no way that you can forget 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.919 about that every day. If you feel the pain of 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.719 that bullet, you see the scars, you know how close 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.040 you came to dyeing, and especially watching someone die right 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.880 next to you, that's got to be chilling. Michael Migau 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.280 has struggled a great deal with this over the years. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:13.080 Not everyone walks away from a tragedy intact ed rust. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.800 The copy you heard earlier not only arrived on The 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.080 Zodiac's second gruesome scene, he also interviewed Michael Migaux in 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.640 the hospital the morning after the attack. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.719 He was fairly injured and it was under sedation, but 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.120 was able to speak with me and I interviewed him 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.520 at length. He was able to tell me that Darlene 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.960 had picked him up at his house. They had some 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.719 kind of an association, I'm not sure just what. She 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.240 drove them out to Blue Ox Springs Park and they 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.440 pulled into the parking lot and it was empty at 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.000 the time. This was pretty late at night. He said. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.919 They were sitting in the car talking about things, and 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.800 a car load of young people pulled up next to them, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.520 and the eld and holler and drove off, And shortly 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:07.400 after that a car pulled up behind him. The driver 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.040 got out, walked up to his side of the car 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.640 carrying a hand held flashlight. Michael Vagel he assumed it 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.680 was a police officer and was trying to get his 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.640 wallet out. This person walked up and was standing right 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.240 next to his open window, didn't say anything at all 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.640 to him, and suddenly he pulled a gun up and 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:37.480 started shooting. Michael Vigel. He was hit struck several times, 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.040 and he literally climbed over the seat into the back 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.960 seat of the little corve air. The shots just kept going, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.080 and he said this person actually reached in and shot 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.560 him at least once or twice more while he was 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:59.480 in the back seat. After several shots and nothing said whatsoever. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:06.560 He heard the car door slam, the lights disappeared, and 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:12.480 the vehicle drove off, he believed, toward Valo. He then 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.000 was able to reach and opened the passenger side door 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.600 that he had been sitting in and was able to 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.080 climb out, and he fell down on the ground and 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.960 that's where he was when the first police officer did 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.760 klauf and arrived. He said he tried to talk to Darlene, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:34.520 but she never did answer. Michael Mjeau lived a life 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:40.560 of terror after this, heavily involved in drugs and he 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.440 just got completely out of it. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.600 I'd like to see this case solved, and I think 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.440 it can be solved, but it just hasn't, and I 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.320 don't uh. I'm just kind of burned out, bummed out 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.960 by the whole whole situation and everything. I was there 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.120 that night, and obviously I saw it the guy I 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.960 did to those two young kids, and I want to 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.680 see the person that did at hell responsible. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:24.520 Witnessing and surviving and attempted murder is obviously traumatizing. It 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.000 can linger with someone for the rest of their life. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.320 Not only did this impact Michaelmageaux, it also left its 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.960 mark on Darlene's parents, her daughter, and her husband, Dean Farren. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.319 That fourth of July, I was working and she came 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.360 by the restaurant and said, okay, let's go out and 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.200 get some fireworks and we'll meet at the house and 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.040 have beer and wine. And at that time you could 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.360 buy safe insane fireworks. We had a concrete pad in 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.600 the backyard that was the plan. Closed the restaurant up 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.000 and went by the house and we're kind of surprised 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:02.280 that the babysitter was still there. She hadn't come back yet. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.160 There's no cell phones and anything that was a long 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.760 time ago, had no way to get in contact, just 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:13.080 sat around waiting. The police showed up to the door 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.640 wanted me and to come down the police station and 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.160 didn't really say why. They said, oh, there's been an. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.679 Accident and you need to come down the police station. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.600 They took us in one little room kind of like 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.520 this little small interview room and said, well, you know 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:30.640 it's we're. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:31.840 Just wondering where you've been tonight. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.880 And I told him, well, I've been working up till 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:35.680 forty five minutes ago or so. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.360 And checked with the boss and. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.640 He said, yeah, he's been here all night, and then said, well, 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.920 we just we don't tell you. It's it's the worst. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:49.720 She's deceased. They asked where her parents lived, and I said, well, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.559 I think I should probably be the one to tell him. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.319 So I rode in out to their house with the 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.600 police officers told her parents that I don't really know 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:08.960 what happened, but you know, his daughter has been killed, and. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.080 Then I went back home. I don't remember if my 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.000 brother took a daughter. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.599 To my parents' house, or if we did that in 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.480 the next morning. I don't remember exactly what went on 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.439 after that. I was kind of something I didn't know 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:20.360 where I was really. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.360 Kind the end of days, that sense of shock Dean 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.640 felt persisted. The trauma of dealing with Darlene's murder left 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.439 him struggling to raise their daughter. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:37.679 Said, my daughter stayed with my parents for a little 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.640 bit of a while, but we had I had a 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:45.560 close friend that you well, they volunteered the babysit. Basically, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.320 she was raised for about five years by this other 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.400 couple that was more of a foster sort of a situation, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:57.040 which to this day she still calls them mother and dad. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:02.079 That was a miracle for us or me or her both, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.320 so it gave her some kind of a structure and 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:11.439 a family situation, which at that time I didn't know 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:17.480 where I was going. At this point, it's so long ago, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.640 and my life has really. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:21.040 Been pretty good. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:26.400 I'm happy and got a nice family. And some people say, oh, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:27.439 it'll bring closure. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:28.120 Well I don't. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.080 I talked to a TV news thing after the guy 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.640 up in Sacramento they found him California rapist or killer 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.640 or whatever they called me, and they came by the 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.200 house and stood out in the front of yard for 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.600 ten or fifteen minutes. Well, this bring closure, And I said, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:46.760 I don't know what the hell closure is. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.560 And that was the end of it. I don't know 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.360 what closure is, and how. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.960 Does The only thing that'll end is maybe I won't. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.559 People won't talk about it as much, but I don't 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:04.080 even see that happening anymore. It's less painful every time. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.080 It's like picking a scab off of it, a little cut, 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.079 you know, Okay, first time it leads like hell, Next time, man, 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.280 not so much. This is going to lead somewhere. Well, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:14.200 nothing's happened. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:26.199 So the police investigated the idea that Darlene Farren had 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.280 been killed by someone she knew. That's a traditional standard 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:37.080 investigative avenue. Darlene Farren was a very popular person as 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.560 a waitress and a local diner. There, she had many 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.680 fans and of course many male admirers. And I think that, 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.480 like many people her age, she liked having fun. I 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.680 don't know if that meant drinking or doing other things, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.000 but she definitely liked having a good time, and that 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.000 included having fun with her friends. Michael Migeau was one 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.240 of the people she counted among her friends. Michael and 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.760 his twin brother had met Darlene at the diner where 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.040 she worked, and like many other male customers there, they 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:10.400 developed a friendship with her that sometimes extended beyond her 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.520 work hours. There are a lot of stories about Darlene 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.920 dating other men and doing other things like that, and 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.760 so it's easy to believe that she was dating a 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.360 lot of different men, and one of them could have 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.160 been the Zodiac. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.560 The police investigated multiple leads, and early on there were 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:30.319 two men who stood out as possible suspects, George and Gordon. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.000 According to the Vallejo Police Department's reports, Darlene had some 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.760 problems with a guy named George. The report details how 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.560 George met Darlene at the restaurant where she worked and 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.800 would sometimes give her rides home, but friends of Darlene 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.080 said she was quote deathly afraid of him, but was 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.280 friendly towards him in an effort to keep him at 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.600 a distance. On one occasion, he walked into her apartment 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.800 and told her that he was either going to rape 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.000 her or get into bed with her in one way 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:02.640 or another unquote. Officers spoke with George and he denies 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.960 ever threatening Darlene, but does state that many times he 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.480 did tease her and make her angry. George was quickly 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:14.000 ruled out as a suspect. Gordon Arthur was another suspect 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.000 police spoke with. Gordon met Darlene while he was waiting 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.120 for the Navy to transfer him. He told officers he 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.800 and Darlene went on a few dates. According to the 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.120 police files, Gordon said a day or two before he moved, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.640 Darlene told him that she wanted to leave her husband 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.600 and move with him, but Gordon said no because Darlene 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.040 had a baby he couldn't provide for. After he moved, 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.720 Gordon said, Darlene wrote to him telling him she might 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.120 be pregnant, but then he didn't hear from her for 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.760 a while. In the case report, it reads he received 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.040 one more letter from her, and it said she had 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.320 been in the hospital for a short time, but did 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.000 not state the reason. Gordon thought that possibly she had 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.240 been pregnant and went and got an abortion somewhere. Gordon 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.920 stated at this time that he decided not to have 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.480 anything to do with ar Darlene and not to see 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:12.840 her again. Gordon was also ruled out. After reading the 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.360 police reports and first hand accounts of people close to Darlene, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.560 it seemed as if she had been living a secret 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.640 life went away from her family. I wanted to know 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.720 if Dean knew how Darlene spent her time when she 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.200 wasn't at home or at work. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.200 She was a waitress at pancake house. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.640 I was a cook there and we got to be friends, 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.160 and then it escalated from there. I guess at the 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.640 time she was married to somebody else and he was 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.000 being rather abusive, and I helped her find a place 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.000 to live with a friend of mine. From there we 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.520 got to be better friends. Ended up getting married a 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.800 little bit sooner than we may have thought. But back 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.600 in those days it was a little bit different. Now, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.400 good girls don't get pregnant when they're single, and we 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.800 had planned on getting married anyway. It was kind of 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.160 pushed up a little bit. She had just turned twenty one, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.360 so I like to go out and dance. She and 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.120 some of the other waitresses would go out. She would 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.440 go out occasionally with them. She still had friends from 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.040 when she had lived in San Francisco. She'd go down 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.440 and see and exactly what they did. I you know, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.440 there's all kinds of rumors down there that was her 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.360 drug connection, and that was her boyfriends or whatever. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:28.640 You know. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.000 Some of the police I've talked to, they were asking me, okay, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.200 rumors are that she was having a lot of affair 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.040 as well. I would like to believe she wasn't. But 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.880 I know that she liked to go out. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.920 But where did Mijau stand with Darlene As. 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:48.200 Far as Michael Jaux or how to pronounce his name. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:49.760 It's one of those things I'm trying to put out 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.000 of my head. I would like to believe that's not true, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.360 but I don't have any way to confirm her to not. 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:05.320 Michaelmajau today talks about their relationship in terms of that 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.320 he wanted to marry her in all kinds of things, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.360 but at the time it appears that they were just friends. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.320 Maybe he had a very strong crush on her. There's 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.160 no evidence that she ever responded or reciprocated in that way. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.080 And although there are a lot of stories about Darlene 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.920 dating other men and doing other things like that, there's 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.439 no solid evidence behind any of that. I think a 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.840 lot of that is Rarmer, A lot of that comes 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:35.880 up years later. Darlene Farrin is like the Laura Palmer 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.040 of the Zodiac case. Laura Palmer was the victim in 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.919 the famous TV series Twin Peaks, and of course in 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.840 that series it was a very complicated murder story, and 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.920 her background had a lot to do with what was 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.159 going on. But I think that's what people wanted to 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.199 believe with Darlene Farren. So they wanted to believe that 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:59.320 she had this rich, mysterious private life where there's all 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.320 these your secrets and shadows and things like that, and 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.080 so it's easy to believe that she was dating a 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:07.639 lot of different men and one of them could have 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.879 been the Zodiac or all these things, but there's no 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.119 evidence to support that. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.720 For a moment, Investigators even looked into Michaelmajeaux. Many people 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.160 today still theorize that he knew the Zodiac was going 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:25.160 to attack that night. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.280 Michael Mijau at the time of the shooting was apparently 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.359 wearing several layers of clothing. The layers of clothing have 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.400 been troubling for some people because Michael Mijaud did have 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:40.320 some minor criminal entries on his record, and some people 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.360 have read a lot into that. They think it's evidence 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.000 that there was something sinister going on, or that he 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.600 knew something, that he was a criminal, like a burglar, 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.320 that he was wearing one set of clothes so that 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.119 if he escaped, he could take those off and not 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.359 be identified. There's other people who have actually come up 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:00.679 with the theory that he knew they were going to 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.639 be shot that night and he was wearing extra layers 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.000 of clothing in case he had to take it off 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.280 and if there was blood on him or something like that. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.919 I think it makes a lot more sense to believe 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:15.120 that Michael Mageaux was a young kid, rather skinny, and 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.960 he was out at night. A lot of kids wear 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.720 extra layers of clothing. I never did that myself. I 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.080 wore a lot of jackets when I was in high school, 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.520 but I didn't know people who did that, and sometimes 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.399 it was because they weren't comfortable with the way they 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.560 looked in their clothes. They would try to pad their 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.600 bodies and that may have played a part in it. 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.960 I don't see any reason to believe that he knew 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:42.119 about the shooting that night. Most people would not volunteer 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.040 to be sitting next to someone who's going to be 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.240 shot to death in a car. I think in reality, 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.159 it's just a kid in his insecurities. 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.240 The following is a reenactment of a portion of Michael 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.240 Magau's statement to the police after the incident at Blue 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.000 Rock Springs. The recording comprises reading by an actor of 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:09.359 mister Michaud's statement in first person voice. 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.399 This vehicle pulled up approximately ten feet behind us, to 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.600 the right of Darlene's car. He had a high powered flashlight, 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:24.919 the kind you carry with a handle. He walked up 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.000 to the car, and both of us believed it was 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.160 a policeman. He stepped up to my side of the car, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.760 shining a flashlight on us. He didn't say anything to us, 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.840 and we didn't say anything to him. I started to 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:38.879 reach for my wallet as I felt it was a 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.720 policeman who wanted to see my ID. As I did, 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.919 I heard a muffled sound and felt a pain in 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.680 my back and my neck. I heard some more muffled sounds. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.239 It sounded like a gun with a silencer on it. 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.280 I tried to climb over the back seat to get 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:59.879 away from the shooting, and he kept shooting again and again, 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:04.399 and finally he quit shooting and turned the gun on 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:09.560 Darlene and started shooting her again and again. He then 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.359 turned around and started to walk back to his vehicle, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.560 which still had the headlights on. I couldn't tell if 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:17.399 I meant to yell at him or if I just 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.680 yelled from the pain, but I let out some type 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:24.800 of yell. He apparently heard me and came back to 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.720 the car and shot me two more times, once in 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.119 the back and once in the leg. He turned the 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.840 gun on Darlene and shot her twice more. All the 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.800 shots I heard were muffled, like there was a silencer 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.520 on it. It wasn't loud. He then turned around and 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:45.960 casually walked back to his vehicle and got in. I 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.919 reached outside the car door to open it because the 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.000 handle inside was broken. I reached outside and opened the 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.520 car door and fell on the ground. As I fell 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:58.760 on the ground, the vehicle he was in backed up 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.920 in a turning movement and then took off towards Springs 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:05.280 Road in Vallejo at a very high rate of speed. 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.080 As the vehicle drove off, I only saw the rear 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.159 portion of it. This rear part appeared to be a 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.879 vehicle similar to or the same type as Darlene's car, 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:22.000 a Corvett, also a very similar color, possibly a little 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.480 bit lighter brown. It had a California license plate, but 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:32.159 I couldn't tell what the numbers were. As best as 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:36.200 I can recall, the man appeared to be short, possibly 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:40.000 five to eight. He was real heavy set, beefy build, 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.919 possibly one ninety five to two hundred, maybe even larger. 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:49.240 He had short, curly hair, light brown, almost blonde. He 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.960 was wearing a short sleeved shirt blue in color. I 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:56.199 saw his face from the profile a side view. I 0:22:56.200 --> 0:23:00.399 don't remember seeing the front. There was nothing unusual about 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.800 his face other than it appeared to be large. He 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.840 had a large face. It was dark. It was just 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:10.120 too hard to see. 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:17.320 Him as strange as many of the circumstances were. Michael 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:21.600 Majeaux has been cleared of any and all suspicion. The 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:25.560 unanswered questions surrounding the murder of Darlene farrin an attempted 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:29.800 murder of Michaelmajeaux have left many people guessing and theorizing. 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:33.840 It's made for an odd and complicated case. But it's 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:37.040 not the questions or the attack itself that cast this 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:41.000 case in the limelight. It's what happened minutes after that 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:44.200 marked the beginning of the Zodiac's notoriety. 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.040 While Michael and Darlene were struggling to survive in Blue 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:52.320 Rock Springs Park, the killer apparently was driving around Valleo 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:55.640 until he found a payphone and he called the Valeo 0:23:55.680 --> 0:24:03.720 Police Department, and the call was answered by the dispatch 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:04.560 of Nancy Slogan. 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:09.720 I want to report a murder. 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:15.320 If you will go one mile east on Columbus Parkway, 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:17.480 you will find kids in a brown car. 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:21.200 They were shot with a nine millimeters luker. 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:25.640 I also killed those kids last year. 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:58.639 Goodbye, next time on Monster the Zodiac Killer. 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:02.320