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Speaker 2: This guy is a pathological psycho killer. There's no doubt
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: Is there any doubt in your mind that there is
Speaker 3: there is not any connection between Valleo and and.
Speaker 2: This we're shifting out now. I wouldn't say that there
Speaker 2: is any connection yet. I wouldn't want to tell you
Speaker 2: that there isn't at this time. We have some pretty
Speaker 2: good physical evidence that we're working on now, and of
Speaker 2: course we're going to get together with the Valeo authorities.
Speaker 2: We've been in contact with them since the incident, and
Speaker 2: we definitely will pool our resources.
Speaker 4: The shores of Lake Berriessa always felt like a safe place,
Speaker 4: and prior to September of nineteen sixty nine, there was
Speaker 4: no reason to think otherwise. Located about eighty miles north
Speaker 4: of the hard of San Francisco, it was quiet, it
Speaker 4: was remote. It was the perfect place to spend a
Speaker 4: lazy afternoon swimming, playing in the tall grass, or just
Speaker 4: relaxing on a blanket on the water's edge. Unfortunately, all
Speaker 4: the qualities that made it an ideal getaway also made
Speaker 4: it the perfect place for other darker pursuits.
Speaker 1: We're standing on a peninsula at Lake Bury Essa, in
Speaker 1: this exact spot Brian Hartnell and the Cecilia Shepherd were
Speaker 1: attacked in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 5: There's no boats, there's no planes. All you hear is
Speaker 5: birds in the background. So I can't believe it, But
Speaker 5: there's actually a couple shore on the actual island and
Speaker 5: they're the only people we see here. I mean, you
Speaker 5: can't even make this stuff up. I think we should
Speaker 5: go down and talk to him. You came here knowing
Speaker 5: what was here?
Speaker 6: What's here?
Speaker 7: Oh it's the same.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's where the Zodiac killer killed that guy in
Speaker 8: that one girl right yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, didn't one of them get away?
Speaker 8: One of them lived, and then one of them died.
Speaker 8: The girl died in the hospital. I think, right, well,
Speaker 8: that's kind of crazy. Like whenever we drive here, I'm like, wow,
Speaker 8: he drove the same exact way just to get here
Speaker 8: and do that. It's crazy to think about.
Speaker 5: It's very peaceful out here, it is.
Speaker 7: It doesn't seem like the place you get killed in.
Speaker 8: Probably ruined the whole lak thing for you.
Speaker 3: In a mask, robbed, tied, and stabbed them, leaving them
Speaker 3: for dad.
Speaker 2: Subjects stated, I want to report a murder, no a
Speaker 2: double murder.
Speaker 3: I did it a man who wore a medieval style
Speaker 3: executioners hood, carried a knife and gun and intended to
Speaker 3: use them.
Speaker 9: They haven't arrested me because they can't prove a thing.
Speaker 10: I'm not the damn Zodiac.
Speaker 3: Who is the Zodiac and where is he from?
Speaker 4: iHeartRadio, how Stuff works and Tenderfoot TV. This is Monster,
Speaker 4: the Zodiac killer.
Speaker 11: Dear editor, this is the Zodiac speaking in answer to
Speaker 11: your asking for more details about the good times I've
Speaker 11: had in Vallejo. I shall be very happy to supply
Speaker 11: even more material. The boy was originally sitting in the
Speaker 11: front seat when I began firing. When I fired the
Speaker 11: first shot at his head, he leaped backwards at the
Speaker 11: same time, thus spoiling my aim. He ended up on
Speaker 11: the back seat, then the floor and back, thrashing out
Speaker 11: very violently with his legs. That's how I shot him
Speaker 11: in the knee. I did not leave the scene of
Speaker 11: the killing with squealing tires and racing engine as described
Speaker 11: in the Vallejo paper. I drove away quite slowly.
Speaker 1: So it was late September nineteen sixty nine, and most,
Speaker 1: if not all, of the residents of the nearby bay
Speaker 1: area were well aware of a killer operating on the outskirts,
Speaker 1: and now the killer had a name. In September of
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, Napa County was still a place for
Speaker 1: relaxation and enjoyment.
Speaker 7: On September twenty seventh, nineteen sixty nine, a college student,
Speaker 7: Cecilia Shepherd and Brian Hartnell decided to go to Lake
Speaker 7: barry Essa to spend some time together. They had dated
Speaker 7: in the years and they were still friends. They wanted
Speaker 7: to go out to Lake barry Essa, which is an
Speaker 7: absolutely beautiful location north of Napa, California. It's a massive
Speaker 7: body of water. It's a man made lake, green hills,
Speaker 7: green trees everywhere, lots of foliage, beautiful sunsets there reflected
Speaker 7: on the water. It's an amazing place to be. If
Speaker 7: you drive around the lake and you look around, you
Speaker 7: be amazed by how beautiful that area is, and then
Speaker 7: instantly you will think, what kind of person looks at
Speaker 7: this as a setting for a brutal crime.
Speaker 1: The events in Napa County would be different. The zodiac
Speaker 1: was becoming more bold, emerging from the shadows.
Speaker 3: Early last Saturday evening, Celia Shepherd and Brian Hartnell, both
Speaker 3: in their early twenties, were sitting on this knoll of
Speaker 3: land overlooking part of Lake barry Esa. They thought they
Speaker 3: were alone, but there was a third man on this
Speaker 3: a man who wore a medieval style executioner's hood, carried
Speaker 3: a knife and gun and intended to use them.
Speaker 7: Brian and Cecilia decided to sit out on the banks
Speaker 7: and talk and whatever. And at a certain point Cecilia
Speaker 7: noticed a man up in the trees, and she commented
Speaker 7: to Brian that there was a man up there, and
Speaker 7: Brian thought, oh, it's no big deal. He might just
Speaker 7: be doing whatever. But then the man got closer, and
Speaker 7: at a certain point he donned a costume, and then
Speaker 7: he stepped out and approached the victims. This costume was
Speaker 7: dark with four corners on the top made it look
Speaker 7: a little bit like a paper bag covered with fabric
Speaker 7: over his head, and there was a chest piece that
Speaker 7: came down over his chest with a white crossed circle
Speaker 7: on it, which is the same symbol that he had
Speaker 7: used in his previous letters. He approached the victims at
Speaker 7: gunpoint and he said that he was an escaped convict
Speaker 7: from a prison, either in Montana or Colorado. We're not
Speaker 7: sure what he actually said, but that he needed their
Speaker 7: car keys and money to escape to Mexico. Brian and
Speaker 7: Cecilia thought they were just being robbed, and although Brian
Speaker 7: at one point said that he thought he could have
Speaker 7: gotten the gun away from the man, he was worried
Speaker 7: that something might happen, that the man might shoot them
Speaker 7: or something, so he thought, we'll just cooperate and get
Speaker 7: through this and.
Speaker 12: It'll be over.
Speaker 7: The zodiac said he needed to tie them up, and
Speaker 7: he provided some pre cut links of plastic clothesline courtingly,
Speaker 7: and he had Cecilia type Brian and then he tied
Speaker 7: her up and once they were laying on the ground,
Speaker 7: I guess Brian Hartnell said to the man, is that
Speaker 7: gun really loaded?
Speaker 12: And the man opened the.
Speaker 7: Gun and showed him yes, there were bullets in there,
Speaker 7: and then out of nowhere, the man started stabbing Brian
Speaker 7: Hartnell on the back with a foot long knife, and
Speaker 7: apparently he stabbed Brian Hartnell at least six times, and
Speaker 7: Brian Hartnell decided that it was best to pretend to
Speaker 7: be dead, so he just stopped moving, and that apparently
Speaker 7: satisfied the killer, which is another indication of what his
Speaker 7: motives were. Soon as Brian stopped moving, he moved on
Speaker 7: as Cecilia. Now, unfortunately, as Brian described me, Cecilia had
Speaker 7: to watch Brian be stabbed, and because of that she
Speaker 7: was even more frightened when the man turned on her,
Speaker 7: and unlike Brian, she fought back, and because of that
Speaker 7: she was stabbed many more times. She was stabbed at
Speaker 7: ten times in the front and in the back. Then
Speaker 7: the killer appeared to be satiated. He stood up walked away.
Speaker 7: He walked up the hill to where Brian Hartnell's white
Speaker 7: Carmen Gia was parked. He took out a marker and
Speaker 7: he left a message on the car door. It was
Speaker 7: a crossed circle symbol. Below that were the dates twelve,
Speaker 7: twenty sixty eight and seven four sixty nine, which were
Speaker 7: the dates of the murders on Lake Kerman Road in
Speaker 7: the shooting at Blue Rock Springs Park, and then it
Speaker 7: said sept for the month of September twenty seventh, sixty
Speaker 7: nine six point thirty by knife. Brian and Cecilia were
Speaker 7: struggling with their wounds. They were bleeding profusely, but they
Speaker 7: managed to free themselves and Brian tried to crawl off
Speaker 7: to get help. Fishermen came by with his son in
Speaker 7: a boat and saw the.
Speaker 12: Victims and went off to get help.
Speaker 7: Park ranger and others returned later and waited with the
Speaker 7: victims until the ambulance.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, when I arrived on the scene that Saturday night
Speaker 9: around seven thirteen, when found this young girl in on
Speaker 9: the shoreline here, all stabbed in several places, and her
Speaker 9: boyfriend male companion had came too from He had been
Speaker 9: stabbed and he had taken off for help. And the
Speaker 9: other patrolman came in, which is Dennish Land. He found
Speaker 9: him some hundred yards from here, passed out, so he
Speaker 9: brough him back the scene of the where the girl was.
Speaker 9: I've had eleven years patrol on this lake and I've
Speaker 9: seen a lot of people cut up by boat accidents
Speaker 9: in this but this is one of the worst things
Speaker 9: I ever witnessed. For no reason at all, just a
Speaker 9: hooded man came up with a pistol drawn on him,
Speaker 9: tied him up and then told him, he.
Speaker 6: Had to kill him.
Speaker 1: Cecilia Shepherd initially survived the attack, but slipped into a
Speaker 1: coma on her way to the hospital and died two
Speaker 1: days later on Monday, September two, nineteen sixty nine. Brian
Speaker 1: Hartnell survived. Brian, in an interview from his hospital bed,
Speaker 1: describes how he found the strength to live that night.
Speaker 13: At the beginning, I did think I was going to die,
Speaker 13: and so from that moment on one has to.
Speaker 14: Have certain goals that you have to set. The first goal,
Speaker 14: of course, was to live. I suppose the second goal
Speaker 14: was to get untied. The next one was to get help,
Speaker 14: and getting help getting to the hospital. You know, you
Speaker 14: have to have a successful set of goals.
Speaker 13: And if you can keep this going and you can
Speaker 13: keep your mind active, I don't whether you die or not,
Speaker 13: you're at.
Speaker 14: Least psychologically.
Speaker 13: Attune, whether you're in shock or not, if you can
Speaker 13: keep arguing with yourself, praying, doing anything to keep your
Speaker 13: mind off of yourself, or at least just not lapsing
Speaker 13: back and just saying well, it's no use.
Speaker 3: Brian will probably be able to leave Queen of the
Speaker 3: Valley Hospital fairly soon. But where he's going from here
Speaker 3: is being kept secret. In the event that the man
Speaker 3: who attacked him and killed Cecilia Shepherd on Lake Barry esa,
Speaker 3: we could go Saturday tries again. Brian made it for
Speaker 3: two reasons some people might regard as intangibles, but reasons
Speaker 3: that for him were enough. A strong faith and an
Speaker 3: equally strong will to live. Dave Moncey's eyewitness news at
Speaker 3: Queen of the Valley Hospital.
Speaker 1: Because he survived, Brian Hartnell was able to help the
Speaker 1: investigators by providing detailed descriptions of the zodiac's elaborate costume
Speaker 1: in the way he spoke to the couple before the attack.
Speaker 7: In the hospital, Brian was interviewed and described the killer,
Speaker 7: described the exchange they had, the conversation they had had,
Speaker 7: and he also described the killer's costume in great detail. Unfortunately,
Speaker 7: Brian could not see the killer's face, but he could
Speaker 7: describe the killer's voice, and he thought that the killer
Speaker 7: seemed like a younger person, maybe a student, and that
Speaker 7: he appeared to have some kind of a drawl, not
Speaker 7: a Southern drawl, but some form of an accent. Cecilia,
Speaker 7: when she had seen the man before he put on
Speaker 7: the mask, thought that he had dark hair, and then
Speaker 7: when he was wearing the costume, there's some evidence that
Speaker 7: Brian could see some of the hair through the eye
Speaker 7: holes in the costume and thought that the man had
Speaker 7: greasy brown hair, which was in some ways compatible with
Speaker 7: the previous description given by Michael Michau. But of course
Speaker 7: without seeing his face, you couldn't say for sure.
Speaker 1: Brian was fortunate to survive. But there's another side to
Speaker 1: the story that most people don't consider survivor's guilt.
Speaker 7: In nineteen ninety nine, I spoke with Brian Hartnell and
Speaker 7: he told me some things about that day which put
Speaker 7: a lot.
Speaker 12: Of things in context.
Speaker 7: He did talk about his desire to take the gun
Speaker 7: away from the man, and then wrestling with the fear
Speaker 7: that doing so might make matters worse and that he
Speaker 7: might endanger Cecilia. And that was a tremendous responsibility, a
Speaker 7: burden to be carrying, because as the man, especially in
Speaker 7: nineteen sixty nine, you're expected to protect the woman. Put
Speaker 7: yourself in Brian's position. You're there with a woman that
Speaker 7: you care about and a man walks up with a
Speaker 7: gun and says he's just going to rob you, and
Speaker 7: part of you wants to fight back. But part of
Speaker 7: you is worried that you're going to make things worse
Speaker 7: and get somebody hurt. I do know that he did
Speaker 7: feel some responsible for what happened to her. He also
Speaker 7: talked about the fact that their faith helped them get
Speaker 7: through this. After the killer left and they were sitting there,
Speaker 7: bleeding and trying to get out of their bindings, they
Speaker 7: prayed together and they said that that helped them get
Speaker 7: through the ordeal.
Speaker 12: Brian crawled out onto the road.
Speaker 7: He was bleeding so profusely that if the ambulance probably
Speaker 7: had not come when it did, there's a good chance
Speaker 7: that he might not have survived. And he told me
Speaker 7: that the knife came very close to his heart, just
Speaker 7: an inch in another direction, and Brian probably would have
Speaker 7: died that day and we would have never heard anything
Speaker 7: about this story. But he also struggled with the fact
Speaker 7: that later on he had to think about the conversation
Speaker 7: he had with the Zodiac, where the Zodiac was basically
Speaker 7: telling him I'm just going to rob you, and Brian thought, well,
Speaker 7: maybe with my legal experience he was a law student,
Speaker 7: maybe I could help this man. Maybe I could talk
Speaker 7: to him.
Speaker 12: He offered to help him.
Speaker 7: Get some help, and of course the Zodiac wasn't interested
Speaker 7: in any of that because it was all a ruse.
Speaker 7: He was just trying to get them to cooperate so
Speaker 7: he can get them tied up. So he had apparently
Speaker 7: created this scenario where he was going to use this
Speaker 7: ruse to convince them everything's okay. Cooperate with me and
Speaker 7: everything will be fine. And that's one of the most
Speaker 7: terrifying aspects of that is that he actually got them
Speaker 7: to participate in their own attack by convincing them this
Speaker 7: is the best thing for you to do.
Speaker 12: When he knew all along what he was going to.
Speaker 6: Do to them.
Speaker 7: This was not something that he just did on a
Speaker 7: spur of the moment. Once they were tied up, he
Speaker 7: tied them up for that specific purpose so they could
Speaker 7: not fight back. You believe somebody when they tell you
Speaker 7: I just want to take your money, So you say, okay,
Speaker 7: all right, you can tie me up, and once that's done,
Speaker 7: you have no choice any it's over. Brian was very
Speaker 7: lucky that he survived, but I think, like a lot
Speaker 7: of other people, he also still struggles with some guilt
Speaker 7: because he was the person who survived. He decided to
Speaker 7: play dead and that appears to have made the big
Speaker 7: difference in why he's still here today. Cecilia did what
Speaker 7: many of us would have done, which is fight for
Speaker 7: her life, and apparently she paid the price for that.
Speaker 1: And as it turns out, Zodiac was selective when choosing
Speaker 1: his victims on that day at the lake.
Speaker 7: It was probably easier to escape that area during the
Speaker 7: day than it would have been at night. There's if
Speaker 7: you've ever been to Lake Barrier, so there's lots of
Speaker 7: winding roads, and it was even more so back in
Speaker 7: nineteen sixty nine when those roads weren't paved and they
Speaker 7: were little dirt trails and things like that. He may
Speaker 7: have been familiar with that area and selected that spot specifically,
Speaker 7: but there's no guarantee there would be somebody there. So
Speaker 7: that might also explain why some witnesses saw a.
Speaker 12: Man walking around the area and just randomly looking at
Speaker 12: people and staring at them, because he may have been
Speaker 12: considering killing those people as well. There were three young
Speaker 12: girls who I believe were sunbathing in an area of
Speaker 12: the lake who said a man was staring at them.
Speaker 12: If that was the Zodiac, you have to stop to
Speaker 12: think about what was going on. Was he looking at
Speaker 12: those people because he was trying to make sure they
Speaker 12: wouldn't pay any attention if he attacked someone else, or
Speaker 12: was he considering attacking those three girls? And what's even
Speaker 12: more terrifying is that there was a man and his
Speaker 12: young son who said that they saw a similar individual.
Speaker 12: Was that guy stalking them and considering attacking a father
Speaker 12: and son? And why didn't he Did he become concerned
Speaker 12: that someone might see him? Or did he notice that
Speaker 12: they had guns because they were apparently there's some people
Speaker 12: in the area who were hunting and target shooting and stuff.
Speaker 12: So me he may have said, I don't want to
Speaker 12: risk somebody who's armed.
Speaker 7: Maybe he decided not to he didn't want to kill
Speaker 7: a little boy. I don't know, but it does indicate
Speaker 7: that he was entertaining a lot of different.
Speaker 12: Possibilities that day. And that's a drastic departure from what
Speaker 12: he had done before.
Speaker 1: Was the Zodiac killing strictly for attention. He did seem
Speaker 1: proud of his kills, bragging about them in a very
Speaker 1: public way, But why such a dramatic turn of events
Speaker 1: at Lake Barriessa. The killer had changed his method of
Speaker 1: operation from shooting to knife attack. Doctor Eric Hickey, criminal
Speaker 1: psychologist at Walden University and consultant for the US Department
Speaker 1: of Defense, thinks it was all about progression, going from
Speaker 1: the somewhat detached method of killing with a gun to
Speaker 1: the more up close and personal method of ending a
Speaker 1: lit life with a blade.
Speaker 15: I don't think that he's already had really cared whether
Speaker 15: he was caught or not. But I think he liked
Speaker 15: the game, and I think when he went from shooting
Speaker 15: to stabbing, shooting was just too easy, it was too quick,
Speaker 15: but stabbing much more statistic, and I think he took
Speaker 15: probably some delight in doing that. And you see some
Speaker 15: of these guys and we don't know about some of them.
Speaker 15: We don't know exactly what Ted Bundy did to his victims.
Speaker 15: We only heard some things because he did it in
Speaker 15: the woods. I'm sure he made them suffer a great deal,
Speaker 15: but we don't know if it was progression with him
Speaker 15: or not.
Speaker 7: It's one thing to just walk up and stab people,
Speaker 7: but if you think about somebody like Ted Bundy, he
Speaker 7: could have just as easily walked up and hit a
Speaker 7: woman over the head with a crowbar and threw her
Speaker 7: in the trunk and driven off but there was some
Speaker 7: part of him that needed to lure them and fool
Speaker 7: them into a false sense of security so that then
Speaker 7: he could turn around and spring it on them as
Speaker 7: a surprise. He needed to surprise women, and he needed
Speaker 7: this fooling them aspect for him to feel powerful. Well,
Speaker 7: there may have been with the Zodiac some element where
Speaker 7: he wasn't satisfied anymore just shooting people.
Speaker 1: Was he moving from sudden, blind attacks to a much
Speaker 1: more controlled, ritualistic, or even sexual form of killing. The
Speaker 1: killer's carefully crafted costume, complete with a handstitched Zodiac symbol,
Speaker 1: may hold a clue. The bizarre costume he designed and
Speaker 1: then war for the Lake Barriesa attack still puzzles authorities
Speaker 1: and captivates the imagination of anyone who sees the police sketch.
Speaker 1: Even now, fifty years later, the Zodiac's strange costume raises questions.
Speaker 7: At Lake barry Essa. He shows up with a bizarre
Speaker 7: costume with his chosen symbol on the chest, a bizarre
Speaker 7: story about how he had escaped from a prison and
Speaker 7: he needed their money and car keys to escape to Mexico,
Speaker 7: none of which appears to have been true. We know
Speaker 7: that this story wasn't concocted just to put them at ease,
Speaker 7: because he could have said anything to put them at ease.
Speaker 7: And then you have to deal with the costume itself.
Speaker 7: Ken Narlow, who investigated the case for the Knappe County
Speaker 7: Sheriff's Office, said to me once, why is he wearing
Speaker 7: a mask? What's the point? If you're going to kill
Speaker 7: these people, why are you covering your face? There's no
Speaker 7: evidence he did that in the previous crimes. And then
Speaker 7: at the same time, if he wants to cover his face,
Speaker 7: why isn't he just wearing a ski mask or something.
Speaker 7: Why this elaborate costume? And even more importantly, if he
Speaker 7: was going to kill the victims, and as far as
Speaker 7: we know, if help hadn't arrived when it did, it's
Speaker 7: very possible those victims could have died. And if they
Speaker 7: had died, none of us would ever know that the
Speaker 7: Zodiac had worn that costume. So that costume was not
Speaker 7: about getting attention. It was not about seeing it in
Speaker 7: the media or seeing those famous sketches of that costume. Now,
Speaker 7: he didn't appear to care whether we knew about that
Speaker 7: or not. That was for him, and it was for
Speaker 7: the victims, and the only reason we know about it
Speaker 7: is because Brian Hartnell survived to tell us what happened.
Speaker 7: But if he had died, as far as we know,
Speaker 7: they had just been stabbed. So this whole thing about
Speaker 7: the costume and the story, that's all some private thing
Speaker 7: that serves some inner need for the zodiac that we
Speaker 7: don't really understand. But what I think it does tell
Speaker 7: you is that he had a very rich imagination of
Speaker 7: rich fantasy life, and he needed to feel a certain
Speaker 7: sense of power when he committed these crimes, more so
Speaker 7: than what would be provided if he just walked up
Speaker 7: and shot you. It's obvious by that time, whether it
Speaker 7: was because of the media coverage or his own need
Speaker 7: to be more than what he seemed to be, he
Speaker 7: had created this image and then that image had to
Speaker 7: be sustained with something. It couldn't just be writing letters.
Speaker 7: And I think in some way, as much as he
Speaker 7: didn't make any effort to make sure we knew about
Speaker 7: his costume, that wasn't the point. It was about him
Speaker 7: knowing about that costume, knowing that he has morphed transformed
Speaker 7: into this new kind of thing, and then inflicting it
Speaker 7: on someone because I think ultimately, as much as that
Speaker 7: costume was meant to feed his ego or his fantasies,
Speaker 7: it was also about the terror it would create in
Speaker 7: those who saw him coming Wearing that costume.
Speaker 1: The Zodiac had taken on the image of what he
Speaker 1: felt would instill the most fear in his victims. But
Speaker 1: the question remains, did he create and wear this elaborate,
Speaker 1: ritualistic costume for the benefit of himself or for his
Speaker 1: unfortunate victims. If there was no one left living after
Speaker 1: the Lake Buriessa attack, no one would have ever known
Speaker 1: of his bizarre ritual and he certainly didn't expect any survivors.
Speaker 1: We know this because of a phone call made to
Speaker 1: the Napa County Sheriff's Department from a payphone outside of
Speaker 1: a car wash twenty seven miles away from the crime scene.
Speaker 1: That proves just that.
Speaker 11: I want to report a murder, no, a double murder.
Speaker 11: They are two miles north of park headquarters. They were
Speaker 11: in a white Volkswagen Karmen Gia.
Speaker 10: I'm the one that did it.
Speaker 1: Whatever his motive, the Zodiac was clearly done operating in
Speaker 1: the shadows. He was now ready to take his crimes
Speaker 1: to a larger venue, somewhere he could really grab the
Speaker 1: attention of the police and the public. Just two weeks
Speaker 1: after the Lake Berriesa attack in early October of nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty nine, The Zodiac would bring his own brand of
Speaker 1: terror into the heart of San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Next time on Monster the Zodiac Killer.
Speaker 6: He is a kid. He used kid, and he was
Speaker 6: playing downstairs and he just you know, looked outside the
Speaker 6: window and saw yo cab and saw someone slats over
Speaker 6: in the car. Come the finals a culprit of the Zodiac.
Speaker 7: San Francisco is directly linked to the Zodiac Killer. There's
Speaker 7: no escaping it now. What he wanted in July of
Speaker 7: nineteen sixty nine was for as many people to see
Speaker 7: this as possible, to get as much attention as possible,
Speaker 7: and to cement his image as a real threat.
Speaker 10: I've covered a lot of killers with a lot higher
Speaker 10: body counts and a lot more sick, twisted ways of
Speaker 10: killing people.
Speaker 7: This guy was theatrical.
Speaker 10: The Chronicle received a letter and only the Chronicle from
Speaker 10: the Zodiac. As the woman opened it in the editorial department,
Speaker 10: a piece of bloody shirt fell out with the letter.
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