WEBVTT - Jim Morrison: Zodiac Killer Qu'est-ce Que C'est 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:07.200 Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The following episode 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.920 is satire. It's not true crime. Sorry. It was released 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.040 on April first, twenty nineteen as an April Fool's joke, 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.720 and the immediate response on social media was pretty overwhelming, 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:19.960 and I freaked out and pulled the episode after it 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.720 had only been live for a couple of hours. Many 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.120 of you disgraced Sense subscribers did not hear it, and 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.680 you emailed me and tweeted at me asking how you 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:29.720 get your ears around it. And for those of you 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:31.960 who did hear the episode and wrote me to curse 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.080 me out or were eager to share a laugh at 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.440 your own expense as you found yourself pulled over on 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.440 the side of the road, on the subway, in a bus, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.080 or in your bed frantically googling for breaking news on 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.400 the identity of the Zodiac killer. I'm sorry, not sorry, 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.519 edited lightly to protect the identity of the victims. Here 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.320 is the episode as it originally appeared, in its entirety, 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:57.400 including the breathless fake intro that went like this, YO, quick, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.280 heads up. I recorded this episode quickly last night, trying 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.240 to respond to the breaking news and to contextualize fast 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.840 moving story that's just developing, and to tell it in 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.160 a Disgraceland way. I want to thank Payne Lindsay and 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:16.720 Donald Albright from Tenderfoot TV for quickly making available their 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.279 source material for their monster season on the Zodiac Killer. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.000 And also a special thanks to the Vallejo City Chronicle 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.000 for their dogged reporting and for being first to get 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.520 this news out. Also, David Fincher, I'd be nowhere fast 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.760 on this had I not watched your film Zodiac a 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.840 thousand times. Okay, let's get into this special Monday edition 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.800 release of Disgraceland. Buckle up, It's going to be a 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:53.720 wild one. A singer I'm going to tell you about 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.760 and the crimes he committed were insane. He shot a 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.720 random cabby in the back of the head on a 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.920 Sand Francisco street corner. He slashed to death backseat lovers 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.560 and picnicing couples, and for a brief period in nineteen 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.760 sixty nine, his legend gripped the nation. You already know 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.000 him by many names, the Lizard King, Mister Mojo, Rising, Jimbo, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.200 but never before by his original alternate identity, the Zodiac Killer. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.320 Until this morning's news started to break. This alternate identity 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.839 was the secret. The idea that this worldwide recognizable rock 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.200 star could also be one of America's most notorious serial 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:34.520 killers was and still kind of is unfathomable. But we've 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.920 seen this kind of double life in our culture before, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.080 as recently as twenty fourteen, when we learned that a 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.280 star tight End Aaron Hernandez from history's most successful NFL 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.560 franchise in New England, Patriots, was a gangbanging, drug dealing murderer. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.839 And let us not forget Oj Simpson, America's prom king 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.679 who ended up slashing his way into infamy. It took 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.480 a while, but the unbelievable nature of these stories eventually 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.960 set in and the truth was accepted. It's unclear to 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.720 me how long it will take for us to accept 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.120 the truth of this story, because right now it just 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.160 seems ridiculous that the fame Zodiac Killer was one of 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.560 the most popular musicians of all time a musician. You 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.280 made great music, and that music I played for you 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.480 at the top of the show, And that wasn't great music. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.720 That was a preset loop from my melotron called mellow 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.120 Fast Waves BK two. I played you that loop because 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.040 I can't afford the rights. It's My Party by Leslie Gore, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.440 And why would I play you that specific slice of 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.360 weepy jukebox cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.600 the number one song in America on June fourth, nineteen 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.080 sixty three, And that was a day that a pent 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.200 up small town teenager in search of his own identity, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.240 with a fire in his eyes and a song in 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.600 his heart, struck a deal with the devil that would 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:54.880 change history forever. On this episode, mellow Fast waves a 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.560 murderous identity crisis, weep be Cheese, one of the greatest 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.240 front men of all time, the Zodiac Killer. I'm Jake 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:28.520 Vernon and this this disgrace laand fuck you. The kid 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.760 deadpanned to his father. Even in teenage anger, his voice 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.680 was low and broody. His mother did her best to 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.400 ignore the latest in a series of daily tensions between 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.159 her son and her husband by turning up pat boone 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.440 on the transistor radio and busying herself with the dishes. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.760 The kid was home in Alameda, California, after a year 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.800 of junior college in Florida, and he dared to bring 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.960 up transferring to art school over my dead body, was 0:04:55.960 --> 0:05:00.440 his father's predictable response. His dad was a navyman, a 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.120 rear admiral, and wanted something professional for his son, James. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.840 If not the military, then law school or an MBA. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.760 He'd even settle for a liberal arts degree if his 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.480 son promised to get a master's. Later, to James, his 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.520 parent's life was a lie. Raised a military Brat all 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.240 the moving in the new schools, James had seen the 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.880 military industrial borders of suburbia, and he had no place there. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.760 Without friends and with parents he didn't understand. He was 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:33.320 thoroughly alienated, and so he turned inward and became an artist. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.920 His curiosity was bottomless. He read European philosophers Nietzsche and 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.200 William Blake by sixteen sixteen. Have you read Nietzsche and Blake? 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.800 I've tried as an adult, and let's just say I'm 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.479 a little more comfortable with the musings of the great 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.159 American philosophers Daffy Duck and Bill Murray. They're more my speed. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.240 But by the time James was a senior, his English 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.080 teacher made a habit of researching his student bibliographies to 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.320 make sure James wasn't just inventing type to support his papers. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.320 The joke was on teach. The citations were real medieval 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.320 pamphlets about demonology, only available from the Library of Congress. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.960 James was an occasional d student, but only because school 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.080 was a drag. He found it to be crushingly bourgeois, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.320 just like his family. There's no future in the arts. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.440 You don't have the talent, the Rear Admiral shouted. Why 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.159 couldn't they recognize the brilliance inside him? He stormed up 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.440 to his bedroom, slammed the door. Fucked them. They didn't 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:36.359 realize their picket fence was a cage. The grand mysteries, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.640 the dark depths of the universe. James knew that's where 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.960 the truth was. His parents would never look beyond the veil, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:48.400 but he would. He'd already started. James grabbed Alister Crowley's 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.520 Magic and Theory and Practice from his bookshelf. He was 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.760 that deep now, the satanist Crowley, the occultist Helena Blovatski. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.479 James wanted to get high, but any smell would tip 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.480 off the Rear Admiral and lead to a good old 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.240 corporal punishment ass kicking, So James had to hang his 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:05.880 head out of the window to smoke the joint. He 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.080 just rolled his version of howling at the moon like 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:13.080 his hero bluesman Howl and Wolf. He leaned backwards over 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.239 the sill, sparked the jay, and thought about Wolf's great 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:21.440 and terrifying song. Evil. Once high, James duck back inside 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.720 and started a new Crowley chapter entitled of the Bloody 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:29.600 Sacrifice Matters Cognate. He read the first ethical lesson in 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.520 the Bible is that the only sacrifice pleasing to the 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:36.520 Lord is the sacrifice of blood. For the highest spiritual working, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.760 one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:44.440 purest force. Hanging outside of the window, he took another hit. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.840 The O G. Mendocino weed crossed James's soft palate. The 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.960 poetry of dark ritual passed his lips. He had a 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.000 moment of clarity, Pins and needles all around his head 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.000 like a hand rising from his throat to grab his brain. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.120 His crowned chakra was on fire with the dark spirit energy. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:04.240 That was it. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.920 He knew who he was and what he had to do. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.800 In that instant, he understood the cheat codes written into 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.520 morality by God for those willing to play by the 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.400 devil's rules. James wandered over to his record player and 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:22.960 put aland Wolf on the turntable. Wolfe's raspy, demonic voice 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.760 and raptured the very stoned young James. But his mom 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.800 would never forgive him for what he was about to do. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.200 Neither would his father. It didn't matter. He was nobody's son. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.000 He was no longer their James. He was simply Jim. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.680 It was June third, nineteen sixty three, and Jim Morrison 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.960 had broken through to the other side and blown the 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.760 doors of his perception wide open. The next day he 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.480 took off. Before he split, he lifted the twenty two 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.840 pistol from the family gun cabinet. It was a woman's weapon, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.440 a historical piece. The rear admiral would never miss it. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.120 There was a chance he'd missed the rope and the 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.280 jackknife from the garage, where the pair of old military 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.520 issue wingwalker boots that Jim took, But Jim didn't care. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.120 He bought a ticket on the first thing, smoking a 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.600 Greyhound headed south. The driver parked at a rest area 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:20.040 overlooking the beach. Ten minutes he hollered next stop, Lompoc. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.760 Jim looked out his window and laughed dryly at his look. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.959 He was senior Skip day for the local high school kids, 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.760 and there they were down on the dunes free range 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.040 hunting season. Jim thought all the lush beauty of pure 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.840 American youth. He honed in on a flirty couple walking 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.679 away from the crowd, somewhere private. Jim presumed, He shouldered 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.760 his knapsack and slipped off the bus before he lost them. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.120 George Hernandez and Melinda Johnson were straight out of Central 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.320 Casting American, his apple Pie high school seniors, already engaged 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.600 to be married, good kids, pure at least for a while. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.080 Like all kids, they wanted to do what comes natural, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.400 and that's why it's called what comes natural. They were 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.920 engaged now, and it was senior skip day. One thing 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.880 was indeed going to lead to another thing, and that 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.120 thing made Jim's chest swell with excitement. That thing is 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.400 why Jim stocked Georgia Melinda like pray. Georgia Melinda's pent 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.120 up urges made them the most alive and Alistair Crowley 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.319 had told Jim that if he stole the life from 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.200 them through sacrificial rights, he could steal their life energy, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.560 bottle it into his own being, make their souls work 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.320 for him from the other side. And with this unnatural power, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.200 Jim knew he could escape his family's cage and one 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:45.920 day achieve greatness. He caught Georgia and Melinda in the act. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:50.120 Cherry's half popped, he pulled out the dainty twenty two. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.839 Jim had the drop on them. When he emerged from 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.319 the dunes. They saw the gun and pissed themselves in fear. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.200 Jim held them a gunpoint more them to shut the 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.800 fuck up. He instructed them to get on their feet 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.880 go sit on the drift with a few steps to 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.920 the right. He then clumsily tied them up with the rope. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.200 It was Jim's first time, just like it would have 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.160 been theirs, and because he was nervous, he got sloppy. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.520 Georgia and Melinda slipped their bonds ran for it. Jim 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.960 saw his dreams slipping away with every footfall. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:18.960 Shit. 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.280 He planted his father's old wingwalker boots in the sand. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.680 There were ten and a half, a little tight on 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.240 Jim's size eleven feet, but they anchored him to the 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.920 ground like they were supposed to, just like the elegant 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.240 pistol the boots did with the stolen rope didn't got 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:38.360 the job done. Po po pow went the bullets down, 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.600 went George and Melinda. If these kids are re Via Kong, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:47.400 Dad would be proud, Jim thought. But no ritual blood letting. 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.120 He couldn't let the kills be for nothing. He took 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.120 a beat, collected himself. There was no time to wallow 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.040 in the mire. Jim dragged Georgie and Melinda into a 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.679 rotting bead shack on the other side of the nearest dune. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.080 Inside their young love would become a funeral byer. Jim 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.360 had to stake a claim to this flame fire magic 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.440 transfer the energy of the recently departed to him their killer. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.880 He took the jackknife, the last of his stolen tools, 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.480 and carved a spell of his own into the soft wood. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.400 He took the M and the R from his last name, Morrison, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.320 and brought them to the front to spell mister. He 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.840 took the M and the J from his first name, Jim, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:28.760 and added the two o's from Marrison to spell Mojo. Finally, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.400 he took the remaining letters R, I, S I, N 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.880 and bunched them together to spell risin and there you 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.720 had it, playing as the red on the Devil's dick, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:13:02.360 Mister Mojo Rising. In the summer of sixty six, Jim 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.960 hid in his bedroom again, but this bedroom was different 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.160 from his old diggs back at the Rear Admiral's house. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.080 He was living in a Venice Beach studio apartment. He 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.240 blocked out the windows, listened to the blues, and did 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.000 so much LSD it could reasonably qualify as a main 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.160 source of his bodily fluids. While there, he poured psychedelic 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.280 truth into a small notebook, feverishly drafting poem after poem 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.720 for what he didn't know, but it kept his mind 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.520 off of killing. After the night he disappeared from the 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.400 family house to make his first kill, he returned home. Miraculously, 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.960 the Rear Admiral gave in and allowed Jim to transfer 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.680 into UCLA as a film student. He made exactly one 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.880 film while at school, but he did graduate. After graduation, 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.920 his brain scrambled by too much acid and too much 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.640 Alister Crowley, still a slave to the dark arts, looking 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.680 to make his way in the world and to establish 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.960 his own identity. While now on his own, he quietly 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:02.480 disowned his family and fully embraced the bohemian lifestyle. He 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.160 ran into a college buddy on the beach, a keyboard 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.440 player named Ray Manzaic. He shared his poems with him, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.880 and Ray recognized him as nothing short of magical. Soon 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.440 Jim found himself and raised little rock and roll combo 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.040 alongside two other inspired musicians, Robbie Kreeger on guitar and 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:25.760 John Densmore on drums. They called themselves The Doors. Ray 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.360 had met Robbie and John in a meditation retreat, which 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.200 Jim thought was lame. Jim wasn't into this self care bullshit. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.560 He wanted sensory overload at all times, and we want 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.040 the world, and we want it now. Jim took to 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.280 the mic and imagined what Howling Wolf would sound like, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.880 reciting the evil musings of Alistair Crowley. What came out 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.960 was dark, mystical, poetic, and powerful. Jim's musical inexperience was 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.400 no obstacle. In no time, The Doors became the house 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.760 band at the Whiskey at Go Go Nightclub on LA's 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.680 Sunset Strip, opening for every headliner betwe He made twenty 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.160 third in August twenty first, they released their first single 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:09.240 in November break on Through. Jim had broken through years earlier, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.280 and he'd tried to hide, but that was impossible. Now 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.120 that he had a stage, The Door Is notoriety spread 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:21.040 and their popularity exploded. Still, Jim found it impossible to 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.840 get from music what he got from murder. That feeling 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.520 from killing Bob and Linda, he couldn't shake it. It 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.840 was stronger than the feeling he felt on stage or 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.040 in the studio. He loved playing music, but the payoff 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.240 was different, maybe because he wasn't as confident a performer 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.080 as one would think. If he had more faith in 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.680 himself as a musician, lives might have been saved. But 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.360 the rear Admiral's words rang out in his drug addled 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.640 head constantly, you don't have the talent son. It fucked 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.400 with Jim, even though he's making a name for himself. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.640 But for how long Jim's goal was in making do 0:15:54.800 --> 0:16:01.160 on Aleister Crowley's promise eternal life, not pop stardom, real greatness, transcendence. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.640 The music just wasn't enough. So just weeks before The 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.880 Door's first single release, Jim felt the need to kill again. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:15.120 He drove to Riverside, an LA suburb, his victim would 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.640 be Mary Anne Kate's, another poster child for American beauty. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.000 A twentieth century fox. She cut his eye at the 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:26.280 whiskey one night and ever since and is then still anonymous. Downtime, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.320 he followed her, learned her routines. She was uplate at 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:35.120 her college library and Jim Morrison was waiting. Raised keys 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.600 played in Jim's mind like the organ at a pagan church. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.400 The demonic voice spoke out in Latin whispered into his ear. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.600 A man, James, do you renounce the Lord of Christendom, 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.440 god of colonial pigs, imperiod as dogs and capitalists pomp? 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:52.880 I do, Jim whispered back. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.040 Do you believe this god must be overthrown? I do, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.920 Jim said, as he removed the distributor cap from Mary 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.800 Maranne's car, ensuring that her car wouldn't start. He crouched 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.160 down out of sight and waited. Somewhere nearby. A baby 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:11.080 cried from an open window. Mary Anne exited the library 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.880 and mister Mojo ris and hid quietly behind her car. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:18.160 Coiled in attack move, Mary Anne stepped into her driver's seat. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.199 Her car would start. She realized something was wrong and 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.159 stepped out Jim sprang from behind, tackled her, beat her 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:29.080 perfect body bloody. To Jim and his manic fury, his 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.359 memory wires had crossed. This murder brought on the total 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.920 recalls the Lompock kill from three years before. His brain 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.800 synapses firing off like the familiar sound of those twenty 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.520 two shots from years earlier, replaced by the sound of 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:46.720 his fist pounding mary Anne's flesh. All he heard were gunshots, gunshots, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.760 and the voice of the devil whispering in his ear. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:55.920 James Douglas, Morrison, do you renounce Jesus Sherry? Joe screamed, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.520 but nobody came. And then the chaos. His fists on 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.440 her flesh sounded like a flurry of gunshots. I do renounce, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.200 and all his works. His knuckles to her ribs made 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:13.560 a loud crack. I do renounce that, and all his promises. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:18.960 I do renounce that more punches, more cracks, since she 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.200 still hadn't gone limped. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.960 James Douglas, will you pledge your soul to Satan? 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.440 I will it nominated? 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:33.000 Diabli ed feeley ed spirit is Satan. James Douglas going evil, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:34.719 and may Lucifer. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.600 Be with you hell Satan. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:43.160 With those words whispered Hail Satan. Jim's transformation was complete. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:50.679 His soul had been sold for what. It wasn't entirely clear. Fame, transcendence, 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:55.280 beyond the bourgeois status quo, eternal life, any combination of 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.040 those things. Jim didn't know, but he was certain of 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.840 one thing. The power that raised aged through him at 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.480 the moment was like an electric coil pulled tight from 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.760 the tips of his toes to the crown of his skull. 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.160 It surged and provided a powerful, manic, high voltage confidence. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.600 It made him feel as though he could do anything. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.919 Jim thought to himself, that was it. This was what 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.840 all the poets raved about. That feeling, the one that 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.920 the scientists and astrologists could never figure out, but that 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.800 the wordsmiths had on lock, That thing that inspired countless artist, painters, 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.480 songwriters and directors to keep going back to the well 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.440 for to try and to capture, to express that feeling. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:40.159 This was it love. Jim dropped Marianne to the asphalt 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.159 and slid himself down the side of the car and 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.280 to exceed on the ground next to his kill. He 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:49.560 was exhausted. He rifled through Marianne's purse for her smokes, 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.280 found one, lit it with her letter, took a deep 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:56.040 cleansing drag, tilted his head back against the car and exhaled. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.760 He then pulled the small notepad and pencil he carried 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.560 with him everywhere and began writing. 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:05.280 That was it. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.000 There were no stars, and they were empty, hollow like him, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.840 But unlike his words, the stars were small. Words were bigger. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.840 They could be anything, which is what the scientists and 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:21.360 the astrologists never understood about love. With words, the possibilities 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:26.200 for love were limitless. Science was fixed, limiting compared to poetry. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:30.920 Science was bullshit. Poetry gave wings to our desires. Astrology 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.320 the zodiac science of compatibility. It was all bunk, made 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.560 up to sell newspapers to board suburban housewives like his mom. 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:41.520 Could the zodiac science have predicted how Jim now felt 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.960 about Maryanne, what she meant to him now now that 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.399 she become his kill? Was the goddamn Sunday morning horoscope. 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.080 Going to read Arias is a fellow fireside for you, 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.800 Jim Morrison, the Sagittarius, He'll find a worthy partner mentally 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.040 and physically. The chemistry between you is awesome, and when 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.640 you pierce her skull with the sharp end of your knife, 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:05.399 you'll know you've found your soulmate. Jim had no idea 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:07.800 when mary Anne was born, but he knew it didn't 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.120 matter for shit. He knew that she was for him, 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.200 his girl, and he knew that their chemistry was quote 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:17.760 unquote awesome. He pulled her dead body over closer to 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:20.439 him and placed her bloody skull on his lap. He 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.800 felt for her, He really did something deep, a connection. 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:26.720 It was different than the feeling he had for George 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:31.040 and Melinda. That was more bloodlust, craven, clumsy, like it 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.359 is when you lose your virginity. With mary Anne, it 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.399 was different. The kill had a rhythm to it, like 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.720 great sex with an experienced partner. Was it because they'd 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.040 hooked up after Jim had formally sealed the deal in 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.840 his mind with the devil, before he'd gotten high on 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.879 satan stoned immaculate into a deeper understanding of the cosmos 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.880 and the power of his poetry, before he fully understood 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:57.399 the futility of God, science and the stars. And what 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:01.040 did the astrologists know that the poets didn't thing? Jim 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.040 was in love and Satan had his back. Fuck with 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.399 the horoscope said mary Anne was his first love and 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:11.360 no disrespect to Georgia Melinda under the empty stars that night. 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:16.119 Mary Anne was Jim Morrison's first Zodiac kill. We'll be 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:22.760 right back after this word were word like the mister 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.240 Mojo Rising carving he'd made after the Georgia Melinda murders 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.400 in Lompoc. Mari Anne's death wasn't tied to the killer 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:33.160 who would become known as the Zodiac for years. When 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:37.359 Georgia Melinda's bodies were eventually discovered, the Mister Mojo Rising 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:41.159 carving went unnoticed because it had no significance because at 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:44.160 the time, the Doors weren't yet a band, the song 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.520 wasn't yet a hit. It was just a line in 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:49.119 Jim Morrison's head that he would later write into the 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:52.359 lyrics for the song La Woman. So at the time 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:54.600 it just looked like some teenage graffiti, and so the 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:58.719 clue was missed until now. And for Jim Morrison, a 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.080 young man who craved recognition, whose goal it was was 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.480 to be infamous, whose prime motivation for killing in the 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:07.960 first place was to build an army of souls to 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:11.520 fight for him in perpetuity to achieve his twisted notion 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:15.000 of greatness. The fact that authorities were too stupid to 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:18.280 connect him to those first few kills it really pissed 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:22.560 him off. It wasn't until nineteen seventy that authorities even 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.600 began to piece together the murders. San Francisco police believed 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:30.280 the killer racked up five confirmed kills between December nineteen 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:34.480 sixty eight and October nineteen sixty nine, a couple on 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:37.920 Lake Herman Road in Benicia, one in Blue Rock Springs 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:41.199 Park in Vallejo, one more in Napa County, and a 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.800 cabby in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. And 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.920 they didn't even know about Georgia, Melinda, and Marianne. This 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:52.040 infuriated Jim. He wanted the credit for all those kills 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.679 and then some. He later claimed to the public that 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:58.120 he was responsible for a total of thirty seven murders. 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:01.120 Jim couldn't deal with with the slowness of the San 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:04.440 Francisco detectives, so he did what he did best, turned 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:09.040 to words, poetry, a twisted poetry, but poetry. Nonetheless, he 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:12.119 started to write letters to the press to claim responsibility 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:15.160 for the murders, so the poetry needed to be twisted 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:18.840 to conceal his identity. Jim Morrison, the fame whor couldn't 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:23.040 resist the rush of notoriety. These claims came in letters 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:26.560