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Riverside Police Officers at the crime scene of Cheri Jo Bates, the first suspected victim of the Zodiac Killer. Known for his bizarre, rambling handwritten letters, the Zodiac sent baffling ciphers, quoted musical lyrics, taunted police, and threatened to shoot school children. Approaching the Lake Herman Road crime scene.
The team believes Poste also killed Cheri Jo Bates on Oct. 31, 1966, in Riverside, Calif., hundreds of miles south from the San Francisco area and two years before the first killing linked to the Zodiac occurred. Bates, 18, was found dead in an alleyway on the Riverside City College campus after her father phoned police to report her missing.
The Riverside Confession Letter - Introduction. On November 29, 1966, exactly 30 days after the murder of presumed Zodiac Killer victim Cheri Jo Bates, two almost identical typewritten letters were sent to the Riverside Police Department and the Riverside Press Enterprise. In these letters, titled “THE CONFESSION”, the author claimed ...
Some believe it was an isolated incident. Either way, most agree that the murder of Cheri Jo Bates was what stripped the community of Riverside of its innocence. Cheri Josephine Bates was born on February 4 th, 1948 in Omaha Nebraska to parents Joseph and Irene Bates, the youngest of two children. In 1957, the family moved to Riverside ...
The murder of Cheri Jo Bates occurred in Riverside, California, on October 30, 1966. Bates, an 18-year-old college freshman, was stabbed and slashed to death on the grounds of Riverside City College. Police determined the assailant had disabled the ignition coil wire and distributor of Bates' Volkswagen Beetle [4] as a method to lure her from ...
The Murder of Cheri-Jo Bates. Cheri Jo Bates was a student at Riverside Community College (RCC) and was brutally murdered on October 30, 1966. Her dream was to be a flight attendant and travel the world. She had attempted to obtain a flight attendant position out of high school and was rejected – she attended RCC in the hopes of improving her ...
July 28, 2018. The Bates Letters: On the 6th month anniversary of his daughter’s death, Joseph Bates received a letter in the mail. His daughter, Cheri Jo Bates of Riverside, CA, had been murdered the day before Halloween in 1966. An autopsy on Bates' body revealed that she put up a good fight as she struggled with her killer.
