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The Zodiac Killer [n 2] is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. [n 1] The Zodiac murdered five known victims in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969, operating in rural, urban and suburban settings. He targeted three young couples and a lone male cab ...
The Zodiac Killer was the inspiration for the psychopath in the 1971 Clint Eastwood classic Dirty Harry, which includes a scene involving a school bus full of children being hijacked.
The Zodiac Killer, who was never caught, gained notoriety by writing letters to police and local media boasting of the killings up until 1974. Claiming to have killed as many as 37 people, he also ...
The sender: the soon-to-be-notorious Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a combination of grisly murders and bizarre public letters ...
Zodiac killer, unidentified American serial killer who is believed to have murdered at least five people in northern California between 1968 and 1969. The case inspired the 1971 action film Dirty Harry, which starred Clint Eastwood, and it was the subject of the critically acclaimed David Fincher film Zodiac (2007).
The Zodiac killer is well-known for the cryptic messages he sent to the news media, taunting law enforcement and reporters alike with ciphers and graphic descriptions of his crimes.
It took 51 years to crack, but one of the taunting messages written in code and attributed to the Zodiac Killer has been solved, according to the F.B.I. The mysterious 340-character cipher, which ...
