It was his ploy to taunt the Bay Area newspapers and the police through his letter, soon after committing a murder. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all.” A high school teacher and his wife, several days later, managed to solve the cipher that said, “I like killing people because it is so much fun. He also taunted the police for failing to decipher the codes and catch him. The next few letters that arrived began with the salutation, “Dear Editor: This is the Zodiac speaking”, followed by the precise description of a recent murder scene. A Zodiac Killer cipher (Getty Images)Īll Bay Area police departments worked together with the FBI to carry out murder investigations, using the letter as key evidence. This later came to be known as the Zodiac Killer’s official signature. At the end of every letter was a kind of anagram that he asserted had his identity. The letter and those that arrived so forth, all brandished a bizarre symbol – a circle encasing an ‘x’ mark. He also dared the newspapers to publish the letters on the front page. Addressed to the editor, the writer said, “I am the killer of the 2 teenagers last Christmas at Lake Herman”, and proceeded to describe the murders elaborately – details only the murderer could have known. On August 1 of that year, San Fransisco Examiner, San Fransisco Chronicle and Vallejo Times-Herald (local Californian bulletins) received an identical handwritten letter, each with no return address on the back. It wasn’t until 1969, that the murderer was baptized as the ‘Zodiac Killer’. In the 1960s, a murderer on the loose began to terrorize Northern California. Master of the zodiac, symbols, and ciphers
Here is the true story of the murderer who petrified the nation with his crimes. It will deduce his claims and rummage through known information of the Zodiac Killer. FX is adapting Stewart’s book into a four-hour episode documentary.
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In the book, he details the search for his biological father, which ultimately renders him some shocking revelations, conjuring a possible link to the serial killer. In May 2014, Louisiana-based engineer Gary Stewart published his memoir ‘The Most Dangerous Animal of All’. Over the years umpteen theories have surfaced regarding his identity, and many people have claimed to ahve known who he was. Even 50 years later, the killer that committed a total of seven known murders, is yet to be named.