Who IS Zodiac Killer?

The zodiac killer was someone who was unknown and  killed about five people, but the thing is that he was popular in the 1960s and he was still never found......but how? he was never founded, could he still be out there somewhere, did he kill more people that we don't know of. These are questions that people are still wondering till this day, to the people who saw and survived, to people in the law enforcement. People are still wondering where he is. 

 

First we need to look at who he killed, and who the people are. His first victim was a couple on December 20th, 1968 a 16 year girl named Betty Luo Jenson and a 17 year old boy named David Faraday, they were planning to head to a local restaurant on their first date, but on the way to the restaurant they stopped by a nearby gravel parking way. While they drove into the parking way there was another person driving right next to them, which was the Zodiac Killer. The zodiac killer told the couple to get out of their vehicle, but of course the couple refused to do so. So what  he did was he pulled out a gun, walked to their car and shot the tire and the back window of their car, he did this because he wanted to scare the couple. But then when both of the couple tried to run away the killer shot David which was the boy and killed him on the spot, while that was happening the girl who is Betty tried to run away from the shooter but the killer chased her down and shot her 5 times in the back. When the killer was done with everything he returned to his vehicle and left. 

Then his Second kill was on July 4th,1969, an 18 year old boy Darlene Ferrin and a 16 year old Micheal Mageau were going to get some fireworks for Independence Day celebrations. They were pulling out of the driveway, but then they noticed that they were being followed, so Darlene started to make twists and turns to try to see if they were being followed and tried to lose him. But they eventually pulled up in a parking lot, where the car that was also following them went into the parking lot as well. Parked right behind the people, as he got out he pulled a flashlight and Micheal thinking it was a cop, he pulled out his ID Card to show the cop telling Darlene to do the same, but we the killer went to there car he pulled a flashlight right into their faces making loose focus on what about to happen. THe killer decided to shoot 7 times right at Darlene and Micheal, killing Darlene first but Micheal surviving, the killer thinking he killed both of them walked back to his car but then Micheal left on a big moan. The killer notices that and went back to their car to shoot Micheal 2 more times, this the the first person to ever seen the killer face. Now luckily three teenagers saw this and called the police. But when this was happening there was an anonymous person calling their local police station, it was the killer who called saying that there's been a double murder and that he did it.

Now this was his 4th killed, what he decided to do now was to have fun and play games with the cops. So what he did was on August 1st he wrote a letter about 3, to San Francisco Chronicle, talking about his first two murders and how he did proving that he did it saying like the gun he used to kill them where he killed the people at, just saying that he did it. Then he wrote something extraordinary, a code that has characters including Greek Symbols,morse code, weather symbols, alphabet letters, and astrological symbols. Now what people did was a newspaper was sent out with the exact code onto it seeing if the local people could solve it. People like Naval Intelligence and the CIA was sent this code to see if they could decipher it. But a couple in San Francisco Donald and Betty Harden decide to try and solve it. In their past they liked solving puzzles and wanted to try it out. Eventually the couple got it saying that he liked killing people instead of animals, he also says that when he dies that the people he killed would be their slaves in paradise. 

Then in a couple weeks he sent out another code called "Z340 CODE" making it much more difficult so hard that the code has not been deciphered 50 years later by a group of people that made a computer to solve it in 2020 of december. The code still contained the writing in his old code, but this one needed the letter to be substituted, read diagonally, rearranged, and flipped,while also skipping certain words. 

Now what do you think about this? still he hasn't been found. People assumed that he was a different person but no one knows. Me personally I think that he was never founded and to be honest he was smart with his killing spree. But obviously this was a horrible event in the 1960s for people, from people knowing who he looked like and knew his voice but the police could never find him. 

What do you think he is?

Where do you think he could be now?

What are your thoughts about this?

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zodiac-killer

https://www.biography.com/crime/zodiac-killer

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  • I think that the killer was very smart with the way he did things and was never caught. I think currently he is most likley dead.  I have no clue who he couldve been or what he could have looked like. Another possiblity if they arent dead, they could have fleed the country.

  • I think sometime in the future we will know who the zodiac killer really is but for now, he remains anonymous. I would assume he would flea the coutry just in case but maybe he still lives around the area. I think that the zodiac killer is just a very messed up guy who wanted to mess with people. 

  • he cold be anybody, he could be jefrey dahmer, he could be Ted Bundy, He could litlery be anybody, he probely might be somwhere away from the states, probly underground. It is kind of unnerveing that he is still out there to this day.

  • What do you think he is? I have no idea what he could look like or even if it is a he. I think there is a high chance they he is too old or not alive anymore to continue his murder spree. I think it is a crazy story and I wonder how they have remained silent and nobody knows who they are.

  • I think that the zodiac killer was a very smart killer seeing that he was never caught and wrote cryptic messages that were not deciphered 50 years later. I think that by now he is probably dead because its been a long time.

  • I don't know who it could be, I don't think there is a lot of reasorces suggesting its name. I think it would be dead by now if not they would be hiding away still. I think that it is a very bad thing for it to kill multiple inocent human beings.

    • I agree with where people don't know where he is. There is a little evidance on him like people knew what his face looked like and what he sounded like but I think he's just hinding know if he is still alive. But everyone thinks he dead so they don't have to worry about him. 

  • I think that the killer is dead by now or is just too old to continue thir murder spree, they might be dead right now or they could be living the average retired persons life in America. I think that they might have fleed the country and is currently in another country where he will live until he dies.

    • I do agree with this because someone who was in their 30s or 20s from the 1960s could be really old or dead. Which a lot of people do agree with, which I also agree with. He might of fleed the country but I don't think he did.

  • The people working on the case found strong evidence for the zodiac killer to be a man by the name of Gary Francis Poste, who passed away in 2018. My thoughts about this is he's the luckiest serial killer ever because he didn't get caught until after he died. He wrote cryptic letters with hidden codes that still haven't been cracked to this day.

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