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 he is a bad person and is messed up. I think that he is now dead because it was a while ago. my thoughts on this is that he needs Jesus and if he still is alive can potentially get a second chance. 

  • I think that the zodiac killer is someone who, in my mind, is sick and twisted. They clearly did not have good mindset and are mentally ill. I think this person is dead now but he wsas very smart in not getting caught for all those years. I do think whoever this person is should be relased to the public. 

  • I think that the zodiac killer is messed up and sick and he was just mentally ill, but he is very smart for not getting caught. I think that he is dead now because that was a long time ago but if he is I would like to find out who it is and he should serve his time for the rest of his life.

  • I think he is a crazy insane person who had a bad life that made him want to cause others harm. I think he could possibly be hiding in a different country, trying to not get found for the rest of his life as he has gotten away with all his killings for so long. My thoughts of this case are that this person is a very sick human being, and it boggles my mind that someone could ever do this. 

  • I think the zodiac killer is just a messed up sick in the head murderer that wanted to get their anger out in the wrong way. I think the zodiac killer could have possibly commited suicuide by now. I know that i wouldn't be able to live with the guilt of killing so many people.

  • I think he was just a killer that enjoyed it and saw the game in it by trying not to get caught. I don't believe that he had been caught there is a high chance he could be dead but who really knows. But there could still be a person in his shoes just walking around waiting to kill again. I think that if another kill happens it will be easier to catch him since our technology has grown.

    • I agree with this because I think he really did just enjoyed killing people wich is just horrible. He did try to act like it was a game for him, something like a hobby he does. I do agree if he's still out there we would probable catch him do to our newer technology.

  • What the killer did was horrible but he was very smart and that helped him from not being caught. But I do think he is dead now, but we don't know that someone else can be wondering around. But thy need to either lock him up or find him.

  • I think what the killer did was horrible. I think the killer is someone who was not thinking the way he should and just wanted to kill people. I feel like he is most likely dead but I am not sure. If he is still alive I hope he isn't around our area or doesn't kill anyone else. I think what he did was really sad since he killed many people. It would be really sad for the families. 

  • I don't know for sure if the Zodiac Killer is still alive but I sure hope he isn't. What he did was horrible but I would still want to know why he murder all of these people. Maybe the Zodiac killer didn't like the people so he killed them out of anger. I hope we can find out who the Zodiac Killer was or is so they can be put in jail and not roaming around. 

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