2. Who/What is Rodiac?
• Zodiac literally:
• A band around the sky about 18°
wide, centered on the ecliptic, in which the
Sun, Moon, and planets move.
The band is divided into 12 signs of the
zodiac, each 30° long, that were named by the
ancient Greeks after the constellations that
used to occupy these positions
3. Beginning---
Lake Herman Road attack
• High school students Betty Lou
Jensen & David Faraday on
December 20, 1968, on Lake
Herman Road, just inside Benicia city
limits.
• At 11:00 pmDied!
5. BLUE ROCK SPRINGS PARK -
Vallejo, California
• Flashlight into Mageau's and Ferrin's eyes
before shooting at them, firing five times.
Both victims were hit, several bullets passing
through Mageau and into Ferrin.
• The killer walked away from the car but upon
hearing Mageau's moaning, returned and shot
each victim twice more before driving off.
• At around 12:00 pm Died on the spot!
7. Riddle, Code, or just nonsense?
• On August 1, 1969, three letters prepared by the killer were
received at the Vallejo Times-Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle,
and theSan Francisco Examiner.
• One-third of a 408-symbol cryptogram which the killer claimed
contained his identity.
• The killer demanded they be printed on each paper's front page or
he would "cruse around all weekend killing lone people in the night
then move on to kill again, until I end up with a dozen people over
the weekend."
8. Lake Berryessa attack
• Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard were picnicking at Lake
Berryessa on a small island connected by a sand spit to Twin
Oak Ridge.
• A man approached them wearing a black executioner's-type
hood with clip-on sunglasses over the eye-holes and a bib-
like device on his chest that had a white 3"x3" cross-circle
symbol on it.
9. Lake Berryessa attack
• Cecelia Shepard was conscious when Collins arrived, providing
him with a detailed description of the attacker.
• Shepard lapsed into a coma during transport to the hospital
and died two days later
• Hartnell survived to recount his tale to the press.
• Napa County Sheriff Detective Ken Narlow, who was assigned
to the case from the outset, worked on solving the crime until
his retirement from the department in 1987.
• One die, another survive
10.
11. Paul Stine
• Twenty-nine year old Paul Stine was a husband, student and
cabdriver until he picked up the Zodiac on the night of
October 11, 1969.
• The San Francisco Chronicle received a letter that began with
a familiar introduction. "This is the Zodiac speaking. I am the
murderer of the taxi driver over by Washington & Maple St.
last night. To prove this here is a blood stained piece of his
shirt."
12. More Letters
• On October 14, 1969, the Chronicle received another
letter from the Zodiac, this time containing a swatch
of Paul Stine's shirt tail as proof he was the killer;
• It also included a threat about killing schoolchildren
on a school bus. To do this, Zodiac wrote, "just shoot
out the front tire & then pick off the kiddies as they
come bouncing out."
13. More Letters
• On November 8, 1969, the Zodiac mailed a
card with another cryptogram consisting of
340 characters.
• The 340-character cipher has never been
decoded. Numerous possible "solutions" have
been suggested, but none can be claimed as
definitive.
14. More Letters
• On November 9, 1969, the Zodiac mailed a 7-
Pages letter in which he claimed that two
policemen stopped and actually spoke with
him three minutes after he shot Stine.
• Excerpts from the letter were published in
the Chronicle on November 12
15.
16. Modesto attack
1. Was gutted and torched!!!!!
2. Died On the night of March
22, 1970
17. A sketch of the Zodiac Killer based
on witness testimonies
18. Prime Suspect---Arthur Leigh Allen
• Arthur Leigh Allen was the only suspect in the Zodiac murders
to be served search warrants by police.He was never charged
with any Zodiac-related crime and his fingerprints did not
match those left by the killer of taxi cab driver Paul Stine.
• In 1991, 22 years after the shootings, survivor Michael
Mageau identified Allen as the man who shot him, from a
photo lineup of 1968 driver's licenses.
• Mageau stated he had never been shown a photo line up
prior to that appointment in 1991.Allen, who suffered
from diabetes, died on August 26, 1992 from kidney failure.
19. Confirmed victims
• David Arthur Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou
Jensen, 16 on December 20, 1968
• Michael Mageau Renault, 19, and Darlene
Elizabeth Ferrin, 22 on July 4, 1969
• Bryan Calvin Hartnell, 20, and Cecelia Ann
Shepard, 22 on September 27,
• Paul Lee Stine, 29: shot and killed on October
11, 1969
20. Suspected victims
• Robert Domingos, 18, and Linda Edwards, 17:
shot and killed on June 4, 1963
• Cheri Jo Bates, 18 on October 30, 1966,
• Donna Lass, 25 on September 6, 1970,
