

He died in 1992 just a month after he was positively identified by surviving victim Michael Mageau. There have been many names thrown out there over the years, but one of the key possibilities was convicted child molester Arthur Leigh Allen. The Zodiac Killer claimed this murder by sending in some bloody clothing to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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The final linked victim was 29-year-old taxi driver Paul Stine, who was shot in the head in a San Francisco neighbourhood the next month. The last pair targeted were Cecelia Shepard, 22, and 20-year-old Bryan Hartnell, who were both stabbed multiple times beside a lake in Napa in September 1969. On July 4 1969, another pair were attacked in another remote carpark near Vallejo.ĭarlene Ferrin, 22, was shot five times and died but 19-year-old Michael Mageau survived despite being shot four times, giving police some information on the killer's appearance. The five linked victims started with David Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16, who were on a date in December 1968 when they were shot on a remote road outside Vallejo, north-east of San Francisco. There are five unsolved murders in Northern California linked to the Zodiac Killer - all around the San Francisco Bay area.īut the killer claimed in a letter to have murdered 37 people. There's a lot of information and theories out there, but these are the basics. So what do we know about the Zodiac Killer's victims? Some of the volunteers working on this Zodiac investigation include a former police chief who is now a professor at the University of Maryland a private investigator and investigative reporter and a former military counterintelligence agent. The cold-case team's website says they're a 40-strong group, including former FBI agents, National Security Agency codebreakers, and professors in crime scene investigation. "It's my birthday today, and this all coming out is a great birthday present for me." But who are The Case Breakers? "Being around him, knowing his demeanour and his shadiness and twistedness - I have an intuition, I can read people," she told the Chronicle. Michele Wynn told the paper he was the Zodiac Killer "without a doubt" and the police sketch from 1969 was "like a bell-ringer for me." Mr Poste's former daughter-in-law told the San Francisco Chronicle she believed the Case Breakers had nailed the killer. The group claims DNA evidence from Ms Bates's killer could be tested against Mr Poste's DNA to help confirm their theory. The Case Breakers said in a statement they wanted to share evidence about Ms Bates with local police, but local police said they were "100 per cent" sure the Zodiac Killer wasn't responsible for her death.

Sources also told the newspaper that the latest evidence didn't appear to be conclusive.Ī San Francisco Police Department sketch of the Zodiac Killer.

The San Francisco office of the FBI said in a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle that the case remained open and they had "no new information to share at the moment."
