Download or read book The Story of Zodia Killer One of the Twentieth Century s Greatest Mysteries written by Eldridge Fitanides and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you read the first two books of the trilogy, you need to take the time to read this as well. Motivation, explanation and character development are all here. Whether you agree or not, this this well thought out and well written. Understand History's Most Enigmatic Serial Killer In December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not satisfied with the simple act of murder, he taunted law enforcement and the public by writing letters to local newspapers. Through often cryptic and bizarre content - including four ciphers, three of which have never been solved - the psychopath played a twisted game. Reporters dubbed the man the "Cipher Killer," but the murderer chose a different name for himself: the Zodiac. Eventually, he would claim to have murdered thirty-seven. Law enforcement, however, could only account for five. In 1971, authenticated communications with the Zodiac ceased. The elusive fugitive resurfaced briefly three years later, sending a small number of communiqués, before disappearing for good. What started out with shocking abruptness slowly dissolved into mysterious uncertainty. To this day, the Zodiac's true identity remains one of the twentieth century's greatest mysteries... In the final volume of The Zodiac Revisited, the author uses the insights developed in Volume 2 to reexamine the killer's letters and crimes as well as the possibility that the killer committed a series of murders in Southern California.

Download or read book The Zodiac Revisited written by Michael F. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not satisfied with the simple act of murder, he taunted law enforcement and the public by writing letters to local newspapers. Through often cryptic and bizarre content -- including four ciphers, three of which have never been solved -- the psychopath played a twisted game. Reporters dubbed the man the "Cipher Killer," but the murderer chose a different name for himself: the Zodiac. Eventually, he would claim to have murdered thirty-seven. Law enforcement, however, could only account for five.In 1971, authenticated communications with the Zodiac ceased. The elusive fugitive resurfaced briefly three years later, sending a small number of communiqués, before disappearing for good. What started out with shocking abruptness slowly dissolved into mysterious uncertainty. To this day, the Zodiac's true identity remains one of the twentieth century's greatest mysteries...Having established an analytical foundation in Volume I, Michael uses Volume II to look across the entirety of the case and identify meaningful threads of commonality, exploring subjects such as the killer's methodology, persona, and ciphers.

Download or read book The Zodiac Killer written by Frances J. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zodiac Killer: The Mystery Behind America's Most Feared Serial KillerIf not for the ominous shadow of Jack the Ripper, the case of the Zodiac Killer would perhaps be the greatest mystery the world has ever known. The Zodiac Killer was the self-given name to a murderer who took responsibility for the deaths of at least five people in the San Francisco area of California throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Over the decades, the case has become synonymous with mystery and injustice. The Zodiac Killer's murders were brutal, bizarre and without remorse. He began by targeting young couples in lovers' lanes and executing them with close-range gunshots. His murders then progressed, indicating a highly-unstable frame of mind yet one intelligent enough to evade capture. He would go on to taunt the police and the media with strange ciphers and messages which would take significant time to decode - some of which remain untranslated to this day. Despite extensive searching, analysing and profiling, no conclusive evidence of the Zodiac Killer's identity has ever been put forward. Of course, many theories exist, some of which appear to answer all of the questions one would have regarded the identity of a notorious serial killer. However, none are concrete enough to serve as solid confirmation of who he really was. This book looks at all the evidence, and tries to piece together the clues that point to the true identity of this murderer.

Download or read book The Most Dangerous Animal of All written by Gary L. Stewart and published by Harper. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues—including forensic evidence—that conclusively identify his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and elusive serial murderers in history. For decades, the Zodiac Killer has captivated America's imagination. His ability to evade capture while taunting authorities made him infamous. The vicious specificity of his crimes terrified Californians before the Manson murders and after, and shocked a culture enamored with the ideals of the dawning Age of Aquarius. To this day, his ciphers have baffled detectives and amateur sleuths, and his identity remains one of the twentieth century's great unsolved mysteries. The Most Dangerous Animal of All reveals the name of the Zodiac for the very first time. Mustafa and Stewart construct a chilling psychological profile of Stewart's father: as a boy with disturbing fixations, a frustrated intellectual with pretensions to high culture, and an inappropriate suitor and then jilted lover unable to process his rage. At last, all the questions that have surrounded the case for almost fifty years are answered in this riveting narrative. The result is a singular work of true crime at its finest—a compelling, unbelievable true story told with the pacing of a page-turning novel—as well as a sensational and powerful memoir.

Download or read book The Mystery of the Zodiac Killer written by J.D. Rockefeller and published by J.D. Rockefeller. This book was released on 2016-06-12 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after so many years, the Zodiac Killer has never been identified. Even after so many years, theories about who he may be are being published and reported by the media. Even after so many years, movies and books are being written about this intriguing killer. But who is he? No one really knows who he was, why he killed, and why and how the killings stopped. Some people think he may have died and this is why the killings stopped. Others believed that he probably got caught for another crime and spent the rest of his life in prison. Since he never confessed, he wasn’t identified. In this book, we will take a look at the Zodiac Killer. His killings, his signatures, and his letters, and the way the authorities went about trying to ascertain his identity.

Download or read book In the Shadow of Mt Diablo written by Mike Rodelli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “a worthy, if not definitive, addition to the body of Zodiac knowledge.” — Kirkus "It is no exaggeration to call the identity of the Zodiac Killer the most maddening unsolved crime in American history...But it is also no exaggeration to say that Mike Rodelli's case stands above them all" — Tom Zoellner, Author and Former Reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle In June 1999, Mike Rodelli had an idea that had never occurred to a generation of detectives in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led him to a new suspect in the Zodiac case and began a twenty-year odyssey to prove that this man was the Zodiac Killer. In the Shadow of Mt. Diablo: The Shocking True Identity of the Zodiac Killer is filled with original information about the mystery, including DNA and behavioral profiling that resulted directly from his twenty years of intensive research. Rodelli provides the reader with an objectively researched, fully documented book that is meticulously footnoted, and which shows that, against all odds, he has solved a case many said would never yield its dark secrets.

Download or read book The Zodiac Killer Enigma written by R.S. Clemons and published by Amazon. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about the Zodiac Killer. Hundreds of books, articles, movies, television shows and much more are out there if you want to know about the Zodiac Killer. It is a tale that has been told and retold, written and rewritten, thousands of times. This is something you have never seen before, even if you follow this subject. While the book must cover the basics of the case and introduce new readers to just exactly what a "Zodiac Killer" is, what he did, and the many letters he had written, the bulk of the book is dedicated to something completely new that most have never seen. Zodiac mailed a map to he newspapers and police with one of the many letters he had written. This map was completely blank except for a compass that had drawn over a place called Mt. Diablo. Zodiac said this map could be used to find an alleged "string of bombs" he had planted beside of a road somewhere waiting for a school bus to go by. He also said this map somehow involved something called "radians". But no one knew how to use a blank map to find marked locations. For over half a century this remained a mystery, until now. A bomb schematic sent by the mad man and puzzle maker turned out to be one of the keys for this map, one of a couple. An overlay key. Using a method that has been used throughout history. Many examples can of this method can be found and this method is also taught in the military. He created a map overlay disguised as a bomb drawing. When two points on this drawing are aligned with two points on the map, one being the compass, marked locations can be revealed as well as a section of highway marked with a string of bombs. Whether these bombs were real or not is beside the point (but you would think that the world would want an answer to that question) , what the real mystery and importance of these places are is another question entirely. Zodiac was most famous for the codes he created to taunt the police and not the murders he committed. Only one of his codes was ever said to have been solved while several others remain a mystery to this very day. His most famous unsolved code is called the '340 code'' for the 340 symbols that comprise the code in a grid like formation. This book will also delve into the possibility that this code is also an overlay key for this map and it is used to find the long sought after "radians" that Zodiac said we would find. Clues and evidence from his letters go to support this very idea. That is for you to decide. Don't believe what I tell you. Believe what I show you. Believe your own eyes. This may be the key that someone uses to solve the mystery once and for all..

Download or read book Zodiac Unmasked written by Robert Graysmith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac—America's most elusive serial killer. Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares, and bizarre cryptograms that baffled FBI code-breakers. Then as suddenly as the murders began, Zodiac disappeared into the Bay Area fog. After painstaking investigation and more than thirty years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac’s true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private life that led to the crimes, and provides startling theories as to why they stopped. America’s greatest unsolved mystery has finally been solved. INCLUDES PHOTOS AND A COMPLETE REPRODUCTION OF ZODIAC’S LETTERS

Download or read book The Zodiac Killer written by Zed Simpson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the Zodiac Killer's crime spree and his messages to police *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUE ANAMAL OF ALL" - A section of the Zodiac Killer's cipher During the mid-1960s, the people of America became accustomed to opening their newspapers to two types of headlines. The first would be positive and often have something to do with the space program, perhaps which mission was in the works or which one had just been completed. Then there would be an article of a more negative nature, often concerning the United States' increasing involvement in the Vietnam War. Toward the end of 1968, however, a new and more sinister headline began to pop up. At first it was just in California and seemed to be simply a random crime, with a couple being murdered a few days before Christmas. It was a tragic tale, but in California, it was often dismissed as a byproduct of the youth culture of sex, drugs and rock and roll that often led young people to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then, some months later, another couple was shot, and this time the man survived. The story he told was not of someone targeting either him or his friend, but of a type of madman shooting them again and again. The idea that there was an unhinged serial killer on the loose was confirmed when he began writing letters to the police and the newspapers, not only claiming responsibility for these killings but for others that either had been or would be committed. After he stabbed a third couple and then shot a cab driver in cold blood, he began to send more and more letters. These, like the earlier ones, were signed with a symbol understood only by the killer, a man who called himself "Zodiac." In addition to sending cryptic letters that authorities had to decipher, the Zodiac Killer used them to both taunt people and threaten more violence, warning that a failure to publish what he would wrote would lead him to "cruse [sic] 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." In many respects, the pattern of crime and writing letters was not novel at all. Around the same time the Zodiac Killer was murdering people on the West Coast, the Son of Sam terrorized New York City in much the same way by killing at random and writing letters to the police. Serial killers often use a set pattern and/or rituals as part of their modus operandi, so in that regard the actions of the Zodiac Killer didn't exactly distinguish him from other serial killers. The main difference, of course, is that most serial killers are caught, including the Son of Sam (David Berkowitz), while the Zodiac Killer's identity remains an unsolved mystery. By both remaining unidentified and leaving seemingly tantalizing clues in his writing, the Zodiac Killer ensured his notorious legacy in American history, much the same way the attempt to identify Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate people across the world today. If this case had been part of a well-written police show or movie, there would be music, shooting, and perhaps a romance between a cranky cop and a sexy detective. The case would be wrapped up in an hour or two, the killer would either be killed in an exciting firefight or put away for life, and the people of San Francisco would once more rest easy at night. But this was no movie, the script lacks an ending, and though the killer would be an old man by now, as far as anyone knows, he could still be alive and potentially dangerous. The Zodiac Killer: The Mystery of America's Most Infamous Serial Killer looks at the life of the serial killer and the crimes he committed.

Download or read book The Zodiac Killer written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the Zodiac Killer's crime spree and his messages to police *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUE ANAMAL OF ALL" - A section of the Zodiac Killer's cipher During the mid-1960s, the people of America became accustomed to opening their newspapers to two types of headlines. The first would be positive and often have something to do with the space program, perhaps which mission was in the works or which one had just been completed. Then there would be an article of a more negative nature, often concerning the United States' increasing involvement in the Vietnam War. Toward the end of 1968, however, a new and more sinister headline began to pop up. At first it was just in California and seemed to be simply a random crime, with a couple being murdered a few days before Christmas. It was a tragic tale, but in California, it was often dismissed as a byproduct of the youth culture of sex, drugs and rock and roll that often led young people to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then, some months later, another couple was shot, and this time the man survived. The story he told was not of someone targeting either him or his friend, but of a type of madman shooting them again and again. The idea that there was an unhinged serial killer on the loose was confirmed when he began writing letters to the police and the newspapers, not only claiming responsibility for these killings but for others that either had been or would be committed. After he stabbed a third couple and then shot a cab driver in cold blood, he began to send more and more letters. These, like the earlier ones, were signed with a symbol understood only by the killer, a man who called himself "Zodiac." In addition to sending cryptic letters that authorities had to decipher, the Zodiac Killer used them to both taunt people and threaten more violence, warning that a failure to publish what he would wrote would lead him to "cruse [sic] 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." In many respects, the pattern of crime and writing letters was not novel at all. Around the same time the Zodiac Killer was murdering people on the West Coast, the Son of Sam terrorized New York City in much the same way by killing at random and writing letters to the police. Serial killers often use a set pattern and/or rituals as part of their modus operandi, so in that regard the actions of the Zodiac Killer didn't exactly distinguish him from other serial killers. The main difference, of course, is that most serial killers are caught, including the Son of Sam (David Berkowitz), while the Zodiac Killer's identity remains an unsolved mystery. By both remaining unidentified and leaving seemingly tantalizing clues in his writing, the Zodiac Killer ensured his notorious legacy in American history, much the same way the attempt to identify Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate people across the world today. If this case had been part of a well-written police show or movie, there would be music, shooting, and perhaps a romance between a cranky cop and a sexy detective. The case would be wrapped up in an hour or two, the killer would either be killed in an exciting firefight or put away for life, and the people of San Francisco would once more rest easy at night. But this was no movie, the script lacks an ending, and though the killer would be an old man by now, as far as anyone knows, he could still be alive and potentially dangerous. The Zodiac Killer: The Mystery of America's Most Infamous Serial Killer looks at the life of the serial killer and the crimes he committed.

Download or read book Hunted written by Mark Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zodiac serial killer claimed the lives of at least five young victims between 1966 and 1974, and mocked the police with telephone calls, taunting letters, and encrypted messages. Thousands of men have been accused; nearly 2,500 have been investigated. Yet the Zodiac has never been identified. This painstakingly researched and meticulously detailed compendium to the Zodiac serial killer case by True Crime author Mark Hewitt presents the crimes and their effect on a community, including the various sides of the many disputed issues within the case.HUNTED: The Zodiac Murders is the true story of America's greatest criminal mystery. This indispensable companion book is accessible to anyone interested in joining the pursuit, exploring a mystery, or witnessing the police response to an appalling crime spree. Book One, HUNTED: The Zodiac Murders tells the amazing true story of a serial killer on the loose. Book Two, PROFILED, The Zodiac Examined (2017) examines the evidence and offers a careful, detailed profile of the killer based on the case facts. Book Three, EXPOSED: The Zodiac Revealed (2018) narrows down the lengthy list of suspects, and offers startling conclusions.

Download or read book Zodiac written by Robert Graysmith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Graysmith’s New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California’s unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers’ lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven dead. The real toll may have reached fifty. Robert Graysmith was on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer brought to justice. In this gripping account of Zodiac’s eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith reveals hundreds of facts previously unreleased, including the complete text of the killer’s letters.

Download or read book Sleep My Little Dead written by Kieran Crowley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-07-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twisted copycat who looked to the stars... He slipped like a sinister shadow in the night, stalking, then savagely attacking. Most of his unsuspecting targets were shot at close range and one woman was stabbed over one hundred times. After dispatching his victims, police allege he left their bloodstained bodies and crept back to the neatly kept room in his mother's apartment. Sleep my little dead... The taunting, bizarre letters alleged killer Heriberto Seda sent to the police and the New York Post were full of strange symbols and mysterious references to the Zodiac. For six terror-filled years, the Zodiac killer ruled the night, claiming nine victims in his homicidal rage. One of the biggest manhunts in New York City's history was unleashed...and still the body count rose. When would the terror end? Police claim his lethal fury finally exploded one summer afternoon. After shooting his own sister, he held her boyfriend hostage and kept scores of heavily armed police pinned down in a ferocious firefight that finally ended with his surrender. But it was only when an alert detective recognized a symbol drawn on Seda's confession as similar to the personal signature used by the Zodiac Killer in his letters, that investigators concluded that the madman they had arrested was in fact the notorious Zodiac Killer. Author Kieran Crowley, an award-winning New York Post reporter who covered the case from the first grisly shooting and cracked the psychopath's secret code, reveals the exclusive inside story and finally solves the biggest remaining mystery of the case.

Download or read book The Zodiac Map written by R. S. Clemons and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know a secret? A secret that no one else has ever seen, about one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time, not to mention history, that is actually real? This book will show you. It's all about a mysterious map. A map created by a serial killer, that once unlocked, reveals the marked locations of bombs, murders, and mystery. It all started in San Francisco in the summer of 1969, when a butcher calling himself "The Zodiac", mailed this map along with a series of codes to police and newspapers. In the decades that followed, FBI, NSA, CIA, every intelligence agency in the country, code breakers around the globe, millions of dollars, and untold man hours and have all went into trying to solve the mystery of these codes and map. All to no avail, until now. The key to it all, lie hidden in a simple sketch the killer had created. A blueprint he claimed to be a bomb, but wasn't a depiction of a bomb at all. In reality, it was one of the keys to the map. A key meant to be overlaid, exposing a section of highway marked by a string of bombs. This was not the only key to the map. There are more. Do you want to know the secret to the Zodiac Map? The secret of the Zodiac Killer Enigma? Of course, you do. Just click on the link and read the book. ATTENTION!!! This issue is the black and white paperback version. This version was created for those who wish to own a copy of this book for thier collection but a better price. You can own a copy of this book with full color images for 25.00$. You can find it on Amazon store or simply go to the link below. https: //www.amazon.com/dp/1690730854

Download or read book The Zodiac Killer Map written by R. S. Clemons and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know a secret? A secret that no one else has ever seen, about one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time, not to mention history, that is actually real? This book will show you. It's all about a mysterious map. A map created by a serial killer, that once unlocked, reveals the marked locations of bombs, murders, and mystery. It all started in San Francisco in the summer of 1969, when a butcher calling himself "The Zodiac", mailed this map along with a series of codes to police and newspapers. In the decades that followed, FBI, NSA, CIA, every intelligence agency in the country, code breakers around the globe, millions of dollars, and untold man hours and have all went into trying to solve the mystery of these codes and map. All to no avail, until now. The key to it all, lie hidden in a simple sketch the killer had created. A blueprint he claimed to be a bomb, but wasn't a depiction of a bomb at all. In reality, it was one of the keys to the map. A key meant to be overlaid, exposing a section of highway marked by a string of bombs. This was not the only key to the map. There are more. Do you want to know the secret to the Zodiac Map? The secret of the Zodiac Killer Enigma? Of course, you do. Just click on the link and read the book. This print issue features full color images.

Download or read book Zodiac written by J.D. Rockefeller and published by J.D. Rockefeller. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infamous names of serial killers have tainted history for such a long time. From all corners of the world, there is always someone who spreads terror like a disease and haunts the lives of many people. They terrorize people with reason or not, but it does not really matter. What matters is that the only things that leave in the mind of the people they have victimized are raw fear and death.There are many infamous serial killers that are known in the world. There is Jack the Ripper for the White Chapel murders and Son of Sam. Both have worked their way to be known in the world for all the gruesome crimes they committed. Of those many serial killers who have continued to wrong many people, there is one nicknamed "Zodiac Killer" who has left unresolved cases and bodies as many as 37 count since 1960s. "Zodiac Killer" is a deadly, incredibly elusive and very much mysterious serial killer that had terrified many people with his strings of brutal, inhumane killings in San Francisco City and Bay Area. Who would think that a person is capable of butchering others, sending letters to the authorities, boasting of his killings and explicitly saying he had enjoyed killing people as much as killing games? "Zodiac Killer" is exactly the kind of person capable of this brutality and has elusively avoided capture by authority. Until this day, the story behind the unidentified killer, Zodiac is a mystery that is yet to be resolved. Then let us delve into this mystery and find the truth behind this grueling and most shocking story of all time. Read on and find out the story behind the nation's elusive mass murderer, Zodiac.

Download or read book Unspeakable Evil Volume 1 written by Frances J. Armstrong and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNSPEAKABLE EVIL VOLUME 1: The Zodiac Killer and the Charles Manson Murders - 2 Books in 1 Featuring... *The Zodiac Killer*Charles Manson Murders 2 Great Books in 1! The Zodiac Killer If not for the ominous shadow ofJack the Ripper, the case of the Zodiac Killer would perhaps be the greatest mystery the world has ever known. The Zodiac Killer was the self-given name to a murderer who took responsibility for the deaths of at least five people in the San Francisco area of California throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Over the decades, the case has become synonymous with mystery and injustice. The Zodiac Killer's murders were brutal, bizarre and without remorse. Despite extensive searching, analyzing and profiling, no conclusive evidence of the Zodiac Killer's identity has ever been put forward. Of course, many theories exist, some of which appear to answer all of the questions one would have regarded the identity of a notorious serial killer. However, none are concrete enough to serve as solid confirmation of who he really was. This is the story of a delusional, inhuman killing machine. It is often said that the truth is stranger than fiction, and the Zodiac Killer's reign of terror continues to prove this. Charles Manson Murders At the age of 82, Charles Manson sits in Corcoran State Prison in California with an extensive record, most notably of which includes leading a cult that committed a murder spree. In 1969, over a period of five weeks and at four different locations, Manson's followers killed a total of nine people in very gruesome manners. Manson referred to this spree of insanity as "Helter Skelter," stolen from the Beatles hit song. He believed that these murders would incite and apocalyptic race war, which he believed was inevitable. Found guilty in 1971, Manson may have been responsible for more murders than were discovered. Charles Manson has been extensively covered. He was deemed by one magazine as "The Most Dangerous Man Alive." Those cult members who were additionally responsible for the murders were convicted alongside Manson. However, he had many followers who managed to remain out of prison who continued to spout and believe Manson's ideologies. The uniqueness of the Manson murders only grew as more was discovered about Charles Manson and the Manson family. Already a former convict when he formed the cult, Charles Manson was a singer and songwriter as well. Some of his more notable work has even been covered by popular bands, growing into somewhat of a cult sensation. This, is his story.