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A group of independent experts investigating high-profile unsolved crimes in the past committed to states United, that they have succeeded in establishing the identity of a mysterious killer known by the pseudonym Zodiac.
& nbsp; Hunter on lovers
In the period from December 1968 to October 1969, an unknown criminal committed seven attacks, including five people.
On December 20, 1968, the killer shot a couple of lovers – 17 years old & nbsp; David Faraday and 16- summer & nbsp; Betty Lou Jensen. They were in the car at the 'meeting place' – in the parking lot, not far from Lake Herman. The assailant arrived by car, forced the lovers out and shot them.
On July 4, 1969, a 17-year-old & nbsp; Mike Majo and 22 years old & nbsp; Darlene & nbsp; Elizabeth Ferrin was attacked in a parking lot at Blue Rock Springs Park. Majot survived, and the girl died.
On September 27, 1969, a criminal on the banks of the reservoir & nbsp; Berryessa with a knife attacked 20 years old & nbsp; Brian Calvin Hartnell & nbsp; and 22 years old & nbsp; Cecilia Ann Shepard. The girl died, and Hartnell survived, despite being stabbed eight times.
On October 11, 1969, an unknown man was massacred in & nbsp; San Francisco with & nbsp; 29 year old taxi driver & nbsp; Paul Lee & nbsp; Stein. After getting into the car as a passenger, the criminal killed the taxi driver with a bullet in the head of a 9mm pistol. Then he has & nbsp; took the wallet, the car keys and & nbsp; tore off a piece of the victim's bloody shirt.
David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Mr. Editor. The Zodiac speaks …
A feature of this case was the letters the killer sent to the media. July 31 & nbsp; July 1969, the offender sent letters to & nbsp; editorial staff of three newspapers at the same time & nbsp; & mdash; Vallejo Times-Herald, San Francisco Chronicle and & nbsp; San Francisco Examiner. In & nbsp; letters, the killer took responsibility for & nbsp; crimes committed. In addition, the & nbsp; of each of the & nbsp; envelopes contained 1/3 of the encrypted message, the & nbsp; sum of & nbsp; 408 & nbsp; characters. The & nbsp; cryptogram, according to & nbsp; & nbsp; About the offender, contained his personal data. An unknown person demanded to publish the messages, threatening to kill 12 & nbsp; people in the & nbsp; weekend.
On August 7, 1969, the San Francisco Examiner received a letter that began with the words: Dear Editor. It is the Zodiac that speaks … For the first time ever, a stranger was called by this name. He gave details of the murders, which were supposed to prove the Zodiac was who it claims to be. The author of the letter claimed that the police would easily find him after deciphering the cryptogram.
The Zodiac Enigma has been deciphered. already the next day. The teacher & nbsp; faced the task & nbsp; Donald Garden & nbsp; and & nbsp; his wife & nbsp; Betty, it's nothing that this police decryption didn't give & nbsp; & nbsp; & mdash; the killer wrote that he was gathering slaves for the afterlife, and that he would not reveal his name, as it would interfere with the 'gathering. & # 39; & # 39;
Disappearance
Letters from & nbsp; 'Zodiac' continued to come in local media until the year 1972. In & nbsp; some of & nbsp; for more persuasion, the offender put on pieces of Paul Lee's shirt & nbsp; killed by him & nbsp; Paul Lee & nbsp; Stein. The killer took responsibility for & nbsp; new crimes, both recent and & nbsp; clerk at & nbsp; early 1960s. As a result, the offender began to claim that he had killed 37 & nbsp; people. Police have not confirmed this information, however.
In & nbsp; one of the & nbsp; last letters of Zodiac; reported that he was disappointed with the police, and & nbsp; no longer want & nbsp; play & nbsp; open. Indeed, the letters and the crimes themselves with characteristic handwriting have ceased.
Zodiac investigation went on for decades. About 2,500 & nbsp; people were suspected. But & nbsp; in & nbsp; as a result of direct evidence against anyone, and & nbsp; does not have succeeded.
“ You need to know Gary's full name in order to decipher 'anagrams''
As reported by & nbsp; Fox News, the Case Breakers team of & nbsp; more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, journalists and & nbsp; military intelligence officers, are confident that they identified the man who was hiding under the pseudonym Zodiac.
Experts were able to decipher one of the Zodiac letters using the suspect's name – Gary Francis Post. Fox News quotes one of the panelists as saying, “So you have to know Gary's full name in order to decipher these anagrams. Do not think that there is another way to decipher the letter. & # 39; & # 39;
A panel of independent experts say the findings are based on forensic documents, as well as photographs of the private bedroom of a man who died in 2018. In one of the photographs, Post shows a scar similar to that on the assassin composite of survivors' testimony.
Fox News reporters managed to speak with a California resident who lived next door to Post and his wife. A lady named Gwen said her parents sometimes asked Post and his wife to sit with her. Post had always seemed to her to be a “double-bottomed person,” she said. According to other witnesses, the man gathered around him young people who fell under his influence, creating something like a gang, a 'squad of murderers'. # 39 ;. However, as of today, there are no facts confirming these statements.
The controversy around Chery
Participants in the official investigation into the Zodiac affair the new findings of independent experts are skeptical. The Case Breakers are convinced that another victim of Post was 18 years old Cherie Joe Bates, who was stabbed to death in the fall of 1966 & nbsp; year. However, the Fox News Riverside Police Department's Past Crimes Unit said, “We have established that the murder of Cherie Joe Bates in 1966 was unrelated to the Zodiac murders. The Cherie Joe Bates case remains an open investigation, and we have no further details that could be released at this time. revealed, apparently prematurely. While we can affirm the emergence of another hypothesis that needs serious verification.
About the story of the 'Zodiac' several feature films have been shot, its image flashing in popular American crime series, in songs by rock bands on both sides of the Atlantic.
And it seems like today the search for an answer attracts people more than the truth that can end this story once and for all.