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In the seventies as it was happening, a lot of us have probably thought, gee, there's a lot going on. But looking back at a decade of violence, it was just crazy. It was crazy time. Most serial killers don't make any effort to involve media or investigators. They're very secretive. They don't want attention. They almost want their crimes to go unnoticed. But the idea of committing a crime and then calling up the police and bragging about it, that's
a whole another level of terror. A man who wore a medieval style executioner's hood, who has baffled the police and baffled the media. He seems to crave publicity. He sent letters and cryptograms to newspapers and the police. Subjects stated, I want to report a murder, no a double murder. I did it Here. We are fifty years after the first Zodiac killing. In today's world of forensics, old cases
are being solved. We're talking about probably the most famous cold case the last century or so in terms of it's trauma and being unsolved. Who doesn't want to know how it turns out? Dear editor, this is the Zodiac speaking. If you do not print the cipher by the afternoon of Friday, first of August. I will go on to kill rampage Friday night. I will cruise around all weekend, killing loan people in the night, then move on to
kill again. The best part of it is that when I die, I'll be reborn in paradise and all that I have killed will become my slaves. From my Heart radio, How Stuff Works, and Tenderfoot TV. This is Monster, the Zodiac Killer.