Thanks nickcarraway. And serial killer to the stars, Charles Manson, died this week.
Posted on 11/20/2017 11:57:24 AM PST by nickcarraway
A new History series invites top detectives and coders to resolve the gruesome almost 50-year-old mystery.
"The Zodiac Killer is the most notorious unsolved murder cases in the history of the United States," retired Detective Supervisor in Criminal/Gang Homicide Division of LAPD Sal LaBarbera tells us.
Sal along with Ken Marine Corp vet and cold case specialist Kenneth Mains and a team of computer code crackers are determined to solve this serial killer mystery in History’s brand-new series, The Zodiac Killer: Case Close?
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Here's all you need to know about the gripping new series.
What is 'The Zodiac Killer' about?
History’s The Zodiac Killer: Case Closed? is an investigative series that hopes to solve the decades long Zodiac Killer mystery once and for all.
Using the latest code cracking computer technology, a team of leading computer coders and two highly credible investigators (Sal LaBarbera and Kenneth Mains) hope to achieve what the Northern Californian police have never been able to do – identify the serial killer.
Striving for total credibility and avoiding sensationalism, Kenneth concluded that the show is as much about providing peace for the victims’ surviving family members as simply exposing the serial killer himself:
“For me I think you have to realise that it is not about Zodiac, it is about the victims, and the victims’ families sometimes we get lost in the idea of the Zodiac Killer, but Betty Lou Johnson, Cecelia Ann Shepard, Paul Lee Stine – they all have families and lives that were affected by their murders and I would want viewers to realise that it is not about Zodiac it is about getting resolutions for the victims and their families,” he said.
The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who committed multiple murders in Northern California, USA between 1968-1970.
Despite the police considering over 2,500 suspects, he has never been formally identified and the case remains open. Five victims were murdered either by gun wounds or stabs, and a further two survived their attack.
However, the Zodiac Killer claimed through a series of letters and complex codes he sent to the media and police to have killed 37 people.
Between 1960-1970 the Zodiac killer sent letters and greeting cards to both the local police and media. Within this he declared himself as “The Zodiac” and he took personal credit for each murder committed. In some cases, he even enclosed pieces of evidence taken from the victims’ bodies, such as a piece of victim Paul Stine’s shirt.
“I think the Zodiac killer really enjoyed taunting and playing with the police through his letters more than the actual killing.
“I think he was a narcissist, he was above average intelligence and he had a lot of issues with authority,” Kenneth told us.
These letters included four cryptograms or ciphers, three of which remained unsolved. The Zodiac Killer claimed that within the ciphers exists his true identity and in one letter he even taunts “My name is –“ followed by the yet to be translated code.
Despite various witnesses claiming to have caught fleeting glances of the so-called Zodiac Killer, he has never been identified or indeed caught.
Why has he been so elusive and difficult to pin down? Well, Sal told it was for numerous reasons, including the unprecedented nature of the crimes and the lack of technology at the time:
“There are four confirmed Zodiac cases and attacks, two of the victims survived, a lot of these cases were spread out in the area and over time, and handled by different police departments. Some of these simply weren’t used to dealing with homicides. We lacked so much technology then, and not all of the evidence was properly preserved,” Sal said.
Witness accounts inspired a police portrait of Zodiac, which depicts him as a slim white man in his early 30’s, wearing glasses.
Zodiac Killer: Case Closed
While numerous suspects at the time matched this physical depiction, one in particular Ross Sullivan, stood out. He had surprisingly similar handwriting to that of the Zodiac’s, had studied cryptology and had been suspected in a previous murder committed in 1966, that police noted eerily matched in similarity to the killing of the Zodiac.
Sal said this individual certainly will not go unnoticed within the series investigations:
“Without giving anything away Ross Sullivan is definitely a good suspect right now but we will develop other suspects as the series goes on. Various suspects will appear and reappear and we will come up with the best evidence per each suspect that we can,” he said.
When is 'The Zodiac Killer: Case Closed?' on TV? Zodiac Killer: Case Closed? starts November 22nd on History at 9pm.
Watch History on BT TV channel 327/379 HD.
Whoa. Look at the time. I really have to be going.
Amen. Stupid and unproductive
Amen. Stupid and unproductive
Sal along with Ken Marine Corp vet and cold case specialist Kenneth Mains and a team of computer code crackers are determined to solve this serial killer mystery in History’s brand-new series, The Zodiac Killer: Case Close?
How can grammar this bad make it into a website?
Wish they’d rerun the series on Lee Harvey Oswald. I only saw a couple of them and never saw them scheduled again.
As for the Zodiac, he’s dead, Jim.
The Fincher movie IDs Allen as Zodiac. Portrays victim Michael Mageau putting the finger on Allen years later.
That’s not Arthur Leigh Allen. That’s Earl Van Best Jr., another possible suspect.
[“I was joking” is the last, pathetic refuge of the jerk. I know what you are. Thanks for telling me. I won’t forget. And I see that you have company in Jerkville.]
“Jerkville”?? What are you, 5 years old??
Lighten up Francis. We all know how you lived and breathed Saint Ted during the election. Pop a TDS pill and join us back in reality.
Except Allen’s prints, handwriting and DNA didn’t match what they had on the Zodiac.
Problem is that every time his or his mothers house was searched they came up empty. The police basically decided he wasn’t it
Yep ... it never fails. Only jerks use that phrase. I had you pegged from the beginning. And you, of all people, are in absolutely no position to lecture anybody on the location of reality. Your comment is as absurd as Ted Kennedy sitting in moral judgment of Clarence Thomas. Are you old enough to have witnessed that idiocy first hand, when it happened?
Ok, he’s a white guy with glasses. Not much else compares.
It shows the cop telling Graysmith that Allen was exonerated by the evidence. The actor playing Allen in the film has said that he didn’t think Allen was the killer at the time the film was being made.
“Had to read the whole article to figure out which channel - “
Isn’t that a reflection of just how awful “journalism” has become?
When I decide to watch a sports event, I struggle often to find time, and channel.
—world series
—formula 1
—college football
But it also shows Mageau fingering Allen.
It’s an unsolved mystery.
Too bad History Channel can't get back to showing historical documentaries along with Forged in Fire. The rest of its programming, it could dump and few would miss it.
There is a huge site called The_Donald, on Reddit, and afaik, that is where the Cruz-Zodiac Killer meme/joke started. I have no idea what got them going on it. Some of the memes they’ve come up with really are hilarious. You will be pleased to hear that recently they’ve started to switch over, and identify Bernie Sanders as the Zodiac Killer.
Here are some samples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/search?q=Zodiac%20killer
One more link, to illustrate how influential memes can be:
‘Research has demonstrated the effectiveness memes have had on the American public. A Public Policy Polling poll in February 2016 found that a whopping four in 10 (38%) of Florida voters thought it viable that Ted Cruz was the Zodiac Killer. One in 10 (10%) said they had no doubt he was.’
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Thanks nickcarraway. And serial killer to the stars, Charles Manson, died this week.
Wow, damn:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&q=Ross+Sullivan+zodiac+killer&gbv=1
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