1 00:00:12,792 --> 00:00:16,292 "This is the zodiac speaking. 2 00:00:16,375 --> 00:00:19,995 "To kill something gives me the most thrilling experience. 3 00:00:20,083 --> 00:00:23,503 "I like killing people because it is so much fun. 4 00:00:23,584 --> 00:00:26,334 "It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest 5 00:00:26,417 --> 00:00:29,707 because man is the most dangerous animal of all." 6 00:00:50,250 --> 00:00:52,330 Welcome to "very scary people." 7 00:00:52,417 --> 00:00:53,997 I'm Donnie wahlberg. 8 00:00:54,083 --> 00:00:55,673 At the end of the 1960s, 9 00:00:55,751 --> 00:00:58,251 a series of murders in northern California 10 00:00:58,334 --> 00:01:00,714 in different towns, using different weapons 11 00:01:00,792 --> 00:01:03,082 would turn out to be the work of one man, 12 00:01:03,167 --> 00:01:04,457 but police didn't connect the crimes 13 00:01:04,542 --> 00:01:06,582 until the killer did it for them. 14 00:01:06,667 --> 00:01:09,077 Not satisfied with just getting away with murder, 15 00:01:09,167 --> 00:01:10,917 he bragged to newspaper reporters 16 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,880 and taunted investigators. 17 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,249 What would inspire someone to conjure up such a twisted plot, 18 00:01:16,334 --> 00:01:19,504 stalking innocent people and killing them for sport? 19 00:01:19,584 --> 00:01:21,794 His reign of terror would go on for years, 20 00:01:21,876 --> 00:01:27,326 and he would live in infamy, naming himself the zodiac. 21 00:01:32,334 --> 00:01:34,834 He taunted police with letters and terrorized 22 00:01:34,918 --> 00:01:36,418 the people they protect. 23 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:37,790 More than three decades later, 24 00:01:37,876 --> 00:01:41,166 a famous serial killer case goes unsolved. 25 00:01:45,792 --> 00:01:49,502 The first set of murders took place near Christmas. 26 00:01:49,584 --> 00:01:53,884 Benicia is about an hour away from San Francisco. 27 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:57,039 Benicia was a very quiet community. 28 00:01:57,125 --> 00:02:00,995 Benicia never had the crime rate 29 00:02:01,083 --> 00:02:04,173 that San Francisco had. 30 00:02:06,417 --> 00:02:08,457 On December 20, 1968, 31 00:02:08,542 --> 00:02:10,672 David Faraday came to Betty Lou Jensen's house 32 00:02:10,751 --> 00:02:12,081 to pick her up for their first date, 33 00:02:12,167 --> 00:02:13,537 and they promised her parents 34 00:02:13,626 --> 00:02:15,746 that they would return by 11 P.M. 35 00:02:15,834 --> 00:02:18,584 David and Betty were just typical 36 00:02:18,667 --> 00:02:20,417 high school kids back then. 37 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:22,500 Betty Lou Jensen was 16 years old 38 00:02:22,584 --> 00:02:24,884 and David Faraday was 17 years old. 39 00:02:24,959 --> 00:02:27,959 He was a popular young man. 40 00:02:28,042 --> 00:02:30,672 Betty Lou Jensen was an art student 41 00:02:30,751 --> 00:02:34,131 who showed tremendous talent. 42 00:02:34,209 --> 00:02:36,039 They went to a restaurant, 43 00:02:36,125 --> 00:02:38,415 spent some time with some friends. 44 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:41,080 They were supposed to go to a Christmas play, 45 00:02:41,167 --> 00:02:45,327 but instead, they went to a place where young people park. 46 00:02:45,417 --> 00:02:48,827 They went out to lake Herman road. 47 00:02:48,918 --> 00:02:51,578 Lake Herman road back in 1968 48 00:02:51,667 --> 00:02:53,747 was very much how it looks today. 49 00:02:53,834 --> 00:02:57,384 It's actually rather isolated, way out in the hills. 50 00:02:57,459 --> 00:02:59,249 It was a lovers' Lane area. 51 00:02:59,334 --> 00:03:01,674 They were looking for a place to be alone. 52 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:11,880 Betty Lou and David thought they were alone, 53 00:03:11,959 --> 00:03:13,169 but they weren't. 54 00:03:13,250 --> 00:03:15,210 We know that they were there at 10:30. 55 00:03:15,292 --> 00:03:19,132 Another person drove by and saw their car and again, 56 00:03:19,209 --> 00:03:22,879 after 11, another person drove by and saw their car, 57 00:03:22,959 --> 00:03:24,879 so they were out there for quite a while, 58 00:03:24,959 --> 00:03:28,169 and we don't know exactly when she planned to leave, 59 00:03:28,250 --> 00:03:31,290 but she wasn't going to make curfew that night. 60 00:03:31,375 --> 00:03:32,785 Benicia was a safe town. 61 00:03:32,876 --> 00:03:34,536 You're not going to think twice about parking 62 00:03:34,626 --> 00:03:35,956 at lake Herman road. 63 00:03:36,042 --> 00:03:37,752 I'd be surprised if they were worried about much 64 00:03:37,834 --> 00:03:40,004 of anything right then. 65 00:03:50,417 --> 00:03:56,327 They were in the car when suddenly, 66 00:03:56,417 --> 00:04:02,037 a car came and blocked them off. 67 00:04:02,125 --> 00:04:06,075 And this figure gets out 68 00:04:06,167 --> 00:04:08,747 and walks around their car, 69 00:04:08,834 --> 00:04:10,884 firing bullets into it. 70 00:04:13,334 --> 00:04:17,714 A bullet shattered a window, 71 00:04:17,792 --> 00:04:19,382 but at some point, 72 00:04:19,459 --> 00:04:22,459 it appears the killer forced the victims out of the vehicle. 73 00:04:22,542 --> 00:04:28,042 David was shot in the head once, 74 00:04:28,125 --> 00:04:30,665 and Betty Lou Jensen was shot in the back five times 75 00:04:30,751 --> 00:04:32,541 as she was trying to run away. 76 00:04:35,626 --> 00:04:38,376 10 shots were fired that evening, 77 00:04:38,459 --> 00:04:41,789 and apparently, the assailant got back in the car 78 00:04:41,876 --> 00:04:45,246 and drove away and was not spotted 79 00:04:45,334 --> 00:04:48,004 after leaving the scene. 80 00:04:48,083 --> 00:04:50,753 It wasn't so remote that there weren't other people around, 81 00:04:50,834 --> 00:04:53,134 so risky for the offender, 82 00:04:53,209 --> 00:04:56,249 but he was also able to commit these murders 83 00:04:56,334 --> 00:04:59,674 and then get out of the area pretty successfully. 84 00:05:02,417 --> 00:05:06,577 Myself and my partner were going back to the police department 85 00:05:06,667 --> 00:05:09,917 when we heard the call come over the air saying 86 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,330 there was some type of a disturbance 87 00:05:11,417 --> 00:05:16,037 or a vehicle accident on lake Herman road. 88 00:05:16,125 --> 00:05:20,035 Possibly, they were ordered out of the car by the responsible 89 00:05:20,125 --> 00:05:24,625 and a boy was shot right at the side of the car, 90 00:05:24,709 --> 00:05:28,079 and the girl apparently tried to run, 91 00:05:28,167 --> 00:05:32,327 and she was shot and found 28 feet further on. 92 00:05:32,417 --> 00:05:36,877 When we got there, we, again, found the two victims 93 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:38,829 and, of course, realized that this was not 94 00:05:38,918 --> 00:05:40,538 just a routine call. 95 00:05:40,626 --> 00:05:47,416 We could see the young lady had run from the car, 96 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:50,210 and she was dead. 97 00:05:50,292 --> 00:05:51,962 He was still breathing. 98 00:05:52,042 --> 00:05:53,542 It was fairly cold, 99 00:05:53,626 --> 00:05:55,996 and, in fact, you could see the breath, too. 100 00:05:56,083 --> 00:05:58,543 That's why we knew there was some life left in him. 101 00:05:58,626 --> 00:06:01,166 Oddly enough, even though he was still alive, 102 00:06:01,250 --> 00:06:04,250 a responding officer did a chalk outline of his body. 103 00:06:04,334 --> 00:06:06,714 The boy was an eagle scout. 104 00:06:06,792 --> 00:06:09,382 The girl was on her first date 105 00:06:09,459 --> 00:06:12,669 and there's no record of any misbehavior 106 00:06:12,751 --> 00:06:14,961 on either one of them. 107 00:06:15,042 --> 00:06:20,582 He was rushed to the hospital, but he was doa, 108 00:06:20,667 --> 00:06:24,537 but if you were at that scene and saw the waste of life 109 00:06:24,626 --> 00:06:28,206 in these young kids, turn your stomach. 110 00:06:28,292 --> 00:06:30,882 This was real life. 111 00:06:30,959 --> 00:06:33,669 Police found many shell casings at the scene of the crime, 112 00:06:33,751 --> 00:06:35,961 and they also found several bullets. 113 00:06:36,042 --> 00:06:38,502 The evidence indicates that there were certain elements 114 00:06:38,584 --> 00:06:41,214 of gunshot residue on her dress 115 00:06:41,292 --> 00:06:43,252 which indicated that the first shot may have occurred 116 00:06:43,334 --> 00:06:45,174 while she was closer to the killer. 117 00:06:45,250 --> 00:06:47,750 The police also found the tire tracks 118 00:06:47,834 --> 00:06:50,884 showing where the killer's car had been parked. 119 00:06:50,959 --> 00:06:54,919 They did take photographs, picked up the spent cartridges, 120 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,250 did some fingerprinting on the car. 121 00:06:57,334 --> 00:06:59,964 That was it and you have to realize that we didn't have 122 00:07:00,042 --> 00:07:02,922 the technology then that we have today. 123 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:07,710 The police initially investigated the possibility 124 00:07:07,792 --> 00:07:11,212 that the victims were killed by someone they had known. 125 00:07:11,292 --> 00:07:14,752 We had no idea at all who the responsible 126 00:07:14,834 --> 00:07:16,834 or responsibles were. 127 00:07:16,918 --> 00:07:19,288 It could have been more than one person. 128 00:07:19,375 --> 00:07:22,535 We didn't know. 129 00:07:22,626 --> 00:07:25,286 The police tend to focus on the inner circle 130 00:07:25,375 --> 00:07:27,875 because usually when someone is killed, 131 00:07:27,959 --> 00:07:31,209 especially a low-risk type victim like Betty Lou 132 00:07:31,292 --> 00:07:32,962 and David farraday, 133 00:07:33,042 --> 00:07:35,962 probably the perpetrator knew them and was mad at them. 134 00:07:36,042 --> 00:07:37,922 It's called a crime of passion. 135 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,080 There was one young boy 136 00:07:40,167 --> 00:07:42,957 who apparently had an interest in Betty Lou Jensen 137 00:07:43,042 --> 00:07:46,292 and was jealous of her relationship with David, 138 00:07:46,375 --> 00:07:48,165 but police investigated and discovered 139 00:07:48,250 --> 00:07:51,500 that he had an alibi for the time of the crime. 140 00:07:51,584 --> 00:07:54,754 Other suspects in the murders of David and Betty Lou 141 00:07:54,834 --> 00:07:56,544 included the usual suspects, 142 00:07:56,626 --> 00:07:59,626 the local druggies they were focused on, 143 00:07:59,709 --> 00:08:02,249 and it just went nowhere. 144 00:08:02,334 --> 00:08:04,424 Do you have any idea what the possible motive 145 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:06,420 might be for this killing? 146 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,500 We have no motive at this time. 147 00:08:10,584 --> 00:08:15,214 The benicia case went cold almost immediately. 148 00:08:15,292 --> 00:08:17,132 Without a motive to go back 149 00:08:17,209 --> 00:08:19,419 and find out what was the causation, 150 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:21,130 I mean, the causation for the person 151 00:08:21,209 --> 00:08:23,709 or persons to do this, you just speculate, 152 00:08:23,792 --> 00:08:26,212 and there was all type of speculation, 153 00:08:26,292 --> 00:08:28,172 which none of it actually panned out, 154 00:08:28,250 --> 00:08:29,790 and it was hard to believe at first. 155 00:08:29,876 --> 00:08:32,416 Is this really happening here in this community? 156 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:35,960 We had some robberies and that type of thing 157 00:08:36,042 --> 00:08:40,582 but not where you just actually zero in on someone 158 00:08:40,667 --> 00:08:43,037 and just take their life. 159 00:08:43,125 --> 00:08:46,075 The community was horrified by this murder. 160 00:08:46,167 --> 00:08:49,167 There were not murders like this in the past. 161 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,960 It turns out that the killer was actually just getting started. 162 00:09:03,375 --> 00:09:06,705 The first murders happened December 20, 1968. 163 00:09:06,792 --> 00:09:10,882 It was on lake Herman road just outside of vallejo 164 00:09:10,959 --> 00:09:13,249 in Solano county, California. 165 00:09:13,334 --> 00:09:18,044 After six months, the double murder was cold. 166 00:09:18,125 --> 00:09:20,625 They'd done everything they could do. 167 00:09:20,709 --> 00:09:23,579 Barring a miracle, they weren't gonna solve that murder, 168 00:09:23,667 --> 00:09:25,747 and then they had a new one. 169 00:09:31,542 --> 00:09:34,132 Darlene ferrin was 22 years old. 170 00:09:34,209 --> 00:09:36,209 She was a wife, a mother, 171 00:09:36,292 --> 00:09:40,712 and she was a very popular waitress at a local restaurant. 172 00:09:40,792 --> 00:09:42,332 She had been married once. 173 00:09:42,417 --> 00:09:44,627 That ended, and she was relatively 174 00:09:44,709 --> 00:09:46,249 early into her second marriage. 175 00:09:46,334 --> 00:09:50,134 Darlene, or Dee as I knew her, we met through our work. 176 00:09:50,209 --> 00:09:53,829 I was a cook and she was a waitress at the pancake house. 177 00:09:53,918 --> 00:09:55,418 We ended up getting married. 178 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:58,670 Our daughter was born in January of 1968. 179 00:09:58,751 --> 00:10:01,921 She was the type of person that people could fall in love with 180 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 just because she was outgoing and bubbly, 181 00:10:05,083 --> 00:10:06,963 just friendly to people. 182 00:10:07,042 --> 00:10:09,212 I know it upset a lot of the other waitresses 183 00:10:09,292 --> 00:10:12,332 she worked with because she always made better tips. 184 00:10:12,417 --> 00:10:14,077 On the night of July 4th, 185 00:10:14,167 --> 00:10:16,827 Darlene ferrin had apparently been out. 186 00:10:16,918 --> 00:10:21,038 Everybody is downtown. The sky is full of fireworks. 187 00:10:21,125 --> 00:10:23,125 There's crowds. There's a marching band. 188 00:10:23,209 --> 00:10:26,079 I was working at my regular job. 189 00:10:26,167 --> 00:10:29,417 She was gonna go out and buy some fireworks, 190 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:31,250 and we were gonna meet at the house. 191 00:10:31,334 --> 00:10:33,334 She went out with her friend Michael 192 00:10:33,417 --> 00:10:36,707 just to kill some time until her husband got home from work. 193 00:10:36,792 --> 00:10:38,042 We don't know for sure what the nature 194 00:10:38,125 --> 00:10:39,575 of their relationship was. 195 00:10:39,667 --> 00:10:42,377 Michael developed some sort of fixation on Darlene, 196 00:10:42,459 --> 00:10:45,499 which led to an odd friendship. 197 00:10:45,584 --> 00:10:47,134 Michael mageau told Darlene 198 00:10:47,209 --> 00:10:49,249 that he wanted to talk to her about something, 199 00:10:49,334 --> 00:10:51,464 so they drove to blue rock Springs park. 200 00:10:51,542 --> 00:10:53,422 They parked in the parking lot. 201 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:55,420 Blue rock Springs is a lovely place 202 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,130 and again, off the beaten path. 203 00:10:59,209 --> 00:11:01,539 Again, a lovers' Lane area, 204 00:11:01,626 --> 00:11:03,246 had only been there a few minutes, 205 00:11:03,334 --> 00:11:04,834 and a car pulled up behind them 206 00:11:04,918 --> 00:11:06,998 as they were parked in the car talking. 207 00:11:07,083 --> 00:11:09,883 The vehicle pulled up behind and sat there for a moment, 208 00:11:09,959 --> 00:11:13,419 but they didn't think anything of it. 209 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:14,880 A few minutes later, 210 00:11:14,959 --> 00:11:19,749 what appeared to be the same vehicle returned. 211 00:11:19,834 --> 00:11:21,544 Mike is very upset. 212 00:11:21,626 --> 00:11:24,076 "It's the police," he thinks, because the guy 213 00:11:24,167 --> 00:11:27,957 is shining a huge light on him and he walks toward the car. 214 00:11:28,042 --> 00:11:29,832 But instead of asking for their license, 215 00:11:29,918 --> 00:11:31,788 he opened fire through 216 00:11:31,876 --> 00:11:34,996 the window of the passenger side. 217 00:11:35,083 --> 00:11:37,583 Michael mageau is hit once in the jaw. 218 00:11:37,667 --> 00:11:39,877 He was hit in the shoulder. 219 00:11:39,959 --> 00:11:41,999 But the shooter isn't done yet. 220 00:11:42,083 --> 00:11:46,543 He walks around the car and then starts shooting Darlene 221 00:11:46,626 --> 00:11:49,076 repeatedly in the driver's seat. 222 00:11:51,459 --> 00:11:53,329 In the process of returning to his vehicle, 223 00:11:53,417 --> 00:11:55,457 Michael mageau cried out in pain, 224 00:11:55,542 --> 00:11:58,962 causing the assailant to turn around and return to the window 225 00:11:59,042 --> 00:12:03,502 and fire twice more at each of them. 226 00:12:03,584 --> 00:12:05,464 He got in his car and drove away. 227 00:12:10,125 --> 00:12:12,325 Three teenagers were driving in the area, 228 00:12:12,417 --> 00:12:14,827 and when they saw a vehicle parked in the blue rock Springs 229 00:12:14,918 --> 00:12:17,378 parking lot, they decided to investigate, 230 00:12:17,459 --> 00:12:19,039 but when their headlights hit the area, 231 00:12:19,125 --> 00:12:22,165 they saw Michael mageau laying on the ground, 232 00:12:22,250 --> 00:12:24,880 and one of the kids jumped out and asked him if he was okay, 233 00:12:24,959 --> 00:12:27,709 and Michael mageau explained that they had been shot 234 00:12:27,792 --> 00:12:29,882 and that they needed a doctor. 235 00:12:29,959 --> 00:12:32,629 They drove on to a house and called the police. 236 00:12:32,709 --> 00:12:35,169 Darlene was still breathing when police arrived, 237 00:12:35,250 --> 00:12:37,460 and one of the detectives tried to talk to her, 238 00:12:37,542 --> 00:12:39,752 and she appeared to be trying to say something, 239 00:12:39,834 --> 00:12:44,634 but it wasn't intelligible. 240 00:12:44,709 --> 00:12:46,289 The police found shell casings, 241 00:12:46,375 --> 00:12:48,415 but that's really it in terms of evidence. 242 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:51,750 No other evidence was found... No footprints, no fingerprints, 243 00:12:51,834 --> 00:12:53,254 no tire prints, nothing. 244 00:12:53,334 --> 00:12:55,254 There didn't appear to be a motive. 245 00:12:55,334 --> 00:12:58,294 To me, what's so interesting is that these crime scenes 246 00:12:58,375 --> 00:13:00,325 are pretty clean of emotion. 247 00:13:00,417 --> 00:13:02,377 They're devoid of emotion. 248 00:13:02,459 --> 00:13:04,459 You don't see any expression of anger 249 00:13:04,542 --> 00:13:06,832 like any battering to the face of the victims, 250 00:13:06,918 --> 00:13:09,578 like coming up to the car and yelling and screaming 251 00:13:09,667 --> 00:13:12,327 and then punching and slapping them. 252 00:13:12,417 --> 00:13:13,877 They're rushed to the hospital, 253 00:13:13,959 --> 00:13:17,379 and at the hospital, Darlene is pronounced dead, 254 00:13:17,459 --> 00:13:20,579 but Michael miraculously survives. 255 00:13:24,083 --> 00:13:27,333 Darlene ferrin is a little bit like Laura Palmer 256 00:13:27,417 --> 00:13:29,957 in the "twin peaks" television show. 257 00:13:30,042 --> 00:13:34,332 You know, her death set off this thing in vallejo. 258 00:13:34,417 --> 00:13:36,957 One murder could be the result of a grudge 259 00:13:37,042 --> 00:13:39,132 or the act of a crazy boyfriend, 260 00:13:39,209 --> 00:13:43,669 but these two similar murders had police very worried 261 00:13:43,751 --> 00:13:47,461 that it could be something far more sinister. 262 00:13:51,834 --> 00:13:54,584 They were both what you might call blitz-style attacks, 263 00:13:54,667 --> 00:13:56,627 using a handgun. 264 00:13:56,709 --> 00:13:58,169 Now this is the beginning of a theme. 265 00:13:58,250 --> 00:13:59,580 He's going to do this again. 266 00:13:59,667 --> 00:14:01,667 We think that he's... it appears to us 267 00:14:01,751 --> 00:14:04,581 that he is killing just for the thrill. 268 00:14:13,834 --> 00:14:16,134 Like the son of Sam, the Boston strangler, btk, 269 00:14:16,209 --> 00:14:19,789 the zodiac stalks his prey and then slaughtered them. 270 00:14:24,083 --> 00:14:25,833 A couple parked at a lovers' Lane 271 00:14:25,918 --> 00:14:28,708 was shot in December of 1968, 272 00:14:28,792 --> 00:14:32,212 and then six months later, another couple was shot. 273 00:14:32,292 --> 00:14:34,462 Now, we have a second attack 274 00:14:34,542 --> 00:14:36,382 that took the life of a young mother 275 00:14:36,459 --> 00:14:40,579 but left a living witness that could potentially identify 276 00:14:40,667 --> 00:14:42,877 the shooter, and it's also possible 277 00:14:42,959 --> 00:14:45,499 that Darlene knew the man who killed her. 278 00:14:45,584 --> 00:14:47,084 There have been stories over the years 279 00:14:47,167 --> 00:14:48,917 that Darlene ferrin was the victim 280 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,540 of some mysterious stalker who was following her 281 00:14:51,626 --> 00:14:54,416 in the weeks and months before her death. 282 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:59,330 She worked at an ihop, and he would sit there and watch her. 283 00:14:59,417 --> 00:15:00,917 Police were never able to find 284 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,210 whoever it was that was bothering her. 285 00:15:04,292 --> 00:15:08,502 Michael mageau was very traumatized by these events. 286 00:15:08,584 --> 00:15:11,254 He was the only living person to have seen the killer, 287 00:15:11,334 --> 00:15:13,884 and that put him in a very difficult place. 288 00:15:13,959 --> 00:15:15,919 Mike is interviewed by the police, 289 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,710 and he is able to articulate that a white man 290 00:15:18,792 --> 00:15:23,382 approached the car, round face, glasses, maybe 30s, 291 00:15:23,459 --> 00:15:25,789 and he thinks that if he saw a photo, 292 00:15:25,876 --> 00:15:28,826 he might be able to identify this shooter. 293 00:15:28,918 --> 00:15:30,248 It's not much to go on, 294 00:15:30,334 --> 00:15:33,294 and the killer could just disappear, 295 00:15:33,375 --> 00:15:35,955 except that he doesn't. 296 00:15:36,042 --> 00:15:38,132 About 45 minutes after the shooting, 297 00:15:38,209 --> 00:15:41,459 the killer chose to go to a phone booth in vallejo 298 00:15:41,542 --> 00:15:45,462 and actually report what he had just done to Darlene and Mike 299 00:15:45,542 --> 00:15:49,882 and take credit for killing Betty Lou and David. 300 00:15:49,959 --> 00:15:53,249 He identified the type of weapon used as a 9 millimeter. 301 00:15:53,334 --> 00:15:55,924 He also described Darlene's car. 302 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,210 When the dispatcher tried to interrupt the caller 303 00:15:58,292 --> 00:16:00,502 to ask him a question, the man raised his voice 304 00:16:00,584 --> 00:16:04,424 and said, "I'm the one who did it." 305 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:08,290 Dispatcher Nancy slover described the call as taunting, 306 00:16:08,375 --> 00:16:10,745 and she said that at the end of the call, 307 00:16:10,834 --> 00:16:15,004 the man said, "goodbye," in a long taunting tone. 308 00:16:15,083 --> 00:16:17,543 That call was traced to a nearby gas station, 309 00:16:17,626 --> 00:16:19,416 but they were not able to find any evidence, 310 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:22,130 and the killer was long gone. 311 00:16:22,209 --> 00:16:25,789 He's ratcheting up what he's doing, and he's changing. 312 00:16:25,876 --> 00:16:28,576 The interesting thing about the phone booth is, 313 00:16:28,667 --> 00:16:30,577 what do you think is across the street? 314 00:16:30,667 --> 00:16:32,127 Vallejo pd. 315 00:16:32,209 --> 00:16:33,959 Now, this is the beginning of a theme. 316 00:16:34,042 --> 00:16:36,002 He's gonna do this again. 317 00:16:36,083 --> 00:16:38,793 He's taunting the police. 318 00:16:38,876 --> 00:16:40,666 Why was he willing to take such risks 319 00:16:40,751 --> 00:16:43,421 that could have resulted in an arrest made of him? 320 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:46,380 Taking high risks is important to this offender, 321 00:16:46,459 --> 00:16:50,079 and it increases the thrill and excitement of his murders. 322 00:16:50,167 --> 00:16:51,497 Three days after the shooting, 323 00:16:51,584 --> 00:16:53,294 vallejo detective ed rust interviewed 324 00:16:53,375 --> 00:16:55,665 Michael mageau at the hospital, and he provided 325 00:16:55,751 --> 00:16:57,921 a detailed account of what happened that night, 326 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,040 including a description of the killer. 327 00:17:00,125 --> 00:17:03,625 He described the man as being approximately 5'8", 328 00:17:03,709 --> 00:17:07,459 a beefy build, short brown curly hair. 329 00:17:07,542 --> 00:17:10,752 This murderer, he's the sort of generic man 330 00:17:10,834 --> 00:17:15,334 who could easily disappear into a crowd. 331 00:17:15,417 --> 00:17:19,537 The most interesting aspects of this attack at this point 332 00:17:19,626 --> 00:17:22,666 are the similarities and connections to the murders 333 00:17:22,751 --> 00:17:25,081 that happened just six months before. 334 00:17:25,167 --> 00:17:27,747 They were both what you might call blitz-style attacks 335 00:17:27,834 --> 00:17:32,174 using a handgun on victims sitting in a parked vehicle. 336 00:17:32,250 --> 00:17:36,630 He's choosing young couples on a weekend under the moon 337 00:17:36,709 --> 00:17:39,459 in a lovers' Lane on specific days. 338 00:17:39,542 --> 00:17:41,882 I would not be surprised if he had never had 339 00:17:41,959 --> 00:17:43,959 a real relationship with a woman, 340 00:17:44,042 --> 00:17:49,582 and so he's going to get people that have what he does not have. 341 00:17:49,667 --> 00:17:53,207 Somebody who in their own life feels very powerless, 342 00:17:53,292 --> 00:17:57,382 feels very weak and only feels important and significant 343 00:17:57,459 --> 00:18:02,289 if they can go out and kill somebody. 344 00:18:02,375 --> 00:18:04,285 There was some sort of serial killer 345 00:18:04,375 --> 00:18:06,575 operating in the bay area. 346 00:18:06,667 --> 00:18:09,127 We think that he's... it appears to us 347 00:18:09,209 --> 00:18:11,919 that he is killing just for the thrill. 348 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,580 For the next three weeks, the investigation goes nowhere. 349 00:18:16,667 --> 00:18:19,127 Then the killer does something really odd. 350 00:18:19,209 --> 00:18:20,919 He reaches out to the media. 351 00:18:23,918 --> 00:18:26,288 Three bay area newspapers receive 352 00:18:26,375 --> 00:18:29,375 three virtually identical handwritten letters. 353 00:18:29,459 --> 00:18:31,709 He wrote to "the vallejo times." 354 00:18:31,792 --> 00:18:34,502 He wrote to "the San Francisco examiner," 355 00:18:34,584 --> 00:18:36,714 and he wrote to "the chronicle." 356 00:18:36,792 --> 00:18:38,542 As a political cartoonist, 357 00:18:38,626 --> 00:18:40,496 I was 20 feet away when the letters came in. 358 00:18:40,584 --> 00:18:41,754 We're across the hall. 359 00:18:41,834 --> 00:18:44,004 These letters were so specific. 360 00:18:44,083 --> 00:18:47,253 They really went into detail about the victims 361 00:18:47,334 --> 00:18:49,634 and their appearances and the number of shots. 362 00:18:49,709 --> 00:18:54,419 It couldn't have been anyone other than the culprit. 363 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:57,500 These three letters were accompanied by 364 00:18:57,584 --> 00:19:01,294 a section of a cipher, a coded message. 365 00:19:01,375 --> 00:19:03,745 The letter claimed that the ciphered message 366 00:19:03,834 --> 00:19:07,634 would reveal the killer's identity. 367 00:19:07,709 --> 00:19:09,999 Normally, killers don't send letters 368 00:19:10,083 --> 00:19:12,923 bragging about their crimes to newspapers 369 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,460 and including mysterious codes 370 00:19:14,542 --> 00:19:17,172 that they're trying to compel people to work on, 371 00:19:17,250 --> 00:19:20,380 so it was a very unique thing for the newspaper. 372 00:19:20,459 --> 00:19:22,999 He demanded that these ciphers and the letters be published 373 00:19:23,083 --> 00:19:26,463 in the newspapers and threatened to go on a killing rampage 374 00:19:26,542 --> 00:19:28,632 over the weekend if that was not done. 375 00:19:28,709 --> 00:19:31,499 And they had to weigh a lot of different factors 376 00:19:31,584 --> 00:19:33,424 before deciding to publish. 377 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:34,920 They published them. 378 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,540 I don't think the police were very happy with that, 379 00:19:36,626 --> 00:19:41,076 and here is where you enlist the public. 380 00:19:41,167 --> 00:19:44,537 Many citizens took this as a challenge to try to solve it, 381 00:19:44,626 --> 00:19:46,326 and they were successful. 382 00:19:46,417 --> 00:19:50,957 Donald harden was a high school teacher in salinas, 383 00:19:51,042 --> 00:19:54,042 and he and his wife saw the codes in the paper 384 00:19:54,125 --> 00:19:55,785 and decided to start working on it. 385 00:19:55,876 --> 00:19:58,456 It took Donald and Betty 20 hours on and off 386 00:19:58,542 --> 00:20:00,922 to solve the first cipher from the killer. 387 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,710 "I like killing people because it is so much fun. 388 00:20:03,792 --> 00:20:06,542 "It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest 389 00:20:06,626 --> 00:20:10,206 because man is the most dangerous animal of all." 390 00:20:10,292 --> 00:20:12,752 What is intriguing about his choice of words 391 00:20:12,834 --> 00:20:15,544 is he actually gave away the cipher 392 00:20:15,626 --> 00:20:17,126 because everybody that's looking at this, 393 00:20:17,209 --> 00:20:19,879 the hardens especially, they were looking for I. 394 00:20:19,959 --> 00:20:21,129 This is egotist. 395 00:20:21,209 --> 00:20:22,419 He's going to begin his letter with I, 396 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:23,920 and they were right, and they said, 397 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,330 "okay. What's the most commonly double letter 398 00:20:27,417 --> 00:20:28,747 ever used in the English language? 399 00:20:28,834 --> 00:20:31,884 I. Two ls. "Well, I like killing people." 400 00:20:31,959 --> 00:20:35,039 Now, they had an I. They had two ls. 401 00:20:35,125 --> 00:20:37,455 They had a g, an I, an n. 402 00:20:37,542 --> 00:20:38,882 That's the way it starts, 403 00:20:38,959 --> 00:20:40,499 and they solved it in that manner, 404 00:20:40,584 --> 00:20:42,584 but it was basically based on the killer's own egotism. 405 00:20:42,667 --> 00:20:46,707 The last section of that has never been decoded, 406 00:20:46,792 --> 00:20:48,882 and, of course, the theory is that it includes 407 00:20:48,959 --> 00:20:50,379 the killer's name. 408 00:20:50,459 --> 00:20:52,879 I actually think it was just planted there to baffle 409 00:20:52,959 --> 00:20:54,709 and confuse the decoders, 410 00:20:54,792 --> 00:20:59,002 and it's obvious that he wants to get credit for his crimes. 411 00:21:01,375 --> 00:21:04,075 He appeared to want to taunt the police. 412 00:21:04,167 --> 00:21:08,667 "Dear editor, this is the zodiac speaking. 413 00:21:08,751 --> 00:21:11,291 "In answer to your asking for more details 414 00:21:11,375 --> 00:21:14,165 "about the good times I've had in vallejo, 415 00:21:14,250 --> 00:21:18,380 I shall be very happy to supply even more material." 416 00:21:18,459 --> 00:21:21,249 That message made it clear just how close police may have come 417 00:21:21,334 --> 00:21:22,834 to catching the zodiac killer, 418 00:21:22,918 --> 00:21:24,998 and as you'll see next, the terror was far from over. 419 00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:37,207 Welcome back to "very scary people." 420 00:21:37,292 --> 00:21:40,252 By the summer of 1969, two young couples 421 00:21:40,334 --> 00:21:41,924 had been shot on lovers' lanes. 422 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,880 Three are dead, and one is seriously injured. 423 00:21:44,959 --> 00:21:46,879 Instead of retreating to the shadows, 424 00:21:46,959 --> 00:21:49,629 the killer is writing letters to newspapers. 425 00:21:49,709 --> 00:21:51,879 The police and the public have begun asking, 426 00:21:51,959 --> 00:21:56,419 "what does zodiac really want, and what will he do to get it?" 427 00:22:01,918 --> 00:22:04,208 By the end of the summer in 1969, 428 00:22:04,292 --> 00:22:06,922 we have two attacks, three murder victims, 429 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,500 another victim who is seriously injured, 430 00:22:09,584 --> 00:22:14,044 and now a killer who's writing letters to the local newspaper 431 00:22:14,125 --> 00:22:16,785 and taking credit for all of it. 432 00:22:16,876 --> 00:22:19,956 He appeared to want to taunt the police. 433 00:22:20,042 --> 00:22:24,712 Just days after the initial communications from the killer, 434 00:22:24,792 --> 00:22:28,002 a new letter arrived. 435 00:22:28,083 --> 00:22:31,043 And that letter was the first to begin with the phrase, 436 00:22:31,125 --> 00:22:35,415 "this is the zodiac speaking." 437 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:40,040 "Dear editor, this is the zodiac speaking. 438 00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:42,325 "In answer to your asking for more details 439 00:22:42,417 --> 00:22:45,707 "about the good times I have had in vallejo, 440 00:22:45,792 --> 00:22:50,172 I shall be very happy to supply even more material." 441 00:22:50,250 --> 00:22:51,710 He named himself. 442 00:22:51,792 --> 00:22:55,582 He called himself zodiac. 443 00:22:55,667 --> 00:22:58,457 What exactly that meant and where the word zodiac 444 00:22:58,542 --> 00:23:04,332 came from has never been described by the killer. 445 00:23:04,417 --> 00:23:07,787 When you think about the definition of the zodiac, 446 00:23:07,876 --> 00:23:10,996 the zodiac is everything out there in the universe, 447 00:23:11,083 --> 00:23:14,213 and it's all-powerful, and it's all dark. 448 00:23:14,292 --> 00:23:16,502 It implies somebody who's omnipotent, 449 00:23:16,584 --> 00:23:18,584 and so I think that this is 450 00:23:18,667 --> 00:23:20,827 an individual who is very arrogant, 451 00:23:20,918 --> 00:23:23,628 loves that power, loves that control. 452 00:23:23,709 --> 00:23:25,579 He was kind of developing his own character 453 00:23:25,667 --> 00:23:29,917 through these communications, through these ciphers. 454 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,080 The three-page letter includes a great many details 455 00:23:33,167 --> 00:23:35,627 about the Darlene and Michael attack 456 00:23:35,709 --> 00:23:37,379 that only the killer could know. 457 00:23:37,459 --> 00:23:40,209 "On the 4th of July, I did not open the car door. 458 00:23:40,292 --> 00:23:43,422 The window was rolled down already." 459 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:46,170 The killer provided more details about the crimes, 460 00:23:46,250 --> 00:23:51,250 which apparently satisfied police that he was responsible. 461 00:23:51,334 --> 00:23:53,384 These letters contain some misspellings, 462 00:23:53,459 --> 00:23:54,999 which led some people to believe 463 00:23:55,083 --> 00:23:58,173 that the killer had a very limited education. 464 00:23:58,250 --> 00:24:01,630 The intelligence of the zodiac is still an open question. 465 00:24:01,709 --> 00:24:04,209 In his letters, he spells some very difficult words 466 00:24:04,292 --> 00:24:06,212 exactly correctly 467 00:24:06,292 --> 00:24:09,132 and yet mess up on very simple words. 468 00:24:09,209 --> 00:24:11,539 But it's also possible that that was a put-on, 469 00:24:11,626 --> 00:24:14,166 that he was trying to make himself appear less intelligent 470 00:24:14,250 --> 00:24:17,750 than he actually was in order to throw off investigators. 471 00:24:17,834 --> 00:24:19,134 I've always called it 472 00:24:19,209 --> 00:24:21,209 as he's playing chess against the police. 473 00:24:21,292 --> 00:24:24,042 I think the killer is matching wits. 474 00:24:24,125 --> 00:24:26,415 He's making himself feel important. 475 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:28,500 He may have misspelled some words, 476 00:24:28,584 --> 00:24:32,294 but the message that he's trying to get across is very clear. 477 00:24:32,375 --> 00:24:35,875 "Last Christmas in that episode the police were wondering 478 00:24:35,959 --> 00:24:39,249 "as to how I could shoot and hit my victims in the dark. 479 00:24:39,334 --> 00:24:41,674 "What I did was tape a small pencil flashlight 480 00:24:41,751 --> 00:24:44,041 "to the barrel of my gun. 481 00:24:44,125 --> 00:24:45,285 "I was not happy to see 482 00:24:45,375 --> 00:24:47,535 that I did not get front page coverage." 483 00:24:47,626 --> 00:24:50,956 He seemed to be very interested in gaining publicity. 484 00:24:51,042 --> 00:24:53,962 The zodiac obviously had a tremendous ego. 485 00:24:54,042 --> 00:24:56,382 When he didn't get what he wanted, he complained. 486 00:24:56,459 --> 00:25:00,329 His next move ensures that he will continue to get 487 00:25:00,417 --> 00:25:03,957 the attention from the public that he's been seeking. 488 00:25:04,042 --> 00:25:06,712 He hog-tied them so that they were lying on their stomachs 489 00:25:06,792 --> 00:25:10,382 with their feet tied behind their backs. 490 00:25:10,459 --> 00:25:12,919 The zodiac then drew a foot-long knife 491 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,670 out of a scabbard in his belt. 492 00:25:15,751 --> 00:25:20,081 And I'm just kind of, like, waiting to die. 493 00:25:28,709 --> 00:25:31,289 The zodiac killer craved publicity, 494 00:25:31,375 --> 00:25:33,825 taunting the public with creepy letters to the media 495 00:25:33,918 --> 00:25:36,498 in which he said he had killed 37 people, 496 00:25:36,584 --> 00:25:39,044 those letters often written in a cipher 497 00:25:39,125 --> 00:25:42,955 he seemed to have invented himself. 498 00:25:43,042 --> 00:25:45,332 After gunning down two teenage couples, 499 00:25:45,417 --> 00:25:47,327 the killer starts writing to the press, 500 00:25:47,417 --> 00:25:50,627 and he's given himself a name... The zodiac. 501 00:25:50,709 --> 00:25:52,669 It's as if he wants us to think of him 502 00:25:52,751 --> 00:25:56,921 as a signature or a symbol, even a brand. 503 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,790 On September 27, 1969, 504 00:25:59,876 --> 00:26:04,326 the zodiac showed up at lake berryessa, 505 00:26:04,417 --> 00:26:07,707 where Bryan hartnell and Cecelia Shepard 506 00:26:07,792 --> 00:26:10,962 were lying by the water's edge. 507 00:26:11,042 --> 00:26:12,832 22-year-old Cecelia Shepard, 508 00:26:12,918 --> 00:26:14,498 a local college student. 509 00:26:14,584 --> 00:26:16,674 She was transferring from one college to another, 510 00:26:16,751 --> 00:26:18,791 and she got the help of her fellow college student 511 00:26:18,876 --> 00:26:21,206 Bryan hartnell to pack up her room. 512 00:26:21,292 --> 00:26:25,252 Bryan hartnell was a young man attending college for prelaw, 513 00:26:25,334 --> 00:26:28,254 and he had had a previous relationship with Cecelia 514 00:26:28,334 --> 00:26:30,834 and obviously still had a lot of feelings for her, 515 00:26:30,918 --> 00:26:34,748 and they decided to spend some time together. 516 00:26:34,834 --> 00:26:37,584 The weather on September 27th 517 00:26:37,667 --> 00:26:39,247 was very pleasant. 518 00:26:39,334 --> 00:26:41,004 It was a beautiful day. 519 00:26:41,083 --> 00:26:44,633 This is a remote lake. This is up in the mountains. 520 00:26:44,709 --> 00:26:46,959 Is there... you got through, you know, from vallejo 521 00:26:47,042 --> 00:26:50,502 and all the way over at napa, and you go up this hill. 522 00:26:50,584 --> 00:26:52,044 We were not on high alert 523 00:26:52,125 --> 00:26:54,995 or expecting anything like this to occur. 524 00:26:55,083 --> 00:26:57,213 We didn't have that type of community. 525 00:27:01,918 --> 00:27:04,378 As they were sitting there, Cecelia noticed a man 526 00:27:04,459 --> 00:27:06,999 walking through the trees in the distance. 527 00:27:07,083 --> 00:27:09,293 She commented to Bryan about the man, 528 00:27:09,375 --> 00:27:10,785 and Bryan assumed he was just there 529 00:27:10,876 --> 00:27:12,786 doing whatever and dismissed the man. 530 00:27:12,876 --> 00:27:15,876 As he approached and got closer and closer, 531 00:27:15,959 --> 00:27:20,789 he reached a point to where he was approximately 75 feet away 532 00:27:20,876 --> 00:27:23,666 when he stepped behind a tree. 533 00:27:23,751 --> 00:27:28,501 Put on a hood with sunglasses that had a chest covering 534 00:27:28,584 --> 00:27:33,424 that had the zodiac's crosshair symbol on it. 535 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:37,420 He approached them with his gun drawn. 536 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:40,540 Bryan started to get up, and he told him to. 537 00:27:40,626 --> 00:27:45,536 "Get down. Get back down," and he pointed the gun at him. 538 00:27:45,626 --> 00:27:48,126 And he told Bryan and Cecelia that he had escaped 539 00:27:48,209 --> 00:27:50,419 from a prison, and he needed their car keys 540 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:52,500 and some money to escape to Mexico. 541 00:27:52,584 --> 00:27:56,134 He's wearing this scary Halloween-mask contraption 542 00:27:56,209 --> 00:27:58,539 on his head, engaging in conversation 543 00:27:58,626 --> 00:28:00,876 with these people who are looking up at him, 544 00:28:00,959 --> 00:28:03,709 seeing this knife hang off of him, seeing this gun, 545 00:28:03,792 --> 00:28:05,712 seeing the ropes hang off of them. 546 00:28:05,792 --> 00:28:11,042 That mask, his conversation I'm sure increased their fear 547 00:28:11,125 --> 00:28:14,285 and their expressions and how they responded to him. 548 00:28:14,375 --> 00:28:16,955 That's everything that they want 549 00:28:17,042 --> 00:28:18,542 to see the fear in the eyes of their victims. 550 00:28:18,626 --> 00:28:21,286 Bryan said to him, he said, "I don't have any money. 551 00:28:21,375 --> 00:28:24,245 "I've only got some change. Here, take mine. 552 00:28:24,334 --> 00:28:26,674 "Take the change. Take the car keys. 553 00:28:26,751 --> 00:28:32,381 You can have it," and zodiac did not take it. 554 00:28:32,459 --> 00:28:36,289 He had Cecelia tie up Bryan. 555 00:28:36,375 --> 00:28:38,825 Then he tied up the two of them. 556 00:28:38,918 --> 00:28:41,458 He hog-tied them so that they were lying on their stomachs 557 00:28:41,542 --> 00:28:44,212 with their feet tied behind their backs. 558 00:28:44,292 --> 00:28:47,832 Bryan thought that was going to be the end of that. 559 00:28:47,918 --> 00:28:50,498 The zodiac then drew a foot-long knife 560 00:28:50,584 --> 00:28:54,714 out of a scabbard in his belt and stabbed Bryan 561 00:28:54,792 --> 00:29:00,082 about six times in his back and then turned to Cecelia. 562 00:29:00,167 --> 00:29:02,997 Who then was screaming and yelling and rolling 563 00:29:03,083 --> 00:29:04,833 and trying to get away from him, 564 00:29:04,918 --> 00:29:06,828 and he began stabbing her. 565 00:29:06,918 --> 00:29:08,918 She was stabbed approximately 10 times... 566 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,710 Five times in the front, five times in the back. 567 00:29:11,792 --> 00:29:15,252 I felt my life, my energy, just this dark... 568 00:29:15,334 --> 00:29:17,674 And I'm, like, just kind of, like, waiting to die. 569 00:29:17,751 --> 00:29:19,541 He watched them for a moment or two 570 00:29:19,626 --> 00:29:22,576 and then quietly walked away. 571 00:29:22,667 --> 00:29:25,707 Bryan and Cecelia with these multiple stab wounds 572 00:29:25,792 --> 00:29:29,382 had been left to bleed to death, but they don't give up. 573 00:29:29,459 --> 00:29:32,039 The killer left both of the victims alive. 574 00:29:32,125 --> 00:29:35,205 They waited to be sure he was gone, 575 00:29:35,292 --> 00:29:37,922 and then Bryan turned to her, 576 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,790 and he tried to get her loose by using his teeth on her knots. 577 00:29:43,876 --> 00:29:46,456 He was barely able to get it loose enough 578 00:29:46,542 --> 00:29:48,542 to where she could get a hand free, 579 00:29:48,626 --> 00:29:54,666 then he felt Cecelia actually get a hand and loosen his knots, 580 00:29:54,751 --> 00:29:57,211 and so he became free. 581 00:30:09,959 --> 00:30:12,959 Bryan got up and tried to walk to flag down help 582 00:30:13,042 --> 00:30:17,172 and they were a good 300 yards away from the road. 583 00:30:17,250 --> 00:30:20,130 He was never able to really get very far. 584 00:30:20,209 --> 00:30:22,329 I couldn't see. You know, I kept blacking out. 585 00:30:22,417 --> 00:30:24,327 My legs kept getting weak. 586 00:30:24,417 --> 00:30:28,787 Offshore, a father and son see something on the shore, 587 00:30:28,876 --> 00:30:30,626 and they row like crazy, 588 00:30:30,709 --> 00:30:33,209 and they get the two park rangers to come to them. 589 00:30:33,292 --> 00:30:36,542 I was on patrol in napa on the east side of town. 590 00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:39,996 It was 7:15 when I received the call 591 00:30:40,083 --> 00:30:43,003 to respond to a double stabbing at lake berryessa, 592 00:30:43,083 --> 00:30:46,793 so by the time I got to the scene, 593 00:30:46,876 --> 00:30:50,786 it's over an hour that the victims had lay injured. 594 00:30:54,042 --> 00:30:56,542 Can you describe for us what your attacker looked like? 595 00:30:56,626 --> 00:30:59,376 He was of medium to short height, 596 00:30:59,459 --> 00:31:03,079 kind of pouchy. 597 00:31:03,167 --> 00:31:04,787 He had this black hood on. 598 00:31:04,876 --> 00:31:08,576 He put it down to here, just little slits in the eyes. 599 00:31:08,667 --> 00:31:10,127 The costume at lake berryessa 600 00:31:10,209 --> 00:31:14,499 is one of the most fascinating portions of the case. 601 00:31:14,584 --> 00:31:16,924 If not for Bryan hartnell's survival, 602 00:31:17,042 --> 00:31:19,292 we would never have known about it. 603 00:31:19,375 --> 00:31:22,455 He had some clip-on glasses that were either affixed to the hood 604 00:31:22,542 --> 00:31:25,132 or affixed to glasses underneath. 605 00:31:25,209 --> 00:31:29,079 The circle on the chest was a perfectly formed circle. 606 00:31:29,167 --> 00:31:32,787 It was always puzzling to us that the zodiac would wear 607 00:31:32,876 --> 00:31:37,876 a mask to cover his identity if he had intended to kill them. 608 00:31:37,959 --> 00:31:39,999 I think he just felt like his follow-up performance 609 00:31:40,083 --> 00:31:43,043 had to be something just shocking and terrifying, 610 00:31:43,125 --> 00:31:44,455 so he created this costume, 611 00:31:44,542 --> 00:31:46,502 but it wasn't for the benefit of his victims. 612 00:31:46,584 --> 00:31:48,924 It was for his own need. 613 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,290 When I got there at the scene, I went right to Cecelia, 614 00:31:53,375 --> 00:31:56,955 and my partner went to Bryan. 615 00:31:57,042 --> 00:31:59,792 She knew that she was critically ill 616 00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:03,956 and she knew that she had to give as much information 617 00:32:04,042 --> 00:32:07,832 as she could, so we could try and catch him. 618 00:32:07,918 --> 00:32:11,788 She had saw him without his hood on. 619 00:32:11,876 --> 00:32:14,666 She saw that he had a round-type face 620 00:32:14,751 --> 00:32:17,251 and that he had brown hair, 621 00:32:17,334 --> 00:32:21,174 and then within 10 to 15 minutes, 622 00:32:21,250 --> 00:32:23,000 the ambulance did arrive. 623 00:32:23,083 --> 00:32:25,383 Bryan and Cecelia are taken to the hospital, 624 00:32:25,459 --> 00:32:28,879 and police comb this crime scene for evidence. 625 00:32:28,959 --> 00:32:30,499 They found several bootprints 626 00:32:30,584 --> 00:32:33,004 which appeared to belong to a military-style boot. 627 00:32:33,083 --> 00:32:35,173 They're wing-walkers, is what they were called. 628 00:32:35,250 --> 00:32:37,380 These are extremely rare boots, 629 00:32:37,459 --> 00:32:41,879 150,000 made and sold only at military bases. 630 00:32:41,959 --> 00:32:45,079 You had to literally be in the Navy or the air force. 631 00:32:45,167 --> 00:32:47,457 Those bootprints led from the area 632 00:32:47,542 --> 00:32:50,042 where the killer apparently parked his vehicle 633 00:32:50,125 --> 00:32:51,995 down to the crime scene 634 00:32:52,083 --> 00:32:55,923 and then back up to Bryan hartnell's car. 635 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,420 What I found was a karmann ghia with Oregon plates, 636 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:03,210 and on the side, the zodiac had scrolled his symbol, 637 00:33:03,292 --> 00:33:05,792 which was the circle with the crosshairs in it. 638 00:33:05,876 --> 00:33:08,496 He writes with a blue felt-tip pen on the car. 639 00:33:08,584 --> 00:33:11,044 It's dead-on zodiac lettering. 640 00:33:11,125 --> 00:33:12,455 He puts the time of the murder. 641 00:33:12,542 --> 00:33:14,582 He puts all of his previous attacks. 642 00:33:14,667 --> 00:33:19,417 The vallejo and benicia crimes, and he ended that by saying, 643 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:21,830 "by knife, lake berryessa," 644 00:33:21,918 --> 00:33:25,708 so we knew that this all tied together with one individual. 645 00:33:25,792 --> 00:33:28,502 Without that message on that car door, it's perfectly possible 646 00:33:28,584 --> 00:33:32,294 that crime may never have been connected to the zodiac. 647 00:33:32,375 --> 00:33:35,165 He's doing the investigators' work for them, 648 00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:37,710 which goes back to the whole idea of, 649 00:33:37,792 --> 00:33:40,132 "I want credit for these murders. 650 00:33:40,209 --> 00:33:41,419 "These are mine. 651 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:44,380 Now make sure you give me credit for these cases." 652 00:33:44,459 --> 00:33:47,749 It's very compromising for him 653 00:33:47,834 --> 00:33:51,884 because now they are going to connect them 654 00:33:51,959 --> 00:33:54,169 which ups his risk of being caught. 655 00:33:54,250 --> 00:33:56,380 He was able to do what he always does. 656 00:33:56,459 --> 00:34:01,959 He made a phone call to the police. 657 00:34:02,042 --> 00:34:04,962 He is a cunning man. 658 00:34:05,042 --> 00:34:07,292 He pulled out a gun and held it to the back of his head. 659 00:34:07,375 --> 00:34:10,455 We have reason to believe that he's a maniac. 660 00:34:10,542 --> 00:34:15,502 With each attack, he keeps ratcheting up the risk factor. 661 00:34:15,584 --> 00:34:20,004 It really begs the question, what is he planning to do next? 662 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,830 Investigators hoping to crack one of america's 663 00:34:30,918 --> 00:34:33,418 most mysterious unsolved cases. 664 00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:35,380 Authorities in California have been trying 665 00:34:35,459 --> 00:34:37,999 to hunt down the zodiac killer for decades. 666 00:34:38,083 --> 00:34:39,833 The murderer has been linked to five deaths 667 00:34:39,918 --> 00:34:43,208 in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 668 00:34:43,292 --> 00:34:44,752 The zodiac, he was so brazen. 669 00:34:44,834 --> 00:34:48,674 Calling the police a second time in a downtown location 670 00:34:48,751 --> 00:34:50,501 in daylight was very risky, 671 00:34:50,584 --> 00:34:53,134 and at any point, he could have gotten caught. 672 00:34:53,209 --> 00:34:57,499 The subject stated, "I want to report a murder. 673 00:34:57,584 --> 00:35:01,004 "No, a double-murder. I did it," and with that, 674 00:35:01,083 --> 00:35:04,173 the officer could feel that there was nobody on the line. 675 00:35:04,250 --> 00:35:06,000 The police are able to trace the call, 676 00:35:06,083 --> 00:35:10,133 and it goes to a pay phone at a napa car wash 677 00:35:10,209 --> 00:35:12,419 at 1231 main street, 678 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:14,880 just five blocks away from the police station. 679 00:35:14,959 --> 00:35:16,289 So close to them, 680 00:35:16,375 --> 00:35:18,705 but, of course, when they get there, there's no one there. 681 00:35:18,792 --> 00:35:21,752 However, this time, they're able to get a palm print. 682 00:35:21,834 --> 00:35:26,254 He's right near the police department once they figure out 683 00:35:26,334 --> 00:35:28,794 which pay phone he's called from. 684 00:35:28,876 --> 00:35:31,376 Being able to do this under the nose of law enforcement 685 00:35:31,459 --> 00:35:34,079 is certainly a way of saying, 686 00:35:34,167 --> 00:35:36,327 "I can do this and carry it out right in front of you, 687 00:35:36,417 --> 00:35:38,207 and there's nothing that you can do about it." 688 00:35:38,292 --> 00:35:40,672 There's this sketch that comes from some eyewitnesses 689 00:35:40,751 --> 00:35:43,331 who saw a man earlier in the day. 690 00:35:43,417 --> 00:35:46,707 He's white with brown hair and has a round face. 691 00:35:46,792 --> 00:35:49,502 He might be the zodiac. 692 00:35:49,584 --> 00:35:52,674 Well, sheriff, what type of person is this man? 693 00:35:52,751 --> 00:35:55,581 He is a cunning man. 694 00:35:55,667 --> 00:35:58,787 He knows just exactly what moves he's going to make. 695 00:35:58,876 --> 00:36:00,786 He knows where he's going to start 696 00:36:00,876 --> 00:36:02,706 and when he's going to end, 697 00:36:02,792 --> 00:36:05,882 and he knows just exactly 698 00:36:05,959 --> 00:36:08,039 how this thing is gonna turn out. 699 00:36:08,125 --> 00:36:10,705 We think that he's... it appears to us that he is killing 700 00:36:10,792 --> 00:36:13,422 just for the thrill of killing. 701 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:17,290 Well, we have reason to believe that he's a maniac. 702 00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:20,075 The attack on Cecelia Shepard and Bryan hartnell 703 00:36:20,167 --> 00:36:23,787 had been particularly brutal, especially Cecelia. 704 00:36:23,876 --> 00:36:27,576 She had been stabbed twice as many times as Bryan. 705 00:36:27,667 --> 00:36:31,957 Cecelia died three days after the attack at lake berryessa. 706 00:36:32,042 --> 00:36:34,672 She was lucky to have survived that long. 707 00:36:34,751 --> 00:36:36,041 She fought back. 708 00:36:36,125 --> 00:36:38,325 She was very strong, and unfortunately, 709 00:36:38,417 --> 00:36:41,377 she was not strong enough. 710 00:36:41,459 --> 00:36:43,829 Bryan miraculously survived. 711 00:36:43,918 --> 00:36:48,038 This guy took his anger and all of his fury out on the woman. 712 00:36:48,125 --> 00:36:51,165 Once again, the men survive. The women die. 713 00:36:51,250 --> 00:36:54,500 That just seems to be the motif of the zodiac crimes. 714 00:36:54,584 --> 00:36:59,504 When you're in control and you're able to shoot them 715 00:36:59,584 --> 00:37:01,924 in a very cold-blooded manner, 716 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,210 the victims are no longer human beings. 717 00:37:05,292 --> 00:37:09,502 I don't think that he was acting under his total, 718 00:37:09,584 --> 00:37:12,334 complete consciousness. 719 00:37:12,417 --> 00:37:15,827 When a man is, if you don't mind me using the word, sick, 720 00:37:15,918 --> 00:37:18,748 you can't hold this against them, 721 00:37:18,834 --> 00:37:20,464 but the real concern that I have is 722 00:37:20,542 --> 00:37:22,042 that he doesn't do this again. 723 00:37:26,709 --> 00:37:28,629 Contrary to all things logical, 724 00:37:28,709 --> 00:37:31,379 this killer is leaving lots of clues, 725 00:37:31,459 --> 00:37:35,079 almost intentional clues, not just at the crime scene, 726 00:37:35,167 --> 00:37:38,667 but he's also calling the police from pay phones, 727 00:37:38,751 --> 00:37:40,881 sending letters to the media, 728 00:37:40,959 --> 00:37:43,379 talking out loud in front of a victim. 729 00:37:43,459 --> 00:37:46,419 Why would a killer be so careless 730 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:49,130 or is it just all part of his grand scheme? 731 00:37:49,209 --> 00:37:51,459 Does it seem to you as if you're pretty much 732 00:37:51,542 --> 00:37:53,582 on the verge of finding this man? 733 00:37:53,667 --> 00:37:56,917 Well, I wouldn't want to say that. 734 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,790 The one thing that is indisputable 735 00:37:58,876 --> 00:38:01,876 is that this killer loves attention. 736 00:38:01,959 --> 00:38:04,709 When you see taunting behavior in a case, 737 00:38:04,792 --> 00:38:07,542 it's not typical, even for a serial killer, 738 00:38:07,626 --> 00:38:09,496 and they know that if they taunt the police, 739 00:38:09,584 --> 00:38:11,834 they run the risk of getting caught a lot sooner, 740 00:38:11,918 --> 00:38:15,458 but for zodiac, I think at a certain point in his crimes, 741 00:38:15,542 --> 00:38:17,212 it was the taunting behavior 742 00:38:17,292 --> 00:38:19,292 that continued to motivate him more so 743 00:38:19,375 --> 00:38:20,915 than the murders themselves. 744 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,210 With each attack, he keeps ratcheting up the risk factor. 745 00:38:25,292 --> 00:38:26,922 The first one was a shooting. 746 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,170 The second one followed by a phone call. 747 00:38:29,250 --> 00:38:32,040 Now the third one, there's the element of terror, 748 00:38:32,125 --> 00:38:34,995 the executioner's costume, the knives, 749 00:38:35,083 --> 00:38:38,963 tying the victims up, again, followed by a phone call. 750 00:38:39,042 --> 00:38:43,082 It really begs the question, what is he planning to do next? 751 00:38:46,334 --> 00:38:48,964 After the gruesome stabbing attack at lake berryessa, 752 00:38:49,042 --> 00:38:54,042 it's only two weeks before the zodiac killer strikes again. 753 00:38:54,125 --> 00:38:56,575 It's in the heart of San Francisco. 754 00:38:56,667 --> 00:39:00,497 Paul stine was a cabdriver who was working the evening 755 00:39:00,584 --> 00:39:03,044 of October 11, 1969. 756 00:39:03,125 --> 00:39:05,875 Paul was working two jobs at the time. 757 00:39:05,959 --> 00:39:07,829 He was selling insurance 758 00:39:07,918 --> 00:39:10,038 and also driving a cab, of course, 759 00:39:10,125 --> 00:39:11,915 and he was putting himself through college 760 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,670 and was pretty interesting, intelligent guy. 761 00:39:15,751 --> 00:39:20,921 We know some of what happened because of the taxi logs. 762 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,750 Zodiac had been waiting under a place 763 00:39:22,834 --> 00:39:27,004 called the pine street magazine shop and it was on Geary. 764 00:39:27,083 --> 00:39:28,923 The driver pulls by, and he says, 765 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,830 "hey. Can I get a ride?" 766 00:39:30,918 --> 00:39:33,538 He directed the driver to take him to a location 767 00:39:33,626 --> 00:39:38,076 at the intersection of Washington and maple streets, 768 00:39:38,167 --> 00:39:41,497 which was located in the upscale presidio heights neighborhood. 769 00:39:41,584 --> 00:39:44,714 He drove out there and went to park the car 770 00:39:44,792 --> 00:39:46,132 where he was told to. 771 00:39:46,209 --> 00:39:49,749 And for some reason, "go another block further," 772 00:39:49,834 --> 00:39:51,084 says zodiac. 773 00:39:51,167 --> 00:39:53,537 "I want you to go to Washington and cherry." 774 00:39:53,626 --> 00:39:56,286 He wants to get to an isolated spot. 775 00:39:56,375 --> 00:39:57,745 When he pulled over at the side of the road 776 00:39:57,834 --> 00:39:59,714 and put the car in park, 777 00:39:59,792 --> 00:40:03,382 zodiac apparently pulled out a gun 778 00:40:03,459 --> 00:40:05,709 and held it to the back of his head toward his ear 779 00:40:05,792 --> 00:40:09,882 and fired a bullet, which killed him instantly. 780 00:40:09,959 --> 00:40:11,789 Some kids who were in a house 781 00:40:11,876 --> 00:40:14,166 nearby apparently heard some kind of commotion 782 00:40:14,250 --> 00:40:15,920 and looked outside the window, 783 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,710 and they observed the man inside the cab 784 00:40:18,792 --> 00:40:21,082 handling Paul stine's body. 785 00:40:21,167 --> 00:40:24,077 What the kids see is really bizarre. 786 00:40:24,167 --> 00:40:28,247 He was tearing off a square of Paul stine's shirt, 787 00:40:28,334 --> 00:40:30,214 and the cab driver is bleeding. 788 00:40:30,292 --> 00:40:33,672 Zodiac gets out. He begins wiping down the car. 789 00:40:33,751 --> 00:40:35,331 He might have left prints. 790 00:40:35,417 --> 00:40:40,497 Then he walked away up north up cherry street and disappeared. 791 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,170 The three kids who were observing what had happened 792 00:40:47,250 --> 00:40:49,580 called the police, and they described the killer. 793 00:40:49,667 --> 00:40:51,327 The facts got confused, 794 00:40:51,417 --> 00:40:54,417 and when the police broadcast a description of the killer, 795 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:58,130 they described him as a black man instead of a white man. 796 00:40:58,209 --> 00:41:00,379 Two police officers who were responding to the scene 797 00:41:00,459 --> 00:41:04,749 were driving down Jackson street one block north of Washington, 798 00:41:04,834 --> 00:41:06,674 and they apparently saw this white man 799 00:41:06,751 --> 00:41:08,831 walking down the street. 800 00:41:08,918 --> 00:41:12,498 Zodiac is stopped by a police car, 801 00:41:12,584 --> 00:41:14,294 and they see him. 802 00:41:14,375 --> 00:41:16,455 Stocky man, round face. 803 00:41:16,542 --> 00:41:20,082 The officers ask him if he has seen anyone suspicious. 804 00:41:20,167 --> 00:41:23,877 But zodiac says, "oh, yeah. I saw a man running with a gun." 805 00:41:23,959 --> 00:41:25,959 "He went that way," and they thank him, 806 00:41:26,042 --> 00:41:27,462 and then off they go. 807 00:41:27,542 --> 00:41:30,422 Zodiac was right there. They would have caught him. 808 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:34,380 He was within arm's reach. 809 00:41:34,459 --> 00:41:37,709 Who is this man, so ordinary that his presence 810 00:41:37,792 --> 00:41:40,502 near a crime scene doesn't alarm police 811 00:41:40,584 --> 00:41:42,134 and yet so terrifying that 812 00:41:42,209 --> 00:41:44,829 the entire country is now on alert? 813 00:41:44,918 --> 00:41:46,208 With this chance to catch the killer 814 00:41:46,292 --> 00:41:48,462 having slipped through their hands, 815 00:41:48,542 --> 00:41:51,002 investigators hope he'll make another mistake, 816 00:41:51,083 --> 00:41:54,583 but zodiac is about to make a move that changes everything. 817 00:41:54,667 --> 00:41:57,417 The hunt for the zodiac killer has only just begun, 818 00:41:57,500 --> 00:42:00,170 next on "very scary people." 819 00:42:00,250 --> 00:42:02,920 I'm Donnie wahlberg. Thanks for watching.