Zodiac Killer: Still Unsolved!

[Music] hello everyone welcome to the last day of freak week and really hope you guys enjoyed it this year and I wanted to end off here with a bang so I am doing probably probably my most requested video of all time and that is the Zodiac killer this is an unsolved serial killer case and I'm sure many of you have at least heard of if not like I already know about because it's definitely one of the most popular cases in US history and there is a lot to go over but before you get started I wanted to remind you guys that these freak weeks shirts are still available I'm gonna keep them open for about five or so days after Halloween like November 5th or so these are the Freak week shirts there's actually two there's another one that's like a modern witch and then there's this guy which is my favorite this is dancing pumpkin man I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen this gift for this video so many times I had to make it into a shirt so now he's on a shirt says turn up its freak week and 20% of the proceeds of this shirt go to thorns so definitely check that out there'll be links below now let's go ahead and get right into these zodiac killer our story begins in Vallejo California on December 20th of 1968 around 11:00 p.m. 17-year old David Faraday and 16 year-old Betty Lou Jensen were shot and killed when they were sitting in a parked car off of Lake Herman Road Betty Lou's body was found about 30 feet away from the car and then David was actually still alive when the police found him he was barely hanging on to life though and he actually died on the way to the hospital and you know this is in the 60s definitely not as common to have these random shootings there was not nearly as much violence or as many guns available so it was really really odd and police had no idea who killed them because it's literally just them two at the crime scene one on the ground one in the car and these are clearly neither of them are self-inflicted so this is not like David did it to her or she did this to him and then you know some type of suicide thing this is someone out some third party that came and did this to them and then left the scene so police were not able to figure out who it was there was literally no evidence left no one knew anyone that would want to hurt these two so the case went cold and little did they know that that would be the start of these zodiac killings then six months later in July 4th of 1969 and back in the 60s and 70s 80s probably the 90s the big thing to do actually probably still today the big thing to do was parking the car like going on a date going parking somewhere and you know what you do in the car so there's a lot of teams just unexpectedly hanging on their cars at night and that's exactly what Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau were doing Darlene was 22 Michael was 19 years old and they were just hanging out in a parked car near Blue Rock Springs Park which is only a few minutes away from the first murder of Betty and David it was around midnight they were just sitting in the car when someone came up behind them and just shot them both in the car pretty scary you know to know that especially that he's still out there you know it's something that never leaves your mind you know you look at her picture she's not here and now it's really different and interesting about the Zodiac killer that makes him a little more unique than other serial killers is that he doesn't seem to have like a motive for doing it other than the pure joy of taking someone's life he doesn't really torture victims he doesn't capture them take them home he shoots them he normally does it outside it's normally quick he doesn't normally do anything sexually with them he just purely likes to catch people off-guard and kill them there's not some other weird fetish going on like if you know about serial killers most of them have like some weird ritual or something that they're doing this guy just seemed to want to almost be out hunting so when the police arrived to the scene they actually were both alive however only Michael ended up living and Michael ended up claiming that he remembered what the person looked like he said that he was a white male around 26 to 30 years old he said he was around five eight and at least 200 pounds he also said he had curly light brown hair and he noticed that he had kind of a large face now it was really weird is within an hour of the attack someone called the police and this person claimed to be the shooter but not just the shooter of Darlene and Michael but also David and Betty all right guys so this is not how I normally like to do videos but my camera which is from 2013 I have not upgraded since I started YouTube but I just am very stuck in my ways but and it's somehow corrupted a clip that is a nice chunk of this video but fortunately it's not the whole video so I'm just gonna be voice over in a few parts of this I was just about to tell you guys about the letters August 1st of 1969 3 San Francisco newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Examiner and the Vallejo times-herald all received identical handwritten letters from someone claiming to be the killer in both of these events it was after Darlene ferrin's murder authorities realized they had a twisted serial killer on their hands all three of the letters had specific details about the murders which proved that the writer of the letters was indeed the killer and it's so creepy the letters were all signed with the same marking of a circle with a cross through it and this would be known as the famous mark of the Zodiac killer another thing that was included in these letters was three separate sets of codes Zodiac killer was all about playing a game with the police zodiac wanted the codes to be printed in the newspaper or he said he was going to kill again and you know the newspapers were like mmm we ain't gonna take a chance on that we're not gonna get blamed for this so they went ahead and printed it the Zodiac killer said that the three sets of codes would reveal his identity on August 4th another letter was received and the letter started with this is the zodiac speaking in answer to you're asking for more details about the good times I've had in Vallejo I shall be happy to supply even more material bye 'we are the police havin a good time with the code if not tell them to cheer up when they do crack it they will have me then on August 8th the code was actually cracked by some random couple in Salinas California they just basically sat down one day and dedicated their whole day to just figuring it out and the final message said I like killing because it's so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experience is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is that when I die I will be reborn into paradise and those I have killed will become my slaves and I will not give you my name because you will try to slow me down or stop my collecting of slaves for the afterlife and then there was another murder little over a month had gone by and it was on September 27th in Napa California 22 year old Cecelia Shepard and 20 year old Brian Hartnell we're having a picnic on the shore of Lake Berryessa when Cecilia spotted a man that was hiding behind a nearby tree and staring at her after a while of the man being there behind the tree he came out of hiding an executioner style hood over his head he had a gun and a long knife and used precut rope to tie up Cecilia and Brian and then after tying them up he started stabbing them repeatedly it's terribly sad Cecilia ended up dying at the hospital but Brian actually survived [Music] and the guy told us to take the money yes I don't want it says all I want to kill you people I have to kill you the boy asked him said you really mean that he said yes I mean it says well as if you gonna kill me first but I can't stand see the girl be stabbed he said well I'll do that so he started stabbing the kid in the back he told me 1012 times but he had some explode um I couldn't tell I knew he was stabbed several times and then he stabbed a girl so where was conscious enough to give you a description of the yes they they was uh they go out and come back and uh was taking some 35 minutes for damn just get from nap up here which is uh twenty miles twenty five miles away from this place and so they did a lot of talking the boy thought he was gonna wasn't gonna make it he want to tell give it a description of guy best he could and bad but the best he could gave us that he had a hood over his face and uh it was a big guy oh six-foot it better over two hundred pounds was your reaction when you saw them well I've been patrolling this lake now 11 years and I've seen a lot of people have been cut up with boats and this and that and for no reason at all that's about the worst I've ever seen that kids just chopped up real nice college kids just stabbed for no reason at all III know what does anything like it before Rousseff enough to link the murderer of Celia Shepard to other murders in the Vallejo area in the past year does it seem to you as if you're pretty much on the verge of finding this man well I wouldn't want to say that in speaking with one of the deputies who was investigating this thing he said that the first thing you told the deputy out there was to give some idea of a description of the man do you understand now how your mind was able to work that well under those conditions that you really did an exceptional job in that well to the whole thing like I mentioned before I at the beginning I did think I was going to die and so from that moment on one has to have certain goals that you have to set the first goal of course was to live I suppose the second goal was to get untied the next one was to get help from getting help getting to the hospital you know you have to have a success instead of goals and if you can keep this going and you can keep your mind active you I don't whether you die or not you're at least psychologically attune whether you're in shock or not if you can keep arguing with yourself praying do it doing anything to keep your mind off of yourself or at least just not lapsing back and just saying well it's no use a little over an hour after attack the police department got a call from someone saying that they were responsible for the murders and they hung up once again Brian described the man as being around 5/8 heavyset weighing somewhere between 225 and 250 pounds and he said that he was able to see brown hair through the eye holes of the ask a message was also found on the side of Brian's car it had the details of all three of the previous killings as well as the zodiac sign but this time under the most recent one it said by knife the call was actually traced back to a payphone that was a few blocks away from the police department so obviously they went down to check out this payphone but when they got there they weren't able to retrieve any reliable samples of DNA so the investigators are sitting here with no evidence no idea who did this not a single clue not a single suspect and know where to start so then very shortly after that the Zodiac killer kind of switched up what he was doing a little bit on October 11th just before 10:00 p.m. in San Francisco at the intersection of Washington and cherry a taxi driver named Paul Stine was randomly shot in the head by his passenger a teenage girl actually just happened to look out the window at the right time and saw all of this happen she said that she was able to get a good look at the passenger before he kind of looked over the body wiped down part of the car and then walked off she called the police and reported a white male between five and eight and five nine around 200 pounds tween about 25 to 30 years old stocky with reddish brown hair a crew-cut and glasses with thick rims so very shortly after the shooting two police officers went driving around the scene to see if they could find the suspect and that's when they came across a man who they said was around 510 around 170 pounds reddish brown hair a crew-cut and wearing glasses right around the crime scene so obviously it sounds very familiar to the suspect that was just called in to the police these police officers just pulled over confronted the man asked him if he had seen anyone running away and that's when he said yes I just saw a man with that description run that way and pointed forward and the police were like thanks man and drove off and to this day people really think that they actually were talking to the Zodiac killer and there's kind of I mean with any type of police stuff it's always a little fuzzy especially old stuff so we're not exactly sure why this miscommunication happened or why they just didn't consider him to be a suspect but a lot of people say there's a lot of rumors that is actually because they for some reason thought that the suspect was black and this was a white man so it couldn't have been him but I don't know if that's ever been confirmed it's kind of rumor II so I don't really know I think it was just really shitty police work either way and only three days after this event the police got a letter from the zodiac and this time instead of a return address which he never put one anyway but in that spot there was the zodiac symbol and that's how they knew it was from him the letter talked about details from the killing of the cab driver that only he would have known and it also talked about how two cops totally messed up when they were out looking for the suspect it's said yes two cops pulled a goof about three minutes after I left the cab I was walking down the hill to the park when this cop car pulled up and one of them called me over and asked if I saw anyone acting suspicious or strange in the last five to ten minutes and I said yes there's a man who was running and waving a gun and the cops peeled rubber and went around the corners I directed them I disappeared into the park a block and a half away never to be seen again so good work San Francisco Police Department so in the taxi there actually was a bloody fingerprint however in the letter the Zodiac also said that he left fake clues around to confuse them and so the police thought that it probably wasn't the zodiacs which is confusing to me because I think it'd be pretty hard to leave a fake bloody fingerprint if you'd have to find someone like stick their hand in blood and then like put it down it just doesn't make any sense I feel like he probably left a fingerprint realise it after the fact and then I'm saying oh I'm leaving fake clues you know then two days later the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter the writer of the letter claimed to be the murderer of the taxi cab driver and also included part of Paul's shirt and the letter said the San Francisco police could have caught me last night if they had searched the park properly instead of holding road races with their motorcycles seeing who could make the most noise the car driver should have parked their cars and sat there quietly waiting for me to come out of cover school children make nice targets I think I shall wipe out a school bus some morning just shoot out the front tire and then pick off the kiddies as they come bouncing out and also included in the letter was a bunch of diagrams that showed bombs that could be used on a bus so as you can imagine as soon as the public found out that the zodiac was threatening kids people got really serious about it and took action [Music] we're trying to keep our route we change them practically every day we won't have a same pattern then the police has been writing either ahead or behind and watching the people who closed eye on everything a lot of people were literally just volunteering their time to be armed guards they had small planes flying over the schools and police officers like guarding the doors and public interest in this case and public fear became so big that they decided to create a Zodiac task force so an entire group that is their only job to track the Zodiac killer and try to find this guy we have of course and have had in our department their reports since their incidents and being so close to their area and feeling that it might come over in our area we of course have been working very closely with Vallejo in checking State Hospital patients and former patients because this guy is a pathological psycho killer there's no doubt about it and multiple police departments were part of this so that they could all work together and share information then on April 20th of 1970 the zodiac sent another letter to the police and this time it said my name is blank and it had a code they never figured it out though and letters kept coming occasionally until 1971 it then stopped for a few years and then picked up suddenly in 1974 and that is when he wrote his last known letter where he claimed that he actually killed a total of 37 people and he said that he made some of them look like accidents now we have no idea if he's you know telling the truth or anything but we do know that he killed a lot of people and could have made them all look like accidents or you know just random attacks and there are people that are shot or killed all the time that goes unsolved so it's possible that he committed a lot of those and he really could have killed 37 because I think 37 is kind of an interesting number to pick it's pretty close to the highest recorded number which I believe is John Wayne Gacy and Forellis the United States and I think his 34 I want to say so it sounds like reasonable and I also think he probably would have exaggerated it if he was gonna lie it would have been like over 50 but the world may never know because there has been no activity from the zodiac and no sign of him since chances are he's not even alive anymore but let's talk about some of the theories that people have about him who he is and what happened now one thing that a lot of you probably have connected the Zodiac killer to is memes regarding Ted Cruz there are a ton of rumors on the internet that Ted Cruz is these in the ocular now I just want to get this one out of the way just want to talk about it real fast and I find it's so [ __ ] funny back in 2015 2016 ish when he was running for president a theory or rumor started floating around the internet that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer and the only evidence they had was that he looks like him which he kind of does but not really and the Zodiac killer had like light brown hair not only that but it's just impossible because Ted Cruz living and born until 1970s so unless he was killing people as an infant then Ted Cruz can be ruled out the next theory is that it was a man named Earl van best jr. there's a man out there named Gary who believes his father Earl van best junior was the Zodiac killer and he actually published a book called the most dangerous animal of all where he talks about the reasoning for believing that his father was the Zodiac killer and one of his biggest reasons is that he looked very similar to the composite sketch which is very weak his name also smashed one of the links of the codes for names he even hired a handwriting specialist to look at the handwriting of the Zodiac killer and compare it to his father Earl's marriage certificate and see if they were at all the same and he claims that this expert said that they were however there are also a lot of reasons to believe that he is not in this Zodiac killer first of all the church that he got married in the woman who worked there said that the signature on it was actually of the priests not Earl so unless the Zodiac killer is this random priest that whole theory makes no sense you can't base it just on handwriting Gary actually wanted to compare the DNA of his father to DNA that was on the stamp because the Zodiac killer was licking stamps but the police did not even want to let him have access to that and that was because there wasn't enough evidence of early being guilty Gary still thinks that his father is the Zodiac killer he thinks that the police are acting some kind of cover-up for it which doesn't make since cuz why would the police care like they want to catch him - why would they want to cover it cover it up and that is not even a good way of doing it the next possible suspect is Lawrence Kane k in 1962 and man named Kane was in a car accident as a result of the accident he actually got permanent brain damage and a lot of the times when you have a serious brain injury you can have personality changes he was having you know just all types of mental issues he felt very unstable his friends and really said his behavior was just becoming more and more odd and a counselor even said that he was losing the ability for self gratification also his name Kane is four letters so it would fit the zodiacs code also Darlene who was a victim from the second murder had a sister who claimed that Kane had followed and harassed Darlene in the weeks leading up to her death additionally in 1970 Kane moved til South Lake Tahoe and started working at a hotel and not staying here a woman named Donna last disappeared from South Lake Tahoe area and she also worked at the same hotel that Kane did however there is something that makes people believe that it could not have been Kane but this gets a little complicated here so stay with me on March 22nd 1970 a woman named Kathleen Jones and her baby were driving on its San Francisco Highway when another car pulled up beside her and motioned for her to pull over when she pulled over the Guyot told her that something was wrong with her tire and he wouldn't mind helping her fix it so she got out trusting him and he went to her tire and messed with it you know she thought he was fixing it so he's like all right you're all set so she gets back in the car starts driving goes a couple of feet and the tire just pops right off so he had loosened the wingnuts or lung luggage I don't remember so he loosened up some [ __ ] and the tire fell off so then he was like oh oh my gosh you know let me just take you somewhere and we can get this put on by a professional so he gets in the car with her and as soon as he's in the car with her he starts threatening her and she has a baby with her keep in mind and he starts saying how I'm gonna kill you you're gonna be next I'm gonna kill you you should be scared your life's gonna end all this creepy creepy stuff however the Zodiac killer somehow made an error on one of the highways and had to stop for a second to like turn around and when he did this hélène jumped out of the car with her baby and ran into this field nearby and she just dropped to the ground like a pancake flattened herself out and just laid there still which is actually a good thing to do if it's at night in the dark like if you lay if you're wearing dark enough clothing if you lay on the grass you can sometimes just kind of stay hidden like you won't stand out in a big area and he went out there looking for her with a flashlight looked around and didn't see her so he eventually gave up because there were other trucks and cars and he didn't want anyone to catch him so Kathleen got away and she's one of the only women to have been with the Zodiac killer early after this a letter arrived to the police station saying so I have a little list starting with the woman plus her baby that I gave a rather interesting ride so this obviously matched up with Kathleen's story another thinking she was with the Zodiac killer and she was with him long enough to kind of memorize his face when she was looking at a bunch of photos on a lineup she picked out a picture of Laurens Kane so the police thought they finally had a legitimate suspect they started investigating the idea of Laurens being the zodiac but after investigating for a while the police decided that he was not a suspect and ruled him out then there's Arthur Leigh Allen who is probably the most likely to be the Zodiac killer on the day of the third attack at Lake Berryessa in 1969 a man named Arthur told his family that he was gonna go scuba diving at Lake Berryessa and later that day when he came home he was completely covered in blood he also had a bloody knife in his car so this would match up with Cecilia and Brian who were stabbed at the same place at the same time also two years after those stabbings some of the harbor's friends came to the police and told them that he actually used to call himself the zodiac before the zodiac started publicly calling himself that it was like always a nickname he had forms way back one of Arthur's friends said that he told him he was even planning on hunting people with a gun any flashlights so with all this new information the police thought they had enough to at least bring Arthur in for questioning and what's super strange is in the interview one of the first things that Arthur said was how much he loves this one book and the book is called the most dangerous gang this book is about a man named count czar Hoff who's all dressed in black and hunted couples czar off also often carried a gun and a knife similar to zodiac and the words most dangerous game happened to appear in one of the letters at the zodiac wrote during the interview Arthur was also wearing a Zodiac watch which had the same symbol but the Zodiac killer used so because of all this police decided to go ahead and search his trailer home and this is disgusting in his trailer they found a bunch of animals dead animals cut up into like little pieces all separated in little bags in his freezer like dissected animals but the police were not able to hold him accountable because there was no solid evidence linking him to the zodiac killings however a little while later Arthur was actually convicted of child molestation and he was sentenced to prison he was sentenced to three years in jail and surprisingly the letters from the zodiac stopped while he was in jail he spent three years in custody until he was released in August of 1977 about six months after that another zodiac letter came that said I'm back they did new DNA tests on this letter but ultimately they weren't able to get any good leads or clues off of it so the case just went cold once again so then thirteen years went by and finally in August of 1991 innocent jail an inmate named Ralph Spinelli was trying to make a deal with police that he could get out of jail he claimed that when Arthur was in jail he told him that he actually was the one who killed Paul Stine the cab driver he decided to interview Michael Mageau the man who survived the second Zodiac attack because Michael was only one out of two people who happen to see the zodiac without his mask on I'm assuming that they couldn't get a hold of Kathleen or she didn't want any part of this but when Michael was shown a lineup of pictures he actually picked out Arthur with this the police were actually able to get another search investigation on his house and this time they found formulas for unconstructed bombs well as tapes about the Zodiac killer but when they asked him and questioned him about it he claimed to know nothing about dodea killer killings but they were able to get him to participate in a public interview regardless police that they didn't have enough info or good evidence to prove that he had involvement so he was never taken into custody it's just kind of crazy to think about because I mean he really does seem like the most likely person here the fact that he was picked up out of a lineup that he was making bombs and he was sending in you know diagrams of bombs so he clearly was working with bombs it's just kind of all lined up him being at that Lake the same day he fits the description so you'd think that you know they'd really have something here but the police said that they had reasons to believe it was not him they actually compared his DNA to the DNA on the stamp that the zodiac had sent in his letters and it was not a match another thing that they were able to do was get a palm print off of one of the letters and back in the you know back sixty 70s people weren't as aware of they knew about fingerprint technology and that your fingerprint could identify you but not many people knew that there print right here so when they were writing it was you know touching the paper so they're able to get one palm print of the Zodiac killer and when they matched it to Arthur's it did not match Arthur's fingerprint also didn't match the bloody fingerprint in the car they even had his handwriting analyzed and it was determined that his handwriting was not a match for the zodiac killers also he didn't really look too much like the composite sketch definitely not enough however it is still widely believed by most people that he was as OD a killer Arthur died in August of 1992 from a heart attack in his home so decades go by and there is nothing on the zodiac but then in October of 2002 the San Francisco Police Department was able to extract partial DNA from one of the letters and saliva was on the stand the latest update on this case was in May of 2018 it was announced that police are going to be trying to use new technology of DNA to somehow track the Zodiac killer we've talked about this a bunch on this channel the DNA world is just blowing up right now genetic testing is incredible what they are doing in the crime world with that kind of stuff they brought the go and stay killer into justice they brought where tensley's killer and adjusted tons of cases have been broken with DNA and I think it's possible that this could happen with the zodiac but I have to say I don't even know if it was one person it sounds to me like it could have even been like one person and then a copycat for part of it but I have really no idea who it could have been for some reason there's a part of me that just thinks that he is just someone that has never been caught that is completely off the radar but I mean it could be one of those suspects so I don't know you guys what do you think do you think this case will ever be solved do you think he's still alive who do you think he is if you have a good theory definitely let me know but that's it for me today guys I hope you enjoyed freak week oh my gosh it's over huh I hopefully will be back for freak week 2019 though okay and just to let you guys know I am going to be taking a quick break off of YouTube the editing and stuff in October has been insane on me figured we could end freak week with a cute dog you guys a little less scared but I will be back on November 15th with a video for you guys make sure to follow me on social media and my vlog channel and our podcasts will still be going up in that time as normal so be sure to check that out thanks so much for watching freak week this year you guys I really hope you loved it I had a ton of fun doing it definitely give me a thumbs up if you would like to see it next year and that's it for me today guys I will see you next time stay Suki [Music]

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Length: 30min 29sec (1829 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 31 2018