The Zodiac Murder Case

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October 11, 1969, the Zodiac claimed another life, shooting 29-year-old taxi driver Paul Stine in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood. As the murder did not seem to fit the Zodiac’s pattern, it was initially deemed a robbery, but three days later a letter received by the San Francisco Chronicle proved otherwise. Written in the same erratic print as his previous letters, it gave the details of Stine’s murder and was accompanied by a bloody scrap of Stine’s shirt.

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