Zodiac Killer Timeline

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Throughout history, there has always been a raging serial killer who taunts a certain city with their gruesome killings. They always, most definitely get caught. But, what happens when they don’t? The Zodiac Killer is one of these infamous killers who still even to this day has never been caught. The killer began his killings in the Bay Area of northern California in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. The Zodiac Killer was highly intelligent and very precise on how he did things. When it came to murdering someone he had a particular way of picking who he wanted to kill and how he went about not leaving any traces of evidence. He began at first killing young couples, until he made a drastic change in killing a random taxi driver. The Zodiac Killer was never caught …show more content…
Many serial killers often have a background to them. People usually know who they are, and their reason for killing. In this case, nothing is really known about the Zodiac Killer. The main thing that we know about the zodiac killer is how he developed a pattern for killing people. In the article, “A look at the Zodiac Killer’s deadly timeline” by Staff Report it list all the people who were killed by zodiac. It states, “December 20 1968, David Farraday and Betty Lou Jensen are killed in a gravel with a semi-automatic pistol, July 4th 1968, Darlene Ferrin and Mike

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