His crimes remain the most famous unsolved murders in U.S. history.
This is the story of the Zodiac killer.
This is the story of the Zodiac killer.
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00:00Well, we have reason to believe that he's a maniac, however, he is a cunning man.
00:08He knows just exactly what moves he's going to make.
00:11It appears to us that he is killing just for the thrill of killing.
00:30Victims were a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy.
01:00Possibly they were ordered out of the car by the responsible,
01:04and the boy was shot right at the side of the car,
01:08and the girl apparently tried to run, and she was shot and found 28 feet further on.
02:29I considered him a robber.
02:49I had absolutely no thought that he was anything but that.
02:53I don't think that he was acting under his total complete consciousness.
03:16Captain Lee, at this particular time, is satisfied that the individual
03:24who sent this piece of shirt in and the letter to the Chronicle
03:27was in fact connected with the, is the person who killed the cab driver,
03:31let me put it that way.
03:55I think that the Zodiac is just making an idle threat, frankly.
04:00I think he just wanted to get himself a little publicity.
04:02He's not a brilliant man, but he certainly isn't dumb.
04:24I got a job at the San Francisco Chronicle on September 16th, 1968.
04:28About three months later, Zodiac struck.
04:30It stayed with me until a day about, let's see, the 80s, the late 80s.
04:44We tried several hundred thousand incorrect ways of solving the cipher,
04:49and just by chance we happened to sort of stumble upon a fragment of how it could be solved,
04:55and using that fragment we reverse engineered the entire solution
04:59and got the entire message out from the Zodiac.
05:25.