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I think it was a poltergeist, and the maid got sleep paralysis. The shadow went up to her and started moaning and taking things out of his chest. When she turned of the light, the figure had left 9 dead kittens with bloody hand prints on it.

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how dummie thicc the ghost in room 1221 is

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Every person is a mystery, but Donald Trump's personality is especially mysterious, mercurial, and hard to pin-down.

Astrology is a tool to help us unravel that mystery, providing a look into exactly who the real Trump is, and considering the number of zodiac charts I've interpreted, this one is especially revealing.

I don't want to waste much time, so I'll get right down to it.

Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946 at 10:54 AM in Queens, New York.

Happy birthday, Donald.

Gemini, with a Leo Rising and a Sagittarius Moon

Being a Gemini makes someone quick-witted, gifted at double-talk, shifty, and changeable.

The rising sign is indicative of someone's outward appearance and the first impression they make on others, and Leo rising people are known for being full of bluster, marked by a distinctive "mane" of hair. They're outspoken and proud, roaring at those who criticize them or who wound their egos.

The moon governs our inner nature and our emotions. Having a moon in a fiery sign like Sagittarius makes someone prone to hotheaded outbursts, and gives someone a strong enterprising motivation for international expansion. Sagittarius rules over international travel and entrepreneurship.

Sagittarius is also known for being blunt and for speaking out dogmatically, whether or not it's appropriate and regardless of the setting.

Steve Bannon and Anne Coulter are both Sagittarius suns, for instance, so having his moon in a sign like Sagittarius gives Donald Trump the same outspoken quality, but his Gemini sun makes it so he could say one thing one day, and change his mind the next.

Where His Ambition Comes From

One major influence over Donald Trump's chart is having Saturn in the First House, causing challenges with his own sense of identity.

Having Saturn, the planet of restriction, challenges, and discipline in the First House of identity and self-expression causes a strong reluctance to release emotional energy.

Emotions of those with Saturn in the First House are extremely complicated and intense, and there may be a great deal of fear about what "personal disasters" could happen if those emotions are released.

A First House Saturn suggests that Donald Trump's career relates to a personal desire to attain prominence in order to overcome these problems of self-expression.

The goals of a person with a First House Saturn include personal happiness, financial security, general well-being, and personal fulfillment in order to overcome feelings of fear and self-doubt, and to face the challenges of the outer world with courage and self-confidence.

How He Responds To Criticism

One of the most challenging aspects in Donald Trump's birth chart is having his Sun (Gemini) squaring his Rising Sign/Ascendent (Sagittarius).

Having the Sun squaring the Ascendent indicates an inability to face facts. When a Sun squares the Ascendant, it means that when the person expresses themselves, they unknowingly cause others to react negatively. They tend to come on a bit too strongly and others resent them for it.

This person might display a tendency to have trouble convincing people that they are sincere and honest. This aspect indicates a person who comes on a bit strong, which doesn't sit quite right with people, and they may be resented for it.

This aspect shows an incredible inability to face facts about oneself that are painfully obvious to everyone else, although improvements can be made by working to attract others' attention and praise rather than by demanding their submission.

This aspect also indicates that there may have been difficulties with superiors in formative years, causing the person to have grown up with a chip on their shoulder about owning up to their own faults.

How He Deals With Relationships

Another challenging aspect to this particular chart is having Venus, the planet of love squaring off to Neptune, the planet of delusion.

This aspect indicates a tendency toward an idealism that borders on -- and often crosses over to -- delusion. With the square, there can be a difficult emotional inhibition in relationships with others.

This person may not understand their own emotional world, and may feel that navigating their own feelings is a lost cause, preferring to keep their focus on the external world -- on what they can see, touch, and hear.

The problem here is that without the self-reflection necessary for a relationship to grow, there can be a dangerous tendency to search outside oneself for a "perfect" though unattainable lover.

The truth is that with this aspect, a person is actually unprepared and unwilling to actually commit themselves to a real flesh-and-blood person instead, they choose partners on whom they can most easily project their own fantasies.

Though we may never truly understand the real Donald, at least this gives us a bit of insight on his flip flopping decisions, and lack of emotion in devastating situations. Happy 71st.

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An In-Depth Look At Donald Trump's Zodiac Chart On His Birthday

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I want to learn more about the rats that lived in the sewers of San Francisco.

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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
1900 - 1909

Photo: Rat Receiving Station set up as part of the War on Rats led by the U.S. Public Health Service. Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported.

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the twentieth century, it came to America.

In the summer of 1899, a ship sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco had had two cases of plague on board. Because of this, although no passengers were ill when the ship reached San Franscisco, it was to be quarantined on Angel Island. When the boat was searched, 11 stowaways were found -- the next day two were missing. Their bodies were later found in the Bay, and autopsy showed they contained plague bacilli. Despite this scare, there was no immediate outbreak of disease. But rats from the ship probably had something to do with the epidemic that hit San Francisco nine months later.

On March 6, 1900, a city health officer autopsied a deceased Chinese man and found organisms in the body that looked like plague. In 1894, two research physicians had simultaneously and independently identified the bacillus that causes bubonic plague. Shibasaburo Kitasato published his findings in Japanese and English; Alexandre Yersin published in French. People in different parts of the world credited one or the other with the discovery, depending which journals they had read. (Since 1970 the bacillus has been known as Yersinia pestis.) That the plague had an identifiable "germ" was known. But other recent findings had not been disseminated -- or believed. Most people felt that the germ infected humans through food or open wounds. Disinfection campaigns were the order of the day. In some places they ran carbolic acid through sewers, actually spreading the disease faster because it flushed out rats that had lived there.

Back in San Francisco, however, political issues vied with scientific efforts. Anti-Chinese feeling ran strong in the city then, and the first step taken was to quarantine Chinatown. The Chinese objected, and so did the business community. Not because they wanted to protect the rights of the Chinese, but it was bad for business to have people thinking there was plague in their city or state. The quarantine was lifted but health officials ran house-to-house inspections of Chinatown. People resisted, hiding their dead and locking their doors. But two more plague victims turned up. The city Board of Health officially announced that plague was present in the city. The governor refused to believe it or to do anything to help in the antiplague effort. The Surgeon General got permission from President McKinley to pass antiplague regulations. Others still denied the existence of plague, although more and more states in the country were stopping trade with California.

Commissions and boards formed, fought with the governor, and were disbanded, underfunded, and reformed. Meanwhile, more plague cases were found. In April 1901, a clean-up campaign of Chinatown was undertaken, scouring almost 1,200 houses and 14,000 rooms. In 1903, a new governor took office and vowed to help the boards of health in every way. On February 29, 1904, a woman in the town of Concord, California, died of plague, its last victim -- for a while. There had been 121 cases in San Francisco and 5 outside, with 122 deaths.

Knowledge, like illness, spreads. In the next few years, information about the plague's causes and transmission would be clarified. In 1894, physician Mary Miles in Canton, China, had reported the widespread death of rats in plague epidemics. But people assumed the rats caught the disease from humans. In 1897, Japanese physician Masanori Ogata wrote "one should pay attention to insects like fleas for, as the rat becomes cold after death, they leave their host and may transmit the plague virus directly to man." Paul Louis Simmond put all the accumulated observations together, made his own observations (societal and microscopic), and experimented with the bacillus, rats, and fleas. He proved that rat fleas bit people (which went against received wisdom), and that a sick animal could not transmit the disease if it didn't have fleas. Simmond published his conclusions in 1898 and was roundly ridiculed. But in 1905, a British commission published some of the same findings and in 1908, issued a report confirming all of Simmond's conclusions (though not crediting him).

In 1906, an earthquake of record proportions devastated San Francisco. The ruin of the city's buildings made not just people, but rats, homeless. The subsequent year or two of living in refugee camps while rebuilding was highly conducive to rat and flea infestations. In 1907, cases of plague were reported. But with hindsight on the last epidemic and new knowledge from research, officials launched a new kind of campaign. They offered a bounty on rats. A similar rat-catching campaign had been used successfully to fight plague in New Orleans. It worked as well in San Francisco, and though this second epidemic was stronger than the first, it was brought to halt in 1909.

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A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Bubonic plague hits San Francisco

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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco1900 - 1909 Photo: Rat Receiving Station set up as part of the War on Rats led by the U.S. Public Health Service. Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported.

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Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 - 6 December 1920) was an Italian child who died of pneumonia. Rosalia's father, official Mario Lombardo, was sorely grieved upon her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to undertake the task of preserving her. Her mummified body, sometimes referred to as " Sleeping Beauty", was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

Thanks to Salafia's embalming techniques, the body was well-preserved. X-rays of the body show that all the organs are remarkably intact. Rosalia Lombardo's body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the catacomb's tour and is encased in a glass covered coffin, placed on a wooden pedestal. A 2009 National Geographic photograph of Rosalia Lombardo shows the mummy is beginning to show signs of decomposition, most notably discoloration. To address these issues, the mummy was moved to a drier spot in the catacombs, and her original coffin was placed in a hermetically sealed glass enclosure with nitrogen gas to prevent decay. The mummy remains one of the best preserved bodies in the catacombs.

That same year, Capuchin catacombs curator Dario Piombino-Mascali discovered a handwritten manuscript written by Salafia, wherein he lists the ingredients used to mummify Rosalia. The embalming formula is described as "one part glycerin, one part formalin saturated with zinc sulfate and zinc chloride, and one part of an alcohol solution saturated with salicylic acid", and was entered into the body through a single-point injection, most likely into the femoral artery via a gravity injector. Rossella Lorenzi of Discovery News reported that the formalin was used to kill bacteria, the glycerin used to prevent desiccation, and the salicylic acid used to eliminate any fungi within the flesh, with the purpose of the zinc salts being petrifaction.

The mummy has achieved further notoriety for a phenomenon in which her eyes appear to open and close several times a day, revealing her intact blue irises. In response to speculation about her moving eyelids, Piombino-Mascali stated that "It's an optical illusion produced by the light that filters through the side windows, which during the day is subject to change ... [her eyes] are not completely closed, and indeed they have never been".

Dario Piombino-Mascali, 2009. Il Maestro del Sonno Eterno. Presentazione di Arthur C. Aufderheide. Prefazione di Albert R. Zink. Edizioni La Zisa, Palermo.

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The dead bodies under the streets and stuff.

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27 year old in Puerto Rico living life to the fullest or whatever Join the movement and Be A Maverick: https://shoploganpaul.com/

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The dead bodies buried under and near Powell Street. And also the dumping place of Colma. 

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The zodiac killer

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Dec. 20 (UPI) -- One of the strangest, most high-profile serial killers in U.S. history -- spawning books, TV programs and movies -- began his reign of terror 50 years ago Thursday, killing two teenagers in a San Francisco Bay Area community.

The teens were shot dead in the dark by a shadowy gunman who'd later taunt Northern California for years with letters and phone calls. To this day, the only thing known about him is his chilling moniker -- the Zodiac -- and what he might look like.

With the help of modern science, authorities are still trying to find out who he is.

The Zodiac murders

The first known killing associated with the Zodiac took place Dec. 20, 1968, when 17-year-old David Faraday and 16-year-old Bettilou Jensen were found shot dead while on their first date on Lake Herman Road, considered then a lover's lane, 25 miles northeast of San Francisco in Benicia, Calif.

Faraday's body was found riddled with gunfire beside his station wagon. He'd been shot in the head at close range by a small-caliber bullet. Jensen was found about 10 feet away, shot in the back five times.

On July 4, 1969, he struck again -- attacking 22-year-old Darlene Ferrin and 19-year-old Michael Mageau at Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo. He lived, she didn't.

In the case's first bizarre turns, the killer phoned police to report the crime -- and wrote three Bay Area newspapers with knowledge of the killings only the perpetrator would know. In the letters, he also took credit for the December 1968 attack in Benicia.

A few weeks later, he struck again. Another young couple -- 22-year-old Cecilia Ann Shepard and 20-year-old Bryan Hartnell -- were stalked by the killer while picnicking at Lake Berryessa in Napa County. The killer sprung from woods, dressed in a bizarre suit and executioner's hood, and stabbed the couple. Again, the man survived, the woman did not.

The killer again confessed to the slaying in a phone call to police -- and scrawled a morbid message with a marker on the passenger door of of Hartnell's Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. It denoted the previous two killings and the date, time and method of the new attack: "Sept 27-69-6:30, by knife."

The final death officially attributed to the Zodiac broke from the previously established pattern, as he fatally shot cabdriver Paul Stine in the Presidio Heights area of downtown San Francisco on Oct. 11, 1969.

A couple of days later, he sent another taunting letter to The San Francisco Chronicle with new proof of his complicity -- a blood-stained swatch of Stine's shirt.

It was at the Presidio crime scene police got their first real break in the case -- a physical description that led to a composite sketch of the elusive killer. A group of teens who witnessed Stine's death said the gunman was a white man, age 25 to 30, about 5-feet-8 with a crew cut and thick-rimmed glasses. The sketch remains the defining image of the killer.
50 years of intrigue
Dating back as far as the first killings, the Zodiac captivated the attention of the world.

"For me, the Zodiac case is the number one unsolved American criminal mystery," Mark Hewitt, a California-based author who has published a trilogy of books on the killer, told UPI. "It is America's Jack the Ripper, basically. I think there are more people looking into this case than any other case."

Part of the intrigue stems from the fact that, in addition to his letters to authorities and news media, the killer sent a series of cryptograms that contained grisly messages when deciphered.

The first cryptogram was sent in three parts to the Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald. When it was broken, it revealed a message describing the pleasure Zodiac derived from his crimes -- including the passage, "I like killing people because it is 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."

This, however, was the only cryptogram that was ever definitively decoded. In one of the unsolved puzzles, the Zodiac said, was his name.

The Chronicle received and published another cryptogram on Nov. 12, 1969, along with a letter claiming responsibility for two additional murders outside of the five officially attributed to him. Zodiac continued to send letters, post cards and other taunts, possibly as late as 1978. He ultimately claimed 37 murders, but authorities came no closer to uncovering his identity.

The overall lack of information and the killer's flashy methods have also added to the mystique surrounding the case. It's spurred a number of legends and conspiracy theories regarding the killer, and debate over the circumstances that have prevented him from being unmasked all these years.

"There's a whole lot of mythology that has made its way into the case, there are all kinds of stories and all kinds of facts that are untrue and completely fabricated that have attached themselves to the case over the years," Hewitt said. "So, a big part of researching it is to find out what did happen and what mythology is untrue about the case."

Hewitt said one theory that evidence seems to debunk is that different people were responsible for the killings and the letters.

"The evidence in the letters makes it quite clear, the relationship between the different crime scenes and the letters show that one person is involved and only one person," he said. "The police readily accepted that and worked on the case in the 1970s with that understanding that it was one person. And this person kept writing and the letters contained information that was known only to the perpetrators and the police."
The mystery continues
For a time, police believed a convicted child molester from Vallejo may have been Zodiac. He died in 1992 and a 2002 DNA test seemed to rule him out as a suspect. Technology at the time, though, didn't allow for a clean sample to be extracted from the glue on envelopes the killer used to send the letters.

In 1996, authorities also briefly explored the possibility that Unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski was Zodiac. The investigation didn't produce enough evidence to implicate Kaczynski.

San Francisco Police Lt. John Hennessey, declared the case inactive in 2004 after the inconclusive DNA test, but authorities ramped up their efforts this year, inspired by the capture of the Golden State Killer.

Although the Zodiac's last confirmed kill took place in 1969 and his last confirmed message came in 1974, Bay Area law enforcement agencies are still working to crack the case. And they are hoping modern methods will help them do it.

In May, Vallejo police turned their attention to DNA and genealogy -- hoping to solve the long-cold cases the same way authorities said they finally unmasked the Golden State Killer. A suspect was identified by police after they ran DNA from crime scenes through genealogical databases, like Ancestry.com and 23 and Me, which identified possible familial lineage.

Unlike the Golden State case, though, much of the Zodiac evidence has been compromised after being mishandled by the original detectives.

Vallejo Police Detective Terry Poyser said his team has resubmitted two Zodiac envelopes to a lab for new analysis, hoping to test the results against an expanded pool of samples used in genealogy research.

The results of both inquiries are pending.

There's also a chance the case could be solved by more traditional methods.

"There are about half of a dozen different police agencies that continue to get tips from the public in the order of several a week -- even today, 50 years after the murders," Hewitt said.

But after five decades, time is running out. Many of the original witnesses and investigators are in advanced age or dead -- including the Zodiac, whoever he is.

"It was an unsolved case and yet by all accounts it should have been solved because the perpetrator left behind so much evidence that he really ought to have been caught," said Hewitt.

"It's kind of freaky that he hasn't been."

Edit: A previous version of this story mentioned that Sacramento County investigators also submitted a Zodiac DNA sample from a crime scene to GEDmatch. The mentioned samples actually belonged to the Golden State Killer. The story has been edited to reflect this.

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50 years after first case, Zodiac Killer still taunts Bay Area investigators

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Dec. 20 (UPI) -- One of the strangest, most high-profile serial killers in U.S. history -- spawning books, TV programs and movies -- began his reign of terror 50 years ago Thursday, killing two teenagers in a San Francisco Bay Area community.

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all the birds died? Related to the plague?

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all the birds died? Related to the plague?

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The Zodiac Killer was the most interesting thing from that night. I'd like to know more.

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The Zodiac Killer was the most interesting thing from that night. I'd like to know more.

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The fact that nobody except Ted Cruz knows who the killer is is very interesting. There are many suspects.

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I really want to learn more about the Zodiac Killer. Is anyone still looking for him? Are their any suspects? Conspiracies?

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Who Was the Zodiac Killer?

The self-proclaimed Zodiac Killer was directly linked to at least five murders in Northern California in 1968 and 1969 and may have been responsible for more. He taunted police and made threats through letters sent to area newspapers from 1969 to 1974, before abruptly ceasing communication. Despite intensive investigations, no one was ever arrested for the crimes and the case remains open. The mystery surrounding the murders has been the subject of numerous books and movies, including director David Fincher's acclaimed 2007 feature Zodiac.

Zodiac Killer Letters, Symbol & Cipher

On August 1, 1969, the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle and Vallejo Times-Herald each received an identical handwritten letter in an envelope without a return address. Beginning, "Dear Editor: I am the killer of the 2 teenagers last Christmas at Lake Herman," the letters contained details from the Zodiac Killer's murders that only the killer could have known. The killer went on to threaten further attacks if the letters weren't printed on the front page of the papers.

Each letter closed with a symbol consisting of a circle with a cross through it, in what would come to be known as the Zodiac Killer's symbol. The letters were also each accompanied by one part of a three-part cipher that he claimed contained his identity.

While Bay Area police departments, with the support of the FBI, worked feverishly to track down the killer, another letter soon arrived at the San Francisco Examiner. Beginning, "Dear Editor: This is the Zodiac speaking," it also described the murders in detail and taunted police for not having been able to crack his code or catch him.

Several days later, high school teacher Donald Harden and his wife, Bettye, were able to solve the cipher. "I like killing people because it is so much fun," it read. "It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all."

Three days after the fourth known Zodiac killing, the 1969 murder of taxi driver Paul Stine, the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter claiming the crime. Written in the same erratic print as the Zodiac's previous letters, it gave the details of Stine's murder and was accompanied by a bloody scrap of Stine's shirt. At the end of the letter, the killer mused that he would next shoot out the tire of a school bus and "pick off the kiddies as they come bouncing out."

The Zodiac Killer continued his taunting correspondence with Bay Area papers, in which he included more ciphers, claimed to have committed several more murders, and mocked the police for their inability to catch him.

In 1974 the letters stopped, although the investigation has not.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images

Zodiac Killer Movies

The Zodiac Killer was the inspiration for the psychopath in the 1971 Clint Eastwood classic Dirty Harry, which includes a scene involving a school bus full of children being hijacked.

Years later, Robert Graysmith's writing fueled the creation of David Fincher's critically acclaimed Zodiac, which hit the big screen in 2007 with Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. in starring roles.

Subsequent dramatized takes on the subject include the 2017 feature Awakening the Zodiac, about a couple that investigates the murderer before falling into his crosshairs.

The History Channel also featured a 2017 nonfiction TV series, The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer, about investigators' hunt to decipher the Zodiac Killer's code.

Victims & Attacks

At present, four separate attacks have been definitively attributed to the Zodiac Killer. The first confirmed incident took place on the night of December 20, 1968, when 17-year-old David Faraday and his 16-year-old girlfriend, Betty Lou Jensen, were shot to death near their car at a remote spot on Lake Herman Road, on the outskirts of Vallejo, California. Police were baffled, unable to determine the motive for the crime or a suspect.

Early in the morning of July 5, 1969, Darlene Ferrin, age 22, and her boyfriend, Mike Mageau, age 19, were sitting in parked car in a similarly remote Vallejo location, when they were approached by a man with a flashlight. The figure fired multiple shots at them, killing Ferrin and seriously wounding Mageau.

Within an hour of the incident, a man called the Vallejo Police Department, giving them the location of the crime scene and claiming responsibility for both that attack and the 1968 murders of Faraday and Jensen.

Despite evidence that included fingerprints, Mageau's description, the decoded cipher and a wave of tips and leads, police were unable to track down the Zodiac Killer.

On the evening of September 27, 1969, he struck again, approaching young couple Cecelia Shepard and Bryan Hartnell as they relaxed on an isolated part of the shore of Lake Berryessa in Napa County. Wearing a hood and a shirt bearing a circle-cross symbol, he tied them up before brutally stabbing them, scrawling a message for police on their car door and leaving the scene. He then called the Napa Police Department to claim responsibility. Shepard and Hartnell were both in critical condition but alive when emergency services arrived, but Shepard died of her wounds shortly thereafter.

Two weeks later, on 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 until the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter claiming the crime.

At least five other murders have been tentatively linked to the Zodiac Killer, including the 1963 shooting of Robert Domingos and Linda Edwards near Santa Barbara, California, and the 1966 stabbing death of college student Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside, California.

Sketch of the Zodiac Killer

With descriptions from witnesses who had seen a man leaving the scene of Paul Stine's 1969 murder, police were able to create and circulate a composite sketch of the killer. But despite mounting evidence and the investigation of numerous suspects, the Zodiac remained at large.

Was the Zodiac Killer Ever Caught?

In both the known and presumed Zodiac murders, no suspect has ever been arrested. In the nearly five decades since the Faraday-Jensen murders, the inability to identify the Zodiac Killer has continued to frustrate law enforcement.

Zodiac Killer Theories & Suspects

The mystery surrounding the Zodiac case also continues to fascinate the public and has inspired more than its fair share of theories regarding the killer's identity. Ranging from plausible to crackpot, these include the claims that he was Unabomber Ted Kacznyski or convicted murderer Charles Manson, or that he eventually moved to Scotland and committed more murders there before finding happiness and giving up his wicked ways.

Arthur Leigh Allen

True-crime author and former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Robert Graysmith wrote two separate works on the killer (1986's Zodiac and 2002's Zodiac Unmasked), ultimately identifying a man named Arthur Leigh Allen as the most likely suspect. Allen died in 1992, however, and was never conclusively connected to any of the murders.

Earl Van Best Jr.

In 2014 HarperCollins published The Most Dangerous Animal of All by Gary Stewart, in which he claims that his father, Earl Van Best Jr. - who bears a strong resemblance to the man in the police sketch - was the Zodiac Killer.

Louie Myers

Another man came forward in 2014 to reveal that a friend named Louie Myers had confessed to being the killer before his death in 2002. Certain events in Myers' history matched up with those connected to the Zodiac, but as with Allen and Van Best, there was no conclusive proof.

In 2020, after more than 50 years, amateur codebreakers solved the Zodiac Killer's cipher. The decoded message read:

"I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me that wasn't me on the TV show which brings up a point about me I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death I am not afraid because I know that my new life is life will be an easy one in paradice death."

In October 2021, a team of 40 former law enforcement investigators called the Case Breakers, claimed to have identified the Zodiac Killer. However, the FBI stated that the case was still open.

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I thought it was really creepy how some people just kill for no reason. I want to know more about what their thought process is and how they escape the police so many times.

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I want to learn more about the murders and why he did these things. Apparently this is him.

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I want to know more about the Zodiac Killer. Why did he kill so many people? And how was he so sneaky? I mean, he talked face to face with the police- how did they not know he was the killer they were looking for?

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I want to know more about room 1221 if there's more history to it.

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I want to know more about room 1221 if there's more history to it.

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I also want to see proof of the stories and rumors.

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I want to know more about the multiple stories/perspectives shared about the St. Francis hotel.

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I'd like to know more about the woman who ran a brothel and killed her husband

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I'd like to know more about the woman who ran a brothel and killed her husband

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I would like to research to see if I could find any answers to the mystery of why the woman killed herself, and why she couldn't kill herself the night before.

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I want to know more about his crimes, how he worked, how he thought.

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