The Zodiac Killer by Ev Krueger

Basic information

27emkrueger — 2025-04-26 20:21:36 UTC

The National Bestseller: The Shocking True Story of the Nation’s Most Bizarre Mass Murderer By: Robert Graysmith (ZODIAC). To learn more about the Zodiac killer and what he had done. The infamous serial killer known as The Zodiac.

Setting

27emkrueger — 2025-04-26 20:22:27 UTC

December 20, 1968 in the winter in the San Francisco Bay Area. No one know who he was or why he did but all they would get to know was from what the police would find and the letters the zodiac himself would send. He was a masked killer who would terrorize people.

Musical Connections: Psycho killer

27emkrueger — 2025-04-26 20:24:50 UTC

He was a serial killer. So the only school appropriate song is psycho killer.

Quotations

27emkrueger — 2025-04-26 20:27:52 UTC

“ Witchcraft, death threats, cryptograms, a hooded killer still sought, dedicated investigators, and a mysterious man in a white Chevy who is seen by all and known by no one are all parts of the Zodiac mystery, the most frightening story I know.” Found on the last page of introduction

Work citied

27emkrueger — 2025-04-26 20:45:05 UTC

Mug shot drawing of the zodiac. (Online Image) biography, 22 Oct 2024

San Francisco Bay Area . (Online Image) english4me2you , 26 Apr 2025

Book cover. (Online Image) burkes books , 26 Apr 2025

An encrypted letter. (Online Image) Washington post, 13 may 2025

A letter. (Online Image) NPR , 13 may 2025

The zodiac killer symbol. (Online Image) found on padlet , 13 may 2025

impacts

27emkrueger — 2025-05-13 18:54:53 UTC

From the first two victims making the news with their horrific murder.

To the moment he started sending the letters to the police taunting them about not being able to catch him.

With all the suspects getting checked and cleared while the real zodiac just sat and laughed at the police.

Author’s purpose

27emkrueger — 2025-05-13 18:56:14 UTC

To inform people on the zodiac killer, what he did, and how long he did it, unable to get caught. He was telling the story from the first victims to the very last ones. He was alive during the zodiac's killings but was also a newspaper writer at the same news station the zodiac would send his letters to.

Rhetorical Appeals

27emkrueger — 2025-05-13 18:57:12 UTC

Ethos:By giving more and more information to keep them reading but not too much to overwhelm them all.

Pathos:When telling us the readers more about the victims and what had happened to them.

Logos:With all the data they have to let us readers know more about everything with more data and information more than ever.

Movie trailer for the Netflix movie “This is the zodiac speaking”

27emkrueger — 2025-05-13 18:58:43 UTC

Encrypted letter from the zodiac

27emkrueger — 2025-05-13 19:00:31 UTC

Normal letter sent to the police

27emkrueger — 2025-05-13 19:02:24 UTC

The Zodiac killer symbol

27emkrueger — 2025-05-13 19:04:18 UTC