Zodiac Killer
Serial killer in California
- Fame68.7
- Momentum5.5
- Historical Figures rank#116
- Fame68.7
- Momentum5.5
- Historical Figures rank#116
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An unidentified serial killer who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1968–69, then taunted police and newspapers with cryptograms and letters claiming far more victims. The case remains open, the name unsolved, the attention unrelenting.
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Between December 1968 and October 1969, the Zodiac attacked three couples and a cab driver across Benicia, Vallejo, unincorporated Napa County, and San Francisco — seven victims, five dead, two survivors. The killer mailed letters to Bay Area newspapers claiming credit, threatening bombings and more deaths if unpublished, and enclosing cryptograms; two were decrypted in 1969 and 2020, two remain unsolved. The last letter arrived in 1974, claiming a total of 37 kills. Police named one suspect: Arthur Leigh Allen, a former elementary school teacher and convicted sex offender who died in 1992. Sa…
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