are you kidding? it freaked them out completely. the new york city police department went into the biggest man hunt. it was mammoth. and it was driving them crazy. at this point investigators realized the zodiac had contacted them before. they just didn t know it. three months earlier he had written a letter to police headquarters but it was ignored. and basically it was viewed humorously. here s a nut letter. i believe it was posted on a bulletin board. it was not taken very seriously. this letter held yet another clue. the zodiac will kill the 12 signs in the built when the zodiacal light is sign. orion is the one who can stop zodiac and the seven sisters. an astrologist told that orion and the seven sisters of the pleiades were not visible on
with this letter he made a mistake. he liquid the envelope flap and left enough saliva for dna testing. police now had the dna profile of the zodiac killer. the letter also included another clue. i knew it was a code. it was a nine towers because there were nine victims. and i wrote down all the different symbols. and i think i had 23. very close to an alphabet. and then i did something called a frequency count. which is, you write down how many times each letter is used. because for example e is the most commonly used letter in the alphabet. karen crawly s father-in-law had been a code breaker in world war ii. together they discovered the alphabet was based on a maritime system of international flags and pendants. and with this discovery, they were able to decipher the zodiac s secret message. it said this is the zodiac
humidity chamber for several hours. the moisture in the chamber accelerated had chemical process eventually revealing an almost perfect thumbprint. this was photographed and then compared to prints in every fingerprint database available. they did databases for city employees, department of motor vehicle, postal workers, including police officers. and nothing. no hits. there had been no witnesses. none of the surviving victims could give a description. and the only forensic evidence was a single fingerprint. zodiac claimed that only the constellations orion and the seven sisters could stop him. new york police hoped to add themselves to the list. the zodiac killed one man and wounded three hours in new york city. and for some unexplained reason, he struck only on nights when the constellations orion and the seven sisters were not in the sky. just as unusual was the fact
a guy said to a girl what s your sign? he was hitting on her. afterwards there was literally a case where a guy asked for her sign and she screamed for the police. compared those letters to those written by the san francisco s zodiac killer 25 years earlier. one thing about this writer is he makes his horizontal lines in a descending way. the t bars tend to descend. the cross-bar on the lower case f tends to descend. handwriting experts concluded that the san francisco zodiac and the new york zodiac were two different men. investigators now realized they were dealing with a very sophisticated copy cat. the shootings had taken place at 21 and 63 day intervals. suggesting variations of the three-week cycle. and they happened on nights when the constellations orion and the
the skyline. this thing is all over the newspaper now. like the biggest case for years in new york city. 25 years earlier a man in san francisco killed six people and wrote taunting letters to police. he too called himself the zodiac and was never apprehended. was it possible the san francisco zodiac was now in new york city? if the zodiac from california in the 60s had resurfaced in new york, they knew this was a complete law enforcement nightmare. ould save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know words really can hurt you?