The Zodiac Killer Enigma: Cracking the Killer Code

By andrew gordon frew

On December 20th 1968 a young courting couple innocently parked their car on a remote Lake Herman road and were brutally shot to death, on the 5th July 1969 once again a young courting couple parked their car on Blue Rock Springs and were savagely shot to death. By a man who named himself, 'Zodiac.' He went on with his killing spree and ignited the media with his taunting of the Californian police with his letters and indecipherable codes. He never was caught and he goes down in the annals of crime, just as elusive as 'Jack the Ripper, ' with his calling card 'The Zodiac is speaking.' This book examines this case uncovering some startling new evidence in the cracking of the killer's code.

• Language: English
• Publisher: andrew gordon frew
• Release date: May 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386760726

andrew gordon frew

Andrew G Frew (b. 1961-) writer, publisher and author. Lives in London.

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NOTE FROM AUTHOR

On December 20th 1968 a young courting couple innocently parked their car on a remote Lake Herman road and were brutally shot to death, on the 5th July 1969  once again a young courting couple parked their car on Blue Rock Springs and were savagely shot to death. By a man who named himself, ‘Zodiac.’ He went on with his killing spree and ignited the media with his taunting of the Californian police with his letters and indecipherable codes. He never was caught and he goes down in the annals of crime, just as elusive as ‘Jack the Ripper,’ with his calling card ‘The Zodiac is speaking.’ This book examines this case uncovering some startling new evidence in the cracking of the killer’s code.

INTRODUCTION

California was a magical place to be especially in the San Francisco Bay area, in the 60’s. If anything new was happening, it was a happening place. Lying on the Western Coast of America, San Francisco Bay was a vibrant, young, funky liberated city. A Garden of Eden in the sun a place for exploration, liberation, youth culture and the emergence of a new way of living. Hippies ruled the roost and anything could happen and it did. From the shadows of a glorious sun lit city emerged a figure that would terrorise the American state into submission. His name was Zodiac, a cold bloodied killer, as elusive as the scarlet pimpernel but in no way as friendly. He said, his killings were a bloody means to collect ‘slaves’ for the afterlife who would serve him in paradise. The San Francisco Police Department knew they had on their hands a cold blooded evil murdering psychological maniac.

In many ways Zodiac was the first terrorist before people even heard of the term, a pathological killer. Yet he revealed there was a chilling logic to his murdering intent and displayed an intelligence in committing crimes few have mastered. This book outlines these crimes of unfathomable atrocity against innocent young people at a time when hope was in their hearts. Shocking then as it is now to go over this case. His crimes have made me look again at this case, to take a stab at deciphering his unsolved ciphers. This book comes at the tail end of a trilogy of crime books this year I have written. I make no apologies it a case worthy to be included among them by merit of