The Horrifying Murders Of The Zodiac Killer

Zodiac, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Robert Graysmith. - Who is that? Internet detective? Like us? -He definitely has more credentials than us. - Well. He has a card. (laughs) - Actually, Robert Graysmith was a political cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle who became obsessed with finding the Zodiac. After a decade of personal research, Graysmith wrote two books titled Zodiac and Zodiac Unmasked that heavily implicate Arthur Leigh Allen as the Zodiac. Here is Graysmith's case for Arthur Leigh Allen. On the day of the third Zodiac attack on Lake Berryessa in 1969, Allen told his family that he was going diving in Lake Berryessa.

Later that night, he would return home covered in blood and with a bloody knife in his car. And yes, as you may remember, the Zodiac murdered Cecilia Shepard that day with a knife. Two years later, in 1971, one of Allen's friends, Don Cheney, said that Allen called himself Zodiac before the

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publicly referred to himself as Zodiac. - Wait, wait, wait, wait. So he literally called himself "the Zodiac"? - I guess it's true. - Hello Ryan, call me Zodiac from now on, that's my nickname. -How can you incorporate that into a conversation? - I know right? - The only time I can think of is when you go bowling and write your name in the frames.

Write your name like the Zodiac. - Good. -And then your friends will say: "Who the hell wrote his name as Zodiac?" Can you imagine if he's super idiotic about it too? He won't respond unless you call him Zodiac. They say, "Arthur, do you want to go out?" He'd say, "That's not my name." (deep sigh) - Ugh! -"Okay, Zodiac, do you want to go out?" Well. Cheney also said Allen told him he planned to hunt people with a gun and a flashlight attached. - That? Tell that to your friend. - I know. - He just laughs and says, "Oh, Zodiac, you're such a funny guy." - You're such a trickster!

As a result of this information, the police would question Allen a second time, where Allen would say his favorite book is The Most Dangerous Game, a book about a man who hunted humans and a book that Zodiac references in his first letter to the press, to add insult to injury, Allen also wore a Zodiac brand watch that contained the same symbol as. used the

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. The police searched Allen's mobile home where they found small stuffed animals in a freezer, bloody knives and sexual devices, but there is no direct evidence of the

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. It's strange to have that in the freezer and sexual devices?

No, the sex devices weren't in the freezer, that would be strange. Nobody wants a frozen dildo inserted into them. In 1974, Allen was convicted of child abuse, a crime for which he spent three years. Coincidentally, no letters from the Zodiac were received during this time. In 1987, a San Jose jail inmate named Ralph Spinelli told police that Allen admitted to him that he murdered Paul Stine. In August 1991, Vallejo Detective George Bawart interviews Mike Mageau, the man who survived the second Zodiac attack and saw the Zodiac without his mask. When shown a series of photographs, Mageau chose the man who shot him, it was Arthur Leigh Allen. - That? - With this information, the police search Allen's house again and this time they find bomb formulas, constructed bombs, and tapes about the Zodiac Killer.

They interview Allen again and he says he doesn't know anything. -Wait, wait, wait, did they find bombs and/or bomb plans in his house and no, they can't stop him? -The Zodiac put bomb diagrams in his fucking letters. - Right, and he talked about putting bombs on the children's school bus and this guy sexually abused a child. -And there were fucking tapes about the Zodiac Killer, is this guy reliving his greatest hits at home through an audiobook? What the fuck? - He just said what? "Declare the fifth" at this time? -A year later, in August 1992, Allen is found dead in his house due to a suspected heart attack.

And with that, let's move on to the reasons why Allen may not be the Zodiac Killer. Allen's DNA was compared to 2002 DNA extracted from the saliva of a seal on a

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letter and did not match. However, it is also believed that Allen had a habit of letting others lick his stamps instead of him, which would explain why the profile did not match him. - But I don't even like to think that this guy was smart enough to think that. - In my opinion, that is an Olympic level stretch. Additionally, in 1971 police took Allen's fingerprints, but they did not match blood prints recovered from Paul Stine's crime scene.

They also had Allen undergo handwriting analysis, but the handwriting didn't match the Zodiac either. Allen also bears no resemblance to the Paul Stine murder sketch, but it's worth mentioning that Arthur Leigh Allen was considered the Zodiac's prime suspect for most of the police departments involved and is widely believed to be the Zodiac. The third theory is from retired Escalon, California police officer Harvey Hines, who believes Lawrence Kaye, better known by the last name Kane, was the Zodiac Killer. Kane was involved in a car accident in 1962 that resulted in brain damage that influenced his behavior. A psychologist claimed that Kane was "losing the ability to control self-gratification," end quote.

Additionally, Kane can be seen in the "my name is" code of the Zodiac. And in that cipher there are three eights with circles around them, three times eight is 24 and Kane was born in 1924. - Okay, that doesn't mean anything to me. - Yeah, I didn't think you'd like that one. - Well, I mean, it's like looking for burning nails at that moment. - Additionally, the second Zodiac victim, Darlene Ferrin, had a sister who said that Kane was the man who followed and harassed Darlene in the weeks leading up to Darlene's murder. In the 1969 murder of Paul Stine, the man suspected of being the Zodiac seen by officer Don Fouke was described as between 35 and 45 years old.

Kane was 45 years old in 1969. Officer Don Fouke said in 1987 that of the hundreds of photographs he had been shown over the past 20 years, Kane was, quote, "the closest to the one the killer remembered." End of the quote. Kane also lived a six-minute walk from Mason and Geary, the location where taxi driver Paul Stine was thought to have picked up his killer. In fact, an excerpt from the Vallejo Police Department says: "The investigation has located. Kaye in the places where several of the Zodiac victims lived or were "murdered," end quote. To take advantage of that feeling, in 1970 Kane moved to South Lake Tahoe and that year a possible Zodiac victim of the who I didn't talk about before, named Donna Lass, disappears.

Coincidentally, Donna Lass also worked at the same South Lake Tahoe hotel as Kane That's crazy But the last and possibly most conclusive evidence for Kane is about another interaction with Zodiac. which I haven't talked about yet. On December 22, 1970, on Highway 132 near Patterson, California, Kathleen Johns and her baby were tricked into riding in the Zodiac car. After getting into the car, Zodiac told Johns that he was going to kill her and throw her baby after her. As the Zodiac was about to turn, Johns jumped out of the car, ran into a nearby field with her baby, and escaped from her.

Although some believe this to be an unconfirmed encounter with the Zodiac, others believe a letter confirms this incident. Quote: "So now I have a little list, starting with "the woman and her baby whom I gave a rather interesting ride to." End of quote. The reason I mention this encounter is because Kathleen Johns, unlike the Most of the surviving Zodiac victims had face-to-face time with the Zodiac. This is important because when shown a series of photographs, Kathleen Johns was supposedly able to identify the man who tried to kill her. I mean, that's pretty strong evidence. - But now let's look at some evidence that proves that Kane is not the Zodiac.

I could not find an instance of a DNA test with the sample recovered from 2002, nor could I find a record of Kane's fingerprint compared to the fingerprint found. in. Paul Stine's crime scene Additionally, Kane's handwriting did not match Zodiac's, but it also could not be ruled out. Additionally, Kane, like Earl Van Best Jr., matches the description of the killer at the scene. of Paul Stine's crime. , but it doesn't match the big, burly description of the Zodiac in the first three crime scenes. Now that you've heard all the stories, who do you think did it? - I think those two at the end are the most plausible.

But I think the real answer would have to be that there was a person and then there was also a copycat. - It's possible, in my opinion, that Arthur Leigh Allen was the killer of the first three, stopped, and then Lawrence Kane took over as a copycat. - Oh, well, then yes. - It seems to me that he wanted to be caught, it was almost like asking to be caught. - I was playing that line. He was tired of saying, "Oh, I killed someone and got away with it," and he was saying, "How far can I take that line?" - That's true, yes.

In any case, the case remains unsolved. And unfortunately, it will probably remain unresolved. - Trying to find the crime scene. I have no idea where the hell we're going now. Do you keep getting hit by pointy things in your socks? - No. - Calling all people directly to us. - Seriously, buddy, let's clap a little louder. This week on Buzzfeed Unsolved, did you see that damn shadow? - No, there is no shadow. - That, I'm sure you heard it. Fuck you, you probably heard that, right? (laughs) You sure heard that shit, right? - There's nothing, Ryan! - Is the back door open? - Our headlights are on. - We're on the side of a gravel road in the middle of the fucking night. - I heard the singing of crickets and frogs. - Let's go home. - Statistically speaking, though, we're probably super safe right now.

Did the murderer live around here? We're right in the middle of this farm. Is this like his farm? Is he like no intruder? - We won't do this now, we're going home. We'll be safe, I'm not dead. - Alright, Buzzfeed Unsolved, I'll cut it off. (mysterious music)