Chapter 19 third quarter

There can be no doubt that the police are dealing with a murderer of extraordinary intelligence and brutality, who is unmatched in his acquaintance with various cryptographic systems.For example, in English, e is the most frequently used letter. In this short message, the code writer shared 7 symbols from different sources to represent e.There are many spelling mistakes in the text, but it is difficult to judge which are intentional arrangements and which are real clerical errors. Mentions such as "paradise", "rebirth", "slave after birth" and so on in the password give the impression that the killer is a follower of some kind of cult.In addition, the statement that "man is the most dangerous of all animals" obviously comes from the famous author Richard Cornell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game".The story tells the story of a millionaire living alone on an isolated island who intentionally used wrong lights to guide passing ships to the rocks. His only purpose in rescuing the sailors in distress was to drive them into the jungle on the island and hunt them down like wild animals. .However, this does not mean that the prisoner has a profound literary foundation. "The Most Dangerous Game" has been shown on the screen several times, and it has also been included in middle school textbooks.Another sentence that attracted people's attention is that the article said that killing "is more enjoyable and thorough than venting sexual desire on a girl."The police believe that the author may be telling the truth on this point. He obviously lacks experience in dealing with women, which also explains why the woman was shot far more than her boyfriend in the two homicide cases.Generally speaking, a man who is easy to get on women or has a good relationship with women will not slaughter women so brutally.

After the cipher translation was released, people scrambled to try to apply various anagram rules in an attempt to spell out the author's name or other meaningful words from the last row of letters.Police also kept tabs on every combination of names published in newspapers.Such as. EMMETO·WRIGHT, ROBERTH·EMPHILL, VAN M·BLACKMAN, etc., but have not been able to find a suspect with this method. The Hattons believe that the last 18 symbols do not have any practical meaning, and the author is just playing tricks to make up three equal parts. In fact, the perpetrator did not commit a crime that weekend, although the San Francisco Chronicle did not publish the anonymous letter and code until Sunday, rather than the Friday he had ordered.According to criminal psychology, the intention of some criminals is not what they really intend to do. He only needs to watch the police, the media and the public panic because of his words, and he is satisfied.That weekend and the days that followed, so many intelligence experts across the country were working on his password day and night, the police in San Francisco and the surrounding areas were on full alert, girls were afraid to take to the streets, lovers were afraid to Dates, men, women and children throughout the Bay Area at risk... that was enough to excite him, to feed him, to make him feel like a deterrent to the public and the world at large.For this kind of morbid psychology, this is undoubtedly "more enjoyable and thorough than venting sexual desire on a girl."

No fingerprints or handprints were found on the envelopes and paper of all these letters to solve the case. More than 40 miles northeast of Vileo and about 60 miles away from San Francisco, there is a beautiful artificial lake-Beliersa that stretches 25 miles and is 3 miles wide. On Saturday afternoon, September 27, 1969, 22-year-old Cecilia Ann Shepard and her best friend, 20-year-old Brian Hartnell, came to a small village called Double Oak on the west bank of the lake. peninsula.Two giant oak trees stand on the white sandy beach, from which the peninsula gets its name.In the rainy season, the lake overflows the beach, and the place where the two oak trees are located becomes an isolated island.Cecilia and Brian spread out a colorful woolen blanket for a picnic by the lake at the top of the peninsula, under the larger oak tree.There are passing boats on the lake from time to time, but most of the time, there are only the two of them between the water and the sky.

Both Cecilia and Brian were or were students at Union Pacific College in the nearby town of Angwin.This time, Cecilia came back to bid farewell. She had finished her two-year study here and was about to transfer to the music department of the University of California, Riverside to continue her studies.Brian, who was still on summer vacation, made a special trip back to school from his parents' home in Oregon to help Cecilia pack her bags and deal with the aftermath.Brian is tall, he is in the second grade, and he plans to study law in the future.This morning, they prayed together, packed their last luggage, and went to the student cafeteria to have lunch together.In the afternoon, Brian volunteered to be a driver and asked Cecilia where she would like to go for a drive.They went to see a few friends together, did some shopping, and arrived at the lake of Beliyesha around 4 o'clock.

Cecilia noticed someone walking towards them.She was lying on the blanket with her chin in her hands, her back to the lake.Beside him lay Brian on his back.Due to the ups and downs of the terrain and the cover of the forest and bushes, the man appeared and disappeared, but he was definitely getting closer to them.Cecilia noticed that the man was wearing glasses.At first Brian thought the visitor was about 30 or so.When they reached another oak tree about 20 feet away from them, the man hid for a while behind the thick trunk. When he reappeared, Cecilia and Brian were horrified to see that the man had changed into a costume like a medieval executioner. outfit.On his head was a black hood carefully sewn by hand, like an upside-down kraft paper bag, with a flat top, boxy, and four corners, with openings for the eyes and mouth. A pair of clip-on sunglasses are placed over the openings of the two eyes.The hood is very long, slit from the neck down into two pieces on the front and back, and is sleeveless.Embroidered on the breast is a gold-yellow circle about 3 inches in diameter and an overlapping symbol of the Zodiak.The masked man was wearing a dark red and almost black shirt with both cuffs fastened at the wrists, a blue and black navy windbreaker over his coat, and dark loose casual trousers tucked into half-length military boots.A slightly protruding belly was exposed between the two fronts of the shirt hem.At his belt hung a homemade double-bladed dagger at least a foot long, with an inch-wide piece of medical tape wrapped around its hardwood handle.In his black gloved hand was a . 45 blue steel semi-automatic pistol.

Brian Hartnell later told police that the man was 1.80 meters or 1.81 meters tall and weighed more than 110 kilograms.Despite the shades, Brian still glimpsed a lock of greasy, or sweaty, dark brown hair through the opening of his eye.From time to time, there is something reflecting behind the sunglasses, which is probably glasses.When he spoke, he sounded in his 20s, "like a college student".Brian thought he was fat at first, but he realized from his quick, powerful demeanor that he was actually a thick fellow. The voice of the masked man in black was calm, calm, and unhurried.He pointed a pistol at Cecilia and Brian and said, "I want your money and your car keys. I want your car to go to Mexico." Brian pulled out all the money he had on him, 76 cents in total, along with his white Volkswagen The keys of the Kamanzia sedan were handed over together.The man holstered the gun and went on to say that he had just escaped from a prison in Deer Lokey, Montana (which was later determined to be in Colorado), where he killed A guard died.Penniless, he stole a car on the way to escape.He warns Brian not to do something stupid trying to be a hero.

The man in black didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack Cecilia and Brian, he just talked there casually.In fact, he didn't take the initiative to say anything, and he was mostly answering questions raised by Brian.Brian thought it might just be a robbery, and he expressed his understanding and sympathy for the man's situation, and was willing to provide him with any form of help in an attempt to calm the desperate fugitive.The masked man said, "No, time is running out." As he spoke, he took a rope from his waist and asked Cecilia to tie Brian up.The young man got anxious when he heard this, and he stood up immediately.At this time the man raised his voice: "Get down! Now!" While tying Brian, Cecilia took the wallet out of his pocket and threw it at the masked man's feet, and the man seemed indifferent to it.After Cecilia tied Brian loosely, the masked man ordered the girl to lie down again, then knelt on the blanket and tied Cecilia himself.Brian noticed that the masked man's hands began to tremble when he touched Cecilia's body.Having secured the girl, he tied the knot again on Brian's body, and this time the boy was tied very tightly.It was starting to get dark, Brian thought, they would probably be left overnight in this wilderness.

A voice from inside the mask said, "I intend to finish you off with a dagger." "Kill me first." Brian saw the executioner draw out his dagger. "I'm timid, I dare not watch you stab her." "It's up to you," said the man. Brian lay face down on the blanket as the masked killer stabbed him six times in the back.Bryan heard Cecilia yell desperately, "Stop! Stop!" The masked killer turned to the girl.She was stabbed 26 times, 10 of which were fatal.The deepest place is in the chest, where the forensic doctor estimated that the murderer inserted the entire dagger, and there are four places in the neck, abdomen and breasts.Some experts later speculated that the murderer intended to assassinate Cecilia according to the pattern marked by Zodiak, but failed because she was struggling and rolling.

The killer in black threw the money and keys on the blanket beside the two young men and left the scene calmly.Back at the curb where he parked, he wrote in large black pen on the passenger door of Brian's white Volkswagen Carmanzia: Vileo 12-20-68 7-4-69 September 27-69-6:30 with a knife At the top of these words is a Zodiac mark with an overlapping circle and cross. Both Cecilia and Brian are still alive.They waited for the murderer to go away and started calling for help, but the place was too remote.Brian first used his teeth to untie the girl, and Cecilia, who was on the verge of death, actually tried her last bit of strength to untie the tight deadlocks that the executioner had placed on Brian.When it was almost 7 o'clock, a Chinese father and son from San Francisco rowed a small boat to follow the sound, and immediately went straight to the pier two miles away to call the police.The first park patrol officer who rushed to the scene found Brian on the road. The young man climbed nearly 900 feet toward the road, about 270 meters.There was no ambulance at Lake Berryessa Park, and it took nearly an hour for an ambulance dispatched from the nearest Napa-area Canyon Queens Hospital to arrive.Cecilia Ann Sheppard, who had been in a coma, spent the whole night on the operating table, but the rescue was ineffective, and she died at 3:45 pm on September 29 two days later.At this point Brian Hartnell is still not out of danger.

Police found the rut marks of another car next to Bryan's white Volkswagen and made a plastic model.The two front wheels were not only badly worn, but also different sizes.A long line of footprints went from there all the way to the scene and back again.The clear heel marks indicate that the murderer did not run when he left the scene after the murder, but walked away step by step in a calm manner.The shoes are a size 10 1/2 Scud, a Department of Defense military boot specially made for the Navy and Air Force units on the West Coast.Later, the police based on this clue, as well as the perpetrator's marksmanship and knife skills, familiarity with various weapons and military codes, psychological ability to bear bloody scenes, and understanding of the division of jurisdictions of police stations at all levels, there are also soldiers who seem to With short hair, a clean face, and a navy windbreaker, Zodiak was identified as having served in the military, and probably the navy.

One hour and 10 minutes after the incident, that is, at 7:40 p.m., when Cecilia and Brian were still waiting for an ambulance by the lakeside of Beliesha Lake, the Napa Regional Police Department received a call to the police.A man's voice on the other end of the line said, "I want to report a homicide—no, a double homicide. They're two miles north of park headquarters. They're driving a white Volkswagen Carmanzia." That The calm and peaceful voice that sounded like he was in his 20s stopped here. The officer who answered the phone asked, "Where are you?" The other party answered irrelevantly: "I am the perpetrator." The man put down the phone, but did not hang up, and the voice of vehicles passing by and pedestrians talking in the background came from the microphone.Police traced the signal to a phone booth outside a car wash, just 5 1/2 blocks from the police station and 27 miles from the crime scene, between Lake Belliesa and Villeo.Police captured a palm print on the microphone, but nothing to compare it to. Like the Faraday-Jeson murders, this one took place in a cross-jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies.By the time detectives from the Napa Regional Police Department arrived at Beliesha Lake, park security had "cleaned up" the scene and "packed" physical evidence such as blood-stained blankets and ropes into a box. To be handed over to the Regional Police. It is said that earlier that day, at about 2.50pm, three girls, also from Union Pacific College, had just parked at a parking spot when a young man turned in.He drove a little bit over the head, then backed up, and just stopped alongside the three girls' cars.The man didn't get out of the car, just sat down on the driver's seat as if reading, but the girls felt that he was just putting on a show.The three girls later drove to the lake to sunbathe, and found the man peeping at them. Twenty minutes later, at about 4:30, the young man drove away.According to the descriptions of the girls, this person is very muscular, aged 25 to 35, over 1.80 meters tall, weighing 100 kg to 110 kg, without glasses, with straight dark hair cut very short and parted.Wearing a black short-sleeved sweater and dark blue trousers, he is clean-shaven, looks not shabby, and smokes heavily.His car was probably a 1966 silver or light blue two-door Chevrolet with California license plates. Around 6:30, nearly a mile north of the murder scene, a dentist and his son felt someone watching them.When the man found that the father and son had noticed him, he immediately turned and left.The man was very similar to the man the girls described.Police painters later drew a mock portrait of the mysterious voyeur, but it was never made public and he was never named as a suspect.Police said they only wanted to speak to the man. Paul Lee Steen, 29, is a married Ph.D. candidate in English literature at California State University, San Francisco College.To support his family and earn tuition, he juggled two after-school jobs: selling insurance and driving taxis. Saturday, October 11, 1969, at 9:30 p.m., two weeks after the Lake Beliesa murder.The night fog is rising.Paul Sting picked up a guest at the intersection of Mason and Mustard Streets in Union Square in downtown San Francisco.Passengers are bound for Mount Pustio, at the northern tip of the San Francisco peninsula.According to Paul's report to the dispatcher and the records in the car log, the end point of the trip should be the intersection of Washington Road and Maple Leaf Street.But the taxi ended up stopping a block west of there on Washington Road near Cherry Street.The passenger shot Paul at close range to the right side of the head.No one knows whether he jumped into the front passenger seat before or after that.But witnesses saw him remove the car keys, pull out the driver's wallet, and use a knife to cut a large chunk from the lower back of Paul's shirt. At this time, on the second floor of a residential building across the street, a dozen middle school students were having a party.A 14-year-old girl was standing just 15 feet from the window of the taxi.When she realized what she had seen, she called her two older brothers.Soon, all the children gathered in front of the window.They saw the man get out of the cab, go around to the driver's side, open the left front door, wipe it inside and out, and walk off with the blood-soaked shirt, leaving behind Paul's Tempo watch, checkbook, ring. and about $4 in change in his pocket, and the right rear door open. After the killer turned onto Cherry Street and disappeared from sight, the children called 911 at 9:58 a.m.They told the police that the murderer was a white man, aged 25 to 30, with reddish-brown hair cut very short, like a military hairstyle, with a stout build, about 180 meters tall, wearing glasses and wearing a parka A parka and dark pants.But when police radioed an emergency message, identifying the suspect as an "adult black male," opinions varied as to what happened next. Minutes later, officers Donald Fox and Eric Zellman, the first officers to arrive on the scene, saw a suspect in the shape and clothing of the emergency broadcast not far from Cherry Street on Jackson Road A stout man of almost the same size was walking towards Pustiio Villa.But that was a white guy.In some versions, Donald and Eric stopped the car and asked the man if he saw anything suspicious, and the burly man said he saw a gunman heading west on Washington Road.The two officers then continued driving to the scene.Within five minutes, the call on the radio had changed to "adult white male," and Donald and Eric turned around, but it was too late.In any case, they must have looked at the man more carefully.Later, the police first drew a simulated portrait of the suspect based on the children's report, and then modified it based on the clues provided by the two police officers. Their detailed description of the man was also recorded in the police station's files, but they did not mention that they stopped. something to talk to him about.Rumor has it that the San Francisco Police Department withdrew that passage to hide its embarrassment.As late as 2003, when an ABC television reporter interviewed Donald Fox, his statement was still: "If we knew it was an 'adult white male,' we would at least stop the car and question him." The police report reads: “The suspect is an adult Caucasian male, aged 35 to 45, about 1.80 meters tall, 90 kg to 100 kg. He is of medium build, with a protruding chest and abdomen, moderate complexion, and light-colored hair. There appears to be gray hair at the back of the head (or perhaps an effect of the lighting)...the man walks steadily and unhurriedly...possibly of Welsh descent." Blood was everywhere in the taxi, and Paul fell headfirst on the passenger seat.Although the car key is gone, the taxi meter is still running.The medical examiner who arrived with the ambulance declared Paul Sting dead at the scene.Like David Faraday in the Lake Homeland Road shooting, Paul was fatally shot only in the head, entering the right cheek before exploding in the brain.The forensic doctor later removed a severely deformed bullet from his skull. This is a relatively rare 9mm copper-cased bullet. In the past three years, a total of less than 150 rounds have been sold throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.According to the condition of the wound, the murderer's semi-automatic pistol should have shot Paul in the face.Paul has self-defense bruises on his left hand. The police collected a total of 30 fingerprints and 3 handprints inside and outside the taxi, some of which were bloody fingerprints. Experts from the crime laboratory determined that they were left by the murderer.But as before, there was no match with the millions of criminals' fingerprints in the FBI database. That night, the San Francisco Police Department dispatched a large number of police officers, police dogs, and military police who arrived from the surrounding military bases after hearing the news and launched a large-scale search.Searchlights and flashlights illuminated the neighborhood like daylight.A local resident saw what appeared to be a murderer walk through a children's playground in a nearby park and disappear into a dark forest behind.The search operation stopped at 2 am the next day. On Tuesday, October 14, the San Francisco Chronicle received an anonymous letter from the killer.The return address on the envelope is the Zodiac mark of a circle and a cross. This is Zodiak. I am the gunman who killed the taxi driver on Washington Road and Cherry Street last night, and I am sending a small piece of his bloody coat to prove it.I am also the same person who killed those men and women in the North Bay area. The San Francisco police almost got me last night if they had searched the park properly instead of doing some motorcycle race on the road and trying to see who could make the loudest noises.Those drivers should have parked their cars on the side of the road and just sat there waiting for me to come.School kids are also good targets.I thought maybe I'd rob a school bus one morning.Just flatten the front wheels first, and then shoot the kids one by one who escaped from the car. So far, the relevant authorities have been closely watching Zodiak's movements, trying to predict his next attack target by analyzing his unique way of action.The three murders before the taxi case all took place in remote suburbs, and they were all near water, such as the lakeside, on weekend nights, when it was dark or getting dark, and the targets were all in or near the car young men and women.The Paul Sting murder was clearly a mutation in modus operandi.Since he can go downtown and kill a single man, there's no reason not to believe that one day this killer will actually go out on a rampage and attack a school bus. In order not to cause panic among the citizens, the police asked the "San Francisco Chronicle" not to publish the last part of the anonymous letter, but the relevant authorities in the Bay Area and surrounding areas have taken various strict precautionary measures, such as placing two drivers on the school bus and even holding a gun. Gun security guards use helicopters to monitor driving routes from the air. In addition to police cars, the army and other government departments also send various vehicles to patrol the streets and alleys day and night. The police kept the secret for only two or three days, and the news spread like wildfire among the local residents.According to reports at the time, "thousands of mothers drove their children to and from school themselves".For a while, the public demanded that the police use all means to quickly solve the case. Zodiak has changed from a murderer to a domestic terrorist.