Chapter 20 fourth quarter

On October 18, the relevant authorities decided to publish the full text of the anonymous letter together with a simulated portrait of the suspect.After being rebroadcast by newspapers, radio stations and television stations across the country, the police received thousands of reporting calls as far away as Houston, Atlanta and St. Louis.At the same time, the police stations along the west coast have been plucking out the cold and difficult cases of death cases that have not been solved for many years in their jurisdictions, to see if they can be linked to Zodiak.The Riverside Police Department also distributed files on the Kiri Choo Bates murder case to Vileo, Napa, and San Francisco area authorities, but failed to attract enough attention.

California Attorney General Thomas Lynch issued a formal speech urging Zodiak to surrender, claiming that the relevant authorities will provide him with the necessary help and ensure that his rights are properly protected. Dr. Moshi, chairman of the National Cryptography Association, used the Zodiak cipher system to publish a text message in the "San Francisco Overseer". Ways, such as passwords, etc., to communicate with yourself. In late October, the FBI, together with the police departments at all levels where the four homicides occurred, as well as the California Bureau of Forensic Investigation, the Bureau of Naval Intelligence, the California Highway Patrol, the State Postal Inspection Service, and all departments that may help solve the case, conducted a The Judiciary Hall of San Francisco held a joint meeting to discuss the case in detail and compare the witnesses and evidence collected from various places.

On Monday, November 10, the San Francisco Chronicle received two more letters from Zodiak, including a greeting card, a code, a seven-page letter, and a hand-drawn plan for attacking a school bus bomb sketch and another Paul Lee Steen blood coat.The envelope was double stamped as always.The greeting card begins with the usual proclamation-like opening line of this indiscriminate executioner: "This is Zodiak..." The last line is "December July August September October = 7", meaning that the A total of 7 people were killed or injured in his hands in a few months.This is the first time the so-called "Zodiak count".In the seven-page letter, Zodiak wrote:

This is Zodiak... I'm mad at the lies the police are spreading about me, so I'm going to change the way I collect life slaves.I will not be making any more manifestos.I will treat each murder as if it were an ordinary robbery, a love affair, or an accident, and so on.The police will never catch me because I'm a hundred times better than them. 1. I only look like the portrait on the wanted poster when I'm working, and I'm a completely different person at ordinary times... 2. Contrary to what the police say, I never left any fingerprints.I always wear clear finger cots when I do the job, which is to apply two coats of the gel on my fingers to protect the surface of the plane - very effective and unnoticeable.

3. The murder weapons I used were all mail-ordered from other places... So you see, the police really don't have much to do.If you guys want to know why I'm wiping down taxis, I'm actually creating perjury and false leads to keep cops chasing them all over the world.Like someone said, you gotta give the police something to do, or they're going to be very unhappy.I just like to mess with them every now and then.Hey, I was in that park when they mobilized police cars and fire trucks from all over the city.The dogs were at least two blocks away from me, looking west.There were only two teams of military police about 10 minutes walking distance from me, and a couple of motorcycles going south to northwest about 150 feet away.

Also, about 3 minutes after leaving the taxi, I ran into two stupid policemen.I was walking towards the park when a police car pulled up and the cop called me over and asked me if I had seen anyone acting suspicious in the last 5-10 minutes, I said there was a guy running and brandishing a gun , and they headed for the corner I indicated, and I disappeared into a park a block and a half away, and I was never seen by anyone again. ………… If you cops really think I'm going to attack a school bus the way I said in my last letter, I should blow two holes in your heads. Below, Zodiak spends nearly two pages describing his masterpiece, a homemade bomb he calls "the death machine."The letter stated that all the raw materials can be easily bought in general stores.If the bomb is placed on the road that the school bus will pass by at a good time in advance, the bomb will be vacated regularly, and the height of its explosion in the air can just blow up a large bus such as a school bus without injuring low vehicles, such as Ordinary car.Because the "death machine" is easy to carry and easy to operate, if the police try to avoid disasters by changing the route of the school bus and the time of entering and leaving the station, it will only be a waste of effort.On page 5 of the letter was the sketch of the bomb's internals and workings.According to military blasting experts, the "death machine" is not alarmist, and it does have the functions and effects Zodiak said.

Zodiak finally wrote in his letter: Be sure to post the passage I highlighted on page 3 (i.e. the encounter with two police officers - author's note), or I'll be back at my job.To prove that I'm Zodiak, you can ask the Vileo police station for the electronic pistol illuminator I used when I first collected slaves. In December of the same year, Zodiak sent a third Paul Sting blood coat.This time, it was wrapped in a Christmas card and sent to Malvin Pauly, a well-known local criminal defense attorney with whom he had been in indirect contact a few months ago:  Dear Malvern:

This is Zodiak.I wish you a Merry Christmas.I just ask you one thing, please help me.I couldn't ask anyone else for help because there was something in me that wouldn't allow me to do that... I was afraid I'd lose control and kill again and ruin the life of my ninth victim, maybe my tenth victim.Please help me, I'm sinking deeper and deeper... The original English text of "Merry Christmas" in the letter is "Happy Christmas". Christmass is, of course, a misspelling of Christmas, and almost every letter from Zodiak contains some misspellings.But "Happy Christmas" is spoken in Britain and Canada, while "Merry Christmas" is spoken by Americans.In addition, Zodiak's other letters also contain many idiomatic expressions of Commonwealth countries.In fact, the police have always suspected that the serial killer may have come from the UK.

It was felt at the time that the letter foreshadowed that Zodiak would soon turn himself in to the police, and that Malvern Pauly was confidently awaiting the follow-up, but Zodiac never contacted him again.Later, some psychologists believed that Zodiak was withdrawn by nature, and such people would be particularly depressed during festivals such as Christmas, which also explained from another angle why Zodiac’s cases always occurred during holidays and weekends. Malvern Pauly received the letter in his office on December 27, the first day after Christmas.There is no date on the letter.The police later discovered that Zodiak especially liked to write letters on a certain anniversary day, and thus deduced that the letter was probably written on December 20, that is, Dai Wei Arthur Faraday and Petty Lou. On the first anniversary of Jiexin's murder by the lakeside of Heman.

This is the last bloody coat sent by Zodiak.By size, there should be about 104 square inches of Paul Sting's shirt still in his hands. For the next three months, Zodiac was not heard from. Catherine Jones, 23, lives in San Bernardino, Southern California, 65 miles northeast of Los Angeles. On Sunday, March 22, 1970, she took her 10-month-old daughter, Jennifer, away from home to visit her sick mother in Perdaluma, 35 miles northwest of San Francisco in Northern California.With nearly 500 miles to go and she was seven months pregnant, she decided to set off in the evening.Sure enough, the child fell asleep soon after the trip, so she could concentrate on driving.

By midnight, Catherine was in Modesto, 85 miles east of San Francisco.She turned from Hwy 99 onto Hwy 132.No. 132, which is located in a remote area, has only two lanes, one for one and one for.Just 20 miles west on 132, you can join Interstate 5, which is just over 60 miles from San Francisco. Route 132 is indeed much more deserted than Route 99. It does not go to villages or pick up shops. At the beginning of the first 10 miles, there is only one car of Catherine on the road.I don't know when it started, another car followed.Soon, the car behind had bit Catherine's rear.Catherine moved to the side of the road to let it overtake, but the speed of the car gradually slowed down, and after walking side by side with Catherine for a while, the car began to flash its lights and whistle to signal Catherine to stop.Catherine didn't dare to delay in this deserted place, she drove to the side of Highway 5, and she could see a gas station in the distance, and then stopped at the side of the road.Another car followed, and the driver got out and told Catherine in a friendly voice that her left rear wheel was loose and that he could tighten it for her.Then he got a wrench and a jack from his own car, and squatted behind to repair the car for Catherine.Catherine didn't dare to get out of the car, and sat in the car with the doors and windows closed. She couldn't actually see what the man was doing.After a while, the stranger told Catherine that the car had been repaired.After he returned to his car and drove away, Catherine drove on the road again.After just over 20 feet, the left rear tire fell off in its entirety.Seeing Catherine stop, the car in front also slowly backed up and stopped in front of Catherine.It was only when the driver got out of the car and walked into the light of Catherine’s headlights that she saw the man’s appearance clearly for the first time: about 30 years old, about 180 meters tall, 80 to 85 kg, neatly dressed, clean-shaven , short hair, "the impression is a soldier."Catherine felt at the time that he was a trustworthy person.The man said: "It seems that the trouble is bigger than I imagined." Then he offered to send Catherine and her daughter to a gas station not far away.Catherine carried Jennifer into the stranger's car only to realize that she forgot to remove the car keys.The man smiled and went back to fetch the key for her.As soon as the car started, the kindness and friendliness on the stranger's face disappeared without a trace. They didn't stop at that gas station, they didn't stop at the second one, the third...Catherine was embarrassed to say anything at first, but when they drove past one gas station after another, Catherine finally worked up the courage to ask what was going on, and the driver only replied briefly, "This one doesn't work" or "Don't go to this one.""She said she was scared to death and wanted to get out of the car, but was afraid to ask the man to stop," a later police report said. After a while, Catherine said, "Do you often help people on the road like this?" "When I'm done with them, they don't need any help anymore." Catherine later described the man's voice as monotonous, indifferent, without cadence, and without emotion, just words coming out of his mouth one by one. The stranger then said, "I'm going to throw the kid out the window." Then he said, "You know I'm going to kill you." And they drove around in circles for two or three hours.On several occasions the driver drove very slowly against the side of the road, as if intending to stop, but immediately revved up and sped away.Gradually, the desire to survive overcame Catherine's fear, and she began to look at the stranger carefully and consider how to escape.The first thing she noticed was that the man's shoes were well polished, reflecting the lights from inside and outside the car from time to time. Navy." The man wore black-rimmed glasses, brown hair, and was wearing a blue-and-black nylon navy windbreaker and black trousers.Contrary to his neat attire, the car was a mess, with papers, books, and clothes everywhere.Most of the clothes were men's, with a few small patterned T-shirts interspersed with them, like the size of an 8- to 12-year-old kid.The stranger drove an American car, light-colored, two-door, pre-1968 model, with California license plates. Catherine's chance finally came.She saw a car following in the distance in the right side mirror.As they approached a "Stop" sign, Catherine quietly got ready.As soon as the speed of the car slowed down, he immediately pushed the door with his daughter in his arms and jumped out, crossed a small open space, and got into the weedy irrigation ditch.A full moon in the night sky.Catherine lay at the bottom of the dry ditch, holding Jennifer tightly to her chest, for fear that she would make any noise.Soon, a stranger got out of the car with a flashlight, and he yelled several times towards the field: "Come back! Come back!" With the flashlight on, he got out of the car and asked what was going on, but the stranger didn't answer, and immediately jumped back into the car and stepped on the accelerator and disappeared into the darkness. Catherine came out of the irrigation ditch with the baby in her arms, and she refused to get into the big truck until the driver woke up a woman in the truck.The couple took Catherine to the nearest small police station, where there was only an old man on duty in a sergeant's uniform.The old sergeant's face turned pale after hearing Catherine's story. It seems that such bizarre things rarely happen in this kind of rural town.The senior sergeant began routinely filling out a form in which he asked Catherine to describe the stranger and his car in as much detail as possible.While answering the old policeman's question, Catherine looked casually at the small office.Suddenly, her eyes stopped on a wanted notice on the bulletin board. "Oh my God! That's him, that's him!" She pointed at the mock portrait of Zodiak. The old policeman was terrified.He muttered that Catherine couldn't stay here, or Zodiak might turn around and end them all.He took the mother and daughter to a nearby coffee shop and knocked on the door to wake the owner.Catherine sat in the dark shop and told the old man where her car was, and the old sergeant called the Highway Patrol.A moment later, the patrolman called back saying there were no cars there.Moments later, patrol officers reported that they had found the car on another road, but it had been completely burned — along with all possible evidence. This was the last time anyone saw Zodiac. Zodiak, who had been silent for four months, reappeared. On Tuesday, April 21, 1970, the San Francisco Chronicle received his ninth letter: This is Zodiak...my name is (the following are 13 code symbols - author's note).I'd especially like to know what you're asking for my head... I've killed 10 people so far, unfortunately my bomb was destroyed by the rain, otherwise the number would have been much higher. The structure diagram of the new bomb is as follows (a bomb sketch on one page - author's note): ………… (Zodiak mark - author's note) - 10 San Francisco Police Department - 0 Needless to say, those 13 ciphers didn't give any meaningful combinations.The last line is the so-called Zodiak count, which means that he has killed 10 people, and the police have not solved a single case.In fact, since the murder of Paul Lee Steen, the police have not linked any homicides in the area to Zodiak. Letter 10, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.It is actually a humorous cartoon greeting card.The back of the card reads: If you don't want me to blow up the school bus, you have to do two things. 1. Publish the full details of the new bomb in my last letter. 2. Let everyone on the street wear a Zodiac badge... Letter 11, Monday, June 29, 1970: This is Zodiak. It annoys me so much that people in the San Francisco Bay Area don't wear Zodiac badges.I said if they don't do what I say, I'm going to blow up the school bus, but it's summer break, so I took another punishment, I took a . people. (Zodiak mark - author's note) - 12 San Francisco Police Department - 0 Enclosed is a map showing the location of the bombs.You must find it and dig it out before autumn. …………