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Monday, October 27, 1969ZodiacARLINGTON DAltr NEWSPage 7i\l victimsdeath with a 22 caliber pistol His next victim was DarleneZodiac,” killing isn t Ferrm, 22 who was shot toB 1)1 STON HARVEYlUPhForenoughPolice arc convinced the psy chotic slayer who identifieshimself with the astrological sign for the heavens has killed five times in recent months But the murderer isn t satisfied with the slayings He alsocraves notoriety He brags He taunts policeHe tells newspapers to printhis message on page one He demands a famed attorney s appearance on a television show He threatens to kill againZodiac, whoever he may be, has succeeded in terror iz ing 2 5 million residents of the San Francisco Bay area and turning baffled detectives to the television screen and com ic pages in efforts to identifyhimPolice “wanted” posters show the killer as a nondescript man middle aged,stocky, with receding brown hair cut short and hornrimmed glasses set firmly onhis nose.death July 5 with a 9mm pistol in another lover’s lane nearDescribed asPsychologist Baker describes him as a•NobodyWilliamF.“no-ly whose boundless ego glories in his anonymous notoriety Baker feels the “Zodiac” is a sexually impotent woman-hater who kills to get even with his mother Police captain Martin Lee of San Francisco fears he may strike again, whatever his underlying motivations The killer struck first last Dec 20 in a lover's lane near Vallejo, about 30 miles northeast of here He shot Betty Lou Jensen, 16, and her boy-fiend, David Farady, 17, toHer companion. Michael Mageau. 19, was critirally wounded Police did not connect the two incidents until August, when the first of Zodiac's coded messages were sent to San Francisco and Vallejo newspapers with a demand they be given front page coverage When the crude cipher was broken, the notes said the writer had committed all three slayings and killing people were “more fun than killinganimalsStrikes AgainZodiack struck against Sept27, attacking a young couple picnicking on Lake Berryessa in Napa County, about 20 miles north of Vallejo Cecilia Ann Shepard, 22, was kiled in a frenzied knifing by a man wearing a hood marked with the sign of the Zodiac Her boyfriend, Bryan Hart nell, 21. was stabbed a dozen times but recovered After the attack, the slayer wrote the dates of the Vallejo killings on the door of Hartnell’s car. signing them with the crossed circle symbolof the Zodiac.The latest slaying took place Oct 11, when Paul Stine. 29, a cab driver, was shot with a 9mm pistol and robbed in an expensive residential section of San FranciscoThe killer mailed a piece of Stine s bloodstained shirt to local newspapers along with another message, beginning: “This is the Zodiac speaking,”The message accompanyingMthe cloth ripped from Stine's bloody shirt contained a chilling warnin'*:Children Nke Target*School children are nice targets I think I shall wipeout a school bus some mom ing Just shoot out the fronttires and ten pick off the kiddies as they come bouncingout.”Oakland police dispatches received a call last Tuesday night from a man identifying himself as Zodiac He asked police to have either F Lee Bailey or Melvin Belli, both well known attorney*, appear on an early morning television talk show so he could arrangeto surrender Belli appeared and, with host Jim Dunbar, spent 20 hours in bizarre conversation with someone who said he was Zodiac The caller pleaded for help, complained of headaches and cried out “ ve got to kill.”“ need help.” the caller said “m sick I don't want to go to the gas chamber ” Belli, who defended Jack Ruby for the killing of presi dental assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and Dunbar agreed to meet the man at a secret rendezvous in neighboring Daly City ,ji,Onng5 to show there or at a later meeting scheduledwith Belli.The attorney said, the man,who called himself Sam” on the air, phoned five more times that night But Belli was out and they failed to set up ameeting.But the Oakland police dispatcher who took the call demanding the television appearance said the original cal-er and the one on the TV show were not the same
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Arlington Daily News
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Mon, Oct 27, 1969
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