the Zodiac killer still has not been caught. My assumption is the killer was probably someone in government be it a ex-cop/military. The dude supposedly killed 33-37 people and people have only managed to decipher a couple of his crytograms. Golden State Killer was found via some new DNA matching method and it was a cop all along at the age of 72.
shareI suspect he probably died and they never tied it to him.
shareI agree. It's unusual for a serial killer to just stop
shareSince the guy would be in his seventies now at the youngest, and all the major public suspects are dead, then yeah. He's probably dead now.
But I doubt he stopped killing when he faded from public view in the mid-seventies. He probably kept killing, and stopped sending clues to the police and newspapers.
I meant he died soon after he killed Stein.
I remember, years later, there was one theory that was way out there that thought he was Stein (he didn't match the typical victim) and someone had killed him after he mailed the latest letter. That theory should have been debunked almost immediately because he later sent a letter with a piece of Stein's shirt in it
It certainly would have been nice if the Zodiac had died young!
But I don't think it happened, Fate is never that kind.
He probably just watched Lorenzo’s Oil and became completely cured.
shareHe didn't kill that many people, he took credit for other people's murders
shareI really hope one day someone solves this case.
shareMakes sense; probably a 'Nam vet who became a cop; double whammy.
shareDuh, that is because it's Ted Cruz.
shareGary Francis Post
share" My assumption is the killer was probably someone in government be it a ex-cop/military. "
I don't assume that, any more than I assume Jack the Ripper was a surgeon. The Ripper's mutilations could have been done by anyone who'd ever butchered a large animal, and anyone who was either clever or lucky could have eluded the police of that era. There was no DNA evidence then, the crimes didn't involve leaving fingerprints, the crimes took place in several jurisdictions, and were without useful eyewitnesses.
Now of course there are above-average chances that the killer was in the police or military at some point, because a violent man might prefer a career where he'd get paid to be violent, but that isn't proof, it's just a slight statisitcal preference. But the fact that he wasn't caught doesn't indicate a cover-up, it doesn't indicate military/police malfeasance, and the fondness for codes doesn't indicate a military/intelligence background either. If I remember correctly the people who solved the ciphers weren't military-trained, they were just ordinary people who liked word puzzles and problem-solving, some people just like codes and puzzles, and a regular citizen could have learned how to make up codes for the price of a library card. And really, the police of that era couldn't trace snail-mail, and had no finger prints or witnesses, there was never enough evidence to convict anyone.
Read 'The Great Zodiac Hoax' by Thomas Henry Horan. At first I was very sceptical but it actually does make sense. And the actual police documents prove it. Graysmith lies most of the time.
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