Blog post 4 The Timeline

 To start off the timeline we have a couple named Betty Lou Jensen and Dave Faraday murdered in a lovers lane by Vallejo high school by multiple gunshot wounds. The police had no leads or evidence on who could have committed double homicide. The next event was an attempted double homicide against Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau. Mike barely survived but did not share the same fate with Darlene as she passed away after being shot multiple times. They once again had no idea who killed her and was about to start suspecting some of her ex boyfriends. 2 minutes after Darlene's death was confirmed SFPD received a mysterious phone call stating that he had killed 2 people in a brown car and confirmed that he also killed those two kids earlier that year. Suddenly 3 local newspapers had received letters from the Zodiac killer, each with a different cypher and information about the victims that only the killer could have known along with the Zodiac's signature symbol. The next event happened at Lake Berryessa, where two college students were tied up and stabbed multiple times. By 7:40 pm the killer reported the double homicide and claimed that he did it. One of them survived but the other didn't and had bled out from 24 stab wounds the next day. The next victim was a cab driver named Paul Stine. This time there were witnesses during the act and the police were called in. Only to walk past the possible killer because of the police searching for a non accurate description and false tip. The next letter was received in New York 4 years later, holding a cipher of who he was going to kill next and where, claiming that "this is only the beginning". The next letter was sent to the chronicle in 1974, describing nothing about any new killings but instead a movie review. He also referenced the Mikado and a taunting note saying, "Me - 37, SFPD - 0". Eventually, 50 years later after further investigation and groups cracking codes in the letters, there was a great chance that a man named Garry Francis Poste was the Zodiac killer. However he was never put away or confirmed to be the killer or will be as he died in 2018. 

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