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For those of you who don’t know, the Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who murdered his
victims in California in the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s.
The name, Zodiac Killer originated because the killer sent letters to the local press
with cryptic messages.
Only one of the four cryptograms have been solved and the killer’s identity remains
a mystery.
So here are the top 10 people who could have been the Zodiac Killer.
Starting things off in at number 10 with Theodore J. Kaczynski.
The police started looking into him as a possible suspect when a couple of people told them
that he had a lot of similarities between him and the Zodiac Killer.
Theodore lived in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1967-1969 which was the time that the
Zodiac murders occurred in California.
They also compared his signatures to the Zodiac’s and they were very similar.
Both of them also wrote letters to newspapers, especially to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Now in at number 9 we have Richard Gaikowski.
He used to work for a newspaper in San Francisco and one of his former coworkers sent long
letters to the police accusing him of being the Zodiac Killer.
He said that Richard invited him to engage violent acts together.
He even appeared on a History Channel special where he provided recordings of Richard’s
voice where a police dispatcher who spoke to the real Zodiac said that she thought it
was the same voice.
Earl Van Best Jr. comes into number 8 Out of everyone on this list, his facial features
are the closest to the sketch of the Zodiac Killer.
His son actually wrote a book accusing him of being the Zodiac Killer because his father
looks almost identical to the sketch, he lived in California at the time of the killings,
he was interested in mysteries and ciphers and he knew several Satanists and Manon-family
members.
He was even arrested for statutory rape and he might have had a grudge against a reporter
for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Number 7 we have Bruce Davis.
He was suspected of being the killer because he has a long criminal record.
When he moved to California the police and the FBI kept a close eye on him and actually
found that he was guilty of two murders.
When they brought him in for questioning, they asked him about the Zodiac murders but
he refused to talk about them because he wasn’t formally charged for those murders.
Other experts believe that he could’ve been the killer because when his father died the
Zodiac killer made his first attack.
Guy Hendrickson makes it into number 6.
His daughter told investigators that her father was the Zodiac Killer.
She claimed that he took her with him on his killing sprees when she was just seven years
old and he told her that the gunshot sounds were only firecrackers.
She also told the media that she was the only who stamped the cryptic letters and she embroidered
the mask that the Zodiac killer wore.
She even said that her father had killed 30-40 people and he apologized for that on his deathbed.
Moving into number 5 with Jack Tarrance.
He also looked like the composite sketch and apparently, he had a stash of incriminating
evidence including a roll of film that showed possible Zodiac victims and a strange hooded
costume like the one the Zodiac Killer wore during one of the stabbings.
Also, a document examiner said that his handwriting matched the Zodiacs.
Richard Marshall makes his way into number 4.
He lived near the location where a Zodiac victim was murdered and people told the police
that they found him to be very odd and that he always talked about wanting to find something
more exciting than sex.
He loved the movie The Red Phantom which was mentioned in a 1974 Zodiac letter and he lived
in a basement apartment which the Zodiac killed also mentioned.
He owned a typewriter that the Zodiac liked to use but he was ruled out as a suspect because
there wasn’t enough solid evidence.
Number 3 brings us to Arthur Leigh Allen.
He was questioned by the police in 1969 and again in 1971 after his friend told the police
that he wanted to kill people and attach a flashlight to a gun just like the Zodiac did.
He wore a Zodiac brand watch, he owned the same caliber gun used in one of the Zodiac’s
shootings and he was dishonorably discharged from the Navy.
He was ruled out as a suspect because his fingerprints, palm prints, handwriting and
DNA did not match the Zodiac’s.
Ross Sullivan makes it into number 2.
His coworkers claimed that Ross Sullivan made them feel very uncomfortable and when a killing
similar to the Zodiac occurred in the area, he disappeared for several days.
He also had a crew cut and glasses that was similar to the composite sketch of the Zodiac
killer and he was hospitalized several times for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Finally in at number 1 is Lawrence Kane.
He was suspected of being the notorious Zodiac Killer because he worked in the same hotel
as one of the Zodiac’s victims, he served on Naval reserves where he might have learned
cryptic coding and in 1962 he was involved in a car accident that left him with a brain
injury that could have stopped him from controlling his urges.
Actually, a retired detective on this case said that Lawrence’s name was embedded in
one of the ciphers and one person who managed to escape from the Zodiac Killer identified
a photo of Lawrence Kane as the abductor.
So why wasn’t he arrested?
I have no clue.
Well there you guys have it…