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Welcome to Zodiac Killer Research. A blog which serves as a collection of works, thoughts, and datasets about a series of murders attributed to the self-proclaimed "Zodiac". This unidentified white male adult operated in the state of California, USA, within the timeframe of 1968-1974 (consensus for canonical activity). He committed four attacks in different crime scenes in the North Bay Area, murdering five young civilians and seriously injuring two more, who thankfully managed to survive, in the period from December 1968 to October 1969. He wrote to the press from July 31, 1969 to (at least) July 8, 1974. He could be responsible for more murders and/or communications, within the "canonical timeframe", or even after. Some speculate - even before . Families mourned, law enforcement invested manpower, time and resources to follow any possible lead, journalists sought information. Books were eventually written, movies were shot, persons of interest were compiled, look...

Canonical murder 2: BRS vol.2. The file that would not close: From Crime Scene to Zodiac Archive

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  Canonical murder 2: Blue Rock Springs vol.2. The file that would not close: From Crime Scene to Zodiac Archive Blue Rock Springs Volume 2 continues the work of reading the second canonical crime not only as an event, but as an expanding archive. If Volume 1 examined the attack and the 12:40 a.m. Vallejo Police Department phone call as the offender’s first act of oral authorship before the Zodiac name, this volume examines what happened after that voice entered the system. Through the temporal distribution of 101 indexed BRS police-report documents, the file reveals a pattern of pressure: an immediate crime-scene and victimology pulse; a Zodiac-authorship expansion after the cipher letters, Lake Berryessa, and Presidio Heights; a post-canon aftershock visible in the 1975 records; a retrospective movement into Darlene Ferrin’s earlier life through the Phillips/Crabtree investigation; and a domestic-contact anomaly in the reported heavy-breathing call to Arthur J. and Mildred Fe...