Zodiac Killer Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. On December 20th, 1968, two high school students named Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday became the Zodiac Killer’s first ____.
  2. 5. The Zodiac created complex ciphers that hadn’t been ____ until very recently.
  3. 6. With Hartnell and Shepard, the Zodiac went against his MO and attempted to _____ the couple to death.
  4. 10. Modern forensics was in its infancy. ___ was collected poorly/not preserved well.
  5. 11. When writing to the cops and newspapers, the killer would typically provide unknown details of his ____, make threats, and offer puzzles and coded clues to his future murder plots.
  6. 14. After the Zodiac sent in “Cipher 340”, he ____ in two more that haven’t yet been solved, both very short and one rumored to contain his name.
  7. 15. There was a lot of mishandled police work when it came to the case of the Zodiac ____.
  8. 17. In his letters, the Zodiac liked to mock the ____, claiming that if it hadn’t been for their poor work, they could have caught him sooner.
  9. 19. Both Hartnell and Shepard survived the attack and provided the police with a description of the killer, but Shepard fell into a coma and soon died in the hospital two ___ later.
  10. 20. Six months after their murders, three newspapers received a ____ from someone claiming to be the Zodiac Killer.
  11. 21. A cryptogram is like a puzzle that contains encrypted ___.
  12. 22. His next set of victims included Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau, who were harmed from gunshot ____.
  13. 23. The Zodiac sent his _____ to newspaper firms to publish, allowing the public to make an attempt at solving them.
  14. 26. Unidentified serial killer operating in Northern California in the late 1960s.
  15. 27. The Zodiac killer had a fairly low confirmed ____ count, making it hard for the cops to establish patterns.
  16. 28. A month after his second attack, he went after college ____ named Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard.
  17. 30. The police knew it had been the Zodiac who attacked Hartnell and Shepard since he had etched his symbol onto the couple’s car ____.
  18. 31. They had been making out on a road coined “Lover’s ___”
  19. 33. For the next five ____ after his fourth attack, the Zodiac killer continued to send letters to the media and authorities, until 1974 when he mysteriously stopped.
Down
  1. 1. The ___ didn’t have a set MO (modus operandi).
  2. 3. The Zodiac killed most of his victims by ____ them with a gun.
  3. 4. Confirmed number of victims killed by the Zodiac killer
  4. 6. After striking for a ____ time, the Zodiac called the police from a payphone a few blocks away from the police station.
  5. 7. Soon after his third attack, the Zodiac murdered a taxi driver, Paul Stine, by shooting him in the ___ of the head.
  6. 8. The Zodiac claims to have ____ 37 people, though he’s only ever been definitively linked to 5.
  7. 9. The Zodiac killer’s spree occurred in a time period where new messaging ____ hadn’t been created yet.
  8. 12. There was __ much information and too many tips coming in, that the cops might have had trouble parsing it.
  9. 13. Mageau was able to provide a general _____ of the killer.
  10. 16. After his fourth attack, the Zodiac sent in another ____ containing a cryptogram. This one contained 340 characters, and remained unsolvable until 2006.
  11. 18. What the different police departments handling the Zodiac cases failed to share at the time, making it harder to figure out who the killer was.
  12. 21. The Zodiac ordered them to get out of their car, and they were ___ with his gun and killed.
  13. 24. After his ____ kill of Paul Stine, someone claiming to be the Zodiac contacted Oakland PD and demanded to be put on a local talk show.
  14. 25. The Zodiac’s ___ letter to the press came in 1974, before he mysteriously disappeared.
  15. 29. His murders all occurred in places where ____ counties’ police departments would be handling each murder on their own.
  16. 32. The killer may have been more than one ___.