Across
- 2. On December 20th, 1968, two high school students named Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday became the Zodiac Killer’s first ____.
- 5. The Zodiac created complex ciphers that hadn’t been ____ until very recently.
- 6. With Hartnell and Shepard, the Zodiac went against his MO and attempted to _____ the couple to death.
- 10. Modern forensics was in its infancy. ___ was collected poorly/not preserved well.
- 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.
- 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.
- 15. There was a lot of mishandled police work when it came to the case of the Zodiac ____.
- 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.
- 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.
- 20. Six months after their murders, three newspapers received a ____ from someone claiming to be the Zodiac Killer.
- 21. A cryptogram is like a puzzle that contains encrypted ___.
- 22. His next set of victims included Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau, who were harmed from gunshot ____.
- 23. The Zodiac sent his _____ to newspaper firms to publish, allowing the public to make an attempt at solving them.
- 26. Unidentified serial killer operating in Northern California in the late 1960s.
- 27. The Zodiac killer had a fairly low confirmed ____ count, making it hard for the cops to establish patterns.
- 28. A month after his second attack, he went after college ____ named Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard.
- 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 ____.
- 31. They had been making out on a road coined “Lover’s ___”
- 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. The ___ didn’t have a set MO (modus operandi).
- 3. The Zodiac killed most of his victims by ____ them with a gun.
- 4. Confirmed number of victims killed by the Zodiac killer
- 6. After striking for a ____ time, the Zodiac called the police from a payphone a few blocks away from the police station.
- 7. Soon after his third attack, the Zodiac murdered a taxi driver, Paul Stine, by shooting him in the ___ of the head.
- 8. The Zodiac claims to have ____ 37 people, though he’s only ever been definitively linked to 5.
- 9. The Zodiac killer’s spree occurred in a time period where new messaging ____ hadn’t been created yet.
- 12. There was __ much information and too many tips coming in, that the cops might have had trouble parsing it.
- 13. Mageau was able to provide a general _____ of the killer.
- 16. After his fourth attack, the Zodiac sent in another ____ containing a cryptogram. This one contained 340 characters, and remained unsolvable until 2006.
- 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.
- 21. The Zodiac ordered them to get out of their car, and they were ___ with his gun and killed.
- 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.
- 25. The Zodiac’s ___ letter to the press came in 1974, before he mysteriously disappeared.
- 29. His murders all occurred in places where ____ counties’ police departments would be handling each murder on their own.
- 32. The killer may have been more than one ___.