In the late 1960s, northern California was rattled by a killer whose identity remains unknown and whose taunting letters made fear into an art form. The Zodiac Killer struck on December 20 1968 when 17-year-old David Arthur Faraday and 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen were shot beside their car on Lake Herman Road. Months later, on July 4-5 1969, 22-year-old Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin died and 19-year-old Michael Renault Mageau survived a drive-in attack in Vallejo. Then on September 27 1969, 22-year-old Cecelia Ann Shepard was fatally stabbed and 20-year-old Bryan Calvin Hartnell survived at Lake Berryessa. The last confirmed murder came on October 11 1969 when 29-year-old Paul Lee Stine was shot in his taxi in San Francisco. The Zodiac kept his victims’ names and lives in cryptic letters sent to newspapers, often signed with a cross-circle symbol and boasting he’d “collected slaves for the afterlife.” Investigators confirmed five murders and two survivors, though he claimed as many as 37 victims. The correspondence stopped in 1974, and the killer fled into legend — a chilling reminder that real terror often hides in plain sight. #TrueCrime #ZodiacKiller #October #California #ChaunceyDatGuy