a lamp shining the light on the victims. As he neared the window, he pulled out a handgun and fired at Mageau. The shots hit with such force that they wnet through is body and into Darlene’s. Mageau managed to move into the backseat of the car, however the perpetrator continued firing at Darlene Ferrin. When the killer finally did leave, Mageau was still alive, and the fisrt composite sketches were made of the Zodiac from his description. At 12:40am, roughly one hour after the murders, a call came into the police station from a pay phone. In this call, the Zodiac not only confessed to, but reported the murders to the police department. The call was eventually traced to a payphone only blocks away from the police station.Three weeks after the murder, the three major newspapers each received a letter from the Zodiac. These letters each contained one third of a cryptogram, which the murderer insisted be published on August first, or he would embark on a weekend-long killing spree, To further encourage the papers to publish the cipher he added that in the cipher was the key to his identity. The latter was thought to be simply a sensational story until recent discoveries have been uncovered. The cipher did however state that the Zodiac killed because man was the ultimate game, a line from a movie, and added that all of his victims would be his slaves in the afterlife. After the printing of the letters, the Zodiac sent another letter to the media on August fourth. Police were unsuccessful at developing the latent prints on the first set of letters, consequently, the second was sent to the FBI Crime lab where it was identified as Woolworth’s “Fifth Avenue” brand paper. Though there were useful prints on the letter, they did not match any in the FBI database.On Saturday September 27, 1969 a man matching the Zodiac’s description was seen wandering around the shores of Lake Berryessa, 60 miles northeast ...
