of San Francisco. When anyone took notice of him, he quickly retreated. Cecilia Ann Shepard and Bryan Hartnell had gone up to Lake Berryessa for a picnic, and lingered till sundown. Cecilia saw the man who was aboud 200 pounds with short dark hair, and thought he seemed fairly unremarkeable. The man started to move closer to the young couple, but before coming upon them too closely, ducked behind a tree and, put on a self-crafted executioners hood. This hood, resemblant of that of the Lord High Executioner from the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera “The Mikado”, had embroidered on it the crossed-circle design that had appeared on the cryptograms and would become the Zodiac’s trademark. With his erratic behavior and voyerism increasing with each murder, the Zodiac decided to take another new step and speak to his victims. Posing as an escaped criminal, he asked for money and the keys to the car. Hartnell gave him the requested items without hesitation. After speaking for a few moments, the man removed a piece of clothesline from his belt and asked Shepard to hogtie her friend. This done, the Zodiac tied up Cecilia Ann Shepard and then announced, “I’m going to have to stab you people.”Bryan Hartnell, requested that he be stabbed first in order to spare Ms. Shepard from the inevitable. The Zodiac complied, stabbing him six times with a double-edged footlong knife, possibly a bayonet. Shepard, however, was fatally stabbed ten times. Takeing his time after the murder, the Zodiac took out a black magic marker and inscribed his logo on the car door, along with an inscription regarding the murders that had taken place so far.In analysis of the crime scene, detectives found a series of clear footprints leading to and from the scene of the attack. These footprints served to identify the shoe the killer was wearing: Wing Walkers, a style of low-cut military boot, size 10 . After this murder was ...
