complete, the man again placed a call to the police headquarters from a payphone. This payphone, again located near the station, had a palm print on the receiver. Unfortunately, the San Francisco police department print man smudged the print while attempting to lift it, and destroyed any evidenciary value.Following the murders at Lake Berryessa, the media attention was growing stronger and stronger. Of special interest was the apparent inability of the Zodiac to kill a male, and the extreme measures taken against women. There were questions drawn as to sexual dysfunction or weakness. Criminal profilers have suggested this as the reason for the next of the string of Zodiac murders. On Saturday, October 11, 1969, San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine picked up a passenger in Union Square headed for the Presidio, close to a military base. Wehther the killer made the trip in the front seat, or got into the front later is uncertain. The occurrences of that night were out of character from Zodiac’s typical exploits. A single shot the base of the skull left Paul Stine dead at the wheel. Three teenage siblings across the street from where the cab was parked witnessed the murderer cut off pieces of Paul Stine’s shirt, wipe down the cab, and lean on the driver’s side dorr before heading away. With the arrival of the police on the scene chaos soon ensued. The dispatcher reported that the suspect was a Negro male, a mistake that was blatantly thrown back into the faces of the police department later. Two officers looking for the suspect approached the Zodiac, and even asked him if he had seen anything out of the ordinary, not realizing that they were face to face with the most prolific serial killer of the time. Ballistics testing on the crime scene from the Stine murder identified the bullet to be a 9mm. From the cab, thirty latent fingerprints were found, three palm-prints, and one impression from a lower finger or ...
