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0:00On an ordinary morning in the summer of
0:021969, an editor at one of America's
0:07largest newspapers was sitting at his
0:09desk. He opened the mail like every
0:10other day. Letters, bills,
0:13advertisements. And among them was an
0:16envelope with no sender's name. He
0:18opened it and took out a handwritten
0:21note. The first sentence read: "I am
0:23the person you are looking for." This
0:26sentence, of course, was no mere joke.
0:28Because the rest of the letter
0:30contained details of an actual murder.
0:33This crime had taken place six months
0:35earlier. It contained very precise
0:38details, known to only one person in
0:41the world: the killer himself. The same
0:44letter arrived on the same day at two
0:47other newspapers. It was as if the goal
0:50of these letters was for all of America
0:52to hear about this killer and the
0:54crimes he committed. The most dangerous
0:57thing in them was not the confession to
0:59the crime. The more dangerous part was
1:01the condition written within. The
1:03sender had written: "Publish the
1:05ciphers inside the letter.""Try to
1:07solve them.""And if you don't do that,
1:10I will start killing more people."
1:12Killing, for this man, was not a crime;
1:15it was a game. And the game began from
1:18that moment on. Only to discover today,
1:21nearly 60 years later, that it was
1:24truly the hardest game in the history
1:27of American crime. For those seeing me
1:32for the first time, I am Abu Al-Sadiq.
1:34I talk about everything strange and
1:35mysterious on planet Earth. As usual,
1:37before we begin, remember not to
1:39believe everything around you. And
1:42victory is only from God. And for those
1:45who say I stopped saying we are
1:46boycotting and continuing, we are still
1:48boycotting and continuing. Today I will
1:50tell you the story of the most famous
1:53mystery the crime world has known:
1:55Zodiac. A story you have requested from
1:57me many times. After gathering all the
1:59details from FBI archives and official
2:02police files, it is time to tell it
2:04right. Subscribe to the channel, turn
2:07on notifications, and don't forget to
2:09like. Because as we always say, all
2:11stories, even if they seem similar, are
2:13not the same when I tell them. To begin
2:18, let’s go back to the night when the
2:20whole story started. On the date of
2:23December 20, 1968, on an isolated road
2:28called Lake Herman Road in California.
2:32A car was parked on the side of the
2:34road. Inside were a 17-year-old boy and
2:37a 16-year-old girl. They had gone out
2:41to spend some time away from people.
2:43Between 11:00 and 11:15 PM, on a cold
2:46night and an empty street. There was no
2:50one around them. Suddenly, they noticed
2:52a person walking in the middle of the
2:54street. He was coming toward them very
2:56calmly. As soon as he reached their car
2:58, without a word, without discussion,
3:01and without warning, he fired a bullet
3:03at the boy while he was inside the car.
3:06The girl was terrified and got out to
3:09run. She was trying to flee to survive,
3:12but...he chased her and fired five
3:14bullets into her back. As soon as he
3:16was sure they were dead, he left them
3:19and walked away. This whole scene did
3:21not last one minute. A boy and a girl
3:24whose lives had not yet begun. Their
3:27story ended on the side of the road on
3:29a winter night. And there was no reason
3:31at all for killing them. When the
3:34police arrived hours after the incident
3:36, no...No leads, no theft, no personal
3:39connection, and no witnesses. The crime
3:41file was opened without motives, then
3:44filed away with dozens of cases that
3:47happen every year, left unsolved. The
3:51case went cold, and the story was
3:53forgotten, but six months later, the
3:56case came back to life on July 4th,
3:591969. The second crime took place in a
4:04location called Blue Rock Springs. A
4:06place not far from the first crime. A
4:09young man and woman were sitting in a
4:10car at night. And the same scenario. A
4:12person approached them in the dark. He
4:15opened fire. The girl died. But this
4:17time, the young man survived. Minutes
4:20after the crime. Vallejo police station
4:22received a call from an unidentified
4:24person who confessed. He admitted to
4:26being the killer who carried out the
4:28attack. And he even mentioned details
4:31of the first crime that happened six
4:33months ago. Then he hung up and
4:35disappeared. Nobody was able to track
4:38him or catch him. On July 31st, 1969.
4:43The three letters I told you about at
4:45the beginning of the video arrived. And
4:47that’s when the police realized they
4:49were dealing with someone abnormal.
4:51They confirmed it was the killer
4:53because the letter. Mentioned details
4:56that were not available to the media,
4:58nor published anywhere. The killer said
5:01the victims were in a car. And that the
5:03attack happened between 11:00 and 11:15
5:06. And that the weapon was a small 9mm
5:10pistol. And he mentioned a technical
5:13detail only the police would know,
5:15which was that he attached a flashlight
5:18to. The weapon to aim in the dark.
5:21Details like that, no one knows except
5:24the police. And they record them in
5:26investigation files, or the killer who
5:27did it. Now, the question that left
5:29everyone puzzled. Was the sender the
5:32killer, or was it a police investigator
5:34familiar with the secret files? What do
5:37you think? Before we continue, write in
5:40the comments and see if your answer.
5:41Will be right or not? Stay with me,
5:44because the answer is stranger than you
5:46imagine. On August 4th, 1969. A new
5:51letter arrived. And for the first time,
5:54the sender introduced himself by name.
5:56He began the letter with a sentence
5:58that became the most famous in the
6:00history of crime. It was written: "This
6:02is the Zodiac speaking." And from that
6:04moment on, the killer’s name became
6:07Zodiac. Every letter he sent, he would
6:10sign with a strange symbol. A circle
6:12crossed with a cross, looking like a
6:15gun’s crosshair. There is a theory
6:18that he took the symbol from the logo
6:21of a watch brand called Zodiac. Their
6:23ads used to run in the same newspapers,
6:25but that is just a theory. Of course,
6:28it’s certain that this person didn't
6:30just want to kill. He wanted a name,
6:33fame, and a title to terrify all of
6:36America. This is something I want you
6:38to keep in mind. Because it is the key
6:40to the entire case. The puzzle in the
6:42letter was a cipher of 408 symbols. But
6:45he didn't send it in full to one
6:47newspaper. He divided it into three
6:50parts, one part for each paper. Meaning
6:52, to solve this puzzle, every paper had
6:55to publish the part it had. And wait
6:58for the rest to be published and ask
7:00people to help. And just like that, in
7:02one stroke, he made all of America talk
7:05about him. He threatened explicitly, "
7:07If you don't publish my letters on the
7:09front page, I will kill more people."
7:11And a copy of this threat is preserved
7:13to this day in the archives of the
7:15Vallejo Police and the FBI. The
7:17newspapers fell into a big trap with no
7:19solution. If they published the puzzle,
7:22it meant they agreed to the killer's
7:23terms and walked into the game
7:25themselves. And if they didn't publish
7:27it, they would be risking people's
7:29lives. Anyway, the newspapers decided
7:31to publish. They had finally done what
7:34the killer wanted. Then something
7:36happened that no one expected. People
7:38didn't treat the matter as a murder
7:40case. They treated it like a game.
7:43Everyone wanted to solve the puzzle.
7:45The story spread like wildfire. TV
7:47shows, radio, people on the streets,
7:50everyone wanted to crack the Zodiac
7:53cipher. The cipher, known today as
7:56Zodiac 408; just seven days after it
7:59was published, a normal California
8:02couple, teachers named Donald and Betty
8:06Harden, announced they had solved the
8:09riddle. Which neither the FBI nor the
8:11smartest investigators could solve.
8:13Their solution revealed that the cipher
8:16was a text containing a chilling
8:18confession. A long letter where the
8:20killer describes his pleasure in
8:23killing. He says literally that killing
8:25is more fun for him than anything else.
8:28And that the people he kills will
8:30become his slaves in the afterlife. But
8:33in all that long text with so many
8:35details, there was no name. I mean,
8:38they wore themselves out solving a
8:40puzzle that gave them everything.
8:42Except for the one thing they wanted:
8:44the name. The madness is that after
8:46this, instead of people demanding the
8:48killer be caught and the story ended,
8:50they started demanding a new puzzle.
8:52Imagine the scale of the issue. A
8:54killer had dragged everyone into his
8:56game. The press was publishing against
8:58their will, and the police were
9:00helpless, unable to expose him. And
9:02people went crazy, they wanted to be
9:03entertained. They wanted a new puzzle.
9:06But a new puzzle doesn't come for free.
9:09For there to be a new cipher, there had
9:12to be a new crime. And the Zodiac,
9:14unfortunately, didn't disappoint his
9:16audience. On September 27, 1969, on the
9:18shores of a lake called Lake Berryessa
9:22in California, a young man named Bryan
9:25and a girl named Cecilia were sitting
9:28on the grass. At 6:30 in the afternoon.
9:32This time, the place wasn't isolated.
9:34On the contrary, there were people
9:36nearby. And yet, the attack happened. A
9:39person approached them wearing a black
9:41hood covering his face. Entirely, and
9:43on his chest was drawn the same symbol
9:45that was in the letters. He attacked
9:47them. And managed to tie them up with
9:50ropes. He made sure they couldn't move.
9:53Then he pulled out a knife. And began
9:56stabbing them with slow strikes. Before
9:59leaving the scene, he did something
10:00very strange. On the door of the
10:02victims 'car, he wrote the dates of his
10:04previous crimes. And below them, the
10:07new date, 9/27. At 6:30, he wrote this
10:12with the knife. And beside it, he
10:15placed his signature. Where did the
10:16police get these details I'm telling
10:18you with such precision? From Bryan.
10:21Bryan survived. He told investigators
10:24all the details. And everything is
10:26documented in the Napa Sheriff's Office
10:28reports. As for Cecilia, she died from
10:31her wounds a few days later. The
10:34surprise was. Who reported this crime
10:36to the police? About an hour after the
10:39attack, the Napa police station
10:41received a call from a public phone. A
10:44calm voice, without any fear, said: "I
10:47want to report a murder.""No, two
10:51murders.""And I am responsible for them
10:54." He gave them the exact location of
10:56the victims, told them they were tied
10:58up with ropes, and hung up. The
11:00strangest thing. The call lasted less
11:03than a minute and a half, made from a
11:05public phone just a few blocks from the
11:08crime scene, meaning the killer
11:10committed his crime and then calmly
11:13called the police. This is documented
11:16in the Napa Police Department reports
11:19and the FBI case file. The Zodiac did
11:22not stop there, though, on October 11,
11:241969, in San Francisco, in an upscale
11:27neighborhood called Presidio Heights.
11:30At 9:55 PM, he appeared once again. But
11:36this time, he appeared in a different
11:38way. The victim this time was a taxi
11:40driver. He was 29 years old, named Paul
11:44Stine. The Zodiac got in with him like
11:46any normal customer. He asked to be
11:48driven somewhere. Before they arrived,
11:50he shot him from behind with a 9mm
11:53pistol. And he didn't run away. He got
11:56out of the car quite calmly. He took a
11:58piece of the victim's shirt as a
12:00souvenir. And walked down the street
12:02quite casually. And there were
12:03witnesses who saw him. A police patrol
12:06even passed by, close to him. But he
12:08wasn't stopped. Because simply, no one
12:11expected this person walking calmly and
12:14casually to be the killer. From the
12:16description of the witnesses who saw
12:18him, the most famous sketch of the
12:20killer was created. A white man,
12:22glasses, and a very average face. Two
12:26days later, a new letter arrived at the
12:28San Francisco Chronicle. And attached
12:31to it was the piece of cloth from the
12:33taxi driver's shirt. Meaning physical
12:36evidence that he was truly the killer.
12:38And a few days later, another letter.
12:40With it was a new cipher consisting of
12:43340 characters. Which is known today as
12:47the Zodiac 340 and is found within the
12:50FBI archives. In this letter, the
12:53killer said his victim count had
12:55reached seven. Letter after letter, the
12:58numbers became larger. But the police
13:02could only confirm a limited number. Of
13:04the crimes attributed to him. The
13:05Zodiac was talking about many crimes in
13:08his letters. And if he was telling the
13:10truth, it meant there were crimes no
13:13one had discovered yet. And new crimes
13:15were yet to happen. Investigators were
13:18confused; how was he sending them
13:20evidence proving he was the killer?
13:22They suspected he was a cop, and a
13:24genius cop at that. And the biggest
13:26problem was that the new cipher wasn't
13:28solved at that time. It remained a
13:30mystery for many decades. Meaning there
13:32was no way to confirm if the words
13:34inside were real or just a new game.
13:36And let's stop here at the topic of
13:38puzzles, because it's the heart of the
13:41story. The Zodiac sent four ciphers in
13:43his lifetime. The first, the 408, was
13:46solved. In days, and the second, the
13:50340, remained a locked mystery for 51
13:53years. No one was able to crack it.
13:56Until in December of 2020, three
13:59experts managed to crack it using a
14:02computer. And what was the first
14:04sentence in it? I hope you are having
14:07fun while you are trying to catch me.
14:09After he sent this cipher, the
14:11investigation entered a stage not in
14:13the police's favor. There was a massive
14:16amount of reports, hundreds of calls,
14:18and dozens of suspects. Everyone had a
14:20different story. People weren't
14:22satisfied with just trying to solve the
14:24puzzle. People started calling the
14:26police and going to the station
14:27themselves to turn themselves in. And
14:29saying that they were the Zodiac.
14:31Imagine, an innocent person claiming to
14:34be a serial killer. Just for the fame;
14:36that's how much the Zodiac captivated
14:39human minds. About two months later, a
14:42new letter in the same handwriting
14:44arrived at the San Francisco Chronicle.
14:47This time, the Zodiac didn't just stop
14:49at threats. He started mocking the
14:51police face to face. He claimed that
14:54they would never be able to catch him.
14:55More dangerously, he described in
14:57detail how he would change his
14:59appearance so no one would recognize
15:01him. Meaning, while the police were
15:03expanding their investigation, he was
15:05one step ahead of them. And he told
15:07them exactly what he would do to keep
15:08his identity hidden. That’s when
15:10everyone became certain that this man
15:13was not ordinary. Because first, he
15:15knows when the police get close to a
15:17solution. And second, he knows how the
15:19police think, as if he were sitting
15:22among them, reading their files and
15:24knowing their secrets. And that is the
15:26problem. If it turned out this man was
15:28an investigator from within the police
15:30or the FBI, their reputation would
15:32collapse. And if he turned out to be an
15:34ordinary civilian, the scandal would be
15:36even bigger. Because it’s
15:37unbelievable that an ordinary person
15:39could outsmart the world's biggest
15:41agencies every time and treat them with
15:43such coldness. In both cases, it was a
15:45major insult to the police. The more
15:47the investigation expanded, the further
15:49the crime seemed to drift away.
15:51According to San Francisco and FBI
15:54reports, a very large, significant
15:56number of suspects were investigated.
15:59This was in late '69 and early '70, but
16:02...Without any results; they all turned
16:05out to be liars and none of them were
16:08the Zodiac. It became clear that the
16:11problem wasn't a lack of information,
16:13but that someone was manipulating the
16:15existing information. And what was
16:17destroying the police's work even more
16:19was the press. The subject became a
16:21trend. And every time he challenged the
16:23police and committed...a new crime, he
16:25spread even further. People considered
16:27it a scandal that the whole
16:29investigation relied on only one thing:
16:31testimonies, testimonies people would
16:34come and give about him. But in reality
16:36, there was no evidence. Nor any trace.
16:40Nor any fingerprint of the killer. In
16:41the world of police and investigations,
16:43this is a disaster, because testimonies
16:45...are not something to rely on alone
16:47in such cases. Every testimony differs
16:50from the other. The people who saw him
16:52when he killed the taxi driver
16:54described a young man. Between 25 and
16:5730 years old. Average height. Average
17:01build. But in previous events, like the
17:03one that happened at the lake, the
17:05description was different. The height
17:07...was different. The way of moving was
17:09different. And even the athletic build
17:11didn't match the same description. They
17:13said the killer was able to tie two
17:15people up at the same time and very
17:17quickly. And even the method of killing
17:20was different. Once with a firearm, and
17:22once with a knife from a very close
17:24range. The police were left facing two
17:26possibilities. Each one harder than the
17:29other. Either it’s one person...
17:30someone who changes his style and
17:32appearance. To remain unpredictable and
17:34impossible to track. Or they are more
17:36than one person working under the same
17:39name. According to FBI files, there
17:41wasn't a single piece of physical
17:43evidence that conclusively linked all
17:45the crimes to one person. Meaning the
17:48entire investigation was running on a
17:50theory, not on proof. And this is a
17:52catastrophe. If it was one person, he
17:54is much smarter than they expected. And
17:56if they were more than one person, the
17:58story is much bigger than just a killer
18:00. After all these hypotheses, the
18:02investigation reached a stage where the
18:04problem wasn't a lack of information,
18:07but too much of it. The number of
18:08suspects reached the dozens. Each of
18:11them had something linking them to the
18:13case, yet at the same time, something
18:15clearing them of it. The police were at
18:18a standstill. There wasn't a single
18:20lead to move them one step forward. And
18:22what is the solution in such cases? You
18:23just have to sit and wait for the
18:25killer to make a mistake and reveal
18:27himself. The letters would stop for a
18:29while and then return on a certain date
18:31. On 3/22/1970, something happened that
18:35could have exposed him. This time there
18:38was no victim, there was a witness who
18:40lived and told the story of that night.
18:42A lady named Kathleen Johns, 22 years
18:46old. Seven months pregnant, and she had
18:49her 10-month-old baby girl with her.
18:52She was driving on the road, on her way
18:54to visit her sick mother. Suddenly, a
18:56light-colored car, according to. What
18:59was stated in the investigation report
19:00regarding her testimony. The driver was
19:02signaling for her to stop. As soon as
19:04she stopped, he told her that her car
19:06wheel was wobbling. He offered to fix
19:09it for her. But instead of tightening
19:11the wheel bolts, he pretended to fix it
19:13and loosened them all except one. As
19:16soon as Kathleen drove off, the car
19:18stalled. So he offered to give her a
19:21ride to the nearest station. And she
19:22didn't suspect a thing. She got in with
19:24him, she and her baby girl. She says he
19:26kept driving on isolated rural roads
19:29for over an hour and a half with my
19:31daughter. She was sure he wouldn't take
19:33them to the station. She was sure she
19:35was going to die, because he threatened
19:37to kill her and her daughter. But as
19:39soon as he stopped at a stop sign, she
19:41opened the door and jumped out with her
19:42daughter. She ran into a field and hid
19:45in the darkness. The man turned off his
19:47car and started looking for her. He
19:50stayed for a while, didn't find her,
19:52and left. Later, a passing car found
19:54Kathleen and her daughter. And took
19:57them to the nearest police station.
19:59Inside the police station, while
20:01waiting, she saw a paper hanging on the
20:03wall with a sketch of a criminal. She
20:06recognized him immediately. She said, "
20:08This is him, this is the man who
20:10kidnapped us." And the sketch was of
20:12the Zodiac. But before the police could
20:14return to her car and collect any
20:16evidence from it, the Zodiac had
20:18returned before them and burned it. To
20:21erase any evidence he might have left
20:23behind. Kathleen survived and became
20:25the most important witness in the whole
20:27case. The only person who. Sat with the
20:30Zodiac face to face. Of course, the
20:33police hypothesized that she might have
20:35said it was the Zodiac. Because he was
20:37the famous killer at the time. And
20:39maybe the one who kidnapped her and her
20:41daughter and wanted to kill them was
20:43someone who looks like him. However,
20:44the Zodiac himself is the one who
20:46confirmed to them that he kidnapped her
20:47. He sent a letter months later. He
20:50talked about the details of the
20:51kidnapping of Kathleen and her daughter
20:53. He talked about details that confirm
20:55he is indeed the one who did it. On
20:574/20/1970, he sent four letters in a
21:01row. All of them were mocking and
21:03ridiculing the police. One of these
21:05letters contained something very
21:06dangerous. The Zodiac wrote a sentence
21:09starting with two words. "My name is."
21:12And after that. He put a cipher of 13
21:15symbols. He said it reveals his real
21:17name. Imagine, the killer the world is
21:20looking for is giving them his name
21:22himself, but encrypted. And this cipher
21:25today is called Z13, and to this day,
21:27no one has been able to solve it. Just
21:3013 symbols. They might contain the name
21:34of America's most dangerous killer.
21:36That letter remains. A mystery to this
21:38day. After that letter, he sent them a
21:41drawing of a buried bomb. And with it,
21:44a map. A map of an entire area, with a
21:46symbol drawn over a mountain called
21:49Diablo, and a new cipher. He said the
21:52map and cipher would show you where the
21:55bomb is, and you have until fall to
21:58find it before it blows up, or all hell
22:01will break loose. Everyone tried to
22:03solve the cipher to find the bomb's
22:05location, but it was useless. No one
22:07was able to find it. No one even knew
22:09if it had exploded. No one even knew if
22:11it actually existed or not. This cipher
22:13is called Z32, and to this day, it
22:16remains unsolved. Before this matter
22:19could even end, he had sent them a
22:21drawing of a bomb designed to blow up a
22:23school bus and kill the children inside
22:25. He wrote that he intended to blow up
22:27a school bus. Panic stopped young men
22:30and women from driving their cars.
22:32Every mother sending her child to
22:34school started fearing for her kids.
22:36Until July 24, 1970, when the
22:39unthinkable happened. He sent a letter
22:43mocking the police, saying he was fed
22:45up with them, that they were a bunch of
22:47idiots, and that he decided to stop the
22:49game. At that time, thousands of fake
22:52letters were arriving from people
22:54writing riddles, claiming to be Zodiac.
22:57It became hard to distinguish which
22:59letter was real, which is exactly what
23:02he wanted. From that moment on, the
23:04letters stopped, crime rates in America
23:06returned to normal, and that was it.
23:08According to FBI archives, the last
23:11confirmed letter linked to his style
23:14was on January 29, 1974, and after that
23:17, everything disappeared. No crimes
23:20with the same MO, no letters with the
23:22same impact, and no new evidence to
23:24link the events together. It was as if
23:27the earth opened up and swallowed him.
23:28So, we reach the question everyone is
23:30waiting for. Do we know who the killer
23:32is? Unfortunately, contrary to what we
23:35all hope, to this day, no one knows who
23:37Zodiac is. According to official FBI
23:40files, the file is still classified as
23:43an open case despite about 60 years
23:46passing. Names emerged, theories were
23:49proposed, and people were officially
23:51accused. For instance, a man named
23:53Arthur Leigh Allen was one of the prime
23:56suspects in the 70s. But there was no
23:58conclusive evidence to convict him.
24:00Even with the development of DNA
24:02technology and recent attempts after
24:052018, where they tried to extract his
24:08DNA from the saliva on his stamps and
24:11envelopes, no definitive result was
24:14reached. They are all attempts, but
24:16they aren't reaching any solution.
24:18Zodiac is the strangest mystery the
24:20crime world has ever known. Not because
24:23he disappeared and ended, but because
24:25he was right in front of everyone's
24:27eyes, yet no one could figure out who
24:29he was. That was our story for today; I
24:31hope you liked it. If you like strange
24:34stories similar to this video, I
24:36suggest you watch the "Stole the Metal
24:38and Left the Cash" video, because
24:40it’s also full of mysteries, and
24:42believe me, it's a very good story.
24:44Share your opinion in the comments: How
24:46many crimes do you think Zodiac
24:47actually committed? And is he still
24:49alive, or did he die and his story end?
24:51I will read all your comments, honestly
24:53. Hi, I'll see you in the It video.

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