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Chapter 1: What is the Zodiac Killer case about?
i don't like that i actually hate it so much i don't really know why i just horrified myself you you oh man we're taking a little bit of time off but you won't know so we're batch recording a lot of things right now yeah so if we sound insane that's why like so we're taking time off but like it's not going to affect episodes yeah like your episodes will come out the same time so we have to record like a bunch of stuff in advance and that makes us cuckoo crazy
That makes us cuckoo crazy.
Right now, I'm actually excited, question mark, to talk about this case. I think this is a really fascinating case. It is. This is obviously, if you're here, you know it's the Zodiac case. This is like a obviously, obviously, I just keep saying that over and over again. This is a very devastating case. Yeah. But I think it's very interesting.
And it's wild to me that don't come at me in the comments because it still is unsolved. That it's still unsolved. Yeah. You can sit there and you can tell me that it's solved all you want to. It's still technically unsolved.
It's not.
It's not solved.
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Chapter 2: Who were the victims in the Lake Herman Road murders?
It's the same thing as the Jack the Ripper thing.
Yeah. No, I feel that way.
I'm going to become a zodiologist. A zodiologist. Also. Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to. Go ahead. Go ahead.
also i didn't i can't find the little i wrote down on a card who sent me this but a listener and if you're listening you're fucking awesome and i'll make sure to figure out your name and you better be on her side of the aesthetic argument on my side no a listener sent me went to london oh and went to the jack the ripper like uh tour and all that and sent us like in the p.o box like sent me a pin that says ripperologist on it from the like like the museum that's
Yeah.
You have been. I feel like it's already beneficial. So let's get into it. So the Zodiac killing started with the Lake Herman Road murders where 17-year-old David Faraday and his girlfriend, 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen, were killed. Betty Lou? I know, Betty Lou. What an adorable name. 16 and 17 years old. My God, literal babies. And they were your typical American teenagers in the fall of 1968.
Yeah. David was one of Vallejo High School's star wrestlers. He was a popular student. He was an Eagle Scout, not a Cub. That year, he had actually been awarded the Scout's God and Country Award, which is like a pretty high honor. Whoa. Similarly, Betty was said to be a popular and responsible student at Hogan High School, where she was in her junior year.
so young junior in high school yeah they were both active and after school activities they both participated a lot in community events like they were just like very all-american teenagers in fact it was one of those community events actually decorate the decorating committee for a winter dance that was being put on by the city that brought the two of them together in mid-december
And within a week of meeting, they had fallen for each other hard. And they started rearranging their schedules so they could spend more time together outside of school. Just young love. Oh, I love it. Now, Betty's parents had always forbidden her from dating. They really wanted her to focus on school instead. But that December, she did manage to convince them to let her go out with David.
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