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The New York Zodiac Killer The Twisted Crimes of Heriberto Seda · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: In the early hours of the tenth of August nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety two, in Brooklyn, New York City, a thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: year old woman suffering with long term mental health issues
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  Speaker 1: found herself in an unfamiliar area near Highland Park.
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  Speaker 2: Patricia Farante, who was at times homeless, A very.
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  Speaker 1: Vulnerable woman, Patricia was lured to the park by a stranger.
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  Speaker 1: The man then shot her twice and stabbed her more
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  Speaker 1: than one hundred times. The vicious murder was carried out
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  Speaker 1: by Heliberto Eddie Sada, who believed he was following in
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  Speaker 1: the footsteps of the notorious Zodiac Killer.
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  Speaker 3: He took the legacy of another serial killer and tried
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  Speaker 3: to make it his own.
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  Speaker 4: He preyed on the vulnerable, He killed at random, and
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  Speaker 4: he was utterly heartless.
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  Speaker 1: Within four years, Sada attacked more than nine innocent victims,
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  Speaker 1: killing three.
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  Speaker 5: Being the carbucat Zoriak was in his DNA, was in
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  Speaker 5: his soul, and he liked the attention.
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  Speaker 6: He liked the media, He liked the results.
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  Speaker 1: He sought out and stalked victims on the fringes of
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  Speaker 1: society to feed his lust for power and status. Confirming
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  Speaker 1: Heliberto Eddie Zada the New York Zodiac as one of
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  Speaker 1: the world's most evil killers. In the early nineteen nineties,
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  Speaker 1: terroot grip the city of New York, USA, Heliberto Eddie
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  Speaker 1: Zada roamed the streets late at night masquerading the San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco Zodiac Killer.
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  Speaker 7: It caused a lot of fear within the citizens of
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  Speaker 7: New York City, in particular Brooklyn and Queens that there
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  Speaker 7: was now a serial killer claiming to be the Zodiac.
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  Speaker 7: And everybody recalled that the Zodiac in the San Francisco
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  Speaker 7: Bay area in the sixties and he was never apprehended,
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  Speaker 7: and this guy was claiming to be one and the same.
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  Speaker 1: Inner city, already overwhelmed with crime. Sada was shooting strangers
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  Speaker 1: in the street, but his attacks went unnoticed until he
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  Speaker 1: left a series of enigmatic notes purporting to be from
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  Speaker 1: the Zodiac Killer.
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  Speaker 7: It caused the media frenzy. So we had to deal
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  Speaker 7: with this publicity and reporters, and it put a lot
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  Speaker 7: of pressure on the NYPD.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Joseph Herbert was one of the investigator who spent
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  Speaker 1: years pursuing the New York Zodiac.
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  Speaker 6: What the Zodiac was done.
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  Speaker 5: He was doing males, females, black, white, Spanish. He had
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  Speaker 5: no pacific target. I think it was just the best
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  Speaker 5: opportunity that he had, you know, he could get away
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  Speaker 5: with him.
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  Speaker 2: He prided himself on the idea that he got better
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  Speaker 2: and better at it, that he had trained himself to
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  Speaker 2: use stealth and surprise more and more and more, and
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  Speaker 2: that he became more accomplished as a murder.
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  Speaker 1: The chilling story of Heliberto Eddie Sada the New York
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  Speaker 1: Zodiac begins in New York City. Born in nineteen sixty seven,
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  Speaker 1: he was the eldest of two children.
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  Speaker 4: It was a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, but at his
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  Speaker 4: mother was very proud. She wanted to do the very
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  Speaker 4: best for her two children.
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  Speaker 3: It was quite a dangerous part of the city to
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  Speaker 3: be in, and I think their mother really struggled in
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  Speaker 3: terms of keeping her children out of that kind of lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: Sada's father was absent during his impoverished childhood.
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  Speaker 3: They barely had enough money to eat at times, so
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  Speaker 3: Sada stepped into that role as the patriarch of the family.
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  Speaker 3: He was quite controlling, especially when it came to his
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  Speaker 3: younger half sister, in terms of the kind of things
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  Speaker 3: that she did, the kind of people that she hung
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  Speaker 3: out with. He was somebody who voluntarily excluded himself from
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  Speaker 3: drugs and from gang crime.
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  Speaker 4: Eddie grew up being rather religious, but also strangely reclusive. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 4: Eddie sada was, by all accounts, a good student, very
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  Speaker 4: anti drugs, anti alcohol addiction.
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  Speaker 3: Sadah really hated the drug dealers in the neighborhood, and
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  Speaker 3: he really didn't like the fact that his younger half
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  Speaker 3: sister had some friends who were involved in drug dealing.
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  Speaker 3: He was casting judgment on other people for their choices,
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  Speaker 3: for their behaviors, for their decisions.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty three, at the age of sixteen, Eddie said,
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  Speaker 1: who was suspended from high school for carrying a weapon,
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  Speaker 1: he would never return, no longer in education.
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  Speaker 8: He now lacked a focus.
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  Speaker 3: This part of his life that is quite routine, that
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  Speaker 3: is quite predictable and stable, has now gone, and I
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  Speaker 3: think he feels an awful lot of resentment about that.
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  Speaker 4: He seems to create at this point his own very
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  Speaker 4: elaborate fantasy world within his bedroom.
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  Speaker 9: He doesn't go out much, he doesn't have a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot of friends. One neighbor describes him as a chronically
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  Speaker 4: unemployed recluse.
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  Speaker 1: The enraged teenager would never return to school. Instead, he
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  Speaker 1: tried to enlist in the US military.
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  Speaker 3: He'd failed the entrance exam just by a few points,
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  Speaker 3: and this was something that he didn't take very well
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  Speaker 3: at all. I think this is something that he saw
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  Speaker 3: as pivotal to his sense of identity and his future,
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  Speaker 3: and he became incredibly angry about this. He looks at
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  Speaker 3: the things that he tries to do and when he
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  Speaker 3: fails to do them, it's someone else's fault. The world
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  Speaker 3: is pitted against him, and I think during the course
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  Speaker 3: of this rumination, he starts plotting what is he going
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 6: With his life.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling rejected by school and now the army, Sada searched
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  Speaker 1: for a new way to define himself.
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  Speaker 3: Sada had a real interest in and admiration for violence,
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  Speaker 3: so he read a lot about guns and serial killers.
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  Speaker 3: He actually had a set of serial killer playing cards.
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  Speaker 3: These were the people that he admired.
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  Speaker 4: He watches a documentary on the San Francisco Zodiac killar
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  Speaker 4: who killed five people and was never caught.
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  Speaker 3: The story around the Zodiac killer is one of power,
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  Speaker 3: and it's one of status. Somebody who was able to
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  Speaker 3: hold an entire city to.
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  Speaker 4: Ransom somewhere in that developing psyche, he thinks, perhaps I
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  Speaker 4: could become the Zodiac killer.
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  Speaker 8: I can become someone who's remembered. I can be the
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  Speaker 8: same person.
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  Speaker 1: By nineteen eighty nine, twenty two year old Eddie Sader's
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  Speaker 1: perverse interests had grown and they were becoming increasingly practical.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to be a soldier, so he purchased fatigues.
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  Speaker 2: He had lots of hunting knives. He never worked, as
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  Speaker 2: I could tell a day in his life. He really
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  Speaker 2: had very little income, and as.
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  Speaker 9: A result of that, he was never going to be
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  Speaker 9: able to buy a gun steadily.
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  Speaker 4: He began to teach himself how to create build guns
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  Speaker 4: zip guns.
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  Speaker 7: A zip gun is a homemade gun that it's basically
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  Speaker 7: a length of pipe and you put something at the
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  Speaker 7: end of that pipe that acts as a firing pin.
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  Speaker 7: Something very crude. It doesn't have rapid fire, multiple fire capability.
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  Speaker 7: It's one shot at a time. They're not very accurate.
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  Speaker 7: It's absolutely essential you have to be close up to
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  Speaker 7: your target.
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  Speaker 1: Unemployed, unwanted, and isolated said it was preparing to act
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  Speaker 1: on his darkest instincts. On the seventeenth of November nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine, a cryptic letter arrived at an office of
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  Speaker 1: the New York Police Department.
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  Speaker 2: The letter had an astrological wheel, and it had some threats,
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  Speaker 2: and it had the indication that it had been someone murdered.
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  Speaker 1: The author of the letter claimed to be the infamous
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco Zodiac Killer, resuming his attacks nearly three thousand
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  Speaker 1: miles away and twenty years since his last known victim.
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  Speaker 1: He'd drawn a circle divided into twelve sections. One section
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  Speaker 1: was marked out alongside the words the first sign is dead.
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  Speaker 2: There was kind of a cursory investigation to see if
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  Speaker 2: there was anything matching any of the information that was
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  Speaker 2: contained in a letter, and there wasn't, and so essentially
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  Speaker 2: the letter was vouchered and in more senses, I think
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  Speaker 2: just forgotten about. The seventy fifth Precinct was notorious for
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  Speaker 2: having the highest murder rate in the city, so they
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  Speaker 2: were not really going to be able to put a
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  Speaker 2: lot of resources into investigating this hardball letter that they received.
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  Speaker 4: It was regarded as a simply crank letter talking about
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  Speaker 4: the San Franciscos.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, kind have.
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  Speaker 4: Gone away for twenty years and changed coasts from the
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  Speaker 4: west of the east.
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  Speaker 9: It defies belief.
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  Speaker 1: Less than four months later, twenty two year old Heliberto
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  Speaker 1: eddie Zada would breathe life into that letter's murderous prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: On Thursday, the eighth of March nineteen ninety, forty nine
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  Speaker 1: year old Mario Olosco was making his way home from
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  Speaker 1: work at one forty five am.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Abraska took the train home from Manhattan back to
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  Speaker 5: the East New York area of Brooklyn, where he lived.
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  Speaker 5: He required a cane and he had a severe limp
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  Speaker 5: when he walked. He walked approximately four blocks when he's
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  Speaker 5: approached from the rear by an individual who doesn't say anything,
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  Speaker 5: should chum once in a back and runs away.
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  Speaker 1: Badly injured, Mario or Rosco struggled to his home across
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  Speaker 1: the street and called nine to one one.
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  Speaker 4: The bullet is lodged in his spine, and doctors thought
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  Speaker 4: it was simply too dangerous to remove it, and so
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  Speaker 4: it remained there.
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  Speaker 1: Thankfully, or Roscoe survived, but without the bullet, investigators were
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  Speaker 1: left with no meaningful evidence from the crime scene.
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  Speaker 8: The New York Zodiac.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two year old heli Berto eddie Zada had tasted
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  Speaker 1: blood for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: Up until this point in time, he'd just been thinking,
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  Speaker 3: and he'd been planning. It had all been in his head.
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  Speaker 3: But now he's doing and this is actually real.
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  Speaker 1: Three weeks later, in the early hours of Thursday, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth of March, the Zodiac would strike again. He
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  Speaker 1: shot an intoxicated thirty four year old man once in
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  Speaker 1: the back and again took flight.
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  Speaker 2: He suffered serious injuries, was fortunate that he survived. We
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  Speaker 2: wound up with fragments of a bullet that were really
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  Speaker 2: not useful for ballistic evidence purposes. He never saw his assailant.
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  Speaker 2: We had very little evidence, so an investigation was really
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  Speaker 2: very hard to mount.
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  Speaker 4: So this is now two victims, both of whom have survived. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 4: there are two random shootings in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 4: both in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Despite some similarities, there was no apparent link between the
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  Speaker 1: two crimes, so the cell style Zodiac killer remained invisible
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  Speaker 1: to police as he moved on to a third target
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, the thirty first of May nineteen ninety Mister.
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  Speaker 5: Choseph Proachey lived right around the corner from the subway
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  Speaker 5: station where the first two victims exited.
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  Speaker 6: The night that they were shut.
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  Speaker 7: Joseph Procy was an elderly seventy eight year old man.
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  Speaker 9: He had become a bit senile.
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  Speaker 4: Joseph was approaching his own apartment. Sada engaged with this
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  Speaker 4: elderly man and asked for a glass of water. Joseph said,
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  Speaker 4: go to your own apartment and get a glass of
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  Speaker 4: water and turned his back, and at that point Adah
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  Speaker 4: shot him in the back.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbors heard the gunshot and called the police, but Sada
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  Speaker 1: had once again fled the scene. Joseph Procy was rushed
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  Speaker 1: into surgery in critical condition. He was unable to provide
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  Speaker 1: police with a good description of his attacker.
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  Speaker 2: Sada's selection of victims bespoke a level of cowardice. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: that was weak, vulnerable, disoriented. He was always looking for
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  Speaker 2: someone that he was certain would not fight back and
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  Speaker 2: they can't do anything to stop him.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly a month later, Joseph Proache died as a result
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  Speaker 1: of the attack. With his third attempt, the New York
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  Speaker 1: Zodiac had claimed his first kill. He took the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to taunt the police.
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  Speaker 5: The detectives observed a letter that was on mister Proacher's
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  Speaker 5: front stoop, and it was being weighted down by three stones,
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  Speaker 5: and the letter had a pie circle and with then
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  Speaker 5: the slices of the pie. He had documented three astrological
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  Speaker 5: science and he stated that three sciens are dead.
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  Speaker 2: He indicated that he was responsible for the three and
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  Speaker 2: the twe to the cops that they would not catch him,
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  Speaker 2: just as he hadn't been caught in San Francisco. That
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  Speaker 2: was one of the police recognized they had a serial
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  Speaker 2: perpetrator on their hands. That became the tipping point in
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  Speaker 2: the media coverage as well, because now the Zodiac could
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  Speaker 2: become a murderer.
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  Speaker 7: Week after Joseph proach you, we shot a writer for
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  Speaker 7: the New York Post. He had received a letter from
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  Speaker 7: someone claiming to be the Zodiac. We were pretty certain
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  Speaker 7: that the person who left the note, said Joseph Proacy
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  Speaker 7: was the same person who wrote this note.
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  Speaker 5: So the first sign is dead, second sign is dead.
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  Speaker 5: Even though some victims survived, he still called them kills.
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  Speaker 5: He intended to kill every single person that he attacked.
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  Speaker 3: And this really does tell us about that narcissistic strand
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  Speaker 3: in his personality. He doesn't want to be caught, but
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  Speaker 3: he wants it to be known that there is a
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  Speaker 3: serial killer on the loose.
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  Speaker 5: He boasted that the bullets that he was using and
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  Speaker 5: his weapons had no grooves.
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  Speaker 2: A regular gun, the barrel is drilled out in a
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  Speaker 2: certain way to leave identifiers that are unique, and they're
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  Speaker 2: called lands and grooves. He believed he would be leaving
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  Speaker 2: no evidence by using his zip guns.
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  Speaker 5: Upon examination and the ballistics laboratory, he was accurate. There
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  Speaker 5: were no traditional langent grooves on the bullets that would
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  Speaker 5: be covered from the victims.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Post turned up the heat on the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: publishing the letter on its front page.
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  Speaker 6: The headlines are screaming Zodiac killer.
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  Speaker 2: Both signs the enormous crime rates that were already besieging
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  Speaker 2: the city that this became even more skinned that it
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  Speaker 2: was this unknown person running around, not randomly, but seeking
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  Speaker 2: people by birth sign. A lot of calls came in,
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  Speaker 2: mostly scraps of I met a guy who asked for
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  Speaker 2: my birthday, what's your signed kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 9: There was very little actionable intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: This really is Sata at the height of his arrogance.
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  Speaker 3: He's quite enjoying it. I think he feels like he
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  Speaker 3: struck the right balance at this point in time between
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  Speaker 3: actually being recognized for what he's done yet not being apprehended.
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  Speaker 1: In pursuit of the serial killer, the NYPD had formed
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  Speaker 1: a Zodiac task force operating out of Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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  Speaker 2: And they noticed that the crimes were happening on Thursdays.
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  Speaker 5: The shootings were within multiples of twenty one days, so
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  Speaker 5: twenty one days at the mister Prochel we shot.
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  Speaker 6: The NYPD flooded.
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  Speaker 5: The East New York and wood Have an area of
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  Speaker 5: Brooklyn Queens in anticipation of.
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  Speaker 6: A possible shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Operation Watchdog was launched on the night of Thursday, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty first of June nineteen ninety. Mike Saidavolo was one
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  Speaker 1: of the officers who took to the streets.
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  Speaker 7: I think I had like fifty detectives with all kinds
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  Speaker 7: of unmarked vehicles, vans that looked like ice cream trucks
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  Speaker 7: and things that wouldn't readily stand out.
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  Speaker 9: As being a police vehicle.
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  Speaker 7: We were basically going to take notice of whoever was
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  Speaker 7: walking the street between midnight and sunrise, and we pretty
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  Speaker 7: much did that all night long.
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  Speaker 9: The sun came up, nothing happened.
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  Speaker 5: There was no shootings in the Brooklyn and Queen's area,
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  Speaker 5: So the detectives were getting ready to wrap it up,
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  Speaker 5: and David c a notification that there was in fact
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  Speaker 5: a shooting, but this time he struck in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: In Central Park, a homeless man who had psychological problems
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  Speaker 2: at substance abuse problems, was asleep on a park bench.
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  Speaker 9: He was shot on the park bench. He only wounded
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  Speaker 9: the person and.
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  Speaker 2: The bullet lodged in the bench, and it actually matched
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  Speaker 2: the bullet from the pro Cheese scene, so we knew
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  Speaker 2: we had the same gun and likely the same perpetrator.
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  Speaker 2: And more valuable than that was the note that was
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  Speaker 2: left at the scene. The note had basically more indications
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  Speaker 2: of the three priors, as well as birth sign.
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  Speaker 1: The following day, Friday, the twenty second of June nineteen ninety,
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  Speaker 1: a second letter arrived at the New York Post newspaper.
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  Speaker 1: Again the author claimed to be the San Francisco's.
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  Speaker 2: That letter had a thumb print and it matched the
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  Speaker 2: thumb print that was on the letter left at the
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  Speaker 2: Central Park crimes. The hope was then that we would
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  Speaker 2: be able to find a suspect and match them up
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  Speaker 2: to some of this information. We looked and checked to
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  Speaker 2: see if there's anyone in the system that matched those
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  Speaker 2: prints and we found no one.
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  Speaker 7: He's talking about constellations, he's talking about fouls, he's talking
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  Speaker 7: about some really weird stuff that as New York City
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  Speaker 7: cops we're just not familiar with. He was claiming to
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  Speaker 7: be one Zodiac, one and the same.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming across as very angry and very frustrated because
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  Speaker 3: it's been speculated that this is a copycat, this is
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  Speaker 3: an imitation, this is somebody who is less than the
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  Speaker 3: original Zodia.
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  Speaker 7: We sent those letters to the same Francisco police department
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  Speaker 7: and they were able to say with one hundred percent
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  Speaker 7: degree of certainty that the guy who's writing all letters
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  Speaker 7: was not the guy they were dealing with in the
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  Speaker 7: late sixties and early seventies. He wanted her to make
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  Speaker 7: himself bigger than he really.
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  Speaker 6: Was, Eddiberto.
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  Speaker 1: Eddie Sada had struck four times but had killed only once.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Police had scoured the Zodiac's communications, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that before he was finished, he'd promised that another eight
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  Speaker 1: lives would be ruthlessly taken.
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  Speaker 5: He had attacked in Manhattan and Queens and he attacked
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  Speaker 5: in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 6: Three of the five boroughs in New York City instilled
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  Speaker 6: a lot of fear in the city as a whole.
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  Speaker 7: We didn't have a clear description from any of the victims.
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  Speaker 7: We weren't sure if we were looking for a black man,
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  Speaker 7: a Latinal man, a Caucasian man. We just didn't have
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  Speaker 7: any concrete witnesses to tell us, which made it tough.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of nineteen ninety, the New York Zodiac
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  Speaker 1: had ceased communication.
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  Speaker 5: The NYPD at the time thought that not only had
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  Speaker 5: he stopped communicating with us, but that he had stopped
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  Speaker 5: perpetrating his attacks.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing happened the next Thursday or the Thursday after the
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: task force dissolved. Over a period of time, everybody went
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: back to their assignments and everybody forgot about them.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Sada takes a step back, and I think this is
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: something that he's learned through reading about lots of different
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: cases of serial killers and trying to learn from the
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: mistakes that they've made. This is to allow him to
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: collect his thoughts and start planning the next phase of attacks.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Eddie Sada had gone silent as the New York Zodiac,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: but maintained contact with police in other ways.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: He becomes to some extent a police informant, informing the
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: police about local drug lords.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: In his bit of Brooklyn.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: At one point Sada can be a killer and the
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: other point he can be offended by drug use and
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: drug dependency, another of the conflicts in an extraordinary character
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: of Eddie Cada.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Despite this unlikely collaboration, the New York Police Department was
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: no closer to connecting Caeda to the New York Zodiac attacks.
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: I had always said that this case is going to
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: be solved by way of a fluke, something bizarre happening.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: Maybe he'll jump over.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: A turnstile to evade the fare on the subway, grab
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: them and they'll fingerprint them, and then they'll say, bing,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: we have a match.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Four years after his first attack, on the tenth of
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: March nineteen ninety four, officers spotted Eddie Sada outside his
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: apartment carrying one of his homemade zip guns. They arrested
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: him for unlicensed possession of a potentially lethal weapon.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: The police examined the zip gun, which is made up
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: of the most extraordinary materials, including shoelaces and a rubber band.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: When this contraption is sent to ballistics, the ballistics guys
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: didn't know how it worked, and they couldn't figure it out,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: so it was listed as inoperable.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: The disc attorney dismissed the case. His fingerprint card was sealed.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Incredibly, sada had escaped from right under the noses of
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the NYPD and his fingerprint record was inaccessible to police.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Saida's conviction that he was somehow immortal and beyond reproach
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: is confirmed.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: On the third of August nineteen ninety four, three days
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: after Eddie Sadar's twenty seventh birthday, a third Zodiac letter
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: arrived at the offices of the New York Post. It
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: had been four years since the last Zodiac communicate and
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the lust of his four known attacks.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: From handwriting analysis, they recognized that it's our friend the
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Zodiac back from nineteen ninety Again, he's been busy.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: On the upper right hand part of the letter are
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: five documented victims, similar to the earlier letters, where he's
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: giving a brief description of the date, the time, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: a brief description of the victim. He had stopped communicating
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: with the media and the police, but he continued doing
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: his crimes.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: He had dropped the warnings in advance, so he reported
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the news afterwards, which gave him a tremendous advantage.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: The upper left hand portion of the letter is a
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: series of maritime flags that he put into a code.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: When they broke down the code of the letter, it said,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: this is a Zodiac speaking I am in control. He
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: who masters there will be more yours truly. On the
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: bottom half of the letter, he's taunting the police. He
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: puts the Zodiac nine NYPD zero, so he's bragging.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: That he's out small on the NYPD.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: He had shot nine. He's threatening to shoot his three
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: more one. He signed the Zodiac. So they started a
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: second test force, and I was assigned to that task force.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: What I immediately started doing was tracking down the five
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: victims and his claiming in this letter.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: They were all were in Highland Park.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: The NYPD and looking at it, recognized that the first
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: four they had open investigations into each of those.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: The fifth victim we looked high in law. We could
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: not come up with that victim, so we were only
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: able to.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Come up with four of the five. In this new letter.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Two of the four victims had not survived their injuries.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Looking back on these cases, investigators discovered that on Monday,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the tenth of August nineteen ninety two, twenty five year
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: old Eddie Sada had encountered a thirty nine year old
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: with mental health issues named Patricia Fonte.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: The attack on Patricia Fonte was quite different from the
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: other attacks.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: All the other Zodiac crimes were approached from behind, gunshot
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: fired and he.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Flees, and this was up close and personal. He went
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: up to her. They started engaging in conversation.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: She asked them for a cigarette. He enticed her with
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: a cigarette that he had, and he lawed her into
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Hayland Park.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: He proceeds to shoot her twice. He then goes into
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: overkill and he stabs her more than a hundred times. Now,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: to stab someone one hundred times takes a very very
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: great deal of determination, enormous amount of effort, because it
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: is literally terrifying.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I think he recognized that if somehow or another she
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: had eluded his capture at that point, that she might
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: have been able to laid out of find from the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: amount of time that he had spent with her.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Patricia Fonte, of course, died of her injuries. There was
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: almost no way she could have survived.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Patricia Fonte was the second murder at the hands of.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: The New York Zodiac.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: More than a year later, on the twenty first of
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: July nineteen ninety three.
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: He'd killed again.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Joseph dire Cone, a forty six year old long term
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: mental health patient, had been shot in the neck whilst
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: wandering through Highland Park. He bled out and died instantly.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: With these new attacks, Eddie Sada had sheared the constraints
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of his prior methodology.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: These killings were not carried out on a Thursday. There
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: were no links to the signs of the Zodiac that
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: there had been with the previous four shootings, and he's
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: very deliberately adapted his routine here because he doesn't want
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: to be caught.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Despite this caution, one of his surviving victims had finally
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: managed to get a good look at their attacker.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: She sues a male hispanic or a mustache and wearing
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: some kind of a hat, point the gun at her
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: and fires one shot, stragging home in a neck.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: The woman was partially paralyzed, but her description was used
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: in a police sketch. Until then, investigators had only received
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: patchy and inconsistent information about the appearance of the New
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: York Zodiac.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: He took quite a lot of care varying his appearance,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: so he would occasionally wear hats. He would grow a
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: mustache and then he would shave it off after he'd
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: carried out an attack. So he lived for his attacks.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: They were essentially his occupation. This was his day job.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: We've been able to lead that we could chasing finger
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: friends and chasing ballistics.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: Monster Department decided.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: To break up the second Task Force like they did
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: the first Test Force. I was assigned to become a
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: hostage negotiator.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: The pursuit of the New York Zodiac that hit another
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: dead end. Then two years later, on the eighteenth of
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: June nineteen ninety six, the NYPD received a call.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: The phone rang about twelve noon and they had a
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: hostage job where an individual had shot his sister and
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: he was holding her boyfriend hostage in a back bedroom
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: of the department. I rased the got there as fast
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: as I could. When I arrived, the attire area was
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: cordoned off. I was informed that not only had he
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: shot his sister and had the boyfriend still hostage in
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: the back bedroom, but when responding police arrived, he shouted
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: out With about fifteen cops. He had positioned guns at
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: each window in the apartment and he would run from
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: window to window shooting at the cops below, and they
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: were shooting back. So finally Emergor Services survived. They were
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: able to court an off the area the gunfire ceased.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: He's still a hostage.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Taker with the hostage, Sergeant Herbert tried to establish communication
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: with the man who identified himself as Eddie.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: He's not talking to me from the window. Finally they
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: were able to.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Evacuate the entire building and we were able to climb
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: up the steps to Eddie's front door, and I started
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: to try to get him to engage me a conversation then.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: So we were in the hallway for about three hours
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: and I was speaking to him, trying to get him
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: to surrender. I was telling him, Eddie, and up, blood
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: has been shed. You know, we don't need any more violence.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: In surrender, you won't be hurt. This is going to
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: be okay, let's end this now. So finally he says,
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: am I going to go to jail? I said, Eddie,
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: I can't lie to you. You're going to go to jail.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: You know you shot your sister, you shot the cops.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: You know it's a very serious thing. So then he
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: tells us that he's very surrender and he says that
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: he's got a lot of weapons inside the apartment and
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: a lot of ballistics, a lot of bullets. It took
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: three bucket loads to get all his zip guns and
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: bullets out of the department.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: We had already started.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Like relaxed a little bit out in the hallway because
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: we know all the weapons are out.
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: But then he said, I gave you all my guns.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: What should I do with my bombs? So I said, Eddie,
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: you got bombs in here.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: The bomb squad was urgently dispatched and they recovered two
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: crude pipe bombs from the small apartments. Eddie was arrested
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and charged with attempted murder of his half sis and
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: that of several police officers in the ensuing shootout. During
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: an interrogation, the twenty nine year old told police what
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: had happened.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: That his half sister brought a man back to the flat.
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: He's a drug dealer.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: He's not someone that Sada feels that his half sister
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: should be consorting with.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Sada's relationship with his younger sister is a very significant
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: one because it's a relationship in which he felt like
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: he was in control that as she got older, she
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: began to challenge that authority. He also hated his sister
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: having any relationships with men, so he became incredibly angry
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: about this.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: He gets into a beef with his sister and he
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: shoots her in the butt, and that'll certainly bring you
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: to the attention of the police. And then when he's
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: at the station house and he's writing his confession, he
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: just couldn't help himself.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: The detective said, we want you to see this. It's
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: a confession that Eddie had for shooting his sister. And
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: the handwriting jumped out at me as the handwriting that
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: I've been studying.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: For the last four years, five years.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: At the bottom of the second page, he has an
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: upside down cross similar to the earlier letters. I said,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: I sure, as I'm standing at is the Zodiac. Everything
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: starts fitting together. The zip guns, the location.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: The case had been cracked wide open, now investigates his
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: new where to look. The evidence proving that Sada and
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the Zodiac were one and the same was mounting. In
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: his notes, the Zodiac boasted that his homemade weapons would
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: leave no traceable marks on the bullets found in his victims.
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: He was wrong.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: When a bullet travels to a pipe it still leaves
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: distinctive marks on the bullet, so they were able to
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: identify three of the bullets from victims of the Zodiac
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: that we recovered from the victims with some of the
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: pipes and zip guns that we took out of his apartment.
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: When they matched his fingerprints, Bingo had abertdough Sayla was arrested,
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: charged as the Zodiac killer.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Forensic experts had also confirmed a handwriting and DNA match
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: with the Zodiac letters.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: All he wanted to talk about initially was the Bible
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: and religion. Eventually he realized, you know, we were telling
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: him about the evidence that we had. He knew the
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: way we were talking. We knew what we were talking about.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: You know, we knew that case. We lived that case
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: for years. He finally confessed he believed that he was
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: writting society of.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Drug addicted people.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: It was the first time that he, in a sense,
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: thrown off the cloak and said here I am, I'm
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: the New York Zodiac.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Seedah revealed much about the Zodiac crimes, but not the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: most peculiar detail.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: There was nothing up his sleeve anymore, except he would
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: not reveal how it was. He knew the birth signs
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: of his first four victims, and I always took that
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: to be his guilty pleasure of still taunting the police
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: that he had something that they couldn't figure out and
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: he would never reveal it. He described these people as
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: almost two dimensional. They have targets. They were stick figures.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: They were not flesh and blood. They were not real people.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: They didn't hurt, they didn't suffer, they didn't have lives.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: They were just inanimate objects to him.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: The arrogant killer had narrowly escaped justice once before. Two
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: years earlier, Eddie Sader had been arrested for carrying a
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: zip gun. Police at the time considered it to be unusable,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: so he was released.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: They preserved and kept that inoperable gun. Let's retest this
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: thing now that we've got these other guns that we
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: all recovered from his home, and sure enough, yeah, it
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: is operable, and we were able to show that ultimately
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: matched the bullet that had been removed from one of
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: the victims.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: The police had had Eddie Sailer in their hands, but
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: because the case against Sada was closed, his fingerprints weren't
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: available to the police who was searching for the Zodiac
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Killer on.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: The fourteenth of May nineteen ninety eight, thirty year old
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Hedi Berto Eddie Sada began a six week trial at
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Queen's Supreme Court, charged with three murders and one attempted
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: murder in the Queen's District of New York.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: He shouts at the judge it's as if I'm not here,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: I'm being ignored.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I think he felt threatened, and I think he felt
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: at the same point that I'm not being treated merely
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: as significantly.
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: As I should be as a result of all I accomplished.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: There's a real vanity that attaches in this almost puffed
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: up sense of.
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: Do you know who I am?
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: And I think it's a confusion between fame and infamy.
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: After trial of.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Six weeks, the jury take barely five hours to convict him.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: On the twenty second of July nineteen ninety eight, Heriberto
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Eddie Sada was sentenced to eighty three at the third
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: years in prison. The following year, on the eighth of
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: July nineteen ninety nine, after a second trial for his
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: crimes in the district of Brooklyn, Sada was once again
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: found guilty. He was convicted of three Zodiac crimes as
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: well as the shooting of his half sister and four
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: attempts on the lives of police officers during the ensuance siege.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: He is sentenced to a further one hundred and fifty
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: two and a half years in prison, making his total
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: sentence up two hundred and thirty five years.
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: Herr.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Berto Eddie Sada had eluded capture for over six years,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: and authorities believe he was far from finished when his
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: luck finally ran out.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: He was upset that a number of people survived the shootings,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: like if I'd made my weapon a little better, there
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: would have been more people dead.
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: That it was.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Very insulted by the fact that some of these people lived.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: I believe that if he did, in fact hit the
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: number twelve, that he would continue killing people, although he
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: might have just graduated to the bombs.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: He did say that as ultimate ambition was to take
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: pipe bombs to the big Imax movie theater in Manhattan
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: and lay it in the middle of a theater under
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: a seat and see it get detonated. It is kind
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: of scary to see somebody who had such a small
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: life as mister Sator, who never really went anywhere outside
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: of that square mile killing field that he invented, who
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: never really had any connections with anyone. On a budget
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: as small as his, he could kill three people, nearly
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: kill others, and cause the amount of misery that he did.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: He was basically the lowest rent serial killer that you
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: were ever going to find.
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: Well, he's a coward.
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: He shoots people that are helpless, homeless, sleeping, walking with
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: a cane and a limb, elderly, and for someone to
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: shoot his own sister.
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: He was a monster, very evil, very evil guy.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Over six years, Eddie Sayda, the copycat Zodiac killer, stalk
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the streets of New York City in search of easy targets.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: His cowardly attacks culminated with the ferocious murder of a
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: woman who'd only asked him for a cigarette. He'd convinced
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: himself that he served a higher purpose, but merely indulged
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: his lust for notoriety and violence, marking heriberto Eddie Sada
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: as one of the world's most evil killer.
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: School