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Oct 2024
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Zodiac Killer /// Part 2 /// 796

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Zodiac Killer /// Part 2 /// 796 


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This is the Zodiac speaking… the words of a killer.  The haunting words of a killer determined to terrorize and taunt the public in and around the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 60s and early 70s.  We featured this case at length a few years back with “The Zodiac” parts 1 through 5.  Those episodes are available for your listening pleasure and are True Crime Garage episodes #470 to #474, released March 9th through March 17th 2021.  This week we revisit one of the most infamous unsolved and unidentified serial killer cases in all of True Crime.  The Zodiac killer serial murder case.  To help us further investigate we are joined by Zodiac expert Dr. Mark Hewitt.  Mark has authored a Zodiac trilogy with his series The Zodiac Serial Killer. The trilogy is available everywhere you buy books with books:
Hunted - The Zodiac Serial Killer - book one - The Zodiac Murders 
Profiled - The Zodiac Serial Killer - book two - The Zodiac Examined  
Exposed - The Zodiac Serial Killer - book three - The Zodiac Revealed 
Now his book Obsessed: my relentless pursuit of the Zodiac killer is available. 

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