The name "Zodiac" shook San Francisco, California, and the entire United States in 1968.

The Zodiac Killer is known internally as the "Zodiac Killer" by the American police.

On December 20, 1968, the Zodiac Killer killed a couple seemingly randomly in the downtown area of Benesia, California.

It was this case that officially entered the police's sight, but a series of investigations launched by the police had to end without any useful clues.

After that, the Zodiac Killer continued until the following year, in October 1969, when he killed five other victims, three men and two women, between the ages of 16 and 29.

In addition, there were many homicides that were thought to be the work of the zodiac killers, and the police had to give up when they did not find conclusive evidence at the scene that matched their characteristics.

The reason why this series of cases shook the United States is that on August 1, 1969, the Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Censor each received a letter, each with a cipher drawing, which was the first time that the zodiac killer voiced himself in the face of a police raid.

Six days later, the San Francisco Censor received another letter that began with the words, "Dear editor, this is the zodiac house talking to you." ”

It was this letter that shocked the entire San Francisco Police Department and later the FBI.

For the first time, Zodiac made it clear to the public what he was called, and then in response to Vallejo Police Chief Stillz asking him to provide more details to prove that it was he who killed Faraday, Jensen and Ferrion.

In this letter, the Zodiac provides all the details of the murder, including those parts that the police have not made public, and openly challenges all the cops: "If you can crack all the codes, then you will catch me!" ”

This time, Zodiac kept contacting the media in the form of letters and greeting cards, informing them of every detail of their case, or where they killed a few people, asking the police to collect the bodies, and so on......

The San Francisco police investigated the case for 36 years, and in April 2004, the unimaginable San Francisco police labeled the case as an idle "cold case."

One day in March 2007, the case was reopened, and the FBI fully intervened, mobilizing a lot of manpower and material resources to carry out an investigation, including DNA comparisons of all the deceased and suspects.

Then, to this day, the case remains unsolved......

"It won't be his, Wang Lei, it won't be him, even if he hasn't died, he's too old to move!" Coleman stared into Wang Lei's eyes, almost pleading.

Wang Lei didn't expect his words to scare Coleman like this, and he took Coleman's arm apologetically: "Of course it's not him, Coleman, I just said that this murderer is similar to the method of the zodiac." ”

Because of Coleman, after watching the scene, everyone drove back to Wang Lei's residence. Even Raymond came along, which was also arranged by Coleman from the beginning, but the original scheduled location was the office of the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide section.

The coffee brought by Wang Shui'er was put aside by Wang Lei, he went to the wine cabinet to find a bottle of vodka, poured a full cup for Coleman, and handed it to him: "Come, Coleman, I feel much more comfortable after drinking a glass of wine." Blame me for saying the wrong thing today. ”

Coleman snatched the glass and drank it down, choking on a series of coughs, but his face was instantly flushed under the stimulation of the high concentration of alcohol.

The man gradually calmed down, and Coleman recovered a lot. It turned out that during the period of tracing the zodiac, Coleman's father unfortunately died in a car accident, and at that time, Coleman was not very old.

This knot has always been stuck in Coleman's heart, but after being stimulated today, people are much more cheerful when they say it.

Coleman didn't delay Raymond's time, and didn't see Raymond anxiously wanting to ask a question a few times: "Wang Lei, you start analyzing today's case, I have nothing to do." ”

"The murderer must have been premeditated." Raymond took the files of the first two cases in his hand and spread them out on the table, pointing to the photos of three of the victims, Wang Lei said.

Everyone gathered in a circle, and everyone nodded. Since the murderer was premeditated, there should be some kind of connection between the three deceased, Wang Lei proposed this, maybe except for Wang Shui'er, everyone else thought of it.

"There was no connection between the three deceased." Raymond's answer stunned everyone, how could it be?

That's true, the average murder case is not too complicated for Raymond and they can handle it. It is precisely because they have investigated in detail that they will be embarrassed to ask for help.

The first deceased was a painter, Hugh Byrne, 30, whose body was found in the basement of his studio by the police a week after his disappearance.

The second deceased was a housewife, Anna, 28, who was killed one night in an alley less than 20 meters from her home while returning from shopping at the supermarket.

Both died in exactly the same way as Lawrence, both were shot in the chest by the killer, and then a knife was inserted through the ear and pierced deep into the brain.

The killer broke the handle of the knife, allowing the blade to remain in the deceased's brain, and then put a blindfold on the deceased.

"There is a high probability that the murderer is a man, and this kind of unscrupulous and premeditated serial murder has a more than 95% chance of being a man." Wang Lei first made a conclusion.

Before saying the second sentence, Wang Lei checked with Raymond again that there was no connection between the deceased. Then: "If it weren't for some mysterious connection between the deceased that we hadn't found out at the time, then the murderer was like the zodiac of the year, a prepared unpremeditated murderer." ”

It's tricky, this time it's tricky. Coleman thought for a moment and asked, "Wang Lei, do we need to ask Robert for support?" ”

"Let's go see the other dead first?" Wang Lei feels that there is no need to be in a hurry, there are no absolutes in the world, so why make a definition so early.

Just as everyone was about to go out, Raymond received a call from his subordinates, and hung up the phone with an ugly face: "A 22-year-old girl in the central district of the city has been killed, the same as Lawrence's, with a blade in her ear, the same murderer." ”

Raymond leads the way, and the convoy heads to the scene of the new victim's death.

The deceased, Brian, was killed at home, and an 8-year-old boy from a neighbor who was playing at the door saw Brian coming back from outside with a bag and watched her enter the door.

The little boy then heard a "bang", very briefly. A few minutes later, a man wearing a hood pushed the door open and hurried away.

Half an hour later, the boy returned to his house and told his mother about it. The child's mother thought left and right and felt that things were strange and took the initiative to call 911.

When Wang Lei and his entourage arrived, the body had already been removed, and the forensic doctor was left at the scene to report the situation to Raymond. There is no difference except for the difference between men and women and the place with Lawrence.

Faced with this replica-like murder scene, Wang Lei couldn't help but shrug his shoulders, not to mention others.

Pushing open Brian's door, there was a darker corridor more than a meter long. Half a meter later, there are rooms on the left and right, and at the end of the passage is a bedroom.

The police removed the body, but the marks on the ground remained. With the forensic explanation, Raymond was already available as a live narrator.

The deceased had just entered the door, and the moment he closed the door, he was shot in the chest, and along the aisle, there were bright red drag marks all the way to the bedroom.

The killer was killed in the bedroom by Brian, and then left unhurriedly.

Brian is a clerk at a law firm, mainly responsible for some of the firm's official correspondence, and the fact is that she and the first three deceased people will not have anything to do with it.

Wang Lei was very strange, pointed to the aisle and said, "Look at this aisle, and then look at the layout of this house." ”

To say that the layout of the house is not bad, except for this passage, the other rooms can be lit, and the windows of each room can see the green trees outside.

The problem also happened here, the curtains were open when Brian was out, maybe she just wanted to soak up a little sunlight in the room. The killer apparently went into hiding before Brian returned.

If the murderer doesn't want to be seen by people passing by outside the house or curious to watch, he can only hide in this aisle and wait for Brian's return, right?

Coleman's thinking this time was very calm and clear: "The murderer knew Brian, otherwise he would not know the surrounding environment of this area so well, and he would not have dared to wait at Brian's house, unless he could predict how long it would take Brian to return." ”

Raymond immediately called the team, but before he could say anything, the words made Raymond's face change again.

Taking a step forward, Raymond turns on the TV, where several channels have begun to hype up the appearance of a new serial killer in Los Angeles. Although they didn't know that the police did not release most of the details of the death, the successive deaths of several people and almost the same way of death made the media a little sensitive.

Kaleman and Wang Lei frowned almost at the same time, outside the window, there were already reporters who had begun to set up long guns and short guns, and well-informed people had learned of the involvement of the FBI's Los Angeles branch, and they were waiting to break the news.

After discussing it, Wang Lei felt that instead of letting Raymond go back to investigate the relationship between the murderer and Brian, it would be better for Cowman and Nathan to deal with it, at least to make sure that it would not be leaked to the media in advance.

This is a small opportunity, if you seize it, it is possible to find out the murderer, the news leaks out, and the murderer will definitely eliminate the traces in advance.

There were three women who went out to deal with the media, their faces were colder than the other, and they scolded and coaxed a few reporters who didn't touch their heads, and a few Coleman jumped out of the window and quietly went to the car to wait for the women who returned with honors.