Zodiac Killer Research Paper
Running Head: ZODIAC
The Zodiac Killer Mystery
Criminal Justice 409
Professor Carr
April 22, 2012
The zodiac killer may be dead, in prison or out there living his life as a free man. All the killings that were supposedly committed by the zodiac killer may not have been by the same person, and this suggests that there were more than one killer. The publicity that the Zodiac killer developed in the period 1968-69 could have encouraged a rise of other killers who would impersonate the original killer. However, there were letters after most murders, and these letters were written in the same hand. However, this does not nullify the possibilities of a second killer.
Another possibility is that the letters were not connected to the murderer. This means that the murderer could have enjoyed killing, but was not interested in exposing his penchant, and neither was the person looking for publicity. Conclusively, it could be that the individual who wrote the letters took advantage of the killings so that he made investigations complex and scary. With the technology that is currently existent today, it would have been …show more content…
He was also known to misspell words exactly as the zodiac killer did and in one instance, Zodiac, in his letters to the Vallajo police, used a term “busy work” which was used by elementary school teachers for menial tasks to pupils (Wark, n.d). Unfortunately, although all this information pointed fingers at him, there was not enough evidence to prosecute him because there were no prints at the scenes of murders and those on the letters did not correspond to his fingerprints (FBI, 2007 ). With good technological advancement, it would have been easier to determine if he was the murderer through taking debris from the slain victims and using DNA profiling to determine if Allen was the Zodiac
The Zodiac Killer Mystery
Criminal Justice 409
Professor Carr
April 22, 2012
The zodiac killer may be dead, in prison or out there living his life as a free man. All the killings that were supposedly committed by the zodiac killer may not have been by the same person, and this suggests that there were more than one killer. The publicity that the Zodiac killer developed in the period 1968-69 could have encouraged a rise of other killers who would impersonate the original killer. However, there were letters after most murders, and these letters were written in the same hand. However, this does not nullify the possibilities of a second killer.
Another possibility is that the letters were not connected to the murderer. This means that the murderer could have enjoyed killing, but was not interested in exposing his penchant, and neither was the person looking for publicity. Conclusively, it could be that the individual who wrote the letters took advantage of the killings so that he made investigations complex and scary. With the technology that is currently existent today, it would have been …show more content…
He was also known to misspell words exactly as the zodiac killer did and in one instance, Zodiac, in his letters to the Vallajo police, used a term “busy work” which was used by elementary school teachers for menial tasks to pupils (Wark, n.d). Unfortunately, although all this information pointed fingers at him, there was not enough evidence to prosecute him because there were no prints at the scenes of murders and those on the letters did not correspond to his fingerprints (FBI, 2007 ). With good technological advancement, it would have been easier to determine if he was the murderer through taking debris from the slain victims and using DNA profiling to determine if Allen was the Zodiac