On Oct. 22, 1969, a man claiming to be the Zodiac killer called a live San Francisco television show. The guest on the show was famed attorney Melvin Belli, and the show’s host was Jim Dunbar. Mr. Dunbar’s operator patched the caller through so the entire Bay Area could hear “Zodiac’s” voice. It was suggested […]
Author: Tom Voigt
Gaikowski Audio
In 1986, a former friend began to suspect that San Francisco resident Richard Gaikowski (pictured above) was the Zodiac killer. That friend made the recordings featured below. Eventually, Gaikowski’s recorded voice was played to Nancy Slover, who had spoken with the Zodiac in July 1969. Slover’s reaction to Gaikowski’s voice is included below. The audio […]
Betty and David
Tragedy on the outskirts of town By Tom Voigt | Founder: Zodiackiller.com | tomvoigt@zodiackiller.com As far as their parents knew, teenagers David Faraday and Betty Jensen were on their first official date, although the two had been seeing each other in secret whenever their schedules allowed. Students at separate Vallejo high schools, each had a […]
The Old, Buried Bomb
“bus goes bang car pass es by ok.” — The Zodiac’s threat from Nov. 9, 1969 By Tom Voigt | Founder: Zodiackiller.com | tomvoigt@zodiackiller.com In October 1969, the Zodiac killer mailed a letter in which he threatened to shoot out the tire of a full school bus and then kill the children within. In another […]
1996: My Hunt Begins
In my basement and reviewing several Zodiac suspects, including Arthur Leigh Allen By Tom Voigt | Founder: Zodiackiller.com | tomvoigt@zodiackiller.com I began collecting information about Zodiac suspect Arthur Leigh Allen soon after learning to navigate the Internet back in the mid-1990s. The process intensified in 1998 after launching my website, Zodiackiller.com. My research continues to […]
Vintage Vallejo
I created this image to help orient case enthusiasts with the area I call Zodiac Ground Zero, otherwise known as Vallejo, Cal. (The Zodiac killer’s crime scene along Lake Herman Road is out of the picture.) View full image: 1420 x 836 — 503 KB By Tom Voigt | Founder | Zodiackiller.com | tomvoigt@zodiackiller.com
Paul Avery’s Secret Suspect REVEALED
My recently obtained collection of former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery’s private stash of Zodiac killer materials reveals the name of a “new” suspect in the crimes Above: Those familiar with the Zodiac case will recognize Sherwood Morrill as being the individual in charge of identifying the Zodiac killer’s handwriting. Above: The suspect’s name […]
DNA and the Zodiac Killer: NEWS
The latest genetic testing yields mysterious results By Tom Voigt | Founder | Zodiackiller.com | tomvoigt@zodiackiller.com To the Vallejo Police Department, the desire to identify California’s still-at-large serial killer, the Zodiac, is as strong now as it was in the late 1960s, when the mysterious offender committed three area murders. Located about a 45-minute drive […]
The Zodiac Killer’s Hideout?
Located in an isolated spot in the hills over Lake Herman Road in Vallejo, Cal., the “Zodiac Shack” was rumored for decades by locals to be the former hideout of the Zodiac killer. The property had long been abandoned, but I found it thanks to directions from some residents of nearby Benicia.(I took these photos […]
Arthur Leigh Allen: The Missing Evidence
Top Zodiac killer suspect Arthur Leigh Allen was the subject of three search warrants. During one of those searches, police confiscated Allen’s infamous Zodiac wristwatch. That watch is now missing and officially listed as stolen. After Allen died in 1992, police offered all of the confiscated items — including the watch and numerous weapons — […]