Further Reading For Unsolved Serial Murders
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Last Podcast isn’t in the habit of covering unsolved crimes. I guess it makes it hard for them to end the podcast on a note of optimism since these crimes provide no sense of closure. Everyone’s just dead and no one is doing the time for committing the murders. There’s also a gruesome quality to these crimes, more gruesome than your average serial killing in that the mind at work was able to commit some seriously heinous murders, such as The Cleveland Torso Killer whose murders involved live decapitations and dismemberment with some of the victims still unidentified to this day.
Among the world’s most notorious unsolved killings is the case of San Francisco’s Zodiac Killer. Zodiac is on par with Jack The Ripper for most fascinating serial killers from history. He had 5 confirmed kills but it’s suspected that his body count could be as high as 30. What’s more, Zodiac was known for sending the same sorts of taunting letters that Jack sent to the police but he added a twist. His letters arrived in code. Codes which stumped cryptographers for quite some time until the letters were printed in the papers and amateur code breakers managed to figure it out. Zodiac attacked people at random both by day and night. He used knives and guns. He even dressed up in a medieval executioners hood to carry out one attack. That he managed to escape detection for so long is legit amazing.
Episodes: 83 & 84
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