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The Zodiac Killer

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The Zodiac Killer is a mystery that has haunted the Bay Area and beyond now for more than 50 years now, beginning in 1968, when David Faraday & Betty Lou Jensen were shot and killed in the city of Benicia. No one was ever officially caught for the murders, but a series of cryptic clues were left behind and over the years these have been investigated every which way, to no real avail, besides one cipher finally being solved in 2020.

Do I know all the ins and outs of the whole case? No, I do not. What I do know though is that this mysterious series of murders remains of great fascination to the world at large, as what always seems to be the case with these cases. Eventually, the Zodiac Killer has become so far-removed from their original origins that they might as well not even exist at all. They become these strange integral figures of pop culture, whether through TV shows like American Horror Story, films that straight adapt the events like David Fincher's excellent Zodiac or are just inspired by it like Exorcist III, or other varied sources of media from songs to video games. The legend and mythology only grows, while we remain no closer to uncovering their true identity. And maybe deep down we don't want to know... content in a wallowing of semi-indifference so people can continue to be drawn in by it all.

I admit I approach these kind of mysterious and twisted people with a certain degree of morbid curiosity myself. They are cast as real-life supervillains, with their own inscrutable mystique, their own motivations that only seem to make sense in the most circumstantial way. They might have mysterious codes, cryptic clues or bizarre quotes left behind for us to obsess over, like the ones we have with the Zodiac Killer. I can see why someone would want to look deeper, to understand their character, to try and root out their reason for the crimes. But then again, it's always difficult to find the line between character and their actual real-life psyche, with them ultimately being nothing but the scariest people of us all. Someone who can kill and disappear with nothing but silence to show for it, and I find that endlessly terrifying.