New Book Alleges Zodiac Killer Still Alive
and living in California
A new book claims that the infamous Zodiac killer is still alive and living in Northern California.
“The Zodiac Killer Cover Up” was written by a former California Highway Patrol officer, Lyndon Lafferty, and adds another theory to the much-discussed serial killer case in Northern California.
The Zodiac killer is blamed for at least five slayings in 1968 and 1969. There was never an arrest in the case.
Three killings occurred in Vallejo. Teenagers David Farraday and Betty Lou Jensen were shot to death in December 1968. Darlene Ferrin, 22, was shot and killed seven months later at Blue Rock Springs Golf Club. Her companion, Michael Mageau, 19, survived.
In “The Zodiac Killer Cover Up,” Lafferty claims the killer is now a 91-year-old man living in Solano County. The book uses aliases and does not identify the alleged killer by name. Lafferty claims he and other lawmen investigated the suspect in the early 1970s but were stymied by “power brokers” in Solano County.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the book has stirred new debate among those who have followed the famous killings.
The San Francisco police formally closed the case in 2004. The Zodiac killer got his name by taunting newspapers and the police with letters and puzzles.
Zodiackiller.com is a great place for information if you are interested. It is updated often and has information, files, clippings and more that you can not find elsewhere on the net. Also, note that LAPD did not actually ‘close’ the case, they just are placing it as inactive. If there is a new lead I am sure they’d jump on it. Even the article linked above states that it is inactive.
“The case is being placed inactive,” said San Francisco Police Lt. John Hennessey, head of the department’s homicide unit.
“Given the pressure of our existing caseload and the amount of cases that remain open at this time, we need to be most efficient at using our resources,” he said.
“The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them,” he wrote in a letter sent to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“I enjoy needling the blue pigs,” he wrote. Detectives thought they might have had a break two years ago, when a partial DNA profile was taken from envelopes containing the letters.
The genetic evidence seemed to clear the only suspect ever named by police — Arthur Leigh Allen of Vallejo. Allen, who was never charged, died of a heart attack in 1992.
There was a link up there that was supposed to go the book but it went to an “oops” page. This is the web site for the book.
As the title suggests it is a conspiracy type book. I don’t think I am going to buy it but if I can down load it for free maybe. I have a hard time with most conspiracy theories, especially with this case. Too many people would have to be quiet for too long. They would risk their freedom, other people’s lives and on the other side there was reward money and other monies to be had.
Besides the Zodiackiller.com site you can also read the FBI files on the Zodiac if you want. Lots of real information on those 2 sites. Plus it is always ‘fun’ to look at the actual FBI files!
Real Life Monsters 
I’d check it out at the library if I didn’t owe 50.00 in overdue fees.
Blahahahah Lisa 🙂 .
I have an eyebrow raised over why an ex cop with so much supposed evidence hasn’t managed to reopen the case and made an arrest instead of making money off his book 🙄
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Sheez Pyschowatcher, I was up half the night reading all the info on the Zodiac Killer website. I put my money on the this dude
http://www.zodiackiller.com/SuspectGaikowski.html
I don’t know about you but it makes so much sense that as a journalist he had access to the newspapers and had a legit reason to be interested in the crimes.
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He has always been my favorite to!
Sorry I kept you up all night, and watch it, Zodiac can become an obsession.
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Sheez Psycho Watcher, I spent days watching videos and researching the Oakland child murders after you did a post on Christopher Busch. I had never heard of those crimes. Absolutely terrifying that the killer washed the victims and their clothes before placing them carefully on the sides of roads.
I know, so much care put into such a horrific action.
I get on kicks sometimes where I just have a mini obsession over a murder, especially the unsolved ones. It can get to be a bit much.