![]() The Domingos/Edwards case also had similarities to the Zodiac’s attack of another young couple at Lake Berryessa in 1969. The beach killer used Winchester Western Super X ammunition, the same ammunition used by the Zodiac during the 1968 murders on Lake Herman Road. Investigators had few leads but, in 1972, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department announced a possible Zodiac connection. The killer then dragged the bodies to the shack where he tried and failed to start a fire. Robert was shot 11 times and Linda had been shot nine times. The victims, bound with rope, had apparently tried to escape but were shot and killed with a. When the two teenagers didn’t return home by Wednesday, Robert’s father went to the beach and was horrified to discover their bodies lying together inside the remains of a crumbling shack. On Tuesday in early June 1963, the couple decided to use the “Senior Ditch Day” to go sunbathing on a beach near Gaviota State Park. Robert Domingos and his fiancé Linda Edwards were seniors at Lompoc High School in Santa Barbara County in Southern California. But his twisted legacy endures, having inspired three real-life copycat killers and dozens of books, TV shows and movies-including, most famously, Clint Eastwood’s nemesis in the film “Dirty Harry.”īelow, a chronology of both his known murders and several that show strong signs of the Zodiac hand: After taunting the police and the public with nearly two dozen communiqués, he seemed to vanish in the late 1970s. While officially connected to five murders and two attempted murders, the Zodiac hinted he had killed at least 37 victims. That identity has stymied law-enforcement officials, professional code breakers and armchair criminologists alike for nearly five decades. The sender: the soon-to-be-notorious Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a combination of grisly murders and bizarre public letters brimming with horrific threats, demented demands and mysterious ciphers teasing his identity. In July of 1969, a letter arrived at The San Francisco Examiner newspaper containing those chilling words in a coded message. “I like killing people because it’s so much fun.” ![]()
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