83. Profiling the Zodiac Killer – Part 4
The Consult: Real FBI Profilers
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
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In Part 4 of our series on the Zodiac Killer, we continue our discussion with Zodiac expert Michael Butterfield for a deep-dive discussion into the personality and behavioral characteristics of the infamous, unidentified serial killer. We explore what may have been beneath the mask of calculated manipulation and deadly intent.
Michael is the host of Zodiac: A to Z and the author of a new book The Zodiac Killer: The Story of America’s Most Elusive Murderer.
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| 1:06.6 | Music Welcome to the consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler, and I'm joined by my colleagues, Susan |
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| 1:42.1 | This is part four of our series on the Zodiac case with our guest Michael |
| 1:46.9 | Butterfield. And Michael is one of the leading experts on this subject. In the first three parts, |
| 1:54.2 | we reviewed the four confirmed attacks attributed to the Zodiac Killer. On December 20th, |
| 1:59.7 | 1968, David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen were shot and |
| 2:04.0 | killed on Lake Herman Road in Benicia, California. On July 4th, 1969, Darlene Farron was murdered, |
| 2:11.7 | and Michael Mijot was wounded in the shooting at Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo, California. |
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