What is going on true crime fans?

I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

And you're listening to Going West. Hello, everybody.

Woo, yeah. God damn. So I'm real excited. I just, I missed you guys. Yeah, we, uh, thank you for letting us

take last Friday off. We just had so much going on. Haven't done that since like last year. So we needed a

little break. But today we have, you know,

Heath and I, one case that I think a lot of us are so interested in is the Zodiac case. But we just feel like

it's been done so many times. We all know that case. So we thought that what we would do is focus on

one of the potential Zodiac killing since this has never

officially been connected to Zodiac. And one that happened in October the night before Halloween.

Felt like the right time. Yeah, it sounds like pretty much the perfect time to cover this case.

And actually, we're going to talk about a suspect for Zodiac that I don't

think I've ever heard of, but I'm like, wait a second. Oh, I think I know here you're talking about.

Yeah. Well, without further ado, let's just dive right into this one. All right, guys,

this is episode 546 of going west, so let's get into it. In October of 1966, an 18-year-old college student spent the evening at her campus library in Riverside, California, but she never made it home.

The next morning on Halloween day, her body was discovered in a nearby alley, brutally stabbed and beaten, with her car disabled in a nearby lawn.

So who killed her that night, and could her murder be the first known strike of the Zodiac killer?

Or was it unrelated like the Riverside Police think?

Instead, the doing of another student.

This is the murderer of Sherry Joe Bates.

Music Sherry Josephine Bates was born on February 4th, 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska to parents Irene and Joseph.

She actually had an older sister who was born in 1945 named Bonnie Joe Bates, but she died at just 10 days old.

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