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17-year-old David Faraday eased his 1961 rambler station wagon off the side of the road

and put it in park. Then he turned to Betty Lou Jensen in the passenger seat,

and smiled uneasily. Betty Lou was nervous, too. It was their first date,

and she had major butterflies. As David leaned in close to her, she couldn't help but let out

an anxious giggle. The outburst was a relief to David, who was just as nervous. He snickered,

and soon the two of them were laughing together. But the tension had hardly broken,

before a car sped by in the road beside them. Betty Lou took a breath and tried to relax as

it passed. David felt himself flush and was glad it was too dark to see. He did his best to act

cool, slowly reaching his arm around her. Then another car pulled up and parked right next to the

couple. Frustrated, David prepared to yell the driver away, but when the stranger reached out of

his window, David saw a gun in his hand, gleaming in the moonlight.

Hi, I'm Greg Poulson. This is serial killers. Every Monday, we dive into the minds and madness

of serial killers. Today, we're exploring the twisted mind of the zodiac killer, a mysterious

attention-hungry murderer, who remains unidentified to this day. I'm here with my co-host,

Vanessa Richardson. Hi, everyone. You can find episodes of serial killers for free on Spotify.

The zodiac killer is confirmed to have murdered two men and three women in Northern California

between 1968 and 1969, and suspected to have killed several more. This week, we'll discuss the

crimes that gained the zodiac nationwide notoriety, and the first of his strange cryptic communications

with police and the press. Next week, we'll delve further into the zodiac investigation and examine

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