And the Hello friend.

The death of an individual at the hands of another is a cruel and irreversible event.

Whether premeditated or cruel and irreversible event.

Whether premeditated or impulsive, a life is extinguished, leaving one individual in place

of two.

As their perpetrator flees to conceal their culpability, the victim is left unable to identify them.

When Sherry Joe Bates was murdered on October 30, 1966 in Riverside, California, the killer

silenced her ability to tell her story.

Their unseen escape left behind only a faceless silhouette, obscuring the identity of the individual

who took her life so violently.

There have been extensive efforts to identify this individual.

Two suspects set at the top of the pile.

One was a student at college with Sherry Joe, a boy known to her and someone who may have felt

tilted by her. The other is the serial predator we have come to know as the

Zodiac killer. A stranger who kills for the excitement it brings him, and the games he can play with authorities

afterward.

Cherry Joe Bates was a beautiful 18- old woman who lost her life on college grounds

late 1 October evening 58 years ago.

As Riverside detectives launched what would be a decades-long investigation,

they collected crucial evidence, strands of hair clenched in her hand,

scrapings from under her fingernails and fingerprints from greasy marks on her

VW Beetle. Evidence it was hoped that would solve her murder. The local student whom Riverside Police

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