I'd like to tell you about somebody a little different from this dark figure, this maniacal killer

that seems to come across in at least a couple of it in the book I was reading

just prior to coming down here. It was a bright

interesting guy with a good sense of humor. My mother liked him, my wife liked him, all my kids liked him, but he was not only left-handed literally, but figuratively too.

He reminded me when he was younger at least of the young man in Catcher in the Rye.

He was well-meaning screw-up. He could find more ways to mess up his life than anybody I ever met. So, Hey everybody welcome back to the third episode of Cold Case Murder Mysteries. I'm Ryan Kraus, you're

hosting all this madness. So today we're going to do a two-part episode that

acts as a companion to each of our previous shows. In the first part of our time

together, we'll do a quick exploration of the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker murders and their potential connection to the Zodiac.

Now I should mention these killings are also referred to as the Sonoma Coed murders, a reference to Sonoma State or Sonoma County.

You know, where Zodiac Prime Suspect Arthur Lee Allen was a full-time student during his period?

He even lived in a trailer in Santa Rosa.

But the crimes didn't fit the Zodiac's M. O, right?

The bodies of nude dead young girls thrown down embankments off the side of the road in the middle of the night?

It couldn't have been him.

Yet if Alan was a known child molester with an appetite for little boys and girls,

how could he have been the zodiac, who became notorious for killing young heterosexual couples?

So we'll explore the psychology of potentially shifting motives,

and how they might have evolved to a place where a new identity manifested itself in silence.

As the Zodiac himself wrote in 1971, after claiming his last confirmed victim, and shortly

before the Santa Rosa murders began,

quote, I shall no longer announce to anyone.

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