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The Megyn Kelly Show

The Zodiac Killer: A Megyn Kelly Show True Crime Special | Ep. 342

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

It's a Zodiac Killer episode of The Megyn Kelly Show's Hot Crime Summer week. Megyn Kelly is joined by Tom Colbert, investigative journalist and founder of The Case Breakers, to break down the shocking and brutal story of The Zodiac Killer, what's behind the Zodiac "confessions" through calls and letters, the disturbing crimes we know of, DNA and other advances in crime technology, the difference between psychopaths and sociopaths, possible motives, and who Colbert and his team believe the Zodiac Killer was. We also go through other theories about the potential identity of the still-unidentified serial killer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show and the beginning of our

0:16.3

Hot Crime Summer Week.

0:18.1

The zodiac was a serial killer who terrorized the Bay Area in California in the late 1960s.

0:24.6

He committed a series of murders across California and acts of pure violence and evil.

0:29.7

He taunted the press and the authorities, calling by payphone on more than one occasion to

0:34.0

take responsibility for the murders.

0:36.3

He sent letters to major newspapers detailing the killings and mocking the police.

0:41.9

Some of those letters included ciphers, which he demanded be printed on the front pages

0:47.0

of the papers.

0:48.0

In a chilling 1969 letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, the killer stated, school children

0:54.6

make nice targets.

0:56.0

Think about that sec.

0:58.2

Sec.

0:59.5

Using increased safety concerns across the region.

1:02.6

This went on for years as he claimed more and more victims.

1:06.9

Now there are five confirmed zodiac killings, but the real number is believed to be much

1:12.5

higher.

1:13.5

And after years of investigating, our case here remains technically unsolved.

1:19.7

But our guest today, Tom Colbert, is an investigative journalist and author and founder of a group

1:25.8

called the case breakers that deals in cold cases.

1:29.6

And his team of highly trained experts has spent years investigating the zodiac.

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