Zodiac's Riverside Roots Examined
Criminology
Emash Digital
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we continue the examination into Zodiac's connection with the murder of Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside, CA. We dissect the letter that was mailed to both the police and the paper about a month after Cheri's death. Then we discuss a poem that was found on a desk at the Riverside Community College where Cheri attended. Was this poem an early work of the Zodiac and if so what clues does it present as to who the Zodiac could be? As time goes by the papers put out articles on the anniversaries of Cheri's murder talking about the state of the case and the investigation. These spark communication from someone claiming to be the murderer.
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| 0:00.0 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics. |
| 0:05.9 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:30.0 | I'd like to welcome everyone to episode six of season one of Criminology. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm Mike Ferguson and with me is my co-host Mike Morphard. |
| 0:48.3 | More of how are you? |
| 0:49.6 | I'm doing good Mike. |
| 0:51.2 | Fantastic. |
| 0:52.0 | Now I mentioned episode six. |
| 0:54.8 | If you've not listened to episode five you really need to go back for this episode to make |
| 1:01.6 | a lot of sense. |
| 1:03.0 | In fact, I mean if you're just catching our podcast for the first time right here you've got to go |
| 1:08.1 | back all the way to episode one and start from the beginning so that you know exactly where we are |
| 1:15.5 | with this zodiac case and how we got here. |
| 1:18.9 | I also think it's important to remind everybody where we left off at the end of episode five |
| 1:24.0 | in that episode we recounted the horrible tack and murder of Sherry Joe Bateson Riverside |
| 1:28.9 | on October 30th 1966. |
| 1:31.5 | We also got into the police investigation that followed. |
| 1:34.3 | We left you with a sinister letter that was mailed to the Riverside PD and was also mailed to |
| 1:39.5 | the Riverside press enterprise a month after Sherry's murder. |
| 1:43.1 | She was young and beautiful but now she is battered and dead. |
| 1:47.1 | She is not the first and she will not be the last. |
| 1:50.1 | I lay awake nights thinking about my next victim. |
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