There’s long been many theories put forward as to the reasons for Zodiac disappearing from the spotlight and, officially, cannot be linked to any other homicide after the murder of Paul Stine in late 1969. So, I was watching a documentary about Ted Bundy the other week, and even thought it’s well documented and known that Ted escaped from prison not just once, but twice, I realized something for the first time.

If I were in prison, facing a lenghty term, almost certain to be for life in Ted case at the minimum, probably and likely that he will get sentenced to Death, I would probably want to escape desperately also. But, while watching the documentary about Bundy, I suddenly realised that Bundy is probably the only inmate in history to be so desperate to get out of this prison not for freedom and liberty itself, but because a lack of freedom would mean he could no longer strangle, bludgeon and sexually assault his favoured victim type. This was the reason, it seem to me anyway, that he felt a compulsion to escape.

If I, or any other ‘Normal’ prisoner had planned, then made a successful escape froma prison and were now free, I would do everything I could to ensure that I fell below Law Enforcement’s radar, and I’d make an extra effort to not draw any attention to myself in order to increase the chances of retaining my newly found freedom. Bundy, from the second he was the other side if the prison wall after escaping, had no thought or intention of keeping a low profile and trying to stay away from any situation that may bring himself, and the Law, into close proximity. Bundy’s sole motivation for escape was the overwhelming desire to snuff out the life of more young women and this is a scary thought, that there exists certain people that are so evil, they are determined to escape societys attempts to keep them where they cannot darry out their evil desires, that they will do whatever it takes to escape (In Bundy’s case, this involved jumping from a prison library window several stories in up, that would likely result in a leg break, and the second time, climbing through a vent in the roof of his cell, and navigating his way to freedom. For me, and anyone else reading this, our intent and desire to escape would be to regain simply our freedom, with Bundy, it was to regain his freedom to obtain another victim. And this is where a comparison to Zodiac, the case of Zodiac seems to end in a way that doesn’t seem to conform to what is accepted as a ‘Serial Killer’, namely, that a serial killer will not, and in fact cannot, simply stop killing untill they are caught and stopped by LE.

There are many theories to suggest Zodiac was imprisoned for something else, maybe a murder that wasn’t linked to him as Zodiac elsewhere, and this would be one explination. Possible, but unlikely. Zodiac certainlly doesn’t seem to have been put away for murder, as he randomly re-surfaces with the odd letter during the 70’s (That’s if you believe the letters of 1974 – 1978 are genuine.

Maybe Zodiac Died? Again, the letters suggest otherwise. Then then also one of his final letter’s (as they start to decrease in frequency and volume) in which Zodiac seem’s to imply that he will no longer announce his crimes, and will make them look like accidents etc etc. This single line written by Z ‘I shall no longer announce my Crimes’ is the most odd, unexpected, non likely and counter-intuitive thing for him to say, and then subsequently follow through with. It has left me wondering many times becase of this, was ‘Zodiac’s’ and his ‘Persona, personality and character all a totally invented one? I doubt it. But, if the persona and very existance of ‘Zodiac’ was created in order to, lets say, make one or two targeted assainations appear to be the work of this random, unstable, psychotic and myterious serial killer, then this would account for Zodiac’s apparant total reversal from being seemingly obsessed with, and demanding front pages of, the papers, to suddenly seeming to have a complete personality transplant and no longer is concerned with media attention and will stop writing. This would also explain how Zodiac, at least officially, seem’s to have not only lost his absolute need, compulsion, desire and fasination with playing his cat and mouse game while writing the news paper headlines, but also how his aswel as his personality seems to suddenly do a complete 360 degree turn on itself, but so does the alledged compulsion to kill, as 95% of other serial killers seem to never be able to rid themselves of.

And finally, there is other factors in this case that support the theory that Zodiac was a persona created by person/person’s unknown to offer up to the public as the psychopath responsible for this spate of ‘random’ murders. I would like to clarify, that I am not stating this as my own opinion per say, or that this theory more likely than the one where Zodiac is simply as he appears, a random psychopath with a lust for murder.
But several aspects of the Zodiac case are odd, well, simply seem to make no sense at all really. Firstly, The murdered doesn’t say a word, send a letter, make a phone call, or any other way, to take credit for/brag about being responsible for the double homicide at Lake Herman untill 7 Months later after comitting his second attack. Then the ‘Zodiac Persona’ comes into the public arena, taking credit for the recent attack at BRS, but also for the LHR murders 7 Months prevoiusly. Why would he wait untill comitting his second attack at B. Rock Springs to formally take credit for the L.Herman Rd murders? Was the Murder of Darlene Ferrin a pre planned assassination, and to divert suspicion from thoes she was aquainted with, the Serial Killer personality was created and released to coincide with this murder? Anyway, it hasn’t escaped my attention that I appear to have yet again tried to turn a forum ‘Post’ into a forum ‘Essay’ lol.