On the 4th August 1969 the Zodiac mailed a letter to the San Francisco Examiner that contained very smudged writing referencing the first two attacks at Lake Herman Road and the Blue Rock Springs Attack and goaded the police by writing'
By the way, are the police having a good time with the code?', but the code was to be cracked only four days later by a local couple Donald Gene and Bettye June Harden of Salinas,California ,the code unfortunately though,if unsurprisingly,never revealed his identity as he had claimed it would.
The note said; This is the Zodiac speaking. MORSE CODE TRANSLATION In answer to your asking for more details about the good times I have had in Vallejo, I shall be very happy to supply even more material. By the way, are the police having a good time with the code? If not, tell them to cheer up; when they do crack it, they will have me.On the 4th of July I did not open the car door. The window was rolled down all ready. The boy was origionaly sitting in the front seat when I began fireing. When I fired the first shot at his head, he leaped backwards at the same time, thus spoiling my aim. He ended up on the back seat then the floor in back thashing out very violently with his legs; that's how I shot him in the knee. I did not leave the cene of the killing with squealing tires + raceing engine as described in the Vallejo paper. I drove away quite slowly so as not to draw attention to my car. The man who told police that my car was brown was a negro about 40-45 rather shabbly dressed. I was in this phone booth having some fun with the Vallejo cop when he was walking by. When I hung the phone up the damn thing began to ring & that drew his attention to me + my car. Last Christmass In that epasode the police were wondering how I could shoot + hit my victims in the dark. They did not openly state this, but implied this by saying it was a well lit night + I could see silowets on the horizon. Bullshit that area is srounded by high hills + trees. What I did was tape a small pencel flash light to the barrel of my gun. If you notice, in the center of the beam of light if you aim it at a wall or ceiling you will see a black or darck spot in the center of the circle of light about 3 to 6 inches across. When taped to a gun barrel, the bullet will strike in the center of the black dot in the light. All I had to do was spray them as if it was a water hose; there was no need to use the gun sights. I was not happy to see that I did not get front page coverage. Zodiac symbol inserted here NO ADDRESS 
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1963 June 4th-The Domingos/Edwards Murders
1966 October 30th-The Cheri Jo Bates Murder 1966 November 29th -The Confession letter 1966 December- The Riverside Desktop Poem 1967 April 30th- Bates had to die letter 1968 December 20th-The Lake Herman murders 1969 July 4th-The Blue Rock Springs Attack 1969 July 31st- Vallejo Times Herald letter and 408 Cipher Page1 (solved) 1969 July 31st - Chronicle letter and 408 Cipher Page 2 (solved) 1969 July 31st- Examiner letter and 408 Cipher Page 3 (solved) 1969 July 31st-The Complete 408 Cipher 1969 August 4th- Debut of Zodiac letter 1969 September 27th- The Lake Berryessa attack 1969 October 11th-The Presidio Heights murder 1969 October 13th-The Paul Stine letters 1969 October 20th-Call to chat show 1969 November 8th-The Dripping Pen Card and 340 Cipher (unsolved) 1969 November 9th-The Bus Bomb letter 1969 November 28th-The Betsy Aardsma Murder 1969 December 16th-The Fairfield Letter 1969 December 20th-The Belli letter 1970 Feb 21st- The Hood and Garcia Murders 1970 March 22nd-The Modesto attack 1970 April 20th-"My Name is" Letter, Cipher 3 (unsolved) and Bus Bomb diagram 1970 April 28th-The Dragon Card 1970 June 26th-The Button letter, Cipher 4 (unsolved) and map 1970 July 5th-The Sleeping Bag Murders 1970 July 24th-The Kathleen Johns Letter 1970 July 26th-The Little List Letter 1970 Sept 6th-The Donna Lass Disappearance 1970 October 5th-13 Hole Postcard 1970 October 27th-The Halloween Card 1971 March 13th-The Los Angeles Letter 1971 March 22nd-The Pines Card 1972 November 13th-The Santa Barbara Attack 1974 January 29th-The Exorcist Letter 1974 February 14th-The SLA Letter 1974 May 8th-The Citizen Card 1974 July 8th-The Red Phantom Letter 1978 April 24th-The 1978 Letter 1990 December-American Greetings Card 
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ZODIAC KILLER 340
