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in the early hours of the 10th of August 1992 in Brooklyn New York City a 39 year
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old woman suffering with long-term mental health issues found herself in an unfamiliar area near Highland Park
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Trisha fonte who was at times homeless a very vulnerable woman Patricia was lured to the park by a
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stranger the man then shot her twice and stabbed her more than 100 times the vicious murder was carried out by Hedy
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Berto Eddie seder who believed he was following in the footsteps of the notorious Zodiac Killer he took the
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legacy of another serial killer and tried to make it his own he preyed on the vulnerable he killed at random and
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he was utterly heartless within four years seder attacked more than nine innocent victims killing three being the
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kabukat Zodiac was in his DNA was in his soul and he liked the attention he liked
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the media he liked the results he sought out and stalked victims on the fringes of society to feed his lust for
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power and Status confirming harryberto Eddie seder the New York zodiac as one of the world's most evil killers
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thank you [Music] in the early 1990s tarot gripped the city of New York USA haniberto Eddie
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seder roamed the streets late at night masquerading as the San Francisco Zodiac Killer
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[Music] it caused a lot of fear within the citizens of New York City in particular
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Brooklyn and Queens that there was now a serial killer claiming to be the Zodiac
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and everybody recalled that the Zodiac and the San Francisco Bay area in the 60s and he was never apprehended and
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this guy was claiming to be one in the same in a city already overwhelmed with crime
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Sader was shooting strangers in the street but his attacks went unnoticed until he left a series of enigmatic
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notes purporting to be from the Zodiac Killer of course the media frenzy so we had to
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deal with this publicity and reporters and put a lot of pressure on the NYPD Sergeant Joseph Herbert was one of the
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investigators who spent years pursuing the New York zodiac what the Zodiac was done when he was doing males females
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black white Spanish he had no Pacific Target I think it was just the best opportunity
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that he had you know he could get away with it he prided himself on the idea that he got better and better at it that
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he had trained himself to use stealth and surprise more and more and more and that he became more accomplished as a
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murderer the chilling story of Harry Berto Eddie seder the New York zodiac begins in New
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York City born in 1967 he was the eldest of two children it was a tiny apartment
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in Brooklyn but Eddie's mother was very proud she wanted to do the very best
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for her two children it was quite a dangerous part of the city to be in and I think their mother really struggled in
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terms of keeping her children out of that kind of Lifestyle seder's father was absent during his
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impoverished childhood they barely had enough money to eat at times so Sader stepped into that role as the patriarch
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of the family he was quite controlling especially when it came to his younger half-sister in
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terms of the kind of things that she did the kind of people that she hung out with
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he was somebody who voluntarily excluded himself from drugs and from gang crime [Music]
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Eddie grew up being rather religious but also strangely reclusive nevertheless at least say there was by
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all accounts a good student very anti-drugs anti-alcohol addiction really hated the drug dealers in the
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neighborhood and he really didn't like the fact that his younger half-sister
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had some friends who were involved in drug dealing he was casting judgment on other people for their choices for their
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behaviors for their decisions in 1983 at the age of 16 Eddie seder was suspended from high school for carrying
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a weapon he would never return no longer in education he now lacked a focus this part of his life that is
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quite routine that is quite predictable and stable has now gone and I think he feels an awful lot of resentment about
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that he seems to create at this point his own very elaborate fantasy world within his
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bedroom he doesn't go out much he doesn't have a lot of friends one neighbor describes him as the
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chronically unemployed recluse the enraged teenager would never return to school instead he tried to enlist in
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the U.S military he'd failed the entrance exam just by a few points and this was something that he didn't take
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very well at all I think this is something that he saw as pivotal to his sense of identity and his future and he
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became incredibly angry about this he looks at the things that he tries to do and when he fails to do them it's
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someone else's fault the world is pitted against him and I think during the course of this rumination he starts
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plotting what is he going to do with his life feeling rejected by school and now the
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Army Sader searched for a new way to define himself Sada had a real interest in and
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admiration for violence so he read a lot about guns and serial killers he actually had a set of real killer
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playing cards these were the people that he admired he watches a documentary on the San
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Francisco Zodiac killer who killed five people and was never caught [Music] story around the Zodiac Killer is one of
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power and it's one of status somebody who was able to hold an entire city to
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Ransom somewhere in that developing psyche he thinks perhaps I could become the Zodiac
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Killer I can become someone who's remembered I can be the same person by 1989 22 year old Eddie seder's
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perverse interests had grown and they were becoming increasingly practical he wanted to be a soldier so he purchased
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fatigues he had lots of hunting knives he never worked as I could tell a day in his life he really had very little
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income and as a result of that he was never going to be able to buy a gun steadily he began to teach himself how
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to create and build guns zip guns a zip gun is a homemade gun that it's basically a length of pipe and you put
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something at the end of that pipe that acts as a firing pin something very crude it doesn't have rapid fire
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multiple fire capability it's one shot at a time they're not very accurate it's
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absolutely essential you have to be close up to your target unemployed unwanted and isolated Sadie
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Was preparing to act on his darkest instincts on the 17th of November 1989 a cryptic
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letter arrived at an office of the New York Police Department the letter had an astrological wheel and
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it had some threats and it had the indication that it had been someone murdered the author of The Letter claimed to be
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the infamous San Francisco Zodiac Killer resuming his attacks nearly 3 000 miles
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away and 20 years since his last known victim he'd drawn a circle divided into
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12 sections one section was marked out alongside the words the first sign is dead
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there was kind of a cursory investigation to see if there was anything matching any of the information
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that was contained in the letter and there wasn't and so essentially the letter was vouchered and in most senses
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I think just forgotten about the 75th precinct was Notorious for having the highest murder rate in the
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city so they were not really going to be able to put a lot of resources into investigating this Oddball letter that
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they received it was regarded as a simply crank letter talking about the San Francisco zodiac can't have gone
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away for 20 years and changed coasts from the west of the East it defies belief less than four months later 22 year old
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Hedy Berto Eddie seder would Breathe life into that Letter's murderous prophecy
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on Thursday the 8th of March 1990 49 year old Mario Orozco was making his way home from work at 1 45 a.m Mr orasco
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took the train home from Manhattan back to the East New York area of Brooklyn where he lived
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he required a cane and he had a severe limp when he walked he walks approximately four blocks
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when he's approached from the rear by an individual who doesn't say anything
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shoot him once in a back and runs away badly injured Mario Orozco struggled to his home across the street and called
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9-1-1 the bullet is lodged in his spine and doctors thought it was simply too dangerous to remove it
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and so it remained there thankfully Orozco survived but without the bullet investigators were left with
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no meaningful evidence from the crime scene the New York zodiac 22 year old Harry Berto Eddie seder had tasted blood
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for the first time up until this point in time he'd just been thinking and he'd been planning it
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had all been in his head but now he's doing and this is actually real three weeks later in the early hours of
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Thursday the 29th of March the Zodiac would strike again he shot an intoxicated 34 year old man
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once in the back and again took flight he suffered serious injuries was fortunate that he survived we wound
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up with fragments of a bullet that were really not useful for ballistic evidence
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purposes he never saw his assailant we had very little evidence so an investigation was really very hard to
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mount so this is now two victims both of whom have survived nevertheless they are two random
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shootings in the middle of the night both in the early hours of Thursday morning
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despite some similarities there was no apparent link between the two crimes so the cell-style Zodiac Killer remained
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invisible to police as he moved on to a third target on Thursday the 31st of May
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1990. Mr Joseph Croce lived right around the corner from the subway station where the
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first two victims exited the night that they were shot Joseph Croce was elderly 78 year old man
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he had become a bit senile [Music] Joseph was approaching his own apartment Sader engaged with his elderly man and
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asked for a glass of water Joseph said go to your own apartment and get a glass of water and turned his back
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and at that point said I shot him in the back neighbors heard the gunshot and called
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the police but Sader had once again fled the scene Joseph Croce was rushed into surgery in
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critical condition he was unable to provide police with a good description of his attacker
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sata's selection of victims bespoke a level of cowardice somebody that was weak vulnerable
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disoriented he was always looking for someone that he was certain would not fight back and they can't do anything to
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stop him nearly a month later Joseph prachi died as a result of the attack with his third attempt the New York
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zodiac had claimed his first kill he took the opportunity to taunt the police the detectives observed a letter
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that was on Mr proty's front stoop and it was being weighted down by three stones and the letter had a pie Circle
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and within the slices of the pie he had documented three astrological signs and he stated that three signs are dead
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[Music] he indicated that he was responsible for the three shootings and the 12th of the
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cops that they would not catch him just as he hadn't been caught in San Francisco
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was when the police recognized they had a Serial perpetrator on their hands that became a Tipping Point in the media
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coverage as well because now the Zodiac could become a murderer after Joe's approach you we shot right
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up for the New York Post we had received a letter from someone claiming to be the zodiac
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we were pretty certain that the person who left the note beside Jose was the same person who wrote this note
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to the first sign is dead second sign is dead even though some victim survived he
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still called them kills he intended to kill every single person that he attacked
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really just tell us that list of narcissistic strand in his personality he doesn't want to be caught but he
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wants it to be known that there is a serial killer on the loose he boasted that the bullets that he was
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using in his weapons had no grooves a regular gun the barrel is drilled out in a certain way to leave identifiers
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that are unique and they're called lands and grooves he believed he would be leaving no
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evidence by using his zip guns upon examination in the ballistics laboratory he was accurate
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there were no traditional lands and grooves on the bullets that were recovered from the victims
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the New York Post turned up the heat on the investigation publishing the letter on its front page the headlines of
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screaming Zodiac Zodiac Killer boat signs the enormous crime rates that were already besieging the city that this
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became even more scary that it was this unknown person running around not randomly but seeking people by birth
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sign a lot of calls came in mostly scraps of I met a guy who asked for my birthday
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what's your sign kind of stuff there was very little actionable intelligence
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this really is Saida at the height of his arrogance feels like he struck the right balance
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at this point in time between actually being recognized for what he's done yet
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not being apprehended in pursuit of the serial killer the NYPD had formed a zodiac task force operating
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out of Brooklyn Navy Yard they noticed that the crimes were happening on Thursdays
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the shootings look within multiples of 21 days so 21 days at the missed approach will
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be shot the NYPD flooded to East New York and Woodhaven area of Brooklyn and Queens in anticipation of a possible
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shooting operation Watchdog was launched on the night of Thursday the 21st of June 1990.
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Mike celevolo was one of the officers who took to the streets I think I had like 50 detectives with
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all kinds of unmarked vehicles vans that look like ice cream trucks and things that wouldn't readily stand out
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as being a police vehicle we were basically going to take notice of whoever was walking the street
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between midnight and sunrise and we pretty much did that all night long sun came up
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and nothing happens there was no shootings in the Brooklyn and Queens area so the detectives were getting ready to
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wrap it up and they received a notification that there was in fact a shooting but this time he struck in Manhattan in
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Central Park a homeless man who had psychological problems had substance abuse problems
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was to sleep on a park bench he was shot on the park bench he only wounded the person and the
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bullet lodged in the bench and it actually matched the bullet from the pro Chi seams so we knew we had the same gun
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and likely the same perpetrator and more valuable than that was the note that was left at the scene
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the note had basically more indications of the three priors as well as birth sign
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the following day Friday the 22nd of June 1990 a second letter arrived at the New York Post newspaper again the author
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claimed to be the San Francisco zodiac that letter had a thumb print and it matched the thumb print that was on the
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letter left at the Central Park crime scene The Hope was then that we would be able
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to find a suspect and match them up to some of this information we looked and checked to see if there's
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anyone in the system that matched those prints and we found no one he's talking about constellations he's
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talking about Faust he's talking about some really weird stuff that as New York
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City cops we're just not familiar with he was claiming to be one zodiac one in
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the same he's coming across as very angry and very frustrated because it's been
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speculated that this is a copycat this is an imitation this is somebody who is less than the original zodiac
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we sent those letters to the San Francisco police department and they were able to say with 100 degree of
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certainty that the guy who's writing all letters was not the guy they were dealing with in
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the late 60s and early 70s he wanted to make himself bigger than he really was Eddie Berto Eddie seder had struck four
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times but had killed only once the New York police had scoured the Zodiac's Communications knowing that
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before he was finished he'd promised that another eight wives would be ruthlessly taken he had attacked in
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Manhattan in Queens and he attacked in Brooklyn three of the five boroughs in New York
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City it instilled a lot of fear in the city as a whole we didn't have a clear description from
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any of the victims we weren't sure if we were looking for a black man a latino
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man a Caucasian man we just didn't have any concrete witnesses to tell us which
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made it tough by the end of 1990 the New York zodiac had ceased communication the NYPD at the time to what that not
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only had he stopped communicating with us but that he had stopped perpetrating his attacks nothing happened the next
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Thursday or the Thursday after the task force dissolved over a period of time everybody went back to their assignments
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and everybody forgot about them Cedar takes a step back and I think this is something that he's learned through
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reading about lots of different cases of serial killers and trying to learn from
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the mistakes that they've made this is to allow him to collect his thoughts and start planning the next
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phase of attacks Eddie seder had gone silent as the New York zodiac but maintained contact with
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police in other ways he becomes to some extent a police informant informing the police about
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local drug lords in his bit of Brooklyn at one point seder can be a killer and the other point he can be offended by
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drug use and Drug dependency another of the conflicts an extraordinary character
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of any cider despite this unlikely collaboration the New York Police Department was no closer
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to connecting Cedar to the New York zodiac attacks I had always said that this case is
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going to be solved by way of a fluke something bizarre happening maybe he'll
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jump over a turnstile to evade the fair on the subway a cop will grab them and they'll fingerprint them and then
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they'll say Bing we have a match four years after his first attack on the 10th of March 1994 officers spotted
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Eddie seder outside his apartment carrying one of his homemade zip guns they arrested him for unlicensed
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possession of a potentially Lethal Weapon the police examined the zip gun which is
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made up of the most extraordinary materials including shoelaces and a rubber band
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when this contraption is sent to ballistics the ballistics guys didn't know how it
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worked and they couldn't figure it out so it was listed as inoperable the district attorney dismissed the case
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his fingerprint card was sealed incredibly Sader had escaped from right under the noses of the NYPD and his
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fingerprint record was inaccessible to police said his conviction that he was somehow
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Immortal and Beyond reproach is confirmed on the 3rd of August 1994 three days after Eddie seder's 27th birthday a
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third zodiac letter arrived at the offices of the New York Post it had been four years since the last zodiac
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communique and the last of his four known attacks from handwriting analysis they
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recognized that it's our friend's zodiac back from 1990 again he's been busy
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come on in the upper right hand part of the letter of five documented victims similar to the earlier letters where
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he's giving a brief description of the date the time and a brief description of
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the victim he had stopped communicating with the media and the police but he continued
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doing his crimes he had dropped the warnings in advance so he reported the news afterwards
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which gave him a tremendous advantage the upper left-hand portion of the letter is a series of Maritime flags
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that he put into a code when I broke down the code of the letter it said this is the Zodiac speaking
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I am in control he who Masters there will be more yours truly on the bottom half of the letter he's
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taunting the police he puts the Zodiac nine nypd0 so he's bragging that he's outsmart in
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the NYPD he had shot nine he's threatening to shoot at least three more one for every sign of the zodiac
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so they started a second task force and I was assigned to that test was what I immediately started doing was
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tracking down the five victims that he's claiming in this letter they all were in
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Highland Park the NYPD and looking at it recognized that the first four they had
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open investigations into each of those the fifth victim we looked high and low we could not come up with that victim so
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we were only able to come up with four of the five in this new letter two of the four victims had not survived
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their injuries looking back on these cases investigators discovered that on Monday
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the 10th of August 1992 25 year old Eddie seder had encountered a 39 year old with mental health issues named
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Patricia fonte the attack on Patricia fonte was quite different from the other attacks
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all the other zodiac crimes were approaches from behind one gunshot fired and he flees
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and this was up with up and personal he went up to her they started engaging in conversation
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she asked him for a cigarette he enticed her would a cigarette that he had and he lured her
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into Highland Park he proceeds to shoot her twice he then goes into Overkill and his stabs her more than a hundred
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times now to stab someone 100 times takes a very very great deal of determination
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enormous amount of effort because it is literally terrifying I think he recognized that if somehow or
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another she had eluded his capture at that point that she might have been able to identify from the amount of time that
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he had spent with her Patricia fonte of course died of her injuries there was almost no way she
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could have survived Patricia fonte was the second murder at the hands of the New York zodiac
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more than a year later on the 21st of July 1993 he'd killed again Joseph diacon a 46 year old long-term
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mental health patient had been shot in the neck whilst wandering through Highland Park
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he bled out and died instantly with these new attacks Eddie seder had shed the constraints of his prior
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methodology these killings were not carried out on a Thursday there were no links to the
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signs of the zodiac that there had been with the previous four shootings and he's very deliberately adapted his
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routine here because he doesn't want to be caught despite this caution one of his
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surviving victims had finally managed to get a good look at their attacker she sees a male Hispanic with a mustache and
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wearing some kind of a hat point the gun at her and flies one shot striking heaven and neck
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the woman was partially paralyzed but her description was used in a police sketch
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until then investigators had only received patchy and inconsistent information about the appearance of the
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New York zodiac he took quite a lot of care varying his appearance so he would occasionally wear
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hats he would grow a mustache and then he would shave it off after he had carried out an attack so he lived for
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his attacks they were essentially his occupation this was his day job we've been every lead that we could
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chasing fingerprints chasing ballistics but after nine months the department decided to break up the second task
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force like they did the first task force I was assigned to become a hostage negotiator
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the pursuit of the New York zodiac it hit another dead end then two years later on the 18th of June
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1996 the NYPD received a call the phone rang about 12 noon and they had a hostage job where an individual
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had shot his sister and he was holding her boyfriend hostage in a back bedroom or the apartment
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I raced there she got there as fast as I could when I arrived the entire area was
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cordoned off I was informed that not only had he shot his sister and had the boyfriend still
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hostage in the back bedroom but when responding police arrived he shot it out with about 15 cops
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he had positioned guns at each window in the apartment and he would run from window to window
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shooting at the cops below and they were shooting back so finally Emergency Services arrived they were able to quote
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it off the area the gunfire ceased he still a hostage taker with a hostage Sergeant Herbert tried to establish
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communication with the man who identified himself as Eddie he's not talking to me from the window
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finally they were able to evacuate the entire building and we were able to climb up the steps to Eddie's front door
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and I started to try to get him to engage me in conversation then so we were in the hallway for about
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three hours I was speaking to him trying to get him to surrender I was telling him Eddie and
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that blood has been shed you know we don't need any more violence in surrender you won't be hurt
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your sister's going to be okay let's end this now so finally he says am I going to go to
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jail I said Eddie I can't lie to you you're going to go to jail you know you
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shot your sister uh you shot a cops you know it's a very serious thing so then he tells us that he's ready to
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surrender and he says that he's got a lot of weapons inside the department and a lot
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of ballistics a lot of bullets it took three bucket loads to get all his zip guns and bullets out of the apartment
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we had already start and like relax a little bit out in the hallway because we know all the weapons are out but then he
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said I gave you all my guns what should I do with my bombs so I said Eddie you got bombs in here
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the bomb squad was urgently dispatched and they recovered two crude pipe bombs from the small apartment
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Eddie was arrested and charged with attempted murder of his half-sister and that of several police officers in the
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ensuing shootout during an interrogation the 29 year old told police what had happened
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that his half-sister brought a MAG back to the flat he's a drug dealer he's not
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someone that sadar feels that his half-sister should be consorting with sada's relationship with his younger
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sister is a very significant one because it's a relationship in which he felt
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like he was in control that as she got older she began to challenge that Authority he also hated his sister
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having any relationships with men so he became incredibly angry about this he gets into a beef with his sister and
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he shoots her in the butt and that'll certainly bring you to the attention of the police
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and then when he's at the station house and he's writing his confession he he
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just couldn't help himself detective said we want you to see this it's a confession that Eddie had for
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shooting his sister and the handwriting jumped out at me as the handwriting that
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I've been studying for the last four years five years at the bottom of the second page he has
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an upside down cross similar to the earlier letters I said a show as I'm standing here this
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is the zodiac everything starts fitting together the zip guns the location the case had been cracked wide open now
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investigators knew where to look the evidence proving that seder and the Zodiac were one and the same was
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mounting in his notes the Zodiac boasted that his homemade weapons would leave no
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traceable marks on the bullets found in his victims he was wrong when a bullet travels to a pipe it still
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leaves distinctive marks on the bullet so they were able to identify three of the bullets from victims of the zodiac
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that we recovered from the victims with some of the pipes and zip guns that we took out of his apartment
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when they matched his fingerprints bingo had a Berto Selah was arrested charged as the Zodiac Killer
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forensic experts had also confirmed a handwriting and DNA match with the Zodiac letters
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all he wanted to talk about initially was the Bible and religion eventually he realized you know we were telling
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them about the evidence that we had he know the way we talk and we know what we were talking about you know we knew that
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case we lived that case for years you finally confessed he believed that he was ridding Society
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of drug addicted people it was the first time that he in a sense thrown off the cloak
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and said here I am I'm the New York zodiac seder revealed much about the Zodiac
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crimes but not the most peculiar detail there was nothing up his sleeve anymore except he would not reveal
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how it was he knew the birth signs of his first four victims and I always took that to be
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his guilty pleasure of still taunting the police that he had something that they couldn't
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figure out and he would never reveal it he described these people as almost two-dimensional
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they have targets they were stick figures they were not flesh and blood they were not real people they didn't
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hurt they didn't suffer they didn't have lives they were just inanimate objects
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to him The Arrogant killer had narrowly escaped Justice once before two years earlier Eddie seder had been
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arrested for carrying a zip gun police at the time considered it to be unusable so he was released
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they preserved and kept that inoperable gun let's retest this thing now that
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we've got these other guns that we all recovered from his home and sure enough yeah it is operable and
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we were able to show that It ultimately matched the bullet that had been removed
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from one of the victims the police had had a decider in their hands but because the case against seder was closed his
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fingerprints weren't available to the police who were searching for the Zodiac
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Killer on the 14th of May 1998 30 year old Henny Berto Eddie seder began a six-week trial at Queen's Supreme Court
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charged with three murders and one attempted murder in the Queen's District of New York he shouts at the judge it's
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as if I'm not here I'm being ignored I think he felt threatened and I think
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he felt at the same point that I'm not being treated merely as significantly as
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I should be as a result of all I accomplished there's a real vanity that attaches in
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this almost puffed up sense of of do you know who I am and I think it's a confusion between
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Fame and infamy after a trial of six weeks the jury take barely five hours to convict him on the 22nd of July 1998
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harryberto Eddie seder was sentenced to 83 and the third years in prison the following year on the 8th of July
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1999 after a second trial of his crimes in the district of Brooklyn said it was once again found guilty
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he was convicted of three zodiac crimes as well as the shooting of his half-sister and four attempts on the
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lives of police officers during the insurance Siege he is sentenced to further 152 and a
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half years in prison making is the total sentence 235 years Berto Eddie seder had eluded capture for
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over six years and authorities believe he was far from finished when his luck finally ran out
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he was upset that a number of people survived the shootings like if I'd made
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my weapon a little better there would have been more people dead that he was very insulted by the fact
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that some of these people lived I believe that if he did in fact hit the number 12 that he would continue killing
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people although he might have just graduated to the bombs he did say that his ultimate ambition
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was to take pipe bombs to the big IMAX movie theater in Manhattan and lay it in the middle of the theater under a seat
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and see it get detonated [Music] it is kind of scary to see somebody who had such a small life as Mr Sater would
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never really went anywhere outside of that square mile killing field that he invented who never really had any
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connections with anyone on a budget as small as his he could kill three people nearly kill others and cause the amount
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of misery that he did he was basically the lowest rent serial killer that you were ever going to find
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well he's a coward he shoots people that are helpless homeless sleeping walking
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with a cane and a limb elderly and for someone to shoot his own sister he was a monster
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very evil very evil guy over six years Eddie seder the copycat Zodiac Killer stalked the streets of New
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York City in search of easy targets his cowardly attacks culminated with the Ferocious murder of a woman who'd only
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asked him for a cigarette he'd convinced himself that he served a higher purpose but merely indulged his
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Lust For notoriety and violence marking Hedy Berto Eddie seder as one of the world's most evil killers
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[Music] thank you [Music] [Music]