"NOTHING CAN PREVENT YOU FROM LEARNING THE TRUTH SO MUCH AS THE BELIEF THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW IT."..................JON K. HART

ZODIAC KILLER PAGES

THE EVENING OF OCTOBER 30, 1966 IS THOUGHT BY MANY TO BE THE FIRST KILLING OF THE ENIGMA WE LEARNED TO CALL ZODIAC. CHERI JO BATES AN 18 YEAR OLD STUDENT AT A NEARBY SCHOOL EXITED THE LIBRARY ANNEX OF THE RIVERSIDE CITY COLLEGE AND FOUND HER CAR WOULDN'T START.    UNKNOWN TO HER, IT HAD BEEN DELIBERATELY DISABLED BY PULLING THE COIL WIRE OF HER 1969 VW..    THE NEXT EVENTS CAN ONLY BE GUESSED AT BUT PROBABLY THE KILLER OR KILLERS LURED HER TO AN ALLEY BESIDE THE LIBRARY WHERE SHE COULD BE KILLED QUIETLY AND MERCILESSLY BY SOMEONE.     MUCH LATER THE CONNECTION WAS MADE BY THE RIVERSIDE POLICE THAT SHE MIGHT BE THE FIRST VICTIM OF THE ZODIAC AND  LETTERS TO THE POLICE, NEWSPAPER AND TO HER FATHER FROM ZODIAC MADE CLAIM TO HER AS HIS FIRST VICTIM....BUT WAS IT SO?    ALMOST 1 MONTH  HAD PASSED SINCE THE MURDER OF CHERI JO AND THE RECEIPT OF THE ZODIAC LETTER AND MANY PEOPLE FEEL THAT THEY STYLE AND METHOD OF CHERI JO'S KILLING WAS NOT IN KEEPING WITH THE TRADITIONAL M.O. OF ZODIAC.     LETS EXAMINE THE EVENTS OF THAT SUNDAY EVENING.

CHERI BATES' BODY AS IT WAS FOUND AT 6:30 THE NEXT MORNING IN AN ALLEY BESIDE THE LIBRARY.     SCREAMS AND A CAR STARTING UP WERE HEARD ABOUT 10:30. P.M.

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