On the night of July 4, she picked up friend Michael Mageau and stopped her Corvair in the parking lot of Blue Rock Springs Park. Twenty-two-year-old Darlene Ferrin was a wife, mother and a popular waitress at a Vallejo restaurant. Investigators believed the two teenagers were likely random targets killed by a stranger for unknown reasons. Ballistic evidence indicated that the killer used a. Shell casings recovered at the crime scene identified ammunition as Winchester Western Super X copper-coated. Bullet holes in the car’s roof and back window indicated that the killer may have fired warning shots to force the victims out of the vehicle. David was found next to the Rambler with a bullet wound in his head, still breathing but near death. Benicia police and others responded to the scene and discovered Betty Lou dead, with five bullet wounds in her back.
THE ZODIAC KILLER VICTIMS DRIVER
Moments later, another driver noticed two seemingly lifeless bodies on the side of the road. Shortly after that time, passing motorists saw the Rambler and its occupants parked at a lovers’ lane spot along Lake Herman Road in Benicia, California. The DNA didn’t match, and the suspect denied any involvement in the murder.įive nights before Christmas, high school students Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday set out on their first official date together, promising Betty Lou’s parents they’d be home by 11:00 PM. In the late 1990s, police obtained a sample of the suspect’s DNA to compare with the DNA taken from the hairs found in the victim’s hand in 1966.
The Zodiac wrote, “I do have to give them credit for stumbling across my riverside activity, but they are only finding the easy ones, there are a hell of a lot more down there.” Years later, Riverside police rejected the Zodiac theory and focused on a man who they said was a jilted former lover of Bates. Zodiac then sent a letter to The Los Angeles Times indicating that the killer confirmed the theory that he had killed Bates. The “Riverside connection” was later revealed to the public by Paul Avery, reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle. Sherwood Morrill, then documents examiner for the California Department of Justice, concluded that the Zodiac was responsible for the notes linked to the Bates case. In 1969, Riverside police contacted investigators in Northern California regarding the similarities between the Zodiac crimes and the murder of Cheri Jo Bates. There will be more.” The notes were signed with a symbol which resembled the letter “Z.” I am insane.” In April 1967, the newspaper, the police and Joseph Bates received virtually identical handwritten letters which read, “Bates had to die. She went to the slaughter like a lamb,” and added, “I am not sick. The author wrote, “Miss Bates was stupid. One month after the murder, the local newspaper and the police department received typewritten letters titled “The Confession” from someone who claimed to be the killer. Cheri Jo’s purse was intact, and an autopsy revealed no evidence of sexual assault. Police found a men’s Timex watch at the crime scene, a print from a military boot and some hairs in dried blood on the victim’s hand. She had been stabbed several times and her throat was slashed. On October 30, 1966, she left a note that read, “Dad- – went to the RCC library.” The next morning, her Volkswagen Beetle was found abandoned in the library parking lot, and her body was lying nearby between two houses.
The Domingos/Edwards case also had similarities to the Zodiac’s attack of another young couple at Lake Berryessa in 1969.Įighteen-year-old Cheri Josephine Bates lived with her father Joseph and was a student at Riverside City College in Riverside, California. The beach killer used Winchester Western Super X ammunition, the same ammunition used by the Zodiac during the 1968 murders on Lake Herman Road. Investigators had few leads but, in 1972, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s department announced a possible Zodiac connection. The killer then dragged the bodies to the shack where he tried and failed to start a fire. Robert was shot 11 times and Linda had been shot nine times. The victims, bound with rope, had apparently tried to escape, but were shot and killed with a. When the two teenagers didn’t return home by Wednesday, Robert’s father went to the beach and was horrified to discover their bodies lying together inside the remains of a crumbling shack.
On Tuesday in early June, 1963, the couple decided to use the “Senior Ditch Day” to go sunbathing on a beach near Gaviota State Park. Robert Domingos and his fiancé Linda Edwards were seniors at Lompoc High School in Santa Barbara County in Southern California. 1988 Chicago Bears beat Philadelphia Eagles in freaky Fog Bowl
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