DECEMBER 20,1968 FINDS 2 YOUNG PEOPLE OUT ON THEIR FIRST DATE....AND THEIR LAST, FOR OUT OF THE NIGHT A KILLER STALKS THEM AND WITH AS LITTLE CARE AS SQUASHING A BUG, HE KILLS THEM BOTH.
SO BEGINS THE REIGN OF TERROR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED ON THAT NIGHT THAT HIS POWER TO TERRORIZE ALL OF SAN FRANCISCO WOULD GO ON FOR OVER 5 YEARS AND COST THE LIVES OF AT LEAST 5 PEOPLE AND SEVERELY DAMAGE COUNTLESS OTHERS, ENDING AS IT BEGAN.....WITHOUT WARNING.
ON JULY 8, 1974 HE MAILED WHAT WAS TO BE HIS FINAL LETTER, CALLING HIMSELF THE RED PHANTOM AND DISAPPEARED.....FOREVER.
HE HAS NEVER BEEN CAUGHT TO THIS DAY.
HE WAS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING CAUGHT AND ALL HE LEFT US TO REMIND US OF HIS TERROR IS A SERIES OF CODED CIPHERS...SOME OF WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN DECIPHERED TO THIS DAY.
BUT LET'S GO BACK...BACK TO A WARM FALL EVENING IN RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA WHERE A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IS TO MEET HER DESTINY.......AND MANY BELIEVE.....PERHAPS IT WAS HERE THAT ZODIAC MET HIS FIRST VICTIM.
