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Source (google.com.pk )n the late 1960s and early '70s, an unknown assailant who called himself "Zodiac" terrorized the San Francisco area, attacking couples in secluded areas. The Zodiac Killer is believed to be responsible for at least five killings between 1968 and 1969, during which time he sent letters about the killings to a local newspaper. Suspects have surfaced, but the killer has never been apprehended.
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"I like killing people because it is so much fun."
[from segmented cipher, or coded message, sent to three local newspapers following the 1969 murders of Mike Mageau and Darlene Ferrin.]
– Zodiac Killer
First Murder
In the late 1960s and early '70s, an unknown assailant terrorized the San Francisco area. The Zodiac Killer, as he came to be known (he called himself "Zodiac" in several letters sent to the police and media), is believed to be responsible for at least five killings between 1968 and 1969. While the police have had several suspects over the years, the killer has never been apprehended.
It is believed that the Zodiac Killer's first victim may have been Cheri Jo Bates, a college student in Riverside, California, who was murdered outside her school's library on October 30, 1966. There were reports of a white male driving old car in the area at the time of the murder and police found a man's watch at the scene. A month after the attack, a letter was sent to a local newspaper allegedly written by the killer. Months later, letters were sent to the media, the police and the victim's father by the killer, all with the same chilling message: "Bates had to die. There will be more."
More Killings and Coded Messages
On the evening of December 20, 1968, the killer made good on his threat. He shot a teenage couple out on a date in Vallejo, California. They parked at a local lover's lane when the killer shot David Faraday in the head while he sat in the car and Betty Lou Jensen in the back five times outside of the vehicle.
On July 4, 1969, the Zodiac Killer is believed to have attacked another young couple, Mike Mageau and Darlene Ferrin, in Vallejo. Mageau survived the shooting, but Ferrin died at the scene. Also around this time, the killer wrote letters to three area newspapers with details of the crime. He also wrote a cipher, or coded message, and each newspaper received one part of the message. In the letter, he told them that if they didn't print the cipher in the newspaper, he would kill again. The letter also featured a strange symbol that would become part of the killer's calling card—a circle with two intersecting lines running through it.
The Zodiac's code was cracked by a high school teacher from Salinas. While the killer failed to reveal his name in his message, as he'd promised earlier, the note did provide some disturbing insights into his personality: "I like killing people because it is so much fun," the message read in part. He also stated that all of the people he killed would be his slaves in the afterlife.
In the preface to Greene's Menaphon, Nashe returns to many of the absurdities attacked in his first work: the abuses of learning, ignorant Puritans, trite literary fashions. But the style of his invective is not grounded in any one tradition of artifice. For the first time, rather, Nashe proposes an ideal of prose that he embraces for the remainder of his career: the extemporal vein. He prizes "the man whose extemporal vein in any humor will excel our greatest art-master's deliberate thoughts; whose inventions, quicker than his eye, will challenge the proudest rhetorician to the contention of like perfection with like expedition." As Nashe makes clear elsewhere, it is somewhat misleading to call this style an "ideal," insofar as the new breed of professional writers, poor and unpatronized in London, are forced into the rash publications so despised in The Anatomy of Absurdity as antithetical to art. Yet here art is demoted, spontaneity promoted. At times, Nashe seeks some authority in the past for his extemporal rhetoric, but he is also attracted to its revolutionary and even dangerous potential."
In contrast to the extemporal vein, Nashe berates playwrights and actors who flaunt the heavens with their pretentious blank verse; plagiarists who rely entirely on the leftovers of Ariosto and Cicero, and who cannot finally tell the difference between a vulgar ballad and true poetry; and in particular dullards who leave their proper trades and translate Senecan tragedy line by line. This attack on the Senecan vein is the best-known part of the epistle, mainly for what may be topical allusions to Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe: "the sea exhaled by drops will in continuance be dry, and Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needs die to our stage; which makes his famished followers to imitate the kid in Aesop, who, enamored with the fox's newfangles, forsook all hopes of life to leap into a new occupation." But Nashe resorts to the attack on the Senecans as an escape from the more political satire against those arrogant young scholars who turn the world upside down. Playwrights, after all, were easier and safer targets than Puritans."
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