E26: The Zodiac Killer

What happens when a teenager goes missing in the world’s smallest, and supposedly safest, country? Emanuela Orlandi’s sudden disappearance remains the only missing person’s case in Vatican City, yet more than 40 years later we still have no idea what really happened behind the pa ...  Show more

Elizabeth Short’s gruesome murder is the LAPD’s most infamous unsolved case. But there’s one person who thinks he’s cracked it — the alleged killer’s own son. Today, we reopen the case against George Hodel, a certified genius and once-celebrated doctor who rubbed elbows with note ...  Show more

Following the string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the masked man known as the Zodiac Killer continued to write letters to the press and police, taunting them for their inability to catch him. Fifty years later, there is still no confirmed suspect as to the identity of ...  Show more

In the summer of 1969, newspapers in San Francisco began receiving coded letters from a man who would come to identify himself as "the Zodiac." The killer confessed to a string of brutal murders and would go on to terrorize the Bay area into the early 1970s. Learn more about your ...  Show more

On this episode of Binged, Payton dives into Unidentified Serial Killers ending with the infamous Zodiac Killer and how maybe he’s not all he’s cracked up to be. https://linktr.ee/bingedpod Case Sources: Motor Spirit: The Long Hunt for the Zodiac (2022, We Heard You Like Books), ...  Show more

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Beginning the 1960s to the early 70s in Northern California, a series of grizzly murders would take place that shocked t ...