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This was just the beginning of it,
right here.
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We had a senior citizen shot.
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I was informed
by night watch detectives
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that the victim was removed
to Jamaica Hospital.
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Joe Proce lived
in this basement apartment.
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He was a lonely, old, defenseless guy
who was now fighting for his life.
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The Seven-Five Precinct
led the city.
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Over 100 shootings a year.
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But the strange thing
on this one case, this note was there.
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This cryptic, eerie note.
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At the top is a circle with three symbols.
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"This is the Zodiac."
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"The 12 sign will die
when the belts in the heaven are seen."
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I thought,
"Who the fuck are we dealing with?"
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We had no idea of what was to come.
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What was in front of us.
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- Very nice suit, Mike.
- Yes.
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I have a very good tailor.
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He sews my name in.
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I grew up smack-dab
in the middle of the Bronx.
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I used to see cops
on patrol in my neighborhood.
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I liked the way they looked in uniform.
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I was 17 years old
when that yearbook came out.
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Two months later, I put up my right hand,
and I was sworn into the NYPD.
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They wanted me to be an undercover
in the vice squad.
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And that's the stepping stone
to my detective shield.
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I wind up being the commanding officer
of the Senior Citizens Robbery Unit.
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That's where I was in 1990,
the day Joe Proce was shot.
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I've got an old man
in the hospital, fighting for his life.
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At the scene was clothes
that were cut off the victim
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so they can render medical aid to him.
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I remember distinctly.
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A detective picked up the coat,
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and he shook it.
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And...
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...a lead round, a bullet,
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fell down onto the concrete steps.
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The bullet had passed through Joe Proce
and had come to rest in his heavy coat.
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Once we were able to interview him,
he said he was out for his nightly walk.
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The guy followed him.
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He told him, "Get away from me.
I don't have any money."
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And that's when he was shot.
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It was dark.
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His eyesight was not good.
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He couldn't tell us
what the perpetrator looked like.
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So it wasn't really helpful.
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Guns are unique.
There's lands and grooves inside.
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So you can match it that this bullet
was fired from this... this firearm.
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In this particular case, the bullet
didn't have any unique markings on it.
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No lands and grooves.
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He was using a zip gun.
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A crude, homemade gun.
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It's basically a length of pipe.
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There's a rubber band,
like a slingshot, with a nail in it.
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Zip gun.
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They're impossible to trace.
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It's just a piece of plumbing.
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The note was reminiscent
of the famous San Francisco Zodiac.
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In the late '60s, he taunted the police
and the press with cryptic notes.
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And I know he killed a lot of people.
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He had never been caught.
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As far as we knew, he was still out there.
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So we sent our New York Zodiac notes
to the crime lab in San Francisco
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to make a comparison against.
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Ballistics is telling us
there's nothing to identify firearm used.
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"Oh shit."
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I call the lab to see
if they can tell us anything.
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"Okay, there's no fingerprints
on this note."
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"Oh shit."
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Days are passing.
We're not catching a break.
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And you have to appreciate,
resources went to the homicides.
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The Seven-Five Precinct
were inundated with homicides.
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It was like the ocean.
The waves just kept comin' in.
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And at that point,
we didn't know there were others.
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So, I got a call
from the detective in Brooklyn.
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"Mike, there's a note here,
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and it looks like the note we found
at the Proce scene a couple of weeks ago."
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There it was. "This is the Zodiac."
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Another note.
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I said, "How'd you get this?"
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He says, "This New York Post reporter
got this mailed to the Post,
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and she sent it to us."
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The handwriting was spot-on.
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And in this one, he wrote,
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"All shoot in Brooklyn
with .380 RNL or nine millimeter."
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"No grooves on bullet."
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And it's something
that only the shooter knows.
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And then I noticed,
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"On May 31st, white old man with cane.
Shoot in front of house."
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This is Joe Proce.
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But there's also two other shootings
preceding Joe Proce
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that we're totally unaware of.
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So now we're checking
all shootings that may have coincided
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with these dates and times.
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We find two that match with the shootings
he's claiming responsibility for.
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Orozco worked in a restaurant
in Manhattan.
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He had a disability
where he walked with a limp.
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And he got shot in the back.
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He told us the shooter wore a mask.
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And after he was down,
the shooter stood over him
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and put the gun to his head.
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But didn't fire.
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Montenegro was very drunk.
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And he was an easy target.
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Might have been down and out for the count
before he was assaulted.
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Again, couldn't provide
a description.
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This guy's a serial shooter.
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And he thinks he killed 'em,
but all three survived.
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We then realized his drawings
on the pie slice
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coincides with
the three correct astrological signs
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of the first three victims.
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Orozco, Montenegro, Proce.
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He had the Taurus, he had the Scorpio,
and he had the Gemini.
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He was three for three.
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Now, I'm thinking there's 12 signs.
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He's got a game plan,
and his intent is to carry it out.
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How do we get this guy
before there are more?
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Again, that note is brought down
to the lab
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to try to get latent fingerprints off it.
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Were there prints on this?
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Answer? No.
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So he probably wore gloves.
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At that point, I got a call
from the detectives in San Francisco,
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and they let us know, "This is a copycat."
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"This is not our Zodiac."
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The handwriting didn't match up at all.
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This didn't help us one bit.
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He writes about Orion, the Seven Sisters,
the belts in the heaven.
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So it was an aspect of this investigation
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that required some thought
outside the proverbial box.
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ABC mark.
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People called us things.
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They called us the Devil Desk.
They called it the Voodoo Team.
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Sorry. We have to just turn
the air-conditioning off.
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So, Larry was part of that team
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who was looking into
astrology, astronomy, witchcraft.
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Okay? Good.
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All the offbeat stuff, y'know.
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Thanks for sending us
your pictures from when you were younger.
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Oh yeah. A lot younger.
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I grew up in Brooklyn.
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Oh, there was some in the school
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that their relatives
were mobbed-up people.
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And they bragged about it.
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And it was something
that always turned me off.
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I mean, my family,
you stayed within the law.
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That's why when I went into
the police department, eventually,
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I went into
the Organized Crime Control Bureau.
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But having an Italian last name
kinda branded you.
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Like, "We got enough of them
on the other side."
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"We don't need them
on this side of the desk."
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But then, there were other people
who used it as a crutch to cry about.
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"Oh yeah.
Because I'm Italian, I didn't get that."
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No, that's not the case.
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"You didn't get it because you're
not good enough."
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When I was called in,
there were three of us
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in the Major Case Squad who had worked
in the Intelligence Division previously.
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And this was totally
out of the realm of that.
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We had three shootings,
and these notes came in.
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They were very detailed,
with times and dates and zodiac signs.
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We created a chart
with the dates of the shootings.
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Okay.
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We had March 8th.
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March 29th.
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And May 31st.
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What we could see was a 21-day cycle
being followed here.
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We found out that the Parks Department
had a very prestigious astronomer.
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He laid it out.
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We found out that on March 8th,
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three specific constellations
were visible at the time of the shooting.
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Seven Sisters,
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Taurus,
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and Orion.
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March 29th. All three were visible
at the time of the shooting.
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The next two 21-day periods, the stars
were not in the sky at the same time.
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No shootings.
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On May 31st, the third shooting.
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At 2:04 a.m., all the stars were
in the sky.
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So we asked him,
"Give us the next 21 days."
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"Let's just see what's goin' on."
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June 21st. All three will be visible.
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All the arrows were pointing
towards June 21st,
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between 1:00 and 4:00 in the morning.
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It's never been done before.
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Where you were able to actually predict
when a shooting was gonna take place
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within a couple of hours.
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And we explained it
to the chief. Chief Borrelli.
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He thought we were nuts.
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He said, "No one can predict
when a shooting's gonna take place."
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So he said, "Do you really believe that?"
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We told him,
"Well, we don't have to believe it."
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"The person who's doing it believes it."
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When Larry said,
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"He's gonna shoot again, Chief,"
Chief Borrelli looked at me.
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He says, "I'm gonna give you
all the resources you need."
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I got on the phone to the New York Post.
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And I said, "Please do not put this out."
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"When we get this guy,
I'm gonna give you an exclusive."
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But... next morning,
front page, New York Post.
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The new note and everything.
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They gotta sell papers,
but it did make our job a lot harder.
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Now they'd publicized the actual note,
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we had nothing to keep close to the vest.
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Somewhere in New York City
is a killer who calls himself Zodiac,
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choosing victims
by their astrological signs.
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If any individual approaches them
in any fashion,
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um, and the subject gets around
to the date of birth,
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to be extremely careful.
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And we would like to know about
any incident like that that's happened.
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So, on June 21st,
Operation Watchdog was put into effect.
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And we'd put together an all-star team.
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The best detectives from the best squads.
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And so, this one guy came in.
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And I looked at him because he didn't look
like, uh, your conventional detective.
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Louie Savarese looked like
a Hells Angel guy
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instead of an NYPD homicide detective.
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This is ABC mark. Louie, take one. Mark.
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Well, got my friends' names on here.
My friend Buckets. He's dead.
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Brian. He got killed on 9/11.
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On my back,
I have, uh, faces of, uh, serial killers.
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I got Manson, Charlie Manson. Berkowitz.
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Got John Wayne Gacy, the clown.
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And the theme was "evil that men do."
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Without police, you have anarchy.
Are you kiddin' me?
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I mean, you're fightin' bad guys, y'know?
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Part of my life, y'know?
So that's why I did it, y'know.
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A part of my life.
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Tonight investigators
from the Zodiac task force
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will be at the phones
in their command post
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and on the streets
throughout the city in force.
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Tonight falls
within his 21-day cycle of violence.
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That night, they put
people together from individual precincts,
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and we hunted the streets.
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But now you've gotta say, it's...
"We canvassed the streets." You know? So...
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But we were huntin'.
I was huntin'. Y'know?
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We hoped
to be able to scoop him up
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before someone else was shot.
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That would've been
the perfect, perfect scenario.
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One guy walkin' the street,
"I'd like to speak."
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"What's up?" Ba-ba-boom.
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00:17:01,645 --> 00:17:03,272
Who we lookin' for? Nobody knows.
242
00:17:03,355 --> 00:17:06,025
It could be a Black guy,
a white guy, a... a Spanish guy.
243
00:17:06,984 --> 00:17:12,865
We tossed, questioned,
and frisked everybody who moved.
244
00:17:14,158 --> 00:17:16,910
And we did that
hundreds of times that night.
245
00:17:17,578 --> 00:17:22,166
Now they would consider it
a gross violation of civil rights.
246
00:17:22,249 --> 00:17:25,377
Back then, it was a little faster.
It was a little looser.
247
00:17:25,461 --> 00:17:28,297
Lookin' to get this trash
off the street,
248
00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:32,009
you gotta be what you gotta be
when life is on the line.
249
00:17:32,092 --> 00:17:33,552
And that's the way it was.
250
00:17:41,101 --> 00:17:44,229
Well, the time came and left,
and there were no shootings.
251
00:17:46,315 --> 00:17:50,319
The streets were empty,
so they called it off by four o'clock.
252
00:17:50,402 --> 00:17:52,446
And we head over,
back to the 102 Precinct.
253
00:17:52,529 --> 00:17:54,239
Nothin' happened.
254
00:17:54,323 --> 00:17:56,033
Nothing happened.
255
00:17:56,700 --> 00:18:00,120
We were wrong. And they put
all that money and time into it.
256
00:18:00,204 --> 00:18:02,706
We were in for a world of hurtin'
outta that.
257
00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:08,003
Nothing left to do
but go back to the barn,
258
00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:09,713
sign the overtime slips.
259
00:18:12,216 --> 00:18:13,300
It was frustrating.
260
00:18:13,383 --> 00:18:14,927
It was very frustrating.
261
00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:24,228
Then I get a phone call
from a detective.
262
00:18:24,311 --> 00:18:26,814
"Central Park Precinct's
on the phone for you."
263
00:18:27,439 --> 00:18:29,066
He said, "You didn't get anybody
264
00:18:29,149 --> 00:18:31,568
up in, uh, Queens
and Brooklyn tonight, did you?"
265
00:18:32,444 --> 00:18:34,988
I said, "No." He says, "You know why?"
266
00:18:35,072 --> 00:18:38,075
"Because he just shot somebody
in Central Park."
267
00:18:39,993 --> 00:18:42,162
"Son of a bitch!"
268
00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:46,959
And it was like getting punched
in the stomach.
269
00:18:47,042 --> 00:18:49,378
Punched in the solar plexus. Like...
270
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,340
Borrelli gives us a wave.
271
00:18:53,423 --> 00:18:57,803
"Here's my guys. These guys are the ones.
They told us when it was gonna happen."
272
00:18:57,886 --> 00:18:59,096
It felt really good.
273
00:18:59,847 --> 00:19:03,976
Not that somebody got shot,
but the fact that we knew we were right.
274
00:19:04,059 --> 00:19:08,147
Then he says, "Look, guys, next time,
you gotta get me the location."
275
00:19:15,070 --> 00:19:17,406
A bench
south of the Central Park Bandshell,
276
00:19:17,489 --> 00:19:20,117
site of the fourth,
and most recent, of the shootings
277
00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,870
the so-called Zodiac Killer
has taken credit for.
278
00:19:24,746 --> 00:19:26,999
Larry Parham,
the latest victim,
279
00:19:27,082 --> 00:19:30,002
was an African-American homeless man,
280
00:19:30,085 --> 00:19:31,587
sleeping on a park bench.
281
00:19:32,296 --> 00:19:34,673
We're told, so far, he's alive.
282
00:19:34,756 --> 00:19:39,219
The round passed right through him.
One shot. Body shot.
283
00:19:40,596 --> 00:19:43,724
It went through Parham's sternum,
and they recovered the bullet
284
00:19:43,807 --> 00:19:46,351
out of the, uh, park bench.
285
00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:51,148
Larry Parham could provide
no description of the shooter
286
00:19:51,231 --> 00:19:53,233
because he was asleep when he got shot.
287
00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:59,156
But the real find
at this crime scene was the note.
288
00:20:06,872 --> 00:20:10,626
He had his circle and crosshairs
on the top,
289
00:20:10,709 --> 00:20:16,006
and he's got a fourth pie slice
in there, which is Cancer.
290
00:20:17,507 --> 00:20:20,260
We checked out Larry Parham's
date of birth.
291
00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:22,054
And again,
292
00:20:22,137 --> 00:20:26,808
he was right because Larry Parham was,
in fact, a Cancer.
293
00:20:28,268 --> 00:20:34,566
We still didn't know how the shooter knew
the astrological sign of his victims.
294
00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:36,401
That was baffling.
295
00:20:37,903 --> 00:20:40,280
So now, four victims.
296
00:20:40,364 --> 00:20:41,990
He's four for four.
297
00:20:43,867 --> 00:20:48,413
There's eight more people
until he fills in the pie chart.
298
00:20:49,122 --> 00:20:52,042
He's tryin' to throw
all this bullshit at us.
299
00:20:52,125 --> 00:20:54,753
Latin, constellations.
300
00:20:54,836 --> 00:20:57,798
And he's just gonna go out
and shoot somebody else.
301
00:20:59,716 --> 00:21:01,176
This guy's serious.
302
00:21:02,761 --> 00:21:04,846
He's as serious as a heart attack.
303
00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:11,061
Tonight,
the so-called Zodiac gunman
304
00:21:11,144 --> 00:21:13,647
is one step closer
to fulfilling his deadly promise.
305
00:21:13,730 --> 00:21:15,148
One of his victims has died.
306
00:21:15,816 --> 00:21:18,151
78-year-old Joseph Proce
died this morning
307
00:21:18,235 --> 00:21:20,028
at Jamaica Hospital in Queens.
308
00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:23,573
Now the manhunt
has turned into a homicide investigation.
309
00:21:23,657 --> 00:21:28,662
The Zodiac Shooter
was now the Zodiac Killer.
310
00:21:28,745 --> 00:21:30,747
That amped up the intensity.
311
00:21:30,831 --> 00:21:33,542
The public was even more nervous.
312
00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:37,087
Nobody wanted to become the next victim.
313
00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:52,811
Chief Borrelli
put a task force together
314
00:21:52,894 --> 00:21:54,479
on a permanent basis.
315
00:21:56,565 --> 00:22:03,113
This was the main office
in which 50 detectives worked.
316
00:22:08,410 --> 00:22:10,287
It was like the line
from the movie.
317
00:22:10,370 --> 00:22:12,664
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
318
00:22:12,748 --> 00:22:15,125
And that's what Chief Borrelli gave us.
319
00:22:17,085 --> 00:22:19,379
It was a beehive of activity back then.
320
00:22:22,215 --> 00:22:24,343
Guys were calling it
the War Room
321
00:22:24,426 --> 00:22:28,138
because we had the maps
and we had the blackboard.
322
00:22:29,097 --> 00:22:31,224
It was like a telethon.
323
00:22:31,308 --> 00:22:34,061
"Zodiac task force. How can I help you?"
324
00:22:35,645 --> 00:22:38,231
My job was
to coordinate the investigation.
325
00:22:39,149 --> 00:22:41,526
"You guys go to Brooklyn
and check this out."
326
00:22:41,610 --> 00:22:43,987
"You guys go up to the Bronx
and talk to this woman."
327
00:22:44,988 --> 00:22:47,699
We went to all parts of the five boroughs.
328
00:22:48,742 --> 00:22:52,496
There was a lot of pressure on us
because the press was all over it.
329
00:22:52,579 --> 00:22:55,207
People in the city of New York
were scared shitless.
330
00:22:56,208 --> 00:22:58,251
We don't go to the park anymore.
331
00:22:58,335 --> 00:23:00,796
We don't even be
on Jamaica Avenue, near the park.
332
00:23:01,463 --> 00:23:05,425
If he can outsmart police,
he can outsmart his victims.
333
00:23:05,509 --> 00:23:08,053
This cycle can go on for a long time.
334
00:23:09,888 --> 00:23:13,725
After the first cycle,
21 days after Parham,
335
00:23:13,809 --> 00:23:15,602
he's gonna shoot again.
336
00:23:15,685 --> 00:23:17,354
Well, we've gotta be ready.
337
00:23:19,272 --> 00:23:22,442
This guy is writing crazy stuff
in his notes.
338
00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,695
And so far, he was eluding us.
339
00:23:25,779 --> 00:23:31,576
So Larry started looking into witchcraft
and looking into black magic
340
00:23:31,660 --> 00:23:35,580
to see if it could help catch this guy
before he kills all 12.
341
00:23:38,041 --> 00:23:40,752
He signs this one "Faust."
342
00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:46,883
Faust was a 16th-century magician,
343
00:23:46,967 --> 00:23:49,928
and he sold his soul
to the devil for knowledge.
344
00:23:50,637 --> 00:23:54,099
The upside-down cross
with the 666, it's all satanic.
345
00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:57,519
So I went and met with the Warlock.
346
00:24:00,397 --> 00:24:03,775
Herman Slater was well-known
in the occult community.
347
00:24:03,859 --> 00:24:05,694
A warlock is a male witch.
348
00:24:06,528 --> 00:24:09,239
Well, let me introduce you
to Herman.
349
00:24:09,322 --> 00:24:14,953
The store had ceremonial robes,
sacrificial daggers, candles, and books.
350
00:24:18,165 --> 00:24:22,210
He told us, "You have to get
The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley."
351
00:24:22,294 --> 00:24:25,839
That this was followers of Crowley
that were doing the shootings.
352
00:24:26,339 --> 00:24:28,967
Aleister Crowley was an English witch.
353
00:24:29,885 --> 00:24:34,014
He died in 1947,
and he has followers all over the world.
354
00:24:35,056 --> 00:24:37,017
And Slater says,
"I don't carry that stuff."
355
00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:38,810
"I don't touch his... his works."
356
00:24:39,895 --> 00:24:42,189
Then he said, "If you even say their name,
357
00:24:42,272 --> 00:24:44,691
if they know that you know their name,
they will kill you."
358
00:24:46,651 --> 00:24:47,694
Excuse me.
359
00:24:47,777 --> 00:24:50,197
Uh, there are other groups...
360
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,450
that are very dangerous.
361
00:24:53,533 --> 00:24:57,287
They're into drugs.
They're into ritual murder.
362
00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:01,041
That's when I started
gettin' freaked out.
363
00:25:01,124 --> 00:25:05,670
Because we knew we were dealing with
some very strange people at that point.
364
00:25:08,131 --> 00:25:10,884
I knew a couple of other occult stores
in the area.
365
00:25:10,967 --> 00:25:12,302
Nobody had the book.
366
00:25:14,387 --> 00:25:17,891
I went up to the Central Research Library
on 5th Avenue.
367
00:25:18,725 --> 00:25:19,809
Got the book.
368
00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:21,728
Went, sat down.
369
00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:26,566
And the book opened automatically.
370
00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:29,861
There was a note inside.
371
00:25:30,904 --> 00:25:32,822
"White devil" and a lightning bolt.
372
00:25:32,906 --> 00:25:34,157
In that moment, I was afraid.
373
00:25:36,117 --> 00:25:38,870
I took my gun,
loosened it up in my belt.
374
00:25:42,999 --> 00:25:46,503
A lot of it has to do
with takin' slaves for the afterlife.
375
00:25:47,462 --> 00:25:51,174
It says, "Strike down the wretched
and the weak."
376
00:25:51,258 --> 00:25:52,926
"Strike hard, strike low."
377
00:25:53,677 --> 00:25:57,681
In the Zodiac case, no one was
shot in the head or above the shoulder.
378
00:25:59,140 --> 00:26:01,560
"The sacrifice is greatest
when it's known by many
379
00:26:01,643 --> 00:26:04,104
but understood by only the chosen few."
380
00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:11,319
Larry worked his ass off
to see if it could help
381
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,321
in some way, shape, or form.
382
00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:17,200
Just how did Larry's
research help the investigation?
383
00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:22,998
It gave us a little bit more insight
as to who we were dealing with.
384
00:26:23,665 --> 00:26:26,418
Like, we were trying everything, y'know?
385
00:26:32,549 --> 00:26:35,343
My wife noticed a difference
in my appearance.
386
00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:38,680
My skin was getting,
like, ashened in color a bit.
387
00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:42,100
I got to the point
where I wouldn't go home directly.
388
00:26:42,183 --> 00:26:44,978
I would get off the parkway,
maybe an exit or two early,
389
00:26:45,562 --> 00:26:49,065
circle the block a few times,
just to make sure I wasn't being followed.
390
00:26:50,025 --> 00:26:52,277
I never did that when I worked on the Mob.
391
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:54,904
They were violent people
and everything else,
392
00:26:54,988 --> 00:26:57,741
but, yeah, you knew
what you were dealing with.
393
00:26:58,241 --> 00:27:00,243
This, here, you didn't know.
394
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,624
The occult things,
that kinda stuck with you a bit.
395
00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:14,633
Then suddenly, we get a break.
396
00:27:15,842 --> 00:27:18,011
I got a call from the lab.
397
00:27:18,094 --> 00:27:21,848
We've got fingerprint evidence
from the Larry Parham letter.
398
00:27:23,183 --> 00:27:28,772
Somewhere on the side, there was an index
with 15 points of identification on it.
399
00:27:29,773 --> 00:27:32,817
But... we didn't have
computers in these days.
400
00:27:32,901 --> 00:27:34,778
So we just couldn't, y'know,
401
00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:38,740
look through a database
to see if anything coincided.
402
00:27:39,783 --> 00:27:42,994
And I always said,
he's gonna jump over a turnstile.
403
00:27:43,078 --> 00:27:44,788
He's gonna be a fare-beater.
404
00:27:44,871 --> 00:27:46,373
Cop'll grab him.
405
00:27:46,456 --> 00:27:49,209
He's gonna get fingerprinted,
and bang, we have a match.
406
00:27:49,959 --> 00:27:51,878
We'll get him on some fluke like that.
407
00:27:53,213 --> 00:27:57,842
But until you get the right guy,
match it, you don't have shit.
408
00:27:57,926 --> 00:28:01,930
Every detective wanted
to catch the Zodiac Killer.
409
00:28:02,013 --> 00:28:06,810
Every man in that task force
was living, breathing.
410
00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:10,605
But we're basically spinning our wheels.
411
00:28:13,441 --> 00:28:16,277
He brings a new danger
to New York City's nights.
412
00:28:16,361 --> 00:28:20,615
This Zodiac, who comes out
after dark in 21-day cycles.
413
00:28:30,458 --> 00:28:34,337
So once again,
we put a lot of detectives on the street,
414
00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:35,547
hunting for this guy.
415
00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:41,511
After Parham, now,
we have to expand the zone.
416
00:28:41,594 --> 00:28:45,849
We're spreading a little bit thinner
because we have to cover more area.
417
00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:50,854
We had to be concerned with Manhattan,
the millions of citizens.
418
00:28:53,982 --> 00:28:58,153
The sun came up.
Past the window of opportunity.
419
00:28:58,236 --> 00:28:59,404
He didn't shoot anybody.
420
00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:03,908
Nothing happened. Negative results.
421
00:29:16,254 --> 00:29:19,799
During the Zodiac case,
I probably did two packs a day.
422
00:29:24,804 --> 00:29:27,891
I didn't want to go on vacation
with my family
423
00:29:27,974 --> 00:29:31,394
because I didn't want to miss a day
tryin' to track this guy down.
424
00:29:33,521 --> 00:29:35,940
Y'know, I think any cop regrets
425
00:29:36,024 --> 00:29:39,194
not spending more time with his...
his family.
426
00:29:39,694 --> 00:29:43,782
But, um,
we're doing what we love to do.
427
00:29:46,284 --> 00:29:48,077
Well, every 21 days,
428
00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:51,581
communications would put out
to all the sector cars,
429
00:29:51,664 --> 00:29:56,294
"Everyone on patrol,
Operation Watchdog is in effect."
430
00:29:57,670 --> 00:30:03,635
I think there was a total of three
or four more Operation Watchdogs.
431
00:30:04,135 --> 00:30:05,720
There was no action.
432
00:30:06,221 --> 00:30:08,681
He was no longer the hunter.
He was the hunted.
433
00:30:08,765 --> 00:30:12,936
He crawled under the rock
from whence he came, and he stayed there.
434
00:30:14,062 --> 00:30:17,607
Another Thursday morning
has passed, and the Zodiac has not hit.
435
00:30:17,690 --> 00:30:20,777
So the speculation grows
as to if he ever will.
436
00:30:20,860 --> 00:30:24,072
It had been three months with no activity.
437
00:30:25,448 --> 00:30:27,450
And we never matched anyone
438
00:30:27,951 --> 00:30:30,703
to the Zodiac prints
on the Larry Parham letter.
439
00:30:36,042 --> 00:30:38,962
This guy disappeared.
Where is he? Is he dead? We don't know.
440
00:30:39,045 --> 00:30:42,632
And really, that's...
that pissed me off. Y'know?
441
00:30:43,341 --> 00:30:45,426
But people got away.
People get away with murder.
442
00:30:49,347 --> 00:30:53,852
The task force was disbanded
at the end of November of 1990.
443
00:30:53,935 --> 00:30:58,648
Navy Yard was cleaned out, and everybody
went back to their respective commands.
444
00:30:59,983 --> 00:31:01,985
We just didn't catch the right break.
445
00:31:05,154 --> 00:31:07,532
Well, it was frustrating.
Yeah. Yeah.
446
00:31:09,075 --> 00:31:11,035
More so than any other case.
447
00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:15,039
It was shortly after that that I retired.
448
00:31:15,832 --> 00:31:18,251
I decided it was my time to go.
449
00:31:22,881 --> 00:31:24,299
Was it a failure?
450
00:31:27,093 --> 00:31:28,887
Hell yeah. It was a failure.
451
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,520
'92, I retired from the NYPD.
452
00:31:39,439 --> 00:31:43,860
But I left with unfinished business,
I always felt, in the pit of my stomach.
453
00:31:44,527 --> 00:31:51,159
I was devastated at the end of the day
that we didn't... we didn't have him.
454
00:32:10,053 --> 00:32:16,851
On August 3, 1994, I was a sergeant
in the Seven-Five detective squad
455
00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:18,353
in East New York, Brooklyn.
456
00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:22,774
The NYPD deputy commissioner contacted me,
457
00:32:22,857 --> 00:32:25,777
and they said, "Listen,
the New York Post received a letter
458
00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:27,904
from somebody identifying himself
as the Zodiac."
459
00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:32,492
"He's claiming that he shot people
in your precinct, in your command."
460
00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:36,287
"Sleep, my little dead.
How we loathe them."
461
00:32:40,166 --> 00:32:42,543
We got 101, take one. Mark.
462
00:32:43,753 --> 00:32:47,840
My nickname is Pork Chop,
and I got it because, uh, I like to eat.
463
00:32:49,592 --> 00:32:52,679
Uh, you know.
That's the only reason.
464
00:32:54,681 --> 00:32:57,016
I was the, uh, fifth child in my family.
465
00:32:57,100 --> 00:33:01,187
My oldest brother, John,
was a New York City homicide detective.
466
00:33:01,270 --> 00:33:04,232
I always looked up to him.
I wanted to be a detective too.
467
00:33:04,315 --> 00:33:06,150
Not just a cop but a detective.
468
00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:08,903
I have the fever, crime fever.
469
00:33:09,404 --> 00:33:11,990
Although I wasn't involved
in the Zodiac case
470
00:33:12,073 --> 00:33:13,741
during his first series of events,
471
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:16,119
I followed it closely in the media.
472
00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:21,374
I got excited because I never thought
I would get to try and solve it.
473
00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:27,481
It's been more than four years
since the New York murderer
474
00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:29,966
who killed by the stars
was last heard from.
475
00:33:30,049 --> 00:33:32,802
Now a newspaper has received
a chilling letter
476
00:33:32,885 --> 00:33:35,346
from a person
claiming to be the Zodiac Killer.
477
00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:37,932
Has the Zodiac attacker returned?
478
00:33:40,226 --> 00:33:43,896
On the right,
he listed five incidents of violence.
479
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:45,898
So the first thing that I do,
480
00:33:45,982 --> 00:33:48,901
I started to research the crimes
that he was taking credit for.
481
00:33:50,361 --> 00:33:53,322
First one is from August 10, 1992.
482
00:33:53,406 --> 00:33:56,951
Female, white, stabbed and shot
in Highland Park.
483
00:33:57,535 --> 00:33:58,745
That was Patricia Fonti.
484
00:34:00,246 --> 00:34:01,998
She was stabbed over 100 times.
485
00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:05,543
And we found no indication that
she was shot, but she could have been.
486
00:34:05,626 --> 00:34:07,106
There were so many marks on her body.
487
00:34:08,671 --> 00:34:09,797
Jim Weber.
488
00:34:09,881 --> 00:34:14,719
The Zodiac shot him, then hopped the fence
and fled into a nearby cemetery.
489
00:34:15,595 --> 00:34:16,679
And he survived.
490
00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:20,224
Joseph Diacone was a homeless individual.
491
00:34:20,308 --> 00:34:23,394
He was shot in the back of the neck
and bled out instantly.
492
00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:27,815
Diane Ballard was shot one time
in the neck.
493
00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:28,900
And she survived.
494
00:34:30,359 --> 00:34:33,821
There was a fifth victim, June 11, 1994.
495
00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:37,742
We did a very thorough search of the park.
496
00:34:38,242 --> 00:34:40,953
Cadaver dogs, helicopters.
497
00:34:41,037 --> 00:34:43,039
We could not locate that victim.
498
00:34:44,957 --> 00:34:46,757
Two of them were homicides.
Two were nonfatal.
499
00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:52,465
The NYPD was not able to connect
the second series of attacks
500
00:34:52,548 --> 00:34:53,548
to the first series
501
00:34:53,591 --> 00:34:58,221
because there was over 2,300 homicides
a year in the city in those years,
502
00:34:58,304 --> 00:35:01,099
and thousands and thousands
of nonfatal shootings.
503
00:35:02,016 --> 00:35:06,479
So nine victims, Zodiac,
and zero next to the NYPD.
504
00:35:06,979 --> 00:35:09,107
He's taunting the police.
505
00:35:10,525 --> 00:35:13,736
Through lookin' at the evidence,
the handwriting, the victims,
506
00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:14,946
we knew we were dealin' with
507
00:35:15,029 --> 00:35:18,407
the same killer that had impacted
New York City two years prior.
508
00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:21,119
But his MO had changed.
509
00:35:21,202 --> 00:35:24,330
He got away from the pie signs
with the zodiac symbols.
510
00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:27,375
We didn't know
why he stopped takin' credit
511
00:35:27,458 --> 00:35:29,210
for birth signs on his victims.
512
00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:32,463
The flags threw me off a little bit.
513
00:35:32,547 --> 00:35:34,423
But military people, Navy people,
514
00:35:34,507 --> 00:35:37,385
recognized these flags
to be maritime flags.
515
00:35:37,468 --> 00:35:39,804
And they were able
to break the code fairly quickly.
516
00:35:40,638 --> 00:35:42,682
When it's decoded, it says,
517
00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:45,643
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
I am in control."
518
00:35:45,726 --> 00:35:48,271
"There will be more. Yours truly."
519
00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:56,529
So, the NYPD
formed a second task force.
520
00:35:57,738 --> 00:35:59,740
I was one of the supervisors.
521
00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:02,994
And there were some detectives
that worked on the first task force,
522
00:36:03,703 --> 00:36:05,163
including Louie Savarese.
523
00:36:05,246 --> 00:36:07,975
He's thin now compared to what he was,
and I still call him Pork Chop.
524
00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:09,750
So...
525
00:36:09,834 --> 00:36:11,794
Ah.
526
00:36:13,379 --> 00:36:15,965
Second task force,
we had the fingerprint from Parham.
527
00:36:16,048 --> 00:36:18,342
We had the bullets. We had evidence.
528
00:36:19,135 --> 00:36:22,513
But we still didn't have a face.
We didn't have a... a... a body.
529
00:36:23,014 --> 00:36:26,642
We didn't have the computer technology
at the time that we have now.
530
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:29,395
There was no databases
for us to get a match.
531
00:36:31,814 --> 00:36:37,153
The earlier assaults and murders occurred
in, like, a five-square block area.
532
00:36:37,236 --> 00:36:39,322
I refer to it as his first comfort zone.
533
00:36:40,781 --> 00:36:45,578
Then he had an event in Central Park,
where Larry Parham was shot.
534
00:36:46,746 --> 00:36:50,333
And his second comfort zone
is all in Highland Park.
535
00:36:51,584 --> 00:36:57,506
So we devised a plan to go a mile
each way, east, west, north, and south,
536
00:36:57,590 --> 00:36:59,634
in the center of the two comfort zones.
537
00:37:00,176 --> 00:37:02,553
And we ran every address
for criminal histories
538
00:37:02,637 --> 00:37:05,264
of people who reside in those addresses.
539
00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:08,267
We came up with a number of 4,500.
540
00:37:13,105 --> 00:37:16,067
So we went up to the Latent Print Unit,
and we told 'em,
541
00:37:16,150 --> 00:37:21,614
"We're requesting manual examination
of these 4,500 fingerprints
542
00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:26,911
to that one partial fingerprint
from the Larry Parham letter."
543
00:37:27,745 --> 00:37:30,581
They agreed to do it,
but it was gonna take a long time.
544
00:37:31,415 --> 00:37:33,876
It was a lot of work, a lot of long hours.
545
00:37:36,754 --> 00:37:38,965
We truly believed
that the fingerprint evidence
546
00:37:39,048 --> 00:37:41,926
would identify Zodiac and capture him.
547
00:37:44,887 --> 00:37:48,474
In my heart of hearts,
I felt they were going to get a match.
548
00:37:49,308 --> 00:37:53,521
When I went to bed, I put the, uh, beeper
on my pajamas on vibrate mode.
549
00:37:54,647 --> 00:37:57,066
'Cause I don't wanna wake my wife
in the middle of the night.
550
00:37:58,401 --> 00:37:59,777
I knew it was gonna go off.
551
00:38:08,577 --> 00:38:10,746
But it never went off.
552
00:38:18,462 --> 00:38:21,632
I was always disappointed
we were unable to match anybody
553
00:38:21,716 --> 00:38:23,551
to that fingerprint from the letter.
554
00:38:26,762 --> 00:38:29,974
But you deal with it.
You have to live with it. And... so...
555
00:38:33,853 --> 00:38:36,605
We continued workin' other leads
and workin' the case, you know?
556
00:38:36,689 --> 00:38:38,607
But it was always in the back of my mind.
557
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:41,944
Fortunately, we didn't get
any fresh bodies or fresh shootings.
558
00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:46,157
But it was now a cold case
that... that we were working.
559
00:38:48,951 --> 00:38:52,872
After nine months,
he was basically like a ghost in the city.
560
00:38:52,955 --> 00:38:55,750
And we had no clue who he was.
We had no idea who he was.
561
00:38:57,710 --> 00:38:59,503
Just like, uh, déjà vu.
562
00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:02,506
The second task force is, well, over.
It's windin' down.
563
00:39:02,590 --> 00:39:03,591
No body.
564
00:39:04,592 --> 00:39:06,010
No perpetrator.
565
00:39:06,093 --> 00:39:09,263
That bothered me.
That bothered me a lot. Y'know?
566
00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:11,599
I gave it the best I had, y'know?
567
00:39:12,099 --> 00:39:13,601
That's what they were payin' me for.
568
00:39:13,684 --> 00:39:15,478
If I can't get ya, good luck.
569
00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:24,570
I went back
to the Seven-Five squad.
570
00:39:24,653 --> 00:39:27,531
An opportunity came
to become a hostage negotiator.
571
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:29,533
And I took the course.
572
00:39:31,369 --> 00:39:35,414
But I knew in my heart
that the Zodiac would come back
573
00:39:35,498 --> 00:39:37,833
and that he would
shoot again and kill again.
574
00:39:38,667 --> 00:39:40,795
It's in his blood. It's the way he is.
575
00:39:51,806 --> 00:39:54,183
It was June 18, 1996.
576
00:39:54,266 --> 00:39:56,852
There was a hostage job
in the Seven-Five Precinct.
577
00:39:59,855 --> 00:40:03,317
I was nervous because this was
my first hostage negotiation job.
578
00:40:06,362 --> 00:40:08,114
An individual had shot his sister
579
00:40:09,573 --> 00:40:11,742
and is holding her boyfriend hostage.
580
00:40:12,451 --> 00:40:13,786
They told me his name was Eddie.
581
00:40:14,286 --> 00:40:17,581
I'm sayin',
"Eddie, we don't want you getting hurt."
582
00:40:17,665 --> 00:40:19,851
"None of us wanna get hurt.
Enough blood has been shed."
583
00:40:19,875 --> 00:40:21,275
Enough blood's been shed.
584
00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:24,839
And this went on for at least an hour,
an hour and a half.
585
00:40:26,298 --> 00:40:28,551
Finally, he says,
"I'm ready to surrender."
586
00:40:37,226 --> 00:40:39,395
I was proud as a peacock,
because the bosses,
587
00:40:39,478 --> 00:40:41,878
they were pattin' me on the back.
"Good job," all that stuff.
588
00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:44,275
So I was very satisfied
that I didn't blow it
589
00:40:44,358 --> 00:40:46,068
because they don't always go good.
590
00:40:47,319 --> 00:40:49,780
So now, they take him back
to the station house.
591
00:40:51,866 --> 00:40:53,325
And I went back to the scene.
592
00:40:54,285 --> 00:40:57,538
The bomb squad had removed
two pipe bombs, fully constructed,
593
00:40:57,621 --> 00:40:59,081
that he had in the apartment.
594
00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:02,710
I'm at the scene,
I'm talkin' to the bomb squad guys,
595
00:41:03,210 --> 00:41:06,630
and three detectives came
right to the corner here,
596
00:41:06,714 --> 00:41:08,507
and they hand me the confession.
597
00:41:09,967 --> 00:41:13,971
Eddie confessed to shooting his sister,
to holding her boyfriend hostage.
598
00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:15,764
So, I'm reading it.
599
00:41:17,391 --> 00:41:18,601
And I'm... I'm readin'.
600
00:41:22,771 --> 00:41:24,940
I actually had
a physical reaction.
601
00:41:25,024 --> 00:41:28,444
And it was kinda like my blood pressure
went down like 40, 50 points.
602
00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:31,906
The first thing I did,
I called Louie Savarese.
603
00:41:32,698 --> 00:41:35,743
I said, "Louie, get in here. We got him."
604
00:41:43,459 --> 00:41:46,378
Pork Chop says,
"It looks like my wife's shoppin' list."
605
00:41:46,462 --> 00:41:49,048
That's how familiar the lettering was.
606
00:41:50,007 --> 00:41:52,218
The S's, the T's, and the M's.
607
00:41:52,301 --> 00:41:55,304
You know, I knew the handwriting
from all the letters that I'd studied
608
00:41:55,387 --> 00:41:57,932
for the last two years
workin' the Zodiac case.
609
00:42:00,392 --> 00:42:02,871
I was shocked when I seen him
in the interview room.
610
00:42:02,895 --> 00:42:04,104
It was a kid.
611
00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:07,733
Y'know, I didn't expect him
to be that, y'know?
612
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:11,320
His name was actually Heriberto.
Eddie was a nickname.
613
00:42:12,071 --> 00:42:13,239
Heriberto Seda.
614
00:42:15,032 --> 00:42:16,592
First thing I said to him...
615
00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:21,121
"You're the Zodiac, and I've been lookin'
for you for six years."
616
00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:23,374
He said, "I'm not the Zodiac."
617
00:42:23,874 --> 00:42:27,461
All he wanted to talk about was his Bible.
Evil and good.
618
00:42:29,463 --> 00:42:33,175
We laid out the fingerprints.
We laid out the handwriting analysis.
619
00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:36,637
Again, "No, no."
620
00:42:38,889 --> 00:42:41,517
So, uh, we get to Fonti's pictures.
621
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,645
That was the gruesomest scene we had.
Fonti's.
622
00:42:45,479 --> 00:42:46,981
And we put 'em on the wall.
623
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,318
Now he's lookin'.
It's right in front of him.
624
00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:53,028
And his eyes are goin' back and forth.
625
00:42:53,112 --> 00:42:55,864
And we're talkin' to him.
Y'know, "Look what you did."
626
00:42:56,949 --> 00:43:01,787
Then I see the vein in his neck,
and, boom, pounding.
627
00:43:04,290 --> 00:43:06,834
And at that point there,
he gave it up.
628
00:43:07,710 --> 00:43:11,046
He says, "Okay.
I'll tell youse what happened."
629
00:43:11,547 --> 00:43:13,382
And he starts off with Patricia Fonti.
630
00:43:16,218 --> 00:43:18,220
And he confessed in order.
631
00:43:18,721 --> 00:43:25,060
Mario, German, Proce,
Parham, Diacone, Weber, Ballard.
632
00:43:25,144 --> 00:43:26,979
Number nine, we never found.
633
00:43:29,898 --> 00:43:32,735
And then, when you hit the space bar,
it'll start.
634
00:43:32,818 --> 00:43:34,028
Okay.
635
00:43:34,528 --> 00:43:36,008
After going over evidence,
636
00:43:36,071 --> 00:43:39,074
the jury decided
this man is indeed the Zodiac Killer
637
00:43:39,158 --> 00:43:42,953
that terrorized the city
from 1990 to 1994.
638
00:43:43,037 --> 00:43:46,040
It was a very big moment for me,
a very proud moment.
639
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:49,877
And I was very proud
to have Louie walkin' next to me.
640
00:43:50,502 --> 00:43:51,795
Are you the Zodiac?
641
00:43:51,879 --> 00:43:54,239
I'm a little embarrassed
at that stuff sometimes.
642
00:43:54,298 --> 00:43:57,801
Like I'm a big oak,
y'know what I mean? I don't know.
643
00:43:58,427 --> 00:44:00,512
I thank God
I was fortunate to be part of it
644
00:44:00,596 --> 00:44:02,306
from the beginning to the end, y'know?
645
00:44:03,724 --> 00:44:05,309
They got him.
646
00:44:05,392 --> 00:44:11,398
I'd be lying if I told you
I didn't long to be part of it.
647
00:44:12,691 --> 00:44:13,984
To be at the scene.
648
00:44:14,777 --> 00:44:17,946
He was a punk from start to finish.
649
00:44:18,030 --> 00:44:19,907
He was just a punk.
650
00:44:22,576 --> 00:44:26,872
We never found out how he got
the signs of the people he shot.
651
00:44:26,955 --> 00:44:33,545
We played every angle, and there was no...
no rhyme or reason for it.
652
00:44:36,131 --> 00:44:37,841
God knows how he found out.
653
00:44:39,593 --> 00:44:41,637
I had room on my arm here.
654
00:44:42,346 --> 00:44:45,849
That's the symbol
that the Zodiac in California used.
655
00:44:45,933 --> 00:44:49,061
Eddie Seda was a copycat. Y'know?
656
00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:51,105
And part of my life.
657
00:45:02,700 --> 00:45:04,702
It easily could've been
another hostage negotiator.
658
00:45:04,785 --> 00:45:08,288
It was almost like fate
that it all came together in that way.
659
00:45:15,003 --> 00:45:16,964
Was it written in the stars?
I don't know. Y'know?
660
00:45:17,047 --> 00:45:20,259
But I believe in God.
There's a heaven and a hell. So...
661
00:45:20,342 --> 00:45:21,342
He's in jail.
662
00:45:22,052 --> 00:45:23,387
That's the way I look at it.
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