[Murder Cases here are usually filed in the name of the perpetrator, or the lead perpetrator. If the case remains unsolved or with several killers, the case may be filed in the name of the victim]
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ZAMAN, ZAHID et al: Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV -
In February 2016 CCTV on a residential street in North Shields, Tyne & Wear, captured 43-year-old Jimmy Prout being manhandled by a group of locals. Just three days after this footage was captured, Jimmy would be dead. The women shoving Jimmy were all loyal followers of a man who led a cult-like group in the small neighbourhood, 43-year-old Zahid Zaman. For four months Jimmy Prout was brutally tortured and humiliated by Zaman and his devotees, before the poisonous sect imploded all pointing the finger of suspicion at each other. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s7e7: Zahid Zaman, Sky Crime 2023
ZAMORA, DIANE & DAVID GRAHAM: People Magazine Investigates TV -
Grand Prairie, Texas: 16-year-old Adrianne Jones … When they find the victim half of her face is smashed in and there’s a bullet-hole in the victim’s forehead as well as the cheek. People Magazine Investigates s1e7: In the Name of Love, Discovery 2016
Diane [Zamora] tells the other cadets that David [Graham] was her true love … Then he [David] tells her [Diane] he had hooked up with Adrianne. ibid.
Diane was a very jealous person. ibid.
ZARELLI, JOSEPH AUGUSTUS: True Crime Recaps 2022 - All That’s Interesting online -
1957: The Boy in the Box was naked; he recently had a bath. His hair was freshly cut and a thin blanket was wrapped around his little body … He’d been beaten to death. True Crime Recaps: Chilling Cold Case of the Boy in the Box, Youtube 14.57, 2022
He was found in north-east Philadelphia … At roughly third pounds, three feet three inches, the boy might have been as young as three or four. ibid.
It remains one of the most chilling unsolved crimes in American history. ibid.
Since being discovered in 1957, the ‘Boy in the Box’ case baffled Philadelphia police. But thanks to genetic testing, the four-year-old victim has been revealed to be Joseph Augustus Zarelli. All That’s Interesting online article 10 December 2022
ZAWARI, JOHN: Active Shooter: America. Under Fire TV -
Santa Monica, California 7th June 2013: ‘A call came into the computer: it was a shots-fired call. And then we got a fire call which was right where the initial shots-fired call came.’ Active Shooter: America. Under Fire s1e6: Santa Monica, California, rozzer, 2017
‘And then he opened the door. I just remember a white man in all black with a squared-off chest in SWAT gear, and he just raised his rifle and starting shooting through the window.’ ibid. bus driver
Library: ‘Numerous shots fired! Sounds like an automatic weapon.’ ibid. rozzer’s emergency call
The gunman is declared dead at the scene. ibid.
ZELLER, KENNETH murder: Killer Kids TV -
Friday, June 21st 1985: At 12.25 a.m. Toronto police get a call from a stroller saying there is an injured man lying in his car in a parking area in High Park … There sprawled in the front seat lies Kenneth Zeller unconscious; it is obvious the man has been savagely beaten. Killer Kids s1e4: Hate Killers, Biography 2011
The car is registered to one Kenneth Zeller, a homosexual librarian … The investigators believe the victim’s homosexuality had something to do with the case. ibid.
A gang of rowdy youngsters had been seen at the time of the murder. The police turn to the public. ibid.
ZINK, DAVID: Signs of a Psychopath TV -
July 12th 2001, Strafford, Missouri 1:03 a.m. Minutes before she was kidnapped, Morton used a cell phone to report someone had just rear-ended her. Police found her car running, her purse inside, but they did not find Morton. Signs of a Psychopath s3e7: She Isn’t Acting Dead Enough
[David] Zink had just served 20 years for kidnapping and aggravated rape. He was on parole. ibid.
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July 5 1969 12:40 a.m. Vallejo California: A brutal attack in the heart of rural California. Two young bodies riddled with bullets. Then the awful realisation: this caller knows two much about the crime. The dispatcher has just spoken to the Zodiac killer. Mysteryquest: San Francisco Slaughter, History 2009
Taunted the police with confessions over the phone. And toyed with them sending mysterious cryptic messages. ibid.
He [Informant] also reveals his suspect’s name: former San Francisco journalist and film-maker Richard Gaikowski ... The tapes will allow the team to compare the voice of Gaikowski to the one heard by the Vallejo police dispatcher. ibid.
New York: On 21st June 1990 a homeless man sleeping on this bench in Central Park woke to find a man standing over him. Without a word the man shot him in the body with a .38 pistol and walked off into the park ... Police found a note, which was signed Zodiac, and seemed to show a knowledge of the victim’s astrological sign. The gunman signed off with a symbol which had become familiar with an unsolved series of killings in San Francisco some twenty years earlier by a killer who also signed himself off Zodiac. Great Crimes & Trials s3e22: The Zodiac Killers, BBC 1996
Zodiac announced that he intended to fill the circle with victims of the appropriate signs. He also claimed to be the San Francisco Zodiac killer, returned to strike more victims as he had promised over twenty years before. Police doubted this since the victims were sure that their attacker had been black. ibid.
The 40-year search for the Zodiac Killer remains a mystifying cold case. True Crime With Aphrodite Jones s1e5: Zodiac Killer, ID 2010
Deborah Perez claims it was her father. ibid.
During the last forty years hundreds of people have come forward to claim that their fathers, sons, neighbours and friends are the man known as the Zodiac. ibid.
Three shocking letters arrive ... Included in the letter was a puzzle, a cryptogram. ibid.
Another letter arrives. This time the killer identifies himself for the first time as the Zodiac. ibid.
Dennis Kaufman has spent a long time trying to convince people that his stepfather was The Zodiac. ibid.
Stalking The Zodiac: Cops set traps for elusive killer. Daily News headline
Night Of The Zodiac. New York Post headline
Zodiac Writes Post Again. New York Post headline
This was an extremely new kind of killer. People were not prepared for this kind of psychopath. Michael Butterfield, author
[Avery]: Christmas. Two teenagers on lovers’ lane. Both DOA. David Faraday and Betty Jensen. July 4th, Darene Ferrin and Michael, I think it’s Mayhew. Zodiac 2007 starring Jake Gyllenhall & Mark Ruffalo & Robert Downey jr & Anthony Edwards & Brian Cox & Charles Fleischer & Zach Grenier & Philip Baker Hall et al, director David Pincher
I got a single 9mm casing. Luger. ibid. rozzer
Before I kill you, I’m going to throw your baby out of the window. ibid. Zodiac
Arthur Leigh Allen: This guy just lays out his entire evil plan to a fishing buddy on New Year’s Day? ibid. rozzer
It wasn’t Rick. It was Leigh. ibid. hearsay witness to Robert
He knew Darlene … the ciphers, the military boot-prints, the same size shoes and glove, the Most Dangerous Game, the Zodiac watch, the background with schoolchildren, the misspellings of ‘Christ-mass’, the bloody knives … ibid. Robert to rozzer