Zodiac Killer case from 1968 to 2021: unsolved, no charges ever filed

On December 20, 1968, two teenagers were shot and killed near a secluded lovers' lane in Benicia, California. The victims were David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen. No one was arrested.

That attack is now considered the first confirmed crime of the Zodiac Killer, a case that would stretch from the late 1960s into the 2020s without a single charge ever filed.

The killer struck again in July 1969, this time at a golf course in Vallejo. Darlene Ferrin was killed; Michael Mageau survived. Later that same month, letters began arriving at newspapers, with the writer claiming responsibility and calling himself the Zodiac.

On September 27, 1969, the most infamous attack took place at Lake Berryessa. Two young people, Cecilia Shepard and Bryan Hartnell, were stabbed. Shepard died; Hartnell survived and gave a detailed description of the attacker.

The final confirmed attack came on October 11, 1969, when a taxi driver named Paul Stine was shot in San Francisco.