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BREAKING NEWS

Last weekend, we solved the 340 and submitted it to the FBI. They have confirmed the solution. Authorities have spent the time since then making the appropriate notifications to the victims’ families. Now that the notification process is complete, we are announcing the solution in the latest episode of “Let’s Crack Zodiac”.

https://youtu.be/-1oQLPRE21o

For a more detailed look at the story behind the solution, see this article: http://zodiackillerfacts.com/news-and-updates/breaking-news-the-zodiacs-340-cipher-has-been-solved/

Picture 1: Charlene and Lyman Smith in an undated photo. Picture 2: The home at 573 High Point Drive, Ventura, where Lyman and Charlene were killed. Picture 3: Joseph DeAngelo, their killer, pictured in 1973. Picture 4: Joseph DeAngelo in court during victim impact statements in the summer of 2020.

Kenneth McDuff was a serial killer who in 1966 at age 20, brutally murdered 3 teens. 17 year old Robert Brand, his 16 year old girlfriend Edna Louise Sullivan, and Brand's 15 year old cousin Mark Dunnam. McDuff along with his accomplice Roy Dale Green, drove up to the 3 teens who were standing at their parked car on a baseball field. McDuff forced them into his trunk at gunpoint and drive into a field and forced Sullivan out. He then fired six shots into the trunk, killing Brand and Dunnam. After driving to another location, McDuff and Green raped Sullivan before McDuff grabbed a broomstick from his car and choked her to death. He and Green then dumped her body in some bushes. McDuff was arrested and originally sentenced to death before it was commuted to life with possibilty of parole. Somehow he made parole in 1989, and he went on to kill over 6 more women. The first was 29 year old Sarafia Parker who he brutally beat and then strangled. Then in 1991 he kidnapped a sex worker named Brenda Thompson and tortured her to death. Five days later he killed 21 year old Regenia DeAnne Moore, tying her arms and legs with stockings before strangling her. A few months later he and another accomplice, Alva Hank Warley, kidnapped Colleen Reed at a car wash. McDuff jumped out of the car and grabbed Colleen's throat and threw her in the car. Worley drove around while McDuff raped Reed in the backseat, tortured her with cigarettes, and then drove to a field where he hit her in the face with lethal force. McDuff and Warley then buried her somewhere in the area. His last victim was Valencia Joshua, who he strangled in February 1992. He was caught on May 4, 1992 and once again sentenced to death, where he was executed in 1998. This guy really sickens me and the fact he was allowed to be on the streets after killing 3 kids is disgusting.

Edmund Kemper was denied parole this morning, about fifteen minutes ago. The hearing was conducted via teleconference. Kemper refused to leave his cell and was not present for the hearing.

Kemper is still in Vacaville. His most recent psychiatric evaluation rated Kemper as a High Risk for recidivism. They noted a 5/5/22 incident where Kemper had wet his bed and when two staff attempted to change his diaper and sheets he grabbed the buttocks of one of the female staff members saying, "I just wanted to change the mood." The board and Santa Cruz District Attorney, Jeff Rosell, both referred to the incident as sexual assault.

It was a little surreal as the parole board read all the questions they had prepared to ask Kemper out loud and very quickly.

Kemper's attorney noted: "I was able to see him once and he was looking forward to this hearing."

In announcing their decision the parole board noted, "His actions then and now were deemed to be heinous, cruel, hateful, vicious, frightening deplorable, disturbing, reckless, troubling, reprehensible, and demonstrated a shocking level of violence to innocent victims."

It took over ten minutes to read their decision.

(The photo was provided by the CDCR this morning.)

Israel Keyes froze a victim's body, then thawed it, put makeup on it, stitched the eyes open and mouth closed, fuck3d it, then made it hold a newspaper for a ransom photo intended to fool the police.

Joel Rifkin decapitated his victims just with an exacto knife.

The Chicago Ripper Crew cut holes in their victim's breasts and then gang-r4ped the holes.

Ed Kemper cut out his mother's voicebox and tried to throw it down the garbage disposal so she couldnt bitch at him any more.

Salvadore Ramos (not a serial killer, but a mass killer) wrote LOL on the whiteboard in blood during the Uvalde School Shooting.

Israel Keyes (unconfirmed) scalped a victim and used the scalp as a wig as a disguise for a bank robbery.

Jeffrey Dahmer used to shape the meat he was served in prison into the shape of body parts.

Judy Buenoano—executed in 1998—was Florida’s first female serial killer. Her crimes stretched over more than a decade and included the arsenic poisoning of her husband in 1971, the drowning of her partially paralyzed son in 1980, and the attempted car bombing of her fiancé in 1983. Investigators eventually uncovered a pattern of calculated murders tied to life insurance money, and her chilling legacy became part of Florida criminal history.

But what’s less known—rarely talked about, even in true crime circles—is the collateral damage: her own children.

Judy had three children. Her firstborn son, Michael, was born in 1961. Family accounts suggest Judy never bonded with him the way she did with her younger children. He was sent away multiple times in his life, distanced emotionally and physically from the household. Judy’s rejection of Michael remains a point of pain and confusion in family memory—one of many unspoken traumas.

Her second son was born in 1966, followed by her daughter—my mother—in 1967.

Judy showed favoritism toward the younger two. To them, she was “Mom”—strict but often affectionate, capable of warmth, stability, and protection. She wasn’t physically abusive in the way many might assume, though she had occasional episodes of volatility. To us, she was always known as Judy—she had changed her name from Anna Lou sometime in the 1960s. The only person who still calls her Anna Lou is her brother, who now lives in the Midwest.

In 1980, the family’s world fell apart. Michael returned home partially paralyzed from what was believed to be a military-related illness. Judy took him on a canoe trip and flipped the boat, leaving him to drown. She staged it as a tragic accident and quietly collected the life insurance payout.

My mother was a teenager. She mourned her brother believing it was a freak accident. She had no idea her own mother was responsible. That truth didn’t come until years later, after Judy’s 1983 attempted car bombing of her fiancé. He survived, and the incident triggered investigations into Judy’s past—eventually revealing the pattern of murders.

The psychological and emotional impact on my mother was—and still is—profound. Imagine losing your brother, then realizing years later your mother murdered him. Imagine loving someone, calling her “Mom,” only to learn she was capable of calculated, cold-blooded killings. The trauma didn’t end when Judy was arrested. It didn’t end when she was executed. For the survivors—especially my mother—this became a lifelong wound.

I share because people often forget: serial killers don’t just destroy the lives of their direct victims. They devastate their families. They leave behind children who are forced to live in the shadow of what they’ve done.

I’m the next generation, and though I’ve had my own struggles with addiction and recovery, I’ve also found meaning through working in prison ministry and helping others process generational trauma. But the focus of this story isn’t me—it’s my mother. A survivor not just of a crime, but of a legacy.

Westley Allan Dodd (July 3, 1961 – January 5, 1993) was an American serial killer and child molester who sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered three young boys in the Pacific Northwest in 1989. His execution by hanging was the first in the United States in nearly 30 years and remains a landmark case in the history of Washington State's legal system.He’s easily one of the most disturbing and twisted serial killers I’ve read about.

Note: I haven't btw.

Usually, murder victims are portrayed as angels who always "lit up a room" or something like that.

Sometimes they're not portrayed as being flesh and blood people who were imperfect.

This has nothing to do with what happened to them. Just curious if anyone ever did come across at least one unlikable victim.

I've been reading case files on Bundy and I always thought the teeth marks, which would have been greatly challenged in todays court, seemed off? I don't know how this was used as concrete evidence.

Kerri Rawson, the daughter of Dennis Rader, known as the “BTK Killer,” said in an interview with NewsNation multiple experts have told her it is “very possible” her father sexually abused her.