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After several shots, the driver began walking back toward his car. Without warning, the driver began shooting into Darlene’s car striking both Mike, and Darlene. Light in hand, the driver walked around to Mike’s side of the car-the passenger side, and walked up to his window which was rolled down.
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Mike assumed it was a police officer and warned Darlene to get her license ready. The driver of the mystery car got out and turned on a bright light of some kind shining it into the rear of Darlene’s car. Although Mike was not positive, he thought it might be the same car that had left minutes before. Several minutes later (5 or more), a car once again pulled into the parking lot, and parked behind them. Darlene and Mike looked at the car wondering what the driver was doing, and after a moment or two, the car drove away, and Darlene and Mike went back to talking. Just a moment later, around Midnight a light colored car, possibly Tan or Brown, a Corvair or Mustang pulled in a few feet away and flipped its headlights off.
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Before long, their privacy was interrupted by a car full of noisy youths that parked close by and set off fire crackers before leaving just a few minutes later. The two talked and listened to the radio. They didn’t stay long, and made their way to Blue Rock Springs Park golf course on the outskirts of Vallejo. On July 4, 1969, 22 year-old Darlene Ferrin picked up her friend, 19 year-old Mike Mageau at his home in Vallejo, and then drove to a popular drive-in restaurant, Mr. Then, in the early morning hours of July 5th, 1969, a phone call following another violent attack would give the investigators a new perspective. Investigators determined that the killer had started his attack, and made a clean escape, all within a six minute window.įor just over six months, the investigation didn’t go anywhere. He was raced to the hospital but was pronounced dead on the scene.

Betty Lou was dead at the scene, and David barely was clinging to life. Since the crime scene fell under the jurisdiction of Solano County Sheriff’s office, they were called out, along with EMT’s and an ambulance. Borges told the officer about the horrible scene just up Lake Herman Rd, and he followed her back to the scene. She raced off to Benicia and flagged down a Benicia police officer, Dennis Pitta. She saw the two teenagers lying motionless, and knew that something awful had happened. Within a minute or two, another witness named Stella Borges was driving from her home on Lake Herman Rd when her headlights shined in on the area where the shootings had just taken place. The killer got back into his car, backed out, and drove away. She dropped just short of the blacktop, twenty seven feet from where she started running. She never made it to the road as five bullets fired from the killer’s gun found their mark in Betty Lou’s back. Betty Lou, likely terrified, raced away from the shooter heading toward the darkness and the blacktop of Lake Herman Rd. By the time they got out, the killer had made his way around the car, and Faraday barely made it out of the car before he was shot once behind the left ear execution style from close range. The killer fired a warning shot into the roof of the Rambler, and presumably, the frightened young couple slid out the passenger side of the car in an effort to escape their assailant. It’s possible that they did not comply, and perhaps David attempted to start the car up in an effort to back out, and flee. As soon as Owen’s car passed the seen, the killer likely exited his vehicle walking around to the driver’s side of Faraday’s car in an attempt to get the couple out. illuminated the two cars, but he did not see any people around the cars. The headlights from an oncoming car, driven by a man named James Owen, who was heading from Vallejo to Benicia for an overnight shift at Humble Oil. The killer likely pulled up next to the couple at around 11:14 and sat in his car. Seventeen year-old David Faraday, and his date, sixteen year-old Betty Lou Jensen, were attacked and murdered on lonely Lake Herman Rd on the outskirts of Vallejo on Decemas they sat in Faraday’s Rambler SW. Where: A turnout on Lake Herman Rd on the outskirts of Vallejo Here is a collection of confirmed, and unconfirmed Zodiac Killer victims, and crimes.Īttack#1 Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday However, the Zodiac has been linked by M.O., theory, and various clues to other crimes around the State of California, beyond.


From December, 1968 to October 1969, the Zodiac is confirmed to have attacked seven people in the SF Bay area killing five.
