Pirate map of 2008’s attacks

Zodiac Killer, just a few of the details

 

“I want to report a murder. If you will go one-mile east on Columbus Parkway, you will find kids in a brown car. They were shot with a nine-millimeter Luger. I also killed those kids last year. Goodbye.”

Twenty-six days later, three envelopes arrived at the offices of three Bay Area newspapers. Each envelope contained a handwritten letter and a piece of a coded message. The writer provided a list of details regarding the two shootings, and explained that the symbols formed a coded message that would reveal his identity. The letter ended with a warning, “If you do not print this cipher by the afternoon of Fry. 1st of Aug. 69, I will go on a kill rampage Fry. night. I will cruse around all weekend killing lone people in the night then move on to kill again, untill I end up with a dozen people over the weekend.” A crossed – circle symbol had been drawn at the bottom of the page.

Each of the newspapers complied with the demand to publish the cipher, and news of the gunman’s threats created fears that he would strike again. Experts and amateurs scrambled to decode the cipher while investigators sorted through hundreds of tips from helpful citizens. The deciphered message did not reveal the killer’s identity but the words did offer a chilling portrait of the author’s state of mind. “I like killing people because it is so much fun … I will not give you my name because you will try to slo(w) down or stop my collecting of slaves for my after life …” above info found here

http://www.zodiackiller.com/BatesLetter1.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/BatesLetter2.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/BatesLetter3.html

 

                            http://www.zodiackiller.com/ZPoem.html 

http://www.zodiackiller.com/ZPoem4.html

 

http://www.zodiackiller.com/VTHLetter1.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/VTHCipher.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/VTHEnvelope.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/ChronicleLetter1.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/ChronicleCipher.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/ChronicleEnvelope.html

 

http://www.zodiackiller.com/ExaminerLetter1.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/ExaminerCipher.html

http://www.zodiackiller.com/ExaminerEnvelope.html

Want to learn how to break the code yourself? Check out this site : http://www.vectorsite.net/ttcode.html

 

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/zodiac/river_1.html

BLACK BART – Took lots of booty

If I was going to be a pirate, why not Black Bart. If you believe the claims, which I choose to do because it is just more fun that way, he got more booty than most pirates.

“Black Bart” was one of the most successful pirates of all time. He has claimed over four hundred ships and fifty million in booty.

Bartholomew Roberts, also known as Black Bart, was one of the most successful pirates in history. He went to sea at a young age and quickly assumed the position of Third Mate. After his ship was taken by pirates, and he was made to join their ranks, Roberts proved himself and was elected Captain in 1719. Two years later he had accumulated over £50 million worth of treasure and had taken hundreds of ships throughout the Americas. He decided to return across the Atlantic in order to sell his stolen goods. From there he then proceeded to pillage the African Coast where he took several slavers. This eventually led to a confrontation with a Royal Navy patrol in February 1722. HMS ‘Swallow’, commanded by Captain Chaloner Ogle, caught up with Roberts off the coast of Cape Lopez (present day Gabon). In the ensuing engagement, Roberts was killed and his crew taken prisoner. Over 50 of them were later hanged.

http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.6016/Captain-Bartholomew-Roberts.html

Pirates have stories worth telling

Did you know that the Soviet Union helped the pirates in WWII?

A book by Igor Bunich, The Fuhrer’s Pirates, includes three stories based on facts about the sea pirates. And although the stories are dedicated to the fleet of the once-deadly enemy of the country, the characters of the book are not divided into ours and the enemies’. These are stories about nobility, treachery, fatal risk, the sea and war; these are stories relating that every vessel has its soul, which can be gloomy, evil, kind or cheerful. This cosmopolitanism arises from the fact that the man-of-war’s men, as well as pilots, although they belong to inimical parties, are very much alike in their shared love for the sea and the sky – which is, after all, beyond enmity and politics. click to read more

ugliest three legged dog dies

Cancer got the ugliest dog. R.I.P. Gus – I will miss your ugly face

A Florida woman says she is mourning the loss of Gus, her Chinese crested who had the honor of being the world’s ugliest dog.

 

The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times said Tuesday 9-year-old Gus was put down this week in a losing battle against skin cancer.

http://news.aol.com/article/worlds-ugliest-dog-dies-of-cancer/243459

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-gus-worlds-ugliest-dog-dead-081110-ht,0,1883363.story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7467539.stm

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/11/Ailing_Gus_worlds_ugliest_dog_put_down/UPI-24871226423394/