After a brief stay with Montenez, Dr. Zodiac made his way to San Francisco to ferret out the Zodiac Killer. He needed results quick as Venus back in Zlano was gossiping about Dr. Zodiac as the killer. Dr. Zodiac was a healer and not a killer. Even if people were making comparisons to Dr. Zodiac as the killer in jest it was not appreciated. The evidence was very clear as at the time of the killings he was in Zlano but humour and innuendo sometimes trump alibis! If only the killer had not used the name Zodiac his life would have been so much better.
For his own mental state and reputation he had to track down the killer. Initially he had planned to bring the killer to justice or terminate him with extreme prejudice. However terminating the killer or bringing him to justice would accomplish very little. Perhaps Squid might be a better alternative, As he had aided Bertie Foonbean perhaps he could effectively deal with the killer. If the authorities captured the killer it would mean an eternity of institutionalized care at the mercy of self-proclaimed Freudian psychiatrists.
Dr. Zodiac knew little about the killer other than the sensational media story about each new kill. The patterns were similar. The Zodiac Killer after murdering his victim would carve astrology signs on the body and leave clues in code no one could decipher. Thirteen people were known to have been killed by the Zodiac Killer. Fear was rampant in the state and also in Nevada where there had been two kills. San Francisco was jittery and there was talk of mandating a curfew until such time as the Zodiac Killer was dragged before the wise judgment of the legal system.
Because the murders were committed under the cover of darkness Dr. Zodiac would have to patrol the city hoping to discover clues. A few of the murders were committed in Wino Alley but no clues could be found there. There must be some other way. Why hadn’t he thought of it before! On Zlano he had been studying earth psychology and recalled reading a theory postulated by the great Professor Hofner called “confused oedipal revenge complex” believing that any killers affected by it were motivated to kill by traumatic events occurring in their childhood. It was the murder of a mother at the time the oedipal complex was developing in the child that caused severe damage to the growth of the child’s super ego. In a great number of cases the super ego, which functioned as a deterrent to criminal acts, reversed its normal function to a degree which dictated an insatiable desire for revenge of the murder of the mother and that often-meant recourse to violent homicide. The theory was novel and sill in the supra hypothetical stage being debated in various medical journals and in medical circles. Dr Zodiac had been impressed with this research and wondered if it was applicable to the Zodiac Killer. It was a long shot but what the hell.
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