Unidentified Serial Killers

Newspaper Index: Unidentified Serial Killers 

This index is organized by topic/case. The articles below were either compiled together by someone else on a different site, or (much more frequently) are otherwise only available through a subscription, so I have opted to download them and put them here. My most frequently used databases for this purpose are NewsBank and NewspaperArchive. I am working on also uploading articles from Newspapers.com, which I formerly only hyperlinked clippings of to particular posts.

This list will be updated continuously. As of fall 2025, I have been focusing primarily on working on this index rather than on write-ups due to some of my subscriptions being through my university's library, so I want to gather as much from them as I can before I graduate. I have also been working on switching from the embedded pdfs to images so they can be successfully archived on the Wayback Machine; for now, the index consists of both pdfs and images.

An "article package" is one post containing multiple articles from different newspapers. Articles all on one victim or combination of victims from the same database are grouped together. I have only included articles on confirmed victims of each killer, and/or that are about the killer in general.

Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders

General

List of articles, 1972 to 1979, SRHM Site 

Article package, 1989 to 2024

SF Chronicle, May 6, 2018 

Zodiac Attacks

General

Articles from Vallejo Library, 1968 to 1969, former ZK forum, archived, found here

SF Chronicle articles, 1968 to 1976, Tapatalk Zodiac forum 

Historical newspaper archive, 1969 to 1975, ZK Site

Magazine articles, 1969 to 1975, ZK Site 

Article package #1, 2000 to 2021

Article package #2, 2000 to 2024

Two articles, 2004 and 2007

Article package #3, 2007 to 2018 

The Modesto Bee, Apr. 27, 2008

Placerville Mountain Democrat, Oct. 15, 2021

Lake Herman Road

Article package #1, 1968 to 1969, ZodiacCiphers Site, found here

Comprehensive newspaper collection, 1968 to 1969, ZK Site, found here

The Vacaville Reporter, Nov. 15, 1998 [pg. 3 of pdf]

SF Chronicle, Apr. 7, 2004 [pg. 2 of pdf]

Article package #2, 2007 to 2018 

Blue Rock Springs

The Vacaville Reporter, Nov. 15, 1998 [pg. 4 of pdf]

SF Chronicle, Apr. 7, 2004 [pg. 2 of pdf]

The Contra Costa Times, Mar. 5, 2007 

Lake Berryessa

Napa County newspapers, Sept. to Nov. 1969, found here 

Two articles, 1998 and 2000 [pg.s 4 & 6 of pdf]

SF Chronicle, Apr. 7, 2004 [pg. 2 of pdf]

Redlands Daily Facts, Mar. 3, 2007 

Presidio Heights 

The Vacaville Reporter, Nov. 15, 1998 [pg. 4 of pdf]

Two articles, 2004 and 2007

SF Chronicle, Dec. 9, 2012