Zodiac

         It is interesting to note that there are conflicting views on the DVD discs about the Zodiac's personality. The one lady, I believe her name is Hagan or something close to that, is a slim blonde woman who is a criminal profiler. She says that the Zodiac was not a sadistic person and that his crimes were done fast and without much emotion such as the Lake Berryessa murder of  Cecelia Shepard and stabbing of Brian Hartnell. You can see her on the second disc walking with Brian Hartnell and going into a building where the door from Brian's car, the Carman-Ghia, had the Zodiac's death tally written in blood on the passenger door. She is very emphatic about the Zodiac being passive and non emotional in committing his crimes.

         On the other hand, Robert Graysmith describes the murder of Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside in 1966 as very drawn-out, sadistic, and gruesome. The Zodiac is also shown to be enjoying the fight that Cheri Jo Bates put up before he finished the job and almost cut her head off. Also the writing on the desktop about the blood dripping and dripping was anything but non-emotional.

         It is very hard for a layman to see how the actions of the Zodiac can be anything but sadistic because if he were doing this in a non-emotional way he would more than likely have stopped long ago. He continued his murders because he enjoyed this type of performance and like a drug, he needed more and more of this type of action. Seeing his victims suffer only added to his pleasure and he stated this in his writings.