Episode 13 Cheri Jo Bates Part 1
On November 16th, 1970, SF Chronicle reporter Paul Avery ran an article in the newspaper linking the Zodiac to the October 30, 1966 murder of 18 year-old Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside, CA over 400 miles South. Although he stayed silent at first, the Bay area serial killer finally admitted to being responsible for Cheri's murder and credited police for stumbling onto his 'Riverside Activity'. But was the Zodiac actually involved in Cheri's murder? We explore the Bates case and possible Zodiac connection in this first of two parts