feat(crimescene): Add Zodiac Killer police reports & crime scene documents

Populated Police Reports subcollection with 5 documents (207 pages, 26.4 MB):
- Lake Herman Road police reports (Benicia PD, 60 pages)
- Blue Rock Springs police reports (Vallejo PD, 75 pages)
- Lake Berryessa police reports (Napa County Sheriff, 35 pages)
- Presidio Heights/Stine police reports (SFPD, 2 pages)
- California DOJ investigation report (35 pages)

Zodiac collection now 26 documents across 4 subcollections.
Bumped version to 1.26.0.
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"entries": [ "entries": [
{
"version": "1.26.0",
"date": "17/04/2026",
"title": "Zodiac Killer Police Reports & Crime Scene Documents",
"category": "CRIME SCENE",
"changes": [
"Populated the Police Reports subcollection for the Zodiac Killer with 5 documents (207 pages, 26.4 MB)",
"Added Lake Herman Road police reports — Benicia PD & Solano County Sheriff (60 pages, 5.6 MB)",
"Added Blue Rock Springs police reports — Vallejo PD (75 pages, 10.3 MB)",
"Added Lake Berryessa police reports — Napa County Sheriff's Office (35 pages, 5.1 MB)",
"Added Presidio Heights / Paul Stine police reports — SFPD (2 pages, 0.4 MB)",
"Added California Department of Justice investigation report (35 pages, 5.0 MB)",
"Zodiac Killer collection now contains 26 documents across 4 subcollections totalling approximately 78 MB",
"All documents sourced from zodiackiller.com's authenticated police report archive"
]
},
{ {
"version": "1.25.0", "version": "1.25.0",
"date": "16/04/2026", "date": "16/04/2026",

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{ {
"id": "police-reports", "id": "police-reports",
"name": "Police Reports & Crime Scene Documents", "name": "Police Reports & Crime Scene Documents",
"description": "Original law enforcement reports, crime scene documentation, and investigative files from the four confirmed Zodiac attacks. These reports were filed by the Benicia Police Department, Vallejo Police Department, Napa County Sheriff's Office, and San Francisco Police Department between December 1968 and October 1969. This sub-collection is under active expansion as documents are sourced from public archives.", "description": "Original law enforcement reports, crime scene documentation, and investigative files from the four confirmed Zodiac attacks and the California Department of Justice. Reports were filed by the Benicia Police Department (Lake Herman Road), Vallejo Police Department (Blue Rock Springs), Napa County Sheriff's Office (Lake Berryessa), San Francisco Police Department (Presidio Heights), and the California DOJ. Sourced from zodiackiller.com's authenticated archive of original police documents spanning December 1968 to 1971.",
"documents": [] "documents": [
{
"id": "lhr-police-reports",
"title": "Lake Herman Road Police Reports — Benicia PD & Solano County Sheriff (20 December 1968)",
"filename": "lake-herman-road-police-reports.pdf",
"pages": 60,
"size_mb": 5.6,
"date_released": "19681969",
"classification": "ORIGINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT",
"description": "Complete Benicia Police Department and Solano County Sheriff's Office investigative file for the Lake Herman Road double homicide of 20 December 1968 — the Zodiac's first confirmed attack. Sixty pages of original reports documenting the discovery of victims David Faraday (17) and Betty Lou Jensen (16) on Lake Herman Road near Benicia, California. Includes the initial responding officer's report, crime scene sketches and measurements, witness statements from nearby residents who reported hearing gunshots, shell casing recovery logs, autopsy summaries for both victims, vehicle processing reports for Faraday's Rambler sedan, and inter-agency coordination memoranda between Benicia PD and the Solano County Sheriff's Office. Contains early investigative leads and suspect interviews conducted before the Zodiac's identity as a serial offender was established."
},
{
"id": "brs-police-reports",
"title": "Blue Rock Springs Police Reports — Vallejo PD (4 July 1969)",
"filename": "blue-rock-springs-police-reports.pdf",
"pages": 75,
"size_mb": 10.3,
"date_released": "1969",
"classification": "ORIGINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT",
"description": "Complete Vallejo Police Department investigative file for the Blue Rock Springs Park shooting of 4 July 1969 — the Zodiac's second confirmed attack. Seventy-five pages covering the attempted murder of Michael Mageau and the murder of Darlene Ferrin in the parking area of Blue Rock Springs Park, Vallejo, California. Includes the responding officers' reports documenting arrival at the scene, Mageau's initial statements from his hospital bed identifying the attacker's vehicle and physical description, Darlene Ferrin's autopsy report and toxicology results, ballistics analysis of recovered .9mm shell casings, the transcript of the Zodiac's telephone call to Vallejo PD dispatcher Nancy Slover at 12:40 AM claiming credit for the shooting and the Lake Herman Road murders, extensive witness canvassing reports from Independence Day celebrations in the park, Ferrin's personal history and known associates investigation, and vehicle identification reports. The largest police file of the four confirmed Zodiac crime scenes."
},
{
"id": "lb-police-reports",
"title": "Lake Berryessa Police Reports — Napa County Sheriff's Office (27 September 1969)",
"filename": "lake-berryessa-police-reports.pdf",
"pages": 35,
"size_mb": 5.1,
"date_released": "1969",
"classification": "ORIGINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT",
"description": "Napa County Sheriff's Office investigative file for the Lake Berryessa stabbing attack of 27 September 1969 — the Zodiac's third confirmed attack and the only one involving a knife rather than a firearm. Thirty-five pages documenting the assault on Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard on a small island in Lake Berryessa. The attacker approached wearing a hooded black executioner-style costume with the Zodiac's crosshair symbol on the chest. Includes Hartnell's detailed witness statement describing the attacker's costume, voice, and stated demand for money and car keys, crime scene processing reports, the Zodiac's handwritten message on Hartnell's car door (date, victims, and crosshair symbol written in black felt-tip pen), the transcript of the Zodiac's call to Napa PD reporting the attack, Shepard's medical records prior to her death on 29 September, and inter-agency coordination with Vallejo PD after the connection to earlier Zodiac attacks was established."
},
{
"id": "stine-police-reports",
"title": "Presidio Heights Police Reports — SFPD (11 October 1969)",
"filename": "presidio-heights-stine-police-reports.pdf",
"pages": 2,
"size_mb": 0.4,
"date_released": "1969",
"classification": "ORIGINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT",
"description": "San Francisco Police Department initial incident report for the murder of taxi driver Paul Stine in the Presidio Heights neighbourhood on 11 October 1969 — the Zodiac's fourth and final confirmed murder. Two pages documenting the shooting of Stine at the intersection of Washington and Cherry Streets. The Zodiac hailed Stine's Yellow Cab and shot him in the head at close range before tearing a section of Stine's bloodstained shirt as a trophy. SFPD officers Donald Fouke and Eric Zelms encountered a man matching the suspect description walking away from the scene but did not detain him due to an erroneous radio dispatch describing the suspect as a Black male. This abbreviated report represents the initial documentation; the full SFPD investigative file remains restricted."
},
{
"id": "ca-doj-investigation-report",
"title": "California Department of Justice Investigation Report",
"filename": "california-doj-investigation-report.pdf",
"pages": 35,
"size_mb": 5.0,
"date_released": "19691971",
"classification": "STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT",
"description": "California Department of Justice Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation report on the Zodiac case. Thirty-five pages of state-level investigative coordination across the multiple jurisdictions involved in the Zodiac investigation — Benicia PD, Vallejo PD, Napa County Sheriff's Office, and SFPD. Contains consolidated evidence summaries, cross-jurisdictional witness and suspect comparison charts, ballistics correlation between the Lake Herman Road and Blue Rock Springs shootings, latent fingerprint analysis results, handwriting exemplar comparisons against the Zodiac's letters, and the DOJ's own suspect prioritisation assessments. Provides a unique overview of how California state authorities attempted to unify the fragmented local investigations into a coherent multi-agency pursuit."
}
]
} }
] ]
} }