July 31, 1967 - Heriberto Seda
Seda's three-year campaign of shootings across New York City was shaped by an unusual organizing principle: he selected victims based on their astrological signs, sending taunting letters to police that deliberately echoed the methods of an earlier, never-identified killer. The mimicry was conscious and calculated, borrowing the mystique of an unsolved case to amplify his own. His eventual capture came not through the shooting investigation but through a domestic incident, after which investigators matched his handwriting to the letters he had sent years before.
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Heriberto "Eddie" Seda (born July 31, 1967), often referred to as The New York Zodiac or The Brooklyn Sniper, is an American serial killer who was active in New York City from 1990 through 1993. He fatally shot three people and wounded six others (four critically) before being caught on June 18, 1996.
Seda is believed to have admired San Francisco's Zodiac Killer for avoiding capture. Police described Seda, a Brooklyn resident, as a recluse obsessed with astrology and death. He was formally charged in the case on June 21, 1996, convicted on June 24, 1998, and sentenced to 232 years imprisonment.
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