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| Full Name: | Heriberto Seda |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Hispanic |
| Birth: | July 31, 1967 |
| Death: | --- |
| Cause of Death: | --- |
| Nicknames: | Brooklyn Sniper / Copycat Zodiac / Copycat Zodiac Killer / Faust / New York Zodiac / New York Zodiac Killer / Zodiac / Zodiac II / Zodiac Killer / Zodiac Shooter |
| Murder Toll: | 3 murdered victims |
| Murder Time Frame: | 1990-1993 / Age 22 at first murder, 25 at last murder |
| Murder Locations: | United States - New York, New York (Brooklyn / Queens) |
| Preferred Prey: | People with different zodiac signs |
| Modus Operandi: | Stabbing, shooting |
| Victim Disposal: | Left them where they were murdered |
| Signature: | Chose victims with different zodiac signs, sent letters to the press and police, left notes at some crime scenes, used a crossed-circle symbol and named himself "Zodiac" |
| Trophies: | Newspaper clippings, notes with details about his attacks |
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 Joseph Proce Male - Age 78 Death: June 1990 Zodiac sign: Taurus |
 Patricia Fonti Female - Age 39 Death: August 1992 Zodiac sign: Leo |
Joseph Diacone Male - Age 40 Death: July 1993 Zodiac sign: Virgo |
[circle with astrological signs] This is the Zodiac.
The First Sign is dead.
The Zodiac will Kill the twelve signs in the
Belt when the Zodiacal light is seen?
The Zodiac will spread fear
I have seen a lot of police in Jamaica Ave and Elden Lane but
you are no good and will not get the Zodiac.
Orion is the one that can stop Zodiac and the Seven Sister
Zodiac
[crossed-circle symbol]
- A letter he sent to the NYPD in Brooklyn, in November 1989. It included a drawing of a large circle with lines divided into sections with astrological signs. The Virgo section was missing and the Taurus section had the words: "The first sign is dead."
"Yes, I made it for protection. I have it for safety. Be careful, it's loaded; it might fire." - When police officers found a home-made zip gun in his pocket and asked him if it worked, when he was first arrested but not linked to the New York Zodiac crimes.
"I got my ammo through the mail." - When a police officer asked him where he got the bullets that he used in his zip guns.
"I don't work. I live with my mother. We go to church together on Sunday. I get money by plugging up pay phones and taking the money out later." - When asked how he made a living.
"I don't do drugs. I hate those street people." - Talking about how he hated homeless drug addicts, who were some of his targets.
"I'm doing God's work. There's a lot of evil on these streets and that's why I help cops with drug dealers." - What he said when a police officer aquaintance asked him why he was ratting on drug dealers.
"Remember the Zodiac case? Did they ever make an arrest? Did they ever get anybody for that? Do they have any leads, did they ever have any suspects?" - What he asked a police officer aquaintance in 1996, about the New York Zodiac investigation.
"I'm going to start killing! I'm going to start killing motherfuckers because I'm not getting no sex!" - A time when he became very angry and started shouting obscenities at people.
"Fuck you! Fuck everybody!" - What he would shout while he was praying.
"Fuck you!" - What he shouted right before he shot his half-sister (victim Chachi Reyes, who survived).
"Get the cops off the roof! I'm going to start shooting. Get the helicopters out of here! You guys are bugging me! I have explosives, I'm barricaded!" - What he shouted to police officers who had surrounded his apartment building after he had shot his half-sister (victim Chachi Reyes, who survived), and taken her friend as a hostage in 1996.
"I want some time to think." - What he said to a police officer after he had barricaded himself and a hostage in his apartment.
"I'm gonna shoot him." - When asked how his hostage was doing (who was not harmed).
"Well, listen, I think I will surrender. How much time am I gonna serve in jail? Which jail am I going to?" - What he asked, when he was ready to surrender to police.
"I have six or seven guns. I want to unload them first. I have pipe bombs... in my room all the way back. Two small pipe bombs, a tear-gas canister, and one small grenade. There's a bunch of ammunition in there." - What he said when the police wanted him to give up all of his weapons.
"I should have killed him." - What he said after he gave himself up to the police, and saw that his hostage was safe.
"They're a hobby. I stopped making them when I was a kid." - When a police officer asked about all his home-made guns, after he was arrested.
"I just shot my sister, and they have guns and I have guns." - Explaining why he had shot at the police after he had barricaded himself and a hostage inside his apartment.
In the morning I get up from sleep do this and that then my sister get a call from a male to come over he come over I'm getting anger. I do not like people from like that to come to my apt I'm getting more anger my sister comes to my room I had a gun in my hand and I went to talk to the man in my house and fired the gun.
God help me.
Heriberto Seda
[upside-down cross with 7 7 7]
- His first written confession to shooting his half-sister (victim Chachi Reyes, who survived). They made him rewrite it to include shooting at the police.
"That represents God's pure love." - When asked what the cross with three 7's meant, that he drew on his confession to shooting his half-sister, victim Chachi Reyes (who survived).
Repent
- What he wrote at the bottom of his second written confession to shooting his half-sister (victim Chachi Reyes, who survived) and shooting at the police.
"I don't know what you're talking about." - His response when detectives told him that they had his fingerprints and that they knew he was the Zodiac.
"I don't have to be sorry for anything I did. I only have to worry about it with God. Jesus and God are going to forgive me, not you. I'm at peace with God. I don't have to repent to you. I only have to talk with God." - His response when detectives told him to confess to his crimes.
"I've been here. If you had been doing your jobs you would have caught me a while ago." - What he said to detectives, referring back to when they arrested him the first time for weapon possession.
"She was in front of the YMCA. I approached her. I wanted to get her into the park. I walked with her into the reservoir and offered her cigarettes. We walked into the place where I was going to shoot her. It was dark and foggy. I shot her and..." [interrupted by detectives] "I'm telling you I shot her. I shot her and then I stabbed her. I fired and she fell. I went to reload and she..." [interrupted by detectives] - Part of his confession to killing victim Patricia Fonti.
"I guessed. Some of them I got from watching television." - When asked how he knew the zodiac signs of his first four victims before he shot them.
"I don't actually know anything about astrology."
"Lucky for them, it wasn't a real gun. I would have shot them twenty times if I'd had an automatic." - About using home-made zip guns to shoot his victims.
"They were sinners. I was doing God's work." - His response when other prisoners in jail were taunting him about his murders.
"She was bringing boys into the house. They were drug dealers." - When a court officer asked him why he had shot his half-sister (victim Chachi Reyes, who survived) and taken her friend as a hostage.
"I needed attention. For once in my life, I felt important. I was lonely, in pain. I have no friends." - When a court officer asked him why he had done the Zodiac attacks.
"Because I found God. It's something I put behind me. I found God." - When a court officer asked him why he had stopped doing the Zodiac attacks.
"If they can forgive me from their hearts, they in turn will be forgiven by God for the sins they have committed. My messages come from the Bible. You know, in many ways I wish I had been born as a Jew. I am a Christian, but Jews, you know, they seem to have a much greater commitment to God, like they are more serious about it than others." - What he said in an interview from jail in 1996.
"Yes, I will be in prison, a place like this for the rest of my life, probably. No, jail doesn't bother me. It's a prison in here, but it's a prison out there. I have no trouble in here. Anyway, wherever you are, Earth is only a waiting room for heaven." - What he said in an interview from jail in 1996.
"I want my sister to forgive. She doesn't talk to me, but I'm working on it." - Talking about his half-sister, victim Chachi Reyes (who survived).
"I like the movie Black Hawk Down. It reminds me of my own gun battle." - About thinking back to his gun battle with police, before he surrendered.
"I thought she had a good smile and good character, so I started to give her extra trays of food and candy from the commissary." - About his transsexual lover who he met in prison.
"I liked that she was excited by my murders. It was a little plus for us. She used to put the zodiac sign all over her cell as a tribute to me. I'd see one and say, 'Is that a new one?' And she'd say yes. It flattered me." - About his transsexual lover who he met in prison.
"I'm not gay. I focus on her feminine exterior. I'm not interested in what's down there, not until after the operation. I think of her as a woman." - About his transsexual lover who he met in prison.
"If we had been out on the streets, I probably would have killed them both." - About his transsexual lover and another guy she was with, in prison.
"I didn't know what she was talking about, but I said yes. She told me it means that you stay together like a team. I liked that." - About when his transsexual lover proposed to him in prison.
 Sleep My Little Dead The True Story of the Zodiac Killer Author: Kieran Crowley Pub. Year: 1997 |
 Court TV - Forensic Files Sign of the Zodiac Genre: Documentary Release Year: 2004 |
 Court TV - Psychic Detectives Sign of the Zodiac Genre: Documentary Release Year: Unknown |
