I have chosen to do my informative speech on the unsolved mystery of the Zodiac Killer. Methods I will be using to captivate my audience from the book will be word pictures, numbers, key words, and to speak claerly. I plan on starting my speech with word pictures by setting the scene of the 1960s-1970s, this was the time period the Zodiac Killer was on his killing spree. This will help them be able to picture what it was like to live back then and hopefully help them remember my speech. I will use numbers to get my point across of how many people were killed and affected by the Zodiac Killer during his reign of terror. This will establish logos into my speech. I am also going to use key words to keep my audience interested and involved, to …show more content…
By doing this I will have established pathos and hopefully this will grab my audience’s attention. Since the Zodiac case is still considered unsolved to this day, I will let my audience decide for themselves who they think the killer was. I will only present facts and leave my opinion out so that it does not persuade anyone. This will establish a motive for my audience to listen to me, so that they can figure out who the killer is. From the book, I will use different learning styles to get my point across, I will also do something unexpected, and I will go review my main point. To get my point across to everyone in the audience I will use different learning styles. For the auditory learners, I will be speaking clearly, so that they can hear and understand all my information. I will be using a PowerPoint with both words and pictures for the visual learners and the visual print learners. Lastly for the kinesthetic learners I will ask for a show of hands of who has ever heard of the Zodiac Killer. I will do this so that they can be involved somehow. To keep my audience interested I will do something unexpected. I’m not going to say in this paper what I will be doing, because I want it to be a surprise to everyone. I could end my speech with the rhetorical question “now after hearing all the facts, who do you think the Zodiac Killer is?” or I could say “my grandfather was the Zodiac Killer and
The speaker’s use of strong logos are evident throughout his talk. To begin, the speaker
The late 1960’s and early 1970’s were a time of great change in America. The Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution were just some of the issues on the evening news in American households. For citizens of the San Francisco Bay area, as well as the rest of California, the late 60’s early 70’represented terror, fear and death. “The bizarre and theatrical and still unresolved serial murders by real-life ghoul who called himself Zodiac, who claimed in letters to have killed 37 people (though police have focused on five homicides and two attempted murders in the greater Bay Area in 1968 and 1969” (Booth,2) have intrigued people for nearly four decades. How has Zodiac remained so elusive? What
Beam uses LOGOS, or logic frequently thoughout the essay. To prove that the media is always changing the "trends" of crimes he mentions some famous serial killers from the 70 's and 80 's, such as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffery Dahmer. He describes what each of these killers did to get them labled as serial killer. He uses statistics such as how many each person killed. For example, he states that Ted Bundy would try to get sympathy from women before killing them and he includes that Bundy killed roughly about 30 women. Also, how
In the late sixties and early seventies, California was haunted by dozens of unsolved murders. The offender remains unknown to this day. The murderer, who referred to himself as "the Zodiac," made contact with the police and area newspapers throughout his reign of terror through a series of menacing notes. Although the police were never able to apprehend Zodiac, they were able to gather information about him via the letters. Zodiac boasted of killing up to forty victims, however, police estimated he may have killed over 50.
Out of all the Infamous killers in the U.S the two well-known killers that I will be researching are Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. These two murderers share many similarities such as their backgrounds, Crimes, and Motives. Both Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy are serial killers who’ve killed over a dozen people each. They’ve committed crimes including rape, murder, and kidnapping. In this research paper I will be comparing and contrasting the two serial killers.
In October, Zodiac murdered a man named Paul Stine and within moments of Stine's murder, Zodiac found himself face to face with two San Francisco Police officers. The killer actually talked his way out of the most risky situation he had ever faced. I think that's pretty amazing considering he was confronted with all that male power, which he always seemed to avoid. By luck, Zodiac got out of being arrested that night, and later bragged about what happened to the authorities, frustrating them in a way that was obviously hard to deal with.
Death is the sixth highest fear in the US. The idea of death is very prominent in our society, as around 6,775 people die a day, in the US alone. Serial killers are the monsters of the real world and should be feared the most. Villains in comic books or movies are fake, and can only bring us entertainment or the sense of being afraid. Serial killers bring true fear into people’s lives. The Zodiac uses this knowledge of fear and implements it into his own style of killing mass amounts of people, and not be caught. The Zodiac Killer’s intelligence is used to get away from the police, with killing many people of all statuses, age, and gender, by using ciphers and encrypted messages slowly giving the police hints. These hints are used so that
A serial killer is traditional defined as the separate killings of three or more people by an individual over a certain period of time, usually with breaks between the murders. (Angela Pilson, p. 2, 2011) This definition has been accepted by both the police and academics and therefore provides a useful frame of reference (Kevin Haggerty, p.1, 2009). The paper will seek to provide the readers with an explanation of how serial killers came to be and how they are portrayed in the media.
Specific Purpose: I want to inform my audience about serial killers, the type of person that commits these horrendous crimes.
The Zodiac Killer was an infamous murderer who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. He killed with zero remorse and even stated in one of his letters that “I like killing people because it’s so much fun” (“Zodiac Killer”). Between December 1968 and October 1969 had killed a total of five people and severely injured two others. He made his first appearance on December 20, 1968, when he shot and killed 17-year-old David Faraday and his 16-year-old girlfriend Betty Lou Jensen. The police were unable to determine the motive for the crime or a suspect. However, on August 1, 1969, the zodiac sent letters to the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vallejo Times Herald. Each letter started the same “Dear Editor:
Throughout the years of 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois, there was an American serial killer. His name is John Wayne Gacy, A.K.A, “Killer Clown”, murdering 33 young men and boys. Gacy would first sexually assaulted these men, murder them and then dispose of their bodies. In a grotesque manner, he hid these bodies under his house in the crawlspace while throwing the last three victims in the Des Plaines River. Gacy was an ordinary family man who had a wife and two children, he owned a business and even dressed up as a clown to entertain the neighborhood children, but yet Gacy had a separate life with a disturbing secret. Human beings already have a compulsive want for information so they want to have an understanding for cold-blooded
The police have been baffled by the mystery of the Zodiac Killer for decades. Police and cryptologists spent countless hours trying to decode the Zodiac’s letters. They even opened it up to the public because they were desperate for answers. Most of the ciphers were decoded but some remain a mystery to this day. The police have linked some murders to him while others are unknown.
Provide a description of your audience (e.g., its demographics like age, gender, ethnicity, etc. as well as any other information about them that impacts the way you plan and present the speech (see the textbook, pp. 618–628).
The objective of this case study is to examine the personality of one of the most notorious serial killers in modern history, Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was alleged to have humiliated, tortured and murdered at least 50 women. Possibility more, but the true number will never be known. Because Ted Bundy kept the true number of his victims to himself and refused to inform authorities of the exact number of his horrific deeds, before he was executed on January 24, 1989 (Wikipedia, n.d.).
Ted Bundy is a notorious serial killer, necrophilia, and rapist in the late 20th century. He was estimated to have killed 100 females and has admitted to killing 36. Bundy was a child that was unwanted by his mother, Louise Cowell, since he was conceived out of wedlock. Louise Bundy’s parents were very religious and when Louise fell pregnant they felt humiliated. Therefore, they decided to adopt Ted and lie to him about who his parents were in order the pregnancy a secret. This essay will talk about Ted Bundy’s early childhood, his victims and capture, and his trail.