They were an Eagle Scout and a pretty 16-year-old high school junior on their first official date, dolled up and excited as they headed out on the evening of 20 December 1968 in California. David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen represented everything wholesome about their Bay Area community, but their names would soon take on a new and more sinister significance both in their hometown and beyond. The teenagers were shockingly and tragically shot dead just hours into their date; they became the first known victims of the notorious Zodiac Killer, who went on to claim responsibility for more murders and whose identity remains a mystery to this day.
But what if the high schoolers were killed by someone else – and were never victims of the Zodiac in the first place? And what if the serial killer’s years-long reign of terror was actually ... a myth?
