the zodiac showed up at lake berryessa, where brian hartnell and cecelia shepard were lying by the water's edge. the man plunged a long knife into bryan's back and stabbed him approximately six times. and cecilia. she was stabbed five times in the front, five times in the back. the killer left both of the victims alive. >> i felt my my life, my energy. just. this darkness is just coming in, and i'm just kind of, like, waiting to die paul stein was a cab driver who was working the evening of october 11th, 1969. >> the man who was sitting in the cab pulled out a gun and shot paul stein in the head. three kids who were observing what had happened called the police, and they described the killer. somehow during that conversation, the facts got confused. and when the police broadcast a description of the killer, they described him as a black man instead of a white man. two police officers were responding to the scene, and they apparently saw this white man walking down the street. they dismissed him as a suspect because he was not black. >> the dispatcher had misunderstood the children, and when zodiac is stopped by the police car, zodiac sa