Murder of Cheri Jo Bates, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMurder of Cheri Jo Bates
Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1948
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Date of Death: 30-Oct-1966
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Murder of Cheri Jo Bates
- The murder of Cheri Jo Bates is a currently unsolved murder that occurred in Riverside, California on October 30, 1966.
- Bates, an 18-year-old college freshman, was stabbed and slashed to death on the grounds of Riverside City College.
- Police determined the assailant had disabled the ignition coil wire and distributor of Bates's Volkswagen Beetle as a method to lure her from her car as she studied in the college library.
- The murder itself remains one of Riverside's most infamous cold cases and has been described by some locals as a murder which "stripped Riverside of its innocence".Bates's murder became highly publicized due to both the graphic nature of her death, and the fact she is considered by some investigators to have been the first murder victim of the Zodiac Killer, although this theory has never been definitively confirmed.
Read more at Wikipedia