Area Man Survived After Zodiac Tried to Kill Him

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REDLANDS - Hog-tied and unable to move, Bryan Hartnell saw the man in the black hood wield the knife from the corner of his eye just before he felt the first hard blow to his back.

Hartnell steeled himself against the pain. There would be five more blows before it was over. He heard screaming but knew it wasn't his own.

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Area Man Survived After Zodiac Tried to Kill Him

"I didn't holler, I didn't move," Hartnell recalled. "I was just waiting for him to finish - for it to be over.

"He was killing me."

Few people can claim to have survived a serial killer. What sounds like something that only happens in horror films and nightmares became excruciatingly real nearly 40 years ...

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