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Heriberto "Eddie" Seda, also known as "the New York Zodiac Killer", was a serial killer who copycatted the Zodiac Killer.

Background
A native New Yorker, Heriberto "Eddie" Seda was born in 1967 and lived with his mother and his half-sister, Gladys "Chachi" Reyes. Though he idolized serial killer Ted Bundy, he claimed to be deeply religious and attended church regularly. He never dated, kept to himself and was unemployed, making money only by leaving open plastic bags in the return slots of pay phones and vending machines, waiting a few days and then collecting the change that had been left inside. He spent his free time reading magazines about guns and violence such as Soldier of Fortune and books about serial killers. Two infamous killers he idolized and kept scrapbooks of were Ted Bundy and San Fransisco's Zodiac Killer, the latter of whom he viewed as a servant of God and later copycatted. When his sister grew older, Heriberto became physically abusive towards her, but mostly stopped around 1987. When Heriberto was 16, he dropped out of high school when a firearm was found in his possession.

Killings, Capture and Incarceration
Over time, Seda's obsession with the Zodiac drove him to start planning a series of copycat killings himself. He assembled a small arsenal of explosives and ammunition and crafted his own zip guns, the barrels of which he could change in order to avoid the slugs being ballistically matched. Like the original Zodiac, he also planned to suddenly stop killing

Modus Operandi
Seda targeted seemingly random people and would shoot them with homemade 9mm zip guns. One victim was also stabbed over 100 times. His goal was to kill twelve people; one person for each Zodiac sign.

Known Victims

 * 1990:
 * March 8: Mario Orozco
 * March 29: Germán Montenegro
 * May 31: Joe Proce
 * June 19: Larry Parham
 * August 10, 1992: Patricia Fonti
 * 1993:
 * June 4: Jim Weber
 * July 20: Joseph Diacone
 * October 2: Diane Ballard
 * June 18, 1996: Gladys "Chachi" Reyes

On Criminal Minds
Heriberto Seda was mentioned in True Genius along with Seito Sakakibara as an example of well-known Zodiac copycats. He may also have provided some of the inspiration for the UnSub of the episode, Caleb Rossmore, as both were greatly interested in the Zodiac Killer, copycatted him and kept scrapbooks of his crimes. Both also tried to give the impression that they were the original Zodiac.