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Calling card (crime)
A calling card is a particular object sometimes left behind by a criminal at a scene of a crime, often as a way of taunting police or obliquely claiming responsibility. The name is derived from the cards that people used to show they had been to visit someone's house when the resident was absent. A calling card can also be used as an individual's way of telling someone they are alive after they have run away or disappeared without revealing themselves or having direct contact with that person. It is often left at a bed side table while the person is asleep.
==Historical examples==
* Jack the Ripper is believed to have left two calling cards by Goulston Street, London on September 30, 1888, the night he murdered Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes: a scrap of Eddowes' apron and some graffiti reading ''Juwes are the men That Will not be Blamed for nothing''. Some authors believe the graffiti may have already been there prior to the apron piece being dropped and that the two should not be linked.
* The 1968 Zodiac Killer in San Francisco would mail cryptograms to the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' made up of letters and zodiac signs, signed with a sun cross.
* The Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attacks in 2002 were linked by a series of Tarot cards left by the snipers, which contained messages for the policemen investigating the crimes.
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