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Zodiac killer, unidentified American serial killer who is believed to have murdered at least five people in northern California between 1968 and 1969. The case inspired the 1971 action film Dirty Harry, which starred Clint Eastwood, and it was the subject of the critically acclaimed David Fincher film Zodiac (2007).
- John Philip Jenkins
The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. The Zodiac murdered five known victims in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969, operating in rural, urban and suburban settings. He targeted three young couples and a lone male cab driver.
- Arthur Leigh Allen
- Earl Van Best Jr.
- Louie Myers
- Multiple Killers
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True-crime author and former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Robert Graysmith wrote two separate works on the killer (1986’s Zodiac and 2002’sZodiac Unmasked), ultimately identifying a man named Arthur Leigh Allen as the most likely suspect. Allen died in 1992, however, and was never conclusively connected to any of the murders.
In 2014, HarperCollins published The Most Dangerous Animal of Allby Gary L. Stewart, in which he claims that his father, Earl Van Best Jr.—who bears a strong resemblance to the man in the police sketch—was the Zodiac Killer.
Another man came forward in 2014 to reveal that a friend named Louie Myers had confessed to being the killer before his death in 2002. Certain events in Myers’ history matched up with those connected to the Zodiac, but as with Allen and Van Best, there was no conclusive proof.
A 2023 Peacock docuseries Myth of the Zodiac Killer posits the murders were carried out by multiple people. “It’s very unusual for cold cases to have this much information. But if you read all the police files, you see that there’s very little linking these crimes together,” series director Andrew Nock told the New York Post. “Different weapons, di...
The Zodiac Killer is a notorious serial killer who claimed to have killed 37 people in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s. He taunted police with letters and ciphers, but was never caught or identified.
8 de nov. de 2017 · Learn about the crimes attributed to the elusive serial killer who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. See the dates, locations and details of his murders, letters and ciphers.
- Michael Butterfield
The Zodiac Killer. View FBI Records on Hunt for Clues. 03/02/07. The seemingly random brutal murders of five people in California’s Bay Area in 1968 and 1969 and a series of taunting cryptic...
11 de dez. de 2020 · By Michael Levenson. Published Dec. 11, 2020 Updated June 22, 2021. It took 51 years to crack, but one of the taunting messages written in code and attributed to the Zodiac Killer has been...
Learn about the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most notorious serial killers who murdered at least five people in the 1960s and 1970s near San Francisco. Find out how he taunted police with coded messages and why his case remains unsolved.
