This creepy as-yet-unidentified serial killer haunted Northern California for several years in the late 1960's. The crazy part about the Zodiac (and the reason we'll never see his kind again) is that he spent just as much time taunting the police about how they weren't able to catch him as he did actually killing people. It's clear that he liked propping up his identity as an evil genius just as much as (and maybe even a bit more than) offing folks. The Zodiac (a self-applied name) liked to send the police symbol-based ciphers; only one of the four he sent them has ever been decoded successfully. In it, the Zodiac claims to believe that his victims will become his slaves in the afterlife! Whoa.
The 2007 David Fincher movie called “Zodiac” is damned interesting, but seems so focused on the details of the case, it didn't come out as the best movie. It does present a pretty convincing argument that David Leigh Allen, the police's prime suspect, was actually the Zodiac. It's worth a watch, if you find this stuff interesting (although I don't think the sketches made of the Zodiac look remotely like John Carroll Lynch, hah).
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