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At one point, he describes how the opening title sequence of his documentary “kind of would have made itself.” He goes on to compare the (incredibly similar) title sequences of \u003cem>The Most Dangerous Animal of All\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Jinx\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Evil Genius\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Don’t F–k With Cats\u003c/em>, \u003cem>I’ll Be Gone in the Dark\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Case Against Adnan Syed\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Amanda Knox\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Making a Murderer\u003c/em>, as well as \u003cem>Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey\u003c/em> and \u003cem>I Love You, Now Die\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like all these things are basically built to the same model now,” Shackleton says over clips from each show. “The same sorts of images pop up again and again. 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His commentary about the obligatory black-and-white wall of victims’ photos that shows up at the end of most true crime documentaries is particularly biting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904265']\u003cem>Zodiac Killer Project\u003c/em> is not exactly a thrill-a-minute (humans are rarely seen on-screen), but it is an amusing deconstruction of something most of us watch. That this deconstruction comes from a man who clearly also loves the true crime genre helps enormously. As a viewer, it’s fun to acknowledge the absurdity of all of this conformity without also feeling bad about still enjoying true crime shows and movies. Shackleton clearly sets this tone. For example, after offering up some particularly harsh words about the ethics of Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/search?q=dahmer&jbv=81287562\">\u003cem>Dahmer\u003c/em>\u003c/a> series, Shackleton also exclaims, “Yeah, it was good. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 1978, San Francisco was an anarchic place to be. A burgeoning punk rock scene was in the process of eviscerating the city’s reputation as a hippie haven. Civil rights campaigns raged all over: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/black-panthers\">Black Panthers\u003c/a> were over a decade into their struggle, LGBTQ folks were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966077/inside-the-trial-that-overturned-californias-same-sex-marriage-ban-proposition-8-mike-johnson-lgbtq-rights\">at war with Anita Bryant\u003c/a>, and feminists were trying to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.againstviolence.art/take-back-the-night\">Take Back the Night\u003c/a>” outside of North Beach’s strip clubs. This most turbulent of years also culminated in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/118592/relatives-remember-jonestown-35-years-after-the-killings\">Jonestown Massacre\u003c/a> \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13953890']If there hadn’t been so much going on, it’s possible that one very strange turn of events might have stayed in the public consciousness for a bit longer. Because yes, it’s almost as bonkers as everything else that happened that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 1978, nine years after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/zodiac-killer\">Zodiac Killer\u003c/a> first struck, one of the most prominent homicide cops working the case was suddenly removed from his post. By that time, Inspector David R. Toschi — who had been on the case since day one — is said to have interviewed 5,000 people and examined more than 2,000 suspects. So it’s probable that his sudden transfer from homicide to (in Toschi’s own words) “the pawnshop detail” was always going to make some headlines. The reason it blew up into a citywide reason to gossip was the person responsible for his demotion — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/111091/everything-you-need-to-know-about-tales-of-the-city-before-the-netflix-update\">\u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em>\u003c/a> author and jaunty man about San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/10814/armistead-maupin-on-saying-goodbye-to-san-francisco-and-tales-of-the-city\">Armistead Maupin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880964\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Armistead-Maupin-by-Christopher-Turner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Armistead-Maupin-by-Christopher-Turner.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Armistead-Maupin-by-Christopher-Turner-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Armistead-Maupin-by-Christopher-Turner-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Armistead-Maupin-by-Christopher-Turner-768x498.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Armistead-Maupin-by-Christopher-Turner-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Armistead-Maupin-by-Christopher-Turner-1920x1244.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armistead Maupin, not causing any controversies. \u003ccite>(Christopher Turner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This whole thing started in August 1976 when Maupin consulted Toschi so he might better write the character of homicide detective Henry Tandy. Tandy was featured in Maupin’s \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> column and in the first \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> book that combined many of those stories. True to Maupin’s tendency to blend fiction and reality, Toschi was also written in as Tandy’s mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13833330']All very normal and fine so far? Well, yes, but not for long. According to Maupin, “within the [first] week” of Toschi’s name appearing in \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em>, the author received two fake fan letters that included praise for Toschi. Maupin clocked the notes as phony only some weeks later when even more arrived, at which point he suspected that Toschi was sending them himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maupin later stated that he regarded the letters “as a harmless, if somewhat reckless action on the part of a police officer.” He also told the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>: “I was extremely embarrassed for him. The letters were so transparent, so pathetic that I couldn’t bring myself to [confront] him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13966328 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a white shirt, bow tie and suspenders looks though a stack of paper files.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1192\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-800x477.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-768x458.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-1536x915.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-1920x1144.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Toschi in 1976, the same year he sent Armistead Maupin fan mail… in praise of himself. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time he was sending the fake fan letters, Toschi was also sending Maupin some unusual packages, signed directly from himself. These included one containing a signed photograph of himself posing with \u003cem>The Streets of San Francisco\u003c/em> actor \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Malden\">Karl Malden\u003c/a> and another containing a felt wall calendar. (Herb Caen also reportedly received one of these calendars and, Maupin believes, phony fan mail from Toschi.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things escalated in April 1978 when, after a four-year period of silence from the Zodiac, a new letter purporting to be from the serial killer arrived at the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>’s offices. It read, in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This is the Zodiac speaking I am back with you. Tell herb caen I am here, I have always been here. That city pig toschi is good — but I am smarter and better he will get tired then leave me alone.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After Maupin saw the letter, he began to suspect that Toschi might have faked it. For one, no prior Zodiac letters had ever mentioned any individual police officers before. In addition, Maupin thought that the tone, the “margin stops” and the shape of the Ds in the Zodiac letter looked similar to ones he saw in Toschi’s fabricated fan mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1669\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-800x668.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-1020x851.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-160x134.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-768x641.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-1536x1282.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-1920x1602.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The final Zodiac letter from April 1978, that Armistead Maupin suspected Inspector David Toschi had forged.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maupin was concerned enough that he contacted Toschi’s superiors at the San Francisco Police Department; they immediately launched an investigation. Toschi publicly admitted to sending the fake fan letters to Maupin and was swiftly removed from the Zodiac case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a foolish thing to do,” he said at the time. “I am ashamed of it.” However, Toschi also denied meddling in the Zodiac case. He declared to the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em>, “I wrote no Zodiac letter. I don’t need another letter. It only brings me tons of extra work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same interview, Toschi dismissed Maupin’s suspicions as a baseless publicity stunt timed specifically to coincide with the release of the first \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904265']“Can a man be destroyed because of vague accusations about ‘tone’?” Toschi said. “You bet he can! The complaint signed by Maupin and his publicist [Kenneth Maley] says that I ‘may’ have forged the last … Zodiac letter. ‘May have forged.’ ‘Similarity of tone.’ Just this. No evidence … I’ll be exonerated eventually but my credibility has been smashed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what the lowest point of the controversy had been for him, Toschi explained: “Someone from Internal Affairs asked me where I had been on the night that Zodiac murdered the cab driver Paul Stine. I told him — home in bed — but I got sick to my stomach. Apparently some reporter had asked the department: ‘Could Toschi be Zodiac?’ You’ll never know how that hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the suspicions placed on Toschi, he was eventually exonerated of forging the final Zodiac letter. He stayed with the SFPD until 1985, before taking on the role of director of security at both Union Square’s Pan Pacific Hotel and St. Luke’s Hospital in the Mission. Toschi died in 2018 at the age of 86 but, as he predicted, the controversy about the final Zodiac letter never dissipated — and Toschi’s name is now synonymous with it. As the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> wrote on July 11, 1978: “It may just be that he is a man done in by his own admiration for newspaper stories that mentioned his name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Maupin, the controversy he started had zero effect on his career. As the years passed, Maupin’s association with the Zodiac case became a distant memory for almost everyone except true crime nerds. Maupin went on to release nine enormously popular \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> books over a span of 36 years. \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> was also turned into \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/theater/tales.html\">a PBS series starring Laura Linney\u003c/a> in 1993 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80211563\">rebooted by Netflix\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly for the former cop, the David Toschi and Henry Tandy characters never made an appearance in either screen adaptation.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The letters were so transparent, so pathetic that I couldn’t bring myself to [confront] him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13966328 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a white shirt, bow tie and suspenders looks though a stack of paper files.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1192\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-800x477.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-768x458.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-1536x915.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/David-Toschi-1920x1144.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Toschi in 1976, the same year he sent Armistead Maupin fan mail… in praise of himself. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time he was sending the fake fan letters, Toschi was also sending Maupin some unusual packages, signed directly from himself. These included one containing a signed photograph of himself posing with \u003cem>The Streets of San Francisco\u003c/em> actor \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Malden\">Karl Malden\u003c/a> and another containing a felt wall calendar. (Herb Caen also reportedly received one of these calendars and, Maupin believes, phony fan mail from Toschi.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things escalated in April 1978 when, after a four-year period of silence from the Zodiac, a new letter purporting to be from the serial killer arrived at the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>’s offices. It read, in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This is the Zodiac speaking I am back with you. Tell herb caen I am here, I have always been here. That city pig toschi is good — but I am smarter and better he will get tired then leave me alone.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After Maupin saw the letter, he began to suspect that Toschi might have faked it. 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In addition, Maupin thought that the tone, the “margin stops” and the shape of the Ds in the Zodiac letter looked similar to ones he saw in Toschi’s fabricated fan mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1669\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-800x668.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-1020x851.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-160x134.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-768x641.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-1536x1282.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/zodiac-78-1920x1602.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The final Zodiac letter from April 1978, that Armistead Maupin suspected Inspector David Toschi had forged.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maupin was concerned enough that he contacted Toschi’s superiors at the San Francisco Police Department; they immediately launched an investigation. Toschi publicly admitted to sending the fake fan letters to Maupin and was swiftly removed from the Zodiac case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a foolish thing to do,” he said at the time. “I am ashamed of it.” However, Toschi also denied meddling in the Zodiac case. He declared to the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em>, “I wrote no Zodiac letter. I don’t need another letter. It only brings me tons of extra work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same interview, Toschi dismissed Maupin’s suspicions as a baseless publicity stunt timed specifically to coincide with the release of the first \u003cem>Tales of the City\u003c/em> book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In October 2021, an investigative group calling themselves the Case Breakers announced that they’d found the true identity of the Zodiac Killer. The group, comprised of of 40 former police officers, journalists, and military intelligence personnel, assert that the notorious Bay Area serial killer was, in fact, a man named Gary Francis Poste. Poste apparently shared certain identifying marks with the Zodiac—forehead scars and a shoe size—and one witness that spoke to the team said that he saw Poste burying weapons in the woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Case Breakers also report that one former neighbor of Poste’s is now convinced that he was the serial killer, and recalls him being controlling and abusive to his wife. “He lived a double life,” the neighbor said. “As I’m an adult thinking back, it all kind of makes sense now. At the time when I was a teenager, I didn’t put two and two together until I got older. It hit me full-blown that Gary’s the Zodiac.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891998']Much of the investigative team’s claims hinge on DNA found at the site of Cheri Jo Bates’ 1966 murder, in Riverside. The Case Breakers say that the DNA matches Poste’s, but police maintain that \u003ca href=\"https://fox4kc.com/news/police-in-california-refute-investigators-claims-they-found-zodiac-killer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bates wasn’t a victim of the Zodiac\u003c/a>. Only five murders are considered confirmed Zodiac slayings—those of David Arthur Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen, Cecelia Ann Shepard, Paul Lee Stine, and Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Announcements like yesterday’s are not new. Due to ongoing public fascination with the true identity of the Zodiac, home sleuths, family members of suspects, and investigative groups have been coming forward with pointed fingers for years. The \u003ca href=\"https://zodiackiller.fandom.com/wiki/Suspects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zodiac Killer Wiki page\u003c/a> alone lists 21 potential suspects (not including \u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ted-cruz-zodiac-killer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ted Cruz\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, then, are five men who were accused of being the Zodiac Killer before Gary Francis Poste, and who in many ways make even more convincing Zodiac Killers than he does.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jack Tarrance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Jack-Tarrance-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Jack-Tarrance-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Jack-Tarrance-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Jack-Tarrance-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Jack-Tarrance-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Jack-Tarrance-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Jack-Tarrance-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Jack-Tarrance-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A side-by-side of the famous Zodiac Killer police sketch and Jack Tarrance.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2007, a man named Dennis Kaufman accused his stepfather, Jack Tarrance, of being the Zodiac Killer. He handed over several of his stepdad’s belongings to the FBI, including writing samples, a bloody knife, a black hood with the Zodiac’s symbol on it, and camera rolls. Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsCdanT8-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS 13 featured a news report\u003c/a> at the time that described the images from one of the rolls as “gruesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufman asserted that Tarrance had also killed his wife, Kaufman’s mother. He also shared a phone conversation he’d recorded, in which he said to Tarrance, “If I wrote a book and said ‘I think my stepdad is the Zodiac Killer,’ they wouldn’t fucking believe me anyway.” In response, Tarrance laughed and replied, “Why would you put that ‘I think’ on there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97277']Tarrance, who died in 2006, had served in the Air Force and Navy and was trained in the kinds of cryptograms and codes used by the Zodiac in his letters to the press. One forensic expert, Nanette Barto, believed Tarrance and the Zodiac’s handwriting to be a match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the FBI compared Tarrance’s DNA with that of the Zodiac Killer, but results were inconclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Guy Ward Hendrickson\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Hendrickson’s daughter Deborah Perez claimed that she had assisted her stepfather in writing the Zodiac’s infamous letters, including cypher letters to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>. She also said she sewed one of the masks the killer wore. Perez’s assertions were backed by a lawyer named Kevin McLean, who’d investigated her claims about her dad. Hendrickson, McLean concluded, “was a Jekyll and Hyde. He was nuts. He set out to kill people. Some of these killings were not random.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez’s sister \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Dad-was-not-the-Zodiac-second-daughter-insists-3163166.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Janice Hendrickson strongly refuted the allegations\u003c/a>, telling the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>, “My father was real bullheaded, and he did have a temper, and he did hit me… slapped the crap out of me. But did he kill people? I don’t believe he did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arthur Leigh Allen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSuUJ-Scbeg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most famously implicated in David Fincher’s 2007 movie \u003cem>Zodiac\u003c/em>, and in Robert Graysmith’s 1986 book of the same name, Allen is perhaps the best known of all Zodiac Killer suspects. Allen was a problem child who, relatives say, killed animals for fun, and who grew up to be a convicted child molester. He was dishonorably discharged from the Navy in 1958. Not only was Allen positively identified by Mike Mageau, who survived an attack by the Zodiac, he had a voice and appearance that another survivor, Bryan Hartnell, said were similar to the killer. Allen also shared the same glove and shoe size as the murderer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13833330']Allen was in the vicinity of several of the murders when they took place, and the only day off from work he took in 1966 was the day after Cheri Jo Bates had been killed. Allen also owned a typewriter of the same brand that the Zodiac used, and a car he regularly drove was similar to one spotted at the scene of the Darlene Ferrin murder. An associate of Allen’s, Ralph Spinelli, claimed Allen had admitted being the Zodiac. Another friend, Donald Cheney, told police that Allen had spoken of a desire to kill people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was interviewed by police, but ultimately cleared as a suspect through a combination of DNA samples and other forensic evidence. His fingerprints, palm prints, and handwriting did not match the Zodiac’s. Despite this, some of the police officers working the case remained convinced Allen was their man. Allen died in 1992 of a heart attack at home in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Earl Van Best Jr.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOEWv3FZIw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, a man named Gary Stewart released a book—co-written by Susan D. Mustafa—titled \u003cem>The Most Dangerous Animal of All\u003c/em>. It asserted that his biological father, Earl Van Best Jr., was the Zodiac Killer. Stewart, who was raised by adoptive parents, reached his conclusion after being contacted by his birth mother and researching his birth father. In addition to having similar handwriting and facial scars, Van Best bore a resemblance to the police sketch of the Zodiac. Stewart also resolutely believes he’s successfully cracked the Zodiac’s cypher, and that Earl Van Best’s name is hidden within it. Stewart further claims that a DNA test comparing the Zodiac to Van Best was unable to exclude Van Best as a suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, FX adapted the book into a four-part documentary series of the same name. In it, Stewart’s mother details getting involved with Van Best when she was 14 and he was 27. She says Van Best was abusive. Stewart initially makes some convincing arguments about his father, but by the end of the series, there are holes quite thoroughly poked in all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Joseph “Giuseppe” Bevilacqua\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13832568']Bevilacqua is alleged to have confessed to a journalist to being both the Zodiac Killer and the Monster of Florence, who murdered 14 people in Italy between 1974 and 1985, targeting couples in particular. However, Bevilacqua quickly recanted those statements. Bevilacqua was born in New Jersey, spent 20 years in the Army, and is said to have worked as a CID agent in San Francisco in the late 1960s. He moved to Florence in 1974—the same year that the Zodiac sent his final letter to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, and the same year the first Monster of Florence killing occurred in Italy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bevilacqua’s handwriting is said to bear a resemblance to that of the Zodiac’s, and one translation of the Zodiac’s cypher found the word “Bevilacqua” within it. Some true crime sleuths have also taken the Zodiac’s reference to water in his final letter to the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>—the “billowy wave”—as a nod to the “acqua” in Bevilacqua’s last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Florence Public Prosecutor’s Office acquired Bevilacqua’s DNA in late 2020—meaning that there may be yet another “Zodiac Killer” named soon.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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