DAVID FINCHER Chats about ZODIAC QUESTION: Did Zodiac require a huge amount of research, re-examining all the original evidence of the case? DAVID FINCHER: As much as possible. We have a couple of hunches. There are things you have to create or things you have to consolidate. We have discrepancies between police reports and people's memories of things and wherever possible, wherever we have the police report, we defer to the police report, except in one instance. We [also] tried to be as faithful to the telling of [author and Zodiac investigator Robert] Graysmith's point of view as we can. QUESTION: When did you first hear about the Zodiac Killer? DAVID FINCHER: I remember coming home from school and having the Highway Patrol follow our school bus... It happened for a couple of days and I remember going to my dad, who was a writer, worked at home, who said, 'Oh that's right, yeah, there was a guy who's murdered four people and he's sent a letter to the newspaper threatening to take a high-powered rifle and shoot out the tires of a school bus and kill the children on it.' [I was like] 'You work at home, you could drive us!' I remember that was the first time I really wondered whether my parents were competent to take care of children... But yeah, I remember the day, I think I was in first or second grade, I remember being on the playground where the kids were saying, 'Zodiac called