The Hunt for Zodiac: The Inconceivable Double Life of a Notorious Serial Killer
From December 1968 until July 1974, a man who called himself the Zodiac terrorized the people of <br>the San Francisco Bay Area with cold-blooded murders and chilling hand printed letters to the editors of <br>the local newspapers. In these letters, he boasted of his crimes, threatened unspeakable mayhem, he <br>taunted and ridiculed his police pursuers, and even hinted that he was leaving clues to his true identity. <br>The Zodiac killer has been called a “sexual sadist,” a “sexual killer without the sex” and a “loser <br>who was compensating for his feelings of inadequacy” after killing five people and then writing about his <br>exploits under his now infamous pen name. None of that is the truth and when you learn the truth <br>about his identity, it will surely shock you as much as it did me. <br> <br>In June 1999, I had what I thought to be a simple-minded idea to use the killer’s letter writing <br>behavior as a weapon to identify him. That idea led to just one name. The first step in identifying the <br>Zodiac killer will be to redefine him through behavioral profiling that was not available to the police in <br>the 1960s. That profile will be based on the killer’s crime scenes and on how he interacted with his <br>victims. As a result of an inaccurate profile of the Zodiac killer, for many years people both inside and <br>outside of law enforcement have been looking for the killer in all the wrong places. <br> <br>This book is the product of over 18 years of diligent research. I have worked very hard to remain <br>objective and honest when interpreting the vast amount of information I amassed from my research, the <br>case knowledge I gained, and the evidence and findings that led me to my suspect and ultimately <br>revealed his behavior and the double life he led. My goal in this book is to put the truth as I see it about <br>the identity of the Zodiac Killer before the public…that truth may not be what people expected in their <br>wildest dreams, nor what anyone who knew my suspect could have imagined in their worst nightmares.