“People call up and say it’s their husband,” said San Francisco Police Department homicide lieutenant John Murphy. Along the way, the Zodiac case has garnered a cult following, a legion of armchair investigators who publish their theories and debate the evidence in internet chat rooms.Įven today, local law enforcement still fields calls offering tips and leads. The legacy of the seemingly random killer whose brutal slayings and taunting threats terrorized the Bay Area in the late ’60s and early ’70s is slowly evolving into the nation’s Jack the Ripper, an American fable where truth is more sadistic than fiction. A multitude of police detectives have followed his trail over the years and found themselves no closer to their quarry than their predecessors were, incurring ulcers and the wrath of superiors in the process.
ZODIAC KILLER FOUND SERIAL
It’s a scenario that many hoped might lead to a long overdue conclusion in the perennial real-world hunt for San Francisco’s most notorious serial killer-the Zodiac.įive decades since a pair of young lovers was found executed on a secluded back road, the Zodiac’s killings continue to linger on the fringes of the San Francisco Bay Area’s collective memory like an ominous fog. Suddenly, a killer who has evaded justice for years or even decades gets tied to a crime by his own archived DNA, and an arrest follows in short order.
You’ve seen it for years now on TV shows like Cold Case Files and CSI: evidence from a homicide investigation long gone cold is run through new forensic testing years later.
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