Robert Graysmith

This would indeed match the time period for some of the murders.

What's more, Robert Graysmith, in his book Zodiac Unmasked, claims that a Sonoma County sheriff revealed that chipmunk hairs were found on all of the Santa Rosa hitchhiker victims and that Allen had been collecting and studying the same species.

It would be possible that, since the bodies were dumped outdoors, that a few chipmunk hairs might be present on one or two of them, but all of them seems like far more than just a coincidence.

Allen was the main suspect in the Zodiac case for more than 30 years, until his DNA was compared to a partial DNA profile obtained from saliva recovered on the underside of a postage stamp and envelopes from verified Zodiac letters.

It's terrifying.

And then you have Robert Graysmith, his Zodiac in 1986-

Another giant

... which dives into the obsessive decades long hunt for an unidentified killer.

Think about how Anne Rule or Robert Graysmith utilized Bugliosi's exact blueprint.

They followed it perfectly.

Anne Rule didn't just list Ted Bundy's crimes.

...

the, the all-consuming nature of who the Zodiac is that consumes Robert Graysmith and everything around it.

It's, it...

The, the, the mystery is a disease-

I was going to be talking all about how, yeah, in the 1980s, people did that.

As a case in point, one of the most famous examples is the book Zodiac by Robert Graysmith that gets accused of the exact same thing, taking a true crime case and fictionalizing certain parts of it.

Graysmith did this in a very calculated way where half of a sentence as true and half of a sentence as false, fudging certain details, which means that he most likely did it on purpose because he wanted to write a better story.

And I had this whole thing prepared about how, well, you know, this is right before the internet age.

And then there's other crimes that are attributed to zodiac that could potentially be zodiac crimes like the murder of sherry joe bates in riverside california in 1966 is probably one of the most well-known non-canonical zodiac crimes but after watching that i wanted to know everything i could about about don cheney and uh you know, his story and how he came to accuse his friend of being the Zodiac killer.

Because like Robert Graysmith says in the documentary, if you believe what Don Chaney says, Arthur Lee Allen has to be the Zodiac killer because Don claims that Allen told him he was going to, he told him on a New Year's day of 1969 that he was going to kill couples on lover's lanes.

He was going to call himself the Zodiac.

Of course, famously Arthur Lee Allen did have a Zodiac wristwatch, which is one of the only times that the name Zodiac comes together with what we call the cross circle logo, which of course the circle with the X going through it, the famous Zodiac brand.