Why Zodiac was never caught?
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filthydeeds — 9 years ago(June 17, 2016 01:22 PM)
Let's say it was in fact him, he was far smarter, far more devious and in general just more evil that we ever knew, in person he may have gave off a creepy vibe but it was really only certain things he was wearing that apparently made detectives alert.
No matter who did it I just dont know how he or anyone else could have hid or destroyed everything to do with the murders without being seen.
Whoever the Zodiac is, he is one of the luckiest men I have ever heard of in my life, its astounding how he got away with so much, even if he beep up, gave away details, teased police and so on.See, you? Get me a beep Curly Wurly, right?
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The-Demon — 9 years ago(June 17, 2016 09:42 PM)
Are you basing this off facts or what you saw in the movie?
While obviously I wasn't there in real life, neither was Graysmith in a lot of the investigation so a lot of what he wrote is based off memory.
Graysmith was so sure Allen was Zodiac that he built his story around him. It's the same with Harvey Hines pinning everything on Lawrence Kane. He knew Kane was an ex mental patient with a criminal record and tried finding evidence on him. Same with the My nam is____ cipher. It spells Kane backwards with the birth date so Hines was trying to figure out the cipher to again pin it on Kane.
So back to Allen, hints of it was actually shown at the prison scene with Darlene's sister. He was confident it was Rick Marshall that he kept pressuring her to say his name.
As for the phone calls, who says that was true? It's just Graysmith saying it doesn't mean it actually happened.
While Fincher is strict and tries to be as accurate as possible it's not actually true, it's even said Graysmith and Avery's relationship was entirely fictional and they never talked except once years after Avery left the Chronicle,
The drawing Graysmith did of Zodiac at the lake was actually drawn in the 80s. -
babuandbabu — 11 years ago(January 26, 2015 07:42 PM)
Because of what, really? Bad investigation? Someone did mistake in procedure (like with Chikatilo when messed matching blood and sperm)? Perhaps authorities wasn't interesting or hiding something? Or someone inside police was tied with this killings and cover up things?
Police had to do the investigation but on what? When there is no lead no connection afterall? And the possible witness Mike Mageau who could have helped the police ran away from the place.
All this movie/book or theory is just merely speculations from a 3rd person's point of view. There was/is no trail to follow that's why the Police failed. Zodiac was smart & never did any mistake when the police was doing trial & error experiments.
His claim of 37 or so murders is just another mind beep game of his to confuse the police & to mock of their incompetence.
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gary_overman — 10 years ago(May 24, 2015 03:48 PM)
As stated previously in this thread, police homicide investigations have to take into consideration that in the vast majority (70%+) of cases, the victim and the killer know each other. They might be family, friends, business rivals, enemies, or just casual acquaintances. What they typically do is to gather any physical evidence at the scene, then fan out, using this physical evidence as a guide if practical, and check the known associates, narrowing the list down until, hopefully, they arrive at a plausible suspect.
What makes serial killers so hard to track is that in most cases, this connection between the victim and the killer is lacking, so they only have what physical traces the killer leaves at the crime scene to go on. And sometimes, the physical traces left by the killer is very little or sometimes is lacking almost completely.
This is the primary reason that serial killers are so hard to catch.
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regahsof — 9 years ago(April 26, 2016 10:38 AM)
-Police chief ruling out the handwriting samples, assuming that just because it didn't match, it wasn't him.
-Not following up quickly enough or diligently enough on the only person who was eyewitness to the Zodiac committing his act - Mike Mageau - irregardless of the fact that he supposedly skipped town.