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What follows is based
on actual case files.
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[PEOPLE LAUGHING
AND CHATTERING]
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July 4, 1969 - Vallejo, CA
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[CAR HORN HONKS]
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[MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR RADIO]
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Where have you been?
I've been waiting since 7.
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Get in. I have to find fireworks.
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-Let me drive.
-Get in. I haven't eaten in 24 hours.
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Are you coming or not?
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MAN [ON RADIO]:
--all next week at Ganzori Diamonds...
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...at 1017 Fourth Street, San Rafael.
Open till 9 Friday.
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It's too crowded.
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I thought you were starving.
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Let's go someplace quiet.
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Okay.
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[MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR RADIO]
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MIKE:
What are we doing?
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Sitting. Listening to music. Talking.
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You seem weird. Is everything okay?
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Yeah, everything's fine.
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It's July.
How many shirts are you wearing?
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-I'm cold.
-You're cold on the Fourth of July?
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[FIREWORKS EXPLODING]
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Fuck off and die!
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[DARLENE LAUGHING]
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What?
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"Fuck off and die"?
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Shut up.
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[BOTH LAUGHING]
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Was that car at the drive-in?
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I saw that car at Mr. Ed's.
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-Do you want me to tell him to leave?
-Stay in the car.
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-Was that your husband?
-No.
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MIKE
Who was that, Darlene?
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Don't worry about it.
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Don't tell me not to worry.
Who was it?
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It's nothing.
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[TIRES SCREECHING]
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Oh, shit.
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Let's go.
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Now, D.
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Get your wallet.
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Man, you really creeped us out.
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[DARLENE YELLS]
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[GEESE HONKING]
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[PHONE DIALING]
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[PHONE RINGING]
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WOMAN [OVER PHONE]:
Vallejo Police Department.
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MAN:
I wanna report a double murder.
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WOMAN: May I have your name and--?
MAN: If you go one mile east...
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...on Columbus Parkway to the public
park, you'll find kids in a brown car.
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They were shot with a 9 mm Luger.
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I also killed those kids last year.
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Goodbye.
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4 weeks later - San Francisco, CA
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{\an8}ROBERT:
Spit.
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{\an8}Come on, buddy.
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I swallowed it.
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Why?
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{\an8}It was minty.
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{\an8}You can't do that.
It's not good for you.
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Lunchbox.
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{\an8}DAVID: Why am I not going on the bus?
-Because we're late.
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Okay, you're staying with your mom
and Aaron tonight.
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[DAVID SIGHS]
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So you don't like
having a new little brother?
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DAVID: No, not really.
ROBERT: Oh.
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That's honest.
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{\an8}Learn a lot.
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[SCHOOL BELL RINGING]
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There will be a test tonight.
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{\an8}MAN [ON RADIO]: With Gerrard turntable
and Pioneer speakers for $188.
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{\an8}Make it to Manny's before 10,
but hurry.
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64 Renovation Street,
top of the hill at 86th.
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{\an8}[CAR HORN HONKS]
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Morning.
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{\an8}WOMAN 1: How are you this morning?
WOMAN 2: Morning.
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{\an8}-Morning.
-Morning.
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Take it easy.
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{\an8}MAN [ON RADIO]: Reminds you
the deadline to submit applications for...
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{\an8}...the 15th annual
Junior Rock competition.
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{\an8}Applications are available at libraries
and schools throughout the Bay Area.
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How's the coffee today, Shorty?
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{\an8}[MEN CHATTERING AND LAUGHING]
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Editorial in two.
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[HUMMING]
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-Good morning, gentlemen.
ALL: Good morning.
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Oh, Stanton, tell Mr. Howe the
draft-board piece was damn near perfect.
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Mr. Graysmith.
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Horrid. Horrid.
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Not so horrid.
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Horrid. I'm thinking we go
with "not so horrid."
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Paul, what's on the crime beat?
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Janice in Datebook left the fondue party
before everyone got naked.
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That's a crime.
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[MEN LAUGHING]
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-Have you seen her? Wouldn't kid you.
-It may be the beginning of a crime wave.
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You need to see this.
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TEMPLETON:
Go get the publisher.
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[MAN READING LETTER]
"Dear editor:
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This is the murderer of the teenagers
last Christmas at Lake Herman...
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...and the girl on the 4th of July
near the golf course in Vallejo.
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To prove I killed them,
I shall state some facts...
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...which only I and the police know.
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"Christmas. Brand name of ammo:
Super-X.
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Ten shots were fired.
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The boy was on his back
with his feet to the car.
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The girl...."
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Would you read that, please?
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"The girl was on her right side,
feet to the west.
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Fourth of July.
One, girl was wearing patterned slacks.
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The boy was also shot in the knee.
Brand name of ammo was Western.
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Here is part of a cipher.
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The other two parts of this cipher...
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...are being mailed to the editors
of the Vallejo Times and S.F. Examiner.
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I want you to print this cipher
on the front page of your paper.
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In this cipher is my 'idenity.'
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If you do not print this cipher
by the afternoon of Fri.--"
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F-R-Y. "--1st of Aug. '69,
I will go on a kill rampage Fri. night.
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I will cruise around all weekend
killing lone people in the night...
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...then move on to kill again until I end up
with a dozen people over the weekend."
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It's unsigned except for a symbol.
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Is it me,
or does that look like a gunsight?
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Today's August 1st. He wants
his code in the afternoon edition.
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If the Examiner doesn't have the balls
to run it, we scoop the Bay.
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-This is about shooting people.
-Not running this might make him.
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If we run it, we might be setting
a dangerous precedent.
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AL:
It's newsworthy.
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We're giving some sick bastard a
soapbox. What does that say to people?
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Back up. Is this Vallejo story true?
Do we know that?
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-Paul?
-What? I cover crime in Vallejo?
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-I cover crime in Vallejo. Ten minutes.
-Let's shoot the code and call S.F.P.D.
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If it turns out to be real,
at least we'll have the material.
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All right.
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Graysmith, don't you have
that cartoon to finish?
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Oh, yeah.
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This is Paul Avery
from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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I'm looking for someone to shed
some light on a letter we received.
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-Thank you.
-Sergeant Mulanax.
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PAUL: Sergeant, Paul Avery
from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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I wanted to check if you had an unsolved
firearm homicide on Christmas...
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...and maybe one on July 4th?
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Shit. You guys got one too?
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Confirmed.
V.P.D., they confirmed the shootings.
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Al's on the phone with the Examiner.
They got a different code.
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So did Times-Herald. Christmas,
two teenagers on lovers' lane.
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Both DOA.
David Faraday and Betty Jensen.
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July 4th, Darlene Ferrin and
Michael Mag-- I think it's "Mayhew."
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-Anyway, he lived, she didn't.
-The murder weapon?
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Ballistics, everything he said
in the letters match.
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I mean, I think the Times-Herald's
gonna go with it.
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The Examiner's going,
but won't go front page.
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I say let's go front page.
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If he kills 12 people, it's not our fault.
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CAROL:
Robert.
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-We need the cartoon.
-Oh. Oh.
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-You're not finished?
-No, I'm finished, Carol. I'm finished.
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Thieriot's still here.
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Really?
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The first edition is off the floor in 10,
Charles.
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Give us a sec.
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CHARLES:
Okay, re-plate.
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We'll go on page.... Page 4.
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What do you say, 20 bucks
to whoever cracks the psycho's name?
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He won't give his name.
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Morti's? Anyone?
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-That's where I'm heading.
MAN: All right.
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[MUSIC PLAYING
AND PEOPLE CHATTERING]
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[CHATTERING AND LAUGHING]
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ROBERT: Put those on my desk.
Turn on the light.
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[DOOR CLOSES]
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Grab your book.
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Now go get your jammies on.
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MAN 1:
All right, people, listen up.
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The cipher's broken
into three sections...
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12 hours later - Sonoma, CA
Skaggs Island Naval Intelligence Center
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...each with 8 lines and 17 symbols.
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MAN 2:
No breaks denoting different words.
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6 hours later - San Francisco, CA
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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No numbers or clues
to substitution keys.
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And you got symbols
from at least seven different sources.
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5 hours later - Langley, VA
Central Intelligence Agency
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Greek, Morse code, Navy semaphore,
weather symbols, astrological signs.
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[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
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-Hey, take a gander at this code thing.
-Okay.
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12 hours later - Salinas, CA - Breakfast
nook of Donald and Bettye Harden
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You wanna give it a go?
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3 days later - San Francisco, CA
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PAUL: Guy who used to sit there
was a great cartoonist. Bob Bastian.
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Now he's on public television
for some reason.
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Paul Avery.
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Robert Graysmith.
I've been here nine months.
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You were right, by the way.
He didn't give his name.
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-Who cracked it?
-A history teacher and his wife in Salinas.
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"I like killing people
because it is so much fun.
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It is more fun than killing wild game
in the forest...
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...because man is the most dangerous
animal of all.
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To kill something gives me
the most thrilling experience.
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It is even better than
getting your rocks off with a girl.
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The best part of it is that when I die...
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...I won't be reborn in paradise...
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...and all that I have killed
will become my slaves.
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I will not give you my name,
because you will try to slow down...
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...or stop my collecting
of slaves for my afterlife."
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Methinks our friend's
a tad bit "fuckered" in the head.
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I heard he even sent Vallejo a code key,
just to help.
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-What is that at the bottom?
-Leftovers.
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Maybe an anagram.
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How does one do that?
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I like puzzles. I do them a lot.
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How did you know
he wasn't gonna give his name?
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"Dangerous animal."
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Dangerous animal.
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What dangerous animal?
How do I know that?
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TEMPLETON: Paul.
-Yes, Templeton?
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-Editorial, now.
-Very well.
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Another letter.
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More of the same.
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Details about the murders.
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He taped a flashlight to the gun.
That's how he hit them in the dark.
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And he gave himself a name.
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1 1/2 months later - Napa, CA
September 27, 1969
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[MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR RADIO]
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BRYAN: You know this used to be
the town of Monticello?
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But at some point,
the county decided that the land...
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...would work better as a lake
so they flooded it.
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-But there's an entire--
-Hidden city under the water.
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-We were here last spring, remember?
-Oh, yeah.
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-Somebody else is here.
-It is a public park.
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I think he's watching us.
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Well, we're very good-looking.
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Where'd he go?
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-He went behind that tree.
-All right, so he's taking a leak.
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He's coming towards us.
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Oh, my God, he has a gun.
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MAN:
Don't move.
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-I want your money and your car keys.
-Okay.
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We're not gonna do anything, okay?
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We're gonna cooperate.
Just tell me what you want us to do.
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00:19:14,862 --> 00:19:16,405
Here.
241
00:19:18,282 --> 00:19:20,785
You're welcome to everything I have.
242
00:19:24,288 --> 00:19:26,916
If there's anything else
I could do for you...?
243
00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:29,085
Maybe I could write you a check?
244
00:19:31,796 --> 00:19:33,923
Okay, I could give you
my phone number.
245
00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:37,301
You know, I might be
able to help you...
246
00:19:38,344 --> 00:19:42,264
-...even more than you might think.
-He's a sociology major.
247
00:19:43,683 --> 00:19:47,103
Prelaw, actually.
248
00:19:48,270 --> 00:19:51,982
Oh, keys. You know, I'm sorry. I don't
know exactly where I put my keys.
249
00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:55,069
They might be on the blanket.
Is it okay--?
250
00:19:59,949 --> 00:20:01,367
Here's the keys.
251
00:20:02,993 --> 00:20:06,497
MAN:
Don't get up. I want her to tie you up.
252
00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:12,503
Okay.
253
00:20:31,814 --> 00:20:34,984
You know, if he comes any closer
I might be able to get that gun.
254
00:20:35,151 --> 00:20:37,236
MAN: Don't get any ideas.
-I'm not.
255
00:20:37,403 --> 00:20:39,989
MAN: I killed a guard
escaping from prison in Montana.
256
00:20:40,156 --> 00:20:41,991
BRYAN:
I'm not doing anything, okay?
257
00:20:42,158 --> 00:20:43,993
MAN:
I'm not afraid to kill again.
258
00:20:45,953 --> 00:20:47,580
Look away.
259
00:20:52,501 --> 00:20:54,003
Ow!
260
00:20:54,253 --> 00:20:56,380
What was the name of that prison?
261
00:21:00,676 --> 00:21:03,053
Hey, you said it was in Montana, right?
262
00:21:04,180 --> 00:21:08,017
MAN: I'm taking your car
and going to Mexico.
263
00:21:08,184 --> 00:21:10,227
We didn't complain
when you tied our hands.
264
00:21:10,394 --> 00:21:12,146
Okay, you have everything that I have.
265
00:21:12,313 --> 00:21:14,356
We have done everything
that you've asked.
266
00:21:15,024 --> 00:21:16,442
It's okay. It's okay.
267
00:21:16,609 --> 00:21:19,028
MAN:
She tied you loose, didn't she?
268
00:21:21,947 --> 00:21:24,283
Get on your stomach
so I can tie your feet.
269
00:21:24,450 --> 00:21:28,913
Okay. It gets really cold out here
at night. We could freeze.
270
00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:38,380
Okay, you all done?
271
00:21:40,716 --> 00:21:44,637
You know, just because people are
gonna ask, was that thing even loaded?
272
00:21:53,896 --> 00:21:55,356
[WHIMPERING]
273
00:21:55,523 --> 00:21:58,275
It's okay. This is all gonna be okay.
274
00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:04,114
[GRUNTING]
275
00:22:04,323 --> 00:22:06,408
[CECILIA SCREAMING]
276
00:22:28,389 --> 00:22:31,934
MAN [OVER RADIO]: Dispatch, this is
43L2, heading south on Knoxville Road.
277
00:22:32,101 --> 00:22:36,021
I've got an abandoned white
VW Karmann Ghia.
278
00:22:36,689 --> 00:22:38,774
[PHONE DIALING]
279
00:22:42,778 --> 00:22:44,446
[PHONE RINGING]
280
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,954
MAN 1 [OVER PHONE]:
Napa Police Department.
281
00:22:52,121 --> 00:22:57,251
MAN 2: I want to report a murder.
No, a double murder.
282
00:22:57,877 --> 00:23:01,255
They are two miles
north of park headquarters.
283
00:23:01,422 --> 00:23:05,509
They were in a white
Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.
284
00:23:06,468 --> 00:23:08,429
I'm the one that did it.
285
00:23:08,637 --> 00:23:10,723
WOMAN [OVER RADIO]:
43L2 has a male victim with him.
286
00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:13,309
Piner's ambulance has been
dispatched.
287
00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:16,437
PAUL:
Boy lived, the girl didn't. Again.
288
00:23:16,645 --> 00:23:20,190
Can you imagine surviving that?
Writing the dates on the side of the car.
289
00:23:20,357 --> 00:23:23,819
We got two Vallejo killings,
now there's one in Napa. Why Napa?
290
00:23:23,986 --> 00:23:27,156
What the hell is he doing out of Vallejo?
Sweet mother of Christ...
291
00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:29,158
...what are you drawing?
292
00:23:29,325 --> 00:23:32,410
Kid at the lake? This is what he said
the Zodiac was wearing.
293
00:23:32,578 --> 00:23:35,164
-My God, that's a hell of a getup.
-What are you doing?
294
00:23:35,331 --> 00:23:38,292
Hyman, I wrote it. It's done.
Now I just gotta type it up.
295
00:23:38,459 --> 00:23:41,545
It's not finished until you type it up.
We've gotta read it.
296
00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:47,217
AL: What's that?
-That's the Zodiac at the lake.
297
00:23:47,384 --> 00:23:51,388
What's the story with the kid? He seems
a little touched or medicated or....
298
00:23:51,555 --> 00:23:53,849
-Graysmith? He's a fucking Boy Scout.
-Yeah.
299
00:23:54,016 --> 00:23:56,685
AL: He doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink,
he doesn't curse.
300
00:23:56,852 --> 00:23:59,688
-And he's back.
-"Man is the most dangerous animal."
301
00:23:59,855 --> 00:24:03,108
I knew that I heard that from
somewhere. The Most Dangerous Game.
302
00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:05,986
It's a movie about a count
who hunts people for sport.
303
00:24:06,153 --> 00:24:08,781
People. The Most Dangerous Game.
304
00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:12,660
-Who's that? That's the--?
ROBERT: That's Count Zaroff.
305
00:24:12,826 --> 00:24:15,829
Zaroff? With a Z?
306
00:24:17,331 --> 00:24:19,083
HOST [ON RADIO]:
That will be all for the news.
307
00:24:19,249 --> 00:24:21,752
We've got curfews tonight
for the following counties:
308
00:24:21,919 --> 00:24:24,838
Napa, Solano, Contra Costa,
Alameda, Marin, and San Mateo...
309
00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:26,006
2 weeks later - San Francisco, CA
October 11, 1969
310
00:24:26,173 --> 00:24:28,008
...so please, everyone, stay safe.
311
00:24:28,175 --> 00:24:31,720
Vic in San Francisco, you're on the line.
You're not scared of the Zodiac?
312
00:24:31,887 --> 00:24:34,556
MAN 1: Heck, no,
he's only shooting those farm kids.
313
00:24:34,723 --> 00:24:37,226
What scares me is those hippies
out in the Haight...
314
00:24:37,393 --> 00:24:39,395
...with their free love
and weird clothes.
315
00:24:39,561 --> 00:24:41,563
MAN: Taxi.
HOST: We've got Alfred from Vacaville.
316
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:45,526
MAN 2: You know, I think that was
really offensive. It's not just farm kids.
317
00:24:45,693 --> 00:24:47,277
These are nice clean-cut people.
318
00:24:47,444 --> 00:24:50,030
HOST: Hey, nobody's downplaying
the loss of human life here.
319
00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:52,074
MAN 2:
Well, that last guy was.
320
00:24:52,241 --> 00:24:55,119
We have good solid communities
out here in the North Bay...
321
00:24:55,285 --> 00:24:58,872
...unlike in the city where you
have Satanists running around.
322
00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:02,084
HOST: Well, you bring up a good
question. Is the Zodiac a Satanist?
323
00:25:02,251 --> 00:25:04,211
Amber from Oakland,
what do you think?
324
00:25:04,378 --> 00:25:06,797
WOMAN: I don't know,
but I thought that code they printed...
325
00:25:06,964 --> 00:25:10,300
...didn't look very Christian.
I think a bigger problem is the papers...
326
00:25:10,467 --> 00:25:13,220
...shouldn't have printed anything
Zodiac has been doing.
327
00:25:13,387 --> 00:25:16,390
That they're printing all that stuff
to sell more newspapers.
328
00:25:16,598 --> 00:25:20,436
HOST: Well, the Zodiac did demand they
print his letters or he'd kill more people.
329
00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:23,689
WOMAN: But he would have done it
anyway, whether they printed it or not.
330
00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:27,192
HOST: An interesting point.
So, what do you think he'll do next?
331
00:25:40,456 --> 00:25:42,540
[PHONE RINGING]
332
00:25:47,504 --> 00:25:49,547
MAN [OVER PHONE]:
San Francisco Police Department.
333
00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:51,133
GIRL:
There's a fight in a cab!
334
00:25:51,425 --> 00:25:52,593
MAN:
What is your location?
335
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,721
GIRL: 3398 Washington,
at the corner of Cherry.
336
00:25:55,888 --> 00:25:57,890
One's drunk
and we think he's robbing him.
337
00:25:58,057 --> 00:26:01,226
MAN: Is the crime still in progress?
GIRL: Yes, please hurry.
338
00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:02,436
[GIRL SCREAMS]
339
00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:03,896
Oh, my God, look!
340
00:26:04,063 --> 00:26:05,397
[PHONE HANGS UP]
341
00:26:22,289 --> 00:26:23,999
[PHONE RINGING]
342
00:26:26,085 --> 00:26:27,127
[GLASS BREAKS]
343
00:26:27,294 --> 00:26:28,754
TOSCHI:
Nuts!
344
00:26:31,381 --> 00:26:33,383
Whoever this is,
you owe me a new lamp.
345
00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:36,136
MAN: Cabby's been shot
three blocks from the Presidio.
346
00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:39,223
It wasn't me. I been with my bride
all night, she can vouch.
347
00:26:39,389 --> 00:26:41,475
Go put on the Folgers.
348
00:26:41,642 --> 00:26:43,018
You'll pick me up?
349
00:26:43,185 --> 00:26:45,729
Let me just describe the lamp
you're gonna buy me.
350
00:26:53,737 --> 00:26:54,947
TOSCHI:
I just got to sleep.
351
00:26:55,114 --> 00:26:56,865
ARMSTRONG:
Suspect's Negro, male adult.
352
00:26:57,032 --> 00:26:59,451
Walt's on scene, locked the cab,
secured the crowd.
353
00:26:59,617 --> 00:27:02,329
Dead asleep.
I lost feeling in my arm and everything.
354
00:27:02,496 --> 00:27:04,081
Crackers?
355
00:27:07,543 --> 00:27:09,419
You ever try Japanese food?
356
00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:12,256
-What do you mean, like teriyaki?
-No, like the urchin.
357
00:27:12,422 --> 00:27:14,967
-Raw fish?
-I'm eating here, Bill.
358
00:27:16,260 --> 00:27:19,179
-I always wanted to try it.
-So why don't you?
359
00:27:19,346 --> 00:27:20,889
Haven't gotten around to it.
360
00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:39,992
KRACKE: Evening, gents. What a lovely
night for a botched robbery.
361
00:27:40,159 --> 00:27:42,660
TOSCHI: Yeah, third this week.
Must be end-of-summer rush.
362
00:27:42,828 --> 00:27:45,998
I got foot patrols going through the park,
the dogs are on the way.
363
00:27:46,165 --> 00:27:50,252
The victim's name is Paul Stine.
Dousette pronounced him at 10:10.
364
00:27:50,419 --> 00:27:54,423
Suspect fired one shot to the head.
Driver's wallet and car keys are missing.
365
00:27:54,590 --> 00:27:56,592
-How'd you know his name?
-Leroy there...
366
00:27:56,758 --> 00:27:58,594
...came down from Yellow Cab
to ID him.
367
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,598
Neighborhood's pretty high-end for this,
so I already set up transpo for the cab.
368
00:28:02,764 --> 00:28:04,308
-Coroner's here.
-Any witnesses?
369
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:07,477
Kids who called it in
saw the suspect from that window.
370
00:28:08,103 --> 00:28:09,438
-They hear a shot?
-No.
371
00:28:09,605 --> 00:28:12,441
They saw him in the front seat,
thought he was a drunk.
372
00:28:12,608 --> 00:28:15,444
Oldest kid ran to get a better look
from the dining room...
373
00:28:15,611 --> 00:28:17,571
...described him as a white male,
glasses...
374
00:28:17,738 --> 00:28:19,823
...crew cut, stocky,
and wearing a dark jacket.
375
00:28:19,990 --> 00:28:23,785
-I thought someone said he was black.
-The description went out to radio cars.
376
00:28:23,952 --> 00:28:26,622
-We already corrected it.
-Oh, well, that's good.
377
00:28:26,788 --> 00:28:29,249
-You guys need anything else?
-No. Get out of here.
378
00:28:29,416 --> 00:28:31,126
Thanks. Happy birthday.
379
00:28:31,293 --> 00:28:33,295
Wait, it's your birthday?
380
00:28:33,462 --> 00:28:35,130
-Yep.
-That's great. Happy birthday.
381
00:28:35,297 --> 00:28:39,134
-Thanks. Body or scene?
-It's your birthday, I'll take the body.
382
00:28:39,301 --> 00:28:41,553
MAN: Dave, he wiped
the cab down pretty good.
383
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,430
We got some blood over here.
384
00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:45,933
-Prints?
-Could be. We'll dust it at the Hall.
385
00:28:46,099 --> 00:28:48,769
The odd thing is, we also got gloves.
386
00:28:48,936 --> 00:28:52,022
-Suspect's?
-There's blood on them.
387
00:28:52,773 --> 00:28:55,400
Hey, Pete? You through
over there, can I get in there?
388
00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:56,610
PETE:
Yeah, I'm all set.
389
00:28:58,153 --> 00:29:00,489
-Who rolled him?
-Stewarts.
390
00:29:07,037 --> 00:29:09,831
I got a single 9 mm casing.
391
00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:15,420
Yeah, Luger.
392
00:29:15,587 --> 00:29:17,714
Nothing from the crowd.
393
00:29:17,881 --> 00:29:20,300
I'm your shooter, Negro male adult...
394
00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:23,345
...who also happens to be a stocky,
crew-cut Caucasian.
395
00:29:23,553 --> 00:29:25,973
I flag a cab. I give him this address.
396
00:29:26,181 --> 00:29:29,059
Did I give him this address?
Who's got the fare book?
397
00:29:29,226 --> 00:29:30,477
MAN:
Right here.
398
00:29:33,021 --> 00:29:36,942
Washington and Maple.
That's one block east.
399
00:29:57,045 --> 00:30:00,465
Lighting's the same over here, so maybe
I see someone walking their dog.
400
00:30:00,632 --> 00:30:04,720
You don't want any witnesses, so you
tell him to go down a block. Pulls over.
401
00:30:04,886 --> 00:30:06,888
I wait for him to park
because I'm smart.
402
00:30:07,055 --> 00:30:09,558
I don't want him hitting the accelerator
when I shoot.
403
00:30:09,725 --> 00:30:11,935
ARMSTRONG:
He stops, puts it in park, boom.
404
00:30:12,102 --> 00:30:14,438
I shoot him on the right side,
he slumps right?
405
00:30:14,604 --> 00:30:17,190
Maybe you've got your hand
on his collar when you shoot.
406
00:30:17,357 --> 00:30:20,068
So I just dumped a quart of blood
in the front seat.
407
00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:22,112
ARMSTRONG:
So why do you get in the front seat?
408
00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:23,322
For the money.
409
00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:26,283
But you could just reach over the seat,
pull out his wallet.
410
00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:28,952
You don't have to go
anywhere near the blood.
411
00:30:29,119 --> 00:30:30,954
So why'd he get in the front seat?
412
00:30:31,705 --> 00:30:33,206
TOSCHI: I'm an idiot.
-But you're not.
413
00:30:33,373 --> 00:30:35,125
You waited for him to put it in park.
414
00:30:35,292 --> 00:30:37,586
-Right. Thank you.
-Yeah, sure.
415
00:30:39,254 --> 00:30:41,381
-May I see that?
-Yeah.
416
00:30:41,548 --> 00:30:44,676
I am an idiot.
I just killed a man for $8.25.
417
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:49,222
It's his third fare of the night.
Does anyone have any Animal Crackers?
418
00:30:49,765 --> 00:30:52,100
-Animal Crackers?
-They're in the car.
419
00:30:52,267 --> 00:30:54,227
I'm saving those for later.
420
00:30:54,394 --> 00:30:56,063
Fine.
421
00:30:56,730 --> 00:30:58,565
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
422
00:31:00,025 --> 00:31:03,612
-Are you a reporter?
-No, I'm Inspector Dave Toschi, S.F.P.D.
423
00:31:03,779 --> 00:31:07,491
Sir, I was wondering if I'd be able
to talk to your children one at a time...
424
00:31:07,657 --> 00:31:10,410
-...and preferably alone?
-They just saw a man murdered.
425
00:31:10,994 --> 00:31:12,412
I understand.
426
00:31:12,579 --> 00:31:15,457
GIRL: It looked like they were drunk.
BOY: Yeah, and he had a rag.
427
00:31:15,624 --> 00:31:17,959
He came around the car.
He was wiping stuff.
428
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:19,961
Did you get a chance to see his face?
429
00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:23,382
GIRL:
I did. Well, sort of.
430
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,885
Do you remember what he looked like?
431
00:31:27,677 --> 00:31:29,805
BOY:
Mmm. Normal.
432
00:31:29,971 --> 00:31:31,890
GIRL: Yeah.
-Normal?
433
00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:47,989
3 days later - San Francisco, CA
434
00:31:51,493 --> 00:31:52,786
[CAROL SCREAMS]
435
00:31:54,663 --> 00:31:58,375
PAUL: "This is the Zodiac speaking.
I am the murderer of the taxi driver...
436
00:31:58,542 --> 00:32:01,962
...over by Washington Street
and Maple Street last night.
437
00:32:02,129 --> 00:32:04,965
To prove this,
here is a bloodstained piece of his shirt.
438
00:32:05,132 --> 00:32:09,719
I am the same man who did in the people
in the North Bay Area.
439
00:32:09,886 --> 00:32:14,266
The police could've caught me last night
if they had searched the park properly...
440
00:32:14,433 --> 00:32:17,352
...instead of holding road races
with their 'motorsickles.'"
441
00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:18,979
-Gentlemen.
PAUL: Dave.
442
00:32:19,146 --> 00:32:21,440
Paul, where's the shirt?
443
00:32:22,524 --> 00:32:24,109
PAUL:
Right there, boss.
444
00:32:25,318 --> 00:32:28,905
-Your rag the kids talked about.
-So he got in the seat to tear off a piece.
445
00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:31,366
-Is this on the record?
-Well, what do you think?
446
00:32:31,533 --> 00:32:33,702
AL: He confirms
the Vallejo and Napa killings.
447
00:32:33,869 --> 00:32:36,455
-Gets worse.
-Robert, do you have a deadline?
448
00:32:37,706 --> 00:32:39,332
What does he mean, "it gets worse"?
449
00:32:39,708 --> 00:32:41,042
Read the last part.
450
00:32:41,209 --> 00:32:43,462
TOSCHI:
"School children make nice targets.
451
00:32:43,628 --> 00:32:45,755
I think I shall wipe out
a bus some morning.
452
00:32:45,922 --> 00:32:47,424
Just shoot out the front tire...
453
00:32:47,591 --> 00:32:50,218
...then pick off the kiddies
as they come bouncing out."
454
00:32:50,385 --> 00:32:52,554
Who's got buses,
Department of Transportation?
455
00:32:52,721 --> 00:32:54,598
-School board.
-All right.
456
00:32:54,764 --> 00:32:57,100
I'm gonna need elimination prints
from your staff.
457
00:32:57,267 --> 00:32:59,895
Is anyone here
that didn't touch this letter?
458
00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:06,401
PAUL: Going back to my desk.
I can get the phones if you want.
459
00:33:06,568 --> 00:33:08,361
We need matches on blood and fabric.
460
00:33:08,528 --> 00:33:11,323
I'll call and get the letters up
to Sherwood in Sacramento.
461
00:33:11,490 --> 00:33:14,743
Dave, just one thing.
Is it true they got a print off the cab?
462
00:33:14,910 --> 00:33:17,579
Yeah, we got a partial in blood.
463
00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:20,624
-But that is not for publication.
-No, hey, come on.
464
00:33:21,416 --> 00:33:23,585
Hey, it's me.
465
00:33:23,752 --> 00:33:25,587
Did he say they got a print?
466
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,298
Partial.
467
00:33:29,090 --> 00:33:30,675
Whoa.
468
00:33:31,468 --> 00:33:35,555
-He wears his gun like Bullitt.
-No, McQueen got that from Toschi.
469
00:33:35,722 --> 00:33:39,184
He think Zodiac's gonna send another
code? I think Zodiac's gonna send--
470
00:33:39,351 --> 00:33:42,312
Jesus Harold Christ on rubber crutches.
What are you doing?
471
00:33:42,479 --> 00:33:45,649
You're doing that thing we discussed.
The thing that I don't like.
472
00:33:45,815 --> 00:33:47,275
-Starts with an L.
-Oh, looming.
473
00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:48,485
Yeah.
474
00:33:48,652 --> 00:33:50,445
CHARLES:
In cooperation with S.F.P.D...
475
00:33:50,612 --> 00:33:54,199
...we will run the Zodiac letter
without including the threat on children.
476
00:33:54,366 --> 00:33:56,284
We don't wanna start
a city-wide panic...
477
00:33:56,451 --> 00:33:59,496
...so I'm asking all of you
to please keep this confidential.
478
00:33:59,663 --> 00:34:03,750
Just go about your daily business.
Thank you.
479
00:34:19,140 --> 00:34:22,143
Packed you your carrots and your celery
and peanut butter, okay?
480
00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:25,480
-Dad, you don't have to wait with me.
-I know.
481
00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:28,400
DAVID:
Hi, Shirley.
482
00:34:32,654 --> 00:34:36,825
You know what? You know what?
I'm gonna drive him today, okay?
483
00:34:36,992 --> 00:34:38,368
Come on.
484
00:34:40,620 --> 00:34:45,584
10 hours later - Sacramento, CA - Bureau
of Criminal Identification and Investigation
485
00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:57,387
What's that?
486
00:34:57,721 --> 00:35:00,849
Similarities in the lowercase R's.
487
00:35:09,649 --> 00:35:11,901
-And that?
-It is you waiting in the hall...
488
00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:14,988
...if you speak again.
I have to concentrate.
489
00:35:15,155 --> 00:35:18,700
-Sorry.
-"Sorry" counts as speaking.
490
00:35:26,249 --> 00:35:27,417
[DOOR OPENS]
491
00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:31,880
There are similarities
in the lowercase R's.
492
00:35:36,384 --> 00:35:38,386
We have to release the bus threat.
493
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:41,973
-It'll screw us.
-We're already screwed.
494
00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:44,225
We just went from
"Routine Cabby Shooting"...
495
00:35:44,392 --> 00:35:46,269
...to "Mass Murderer Targets Kids."
496
00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:57,197
The Zodiac Killer
has come to San Francisco.
497
00:35:57,364 --> 00:36:00,367
Confirmation tonight from the
San Francisco Police Department...
498
00:36:00,533 --> 00:36:02,535
...that in his latest taunting letter...
499
00:36:02,702 --> 00:36:05,747
...which takes credit for the murder
of cabdriver Paul Stine...
500
00:36:05,914 --> 00:36:09,376
...the Zodiac has threatened to, quote,
"Wipe out a school bus...
501
00:36:09,542 --> 00:36:13,046
...and pick off the kiddies
as they come bouncing out."
502
00:36:16,383 --> 00:36:19,135
MAN [ON TV]: If you think
you might know who the Zodiac is...
503
00:36:19,302 --> 00:36:23,181
...you can call the San Francisco
Police Department's newest tip line.
504
00:36:31,314 --> 00:36:32,482
12 hours later - San Francisco, CA
505
00:36:32,691 --> 00:36:34,359
[PHONES RINGING]
506
00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:38,363
[ALL CHATTERING]
507
00:36:39,948 --> 00:36:41,574
MAN:
We need policemen out there.
508
00:36:46,371 --> 00:36:49,207
Press conference is at 4.
We gotta give them something.
509
00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:52,669
We're coordinating with the school
board, and we expect a break soon.
510
00:36:52,836 --> 00:36:55,046
-What do we really got?
-We're swamped.
511
00:36:55,213 --> 00:36:58,007
When they can't get the tip line,
they call the switchboard.
512
00:36:58,174 --> 00:37:01,761
-You got any hard suspects?
-About 90 an hour. I'm up to around 500.
513
00:37:01,928 --> 00:37:04,055
-Can't you narrow it down?
-I would love to, if I could get out--
514
00:37:04,222 --> 00:37:05,265
[PHONE RINGS]
515
00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:06,725
Homicide, please hold.
516
00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:10,854
Yeah, hold, please. We're gonna need to
tell them we got the entire force on this.
517
00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:14,899
-How many men can you give me?
-You and Bill, and Monday's a school day.
518
00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:16,693
I know. I have three daughters.
519
00:37:16,860 --> 00:37:20,113
-Yeah, I know. Where's Armstrong?
-He's on the phone with Vallejo.
520
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,031
We're playing catch-up, Jack.
521
00:37:22,198 --> 00:37:24,701
I'd like to set up a meeting
with your Michael Mageau.
522
00:37:24,868 --> 00:37:26,161
I can't. He skipped town.
523
00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:29,330
The only guy who's seen Zodiac
without a mask is missing?
524
00:37:29,497 --> 00:37:32,417
When he was in the hospital
we could show him lineups all day.
525
00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:34,753
-Soon as he got out, he split.
-Really? Why?
526
00:37:34,919 --> 00:37:37,255
I don't think he wanted
anything to do with this.
527
00:37:37,422 --> 00:37:39,507
Can you send us everything
that you have?
528
00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:42,469
Well, the road goes both ways.
529
00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:45,180
Now, we need that print
you lifted from the cab...
530
00:37:45,346 --> 00:37:47,682
...and we should have been
in on the handwriting.
531
00:37:47,849 --> 00:37:49,893
I apologize.
Things have been moving fast.
532
00:37:50,059 --> 00:37:52,687
Who should I talk to in Napa
so we can coordinate?
533
00:37:52,854 --> 00:37:54,105
Talk to Ken Narlow.
534
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:56,274
We should have been
in on the handwriting.
535
00:37:56,441 --> 00:37:58,902
ARMSTRONG: I apologize.
Things have been moving fast.
536
00:37:59,068 --> 00:38:01,279
-We're gonna need your photos.
-Can't help you.
537
00:38:01,446 --> 00:38:03,615
I don't wanna get into
a jurisdictional thing--
538
00:38:03,782 --> 00:38:06,034
No, no. We didn't have a crime scene.
539
00:38:06,201 --> 00:38:09,537
The ranger literally swept everything
into a picnic blanket.
540
00:38:09,704 --> 00:38:12,373
-All we have are the Wing Walker prints.
-The what?
541
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:14,542
NARLOW: Boot prints
to and from the crime scene...
542
00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:16,836
...made by Size 10-and-a-half
Wing Walkers.
543
00:38:17,003 --> 00:38:19,714
Military-style boots
sold only at military PXs.
544
00:38:19,881 --> 00:38:21,925
Designed to walk
on the wings of planes.
545
00:38:22,091 --> 00:38:24,552
And you can't buy at a PX
without a military ID...
546
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,763
...so our suspect could be military.
547
00:38:26,930 --> 00:38:29,265
-Did you guys narrow your list off of this?
-Yeah.
548
00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:30,975
-Did Vallejo?
-I don't know.
549
00:38:31,142 --> 00:38:33,019
I don't work in Vallejo. I work here.
550
00:38:33,186 --> 00:38:37,023
-I'll need photos of those boot prints.
-Sure, if you send me the handwriting.
551
00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:38,858
I thought Questioned Documents did.
552
00:38:39,025 --> 00:38:40,819
Nope. Vallejo's got them, not us.
553
00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:44,405
I'll have Questioned Documents--
Forget it. I'll telefax it to you.
554
00:38:44,572 --> 00:38:46,199
We don't have telefax yet.
555
00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:48,785
-Okay, I'll put it in the mail.
-We'll mail ours too.
556
00:38:48,952 --> 00:38:52,080
And call Mulanax in Vallejo.
Maybe he can get you a mimeo.
557
00:38:52,247 --> 00:38:55,083
-Right.
-Why don't you get a photo off the cast?
558
00:38:55,250 --> 00:38:57,585
We'd have to wait
because they don't have a fax.
559
00:38:57,752 --> 00:38:59,295
We don't have a fax, either.
560
00:38:59,462 --> 00:39:02,590
-I'm just trying to get us coordinated.
-Have you called Solano?
561
00:39:02,757 --> 00:39:04,425
Why would I call Solano?
562
00:39:04,592 --> 00:39:07,804
Because the two kids that got killed
last Christmas were Solano's.
563
00:39:07,971 --> 00:39:10,974
-I thought they were Vallejo.
-They were over the county line.
564
00:39:11,140 --> 00:39:14,435
-You'll need to coordinate with them too.
-Okay.
565
00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:17,272
Bill? Can I have a word with you?
566
00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:23,361
TOSCHI:
Where did you see this guy?
567
00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:26,614
We got the call to look
for a Negro male adult--
568
00:39:26,781 --> 00:39:28,074
ARMSTRONG:
Where was he?
569
00:39:28,241 --> 00:39:31,160
On Jackson. Heading east.
About the middle of the block.
570
00:39:31,327 --> 00:39:33,830
-This is three minutes after the shooting?
-Give or take.
571
00:39:33,997 --> 00:39:35,707
TOSCHI:
And you were heading east or west?
572
00:39:35,874 --> 00:39:36,916
We were going west.
573
00:39:37,083 --> 00:39:38,751
So you're on Jackson going west.
574
00:39:38,918 --> 00:39:41,629
So the cab was one block
catty-corner southwest?
575
00:39:41,796 --> 00:39:42,839
Correct.
576
00:39:43,006 --> 00:39:45,633
-Did you slow down?
FOUKE: Of course we slowed down.
577
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,969
Listen, Dispatch said
it was a Negro male.
578
00:39:48,136 --> 00:39:49,304
TOSCHI:
That was corrected.
579
00:39:49,470 --> 00:39:52,015
No, but at the time
they hadn't changed it.
580
00:39:52,181 --> 00:39:55,977
This guy was white. Right, not in
a hurry. Kind of lumbering along like--
581
00:39:56,144 --> 00:39:58,855
ARMSTRONG: Lumbering?
What do you mean, "lumbering"?
582
00:40:00,106 --> 00:40:02,734
-Shuffling.
-Stocky? Had a crew cut?
583
00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:05,278
Yeah, that's all correct.
584
00:40:06,571 --> 00:40:09,991
Listen, it was dark.
The guy was wearing a dark jacket.
585
00:40:10,158 --> 00:40:13,369
-There's no way--
-He would have been covered in blood.
586
00:40:14,996 --> 00:40:16,664
Did you stop him?
587
00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:20,501
Did you talk to him?
588
00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:23,046
-Yes? No?
-No.
589
00:40:23,838 --> 00:40:25,673
You need to get with a sketch artist.
590
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,343
We have to put out a new composite
right away.
591
00:40:31,638 --> 00:40:32,388
2 days later - San Francisco, CA
592
00:40:32,513 --> 00:40:33,681
MAN 1 [ON RADIO]:
Five persons have been murdered...
593
00:40:33,848 --> 00:40:36,267
...in the San Francisco area,
and in each case, the killer--
594
00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:38,686
MAN 2: "I shall wipe out a school bus
some morning--"
595
00:40:38,853 --> 00:40:40,939
MAN 3:
San Francisco police--
596
00:40:41,105 --> 00:40:42,440
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
597
00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:44,859
MAN 4: To see the Stones in concert
this Sunday....
598
00:40:45,026 --> 00:40:47,028
MAN [ON TV]:
The new letters from the Zodiac Killer...
599
00:40:47,195 --> 00:40:50,281
...were sent to the City room
of the San Francisco Chronicle.
600
00:40:50,740 --> 00:40:53,326
Looming. No looming.
601
00:40:53,493 --> 00:40:55,620
ROBERT:
Have you considered the water theory?
602
00:40:55,787 --> 00:40:57,455
-What?
-Every attack takes place...
603
00:40:57,622 --> 00:40:59,791
...near a body of water
or a water-based name.
604
00:40:59,958 --> 00:41:02,961
-This is your water theory?
-Lake Berryessa. Blue Rock Springs.
605
00:41:03,127 --> 00:41:05,380
-Lake Herman.
-Washington and Cherry?
606
00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:10,093
-You think?
-No.
607
00:41:10,259 --> 00:41:12,595
I'm reading this book,
Homicide Investigation...
608
00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:14,389
-...by LeMoyne Snyder--
-"LeMoyne."
609
00:41:14,555 --> 00:41:15,932
He says you look for patterns.
610
00:41:16,099 --> 00:41:19,268
No. You can't think of this case
in normal police terms.
611
00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:21,729
-Why not?
-You got four crime scenes:
612
00:41:21,896 --> 00:41:24,732
Solano, Vallejo, Berryessa and here.
613
00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:28,653
Not a single usable print at the
first three or in any of the letters?
614
00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:30,405
TOSCHI:
How does that master criminal...
615
00:41:30,571 --> 00:41:32,240
...come to the city
and leave a bloody latent?
616
00:41:32,407 --> 00:41:34,575
I mean, assuming the gloves are his...
617
00:41:34,742 --> 00:41:36,869
...he shoots the cabby
and then takes them off?
618
00:41:37,036 --> 00:41:38,246
ROBERT:
So it's not his print?
619
00:41:38,413 --> 00:41:41,457
Maybe. You're missing the point.
The point is the first attack--
620
00:41:41,624 --> 00:41:44,210
-David Faraday and Betty Jensen.
-They both die.
621
00:41:44,377 --> 00:41:46,713
From there out,
he only manages to kill the girls.
622
00:41:46,879 --> 00:41:49,132
-Not for lack of trying.
-Not for lack of trying.
623
00:41:49,298 --> 00:41:52,885
Mageau lives, Ferrin dies.
Hartnell lives, Shepard dies.
624
00:41:53,052 --> 00:41:56,180
He gets so caught up with the women,
he forgets to finish the men.
625
00:41:56,347 --> 00:41:58,683
Plus they're all couples
and all on lovers' lanes.
626
00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:00,560
-Paul Stine is not.
-Exactly.
627
00:42:00,727 --> 00:42:02,895
Single male cab driver on Cherry
doesn't fit.
628
00:42:03,062 --> 00:42:04,772
Doesn't fit.
629
00:42:05,273 --> 00:42:07,900
So why does Zodiac kill him?
630
00:42:10,403 --> 00:42:12,530
He's breaking the pattern.
631
00:42:16,367 --> 00:42:17,660
[PHONE RINGING]
632
00:42:22,081 --> 00:42:23,583
-Yeah?
ARMSTRONG: Someone claiming...
633
00:42:23,750 --> 00:42:26,252
...to be Zodiac
called Oakland P.D. a half-hour ago.
634
00:42:26,419 --> 00:42:27,295
2 days later - San Francisco, CA
October 22, 1969
635
00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:29,672
He says he's gonna call in on Jim
Dunbar's morning show in three hours.
636
00:42:29,839 --> 00:42:32,759
-On television?
-He wants Melvin Belli on to counsel him.
637
00:42:32,925 --> 00:42:35,386
All right. All right.
Let's go wake up Melvin.
638
00:42:37,930 --> 00:42:39,307
Animal Crackers?
639
00:42:39,474 --> 00:42:41,100
Glove box.
640
00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:42,894
MAN:
Are these windows bulletproof?
641
00:42:43,061 --> 00:42:45,480
Yes, Melvin.
You don't have to lie down back there.
642
00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:49,650
This man is a marksman. Could
snuff me out at a moment's notice.
643
00:42:49,817 --> 00:42:53,154
-Are you sure you're up for this?
-Don't you worry about me, inspector.
644
00:42:53,321 --> 00:42:55,490
I'll be fine when the lights are on.
645
00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:57,575
This man has asked for my help.
646
00:42:57,742 --> 00:42:59,911
The man you're worrying
about snuffing you out?
647
00:43:00,078 --> 00:43:03,331
What are these, cookies?
648
00:43:03,498 --> 00:43:05,583
Dear Lord, do you ever clean this car?
649
00:43:05,750 --> 00:43:10,088
ARMSTRONG: Shit. KGO must have
tipped other stations.
650
00:43:12,423 --> 00:43:14,509
[REPORTERS SHOUTING]
651
00:43:19,055 --> 00:43:21,808
ARMSTRONG: Get him talking.
Convince him to meet you somewhere.
652
00:43:21,974 --> 00:43:25,895
If you see an opportunity, we want you
to suggest Old Saint Mary's Church.
653
00:43:26,062 --> 00:43:27,480
You'll be tracing the call?
654
00:43:27,647 --> 00:43:30,441
ARMSTRONG: You need to keep him
on the line for 15 minutes.
655
00:43:30,608 --> 00:43:33,486
We can do that, can't we, Jim?
656
00:43:35,488 --> 00:43:38,324
-Fifteen seconds. Clear the set.
MAN: Clear the set.
657
00:43:38,491 --> 00:43:40,785
[THEME MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
658
00:43:44,038 --> 00:43:45,832
Here you go, you drunken reprobate.
659
00:43:45,998 --> 00:43:47,083
[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]
660
00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:49,794
ANNOUNCER [ON TV]: We interrupt
our program to bring you this bulletin.
661
00:43:49,961 --> 00:43:54,215
JIM: This special edition of our show,
we are joined by attorney Melvin Belli...
662
00:43:54,382 --> 00:43:57,426
...who the Zodiac Killer
personally requested to appear.
663
00:43:57,593 --> 00:43:59,595
Finish up, buddy, and put it in the sink.
664
00:43:59,762 --> 00:44:02,557
JIM: Good morning, Melvin.
MELVIN: Good morning, Jim.
665
00:44:02,723 --> 00:44:05,935
JIM: So the phone lines are open.
Mr. Belli is here.
666
00:44:06,102 --> 00:44:09,063
MELVIN: Here to help, Jim.
JIM: Yes. Here to help.
667
00:44:09,230 --> 00:44:14,735
And we ask the public not to call in
so that the Zodiac himself can reach us.
668
00:44:16,154 --> 00:44:18,656
[JINGLE PLAYING ON TV]
669
00:44:22,910 --> 00:44:25,454
I saw your Star Trek, by the way.
It was excellent.
670
00:44:25,621 --> 00:44:29,917
MELVIN: A shame about the show.
Good people.
671
00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:33,129
You know, I've often thought
of becoming an actor full-time.
672
00:44:33,754 --> 00:44:35,756
-What was your character's name?
MELVIN: Gorgan.
673
00:44:35,923 --> 00:44:37,675
JIM:
Gorgan. That's right.
674
00:44:37,842 --> 00:44:39,010
[PHONE RINGING]
675
00:44:39,177 --> 00:44:40,761
Roll the tape. Get the tape.
676
00:44:40,928 --> 00:44:43,347
DIRECTOR:
Jim, we have a call. We're going live.
677
00:44:44,891 --> 00:44:46,642
MELVIN:
Hello?
678
00:44:46,809 --> 00:44:48,895
[BREATHING OVER SPEAKER]
679
00:44:49,604 --> 00:44:52,440
Hello? This is Melvin Belli.
680
00:44:53,024 --> 00:44:54,942
Who am I speaking with?
681
00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:58,362
MAN [OVER SPEAKER]:
This is the Zodiac speaking.
682
00:45:00,656 --> 00:45:04,744
Is there something I can call you
that's a little less ominous?
683
00:45:06,495 --> 00:45:07,830
Sam.
684
00:45:07,997 --> 00:45:10,166
-Sam.
-Yes.
685
00:45:10,333 --> 00:45:13,753
MELVIN: Sam, do you think
you need medical care?
686
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,755
Medical, not mental.
687
00:45:15,922 --> 00:45:18,132
Do you have health problems?
688
00:45:18,299 --> 00:45:19,967
I'm sick. I have headaches.
689
00:45:20,134 --> 00:45:21,802
Headaches?
690
00:45:21,969 --> 00:45:25,598
I have headaches, too, but a chiropractor
stopped them a week ago.
691
00:45:26,140 --> 00:45:27,642
I think I can help you, Sam.
692
00:45:27,808 --> 00:45:28,851
[PHONE HANGS UP]
693
00:45:30,353 --> 00:45:31,687
Sam?
694
00:45:33,730 --> 00:45:35,483
He knows they're tracing his calls.
695
00:45:39,695 --> 00:45:43,199
Sam, we'd like you to know
that we are not tracing these calls.
696
00:45:43,366 --> 00:45:48,329
It's a long, difficult process
and ineffective with these short calls.
697
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:50,706
[PHONE RINGS]
698
00:45:53,626 --> 00:45:55,169
Sam?
699
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:56,629
SAM [OVER SPEAKER]:
Uh-huh.
700
00:45:57,004 --> 00:46:00,508
We're not tracing these calls.
You have my word.
701
00:46:01,008 --> 00:46:02,260
Okay.
702
00:46:02,426 --> 00:46:05,972
MELVIN: Sam, you need to tell me
what your problem is.
703
00:46:06,138 --> 00:46:08,057
SAM:
I don't want to go to the gas chamber.
704
00:46:08,224 --> 00:46:10,434
I have headaches.
I kill, I don't get them.
705
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:11,978
That is fucked up.
706
00:46:12,144 --> 00:46:15,022
You want to live, don't you?
Well, this is your passport.
707
00:46:15,189 --> 00:46:17,066
How long have you
been having headaches?
708
00:46:17,233 --> 00:46:19,735
SAM:
Since I killed a kid.
709
00:46:20,653 --> 00:46:22,697
-I don't want to be hurt.
-Why is he calling?
710
00:46:22,863 --> 00:46:24,240
Hey, just a second, buddy.
711
00:46:24,407 --> 00:46:26,450
You won't get hurt if you talk to me.
712
00:46:26,617 --> 00:46:28,869
And you're not going
to the gas chamber.
713
00:46:29,036 --> 00:46:31,706
I wouldn't think they would
ask for capital punishment.
714
00:46:31,872 --> 00:46:35,876
We should ask the district attorney.
Do you want me to do that, Sam?
715
00:46:36,043 --> 00:46:38,129
Do you want me
to talk to the district attorney?
716
00:46:38,296 --> 00:46:39,796
[SAM SCREAMS]
717
00:46:42,883 --> 00:46:44,385
What was that, Sam?
718
00:46:45,594 --> 00:46:47,221
SAM:
I did not say anything.
719
00:46:47,388 --> 00:46:49,974
MELVIN:
We heard a scream.
720
00:46:50,558 --> 00:46:53,185
SAM:
That was my headache.
721
00:46:53,352 --> 00:46:57,064
You sound like you're in
a great deal of pain.
722
00:46:57,231 --> 00:47:01,110
My head aches. I'm so sick.
723
00:47:01,944 --> 00:47:03,112
I'm gonna kill them.
724
00:47:03,612 --> 00:47:06,407
-Oh. Oh. Okay.
SAM: I'm gonna kill those kids!
725
00:47:06,574 --> 00:47:08,701
Fantastic.
726
00:47:10,827 --> 00:47:12,246
MELVIN:
Sam?
727
00:47:13,789 --> 00:47:16,292
Let's meet and talk. Just us.
728
00:47:17,043 --> 00:47:18,085
SAM:
Okay.
729
00:47:18,252 --> 00:47:20,713
How about Old Saint Mary's Church
in Chinatown?
730
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:26,052
SAM: No. In front of the Daly City
St. Vincent De Paul at 10:30.
731
00:47:26,218 --> 00:47:28,179
I'll see you there.
732
00:47:28,346 --> 00:47:29,555
[PHONE HANGS UP]
733
00:47:29,722 --> 00:47:31,724
Take care of yourself, Sam.
734
00:47:31,891 --> 00:47:33,976
[SIRENS WAILING]
735
00:47:43,903 --> 00:47:45,446
[TIRES SCREECHING]
736
00:47:55,998 --> 00:48:01,003
My, my, my. You fellows certainly
know how to put on a secret meeting.
737
00:48:01,337 --> 00:48:02,671
REPORTER:
Belli, over here.
738
00:48:04,965 --> 00:48:07,593
SAM [ON RECORDING]:
I don't want to go to the gas chamber.
739
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,262
I have headaches.
I kill, I don't get them.
740
00:48:10,429 --> 00:48:12,765
No, it's not him.
741
00:48:12,932 --> 00:48:15,851
It's the voice. The voice is too high.
It's too young.
742
00:48:16,018 --> 00:48:18,479
All right.
Thanks for coming down, Bryan.
743
00:48:19,647 --> 00:48:21,816
BRYAN:
That's okay. I got it.
744
00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:31,992
They pulled off the trace. Our Daly City
no-show called from a mental institution.
745
00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:36,539
Oakland P.D.'s operator is sure the man
she talked to had a deeper voice.
746
00:48:36,705 --> 00:48:41,001
Calmer. Might have actually been him.
747
00:48:47,133 --> 00:48:49,552
CHARLES: "So I shall change my way
of collecting slaves.
748
00:48:49,677 --> 00:48:50,970
2 1/2 weeks later - San Francisco, CA
749
00:48:51,095 --> 00:48:54,014
I shall no longer announce to anyone
when I commit my murders.
750
00:48:54,181 --> 00:48:57,268
They shall look like routine robberies,
killings of anger...
751
00:48:57,435 --> 00:49:00,187
...and a few fake accidents, et cetera.
752
00:49:00,354 --> 00:49:03,774
The police shall never catch me,
because I have been too clever for them.
753
00:49:03,940 --> 00:49:07,653
I look like the description passed out
only when I do my thing.
754
00:49:07,820 --> 00:49:10,614
The rest of the time
I look entirely different.
755
00:49:10,781 --> 00:49:15,661
I shall not tell you what my disguise
consists of when I kill.
756
00:49:15,828 --> 00:49:18,539
As of yet I have left
no fingerprints behind me...
757
00:49:18,706 --> 00:49:21,167
...contrary to what the police say.
758
00:49:21,333 --> 00:49:24,503
I wear transparent fingertips.
759
00:49:24,670 --> 00:49:29,258
All it is, is two coats of airplane cement
coated on my fingertips.
760
00:49:29,425 --> 00:49:33,554
I enjoy needling the blue pigs.
Hey, blue pig, I was in the park.
761
00:49:33,721 --> 00:49:39,226
You were using firetrucks to mask
the sound of your cruising prowl cars.
762
00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:43,063
Hey, pig, doesn't it rile you up to have
your nose rubbed in your boo-boos?
763
00:49:43,898 --> 00:49:47,234
If you cops think I am going to take
on a bus the way I stated I was...
764
00:49:47,401 --> 00:49:51,197
...you deserve to have
holes in your heads."
765
00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:54,909
And you need to look at this.
766
00:49:57,453 --> 00:49:59,788
ARMSTRONG: "Take one bag
of ammonium-nitrate fertilizer...
767
00:49:59,955 --> 00:50:04,084
...one gallon of stove oil and
dump a few bags of gravel on top...."
768
00:50:04,251 --> 00:50:05,753
-Okay.
ARMSTRONG: It's a bomb.
769
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,254
TOSCHI:
We gotta call the Army...
770
00:50:07,421 --> 00:50:10,174
...and see if this science experiment
could actually work.
771
00:50:10,799 --> 00:50:12,468
ARMSTRONG:
Another cipher.
772
00:50:14,428 --> 00:50:17,181
TOSCHI: When did these arrive?
CHARLES: They arrived this morning.
773
00:50:17,348 --> 00:50:19,433
TOSCHI: Are you planning to publish?
-Robert.
774
00:50:21,310 --> 00:50:23,187
We should have a drink.
775
00:50:27,399 --> 00:50:28,984
Thank you.
776
00:50:30,611 --> 00:50:33,948
So tell me about yourself.
You married?
777
00:50:34,114 --> 00:50:37,284
Divorced. I have two kids.
778
00:50:37,618 --> 00:50:39,453
What do you do for fun?
779
00:50:40,871 --> 00:50:42,873
I love to read.
780
00:50:43,374 --> 00:50:45,459
-I enjoy books.
-Those are the same things.
781
00:50:45,626 --> 00:50:48,212
Why you been
going through my trash?
782
00:50:51,298 --> 00:50:55,344
We'll come back to that. How'd
you know he'd send another code?
783
00:50:55,511 --> 00:50:56,637
I just guessed.
784
00:50:57,263 --> 00:50:59,598
-You just guessed.
-The first one seemed too easy.
785
00:50:59,765 --> 00:51:01,934
All right, this can no longer be ignored.
786
00:51:02,101 --> 00:51:03,727
What is that you're drinking?
787
00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:05,771
It's an Aqua Velva.
788
00:51:05,938 --> 00:51:07,982
You wouldn't make fun of it
if you tried it.
789
00:51:18,325 --> 00:51:20,536
ROBERT:
But who actually cracked the code?
790
00:51:21,495 --> 00:51:25,541
A married couple who liked puzzles.
So, what's that tell us about the Zodiac?
791
00:51:26,166 --> 00:51:29,128
-He's no expert.
-Right. It's a simple substitution code...
792
00:51:29,295 --> 00:51:31,505
...like the one that we used to do
as Boy Scouts.
793
00:51:31,672 --> 00:51:35,301
-A is one, B is two.
-We weren't all Boy Scouts, Robert.
794
00:51:35,467 --> 00:51:38,345
Well, it's not that hard.
You just gotta know where to start.
795
00:51:38,512 --> 00:51:41,515
-In the first cipher--
-You actually carry that around with you?
796
00:51:41,682 --> 00:51:44,184
-Why?
-No reason.
797
00:51:44,393 --> 00:51:47,396
What's the most common double
consonant in the English language?
798
00:51:48,063 --> 00:51:49,440
-Consonant?
-The double L.
799
00:51:49,607 --> 00:51:51,442
-Double L.
-And what's the one word...
800
00:51:51,609 --> 00:51:54,236
...that we know
that he'll use in here, at least once?
801
00:51:54,403 --> 00:51:55,571
-"Kill."
-Right, "kill."
802
00:51:55,738 --> 00:51:59,325
The Hardens start look for double
symbols, which they find here and here...
803
00:51:59,491 --> 00:52:01,619
...each with the same symbols
preceding them.
804
00:52:01,785 --> 00:52:05,789
They've got a repeating four-letter word
ending with two symbols that stand for L.
805
00:52:05,956 --> 00:52:09,125
-Since they think the word is "kill"....
-You got your K, your I...
806
00:52:09,293 --> 00:52:10,628
...and you're on your way.
807
00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:14,298
But how do you go from A is one, B
is two to figuring out this whole code?
808
00:52:14,465 --> 00:52:17,843
Well, same way I did.
You go to the library.
809
00:52:20,512 --> 00:52:22,514
In this book...
810
00:52:22,681 --> 00:52:26,602
...the author presents a very simple
substitution code in the preface.
811
00:52:26,769 --> 00:52:29,688
Eight of the 26 symbols he suggests
are found in this cipher.
812
00:52:29,855 --> 00:52:32,691
But there are non-letter symbols.
There's these medieval ones.
813
00:52:32,858 --> 00:52:35,027
I thought they looked medieval too.
814
00:52:36,111 --> 00:52:39,823
But I found a code written in
the Middle Ages. Guess what it's called.
815
00:52:39,990 --> 00:52:41,742
The zodiac alphabet.
816
00:52:43,661 --> 00:52:45,371
PAUL:
Jesus.
817
00:52:46,246 --> 00:52:48,457
-What do you want out of this?
-What?
818
00:52:48,624 --> 00:52:52,294
What's your angle? This is
good business for everyone but you.
819
00:52:55,089 --> 00:52:57,091
How do you mean "business"?
820
00:53:00,010 --> 00:53:02,304
Hey. Come to bed.
821
00:53:02,471 --> 00:53:05,516
I'll be up in a minute.
I need to make a phone call.
822
00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:15,442
[PHONE RINGING]
823
00:53:17,653 --> 00:53:19,780
ARMSTRONG: Hello?
-Bill?
824
00:53:19,947 --> 00:53:22,282
There's not many basements
in California.
825
00:53:22,449 --> 00:53:23,951
ARMSTRONG:
"Basement for future use."
826
00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:25,953
That's right.
827
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:30,791
I'll have Vallejo and Napa check
with their city planners. Get some sleep.
828
00:53:30,958 --> 00:53:32,751
Yeah, sure.
829
00:53:41,677 --> 00:53:44,888
1 1/2 months later - San Francisco, CA
830
00:53:45,055 --> 00:53:47,516
MELVIN: "Dear Melvin,
this is the Zodiac speaking.
831
00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:50,144
I wish you a happy Christmas.
832
00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:53,814
The one thing I ask of you is this:
Please help me.
833
00:53:53,981 --> 00:53:57,526
I cannot reach out for help,
because this thing in me won't let me."
834
00:53:57,693 --> 00:53:58,736
Thank you.
835
00:53:58,902 --> 00:54:02,156
"I am finding it extremely difficult
to hold it in check...
836
00:54:02,322 --> 00:54:05,909
...and I am afraid I will lose control again
and take my ninth...
837
00:54:06,076 --> 00:54:07,745
...and possibly 10th victim."
838
00:54:07,911 --> 00:54:10,080
Melvin, he's reaching out to you.
839
00:54:10,246 --> 00:54:15,002
Absolutely. Inspectors, he sent
this letter directly to my residence.
840
00:54:15,169 --> 00:54:18,130
It is a cry for help
intended as a private communiqué.
841
00:54:18,297 --> 00:54:20,549
Which is why you contacted
the Chronicle.
842
00:54:20,716 --> 00:54:23,635
The people have a right to know.
Toddy?
843
00:54:23,802 --> 00:54:26,805
-When did the letter arrive?
MELVIN: In the middle of last week.
844
00:54:26,972 --> 00:54:29,099
It is my belief
that he penned this letter...
845
00:54:29,265 --> 00:54:31,935
...because he couldn't get to me
on the show or here.
846
00:54:32,102 --> 00:54:34,521
-He tried to contact you here?
MELVIN: Several times.
847
00:54:34,688 --> 00:54:36,857
I was out,
but he spoke with my housekeeper.
848
00:54:37,024 --> 00:54:39,193
-Didn't leave a number.
-He's crafty like that.
849
00:54:39,359 --> 00:54:41,528
-Do you mind if I speak to her?
MELVIN: Not at all.
850
00:54:41,695 --> 00:54:44,072
But the real story is the letter.
851
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,158
ARMSTRONG: I'll be back.
-Yeah.
852
00:54:46,325 --> 00:54:49,119
-She's right this way.
-Inspector Toschi...
853
00:54:49,285 --> 00:54:52,664
...it is my belief this is a window
into this man's soul.
854
00:54:52,831 --> 00:54:54,583
Killing is his compulsion.
855
00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:58,462
Even though he tries to ignore it,
it drives him. It's in his blood.
856
00:54:58,629 --> 00:55:01,465
Could be.
Or maybe he just likes the attention.
857
00:55:04,218 --> 00:55:08,138
2 1/2 months later -
Highway 132 near Modesto, CA
858
00:55:08,304 --> 00:55:09,932
March 22, 1970
859
00:55:10,432 --> 00:55:12,518
[MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR RADIO]
860
00:55:16,730 --> 00:55:18,816
[CAR HORN HONKING]
861
00:55:45,133 --> 00:55:51,014
MAN: I didn't mean to scare you,
but your right rear wheel is loose.
862
00:55:51,181 --> 00:55:52,850
-Really?
-If you like...
863
00:55:53,016 --> 00:55:55,435
...I could tighten the lugs up for you.
864
00:55:55,644 --> 00:55:57,353
Uh....
865
00:55:58,063 --> 00:56:02,109
-If you don't mind.
-Well, you can't be too careful.
866
00:56:25,757 --> 00:56:27,134
[BABY COOING]
867
00:56:27,301 --> 00:56:28,844
[METAL CREAKING]
868
00:56:34,808 --> 00:56:36,101
[KNOCKS]
869
00:56:36,268 --> 00:56:39,062
-All done.
-Thank you.
870
00:56:39,229 --> 00:56:41,940
MAN:
No problem. Have a good night.
871
00:56:42,107 --> 00:56:43,734
[BABY CRYING]
872
00:56:44,318 --> 00:56:45,903
Shh, shh, shh.
873
00:56:46,069 --> 00:56:47,696
It's okay.
874
00:57:07,507 --> 00:57:09,801
[RATTLING]
875
00:57:11,303 --> 00:57:13,513
[METAL SCRAPING]
876
00:57:20,938 --> 00:57:22,689
[COOING]
877
00:57:41,583 --> 00:57:43,126
MAN:
Are you okay?
878
00:57:44,795 --> 00:57:47,089
Yeah. Yeah, we're fine.
879
00:57:48,131 --> 00:57:50,425
MAN:
Must have been worse than I thought.
880
00:57:50,592 --> 00:57:52,552
I can give you a lift
to a service station.
881
00:57:55,889 --> 00:57:57,265
Okay.
882
00:57:59,267 --> 00:58:00,686
[BABY CRYING]
883
00:58:00,852 --> 00:58:02,604
Shh, shh, shh.
884
00:58:02,771 --> 00:58:05,774
Shh, shh. It's okay. Come on.
885
00:58:09,486 --> 00:58:11,571
[BABY WHIMPERING]
886
00:58:13,031 --> 00:58:16,243
MAN:
I didn't know you had a baby.
887
00:58:16,868 --> 00:58:18,912
Oh, is that okay?
888
00:58:19,913 --> 00:58:21,999
The more, the merrier.
889
00:58:31,550 --> 00:58:34,302
You shouldn't smoke. It's a bad habit.
890
00:58:40,642 --> 00:58:43,103
I think we just passed a filling station.
891
00:58:43,270 --> 00:58:45,272
It was closed.
892
00:58:49,484 --> 00:58:52,612
Do you always go around
helping people in the night?
893
00:58:52,779 --> 00:58:55,949
When I'm done with them,
they don't need much help.
894
00:58:56,199 --> 00:58:58,410
[BABY CRYING]
895
00:58:58,577 --> 00:59:00,579
Shh, it's okay.
896
00:59:00,746 --> 00:59:02,956
Before I kill you...
897
00:59:03,123 --> 00:59:05,751
...I'm gonna throw your baby
out the window.
898
00:59:17,345 --> 00:59:20,390
[KATHLEEN SCREAMING]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
899
00:59:20,849 --> 00:59:24,436
KATHLEEN:
Please! No!
900
00:59:29,399 --> 00:59:31,026
MAN:
She was on the side of the road.
901
00:59:31,193 --> 00:59:32,903
-She flagged me down.
-What happened?
902
00:59:33,070 --> 00:59:35,989
She said she jumped from a car.
I found her like this.
903
00:59:36,156 --> 00:59:39,159
-What is it?
KATHLEEN: Please, he said....
904
00:59:39,326 --> 00:59:41,411
-It'll be okay.
KATHLEEN: Tried to kill me.
905
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,748
-My baby!
-Where's her baby?
906
00:59:44,915 --> 00:59:47,084
She didn't have one when I stopped.
907
00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:48,919
Where's your baby?
908
00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:56,968
Jesus.
909
00:59:57,177 --> 00:59:59,262
[BABY CRYING]
910
01:00:04,351 --> 01:00:07,354
-You hid it?
-In case he came back.
911
01:00:21,660 --> 01:00:23,120
TOSCHI:
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
912
01:00:23,203 --> 01:00:24,246
30 days later - San Francisco, CA
913
01:00:24,371 --> 01:00:26,706
By the way, have you cracked
the last cipher I sent you?
914
01:00:26,873 --> 01:00:30,043
I'm mildly curious as to how much
money you have on my head now.
915
01:00:30,210 --> 01:00:34,464
I hope you do not think I was the one
who wiped out that blue meanie...
916
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:36,633
...with a bomb at the cop station...
917
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,386
...even though I talked about
killing children with one."
918
01:00:39,594 --> 01:00:41,012
ARMSTRONG:
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
919
01:00:41,096 --> 01:00:42,139
8 days later - San Francisco, CA
920
01:00:42,222 --> 01:00:44,683
I'd like to see some nice Zodiac buttons
wandering around town.
921
01:00:44,850 --> 01:00:46,768
Everyone else has these buttons...
922
01:00:46,935 --> 01:00:50,105
...like peace, black power,
'Melvin eats blubber,' et cetera.
923
01:00:50,272 --> 01:00:53,191
It would cheer me up considerably if I
saw a lot of people wearing my button.
924
01:00:53,358 --> 01:00:54,401
2 months later - San Francisco, CA
925
01:00:54,568 --> 01:00:56,820
-Please no nasty ones."
PAUL: "This is the Zodiac speaking.
926
01:00:56,987 --> 01:01:02,909
I shot a man sitting in a parked car
with a .38. Zodiac 12, S.F.P.D. 0.
927
01:01:03,076 --> 01:01:06,246
The map coupled with this code
will tell you where the bomb is set.
928
01:01:06,413 --> 01:01:09,749
You have until next fall to dig it up."
929
01:01:12,002 --> 01:01:13,503
ROBERT:
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
930
01:01:13,670 --> 01:01:17,340
I'm rather unhappy because you people
will not wear some nice Zodiac buttons.
931
01:01:17,507 --> 01:01:20,177
I now have a list,
starting with the woman and her baby...
932
01:01:20,302 --> 01:01:21,344
4 weeks later - San Francisco, CA
933
01:01:21,428 --> 01:01:22,929
...I gave an interesting ride
a few months back...
934
01:01:23,096 --> 01:01:25,765
...that ended in my burning her car
where I found them."
935
01:01:25,932 --> 01:01:28,226
We're not gonna run
any more of his letters?
936
01:01:28,393 --> 01:01:32,606
New policy. Our brothers in blue want us
to hold back and see how he reacts.
937
01:01:32,772 --> 01:01:36,776
Four letters in three months and this is
the first mention of Kathleen Johns?
938
01:01:36,943 --> 01:01:41,656
-That's very weird.
-That's because he's full of shit.
939
01:01:42,657 --> 01:01:44,159
What do you mean?
940
01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:46,786
You don't know?
941
01:01:48,371 --> 01:01:50,540
PAUL:
Welcome. Please put your stuff down.
942
01:01:50,707 --> 01:01:53,168
You're going down five rows and left.
943
01:01:53,335 --> 01:01:55,712
Looking for the Modesto Bee
from March.
944
01:01:55,879 --> 01:01:58,715
I'm going to stand here
and attempt not to vomit.
945
01:01:58,965 --> 01:02:01,009
Left.
946
01:02:02,052 --> 01:02:04,429
-What am I looking for?
-Kathleen Johns.
947
01:02:04,596 --> 01:02:09,309
Also probably wanna pull the Chron--
You know, never mind. I'll see to that.
948
01:02:09,893 --> 01:02:12,646
PAUL: Look at this letter again,
the part about Kathleen Johns.
949
01:02:12,812 --> 01:02:14,481
Tell me what facts he gives.
950
01:02:14,898 --> 01:02:17,442
-A woman and a baby abducted.
-Mm-hm. Fact.
951
01:02:19,945 --> 01:02:22,447
-The car on fire.
-Okay, now...
952
01:02:23,740 --> 01:02:25,825
...look at the article from the Bee.
953
01:02:26,868 --> 01:02:28,578
See it yet?
954
01:02:28,745 --> 01:02:30,705
Everything already appeared
in the article.
955
01:02:30,872 --> 01:02:32,540
And he's done it before.
956
01:02:33,917 --> 01:02:36,127
Officer Radetich,
shot sitting in his car.
957
01:02:36,294 --> 01:02:38,588
Zodiac claimed
that he shot someone in their car.
958
01:02:38,755 --> 01:02:43,176
Couple days after this article came out.
Police already had somebody in custody.
959
01:02:43,343 --> 01:02:45,178
Zodiac didn't do it...
960
01:02:45,345 --> 01:02:48,515
...but took credit for it anyway
because he's in it for the press.
961
01:02:48,682 --> 01:02:50,684
-He even stole his symbol.
-What?
962
01:02:50,850 --> 01:02:54,521
Yeah. Shit. If I show you something,
you promise not to tell anyone?
963
01:02:54,688 --> 01:02:58,692
-Who would I tell?
-Okay. Totally solid point. Okay.
964
01:03:05,532 --> 01:03:07,534
{\an8}That's the only place
that word and symbol...
965
01:03:07,701 --> 01:03:09,703
{\an8}...appeared together before the letters.
966
01:03:09,869 --> 01:03:13,206
-The guy stole his logo off a watch.
-How can somebody who's killed 13--?
967
01:03:13,373 --> 01:03:16,376
He claims he's killed 13 people,
but which ones can we confirm?
968
01:03:16,543 --> 01:03:19,879
There's three in Vallejo, one
in Berryessa, the cabby. That's it.
969
01:03:21,798 --> 01:03:24,175
Bobby, you almost look disappointed.
970
01:03:25,135 --> 01:03:27,762
Chief's pulling everybody off buses.
971
01:03:28,346 --> 01:03:31,808
-Business as usual.
-Something will shake loose.
972
01:03:31,975 --> 01:03:36,521
-Not a peep in four months.
-First he won't shut up and now....
973
01:03:36,688 --> 01:03:39,482
Maybe we drove him underground.
974
01:03:39,691 --> 01:03:41,401
Maybe he's gone.
975
01:03:41,985 --> 01:03:45,196
WOMAN [OVER RADIO]: 3-11 at 582
Haight, cross at Fillmore. There's a male--
976
01:03:45,363 --> 01:03:48,074
-Happy birthday, Bill.
-Thanks.
977
01:03:49,659 --> 01:03:55,457
October 11, 1970 - San Francisco, CA
The corner of Washington and Cherry
978
01:03:57,751 --> 01:04:00,295
Does it ever bother you
that people call you Shorty?
979
01:04:00,462 --> 01:04:02,839
Does it bother you
that people call you a retard?
980
01:04:03,006 --> 01:04:05,800
-Nobody calls me that.
-Right.
981
01:04:05,967 --> 01:04:08,803
WOMAN [ON TV]: As governor,
I pledge to use all my influence...
982
01:04:08,928 --> 01:04:10,180
2 1/2 weeks later - San Francisco, CA
983
01:04:10,305 --> 01:04:13,767
...to make sure that Darlene Ferrin's
killer is brought to justice.
984
01:04:13,933 --> 01:04:18,688
I believe some clues were overlooked
in the murder of Darlene Ferrin.
985
01:04:18,855 --> 01:04:20,857
-Her murder was premeditated.
ROBERT: Who is that?
986
01:04:21,024 --> 01:04:23,777
Florence Douglas, mayor of Vallejo.
Running for governor.
987
01:04:23,943 --> 01:04:26,613
I believe the police department
did not have the money...
988
01:04:26,780 --> 01:04:28,323
...or, yes, the inclination....
989
01:04:28,490 --> 01:04:32,410
Sayonara, police endorsement.
Good work, Flo.
990
01:04:32,577 --> 01:04:35,789
Does anyone ever
call me names, or...?
991
01:04:36,039 --> 01:04:39,334
-You mean like retard?
-Yeah.
992
01:04:40,126 --> 01:04:41,586
No.
993
01:04:45,757 --> 01:04:50,512
Shit. Fuck. My God. Jesus.
994
01:04:53,807 --> 01:04:57,560
Tell me that's not a piece of
bloody shirt! Fuck! Holy fucking crap!
995
01:04:57,727 --> 01:05:00,146
I feel it in my bones
You ache to know my name
996
01:05:00,313 --> 01:05:03,817
And so I'll clue you in
But then, why spoil the game?
997
01:05:03,983 --> 01:05:05,360
"Happy Halloween."
998
01:05:06,986 --> 01:05:10,824
Paul, you did call him
a latent homosexual...
999
01:05:10,990 --> 01:05:15,829
-...in at least one of your articles.
-Dave. I want a gun.
1000
01:05:17,330 --> 01:05:18,998
A gun?
1001
01:05:23,336 --> 01:05:25,004
You're in Herb Caen.
1002
01:05:25,171 --> 01:05:29,092
"Paul Avery's investigation has won him
a message from the Zodiac warning:
1003
01:05:29,259 --> 01:05:30,593
'You are doomed.'
1004
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:34,097
As a result, several crime newsmen
are wearing lapel buttons reading:
1005
01:05:34,264 --> 01:05:36,266
'I am not Paul Avery.'"
1006
01:05:36,433 --> 01:05:38,601
You should sell these.
You could do well.
1007
01:05:38,768 --> 01:05:41,771
It's been a windfall since they published
the threat on my life.
1008
01:05:41,938 --> 01:05:45,817
I got leads coming out of the woodwork.
There's one guy down in Riverside.
1009
01:05:45,984 --> 01:05:48,153
I'm gonna see him tonight.
You wanna tag along?
1010
01:05:48,319 --> 01:05:51,531
No, I have a date.
1011
01:05:51,698 --> 01:05:54,075
-Really?
-Who is this guy?
1012
01:05:54,242 --> 01:05:58,204
He wishes to remain anonymous.
I wish to remain infamous.
1013
01:05:58,371 --> 01:06:01,332
So we're going to get along great.
1014
01:06:08,923 --> 01:06:11,217
Hi. Good evening.
Hi. I'm looking for a Melanie.
1015
01:06:11,384 --> 01:06:15,388
-It's the young lady sitting by herself.
-Thank you.
1016
01:06:21,269 --> 01:06:22,604
You must be Melanie.
1017
01:06:22,770 --> 01:06:24,606
-Which would make you Robert.
-It would.
1018
01:06:24,772 --> 01:06:27,734
Glynnis told me lots about you.
1019
01:06:27,901 --> 01:06:29,861
-And you have wine, great.
-I do.
1020
01:06:30,028 --> 01:06:31,654
Great. How late am I?
1021
01:06:31,821 --> 01:06:32,989
[WATER SPILLS]
1022
01:06:33,198 --> 01:06:36,117
Just a few minutes, really.
I just got here myself.
1023
01:06:36,284 --> 01:06:38,912
Traffic was bumper-to-bumper.
I was at the gun range.
1024
01:06:39,078 --> 01:06:41,247
Glynnis said you were a cartoonist.
1025
01:06:41,414 --> 01:06:42,790
Oh, yeah.
1026
01:06:42,957 --> 01:06:45,460
-Well, what are you doing at a gun range?
-Reading.
1027
01:06:45,627 --> 01:06:49,714
Get some more....
You need some more napkins.
1028
01:06:50,423 --> 01:06:52,383
So you work with Glynnis.
1029
01:06:52,550 --> 01:06:54,802
-For her, actually.
-For her?
1030
01:06:54,969 --> 01:06:56,638
Oh, well....
1031
01:06:58,223 --> 01:07:00,225
My children are terrified of Glynnis.
1032
01:07:00,391 --> 01:07:01,518
Me too.
1033
01:07:05,021 --> 01:07:08,024
-So the gun range?
-Oh, we were-- I'm working on--
1034
01:07:08,191 --> 01:07:09,734
-Do you know the Zodiac?
-Yeah.
1035
01:07:09,901 --> 01:07:12,070
I'm working with--
You know who Paul Avery is?
1036
01:07:12,237 --> 01:07:15,073
-Sounds familiar.
-He's the writer the Zodiac threatened.
1037
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,952
-Oh, yeah, I saw that on TV.
-Well, I work near him...
1038
01:07:19,118 --> 01:07:23,456
...and he was going down tonight to
track an anonymous tipster in Riverside.
1039
01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:25,625
Where is Riverside?
1040
01:07:26,334 --> 01:07:27,752
It's near L.A.
1041
01:07:27,919 --> 01:07:31,756
Oh, wow. I don't think Paul knows
that it's that far away.
1042
01:07:33,591 --> 01:07:35,552
Sounds kind of dangerous.
1043
01:07:36,803 --> 01:07:39,806
Yeah. How do you mean?
1044
01:07:39,973 --> 01:07:42,225
Well, you said it was
an anonymous tip, right?
1045
01:07:42,392 --> 01:07:43,726
Yeah.
1046
01:07:43,893 --> 01:07:47,730
So it could be an ambush.
I mean, it could be the Zodiac.
1047
01:07:48,982 --> 01:07:51,317
Don't you think it's kind of stupid?
1048
01:07:51,484 --> 01:07:54,195
Yeah, yeah. Well, Paul has a gun.
1049
01:07:55,071 --> 01:07:56,614
Oh.
1050
01:07:57,824 --> 01:08:01,244
So do you know what's good here?
1051
01:08:02,412 --> 01:08:04,330
I've never been here before.
1052
01:08:06,541 --> 01:08:09,043
The pasta, spaghetti?
1053
01:08:10,211 --> 01:08:12,338
WAITER:
Are you ready to order yet?
1054
01:08:13,506 --> 01:08:16,175
I'll have the penne vodka,
but do it in a cream sauce.
1055
01:08:16,342 --> 01:08:17,969
WAITER:
Of course.
1056
01:08:22,849 --> 01:08:24,559
Maybe give us another minute?
1057
01:08:26,603 --> 01:08:28,187
ROBERT:
Do you have any change?
1058
01:08:28,354 --> 01:08:30,815
Oh, wait. No, wait, hold on.
1059
01:08:30,982 --> 01:08:33,901
-Nope. That's a penny.
-Do you have to make a phone call?
1060
01:08:34,068 --> 01:08:37,905
Yeah, you know, when you were
saying that the Zodiac...?
1061
01:08:38,072 --> 01:08:41,367
When you said it was dangerous,
I thought that it is dangerous, and--
1062
01:08:41,534 --> 01:08:42,577
-Stupid?
-Stupid.
1063
01:08:42,744 --> 01:08:47,874
And I just thought that I should call his
wife and just see if she's heard from him.
1064
01:08:49,876 --> 01:08:51,419
I have some change.
1065
01:09:10,355 --> 01:09:13,608
Okay. Well, she said she'd call
when she heard from him.
1066
01:09:13,775 --> 01:09:16,110
-Good.
-Yeah.
1067
01:09:16,402 --> 01:09:20,907
Melanie, I should really go home
and wait for the call.
1068
01:09:23,409 --> 01:09:26,162
Is this some sleazy plan
to get me to go home with you?
1069
01:09:27,580 --> 01:09:29,123
What? No.
1070
01:09:31,376 --> 01:09:33,586
I'll get the food to go.
1071
01:09:35,171 --> 01:09:36,506
PAUL:
Hello!
1072
01:09:52,313 --> 01:09:55,608
Hi! I'm supposed
to meet somebody here.
1073
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:04,242
[CLOCK CHIMING]
1074
01:10:13,459 --> 01:10:15,128
MELANIE:
Anything?
1075
01:10:18,214 --> 01:10:20,591
-You don't have to stay.
-Are you kidding?
1076
01:10:21,509 --> 01:10:24,470
This is the most interesting date
I've ever had.
1077
01:10:24,637 --> 01:10:26,305
[PHONE RINGS]
1078
01:10:28,850 --> 01:10:29,892
ROBERT: Paul?
-Robert?
1079
01:10:30,059 --> 01:10:31,561
-Yes.
-You sitting down?
1080
01:10:31,728 --> 01:10:34,731
-Yes.
-You're not gonna believe this.
1081
01:10:34,897 --> 01:10:36,607
-Dave.
MAN [ON TV]: In a bizarre twist...
1082
01:10:36,774 --> 01:10:38,526
...the hunted has become hunter.
1083
01:10:38,693 --> 01:10:42,405
San Francisco Chronicle reporter
and Zodiac target Paul Avery...
1084
01:10:42,572 --> 01:10:44,741
...claims to have uncovered
new information...
1085
01:10:44,907 --> 01:10:48,578
...regarding the only unsolved homicide
in Riverside County's history...
1086
01:10:48,745 --> 01:10:52,165
...a 1966 Southern California murder...
1087
01:10:52,331 --> 01:10:55,918
...that Avery now believes
was the Zodiac's first victim.
1088
01:10:56,085 --> 01:10:57,420
-What?
-He didn't call you?
1089
01:10:57,587 --> 01:11:00,089
-Hang on.
-The Riverside killer wrote to the press...
1090
01:11:00,256 --> 01:11:03,342
...letters that I took to
the Office of Questioned Documents.
1091
01:11:03,509 --> 01:11:05,428
And what did this expert tell you?
1092
01:11:05,595 --> 01:11:07,305
PAUL:
What I knew in my gut, Ron.
1093
01:11:07,472 --> 01:11:09,682
The handwriting matches Zodiac's.
1094
01:11:09,849 --> 01:11:11,893
How'd he get the evidence
out of Riverside?
1095
01:11:12,059 --> 01:11:14,353
He took it to Sherwood
without telling us.
1096
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:18,232
-You know how bad this looks?
-How do we know that this lead is real?
1097
01:11:18,399 --> 01:11:22,862
It's very real. You know how I know?
Because I saw it on TV.
1098
01:11:24,322 --> 01:11:27,700
November 18, 1970
1099
01:11:29,202 --> 01:11:31,496
Dave? Hi.
1100
01:11:31,662 --> 01:11:34,123
You know Mel Nicolai.
He's working the case.
1101
01:11:34,290 --> 01:11:35,625
Good to see you again, Mel.
1102
01:11:35,792 --> 01:11:39,086
Can someone explain to me why
I'm reading about breaks in this case...
1103
01:11:39,253 --> 01:11:41,255
...instead of getting calls from you?
1104
01:11:41,422 --> 01:11:43,007
-We got screwed.
NARLOW: Dave, come on.
1105
01:11:43,174 --> 01:11:45,593
You do get your name in the paper a lot.
People talk.
1106
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,805
I don't ever talk about an open
investigation, period. Okay, Ken?
1107
01:11:48,971 --> 01:11:52,350
Dave? Hey. Hi. Paul Avery.
1108
01:11:52,517 --> 01:11:56,521
-Can I catch a ride with you gents--?
-Not a good idea, Paul.
1109
01:11:56,687 --> 01:12:00,233
He's gonna make me take a cab
when we're going to the same place.
1110
01:12:00,399 --> 01:12:02,735
WOMAN [OVER SPEAKER]: Ladies and
gentlemen, thank you for choosing PSA.
1111
01:12:02,902 --> 01:12:05,238
-Fair enough. Fair enough.
-Please take your seats.
1112
01:12:05,404 --> 01:12:07,907
Remember, smoking
is in the last six aisles only.
1113
01:12:08,074 --> 01:12:10,201
Enjoy your flight.
1114
01:12:13,246 --> 01:12:15,915
MAN: Cheri Jo Bates
attended Riverside Community College.
1115
01:12:16,082 --> 01:12:19,293
She studies in the library
the night of October 30th, 1966.
1116
01:12:19,418 --> 01:12:20,753
2 hours later - Riverside, CA
1117
01:12:20,878 --> 01:12:24,131
She leaves with an unidentified male
at closing, 9 p.m.
1118
01:12:24,298 --> 01:12:28,261
Her body's found the next morning
in a parking lot, stabbed to death.
1119
01:12:28,427 --> 01:12:31,764
A typewritten confession was sent
to the Riverside Press-Enterprise...
1120
01:12:31,931 --> 01:12:34,433
...on November 29th,
a month after Bates' murder.
1121
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:36,269
They ran it.
1122
01:12:38,020 --> 01:12:40,857
NARLOW: "I'm not sick. I am insane.
But that will not stop the game.
1123
01:12:41,023 --> 01:12:43,109
This should be published
for all to read."
1124
01:12:43,276 --> 01:12:46,487
He wants to be published. He calls it
a game. This could be our boy.
1125
01:12:46,654 --> 01:12:49,657
Six months later, the police,
the girl's father and the paper...
1126
01:12:49,824 --> 01:12:51,784
...they all received these.
1127
01:12:56,414 --> 01:12:58,457
Double postage, just like Zodiac.
1128
01:12:59,834 --> 01:13:02,712
These are what Sherwood Morrill
matched to the Zodiac letters?
1129
01:13:02,879 --> 01:13:04,589
These and the desktop. Don.
1130
01:13:04,755 --> 01:13:09,552
This was found a couple of months later
by a janitor in RCC storage.
1131
01:13:18,477 --> 01:13:21,856
MEL: Sherwood got a handwriting match
off wood?
1132
01:13:22,773 --> 01:13:24,817
Who etches in their own handwriting?
1133
01:13:24,984 --> 01:13:28,529
To be honest with you, our letters
and your letters, I don't see it.
1134
01:13:28,696 --> 01:13:31,532
How did Paul Avery
get his hands on the exemplars?
1135
01:13:31,699 --> 01:13:34,744
I gave them to him. We talked
on the phone for about an hour.
1136
01:13:34,911 --> 01:13:38,122
-And I told him you were gonna be here.
-You told him we were meeting?
1137
01:13:38,289 --> 01:13:40,708
Yeah. I also told him
we don't think this is Zodiac.
1138
01:13:40,875 --> 01:13:43,794
Okay, wait a minute.
You don't think this is Zodiac?
1139
01:13:43,961 --> 01:13:45,463
We got a guy we like for it.
1140
01:13:45,630 --> 01:13:48,507
We don't have enough to pin him yet,
but we're sure it's him.
1141
01:13:48,674 --> 01:13:51,552
If you don't think this is Zodiac,
why give anything to Avery?
1142
01:13:51,719 --> 01:13:54,347
-I'm trying to cooperate.
-That's how you cooperate...
1143
01:13:54,513 --> 01:13:56,349
...by giving information to reporters?
1144
01:13:56,515 --> 01:13:59,310
About the handwriting,
Sherwood says it's a match, right?
1145
01:13:59,477 --> 01:14:02,980
So let's just say that your guy did
Cheri Jo. He types the confession.
1146
01:14:03,147 --> 01:14:06,400
Zodiac reads it in the paper
and writes a letter taking credit for it.
1147
01:14:06,567 --> 01:14:10,613
-Now, that's something he's done before.
-Look, now you have everything we have.
1148
01:14:10,780 --> 01:14:14,116
But in my opinion,
you guys came south for nothing.
1149
01:14:14,283 --> 01:14:16,369
FUBAR, gentlemen. FUBAR.
1150
01:14:16,535 --> 01:14:19,163
I don't care what he says.
This still could be Z.
1151
01:14:19,330 --> 01:14:22,291
The problem is the entire state
already thinks it is.
1152
01:14:22,458 --> 01:14:25,544
Well, there's your press agent.
Talk to him about it.
1153
01:14:28,381 --> 01:14:30,549
PAUL: I come in peace.
I don't want trouble. Dave.
1154
01:14:30,716 --> 01:14:33,594
-I don't want to talk to you now.
-Just trying to do my job.
1155
01:14:33,761 --> 01:14:36,472
Oh, really? Well, now I can't do mine.
1156
01:14:36,639 --> 01:14:40,351
We're screwed with the amount of tips
and you freaked out the entire state.
1157
01:14:40,518 --> 01:14:43,771
I have got Napa, Vallejo,
and DOJ looking at me sideways...
1158
01:14:43,938 --> 01:14:46,565
...and Riverside's telling me
I'm on a snipe hunt!
1159
01:14:46,732 --> 01:14:48,901
Cheri Jo Bates was a gift.
I gave that to you.
1160
01:14:49,068 --> 01:14:51,153
You and Armstrong
never would have found her.
1161
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,406
This might not be Zodiac.
That matter to you?
1162
01:14:53,572 --> 01:14:56,951
That Riverside may not be able
to make a case against their suspect?
1163
01:14:57,118 --> 01:14:59,787
I'm out here, beating the bushes,
trying to draw him out.
1164
01:14:59,954 --> 01:15:02,707
-We're in this together.
-We're not in anything together.
1165
01:15:02,873 --> 01:15:05,084
-I don't want to up my circulation.
-Boy.
1166
01:15:05,251 --> 01:15:07,044
He wrote me. He threatened my life.
1167
01:15:07,211 --> 01:15:11,132
Hey, Bullitt. Been a year and a half,
you gonna catch this fucking guy or not?
1168
01:15:15,052 --> 01:15:17,263
-Go fuck yourself.
PAUL: Happily.
1169
01:15:17,430 --> 01:15:19,432
You should have called me, Paul.
1170
01:15:21,809 --> 01:15:23,269
[TIRES SCREECH]
1171
01:15:24,979 --> 01:15:26,647
Thank you.
1172
01:15:39,285 --> 01:15:41,120
ARMSTRONG: Did you see this?
-Unfortunately.
1173
01:15:41,287 --> 01:15:44,123
Here comes every lunatic in California.
1174
01:15:44,957 --> 01:15:47,835
-I'm the Zodiac.
-And how did you kill your victims?
1175
01:15:48,002 --> 01:15:50,880
With a gun. No, with a hammer.
1176
01:15:51,047 --> 01:15:53,966
All I'm authorized to say
is he's under government employment.
1177
01:15:54,133 --> 01:15:56,969
-And who authorized you?
-That's all I'm authorized to say.
1178
01:15:57,136 --> 01:15:59,221
MAN 1:
Only a little rat bastard like Andre...
1179
01:15:59,388 --> 01:16:01,682
...could have cut off
all the victims' hands.
1180
01:16:01,849 --> 01:16:04,101
Zodiac didn't cut off
any of the victims' hands.
1181
01:16:04,268 --> 01:16:05,978
-Are you sure?
-Yes, sir.
1182
01:16:06,145 --> 01:16:08,731
MAN 2: Travis and I work here
side by side for 10 years.
1183
01:16:08,898 --> 01:16:12,568
His foot gets crushed in an accident
and the killings begin.
1184
01:16:12,735 --> 01:16:13,903
Coincidence?
1185
01:16:14,070 --> 01:16:16,489
-I don't know.
-You're a cop, man. Do the math.
1186
01:16:20,951 --> 01:16:24,246
Have you considered the killer
might be Paul Avery?
1187
01:16:24,413 --> 01:16:25,623
Frequently.
1188
01:16:26,082 --> 01:16:27,875
MAN 3: He was drinking Coors,
getting a load on.
1189
01:16:28,042 --> 01:16:31,253
Starts talking about hunting people.
Like that book.
1190
01:16:31,420 --> 01:16:35,424
Says how you can put a light at the end
of a gun to use as a sight in the dark.
1191
01:16:35,591 --> 01:16:36,842
He said that?
1192
01:16:37,051 --> 01:16:38,511
8 months later - Torrance, CA
July 26, 1971
1193
01:16:38,636 --> 01:16:40,554
Yeah. So I asked him,
"How would you get away with it?"
1194
01:16:40,721 --> 01:16:44,683
And he said, "It would be easy because
there'd be no real motive to the thing."
1195
01:16:44,850 --> 01:16:48,687
He said he'd write letters to the police,
call himself Zodiac to mess with them.
1196
01:16:48,854 --> 01:16:52,733
-Leigh liked messing with people.
-You're positive he said, "Zodiac"?
1197
01:16:52,900 --> 01:16:56,529
Yeah. I thought it was a stupid name.
So I told him.
1198
01:16:56,695 --> 01:16:59,532
He got up all upset and said,
"I don't care what you think.
1199
01:16:59,698 --> 01:17:02,868
I've thought about it a long time.
That's the name I'm gonna use."
1200
01:17:03,035 --> 01:17:06,247
Did you feel like he'd been
thinking about it a long time?
1201
01:17:06,413 --> 01:17:09,708
He was raw about losing his job
at the school.
1202
01:17:09,875 --> 01:17:12,837
He talked about shooting out
the tires of a school bus...
1203
01:17:13,003 --> 01:17:15,297
...and picking off the "little darlings."
1204
01:17:15,464 --> 01:17:19,135
-He actually used those words?
DON: That's what made me remember.
1205
01:17:19,301 --> 01:17:23,848
Afterwards, I told my wife I didn't wanna
see him again. And I haven't since.
1206
01:17:24,014 --> 01:17:26,183
Other thing is, Leigh's into skin diving.
1207
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:28,727
He's been up to that lake
a bunch of times.
1208
01:17:28,894 --> 01:17:31,105
Lake Berryessa?
Did you ever go with him?
1209
01:17:31,272 --> 01:17:34,859
Couple times. We went fishing
by Putah Creek near there.
1210
01:17:35,025 --> 01:17:39,155
-Tell him when you put it together.
-About a year ago, in the paper...
1211
01:17:39,321 --> 01:17:41,699
...there was a story about the Zodiac.
1212
01:17:41,866 --> 01:17:44,535
And it all comes back.
I tried to call the local cops--
1213
01:17:44,702 --> 01:17:47,705
-Blew him off. Thought he was a nut.
-And you're sure...
1214
01:17:47,872 --> 01:17:50,207
...the conversation you had
about Zodiac...
1215
01:17:50,374 --> 01:17:54,253
...took place on January 1st, 1968?
1216
01:17:54,420 --> 01:17:56,005
It couldn't have been any later.
1217
01:17:56,172 --> 01:18:00,968
I started a new job in L.A.
on January 20th. I had to move.
1218
01:18:01,135 --> 01:18:03,637
TOSCHI: This is my problem. This guy....
ARMSTRONG: Arthur Leigh Allen?
1219
01:18:03,804 --> 01:18:07,808
This guy just lays out his entire evil plan
to a fishing buddy on New Year's Day?
1220
01:18:07,975 --> 01:18:10,269
I don't know. He's angry.
He's been drinking.
1221
01:18:10,436 --> 01:18:12,938
Been thinking about it for a while.
I can buy that.
1222
01:18:13,105 --> 01:18:15,357
So why didn't Cheney
contact us sooner?
1223
01:18:15,524 --> 01:18:17,026
I checked. He did.
1224
01:18:17,193 --> 01:18:20,321
First recorded contact with
the police department about Allen...
1225
01:18:20,487 --> 01:18:24,074
...was in Pomona, January 10th, 1970.
He just got lost in the shuffle.
1226
01:18:24,241 --> 01:18:27,328
Did Cheney have anything against Allen?
Did Allen screw his wife?
1227
01:18:27,494 --> 01:18:32,249
We're gonna do a full background check.
But I gotta tell you, I like this guy.
1228
01:18:32,833 --> 01:18:35,002
So let's pull some handwriting samples.
1229
01:18:36,503 --> 01:18:39,798
Hi. I talked to Sherwood.
He got the samples.
1230
01:18:39,965 --> 01:18:42,384
-What are you having?
-BLT.
1231
01:18:44,261 --> 01:18:47,097
The check stubs are a wash.
There's not enough handwriting.
1232
01:18:47,264 --> 01:18:49,934
The application's got more,
but he can't rule him in.
1233
01:18:50,100 --> 01:18:51,769
But he can't rule him out, either.
1234
01:18:51,936 --> 01:18:55,272
-Well, that's vague.
-He needs more samples.
1235
01:18:55,814 --> 01:19:00,319
Also, our guy is a pervert. When Mel got
the application from Valley Springs...
1236
01:19:00,486 --> 01:19:03,155
...they told him Allen had been fired
for touching kids.
1237
01:19:03,322 --> 01:19:06,408
-"Touching"?
-Polite euphemism.
1238
01:19:07,159 --> 01:19:10,412
-So, what do you wanna do?
-Make some phone calls.
1239
01:19:10,579 --> 01:19:12,915
-Are you done with the fries?
-Go ahead.
1240
01:19:13,082 --> 01:19:15,751
ARMSTRONG [OVER PHONE]: Did you
have a chance to look at the copies...
1241
01:19:15,918 --> 01:19:17,002
...of the Zodiac letters we sent?
1242
01:19:17,169 --> 01:19:19,588
SANDY: Yeah. Some of this stuff
is pretty creepy.
1243
01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:23,050
-Yeah, we know.
-I mean creepy like Leigh.
1244
01:19:23,217 --> 01:19:25,844
He misspells words like that.
He thinks it's funny.
1245
01:19:26,011 --> 01:19:27,471
What about the handwriting?
1246
01:19:27,638 --> 01:19:30,432
I don't know.
Don't you have experts for that stuff?
1247
01:19:30,599 --> 01:19:33,602
Our man at Questioned Documents
says it's inconclusive.
1248
01:19:33,769 --> 01:19:35,688
Maybe he did it with his other hand.
1249
01:19:35,854 --> 01:19:39,692
The letters are too neat for someone
to have written with the wrong hand.
1250
01:19:39,858 --> 01:19:42,278
-But not for Leigh, right?
-What do you mean?
1251
01:19:42,444 --> 01:19:46,991
He's ambidextrous. He can write with
either hand. Didn't you guys know that?
1252
01:19:47,157 --> 01:19:49,493
ARMSTRONG:
In everyday life, Allen uses his left hand.
1253
01:19:49,660 --> 01:19:52,496
Job applications, letters to friends,
et cetera.
1254
01:19:52,663 --> 01:19:55,332
But he writes the Zodiac letters
with his right hand...
1255
01:19:55,499 --> 01:19:59,128
...producing a different handwriting
that he can't be linked to.
1256
01:19:59,295 --> 01:20:01,547
-We gotta see this guy, chief.
-Where is he?
1257
01:20:01,714 --> 01:20:05,467
Vallejo. He works at Union Oil in Pinole.
His brother's up there too.
1258
01:20:05,634 --> 01:20:09,388
See them both. Make sure
you call Mulanax. It is his backyard.
1259
01:20:09,555 --> 01:20:12,599
Oh, right, because that worked so well
for us in Riverside.
1260
01:20:12,891 --> 01:20:15,394
Cooperation, that's us, at all costs.
1261
01:20:18,188 --> 01:20:22,401
1 day later - Rodeo, CA
August 4, 1971
1262
01:20:25,404 --> 01:20:27,031
FOREMAN:
You can talk to him in here.
1263
01:20:27,197 --> 01:20:29,742
Coke machine's busted, by the way.
1264
01:20:30,326 --> 01:20:32,286
I'll go get him for you.
1265
01:20:33,495 --> 01:20:35,789
So how do you guys wanna do this?
1266
01:20:35,956 --> 01:20:38,792
Well, Bill talked to the informants.
He leads, we follow?
1267
01:20:39,585 --> 01:20:41,337
It's okay by me.
1268
01:20:55,100 --> 01:20:58,771
Mr. Allen, I'm Inspector Bill Armstrong.
This is Inspector Dave Toschi...
1269
01:20:58,937 --> 01:21:00,606
...and Sergeant Jack Mulanax.
1270
01:21:00,773 --> 01:21:04,943
We're investigating the Zodiac murders
in San Francisco and Vallejo.
1271
01:21:05,444 --> 01:21:07,154
Please sit down.
1272
01:21:15,746 --> 01:21:18,457
ARMSTRONG: The informant notified us
you made certain statements...
1273
01:21:18,624 --> 01:21:21,126
...eleven months prior
to the first Zodiac murder.
1274
01:21:21,293 --> 01:21:23,796
If they're true,
they're quite incriminating.
1275
01:21:23,962 --> 01:21:26,965
-You recall having any such conversation?
-No.
1276
01:21:27,132 --> 01:21:29,760
Have you ever read or heard anything
about the Zodiac?
1277
01:21:29,927 --> 01:21:33,055
When it was first in the paper,
but I didn't follow it after.
1278
01:21:33,222 --> 01:21:34,640
ARMSTRONG:
Why not?
1279
01:21:34,807 --> 01:21:36,600
Too morbid.
1280
01:21:36,767 --> 01:21:38,852
I told all this to the other officer.
1281
01:21:39,812 --> 01:21:42,064
-Which other officer?
-From Vallejo.
1282
01:21:43,399 --> 01:21:44,983
Do you remember his name?
1283
01:21:45,150 --> 01:21:48,487
No, but it was right after
the murder at the lake.
1284
01:21:48,654 --> 01:21:51,156
And what did you tell this officer?
1285
01:21:53,075 --> 01:21:57,788
I told him that I'd gone to Salt Point
that weekend to skin dive...
1286
01:21:57,955 --> 01:22:00,666
...that I was alone
but I met a couple there.
1287
01:22:01,125 --> 01:22:03,293
I have their names at home
if you want them.
1288
01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:06,380
MULANAX: That would be great, Arthur.
-Leigh.
1289
01:22:06,547 --> 01:22:11,260
-What?
-Leigh. Nobody calls me Arthur.
1290
01:22:12,177 --> 01:22:15,347
Also, that day when I came home,
my neighbor saw me.
1291
01:22:15,514 --> 01:22:19,518
It was around 4.
But I forgot to tell the other officer that.
1292
01:22:19,685 --> 01:22:22,354
ARMSTRONG: Neighbor's name?
-Bill White.
1293
01:22:23,522 --> 01:22:25,441
He died a week or so afterwards.
1294
01:22:25,607 --> 01:22:28,986
Heart attack.
So I didn't think to call to follow up.
1295
01:22:30,904 --> 01:22:33,365
The knives I had in my car
with the blood on them...
1296
01:22:33,532 --> 01:22:36,368
...that blood came from a chicken
that I killed for dinner.
1297
01:22:39,705 --> 01:22:42,416
-What?
-I had knives in my car that weekend.
1298
01:22:42,583 --> 01:22:46,920
Maybe Bill saw them
and called the other officer on me.
1299
01:22:47,629 --> 01:22:50,048
Well, we'll be checking in on that.
1300
01:22:50,215 --> 01:22:52,092
Well, let me ask you something else.
1301
01:22:52,259 --> 01:22:56,638
Were you ever in Southern California
at any time in 1966?
1302
01:22:56,805 --> 01:22:58,849
LEIGH:
Is this about the Riverside killing?
1303
01:22:59,016 --> 01:23:00,726
MULANAX:
Yes.
1304
01:23:00,893 --> 01:23:04,688
Well, I guess I was there around that
time. I used to go down there a lot.
1305
01:23:04,855 --> 01:23:07,191
I like the auto races.
1306
01:23:10,861 --> 01:23:13,280
Informant says
that you're ambidextrous?
1307
01:23:13,447 --> 01:23:15,199
No, that's untrue.
1308
01:23:15,365 --> 01:23:17,743
You can't write with both hands?
1309
01:23:18,911 --> 01:23:21,205
My teachers tried to make me
when I was a kid...
1310
01:23:21,371 --> 01:23:24,041
...but I couldn't. I'm left-handed.
1311
01:23:24,208 --> 01:23:27,628
He also said that you made statements
about killing school children.
1312
01:23:29,129 --> 01:23:31,381
That is-- That is horrible.
1313
01:23:31,548 --> 01:23:33,967
That is-- That's a horrible thing to say.
1314
01:23:34,134 --> 01:23:37,262
So you weren't angry
about being fired from Valley Springs...
1315
01:23:37,429 --> 01:23:39,389
...for touching your students?
1316
01:23:48,941 --> 01:23:51,276
I'm not the Zodiac.
1317
01:23:51,652 --> 01:23:54,863
And if I was,
I certainly wouldn't tell you.
1318
01:23:57,157 --> 01:23:59,409
That's a nice watch.
1319
01:24:00,452 --> 01:24:02,538
-Thank you.
TOSCHI: May I see it?
1320
01:24:04,998 --> 01:24:06,667
May I see it?
1321
01:24:17,886 --> 01:24:19,429
Where'd you get it?
1322
01:24:19,596 --> 01:24:22,558
LEIGH: A Christmas gift
from my mother two years ago.
1323
01:24:22,724 --> 01:24:24,142
TOSCHI:
That's very sweet.
1324
01:24:24,351 --> 01:24:28,021
So tell me something, Arthur.
You don't remember anyone...
1325
01:24:28,188 --> 01:24:31,858
...you might have had a conversation
with regarding Zodiac?
1326
01:24:33,485 --> 01:24:39,783
Maybe Ted Kidder or Phil Tucker
at Vallejo Recreation.
1327
01:24:40,033 --> 01:24:43,996
But I couldn't be positive.
I used to work there--
1328
01:24:44,162 --> 01:24:45,289
Oh.
1329
01:24:47,833 --> 01:24:50,419
The Most Dangerous Game.
1330
01:24:51,378 --> 01:24:53,338
-What?
-The Most Dangerous Game.
1331
01:24:53,505 --> 01:24:57,009
That's why you're here, isn't it?
It was my favorite book in high school.
1332
01:24:57,175 --> 01:25:00,679
It's about this man who waits for people
to get shipwrecked on his island.
1333
01:25:00,846 --> 01:25:04,182
He was tired of hunting animals,
he hunted people for the challenge.
1334
01:25:04,349 --> 01:25:07,686
And "Man is the most dangerous
animal of all"?
1335
01:25:08,562 --> 01:25:10,689
That's the whole point of the story.
1336
01:25:11,690 --> 01:25:13,066
Great book.
1337
01:25:14,276 --> 01:25:16,778
Or at least that's what I told Phil.
1338
01:25:16,945 --> 01:25:19,031
[BUZZER SOUNDS]
1339
01:25:22,534 --> 01:25:24,411
May I go?
1340
01:25:27,456 --> 01:25:28,832
Sure.
1341
01:25:33,378 --> 01:25:37,215
-Thanks for your time.
-I'm willing to help in any way possible.
1342
01:25:37,758 --> 01:25:39,635
I look forward to the day...
1343
01:25:39,801 --> 01:25:43,555
...when police officers
are no longer referred to as "pigs."
1344
01:25:44,348 --> 01:25:46,058
Thanks.
1345
01:25:46,642 --> 01:25:48,143
We'll be in touch.
1346
01:26:00,072 --> 01:26:03,784
So does anyone think this suspect
warrants further investigation?
1347
01:26:04,117 --> 01:26:07,162
ARMSTRONG: These are copies of some
of the Zodiac letters that were sent.
1348
01:26:07,287 --> 01:26:08,580
10 hours later - Vallejo, CA
1349
01:26:08,705 --> 01:26:10,499
We'd like you to take a look at them.
1350
01:26:10,999 --> 01:26:13,043
You think my brother's the Zodiac.
1351
01:26:13,210 --> 01:26:16,463
TOSCHI: Well, we're looking at him.
-Are you going to arrest him?
1352
01:26:16,630 --> 01:26:20,425
Mrs. Allen, we don't arrest people
just because we're interested in them.
1353
01:26:20,592 --> 01:26:24,262
-Well, Leigh's always been troubled.
-Is it true about the children?
1354
01:26:24,930 --> 01:26:28,850
Unfortunately. We don't see him much
anymore since we found out.
1355
01:26:29,017 --> 01:26:31,269
What are your feelings
about Don Cheney?
1356
01:26:31,436 --> 01:26:34,731
Don Cheney? My old roommate?
Was he the one who contacted you?
1357
01:26:34,898 --> 01:26:38,193
-That's confidential.
-Well, Don's a very reliable guy.
1358
01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:41,530
If he were to tell you something,
I'd believe it to be true.
1359
01:26:41,697 --> 01:26:42,906
-This one.
-What about it?
1360
01:26:43,073 --> 01:26:45,075
Here, he spells Christmas
with two S's.
1361
01:26:45,242 --> 01:26:49,287
{\an8}We got a Christmas card from Leigh
years ago. He spelled it the same way.
1362
01:26:49,454 --> 01:26:51,832
-"Christ-mass."
-Would you still have that?
1363
01:26:51,998 --> 01:26:54,751
CATHERINE: I can look for it.
-Thank you. That'd be great.
1364
01:26:56,294 --> 01:26:58,296
Is there anything else
we can do to help?
1365
01:26:58,463 --> 01:27:01,299
TOSCHI: Brother said he'd search Leigh's
apartment next time he went.
1366
01:27:01,466 --> 01:27:03,802
-Gets you around the warrant.
-For the time being.
1367
01:27:03,969 --> 01:27:05,303
If we do find something...
1368
01:27:05,470 --> 01:27:08,557
...Mulanax will go to the DA
and we could search the place properly.
1369
01:27:08,724 --> 01:27:09,850
[PHONE RINGS]
1370
01:27:10,016 --> 01:27:13,228
I talked to the cop who interviewed Allen
two days after the Berryessa murders.
1371
01:27:13,395 --> 01:27:17,107
Doesn't remember how he got onto him,
but didn't think he looked like a killer...
1372
01:27:17,274 --> 01:27:19,443
-...so he didn't like him for Z.
-But you do?
1373
01:27:19,609 --> 01:27:22,863
-I wish I could've taken the guy in there.
LEE: Take it slow, Dave.
1374
01:27:23,029 --> 01:27:26,533
Find more stuff for Sherwood. A match
will get us farther on the warrants.
1375
01:27:26,700 --> 01:27:29,703
-Avery's on 2.
-Tell him to screw.
1376
01:27:29,870 --> 01:27:33,832
You want me to communicate
that verbatim or can I spice it up a little?
1377
01:27:41,423 --> 01:27:44,342
This suspect is not your Zodiac.
1378
01:27:45,719 --> 01:27:48,597
This sample matches the canceled
checks and the application?
1379
01:27:48,764 --> 01:27:50,307
Mm-hm. Perfectly.
1380
01:27:50,474 --> 01:27:53,393
So we've retested the left hand.
We know he's ambidextrous.
1381
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:56,062
In 38 years, I've never seen anyone
that ambidextrous.
1382
01:27:56,229 --> 01:27:58,190
Both hands would have commonalities.
1383
01:27:59,232 --> 01:28:02,235
I'm sorry. Just not gonna work.
1384
01:28:02,402 --> 01:28:04,362
[PHONE RINGS]
1385
01:28:04,571 --> 01:28:06,907
TOSCHI: Homicide, Toschi.
-Dave, it's Jack Mulanax.
1386
01:28:07,073 --> 01:28:09,242
Right, Mulanax. Yeah?
1387
01:28:09,409 --> 01:28:12,496
We struck out with the judge.
He won't sign off on a warrant.
1388
01:28:12,662 --> 01:28:14,331
-Why not?
-Said it wasn't enough.
1389
01:28:14,498 --> 01:28:17,292
Unless we bring him a handwriting match
or some evidence--
1390
01:28:17,459 --> 01:28:19,377
Well, how are we gonna get evidence?
1391
01:28:19,544 --> 01:28:21,254
I don't know.
1392
01:28:21,421 --> 01:28:24,800
-I truly am sorry.
TOSCHI: No, I know. I thank you, Jack.
1393
01:28:26,301 --> 01:28:28,637
-What do you wanna do?
TOSCHI: Don't know what I can do.
1394
01:28:28,804 --> 01:28:31,848
We need Allen's right hand.
We can't get it without a warrant.
1395
01:28:32,015 --> 01:28:34,142
Are there other guys
you should be looking at?
1396
01:28:34,309 --> 01:28:37,562
-Only, what...?
-Twenty-three hundred?
1397
01:28:38,188 --> 01:28:39,648
Okay, then.
1398
01:28:42,901 --> 01:28:44,444
Okay, then.
1399
01:29:11,930 --> 01:29:14,641
TEMPLETON: Paul, you wrote
the Justice Department...
1400
01:29:14,808 --> 01:29:18,353
...asking to be put in charge
of the Zodiac investigation?
1401
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:20,230
1 year later - San Francisco, CA
1402
01:29:20,397 --> 01:29:22,983
-I merely suggested--
-On our letterhead?
1403
01:29:23,149 --> 01:29:27,112
--that those with knowledge of the case
create an information clearinghouse...
1404
01:29:27,279 --> 01:29:29,614
...to promote an exchange
and free flow of ideas.
1405
01:29:29,781 --> 01:29:32,576
-And that you run it.
-Well, who better than me?
1406
01:29:33,869 --> 01:29:35,120
The marked man.
1407
01:29:36,121 --> 01:29:39,833
Paul, if you wanna work here,
I need three things: One, stop boozing.
1408
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:43,003
Two, stop doing whatever else
it is you're doing.
1409
01:29:43,169 --> 01:29:46,423
And three, cut this nonsense out.
1410
01:29:46,590 --> 01:29:49,759
Sweetest of Templetons,
if at any time...
1411
01:29:49,926 --> 01:29:55,140
...you feel my excellent work is no longer
in step with this trashy provincial rag...
1412
01:29:55,307 --> 01:29:56,892
...I'll more than happily--
1413
01:29:57,058 --> 01:30:00,186
More than happily decamp
for greener pastures.
1414
01:30:00,353 --> 01:30:02,188
Paul, I mean it.
1415
01:30:12,324 --> 01:30:14,200
-Paul?
-Yep?
1416
01:30:14,408 --> 01:30:15,869
What was that?
1417
01:30:16,036 --> 01:30:18,412
An editorial tête-à-tête.
1418
01:30:18,580 --> 01:30:20,749
-Wanna grab a drink?
-It's 10 in the morning.
1419
01:30:20,916 --> 01:30:25,629
-Late breakfast? Early lunch, or....
-Paul.
1420
01:30:28,340 --> 01:30:30,008
Are you okay?
1421
01:30:30,717 --> 01:30:32,052
No.
1422
01:30:35,180 --> 01:30:37,015
Thank you for asking.
1423
01:30:39,309 --> 01:30:40,477
-Shorty!
SHORTY: Yes?
1424
01:30:40,644 --> 01:30:43,563
PAUL: Let's go out for one.
-Paul, where are you going?
1425
01:30:45,315 --> 01:30:47,233
CATHERINE:
So you moved off my brother-in-law?
1426
01:30:48,109 --> 01:30:50,195
We couldn't get a warrant.
1427
01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:51,445
September 7, 1972 - Vallejo, CA
1428
01:30:51,613 --> 01:30:55,033
Last year we arranged for Leigh
to get help from a social worker.
1429
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:59,871
He only went twice. We saw him
recently for the first time in nine months.
1430
01:31:00,038 --> 01:31:03,041
My mother-in-law brought him by
to see the new baby.
1431
01:31:03,208 --> 01:31:06,211
After he left,
I went to see that social worker.
1432
01:31:06,378 --> 01:31:09,339
He couldn't talk about a former patient,
so I just asked him...
1433
01:31:09,506 --> 01:31:12,133
...if he thought Leigh
was capable of killing people.
1434
01:31:12,300 --> 01:31:15,637
-Because of patient confidentiality--
-The man said yes.
1435
01:31:17,389 --> 01:31:19,349
Why hadn't you seen him
in nine months?
1436
01:31:19,516 --> 01:31:21,434
He's going to school in Santa Rosa.
1437
01:31:21,601 --> 01:31:25,063
-Santa Rosa? Where is he living?
-In his trailer.
1438
01:31:25,230 --> 01:31:26,940
-In Santa Rosa?
-Sonoma County.
1439
01:31:27,107 --> 01:31:29,317
We wouldn't have to go through
the Vallejo DA.
1440
01:31:29,483 --> 01:31:32,529
It's been 11 months
and now you wanna search his trailer?
1441
01:31:32,696 --> 01:31:34,364
If we find something, great.
1442
01:31:34,531 --> 01:31:37,701
If not, we get his prints and handwriting
samples from both hands.
1443
01:31:37,867 --> 01:31:39,911
I thought Sherwood shut you down.
1444
01:31:41,079 --> 01:31:43,248
What if I can get a second opinion?
1445
01:31:44,624 --> 01:31:47,085
I don't wanna step on Sherwood's toes.
He trained me.
1446
01:31:47,252 --> 01:31:49,963
All I need to know
is if the suspect is ambidextrous...
1447
01:31:50,130 --> 01:31:53,967
...could he possibly have written
those letters with his other hand?
1448
01:31:55,260 --> 01:31:56,428
Between you and me?
1449
01:31:56,594 --> 01:31:59,973
Because there are differing
schools of thought on this....
1450
01:32:01,683 --> 01:32:05,519
Get the samples of his other hand.
If he's the Zodiac, you'll get a match.
1451
01:32:05,687 --> 01:32:08,481
ARMSTRONG: That's the current
thinking, according to Terry Pascoe.
1452
01:32:08,648 --> 01:32:11,443
I spoke to a psychologist
who'd be willing to testify...
1453
01:32:11,609 --> 01:32:14,779
...that someone who undergoes
a personality change like Zodiac...
1454
01:32:14,946 --> 01:32:17,782
...would manifest it physically,
altering his handwriting.
1455
01:32:17,949 --> 01:32:21,535
Which is why Sherwood couldn't
get a match from Allen's samples.
1456
01:32:21,703 --> 01:32:23,872
We got Terry Pascoe,
this psychology guy...
1457
01:32:24,039 --> 01:32:26,750
...coupled with Cheney,
it could be enough for a warrant.
1458
01:32:26,916 --> 01:32:28,251
Get Cheney on the record.
1459
01:32:28,418 --> 01:32:31,004
ARMSTRONG: "--and shoot the kiddies
as they came bouncing out...
1460
01:32:31,171 --> 01:32:35,008
...and that he would
call himself 'Zodiac.'"
1461
01:32:35,175 --> 01:32:37,594
-Yes.
-And you're willing to swear to this...
1462
01:32:37,761 --> 01:32:39,679
...under oath, in superior court?
1463
01:32:39,846 --> 01:32:41,181
Without any hesitation.
1464
01:32:41,347 --> 01:32:44,601
Thank you very much, Mr. Cheney.
Thank you very much for your time.
1465
01:32:44,768 --> 01:32:46,144
Thank you.
1466
01:32:47,187 --> 01:32:50,106
JUDGE:
Well, looks like you got your man.
1467
01:32:51,274 --> 01:32:57,864
September 14, 1972 - Santa Rosa, CA
Sunset Trailer Park - Space A-7
1468
01:33:10,502 --> 01:33:13,505
Mr. Allen? This is the
Santa Rosa Police Department.
1469
01:33:13,671 --> 01:33:16,341
We have a warrant
to search your residence.
1470
01:33:27,685 --> 01:33:29,020
TOSCHI:
Hello?
1471
01:33:37,695 --> 01:33:39,572
ROY:
I'll check with the neighbors.
1472
01:33:41,199 --> 01:33:42,700
-Close the door.
-Close the door.
1473
01:33:42,867 --> 01:33:44,953
There's rodents running around.
1474
01:33:57,590 --> 01:34:00,135
Neighbor said he tore out of here
about half-hour ago.
1475
01:34:00,301 --> 01:34:03,805
-You think somebody tipped him?
-We're not leaving till he comes back.
1476
01:34:10,353 --> 01:34:11,688
I'll check the back.
1477
01:34:24,951 --> 01:34:26,703
-Jesus.
-What?
1478
01:34:26,870 --> 01:34:28,288
Squirrels.
1479
01:34:29,873 --> 01:34:31,374
Piece of work, this guy.
1480
01:34:37,338 --> 01:34:38,423
[TOSCHI WHISTLES]
1481
01:34:38,590 --> 01:34:40,884
TOSCHI: Whoa. Not one, but two
blue windbreakers.
1482
01:34:41,050 --> 01:34:44,596
ROY: Like the Stine scene?
-We'll have those checked for blood.
1483
01:34:45,722 --> 01:34:49,434
And a pair of black gloves.
1484
01:34:49,851 --> 01:34:52,937
Men's 7, just like the ones
we found in the cab.
1485
01:34:53,563 --> 01:34:55,982
Well, he's got the same size shoes
and gloves as Z.
1486
01:34:56,149 --> 01:34:58,193
Probably just a coincidence.
1487
01:34:58,359 --> 01:35:02,989
Dave, I got a gun.
Check that. Two guns.
1488
01:35:03,781 --> 01:35:06,576
Both .22s. One automatic, one revolver.
1489
01:35:06,743 --> 01:35:08,077
TOSCHI:
Well, that's interesting.
1490
01:35:08,244 --> 01:35:11,372
Because he happens to have an M-1 rifle
here in the closet.
1491
01:35:11,539 --> 01:35:14,083
For little darlings bouncing off buses.
1492
01:35:14,250 --> 01:35:15,501
[CAR APPROACHING]
1493
01:35:15,668 --> 01:35:17,128
Someone's here.
1494
01:35:24,260 --> 01:35:27,472
Hello, Arthur. Remember us?
1495
01:35:49,202 --> 01:35:51,329
-No.
-On the handwriting?
1496
01:35:51,496 --> 01:35:54,540
Ballistics, no match. Prints, no match.
Writing, no match.
1497
01:35:54,707 --> 01:35:58,670
On both hands, right? Because
we got handwriting from both his hands.
1498
01:35:58,836 --> 01:36:00,171
And neither hand matches.
1499
01:36:00,338 --> 01:36:04,008
-Forget Sherwood. Get another opinion.
-Fellas, he's not your guy.
1500
01:36:10,598 --> 01:36:12,100
TOSCHI:
Damn it.
1501
01:36:19,148 --> 01:36:20,942
Hey.
1502
01:36:21,109 --> 01:36:22,694
What do you want?
1503
01:36:22,860 --> 01:36:24,404
Time off?
1504
01:36:25,738 --> 01:36:27,323
A hug?
1505
01:36:27,740 --> 01:36:29,742
Do you know
what the worst part of this is?
1506
01:36:29,909 --> 01:36:33,663
I can't tell if I wanted it to be Allen
so bad because I thought it was him...
1507
01:36:33,830 --> 01:36:35,331
...or I want this to be over.
1508
01:36:35,498 --> 01:36:39,377
It's because you thought it was him.
And I did too.
1509
01:36:41,587 --> 01:36:43,298
You know what? Take some time off.
1510
01:36:43,464 --> 01:36:46,050
Spend some time
with your wife and the kids.
1511
01:36:46,426 --> 01:36:49,803
Go to Candlestick. See a movie.
1512
01:36:50,555 --> 01:36:52,557
MAN 1 [ON FILM]:
"To the city of San Francisco...
1513
01:36:52,724 --> 01:36:55,727
...I will enjoy killing one person
every day...
1514
01:36:55,893 --> 01:36:58,980
...until you pay me $100,000.
1515
01:36:59,147 --> 01:37:02,483
If you agree,
say so tomorrow morning...
1516
01:37:02,650 --> 01:37:05,570
...in the personal column
San Francisco Chronicle...
1517
01:37:05,737 --> 01:37:07,572
...and I will set up meeting.
1518
01:37:07,739 --> 01:37:09,574
If I do not hear from you...
1519
01:37:09,741 --> 01:37:12,910
...it will be my next pleasure
to kill a Catholic priest or a...."
1520
01:37:15,829 --> 01:37:17,749
"Scorpio."
1521
01:37:19,751 --> 01:37:21,377
MAN 2:
Who's out of their minds?
1522
01:37:21,544 --> 01:37:22,962
I've gotta get out of here.
1523
01:37:23,129 --> 01:37:26,215
MAN 1: Where the hell does he
expect me to find $100,000?
1524
01:37:26,382 --> 01:37:29,052
MAN 2: You're not thinking of
paying him, are you, Mr. Mayor?
1525
01:37:29,218 --> 01:37:33,222
MAN 1: The city of San Francisco does
not pay criminals not to commit crime.
1526
01:37:37,643 --> 01:37:39,604
MAN 1:
Chief, who's in charge of this?
1527
01:37:39,771 --> 01:37:42,231
MAN 2:
Inspector Callahan. Waiting outside.
1528
01:37:42,398 --> 01:37:44,484
[KIDS SINGING ON FILM]
1529
01:37:50,907 --> 01:37:52,617
[ROBERT CLEARS THROAT]
1530
01:37:56,454 --> 01:37:59,332
The killer gets shot in the chest.
1531
01:37:59,499 --> 01:38:02,585
-That's how the-- That's how it ends.
-Do I know you?
1532
01:38:02,752 --> 01:38:06,255
I'm Robert Graysmith.
I work at the Chronicle with Paul Avery.
1533
01:38:06,422 --> 01:38:07,881
Dave Toschi. Nice to meet you.
1534
01:38:08,049 --> 01:38:10,551
That Callahan
did a hell of a job with your case.
1535
01:38:10,718 --> 01:38:14,013
Yeah. No need for due process, right?
1536
01:38:17,642 --> 01:38:19,727
-What do you do?
-I'm a cartoonist.
1537
01:38:19,893 --> 01:38:22,230
-That's nice.
-You're gonna catch him.
1538
01:38:24,774 --> 01:38:27,402
Pal, they're already
making movies about it.
1539
01:38:40,832 --> 01:38:45,503
Four years later
1540
01:38:59,267 --> 01:39:03,354
Hi. We haven't met.
I'm Robert Graysmith.
1541
01:39:03,521 --> 01:39:05,398
I'm Duffy Jennings.
1542
01:39:05,565 --> 01:39:08,359
-Nice to meet you.
-Good to meet you, man.
1543
01:39:08,734 --> 01:39:12,029
You got a great desk. Guy who
used to work here was a great reporter.
1544
01:39:12,196 --> 01:39:16,075
Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sure he was. I mean,
it's a honor to leave the Chronicle...
1545
01:39:16,242 --> 01:39:18,536
...and go work for
the Sacramento Bee.
1546
01:39:18,703 --> 01:39:20,997
Dare to dream, right, Robert?
1547
01:39:24,834 --> 01:39:27,420
-Nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you too.
1548
01:39:27,587 --> 01:39:29,922
I'm just right down there
at the Art Department...
1549
01:39:30,089 --> 01:39:32,049
-...if you need anything, Duffy.
-Uh-huh.
1550
01:39:35,636 --> 01:39:37,513
TOSCHI:
You sure you don't want the car, Bill?
1551
01:39:37,680 --> 01:39:38,723
ARMSTRONG:
It's your turn.
1552
01:39:38,890 --> 01:39:41,975
You could just drop me off at my place
and take the car.
1553
01:39:42,143 --> 01:39:43,977
You should keep the car.
1554
01:39:44,145 --> 01:39:45,438
Yeah?
1555
01:39:46,230 --> 01:39:48,232
I'm not coming in tomorrow.
1556
01:39:50,276 --> 01:39:52,236
Why? What's up?
1557
01:39:53,237 --> 01:39:54,614
I'm done.
1558
01:39:55,781 --> 01:39:58,242
I put in for a transfer.
1559
01:40:03,915 --> 01:40:07,210
-Where?
-Looking at Fraud.
1560
01:40:09,295 --> 01:40:11,923
I can't be on call anymore.
1561
01:40:14,133 --> 01:40:17,053
I wanna see these kids grow up.
1562
01:40:17,470 --> 01:40:20,431
Hey, good for you, Bill.
1563
01:40:21,641 --> 01:40:24,644
-You'll be okay.
-Yeah. I'll be fine.
1564
01:40:26,312 --> 01:40:27,688
Hey...
1565
01:40:28,564 --> 01:40:32,568
...I'm not leaving you holding the bag
on anything, am I?
1566
01:40:33,611 --> 01:40:35,028
No.
1567
01:40:37,073 --> 01:40:38,574
Okay.
1568
01:40:38,741 --> 01:40:40,243
Hey, you know what?
1569
01:40:40,952 --> 01:40:44,956
Maybe you'll have a chance
to try your Japanese food, the raw stuff.
1570
01:40:46,123 --> 01:40:47,583
Yeah.
1571
01:41:19,615 --> 01:41:21,867
"I'm not Paul Avery."
1572
01:41:23,786 --> 01:41:26,789
The boys need to be tucked in
and the baby needs changing.
1573
01:41:26,956 --> 01:41:30,042
-I'll flip you for it.
-You wish.
1574
01:41:32,837 --> 01:41:35,840
Nobody has more Zodiac crap
than you do.
1575
01:42:03,868 --> 01:42:06,370
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
1576
01:42:14,086 --> 01:42:16,172
[CLATTERING]
1577
01:42:20,133 --> 01:42:22,553
-Are you kidding me?
-Hi, Paul.
1578
01:42:23,888 --> 01:42:26,182
Permission to come aboard.
1579
01:42:26,349 --> 01:42:29,226
Right there. You got shoes on.
This is perfect right here.
1580
01:42:29,393 --> 01:42:31,228
-That's the one.
-Okay.
1581
01:42:31,395 --> 01:42:32,813
[VIDEO GAME BEEPING]
1582
01:42:32,980 --> 01:42:34,565
See that? Mesmerizing.
1583
01:42:34,732 --> 01:42:37,777
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. My own kids
would kill me for one of those.
1584
01:42:37,943 --> 01:42:39,403
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
1585
01:42:40,196 --> 01:42:42,698
-How are you?
-Fantastic.
1586
01:42:42,865 --> 01:42:47,078
I mean, admittedly, the Bee ain't exactly
the Chron, but fuck it, right?
1587
01:42:47,244 --> 01:42:50,163
Do you want a drink?
I don't have anything blue, but I got....
1588
01:42:50,331 --> 01:42:52,416
Don't worry about that.
Don't worry about it.
1589
01:42:52,583 --> 01:42:56,087
It's no bother at all.
Nobody comes by from the old days.
1590
01:42:56,253 --> 01:42:57,505
Cheers.
1591
01:42:58,089 --> 01:43:00,466
To your health and mine.
1592
01:43:02,218 --> 01:43:04,095
Mostly mine.
1593
01:43:08,849 --> 01:43:10,893
So, um...
1594
01:43:12,478 --> 01:43:13,813
...what's new?
1595
01:43:15,815 --> 01:43:18,859
I've been thinking.
Somebody should write a book.
1596
01:43:19,026 --> 01:43:22,154
Somebody should write a fucking book,
that's for sure.
1597
01:43:22,321 --> 01:43:24,907
-About what?
-About Zodiac.
1598
01:43:25,825 --> 01:43:27,326
It's not new.
1599
01:43:27,493 --> 01:43:31,414
I've been thinking that
if you put all the information together...
1600
01:43:31,580 --> 01:43:34,583
...maybe you could jog something loose.
And I was thinking...
1601
01:43:34,750 --> 01:43:37,670
-...you know the case best.
-Yeah. That's true.
1602
01:43:37,837 --> 01:43:40,673
And you know all the players
and you have all the files.
1603
01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:43,592
-Lost them.
-You lost them?
1604
01:43:43,759 --> 01:43:47,220
Or I tossed them. I don't know.
I moved onto a boat.
1605
01:43:47,388 --> 01:43:50,474
You know that we work in
the daily business, right? As in, today?
1606
01:43:50,641 --> 01:43:52,935
What do you think
we were doing back then?
1607
01:43:54,645 --> 01:43:57,481
More people die in the East Bay commute
every three months...
1608
01:43:57,648 --> 01:43:59,150
...than that idiot ever killed.
1609
01:43:59,316 --> 01:44:03,612
He offed a few citizens and he wrote a
few letters and he faded into a footnote.
1610
01:44:09,535 --> 01:44:13,831
Not that I haven't been sitting here idly
waiting for you to drop by...
1611
01:44:13,998 --> 01:44:16,834
...and reinvigorate
my sense of purpose.
1612
01:44:18,836 --> 01:44:21,464
It was four years ago.
Let it fucking go.
1613
01:44:21,797 --> 01:44:24,925
You're wrong. It was important.
1614
01:44:26,093 --> 01:44:28,304
Then what did you ever do about it...
1615
01:44:29,346 --> 01:44:31,682
...if it was so important?
What did you ever do?
1616
01:44:31,849 --> 01:44:34,393
You hovered over my desk,
you stole from wastebaskets.
1617
01:44:34,560 --> 01:44:36,228
Am I being unkind?
1618
01:44:37,354 --> 01:44:41,609
Oh, that's right, I forgot.
You went to the library.
1619
01:44:43,527 --> 01:44:45,571
I'm sorry I bothered you.
1620
01:44:49,950 --> 01:44:52,036
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
1621
01:45:01,420 --> 01:45:02,463
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
1622
01:45:07,426 --> 01:45:09,553
-Hey, hi.
-Hi.
1623
01:45:09,720 --> 01:45:12,723
-Where you been?
-The library.
1624
01:45:21,023 --> 01:45:27,196
October 11, 1977 - San Francisco, CA
The corner of Washington and Cherry
1625
01:45:43,838 --> 01:45:45,506
Thank you.
1626
01:46:00,896 --> 01:46:04,608
-Inspector Toschi?
-Yeah? One moment, please.
1627
01:46:08,612 --> 01:46:10,656
-Hi.
-Hi.
1628
01:46:11,364 --> 01:46:13,117
We met at the movies once.
1629
01:46:13,701 --> 01:46:16,078
-It must have been magical.
-I'm Robert Graysmith.
1630
01:46:16,245 --> 01:46:19,582
I work at the Chronicle.
I was wondering if I could buy you lunch.
1631
01:46:21,417 --> 01:46:22,668
Sure, why not?
1632
01:46:22,835 --> 01:46:25,754
So you're a friend of Paul Avery's?
1633
01:46:25,921 --> 01:46:28,215
He's actually the reason I'm here.
1634
01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:31,719
I wanted to ask you about Zodiac.
1635
01:46:32,595 --> 01:46:35,639
Well, I appreciate the interest,
but we don't discuss open cases.
1636
01:46:35,806 --> 01:46:38,100
Oh, well, what's going on with it,
day-to-day?
1637
01:46:38,267 --> 01:46:40,561
We're actively pursuing all leads.
1638
01:46:40,728 --> 01:46:43,689
And you're the only one on it, right?
1639
01:46:44,148 --> 01:46:45,858
Mr. Graysmith...
1640
01:46:46,442 --> 01:46:48,444
...Zodiac hasn't written in three years.
1641
01:46:48,611 --> 01:46:51,404
You know how many murders we've had
in San Francisco since?
1642
01:46:51,572 --> 01:46:53,073
-No.
-Over 200.
1643
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:56,285
That's a lot of dead people
and grieving families that need help.
1644
01:46:56,452 --> 01:46:57,995
So nobody cares.
1645
01:46:58,162 --> 01:47:01,081
Excuse me? I care.
1646
01:47:03,416 --> 01:47:05,669
Okay. Can I show you something?
1647
01:47:08,589 --> 01:47:11,717
I've been doing research
on the first cipher.
1648
01:47:11,884 --> 01:47:16,847
Everything an amateur would need
to create it can be found in these books.
1649
01:47:17,014 --> 01:47:20,184
Now, I started thinking
that if you can track these books...
1650
01:47:20,351 --> 01:47:22,311
...then maybe you could
track the man.
1651
01:47:23,187 --> 01:47:25,940
So I remember you thought
that Zodiac was military...
1652
01:47:26,106 --> 01:47:29,693
...so I went to every base library
and I got a list of every person...
1653
01:47:29,860 --> 01:47:33,864
...who's ever checked out these books
and that's when I found this.
1654
01:47:38,702 --> 01:47:41,205
-Missing.
-It means they were stolen.
1655
01:47:41,789 --> 01:47:45,501
So almost every book on ciphers
was stolen from the Presidio Library?
1656
01:47:45,668 --> 01:47:47,753
And the Oakland Army Terminal Library.
1657
01:47:51,048 --> 01:47:54,802
Somebody didn't want a record
of ever having checked out these books.
1658
01:47:55,636 --> 01:47:57,680
Who are you again?
1659
01:47:59,390 --> 01:48:00,849
I just wanna help.
1660
01:48:04,228 --> 01:48:06,230
I can't allow you to help.
1661
01:48:06,397 --> 01:48:09,525
I can't discuss the case with you.
I can't give you information...
1662
01:48:09,692 --> 01:48:13,445
...and I certainly couldn't tell you
to go see Ken Narlow in Napa.
1663
01:48:13,612 --> 01:48:14,947
N-A-R-L-O-W.
1664
01:48:24,999 --> 01:48:29,878
I'm sorry, Mr. Graysmith,
but we don't cooperate with writers.
1665
01:48:30,045 --> 01:48:32,172
Well, I'm not a writer,
I'm a cartoonist.
1666
01:48:33,590 --> 01:48:35,759
-And Dave Toschi sent you?
-Yes.
1667
01:48:35,926 --> 01:48:37,636
-Why?
-Maybe he--
1668
01:48:37,803 --> 01:48:39,972
Maybe he thought
that I could do some good.
1669
01:48:41,390 --> 01:48:46,145
-What are you, some kind of boy scout?
-Eagle Scout, actually. First class.
1670
01:48:46,603 --> 01:48:49,565
Well, if you wanna do this,
don't let me stop you.
1671
01:48:50,858 --> 01:48:53,235
Better start with Vallejo, Jack Mulanax.
1672
01:48:53,986 --> 01:48:56,196
MULANAX:
I understand what you're trying to do...
1673
01:48:56,363 --> 01:48:58,615
...but this is an open
police investigation.
1674
01:48:58,782 --> 01:49:00,951
I'm a friend of Dave Toschi's.
1675
01:49:01,118 --> 01:49:04,121
And he said
that you might be able to help.
1676
01:49:04,621 --> 01:49:08,208
I mean, the case is dead.
Zodiac's long gone.
1677
01:49:08,375 --> 01:49:10,627
He's yesterday's news, right?
1678
01:49:11,544 --> 01:49:13,338
That's what they say.
1679
01:49:14,131 --> 01:49:16,091
So, what's the harm?
1680
01:49:16,258 --> 01:49:17,801
MULANAX:
No pens, no paper.
1681
01:49:17,968 --> 01:49:20,804
Anything that's relevant,
you better remember in your head.
1682
01:49:20,971 --> 01:49:22,306
Okay.
1683
01:49:24,308 --> 01:49:26,310
-Okay, here we go.
-Which one?
1684
01:49:26,477 --> 01:49:28,437
All of them.
There's more in the next room.
1685
01:49:28,604 --> 01:49:30,314
They're all marked
with these numbers.
1686
01:49:30,481 --> 01:49:33,566
-"243-146."
-You don't smoke, do you?
1687
01:49:33,859 --> 01:49:36,904
Once. In high school.
1688
01:49:39,406 --> 01:49:40,908
Let me see this.
1689
01:49:41,700 --> 01:49:43,619
Thank you.
1690
01:50:07,226 --> 01:50:09,269
[ROBERT MUTTERING]
1691
01:50:11,063 --> 01:50:12,731
MIKE:
Man, you really creeped us out.
1692
01:50:18,904 --> 01:50:20,572
ROBERT:
"Nine millimeter."
1693
01:50:22,699 --> 01:50:25,869
{\an8}"Said nothing and began firing."
1694
01:50:40,884 --> 01:50:44,763
"Darlene's sister, Linda.
It was all just deep breathing. George."
1695
01:50:46,098 --> 01:50:48,308
"It was a strange man. George."
1696
01:50:50,185 --> 01:50:53,355
ROBERT:
Thank you so much.
1697
01:50:53,522 --> 01:50:56,233
Oh, briefcase. Thanks.
1698
01:50:58,402 --> 01:51:00,696
-Hey, Jack.
-Hey, Bawart.
1699
01:51:00,863 --> 01:51:02,573
-Who's that?
-That's Graysmith.
1700
01:51:02,739 --> 01:51:06,118
Some cartoonist.
Thinks he's gonna solve the Zodiac.
1701
01:51:08,036 --> 01:51:09,079
Well, good for him.
1702
01:51:09,538 --> 01:51:12,166
MAN [ON RADIO]: Traffic troubles won't
be affecting very many commuters.
1703
01:51:12,332 --> 01:51:15,252
Highway 37, blocked
between Navarro and Vallejo.
1704
01:51:15,419 --> 01:51:18,671
A gasoline tanker truck
overturned tonight....
1705
01:51:39,484 --> 01:51:42,070
ROBERT: Thank you for meeting me.
TOSCHI: No. We're not meeting.
1706
01:51:42,237 --> 01:51:44,531
We're just two guys
sitting on the same bench.
1707
01:51:44,697 --> 01:51:47,284
I've got five minutes.
I've gotta get back to the Hall.
1708
01:51:47,451 --> 01:51:50,621
As far as you know, did anyone
ever get in touch with Mageau...
1709
01:51:50,787 --> 01:51:53,415
...during your investigation
and show him suspect photos?
1710
01:51:53,582 --> 01:51:54,625
Why?
1711
01:51:54,791 --> 01:51:57,710
He's the only surviving victim
who saw Zodiac without a mask.
1712
01:51:57,878 --> 01:52:00,297
No, why are you asking me?
That's Vallejo's case.
1713
01:52:00,464 --> 01:52:02,925
Paul Stine is mine.
You've got four minutes now.
1714
01:52:03,091 --> 01:52:05,552
Look, Darlene Ferrin
was being followed.
1715
01:52:05,718 --> 01:52:08,138
Mulanax says they found this guy,
a George Waters?
1716
01:52:08,305 --> 01:52:11,975
He also said a lot of admirers would come
to the restaurant where she worked.
1717
01:52:12,142 --> 01:52:13,810
-She was popular.
-Very.
1718
01:52:13,977 --> 01:52:16,980
Yeah, so she and her husband,
they move into their new house.
1719
01:52:17,147 --> 01:52:19,358
And one night,
they throw this painting party.
1720
01:52:19,524 --> 01:52:22,569
-What's a painting party?
-A party where people help you paint.
1721
01:52:22,735 --> 01:52:25,280
-Sounds like a terrible party.
-Well, supposedly...
1722
01:52:25,447 --> 01:52:27,658
...somebody who's not Waters
shows up.
1723
01:52:27,824 --> 01:52:29,493
And Darlene is terrified of him.
1724
01:52:29,660 --> 01:52:31,578
So you think that Darlene
knew Zodiac?
1725
01:52:31,744 --> 01:52:35,916
And if Zodiac knew Darlene,
then maybe Mageau knows Zodiac.
1726
01:52:36,083 --> 01:52:37,793
Maybe. But Mageau's gone.
1727
01:52:37,960 --> 01:52:41,338
If you wanna connect Darlene to Zodiac,
you'll have to find another way.
1728
01:52:41,505 --> 01:52:44,383
I have another way. Phone calls
the night of Darlene's murder.
1729
01:52:44,549 --> 01:52:47,678
-Yeah, Zodiac called the police.
-No, there were four other calls.
1730
01:52:47,844 --> 01:52:51,223
Two to Darlene's house, Darlene's
brother-in-law and father-in-law.
1731
01:52:51,390 --> 01:52:54,351
Just heavy breathing.
They started around 1:30 a.m.
1732
01:52:54,518 --> 01:52:58,063
And this was before anyone in the family
knew that Darlene had been shot.
1733
01:52:58,230 --> 01:53:00,315
-This was in the Vallejo files?
-Yeah.
1734
01:53:00,482 --> 01:53:02,609
-Goddamn it.
-It's more than just coincidence.
1735
01:53:02,775 --> 01:53:06,446
Somebody doesn't just randomly prank
phone call a victim's entire family...
1736
01:53:06,613 --> 01:53:08,448
...90 minutes after they were shot.
1737
01:53:08,615 --> 01:53:12,160
So either Zodiac shoots a random
couple, then he recognizes Darlene....
1738
01:53:12,327 --> 01:53:14,246
Or Darlene was shot on purpose.
1739
01:53:14,413 --> 01:53:18,166
Either way,
Zodiac had to have known Darlene.
1740
01:53:19,376 --> 01:53:21,712
That's good, Robert.
1741
01:53:21,878 --> 01:53:24,589
So I can't find Mageau,
maybe I can find Darlene's sister.
1742
01:53:24,756 --> 01:53:26,967
Maybe she can tell me
who this mystery man is.
1743
01:53:27,134 --> 01:53:30,304
Try that. I've got to go.
She's very cute.
1744
01:53:33,724 --> 01:53:38,061
You know, it's interesting that you should
mention Zodiac calling people at home.
1745
01:53:38,228 --> 01:53:41,231
-He did that in San Francisco once.
-What? Who did he call?
1746
01:53:41,398 --> 01:53:44,901
I can't tell you.
That's privileged information.
1747
01:53:45,736 --> 01:53:47,946
But maybe Melvin Belli could.
1748
01:53:50,907 --> 01:53:55,037
Melvin Belli.
How do I get to Melvin Belli?
1749
01:53:55,620 --> 01:53:58,123
HOUSEKEEPER: He should be along soon.
-Oh, that's all right.
1750
01:53:58,290 --> 01:54:00,709
I've really only been waiting
two hours....
1751
01:54:00,876 --> 01:54:02,669
He's usually not this late.
1752
01:54:02,835 --> 01:54:06,089
Oh, cookies. Thank you.
These look great.
1753
01:54:06,256 --> 01:54:08,133
You are here on business?
1754
01:54:08,300 --> 01:54:10,344
I'm writing a book about the Zodiac.
1755
01:54:10,510 --> 01:54:13,096
I remember that. I spoke to him.
1756
01:54:13,263 --> 01:54:17,934
-You mean to Mr. Belli about the case?
-No, to the Zodiac when he called.
1757
01:54:18,101 --> 01:54:21,146
He said he had to kill
because it was his birthday.
1758
01:54:21,313 --> 01:54:24,399
He said it....
Wait, he said it was his birthday?
1759
01:54:24,566 --> 01:54:27,444
Yes. You want something to drink?
1760
01:54:28,779 --> 01:54:30,489
When was this?
1761
01:54:31,156 --> 01:54:33,450
So many years ago.
1762
01:54:33,992 --> 01:54:38,121
Mr. Belli was away for Christmas.
Gone for a week.
1763
01:54:38,288 --> 01:54:40,749
The Zodiac called,
wanting to talk to him.
1764
01:54:40,916 --> 01:54:42,250
I said, "He is not here."
1765
01:54:42,417 --> 01:54:45,003
He said, "I have to kill.
Today is my birthday."
1766
01:54:45,170 --> 01:54:47,214
And then he hangs up.
1767
01:54:47,381 --> 01:54:48,965
Then the letter arrived.
1768
01:54:49,132 --> 01:54:53,261
So the call came before the letter
of December 20th.
1769
01:54:53,428 --> 01:54:55,222
Mr. Belli was gone for a week?
1770
01:54:55,389 --> 01:54:59,059
He came back on Christmas.
Not a good day to work.
1771
01:54:59,226 --> 01:55:00,852
So he left on the 18th.
1772
01:55:02,312 --> 01:55:05,190
-Is that helpful?
-She said it was his birthday.
1773
01:55:05,357 --> 01:55:07,984
TOSCHI: Well, you have to confirm that,
now, wouldn't you?
1774
01:55:08,151 --> 01:55:10,612
How? How?
1775
01:55:10,779 --> 01:55:13,698
Well, I never spoke to her,
but maybe my partner did.
1776
01:55:13,865 --> 01:55:16,868
-How do I get ahold of him?
-You don't. Bill wanted out of this.
1777
01:55:17,035 --> 01:55:19,162
As far as I'm concerned,
he should stay out.
1778
01:55:19,329 --> 01:55:20,455
How do I confirm it?
1779
01:55:20,622 --> 01:55:23,250
Well, if my partner did
talk to someone from Justice...
1780
01:55:23,417 --> 01:55:26,920
...they would've had to put that in
a report. That's standard procedure.
1781
01:55:27,379 --> 01:55:29,339
-Okay.
-Mel Nicolai.
1782
01:55:29,506 --> 01:55:31,758
-Thank you.
-Goodbye.
1783
01:55:31,925 --> 01:55:34,219
-I just need to confirm a date.
-Mr. Graysmith.
1784
01:55:34,386 --> 01:55:37,431
I've narrowed it down between
the 18th and the 20th of December--
1785
01:55:37,597 --> 01:55:40,934
Okay, I'll play.
Let's say this phone call did take place.
1786
01:55:41,101 --> 01:55:45,188
Let's say it really was Zodiac. Why would
he volunteer the day he was born?
1787
01:55:45,355 --> 01:55:47,190
Plus, nobody died on
December 18th...
1788
01:55:47,357 --> 01:55:50,861
...like nobody died over the weekend
he was gonna kill a dozen people...
1789
01:55:51,027 --> 01:55:53,029
...or when he was gonna
shoot school kids.
1790
01:55:53,196 --> 01:55:56,032
-He's a liar, Mr. Graysmith.
-What if he made a mistake?
1791
01:55:56,366 --> 01:56:00,662
What if he wasn't lying, if it was him?
He didn't expect a nice person to pick up.
1792
01:56:00,829 --> 01:56:02,080
What if, what if, what if?
1793
01:56:02,247 --> 01:56:05,584
Look, off the record,
Bill Armstrong checked this out.
1794
01:56:05,750 --> 01:56:08,211
We took this very seriously.
1795
01:56:08,378 --> 01:56:11,506
None of the suspects had the same
birthday as this phantom caller.
1796
01:56:11,673 --> 01:56:14,009
Bill Armstrong.
1797
01:56:19,347 --> 01:56:23,435
Can I give you a piece of advice?
You're looking in the wrong place.
1798
01:56:23,602 --> 01:56:26,480
Handwriting, fingerprints,
that's what this thing's about.
1799
01:56:26,646 --> 01:56:27,731
Stick to the evidence.
1800
01:56:28,940 --> 01:56:30,400
ROBERT:
Hey.
1801
01:56:38,283 --> 01:56:40,535
Hey. How was your day?
1802
01:56:40,702 --> 01:56:42,245
Long.
1803
01:56:46,750 --> 01:56:47,959
Who's Sherwood Morrill?
1804
01:56:48,126 --> 01:56:50,795
ROBERT: He's a handwriting expert
in Sacramento.
1805
01:56:50,962 --> 01:56:54,341
He called. He said he could meet you
tomorrow morning at 7.
1806
01:56:54,508 --> 01:56:55,842
Oh, great.
1807
01:56:56,009 --> 01:56:57,260
So you're taking off work?
1808
01:56:57,427 --> 01:56:59,554
Just an hour.
1809
01:57:00,388 --> 01:57:01,723
Sacramento's two hours away.
1810
01:57:03,808 --> 01:57:05,977
-Really?
-Yes.
1811
01:57:06,144 --> 01:57:07,646
What's this?
1812
01:57:07,812 --> 01:57:10,273
Oh, that's the-- That article.
1813
01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:13,860
"Robert Graysmith has quietly been
shopping his book about the Zodiac."
1814
01:57:14,027 --> 01:57:15,195
Yeah.
1815
01:57:15,362 --> 01:57:19,574
-It talks all about you researching Zodiac.
-Well, that's what the article's about.
1816
01:57:19,741 --> 01:57:21,743
I'm not sure we want people
to know that.
1817
01:57:21,910 --> 01:57:23,078
Why, are you embarrassed?
1818
01:57:23,245 --> 01:57:26,122
Robert, what's the one thing
we know about Zodiac?
1819
01:57:27,207 --> 01:57:28,750
He reads the Chronicle?
1820
01:57:28,917 --> 01:57:30,919
Yeah, but he's never
gonna read Herb Caen.
1821
01:57:31,086 --> 01:57:32,629
[PHONE RINGS]
1822
01:57:35,632 --> 01:57:37,801
-Hello.
MAN: Mr. Graysmith?
1823
01:57:37,968 --> 01:57:40,470
The Robert Graysmith
mentioned in the paper today?
1824
01:57:40,637 --> 01:57:41,805
Yeah?
1825
01:57:41,972 --> 01:57:44,808
I can tell you who the Zodiac is.
1826
01:57:47,519 --> 01:57:48,562
Who is this?
1827
01:57:48,728 --> 01:57:50,772
The Zodiac Killer
is obsessed with movies.
1828
01:57:50,939 --> 01:57:53,525
He recorded his murders on film.
1829
01:57:53,692 --> 01:57:56,861
I tried to tell the police,
but they wouldn't follow through on it.
1830
01:57:57,028 --> 01:58:00,448
There's a man you need to find.
His name is Bob Vaughn.
1831
01:58:00,615 --> 01:58:02,909
-Pen, pen.
-V-A-U-G-H-N.
1832
01:58:03,076 --> 01:58:04,911
He's a friend of the Zodiac's.
1833
01:58:05,078 --> 01:58:07,414
Mr. Vaughn does not know
his friend is a killer...
1834
01:58:07,581 --> 01:58:09,916
...and he's storing some film canisters
for him.
1835
01:58:10,083 --> 01:58:12,002
In these canisters is the evidence.
1836
01:58:12,168 --> 01:58:15,338
Okay, yeah, friend? Who's his friend?
1837
01:58:15,505 --> 01:58:18,675
-You have quite enough to get started.
-Oh, please.
1838
01:58:18,842 --> 01:58:22,137
The Zodiac's name is Rick Marshall.
1839
01:58:22,304 --> 01:58:23,763
[PHONE HANGS UP]
1840
01:58:25,849 --> 01:58:28,059
Your toast is burning.
1841
01:58:29,019 --> 01:58:34,566
We choose at some point in our lives
how to physically construct each letter.
1842
01:58:34,733 --> 01:58:36,860
Once we lock that into our brains...
1843
01:58:37,027 --> 01:58:39,362
...our handwriting may change
over the years...
1844
01:58:39,529 --> 01:58:42,907
...but the moves themselves
remain unaltered. Understand?
1845
01:58:43,074 --> 01:58:44,534
Yes.
1846
01:58:45,243 --> 01:58:47,829
Except Zodiac's doesn't.
1847
01:58:49,039 --> 01:58:51,374
Specifically with his K.
1848
01:58:52,042 --> 01:58:54,794
In his first letters,
he executed the K with two strokes.
1849
01:58:54,961 --> 01:58:57,756
-Later letters, he did them with three.
-Why?
1850
01:58:57,922 --> 01:59:00,800
We don't know.
Excuse me, I gotta spray this.
1851
01:59:00,967 --> 01:59:04,054
How many suspects were cleared
through handwriting?
1852
01:59:04,220 --> 01:59:09,100
All of them. Also the print in the cab.
No match was ever found.
1853
01:59:09,267 --> 01:59:13,313
Is there any way that someone
could beat a handwriting test?
1854
01:59:13,480 --> 01:59:18,234
No. Whoever the Zodiac is,
he's not someone I cleared.
1855
01:59:18,818 --> 01:59:22,280
About a month ago, a man showed up
on my doorstep very distraught.
1856
01:59:22,572 --> 01:59:25,075
Name was Wallace Penny.
1857
01:59:25,241 --> 01:59:29,579
He said he knew who the Zodiac was.
Gave me a name.
1858
01:59:29,746 --> 01:59:32,457
-Rick, Rick somebody.
-Rick Marshall?
1859
01:59:33,917 --> 01:59:36,920
-Yeah.
-The man you talked to called me too.
1860
01:59:37,087 --> 01:59:41,716
After he left, then I checked my files.
I never cleared a Rick Marshall.
1861
01:59:44,469 --> 01:59:46,221
[PHONE RINGING]
1862
01:59:48,848 --> 01:59:50,141
Hello?
1863
01:59:50,308 --> 01:59:52,644
[BREATHING OVER PHONE]
1864
01:59:55,105 --> 01:59:56,940
Hello. Who is this?
1865
02:00:01,861 --> 02:00:03,363
[PHONE HANGS UP]
1866
02:00:06,825 --> 02:00:08,618
It's a wrong number.
1867
02:00:14,999 --> 02:00:18,002
Does the name Rick Marshall
mean anything to you?
1868
02:00:19,003 --> 02:00:22,215
-What are you after?
-What do you got?
1869
02:00:22,382 --> 02:00:27,220
Hypothetically, you just named
my favorite suspect in the whole case.
1870
02:00:27,762 --> 02:00:31,599
This is off the record. Couple years back,
I was trying to get Marshall's prints.
1871
02:00:31,766 --> 02:00:33,977
I handed him a photo.
He looks at it.
1872
02:00:34,144 --> 02:00:35,979
He's about to give it back
and he says:
1873
02:00:36,146 --> 02:00:38,565
"My goodness,
I got fingerprints all over this."
1874
02:00:38,732 --> 02:00:41,067
And he wipes them off.
1875
02:00:41,234 --> 02:00:43,111
Why didn't you test him
for handwriting?
1876
02:00:43,278 --> 02:00:45,530
Because when they finally did
run his prints...
1877
02:00:45,697 --> 02:00:48,116
...they cleared him
against the one in Stine's cab.
1878
02:00:48,283 --> 02:00:50,160
-So it's not him.
-Maybe yes, maybe no.
1879
02:00:50,326 --> 02:00:52,370
No. What do you mean?
1880
02:00:52,537 --> 02:00:54,622
Zodiac left gloves behind at the scene.
1881
02:00:54,789 --> 02:00:56,791
If he had the foresight
to bring gloves...
1882
02:00:56,958 --> 02:00:59,461
...how's he gonna accidentally
leave a print behind?
1883
02:00:59,627 --> 02:01:01,212
But it was in the victim's blood.
1884
02:01:01,379 --> 02:01:05,383
Could have been one of the bystanders or
a cop just reaches out, boom, false print.
1885
02:01:05,550 --> 02:01:07,677
But that print disqualified
2500 suspects.
1886
02:01:07,844 --> 02:01:10,597
-Which is why we used handwriting.
-But not for Marshall.
1887
02:01:10,764 --> 02:01:13,600
S.F.P.D. saw a handwritten sign
in the window of his house...
1888
02:01:13,767 --> 02:01:16,895
...decided it looked nothing like
the Z letters, so they moved on.
1889
02:01:17,061 --> 02:01:19,564
How do they know
that Rick Marshall wrote the sign?
1890
02:01:19,731 --> 02:01:21,983
My thoughts exactly.
1891
02:01:22,150 --> 02:01:24,235
Rick Marshall was a Navy man.
1892
02:01:24,402 --> 02:01:28,364
He received code training. He was also
a projectionist at a silent-film theater.
1893
02:01:28,531 --> 02:01:30,700
How do I get copies
of Marshall's handwriting?
1894
02:01:30,867 --> 02:01:35,580
Three ways. One, get a warrant, which
you can't. Two, get him to volunteer...
1895
02:01:35,747 --> 02:01:37,415
-...which he won't.
-Yeah, and three?
1896
02:01:38,875 --> 02:01:40,627
Get creative.
1897
02:01:40,794 --> 02:01:44,130
SHERWOOD [OVER PHONE]: I don't know
what to tell you. You get it, I'll analyze it.
1898
02:01:44,297 --> 02:01:47,300
-Beyond that, you're on your own.
-What about the guy who saw you?
1899
02:01:47,467 --> 02:01:48,802
The one who called me?
1900
02:01:48,968 --> 02:01:51,471
You mean Wallace Penny?
1901
02:01:51,638 --> 02:01:53,973
Yeah. Did he leave a number?
1902
02:01:57,727 --> 02:01:59,813
[PHONE RINGING]
1903
02:02:02,857 --> 02:02:06,236
WALLACE: Hello?
-Hi, this is Robert Graysmith.
1904
02:02:06,402 --> 02:02:09,489
-How did you find me?
-I need a sample of Marshall's writing.
1905
02:02:09,656 --> 02:02:10,990
I told you. Vaughn is who--
1906
02:02:11,157 --> 02:02:13,827
Mr. Penny,
if Rick Marshall is the Zodiac...
1907
02:02:13,993 --> 02:02:16,496
...I need a sample
of his handwriting to confirm it.
1908
02:02:16,663 --> 02:02:18,289
Can you help me or not?
1909
02:02:18,456 --> 02:02:19,833
[WALLACE SIGHS]
1910
02:02:19,999 --> 02:02:24,504
Rick used to draw movie posters
for the theater Vaughn worked at.
1911
02:02:24,754 --> 02:02:26,631
-I'll send one down.
-Thank you.
1912
02:02:36,391 --> 02:02:37,767
SHERWOOD:
I'll need more samples.
1913
02:02:37,934 --> 02:02:40,436
-Yeah, but is it--?
-It's as close as I've ever seen.
1914
02:02:40,603 --> 02:02:44,232
Tread lightly here. We're talking about
implicating this man as the Zodiac.
1915
02:02:44,399 --> 02:02:47,360
I can get more. I'll just find Vaughn
and I'll track down Linda.
1916
02:02:47,527 --> 02:02:50,905
I mean, Linda is Darlene's sister.
I've been to the DMV...
1917
02:02:51,072 --> 02:02:55,285
...and I talked to her parents, but still,
nobody knows where to find her.
1918
02:02:55,451 --> 02:02:59,914
Mr. Graysmith, most of the writing
matches the exemplar.
1919
02:03:00,081 --> 02:03:03,126
Though it's the part that doesn't match
that scares me the most.
1920
02:03:03,293 --> 02:03:05,378
-What do you mean?
-Well, on the poster...
1921
02:03:05,545 --> 02:03:08,882
...the one letter that absolutely,
positively does not match...
1922
02:03:09,048 --> 02:03:10,884
...is the letter K.
1923
02:03:12,468 --> 02:03:15,805
TOSCHI: You wouldn't happen to have
any Animal Crackers in there, would you?
1924
02:03:16,639 --> 02:03:20,435
WOMAN [OVER RADIO]: Unit 5,
Toschi needs to call in on a landline.
1925
02:03:28,151 --> 02:03:31,821
April 25, 1978 - San Francisco, CA
1926
02:03:31,988 --> 02:03:34,324
WOMAN [OVER PHONE]: Dispatch.
-Hey. Dave Toschi.
1927
02:03:34,490 --> 02:03:36,242
I'll connect you.
1928
02:03:36,826 --> 02:03:38,411
LEE: Dave?
-Yeah. What's up?
1929
02:03:38,578 --> 02:03:40,496
Jennings here from the Chronicle.
1930
02:03:40,663 --> 02:03:42,790
It came in this morning.
You need to see it.
1931
02:03:42,957 --> 02:03:44,000
See what?
1932
02:03:44,167 --> 02:03:46,753
The new Zodiac letter.
And it mentions you.
1933
02:03:46,920 --> 02:03:48,880
Okay, okay.
1934
02:03:50,173 --> 02:03:54,427
Shit. All right, come on.
Hall of Justice.
1935
02:03:54,677 --> 02:03:57,388
Now. Come on, come on, come on.
1936
02:03:57,555 --> 02:03:59,098
[SIREN WAILING]
1937
02:03:59,265 --> 02:04:00,600
[CAR HORN HONKS]
1938
02:04:04,103 --> 02:04:05,355
LEE:
Dave.
1939
02:04:05,939 --> 02:04:07,982
Do you have it with you?
1940
02:04:11,527 --> 02:04:13,863
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
I'm back with you.
1941
02:04:14,030 --> 02:04:16,950
Tell Herb Caen I am here,
I have always been here.
1942
02:04:17,116 --> 02:04:19,953
That city pig Toschi is good,
but I am smarter and better.
1943
02:04:20,119 --> 02:04:23,122
He will get tired, then leave me alone.
1944
02:04:23,289 --> 02:04:25,959
I'm waiting for a good movie about me.
Who will play me?
1945
02:04:26,125 --> 02:04:28,586
I'm now in control of all things."
1946
02:04:28,753 --> 02:04:31,339
These guys are from Internal Affairs.
1947
02:04:33,132 --> 02:04:35,009
We need to talk.
1948
02:04:35,176 --> 02:04:36,761
MAN [ON TV]:
Good evening. Our top story:
1949
02:04:36,928 --> 02:04:39,097
The San Francisco Police Department
has confirmed...
1950
02:04:39,263 --> 02:04:43,351
...that the man who calls himself Zodiac
and terrorized the Bay Area...
1951
02:04:43,518 --> 02:04:46,187
...has broken his silence
of 51 months.
1952
02:04:46,354 --> 02:04:48,898
In a letter claiming,
"I am back with you"...
1953
02:04:49,065 --> 02:04:52,819
...the Zodiac makes no overt threats
against the citizenry...
1954
02:04:52,986 --> 02:04:55,655
...and muses that his life
would make the best movie yet.
1955
02:04:55,822 --> 02:04:57,907
These carrots are perfect.
1956
02:04:58,491 --> 02:05:00,326
-Just go.
-This message also mentions...
1957
02:05:00,493 --> 02:05:02,912
...San Francisco Chronicle
columnist Herb Caen...
1958
02:05:03,079 --> 02:05:05,915
...and the department's
own David Toschi by name.
1959
02:05:06,082 --> 02:05:07,125
AARON:
May I be excused?
1960
02:05:07,291 --> 02:05:10,044
You have to come back
and finish what's on that plate.
1961
02:05:10,211 --> 02:05:12,880
Our team's coverage
on the cipher slayer's return...
1962
02:05:13,047 --> 02:05:15,508
...begins as Alan Freeman has more.
1963
02:05:15,675 --> 02:05:18,928
Thank you, Eric. Chronicle columnist
Armistead Maupin said...
1964
02:05:19,095 --> 02:05:21,931
...that he thinks not only
is this new letter a forgery...
1965
02:05:22,098 --> 02:05:26,269
...but it was written by the very man
trusted to hunt down this killer...
1966
02:05:26,436 --> 02:05:29,897
...David Toschi. Maupin,
a very well-respected author...
1967
02:05:30,064 --> 02:05:34,193
...has gone on record saying that
he believes Toschi wrote the letter...
1968
02:05:34,360 --> 02:05:36,279
...to drum up publicity for himself.
1969
02:05:36,446 --> 02:05:39,532
Maupin used David
as a character in his column.
1970
02:05:39,699 --> 02:05:43,036
David got a kick out of it and wrote
a couple of anonymous letters...
1971
02:05:43,202 --> 02:05:45,371
...asking for the character
to be brought back.
1972
02:05:45,538 --> 02:05:48,708
It was like writing fan mail to himself.
That's all.
1973
02:05:48,875 --> 02:05:51,044
But David did not write that letter.
1974
02:05:51,210 --> 02:05:54,213
No, I'm sure that he didn't.
I'm sure this will all blow over.
1975
02:05:54,380 --> 02:05:55,548
"Blow over"?
1976
02:05:55,715 --> 02:05:57,800
They kicked him out of Homicide.
1977
02:05:57,967 --> 02:06:01,220
They made him give his handwriting
like some common criminal.
1978
02:06:01,387 --> 02:06:04,766
-May I talk to him?
-No.
1979
02:06:04,932 --> 02:06:08,269
Can you just ask him if he ever
investigated a man named Rick Marshall?
1980
02:06:08,436 --> 02:06:10,438
Is that all you can think about?
1981
02:06:10,605 --> 02:06:14,192
Mr. Graysmith,
Maupin works at your paper. We trust--
1982
02:06:14,358 --> 02:06:16,444
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
1983
02:06:19,864 --> 02:06:23,618
-This girl, she wants music lessons?
-Dave. Dave.
1984
02:06:24,911 --> 02:06:27,246
MAN: Okay, see you later.
-I'll catch up to you.
1985
02:06:27,413 --> 02:06:29,582
You stop calling my house.
Do you understand me?
1986
02:06:29,749 --> 02:06:31,375
I need your help to find Linda.
1987
02:06:31,542 --> 02:06:34,253
-Jesus.
-Look, two seconds.
1988
02:06:35,588 --> 02:06:38,007
Look, we've been running
handwriting samples.
1989
02:06:38,174 --> 02:06:40,301
-Who's we?
-Sherwood and I.
1990
02:06:40,468 --> 02:06:43,679
Sherwood? Sherwood who was fired
from Questioned Documents?
1991
02:06:43,846 --> 02:06:46,474
-Sherwood who drinks like Paul Avery?
-He retired.
1992
02:06:46,641 --> 02:06:48,142
Is that what he told you?
1993
02:06:48,309 --> 02:06:52,271
-What, are you saying he's wrong?
-I'm saying stop calling my house.
1994
02:06:53,022 --> 02:06:54,857
-We ran them on Marshall.
-No, Robert.
1995
02:06:55,024 --> 02:06:58,653
-No, I know you don't think it's him.
-I am not having this conversation.
1996
02:06:58,820 --> 02:07:01,072
And I can't talk to Mageau or Linda,
so I'm--
1997
02:07:01,239 --> 02:07:02,782
-Robert, stop it.
-What? What?
1998
02:07:02,949 --> 02:07:06,619
The Rick Marshalls of this world
will suck you dry. They're blind alleys.
1999
02:07:06,786 --> 02:07:09,789
But he said he wasn't gonna
announce his murders anymore, Dave.
2000
02:07:09,956 --> 02:07:12,834
Do you know what the chances of us
arresting someone are now?
2001
02:07:13,000 --> 02:07:17,004
Too much time has gone by, okay?
Too much of the evidence is lost.
2002
02:07:17,171 --> 02:07:20,049
People get old, Robert. They forget.
2003
02:07:20,466 --> 02:07:24,512
Now, I have been a cop for 25 years.
Murder police for 12.
2004
02:07:24,679 --> 02:07:26,472
-What do you do?
-You know what I do.
2005
02:07:26,639 --> 02:07:29,225
-You're a cartoonist.
-So, what are you saying?
2006
02:07:29,392 --> 02:07:33,521
I am saying Zodiac was my job.
It is not yours.
2007
02:07:35,731 --> 02:07:38,151
-He's still out there.
-No, I am through with this.
2008
02:07:38,317 --> 02:07:40,403
I am through with you.
2009
02:07:46,492 --> 02:07:49,162
What about September 26, 1970?
2010
02:07:49,328 --> 02:07:50,788
DAVID:
Okay, which one was that?
2011
02:07:50,955 --> 02:07:53,332
AARON:
"Lake Tahoe Nurse Goes Missing."
2012
02:07:55,585 --> 02:07:58,963
-One day before the vernal equinox. Dad?
-Yeah. Mark that.
2013
02:07:59,130 --> 02:08:02,466
Oh, got another one. June 19th, 1971.
2014
02:08:02,633 --> 02:08:05,761
DAVID: That's gotta be
near the summer solstice.
2015
02:08:07,889 --> 02:08:12,393
Oh, guys. Don't tell Mom
about our special project, okay?
2016
02:08:13,019 --> 02:08:16,397
How come you and Mom
don't sleep in the same bed anymore?
2017
02:08:18,232 --> 02:08:20,067
[PHONE RINGS]
2018
02:08:20,568 --> 02:08:21,819
-Hello?
NARLOW: Mr. Graysmith...
2019
02:08:21,986 --> 02:08:23,196
...Ken Narlow from Napa.
2020
02:08:23,362 --> 02:08:27,366
Oh, Captain Narlow.
Thank you for calling me back.
2021
02:08:27,533 --> 02:08:29,202
Yeah. How can I help?
2022
02:08:29,368 --> 02:08:32,246
I called because we've been
cross-referencing lunar cycles...
2023
02:08:32,413 --> 02:08:33,915
...with the Zodiac's timeline.
2024
02:08:34,081 --> 02:08:37,627
More often than not, each cycle
since '69 corresponds with an attack...
2025
02:08:37,793 --> 02:08:41,047
...or with one of the letters
or an unsolved homicide.
2026
02:08:41,214 --> 02:08:44,091
-Who's working with you on this?
-Some colleagues.
2027
02:08:44,258 --> 02:08:45,468
Dad?
2028
02:08:46,427 --> 02:08:48,846
-Ken, can you hold on one second?
AARON: Dad?
2029
02:08:49,305 --> 02:08:51,307
-What is it?
AARON: What's this?
2030
02:08:55,061 --> 02:08:58,272
MAN [ON TV]: In the decade since
the Zodiac's last cipher was received...
2031
02:08:58,439 --> 02:09:01,692
...every federal agency
has taken a crack at decoding it.
2032
02:09:01,776 --> 02:09:03,027
August 9, 1979 - San Francisco, CA
2033
02:09:03,194 --> 02:09:07,156
But today, where those agencies
had failed, a cartoonist has succeeded.
2034
02:09:07,323 --> 02:09:09,617
How did you do it?
2035
02:09:09,784 --> 02:09:12,870
Just a lot of books from the library...
2036
02:09:13,037 --> 02:09:16,707
...and I love puzzles, so I just....
2037
02:09:16,874 --> 02:09:19,085
Yeah. The fucking library.
2038
02:09:19,252 --> 02:09:22,088
I believe you can accomplish anything
that you put your mind--
2039
02:09:24,924 --> 02:09:28,719
ROBERT:
That's a J? Okay. Honor Camp?
2040
02:09:29,512 --> 02:09:31,389
Thank you so much.
2041
02:09:32,932 --> 02:09:35,685
Hey, we found Linda.
She's in jail. Isn't that great?
2042
02:09:35,851 --> 02:09:37,853
-Why'd you do it?
-She'll identify Rick--
2043
02:09:38,020 --> 02:09:41,357
-What are you talking about?
-You went on TV.
2044
02:09:41,524 --> 02:09:43,526
You put yourself out there
for him to see.
2045
02:09:43,693 --> 02:09:44,777
You're being paranoid.
2046
02:09:44,944 --> 02:09:47,947
Then who's been calling our house
in the middle of the night?
2047
02:09:48,114 --> 02:09:50,241
Nobody, I--
2048
02:09:51,033 --> 02:09:54,203
-What's it gonna take for you to be done?
ROBERT: I can't talk about this.
2049
02:09:54,370 --> 02:09:55,705
I have to go see Bob Vaughn.
2050
02:09:55,871 --> 02:09:59,000
Well, that's too bad,
because we're gonna talk about this.
2051
02:09:59,166 --> 02:10:03,337
When is it gonna be finished? When
you catch him, when you arrest him?
2052
02:10:03,504 --> 02:10:05,965
-Be serious.
-I am serious.
2053
02:10:07,925 --> 02:10:12,263
I need to know who he is.
2054
02:10:12,888 --> 02:10:16,517
I need to stand there.
I need to look him in the eye...
2055
02:10:16,684 --> 02:10:19,645
...and I need to know that it's him.
2056
02:10:20,271 --> 02:10:22,648
Is that more important
than your family's safety?
2057
02:10:22,815 --> 02:10:24,942
Of course not.
2058
02:10:26,319 --> 02:10:29,280
Why? Why do you need to do this?
2059
02:10:30,323 --> 02:10:31,741
Why?
2060
02:10:33,576 --> 02:10:35,244
Because nobody else will.
2061
02:10:35,411 --> 02:10:36,912
That's not good enough.
2062
02:10:37,705 --> 02:10:39,206
Are you done? Can I go?
2063
02:10:45,504 --> 02:10:47,798
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
2064
02:10:50,092 --> 02:10:51,302
[CAR HORN HONKS]
2065
02:10:54,972 --> 02:10:57,016
-Mr. Vaughn?
-Mr. Graysmith?
2066
02:10:57,183 --> 02:10:59,518
-Yes.
-Hi. You needed to speak to me?
2067
02:10:59,685 --> 02:11:01,937
Yes. There's a coffee shop
right on the corner.
2068
02:11:02,104 --> 02:11:05,191
-Why don't we just go to my home?
-Oh, I don't wanna put you out.
2069
02:11:05,358 --> 02:11:08,110
It's no trouble at all.
Where are you parked?
2070
02:11:08,277 --> 02:11:09,362
Just right there.
2071
02:11:09,528 --> 02:11:11,197
You can follow me?
2072
02:11:11,530 --> 02:11:13,949
Oh. Okay.
2073
02:11:31,759 --> 02:11:33,427
VAUGHN:
Watch your step.
2074
02:11:37,973 --> 02:11:41,227
-Very nice house.
-Oh, thank you.
2075
02:11:41,394 --> 02:11:43,145
It's very rustic.
2076
02:11:43,312 --> 02:11:46,232
-Can I take your jacket?
-No, thank you, I'm fine.
2077
02:11:46,399 --> 02:11:49,318
Okay. This way, please.
2078
02:11:51,320 --> 02:11:52,988
-Have a seat.
-Thank you.
2079
02:11:53,155 --> 02:11:55,574
-How about some tea?
-Oh, no, I'm all right.
2080
02:11:55,741 --> 02:11:57,993
-You sure?
-Yes.
2081
02:11:58,160 --> 02:12:01,831
I wanted to ask you about a film
that the Avenue may have played...
2082
02:12:01,997 --> 02:12:06,127
...while you were the organist there,
The Most Dangerous Game?
2083
02:12:06,293 --> 02:12:09,588
It's a classic. RKO. 1932.
2084
02:12:09,755 --> 02:12:14,301
Fay Wray, Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks.
We've run that picture many times.
2085
02:12:14,468 --> 02:12:16,178
In '68, '69?
2086
02:12:17,763 --> 02:12:19,723
I'd have to check my records. Why?
2087
02:12:19,890 --> 02:12:21,809
Do you remember the Zodiac?
2088
02:12:24,270 --> 02:12:26,522
This is about Rick Marshall, isn't it?
2089
02:12:26,689 --> 02:12:30,443
-He was a projectionist there, right?
-For a time, yes.
2090
02:12:30,609 --> 02:12:34,363
But I have no occasion
to correspond with him these days.
2091
02:12:34,530 --> 02:12:36,782
Okay, well, there is a connection...
2092
02:12:36,949 --> 02:12:39,535
...between one of the Zodiac attacks
and that film.
2093
02:12:39,702 --> 02:12:41,454
You mean the symbol?
2094
02:12:42,830 --> 02:12:44,540
Hold on.
2095
02:12:44,707 --> 02:12:49,712
The Zodiac symbol on film.
It's on the countdown.
2096
02:12:52,548 --> 02:12:55,259
It's trimmed off each reel
before it's shown...
2097
02:12:55,426 --> 02:12:57,470
...but it always arrives with it.
2098
02:12:57,636 --> 02:12:59,638
Right there.
2099
02:13:00,139 --> 02:13:03,934
The first time I saw it in the papers,
I thought about that.
2100
02:13:04,435 --> 02:13:05,561
We got a tip...
2101
02:13:05,728 --> 02:13:10,149
...that Rick left a film canister here
that he told you never to open.
2102
02:13:10,316 --> 02:13:13,152
Tip about a mysterious film canister?
2103
02:13:14,153 --> 02:13:15,654
Is it true?
2104
02:13:17,406 --> 02:13:18,616
Yes.
2105
02:13:19,074 --> 02:13:21,535
-Did you open it?
-No.
2106
02:13:21,702 --> 02:13:27,249
-May I see it?
-Rick took it back in 1972.
2107
02:13:27,833 --> 02:13:32,421
This tip is how you got it in your head
that Rick is the Zodiac?
2108
02:13:32,588 --> 02:13:34,173
That and the poster.
2109
02:13:34,340 --> 02:13:36,550
The poster?
2110
02:13:37,676 --> 02:13:39,261
The poster that Rick drew.
2111
02:13:39,428 --> 02:13:42,431
The handwriting is the closest
that we have ever come to a match.
2112
02:13:42,598 --> 02:13:44,433
Rick didn't draw any posters.
2113
02:13:44,600 --> 02:13:46,060
No, he drew this one.
2114
02:13:46,227 --> 02:13:50,564
Mr. Graysmith, I do the posters myself.
2115
02:13:50,731 --> 02:13:53,108
That's my handwriting.
2116
02:14:01,116 --> 02:14:03,994
I won't take any more of your time.
2117
02:14:04,161 --> 02:14:09,500
Why don't I just go and find out
when we played that film?
2118
02:14:09,667 --> 02:14:11,043
Oh, that's all right.
2119
02:14:11,210 --> 02:14:15,297
It's not a problem.
They're just down in the basement.
2120
02:14:16,382 --> 02:14:19,468
Not many people
have basements in California.
2121
02:14:22,137 --> 02:14:23,639
I do.
2122
02:14:25,140 --> 02:14:27,476
Coming, Mr. Graysmith?
2123
02:14:38,654 --> 02:14:43,242
VAUGHN: The original studio one-sheets
I always kept for myself.
2124
02:14:44,201 --> 02:14:47,246
The cheapo knockoffs
like you brought today...
2125
02:14:47,413 --> 02:14:49,873
...I end up tossing into the back alley.
2126
02:15:04,263 --> 02:15:06,432
'69.
2127
02:15:08,934 --> 02:15:11,061
[WOOD CREAKING]
2128
02:15:11,729 --> 02:15:12,855
You live alone?
2129
02:15:13,022 --> 02:15:18,944
Uh-huh. Most Dangerous Game
ran in May '69.
2130
02:15:19,111 --> 02:15:25,451
So that would be about nine weeks
before the first Zodiac letter, correct?
2131
02:15:28,454 --> 02:15:30,122
Yeah.
2132
02:15:33,917 --> 02:15:38,005
VAUGHN: Do you think he saw the film
in our theater and was inspired?
2133
02:15:39,006 --> 02:15:42,468
[WOOD CREAKING
AND WATER TRICKLING]
2134
02:15:44,303 --> 02:15:46,764
Are you sure there's nobody else
in the house?
2135
02:15:48,724 --> 02:15:50,934
Would you like to go upstairs
and check?
2136
02:15:52,186 --> 02:15:53,896
No.
2137
02:15:56,315 --> 02:15:59,693
Thank you. Thanks for everything.
2138
02:15:59,860 --> 02:16:01,570
You're welcome.
2139
02:16:02,196 --> 02:16:04,406
[TEAPOT WHISTLING]
2140
02:16:22,633 --> 02:16:24,301
It's locked.
2141
02:16:34,812 --> 02:16:36,105
Thank you.
2142
02:16:36,730 --> 02:16:38,816
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
2143
02:16:39,191 --> 02:16:41,860
Good night, Mr. Graysmith.
2144
02:16:57,918 --> 02:16:59,920
[MUTTERING]
2145
02:17:02,131 --> 02:17:06,802
Gotta be two killers.
One has the map, the other one kills....
2146
02:17:12,808 --> 02:17:14,309
Guys?
2147
02:17:47,634 --> 02:17:49,803
You've got five minutes.
2148
02:17:57,519 --> 02:17:59,188
Linda?
2149
02:17:59,730 --> 02:18:01,648
Hi, I'm Robert.
2150
02:18:05,402 --> 02:18:07,696
Did you get my note?
2151
02:18:07,863 --> 02:18:09,907
-What's this about?
-Zodiac.
2152
02:18:11,533 --> 02:18:13,285
Figures.
2153
02:18:13,911 --> 02:18:16,413
-You got the look.
-What look?
2154
02:18:17,039 --> 02:18:19,374
I didn't mean anything.
2155
02:18:20,250 --> 02:18:22,961
Tell me about this painting party.
2156
02:18:23,587 --> 02:18:26,673
I told the cops about that so long ago.
2157
02:18:29,718 --> 02:18:33,472
Darlene always had a lot of boys around,
even though she was married.
2158
02:18:33,639 --> 02:18:36,350
And this one guy was weird, though.
2159
02:18:36,517 --> 02:18:40,354
He used to bring her presents
from Tijuana and....
2160
02:18:40,521 --> 02:18:43,106
I don't know why
she was friends with him.
2161
02:18:43,273 --> 02:18:45,526
But she once told me
he'd killed somebody.
2162
02:18:45,692 --> 02:18:47,069
Really?
2163
02:18:47,236 --> 02:18:49,571
Yeah, I think maybe
when he was in the service.
2164
02:18:49,738 --> 02:18:51,698
-Navy?
-I think so.
2165
02:18:51,865 --> 02:18:53,867
Was he into movies?
Was he a movie buff?
2166
02:18:54,034 --> 02:18:56,495
I can tell you
that he was not into people.
2167
02:18:56,662 --> 02:18:59,748
The party Darlene threw,
people were supposed to just show up...
2168
02:18:59,915 --> 02:19:01,416
...and drink beer, help paint.
2169
02:19:01,583 --> 02:19:03,585
But this guy showed up in a suit...
2170
02:19:03,752 --> 02:19:06,588
...and just sat in a chair all by himself
all night long.
2171
02:19:06,755 --> 02:19:08,340
Didn't talk to anyone.
2172
02:19:08,507 --> 02:19:11,635
And Darlene told me to stay away
from him. She was scared of him.
2173
02:19:11,802 --> 02:19:13,887
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
2174
02:19:14,596 --> 02:19:16,807
Couple weeks later, she was dead.
2175
02:19:16,974 --> 02:19:19,643
I'm sorry. Do you remember his name?
2176
02:19:20,519 --> 02:19:24,189
I mean, it was short, like a nickname.
Like Stan.
2177
02:19:24,439 --> 02:19:27,442
-Rick?
-No, I don't think so.
2178
02:19:27,609 --> 02:19:29,736
-Are you sure?
-Yeah.
2179
02:19:29,903 --> 02:19:32,406
How can you be sure?
It was long ago. Think hard.
2180
02:19:32,573 --> 02:19:33,949
I am thinking hard.
2181
02:19:34,658 --> 02:19:36,785
It was Rick.
2182
02:19:36,952 --> 02:19:39,913
-No, it wasn't.
-It was Rick. It was Rick Marshall.
2183
02:19:40,080 --> 02:19:42,457
-No.
-Just say it.
2184
02:19:42,624 --> 02:19:45,460
It wasn't Rick.
2185
02:19:52,175 --> 02:19:53,510
It was Leigh.
2186
02:19:56,805 --> 02:19:59,975
-Leigh?
-Yeah, Leigh.
2187
02:20:00,642 --> 02:20:01,977
Sounds right.
2188
02:20:06,690 --> 02:20:08,025
ROBERT:
Officer!
2189
02:20:08,191 --> 02:20:10,611
-I need you to let me in.
OFFICER: Is this an emergency?
2190
02:20:10,777 --> 02:20:12,362
ROBERT:
No, I just need to see one file.
2191
02:20:12,529 --> 02:20:15,741
You need to come back tomorrow
morning, 8 a.m., when we're open.
2192
02:20:15,908 --> 02:20:17,534
ROBERT:
Sergeant! Sergeant Mulanax!
2193
02:20:17,701 --> 02:20:21,038
Sergeant, I just need to see one file!
Just give me five minutes.
2194
02:20:21,204 --> 02:20:23,457
I know exactly where it is.
2195
02:20:24,625 --> 02:20:26,084
Please.
2196
02:20:39,139 --> 02:20:40,891
I shouldn't be talking to you.
2197
02:20:41,058 --> 02:20:43,352
-You got five minutes.
-Okay.
2198
02:20:45,145 --> 02:20:46,480
Here. Here.
2199
02:20:46,647 --> 02:20:50,233
Linda states that some of Darlene's
closest friends are Leigh...
2200
02:20:50,400 --> 02:20:53,362
...who used to bring Darlene
presents from Tijuana.
2201
02:20:53,528 --> 02:20:55,238
-So what?
-He knew her.
2202
02:20:55,405 --> 02:20:57,074
Linda said Leigh. This is Leigh.
2203
02:20:57,240 --> 02:21:01,244
No. That's just one name in a file
that contains hundreds. It's nothing.
2204
02:21:01,703 --> 02:21:04,665
-Dave Toschi--
-Agrees with me.
2205
02:21:04,831 --> 02:21:07,834
Our investigation into this subject
is over.
2206
02:21:10,629 --> 02:21:12,130
I'm sorry.
2207
02:21:14,049 --> 02:21:15,842
Oh!
2208
02:21:17,678 --> 02:21:19,471
[PHONE RINGS]
2209
02:21:21,056 --> 02:21:22,557
Hello.
2210
02:21:23,558 --> 02:21:25,352
[BREATHING OVER PHONE]
2211
02:21:30,983 --> 02:21:32,734
[FOOTSTEPS]
2212
02:21:37,364 --> 02:21:38,699
Who's there?
2213
02:21:42,244 --> 02:21:44,913
MELANIE: You didn't return my calls.
-I've been kind of busy.
2214
02:21:45,831 --> 02:21:48,291
Yeah. I can see that.
2215
02:21:49,918 --> 02:21:51,420
How's the book coming?
2216
02:21:54,756 --> 02:21:57,217
I tried to send you these.
2217
02:21:57,801 --> 02:21:59,594
I called the Chron.
2218
02:21:59,761 --> 02:22:04,099
Well, I'm not a cartoonist
anymore, so....
2219
02:22:04,266 --> 02:22:05,934
Yeah, I heard.
2220
02:22:10,522 --> 02:22:12,858
When's the last time
you ate something?
2221
02:22:15,694 --> 02:22:17,404
Nothing makes sense anymore.
2222
02:22:20,407 --> 02:22:21,908
Did it ever?
2223
02:22:22,075 --> 02:22:24,161
Yeah, it did.
2224
02:22:24,327 --> 02:22:26,705
Robert, it was just the date
that didn't end.
2225
02:22:27,706 --> 02:22:29,374
You don't mean that.
2226
02:22:30,709 --> 02:22:32,294
A little.
2227
02:22:34,838 --> 02:22:36,631
The kids miss you.
2228
02:22:36,798 --> 02:22:38,675
I can't have them see me like this.
2229
02:22:38,842 --> 02:22:42,971
Neither can I.
So do whatever you have to...
2230
02:22:43,597 --> 02:22:45,348
...but finish this.
2231
02:22:52,731 --> 02:22:54,066
[DOOR OPENS]
2232
02:22:55,901 --> 02:22:56,943
[DOOR CLOSES]
2233
02:23:06,078 --> 02:23:08,080
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
2234
02:23:11,458 --> 02:23:12,626
[KNOCKING]
2235
02:23:12,793 --> 02:23:14,544
ROBERT:
Dave.
2236
02:23:14,711 --> 02:23:16,838
Dave. It's Robert.
2237
02:23:18,632 --> 02:23:20,092
-Dave!
-Is he actually here?
2238
02:23:20,258 --> 02:23:22,010
TOSCHI:
I'm gonna kill him.
2239
02:23:22,469 --> 02:23:25,514
ROBERT: Dave.
-I'm calling S.F.P.D. Where's my gun?
2240
02:23:27,474 --> 02:23:30,393
ROBERT: Dave.
-Robert, go away.
2241
02:23:30,560 --> 02:23:33,271
-Dave, he made a mistake.
-Get away from the window.
2242
02:23:33,438 --> 02:23:36,525
ROBERT: I'll meet you around front.
TOSCHI: No, you won't.
2243
02:23:37,192 --> 02:23:39,611
ROBERT: You have to hear this.
TOSCHI: No, I don't, Robert.
2244
02:23:39,778 --> 02:23:42,239
ROBERT: The birthday was the one time
that he was weak.
2245
02:23:42,405 --> 02:23:45,283
-The one time he gave something away.
-I'm calling the police.
2246
02:23:45,450 --> 02:23:47,327
It's Arthur Leigh Allen!
2247
02:23:52,457 --> 02:23:53,875
Where did you get that name?
2248
02:23:54,793 --> 02:23:57,087
He called the Bellis' house.
December '69.
2249
02:23:57,254 --> 02:24:00,715
"I need to kill. Today's my birthday."
It was his birthday.
2250
02:24:00,882 --> 02:24:03,927
Arthur Leigh Allen
was born on December 18th.
2251
02:24:06,847 --> 02:24:08,515
Get in here.
2252
02:24:10,350 --> 02:24:13,270
-Here you go.
-Thanks.
2253
02:24:15,564 --> 02:24:17,440
He wrote me, you know?
2254
02:24:18,024 --> 02:24:22,112
2500 suspects, the only one who ever
wrote me a letter was Leigh Allen.
2255
02:24:23,822 --> 02:24:27,242
-They like to help, you know, sometimes.
-Yes, Robert, I know.
2256
02:24:28,577 --> 02:24:31,246
He was arrested January 1975
for molestation.
2257
02:24:31,413 --> 02:24:33,081
He sent me that when he got out.
2258
02:24:33,248 --> 02:24:35,959
"If I can ever be of any help to you,
just let me know.
2259
02:24:36,126 --> 02:24:39,546
I'm sorry I wasn't your man."
And it's typewritten.
2260
02:24:39,713 --> 02:24:42,382
Using a typewriter is not a crime.
2261
02:24:43,633 --> 02:24:45,802
And he knew Darlene.
2262
02:24:46,720 --> 02:24:49,014
It's in the Vallejo files.
2263
02:24:53,935 --> 02:24:57,397
Mulanax said
that he was your favorite suspect...
2264
02:24:57,564 --> 02:25:02,152
...that you spent two years on him,
and that nobody ever came close.
2265
02:25:04,446 --> 02:25:06,615
All the evidence said no.
2266
02:25:07,657 --> 02:25:09,826
Sherwood disqualified his handwriting.
2267
02:25:09,993 --> 02:25:13,163
The same Sherwood
that drinks like Paul Avery now?
2268
02:25:14,247 --> 02:25:16,499
ROBERT: Yes, you have Morrill
saying this won't work...
2269
02:25:16,666 --> 02:25:18,084
...but you also have Terry Pascoe--
2270
02:25:18,251 --> 02:25:19,753
TOSCHI: His protégé.
ROBERT: Yeah, his protégé.
2271
02:25:19,920 --> 02:25:21,671
But a handwriting expert nonetheless.
2272
02:25:21,838 --> 02:25:24,174
And he's saying,
"Do not disqualify this suspect."
2273
02:25:24,341 --> 02:25:26,009
So the two cancel each other out.
2274
02:25:26,176 --> 02:25:29,888
They don't. It was Sherwood's case. He
was the head of Questioned Documents.
2275
02:25:30,055 --> 02:25:34,309
If it went to trial, all the defense would
have to do is call Sherwood to the stand.
2276
02:25:34,476 --> 02:25:38,396
There was no way of getting Allen into
court, because there was no evidence.
2277
02:25:38,563 --> 02:25:40,899
What do you mean?
You have him with the ciphers.
2278
02:25:41,066 --> 02:25:43,276
The military boot prints.
The same size gloves.
2279
02:25:43,443 --> 02:25:46,947
The Most Dangerous Game. The watch.
The background with school children.
2280
02:25:47,113 --> 02:25:49,032
The misspellings of "Christ-mass."
Knives.
2281
02:25:49,199 --> 02:25:50,659
All circumstantial.
2282
02:25:50,825 --> 02:25:53,620
Paul Stine's shirt, his wallet, his keys.
2283
02:25:53,787 --> 02:25:57,290
We should have found one of
those things in that trailer. We didn't.
2284
02:25:57,457 --> 02:25:58,792
[ROBERT STAMMERS]
2285
02:25:59,834 --> 02:26:03,672
Catherine Allen states that Leigh cleaned
out his trailer on Friday after work...
2286
02:26:03,838 --> 02:26:07,676
...and moved it to Santa Rosa
on Saturday, August 7th, 1971.
2287
02:26:07,842 --> 02:26:11,304
You interviewed him on August 4th.
So he's cleaning out his trailer...
2288
02:26:11,471 --> 02:26:15,016
...he's moving into a different county
48 hours after you interviewed him?
2289
02:26:17,185 --> 02:26:18,353
Okay. Okay.
2290
02:26:18,520 --> 02:26:21,064
-Look at the stuff side by side, Dave.
-All right.
2291
02:26:21,231 --> 02:26:23,984
Okay, Arthur Leigh Allen and the Zodiac,
their timelines.
2292
02:26:24,150 --> 02:26:26,820
-When was the first murder in Vallejo?
-Christmas, 1968.
2293
02:26:26,987 --> 02:26:29,781
Eight months before,
Allen is fired for molesting students.
2294
02:26:29,948 --> 02:26:31,783
His family discovers he's a pedophile.
2295
02:26:31,950 --> 02:26:34,119
-When do the letters begin?
-July '69.
2296
02:26:34,286 --> 02:26:36,288
After the murder of Darlene Ferrin.
2297
02:26:36,454 --> 02:26:38,873
And they continue
until you go to see him at work.
2298
02:26:39,040 --> 02:26:42,377
After that, do any of the letters
contain swatches of Stine's shirt?
2299
02:26:42,544 --> 02:26:45,547
No, he dumped them. He got scared.
He knew you were onto him.
2300
02:26:45,714 --> 02:26:47,632
So when's the next letter from Zodiac?
2301
02:26:47,799 --> 02:26:50,010
Not until January of 1974.
2302
02:26:50,176 --> 02:26:53,346
He is silent for three years.
In '74, he feels comfortable again.
2303
02:26:53,513 --> 02:26:55,348
Everybody's moved off Allen
as a suspect.
2304
02:26:55,515 --> 02:27:00,020
What do we get? Three new letters from
Zodiac in January, May and July in '74.
2305
02:27:00,687 --> 02:27:03,189
-But then the letters stop.
-What happens to Allen?
2306
02:27:07,402 --> 02:27:09,571
He's arrested.
2307
02:27:09,738 --> 02:27:12,991
January, 1975,
they send him to Atascadero.
2308
02:27:13,158 --> 02:27:15,869
We don't get another letter
the entire time he's there.
2309
02:27:16,036 --> 02:27:18,705
-When is he released?
-August '77.
2310
02:27:18,872 --> 02:27:22,542
Allen gets out. He types you
an apology, and then what?
2311
02:27:22,709 --> 02:27:25,795
We get our first new Zodiac letter
in four years.
2312
02:27:31,634 --> 02:27:34,804
Okay, Zodiac had to have known
Darlene Ferrin, right?
2313
02:27:34,971 --> 02:27:37,307
Yes, the phone calls
on the night of her murder.
2314
02:27:37,474 --> 02:27:42,062
Because of the Vallejo file, we know
that Darlene knew a man named Leigh?
2315
02:27:42,228 --> 02:27:45,065
-Yes.
-So all coincidence aside, Robert...
2316
02:27:45,231 --> 02:27:48,109
...how can you be sure that Leigh
is the Leigh from this file?
2317
02:27:48,276 --> 02:27:51,863
Vallejo is small, but it's not that small.
How do you put the two together?
2318
02:27:52,030 --> 02:27:54,699
A case that's covered
Northern and Southern California...
2319
02:27:54,866 --> 02:27:57,744
...with victims and suspects
spread over hundreds of miles...
2320
02:27:57,911 --> 02:28:00,121
-...would you agree?
-Yes.
2321
02:28:00,997 --> 02:28:03,500
Darlene worked
at the Vallejo House of Pancakes...
2322
02:28:03,666 --> 02:28:05,710
...on the corner of Tennessee and Caroll.
2323
02:28:09,172 --> 02:28:13,426
Arthur Leigh Allen lived in
his mother's basement on Fresno Street.
2324
02:28:15,678 --> 02:28:20,266
Door to door,
that is less than 50 yards.
2325
02:28:22,477 --> 02:28:23,812
Is that true?
2326
02:28:25,063 --> 02:28:26,815
I've walked it.
2327
02:28:30,318 --> 02:28:32,320
Jesus Christ.
2328
02:28:38,493 --> 02:28:40,161
So?
2329
02:28:43,415 --> 02:28:46,376
-The prints, the handwriting--
-I'm not asking you as a cop.
2330
02:28:46,543 --> 02:28:48,545
But I am a cop.
2331
02:28:50,964 --> 02:28:52,715
I can't prove this.
2332
02:28:52,882 --> 02:28:56,010
Just because you can't prove it,
doesn't mean it's not true.
2333
02:28:56,177 --> 02:28:58,263
Easy, Dirty Harry.
2334
02:29:01,349 --> 02:29:03,143
Finish the book.
2335
02:29:11,818 --> 02:29:15,113
Thank you. Thank you for breakfast.
2336
02:29:38,970 --> 02:29:43,766
December 20, 1983 - Vallejo, CA
2337
02:30:22,514 --> 02:30:24,182
Can I help you?
2338
02:30:25,767 --> 02:30:27,185
No.
2339
02:30:29,687 --> 02:30:31,773
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
2340
02:30:57,966 --> 02:31:03,304
7 1/2 years later - Ontario, CA
August 16, 1991
2341
02:31:03,513 --> 02:31:05,598
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
2342
02:31:29,747 --> 02:31:31,916
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
2343
02:31:47,849 --> 02:31:49,517
BAWART:
Mr. Mageau.
2344
02:31:50,143 --> 02:31:53,688
-Thanks for coming to see me.
-You're the one I talked to on the phone?
2345
02:31:53,855 --> 02:31:58,234
I'm George Bawart, Vallejo P.D.
I took over for Jack Mulanax.
2346
02:31:58,401 --> 02:32:01,362
It's been 22 years.
I don't know how I can help you.
2347
02:32:01,529 --> 02:32:04,240
This is just a formality.
I'm gonna show you photographs.
2348
02:32:04,407 --> 02:32:07,869
Now, the person that shot you may
or may not be among these photographs.
2349
02:32:08,578 --> 02:32:12,081
You don't have to pick anybody because
I'm showing you these, understand?
2350
02:32:12,248 --> 02:32:14,208
Yes, sir, I do.
2351
02:32:14,375 --> 02:32:16,210
All right.
2352
02:32:16,794 --> 02:32:18,546
Take your time.
2353
02:32:18,755 --> 02:32:21,341
If you don't recognize anyone,
that's okay.
2354
02:32:33,061 --> 02:32:34,729
MIKE:
That's him.
2355
02:32:35,980 --> 02:32:37,649
How sure are you?
2356
02:32:37,899 --> 02:32:39,567
I'm pretty sure.
2357
02:32:42,654 --> 02:32:44,697
-He had a round face like this guy.
-Wait.
2358
02:32:44,864 --> 02:32:47,033
You're now identifying
this second photograph?
2359
02:32:47,200 --> 02:32:50,536
No, no. Just that he had a round face
like that.
2360
02:32:52,121 --> 02:32:53,331
It's this man.
2361
02:32:54,374 --> 02:32:56,042
BAWART:
All right.
2362
02:32:57,585 --> 02:33:01,422
Now, on a scale of one to 10,
10 being positive...
2363
02:33:04,717 --> 02:33:06,636
...how sure are you?
2364
02:33:10,098 --> 02:33:11,766
At least an eight.
2365
02:33:14,519 --> 02:33:19,440
Last time I saw this face
was July 4th, 1969.
2366
02:33:21,651 --> 02:33:25,613
I am very sure
that's the man who shot me.
2367
02:33:29,784 --> 02:33:32,745
Following Mike Mageau's
identification of Arthur Leigh Allen...
2368
02:33:32,912 --> 02:33:36,457
...authorities scheduled a meeting to
discuss charging him with the murders.
2369
02:33:36,624 --> 02:33:40,044
Allen suffered a fatal heart attack
before this meeting could take place.
2370
02:33:41,337 --> 02:33:44,090
In 2002, a partial DNA profile,
that did not match Allen...
2371
02:33:44,257 --> 02:33:46,676
...was developed from a 33-year-old
Zodiac envelope.
2372
02:33:46,843 --> 02:33:49,011
Investigators in San Francisco
and Vallejo...
2373
02:33:49,178 --> 02:33:52,306
...refused to rule out Allen as a suspect
on the basis of this test.
2374
02:33:52,473 --> 02:33:54,600
In 2004,
the San Francisco Police Department...
2375
02:33:54,767 --> 02:33:56,686
...deactivated their Zodiac investigation.
2376
02:33:56,853 --> 02:33:58,813
Today, the case remains open
in Napa County, Solano County...
2377
02:33:58,980 --> 02:34:00,022
...and in the city of Vallejo...
2378
02:34:00,189 --> 02:34:03,192
...where Arthur Leigh Allen
is still the prime and only suspect.
2379
02:34:04,777 --> 02:34:08,614
Inspector David Toschi retired from the
San Francisco Police Department in 1989.
2380
02:34:08,781 --> 02:34:12,118
He was cleared of all charges
that he wrote the 1978 Zodiac letter.
2381
02:34:12,285 --> 02:34:15,455
Paul Avery passed away on December 10,
2000 of pulmonary emphysema.
2382
02:34:15,621 --> 02:34:19,292
He was 66. His ashes were scattered
by his family in San Francisco Bay.
2383
02:34:19,459 --> 02:34:21,502
Robert Graysmith lives in San Francisco...
2384
02:34:21,669 --> 02:34:24,338
...and enjoys a healthy relationship
with his children.
2385
02:34:24,505 --> 02:34:28,009
He claims he has not received a single
anonymous call since Allen's death.