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It seems that all the possible leads have been exhausted and there is nothing left. Does anybody have any new or interesting information about the case that isn't found mainstream? Did you live in the area and remember what you were doing at the time? I have followed this case for many years myself.
Too much time has passed, witnesses die off, evidence lost/compromised, or lack of evidence all together, etc., etc. Seriously doubt he'll ever be identified with any degree of certainty. Even if there was substantial evidence pointing to someone, there would always be those who would believe it was someone else. These unsolved mysteries only provide fodder for the authors that want to cash in on whatever theory they have about the crime. In the case of the Zodiac, unless some elderly resident in a nursing home somewhere confesses & provides information only known to authorities to confirm it, we'll never know for sure. Two more cases that will go unsolved are Jack the Ripper, and (probably) the Jonbenet Ramsey murder.
Well, half the books out there on him claim to know the answer, but without an arrest I suspect the police are not convinced. And this is not the kind of case you can go back and get DNA on, so...I'm not holding my breath.
It seems that all the possible leads have been exhausted and there is nothing left. Does anybody have any new or interesting information about the case that isn't found mainstream? Did you live in the area and remember what you were doing at the time? I have followed this case for many years myself.
It is the highest or near-highest probability that the perpetrator (assuming it was even just one single perpetrator . . . rather than more-than-one perpetrator to whom all these crimes can be attributed) is most likely dead now. This pattern of crimes have not been ongoing for a rather long time and the last definitive communications to the police or the media that appears to follow the Zodiac Killer's m.o. (modus operandi) was in 1974 (40 years ago per this writing and counting). Even if the real Zodiac Killer is still alive, why hasn't he communicated with the police or the media for 40 or more years now & counting?
And do the police/FBI have any DNA/other genetic evidence left behind by the true Zodiac Killer that is still intact and in good-enough form to compare to the remains of anyone they suspect? I recall that they have letters from the Zodiac that may have fingerprints or saliva on the envelopes or on the back of the postage stamps. Are those preserved and intact enough to give a viable genetic reading now and in the future? I don't know.
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Ah, the infamous Zodiac. A friend and I were fishing at Lake Berryessa at about age 16, would have been 1968, when we were approached by a couple of armed but plain clothed cops. They questioned us for about 15 minutes about what we might have seen, and when we found out why, we decided to leave rather than camp overnight. Seems like this long after it's not likely, but they did catch the Green River Killer here after 20 years.
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