FBI May Be On The Verge of Identifying The Real Zodiac Killer
According to CBS13 in Sacramento, the FBI is now running lab tests on the belongings of a man named Jack Tarrance, who died in 2006. Tarrance’s stepson, Dennis Kaufman, has spent eight years trying to prove that Tarrance was the Zodiac killer.
For those that don’t remember the film Zodiac, it chronicled the attempts of San Francisco Chronicle employees Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) and Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal), in addition to detective Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo), to find the identity of a serial killer who brutally murdered several people in Northern California during the late 1960s…Read more: /Film
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‘Zodiac’ still has Oscar chances?
Many people have forgotten one of the best films of the year. The most obvious reason is that ‘Zodiac’ released in March while most of the other contenders have come out from September on. Most of the time, people tend to nominate films that are still fresh on people’s minds and forget about early year films.
This is a sad fact, as I have no doubt that Zodiac would be a very dangerous contender had it come out in November. However, in light of recent critics list, the film is making a come back, but is it too late?
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‘Zodiac’ Review
Based on the true story of one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes, ‘Zodiac’ is a thriller from David Fincher, director of ‘Se7en’ and ‘Fight Club’. We already knew David Fincher could craft the perfec
t serial killer movie.
Fincher and the screenwriter were smart in choosing not to distort the Zodiac story to adapt it a similar style as ‘Se7en’, instead they followed the true story right to the very end.
For decades the Zodiac killer terrorized the citizens of the San Francisco Bay area. Californians were not safe from this man who claimed he killed dozens of victims, however to this day it has never been verified that one person killed all those people.
SFPD Homicide Inspectors Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) and William Armstrong (Anthony Edwards) were the officers assigned to the case. However the murders occurred over a wide area, and as the two tried to do their work they came across the dilemma of dealing with multiple police organizations.
This was back in the 1960s and 1970s, so the lines of communication were not as easy as they are today. FAX machines and the Internet were still a little way off in the future, and jurisdiction also came into play. Then letters started arriving at various locations. The San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from the killer with a cipher detailing his work. They were instructed to publish it, along with other newspapers that were each given separate ciphers. Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) was the reporter who took the story and ran with it.
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