by Michael Cole | Apr 29, 2011 | Articles, Books, Non-Zodiac Crime
A newly-published book, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence, by author Bill James, examines America’s ongoing obsession with the crime of murder. It focuses on numerous high-profile and sensationalized instances of murder throughout...
by Michael Cole | Apr 28, 2011 | Articles, Victims
There is significant circumstantial evidence to suggest that the man who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area under the persona of the Zodiac began his life as a killer several years earlier on a beach in Santa Barbara County. There, in 1963, an as-of-yet...
by Michael Cole | Apr 14, 2011 | Articles, General
Back in 2007, an Austrian by the name of Phil Strahl became interested in the case of the Zodiac. Having experience in the area of font construction, he applied his skills to the subject by crafting a set of fonts that mimic the Zodiac’s handwriting. In...
by Michael Cole | Apr 10, 2011 | Articles, Internet
The Vallejo Times-Herald, one of the three papers to whom the Zodiac mailed a letter and part of the 408 cipher on July 31, 1969, just published a new article about the Zodiac. It’s the kind of article that newspapers (or news websites more recently) in the Bay...
by Michael Cole | Apr 10, 2011 | Articles, Zodiac Inspired
The number and varied locations in which I stumble across references to the Zodiac killer never cease to amaze me. The following video, Something Left, Something Taken, is an award winning animation created by Brooklyn-based Tiny Inventions, a collaboration of the...
