Typically known for Hollywood and sunny beaches, California has been the hunting ground for a disturbing number of serial killers, as evident in Oxygen's Serial Killer Capital: Los Angeles.
“By the way, have the police been having a good time with the code?” the Zodiac Killer taunted police about a complex cipher in one chilling letter. “If not, tell them to cheer up; when they do crack it they will have me.”
The unsolved murders that terrorized the Bay Area in the '60s have sparked profiles of the Zodiac Killer, dozens of suspects, and even conspiracy theories as to the murderer's identity.
A flurry of Zodiac Killer suspects are floated in Peacock's Based On A True Story, including an Air Force veteran and journalist who worked in the area of the murders.
The Albany New York FBI Office is asking any news outlet who receives a letter from anyone calling themselves the Zodiac, not to open them, in order to preserve forensic evidence.
While the Case Breakers claimed this week that they believe that the Zodiac Killer had another victim, Cheri Jo Bates, Riverside police spokesperson Ryan J. Railsback said that police have ruled out any connection.
A team of investigators point to a man named Gary Francis Poste as the notorious serial killer her terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s.
Heriberto "Eddie" Seda was driven to kill after watching a PBS special about the original Zodiac Killer, who terrorized Northern California in the 1960s and '70s.
The game's developers told Oxygen.com that they were inspired by David Fincher's "Zodiac" and the Netflix series "Mindhunter" in crafting a noir-style gaming experience.
A new docu-series explores Gary Stewart's belief that his father, Early Van Best Jr., was the infamous serial murderer. But he's not the first person to put forth an unlikely candidate.