Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Where have you been?
I've been waiting since 7:00.
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Get in. I had to find fireworks.
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Let me drive.
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Get in. I haven't eaten in 24 hours.
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Are you coming or not?
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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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What are we doing?
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Sitting. Listening to music. Talking.
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- You seem weird. Is everything okay?
- 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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Fuck off and die!
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- What?
- "Fuck off and die"?
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Shut up.
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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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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?
- It's nothing.
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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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- Vallejo Police Department.
- I want to report a double murder.
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May I have your name
and where you are calling...
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If you go one mile east
on Columbus Parkway,
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a public park,
you'll find kids in a brown car.
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They were shot with a 9mm Luger.
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I also killed those kids last year.
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Goodbye.
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Spit.
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Come on, buddy.
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- I swallowed it.
- Why?
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It was minty.
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You can't do that. It's not good for you.
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Lunch box.
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- 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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So, you don't like
having a new little brother?
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- No, not really.
- Oh, that's honest.
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Learn a lot.
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There will be a test tonight!
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Morning.
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- Morning.
- Morning.
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How's the coffee today, Shorty?
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Editorial in two.
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Good morning, gentlemen.
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- Good morning.
- Good morning.
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Well, Stanton, tell Mr. Howe
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the draft board piece
was damn near perfect.
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Mr. Graysmith.
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Horrid.
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Horrid.
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Not so horrid.
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All right.
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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Have you seen her? Wouldn't kid you.
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It may be the beginning of a crime wave.
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You need to see this.
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Go get the publisher.
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"Dear Editor,
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"This is the murderer
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"of the two teenagers
last Christmas at Lake Herman
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"and the girl on the Fourth of July
near the golf course in Vallejo.
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"To prove I killed them,
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"I shall state some facts
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.
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"One, girl was
wearing patterned slacks.
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"The boy was also shot in the knee.
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"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
are being mailed to the editors of
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"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 identity.
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"If you do not print this cipher
by the afternoon of Fry,"
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F-R-Y, "First of Aug '69
I will go on a kill rampage Fry 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
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"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 first.
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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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AI, this man is talking about
shooting 12 people.
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And not running this
might make him do that.
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If we run it, we might be setting
a very dangerous precedent.
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Oh, come on, now, it's newsworthy.
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Well, giving some sick bastard
a soapbox,
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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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Yeah, I cover crime in Vallejo.
Ten minutes.
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Let's shoot the code and call SFPD.
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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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Hi, 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.
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Sergeant Mulanax.
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Sergeant, Paul Avery from
the San Francisco Chronicle.
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I just wanted to check
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if you had an unsolved
firearm-related homicide
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on Christmas and
maybe one on July fourth.
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Shit.
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You guys got one, too?
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Confirmed.
VPD, they confirmed the shootings.
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AI's on the phone with the Examiner.
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They got the same letter
with a different code.
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So did Times-Herald.
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Christmas, two teenagers
on lover's lane. Both DOA.
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David Faraday and Betty Jensen.
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July fourth,
Darlene Ferrin and Michael...
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I think it's "Mayhew."
Anyway, he lived, she didn't.
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The murder weapons?
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Ballistics, everything he said
in the letters matched.
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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.
If he kills 12 people, it's not our fault.
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Robert! We need the cartoon.
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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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Okay, re-plate.
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We'll go on page four.
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What do you say, 20 bucks
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.
- All right.
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Put those on my desk. Turn on the light.
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Grab your book.
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Now go get your jammies on.
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All right, people, listen up.
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The cipher's broken into three sections,
each with eight lines and 17 symbols.
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No breaks between the symbols
denoting different words.
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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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Greek, Morse code, Navy semaphore,
weather symbols, astrological signs.
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- Hey, take a gander at this code thing.
- Okay.
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You wanna give it a go?
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Guy who used to sit there
was a great cartoonist. Bob Bastian.
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Now he's doing 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?
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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 to kill.
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"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 will 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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- 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.
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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You know this used to be
the town of Montecello?
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But at some point,
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the county decided that the land
would work better as a lake.
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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?
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Oh, yeah.
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Somebody else is here.
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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.
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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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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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Here.
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You're welcome to everything I have.
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If there's anything else
I could do for you...
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Maybe I could write you a check?
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Okay, I could give you
my phone number.
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You know, I might be able to help you.
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Even more than you might think.
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He's a sociology major.
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Pre-law, actually.
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Oh, keys.
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You know, I'm sorry, I don't know exactly
where I put my keys.
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They might be on the blanket.
Is it okay if...
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Here's the keys.
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Don't get up.
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I want her to tie you up.
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Okay.
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You know, if he comes any closer,
I might be able to get that gun.
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- Don't get any ideas.
- I'm not.
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I killed a guard
escaping from prison in Montana.
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I'm not doing anything, okay?
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I'm not afraid to kill again.
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Look away.
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What was the name of that prison?
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Hey, you said it was in Montana, right?
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I'm taking your car.
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I'm going to Mexico.
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We didn't complain
when you tied our hands.
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Okay, you have everything that I have.
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We have done everything
that you've asked.
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It's okay. It's okay.
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She tied you loose, didn't she?
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Get on your stomach
so I can tie your feet.
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Okay.
It gets really cold out here at night.
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We could freeze.
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Okay, you all done?
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You know,
just because people are gonna ask,
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was that thing even loaded?
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It's okay.
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This is all gonna be okay.
252
00:22:18,339 --> 00:22:21,968
Dispatch, this is 43L2,
heading south on Knoxville Road.
253
00:22:22,076 --> 00:22:25,773
I've got an abandoned white
VW Karmann-Ghia...
254
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,660
Napa Police Department.
255
00:22:41,762 --> 00:22:45,994
I want to report a murder.
No, a double murder.
256
00:22:47,535 --> 00:22:50,834
They are two miles north
of park headquarters.
257
00:22:50,938 --> 00:22:54,499
They were in a white
Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia.
258
00:22:56,077 --> 00:22:58,136
I'm the one that did it.
259
00:22:58,245 --> 00:23:00,304
43L2 has a male victim with him.
260
00:23:00,414 --> 00:23:03,008
Piner's ambulance
has been dispatched.
261
00:23:03,984 --> 00:23:06,145
Boy lived, the girl didn't. Again.
262
00:23:06,253 --> 00:23:08,619
God, can you imagine
surviving something like that?
263
00:23:08,722 --> 00:23:10,121
Writing the dates on the side of the car.
264
00:23:10,224 --> 00:23:13,318
We got two Vallejo killings,
now there's one in Napa. Why Napa?
265
00:23:13,427 --> 00:23:15,327
What the hell is he doing out of Vallejo?
266
00:23:15,429 --> 00:23:18,887
Sweet mother of Christ,
what are you drawing?
267
00:23:18,999 --> 00:23:20,489
Kid at the lake.
268
00:23:20,601 --> 00:23:22,398
This is what he said
the Zodiac was wearing.
269
00:23:22,503 --> 00:23:23,731
God, that's a hell of a get-up.
270
00:23:23,838 --> 00:23:26,272
- Paul, what are you doing?
- Hyman, I wrote it. It's done.
271
00:23:26,373 --> 00:23:27,601
Now I just got to type it up.
272
00:23:27,708 --> 00:23:29,676
Type it up?
It's not finished until you type it up.
273
00:23:29,777 --> 00:23:31,540
We've got to read it.
274
00:23:34,348 --> 00:23:37,146
- What's that?
- That's the Zodiac at the lake.
275
00:23:37,251 --> 00:23:38,650
What's the story with the kid?
276
00:23:38,752 --> 00:23:41,152
He seems a little touched
or medicated or...
277
00:23:41,255 --> 00:23:42,381
- Graysmith?
- Yeah, what is it?
278
00:23:42,490 --> 00:23:43,980
He's a fucking boy scout.
279
00:23:44,091 --> 00:23:46,286
He doesn't smoke,
he doesn't drink, he doesn't curse.
280
00:23:46,393 --> 00:23:47,826
- And he's back.
- I knew it.
281
00:23:47,928 --> 00:23:49,259
"Man is the most
dangerous animal of all."
282
00:23:49,363 --> 00:23:50,455
I knew that
I heard that from somewhere.
283
00:23:50,564 --> 00:23:52,862
The Most Dangerous Game.
284
00:23:52,967 --> 00:23:55,936
It's a movie about a Count
who hunts people for sport.
285
00:23:56,036 --> 00:23:57,060
People.
286
00:23:57,171 --> 00:23:59,139
The Most Dangerous Game.
287
00:23:59,907 --> 00:24:02,341
- Who's that?
- That's Count Zaroff.
288
00:24:02,443 --> 00:24:04,536
Zaroff? With a "Z"?
289
00:24:07,214 --> 00:24:08,943
And that will be
all for the news on the 20.
290
00:24:09,049 --> 00:24:11,347
We've got curfews in effect tonight
for the following counties:
291
00:24:11,452 --> 00:24:15,582
Napa, Solano, Contra Costa,
Alameda, Marin, and San Mateo.
292
00:24:15,689 --> 00:24:17,816
So please, everyone, stay safe.
293
00:24:17,925 --> 00:24:21,224
Vic in San Francisco, you're on the line.
You're not scared of the Zodiac?
294
00:24:21,328 --> 00:24:24,388
Heck no,
he's only shooting those farm kids.
295
00:24:24,498 --> 00:24:27,092
What scares me
is those hippies out in the Haight
296
00:24:27,201 --> 00:24:29,066
with their free love and weird clothes.
297
00:24:29,170 --> 00:24:31,161
We've got Alfred from Vacaville.
298
00:24:31,272 --> 00:24:33,536
You know, I think
that was really offensive.
299
00:24:33,641 --> 00:24:35,268
It's not just farm kids.
300
00:24:35,376 --> 00:24:37,241
These are nice, clean-cut young people.
301
00:24:37,344 --> 00:24:39,778
Hey, nobody's downplaying
the loss of human life here, Alfred.
302
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,871
Well, that last guy was.
303
00:24:41,982 --> 00:24:44,815
We have good solid communities
out here in the North Bay.
304
00:24:44,919 --> 00:24:48,446
Unlike in the city where you have
Satanists running around.
305
00:24:48,556 --> 00:24:52,014
Well, you bring up a good question.
Is the Zodiac a Satanist?
306
00:24:52,126 --> 00:24:53,821
Amber from Oakland,
what do you think?
307
00:24:53,928 --> 00:24:55,122
I don't really know,
308
00:24:55,229 --> 00:24:58,323
but I thought that code
they printed didn't look very Christian.
309
00:24:58,432 --> 00:25:01,128
But I think the bigger problem
is that the papers shouldn't have printed
310
00:25:01,235 --> 00:25:03,066
anything that the Zodiac
has been doing.
311
00:25:03,170 --> 00:25:06,298
That they're just printing
all that stuff to sell more newspapers.
312
00:25:06,407 --> 00:25:08,568
Well, the Zodiac did demand
they print his letters
313
00:25:08,676 --> 00:25:10,268
or he'd kill more people.
314
00:25:10,377 --> 00:25:11,674
Yeah, but he would have
done it anyway,
315
00:25:11,779 --> 00:25:13,337
whether they printed it or not, I think.
316
00:25:13,447 --> 00:25:14,880
An interesting point.
317
00:25:14,982 --> 00:25:16,916
So, what do you think he'll do next?
318
00:25:37,671 --> 00:25:41,232
- San Francisco Police Department.
- Yes. There's a fight in a cab!
319
00:25:41,342 --> 00:25:42,570
What is your location?
320
00:25:42,676 --> 00:25:45,645
3398 Washington,
at the corner of Cherry.
321
00:25:45,746 --> 00:25:47,475
One's drunk and
we think he's robbing him.
322
00:25:47,581 --> 00:25:50,709
- Is the crime still in progress?
- Yes, please hurry.
323
00:25:52,419 --> 00:25:53,852
Oh, my God, look!
324
00:26:16,910 --> 00:26:18,138
Nuts!
325
00:26:21,448 --> 00:26:23,245
Whoever this is,
you owe me a new lamp.
326
00:26:23,350 --> 00:26:25,978
Cabbie's been shot
three blocks from the Presidio.
327
00:26:26,086 --> 00:26:28,281
Well, it wasn't me.
I've been with my bride all night.
328
00:26:28,389 --> 00:26:31,358
- She can vouch.
- Go put on the Folgers.
329
00:26:31,458 --> 00:26:32,857
You'll pick me up?
330
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,791
Let me just describe
the lamp you're gonna buy me.
331
00:26:43,637 --> 00:26:46,572
- I just got to sleep.
- Suspect's Negro, male adult.
332
00:26:46,674 --> 00:26:49,165
Walt's on scene, locked up the cab
and secured the crowd.
333
00:26:49,276 --> 00:26:52,177
Seriously, dead asleep.
I lost feeling in my arm and everything.
334
00:26:52,279 --> 00:26:53,576
Crackers.
335
00:26:57,451 --> 00:26:59,442
You ever try Japanese food?
336
00:26:59,553 --> 00:27:02,215
What do you mean, like teriyaki?
No, like the urchin.
337
00:27:02,323 --> 00:27:04,689
- Raw fish.
- I'm eating here, Bill.
338
00:27:06,060 --> 00:27:09,029
- I always wanted to try it.
- So, why don't you?
339
00:27:09,129 --> 00:27:11,097
Haven't got around to it.
340
00:27:26,714 --> 00:27:29,842
Evening, gents.
A lovely night for a botched robbery.
341
00:27:29,950 --> 00:27:32,510
Yeah, third this week.
Must be end of summer rush.
342
00:27:32,619 --> 00:27:35,747
I got foot patrols going through the park,
dogs are on the way.
343
00:27:35,856 --> 00:27:40,156
The victim's name is Paul Stine.
Dousette pronounced him at 10:10.
344
00:27:40,260 --> 00:27:42,353
Suspect fired one shot
to the back of the head.
345
00:27:42,463 --> 00:27:44,363
Driver's wallet
and car keys are missing.
346
00:27:44,465 --> 00:27:45,489
How'd you know his name?
347
00:27:45,599 --> 00:27:48,534
Leroy, there, came down
from Yellow Cab to ID him.
348
00:27:48,635 --> 00:27:50,193
Neighborhood's pretty high-end
for this kind of thing,
349
00:27:50,304 --> 00:27:52,505
so I already set up transpo for the cab.
350
00:27:52,606 --> 00:27:54,073
- Coroner's here.
- Any witnesses?
351
00:27:54,174 --> 00:27:57,610
Kids who called it in
saw the suspect from that window.
352
00:27:57,711 --> 00:27:59,201
- Did they hear a shot?
- No.
353
00:27:59,313 --> 00:28:00,610
They first saw him in the front seat,
354
00:28:00,714 --> 00:28:02,409
thought he was a drunk
fighting with the driver.
355
00:28:02,516 --> 00:28:05,485
Oldest kid ran downstairs to get
a better look from the dining room,
356
00:28:05,586 --> 00:28:07,383
described him as a white male, glasses,
357
00:28:07,488 --> 00:28:09,683
crew-cut, stocky,
and wearing a dark jacket.
358
00:28:09,790 --> 00:28:11,587
Wait, I thought someone said
he was black.
359
00:28:11,692 --> 00:28:13,592
That's the description
that went out to radio cars.
360
00:28:13,694 --> 00:28:16,629
- We already corrected it.
- Oh, well, that's good.
361
00:28:16,730 --> 00:28:19,096
- You guys need anything else?
- No. Get out of here.
362
00:28:19,199 --> 00:28:21,133
Thanks. Happy Birthday.
363
00:28:21,235 --> 00:28:23,931
- Wait, it's your birthday?
- Yep.
364
00:28:24,037 --> 00:28:26,164
- That's great. Happy birthday.
- Thanks.
365
00:28:26,273 --> 00:28:29,265
- Body or scene?
- It's your birthday, I'll take the body.
366
00:28:29,376 --> 00:28:31,901
Dave, looks like he
wiped the cab down pretty good.
367
00:28:32,012 --> 00:28:34,003
- We got some blood over here.
- Prints?
368
00:28:34,114 --> 00:28:35,945
Could very well be.
We'll dust it at the Hall.
369
00:28:36,049 --> 00:28:38,813
The odd thing is, we also got gloves.
370
00:28:38,919 --> 00:28:41,319
- Suspect's?
- There's blood on them.
371
00:28:42,756 --> 00:28:43,950
- Hey, Pete?
- Yeah, Dave.
372
00:28:44,057 --> 00:28:45,217
You through over there,
can I get in there?
373
00:28:45,325 --> 00:28:46,952
Yeah, I'm all set.
374
00:28:47,761 --> 00:28:49,752
- Who rolled him?
- Stewarts.
375
00:28:56,837 --> 00:28:58,828
I got a single 9mm casing.
376
00:29:03,343 --> 00:29:05,208
Yeah, Luger.
377
00:29:05,312 --> 00:29:07,143
Nothing from the crowd.
378
00:29:07,247 --> 00:29:10,114
Okay.
I'm your shooter, Negro male adult,
379
00:29:10,217 --> 00:29:13,550
who also happens to be
a stocky, crew-cut Caucasian.
380
00:29:13,654 --> 00:29:16,179
I flag a cab. I give him this address.
381
00:29:16,290 --> 00:29:19,054
Did I give him this address?
Who's got the fare book?
382
00:29:19,159 --> 00:29:20,490
Right here.
383
00:29:22,830 --> 00:29:25,697
Washington and Maple.
That's one block east.
384
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:47,982
Lighting's the same over here,
385
00:29:48,088 --> 00:29:50,522
so maybe I see
someone walking their dog.
386
00:29:50,624 --> 00:29:53,457
You don't want any witnesses
so you tell him to go down a block.
387
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:54,618
He pulls over.
388
00:29:54,728 --> 00:29:56,593
I wait for him to put it in park
because I'm smart
389
00:29:56,697 --> 00:29:58,062
and I don't want him
hitting the accelerator
390
00:29:58,165 --> 00:29:59,427
when I shoot him. May I?
391
00:29:59,533 --> 00:30:01,899
He stops, puts it in park, boom.
392
00:30:02,002 --> 00:30:04,698
I shoot him on the right side,
he slumps right?
393
00:30:04,805 --> 00:30:06,796
Maybe you've got your hand
on his collar when you shoot.
394
00:30:06,907 --> 00:30:08,067
All right. So, either way,
395
00:30:08,175 --> 00:30:09,870
I just dumped a quart of blood
in the front seat.
396
00:30:09,977 --> 00:30:13,105
- So, why do you get in the front seat?
- For the money.
397
00:30:13,213 --> 00:30:14,237
But he's dead.
398
00:30:14,348 --> 00:30:16,043
You could just reach over the seat,
pull out his wallet.
399
00:30:16,149 --> 00:30:18,310
You don't have to go
anywhere near the blood.
400
00:30:18,418 --> 00:30:20,886
So, why'd he get in the front seat?
401
00:30:21,421 --> 00:30:23,082
- I'm an idiot.
- But you're not an idiot.
402
00:30:23,190 --> 00:30:24,851
You waited for him to put it in park.
403
00:30:24,958 --> 00:30:27,153
- Right. Thank you.
- Yeah, sure.
404
00:30:28,896 --> 00:30:30,727
- Can I see that?
- Yeah.
405
00:30:31,265 --> 00:30:34,530
I am an idiot.
I just killed a man for $8.25.
406
00:30:34,635 --> 00:30:38,935
It's his third fare of the night.
Does anyone have any animal crackers?
407
00:30:39,473 --> 00:30:41,668
- Animal crackers?
- They're in the car.
408
00:30:41,775 --> 00:30:43,970
I'm saving those for later.
409
00:30:44,077 --> 00:30:45,237
Fine.
410
00:30:49,716 --> 00:30:53,413
- Are you a reporter?
- No, I'm Inspector Dave Toschi, SFPD.
411
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,045
Sir, I was wondering
if I'd be able to talk to your children,
412
00:30:56,156 --> 00:30:58,386
one at a time and preferably alone?
413
00:30:58,492 --> 00:31:00,357
They just saw a man murdered.
414
00:31:00,460 --> 00:31:02,394
I understand.
415
00:31:02,496 --> 00:31:03,986
It looked like
they were drunk and fighting.
416
00:31:04,097 --> 00:31:05,394
Yeah, and he had a rag.
417
00:31:05,499 --> 00:31:07,865
He came around the side of the car
and he was wiping stuff.
418
00:31:07,968 --> 00:31:11,301
- Did you get a chance to see his face?
- I did.
419
00:31:11,405 --> 00:31:12,895
Well, sort of.
420
00:31:14,174 --> 00:31:16,665
Did you remember what he looked like?
421
00:31:18,178 --> 00:31:20,169
- Normal.
- Yeah.
422
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,474
"Normal"?
423
00:31:44,304 --> 00:31:45,862
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
424
00:31:45,973 --> 00:31:47,873
"I am the murderer of the taxi driver
425
00:31:47,975 --> 00:31:51,877
"over by Washington Street
and Maple Street last night.
426
00:31:51,979 --> 00:31:54,413
"To prove this, here is
a blood-stained piece of his shirt.
427
00:31:54,514 --> 00:31:59,451
"I am the same man who did in
the people in the North Bay Area.
428
00:31:59,553 --> 00:32:02,113
"The S.F. Police could have
caught me last night
429
00:32:02,222 --> 00:32:03,746
"if they had searched the park properly
430
00:32:03,857 --> 00:32:07,122
"instead of holding road races
with their motorcicles."
431
00:32:07,227 --> 00:32:08,717
- Gentlemen.
- Dave.
432
00:32:08,829 --> 00:32:10,763
Paul. Where's the shirt?
433
00:32:12,199 --> 00:32:13,791
Right there, boss.
434
00:32:15,002 --> 00:32:16,560
There's your rag the kids talked about.
435
00:32:16,670 --> 00:32:18,661
So he got in the front seat
to tear off a piece of the shirt.
436
00:32:18,772 --> 00:32:21,172
- Is this on the record?
- Well, what do you think?
437
00:32:21,274 --> 00:32:23,299
He confirms
the Vallejo and Napa killings.
438
00:32:23,410 --> 00:32:24,968
Gets worse.
439
00:32:25,078 --> 00:32:27,103
Robert, do you have a deadline?
440
00:32:27,214 --> 00:32:29,341
What does he mean, it gets worse?
441
00:32:29,449 --> 00:32:30,848
Read the last part.
442
00:32:30,951 --> 00:32:33,181
"School children make nice targets.
443
00:32:33,286 --> 00:32:35,584
"I think I shall wipe out
a school bus some morning.
444
00:32:35,689 --> 00:32:37,350
"Just shoot out the front tire
445
00:32:37,457 --> 00:32:39,857
"and then pick off the kiddies
as they come bouncing out."
446
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,485
Jesus Christ, who's got school buses?
Department of Transportation?
447
00:32:42,596 --> 00:32:44,496
- School board.
- All right.
448
00:32:44,598 --> 00:32:46,862
I'm gonna need elimination prints
from your staff.
449
00:32:46,967 --> 00:32:49,458
Anyone here didn't touch this letter?
450
00:32:53,473 --> 00:32:56,101
On my way back to my desk.
They have phones, if you want.
451
00:32:56,209 --> 00:32:57,801
We need to get matches
on blood and fabric.
452
00:32:57,911 --> 00:32:59,071
I'll call Napa and Vallejo,
453
00:32:59,179 --> 00:33:00,976
get the letters up to Sherwood
in Sacramento.
454
00:33:01,081 --> 00:33:04,482
Dave, just one thing.
Is it true they got a print off the cab?
455
00:33:04,584 --> 00:33:06,916
Yeah, we got a partial in blood.
456
00:33:07,788 --> 00:33:10,916
- But that is not for publication.
- Hey, hey, come on.
457
00:33:11,024 --> 00:33:13,254
Hey, it's me.
458
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,453
Did he say they got a print?
459
00:33:16,563 --> 00:33:17,757
Partial.
460
00:33:18,765 --> 00:33:19,823
Whoa.
461
00:33:21,201 --> 00:33:22,691
Dude, he wears his gun like Bullitt.
462
00:33:22,803 --> 00:33:25,169
No, McQueen got that from Toschi.
463
00:33:25,272 --> 00:33:27,001
Does he think that Zodiac's
gonna send another code?
464
00:33:27,107 --> 00:33:28,938
'Cause I think Zodiac's
gonna send another code.
465
00:33:29,042 --> 00:33:31,067
Jesus Harold Christ
on rubber crutches, Bobby.
466
00:33:31,178 --> 00:33:32,202
What are you doing?
467
00:33:32,312 --> 00:33:33,609
You're doing that thing,
the thing we discussed,
468
00:33:33,714 --> 00:33:36,205
the thing that I don't like.
Starts with an "L."
469
00:33:36,316 --> 00:33:38,216
- Oh, looming.
- Yeah.
470
00:33:38,318 --> 00:33:41,219
In cooperation with SFPD,
we will run the Zodiac letter
471
00:33:41,321 --> 00:33:43,983
without including the threat
on school children.
472
00:33:44,091 --> 00:33:45,752
We don't want to start a city-wide panic
473
00:33:45,859 --> 00:33:49,351
so I'm asking all of you
to please keep this confidential.
474
00:33:49,463 --> 00:33:51,658
Just go about your daily business.
475
00:33:51,765 --> 00:33:53,096
Thank you.
476
00:34:08,815 --> 00:34:11,807
I packed you your carrots
and your soda and peanut butter, okay?
477
00:34:11,918 --> 00:34:14,853
- Dad, you don't have to wait with me.
- I know.
478
00:34:22,262 --> 00:34:26,062
You know what? You know what?
I'm gonna drive him today, okay?
479
00:34:26,566 --> 00:34:27,760
Come on.
480
00:34:45,952 --> 00:34:47,476
What's that?
481
00:34:47,587 --> 00:34:50,112
Similarities in the lowercase "r's."
482
00:34:59,299 --> 00:35:00,425
And that?
483
00:35:00,534 --> 00:35:02,502
It is you waiting in the hall
if you speak again.
484
00:35:02,602 --> 00:35:04,433
I have to concentrate.
485
00:35:04,838 --> 00:35:05,930
Sorry.
486
00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:08,007
"Sorry" counts as speaking.
487
00:35:18,919 --> 00:35:21,888
There are similarities
in the lowercase "r's."
488
00:35:25,959 --> 00:35:28,393
We have to release the bus threat.
489
00:35:28,995 --> 00:35:31,623
- It'll screw us.
- We're already screwed.
490
00:35:31,731 --> 00:35:33,961
We just went from
"Routine Cabbie Shooting"
491
00:35:34,067 --> 00:35:36,228
to "Mass Murderer Targets Kids."
492
00:35:43,944 --> 00:35:47,107
The Zodiac Killer
has come to San Francisco.
493
00:35:47,214 --> 00:35:50,240
Confirmation tonight, from the
San Francisco Police Department
494
00:35:50,350 --> 00:35:52,284
that in his latest haunting letter,
495
00:35:52,385 --> 00:35:55,582
which takes credit for the murder
of cab driver Paul Stine,
496
00:35:55,689 --> 00:35:59,056
the Zodiac has threatened to,
"Wipe out a school bus
497
00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:02,492
"and pick off the kiddies
as they come bouncing out."
498
00:36:05,966 --> 00:36:08,628
If you think you might know
who the Zodiac is,
499
00:36:08,735 --> 00:36:12,398
you can call the San Francisco
Police Department's newest tip line.
500
00:36:36,029 --> 00:36:38,964
Press conference is at 4:00.
We got to give them something.
501
00:36:39,065 --> 00:36:40,657
We're coordinating
with the school board,
502
00:36:40,767 --> 00:36:42,758
and we expect
a break in the case very soon.
503
00:36:42,869 --> 00:36:44,632
- What do we really got?
- We're swamped.
504
00:36:44,738 --> 00:36:46,103
When they can't get anyone
on the tip line
505
00:36:46,206 --> 00:36:47,901
they call the switchboard
and keep getting put through.
506
00:36:48,008 --> 00:36:48,997
You got any hard suspects?
507
00:36:49,109 --> 00:36:51,805
About 90 an hour. I'm up to around 500.
508
00:36:51,912 --> 00:36:53,038
Well, can't you narrow it down?
509
00:36:53,146 --> 00:36:55,307
I would love to,
if I could get out of this...
510
00:36:55,415 --> 00:36:58,907
- Homicide, please hold.
- Yeah, hold, please.
511
00:36:59,019 --> 00:37:00,884
We're gonna need to tell them
we got the entire force on this.
512
00:37:00,987 --> 00:37:02,113
How many men can you give me?
513
00:37:02,222 --> 00:37:04,213
Well, right now, it's you and Bill
and Monday's a school day.
514
00:37:04,324 --> 00:37:06,224
Yeah, I know, Chief.
I have three daughters of my own.
515
00:37:06,326 --> 00:37:08,260
Yeah, I know. Where's Armstrong?
516
00:37:08,361 --> 00:37:09,828
He's on the phone with Vallejo.
517
00:37:09,930 --> 00:37:11,864
We're playing catch up, Jack.
518
00:37:11,965 --> 00:37:14,456
I'd like to set up a meeting
with your survivor, Michael Mageau.
519
00:37:14,567 --> 00:37:16,159
I can't. He skipped town.
520
00:37:16,269 --> 00:37:18,897
The only guy who's seen Zodiac
without a mask is missing?
521
00:37:19,005 --> 00:37:22,133
When he was still in the hospital
we could show him lineups all day long.
522
00:37:22,242 --> 00:37:23,641
As soon as he got out, he split.
523
00:37:23,743 --> 00:37:24,767
Really? Why?
524
00:37:24,878 --> 00:37:27,176
I don't think he wanted
to have anything to do with this.
525
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,248
Can you send us everything
that you have?
526
00:37:29,349 --> 00:37:32,182
Well, the road goes both ways.
527
00:37:32,285 --> 00:37:35,413
Now, we need that print
you lifted from the cab
528
00:37:35,522 --> 00:37:37,456
and we should have been in
on the handwriting.
529
00:37:37,557 --> 00:37:39,821
I apologize.
Things have been moving fast.
530
00:37:39,926 --> 00:37:42,656
Who should I talk to in Napa
so we can coordinate?
531
00:37:42,762 --> 00:37:43,888
Talk to Ken Narlow.
532
00:37:43,997 --> 00:37:45,862
We really should have been in
on the handwriting.
533
00:37:45,966 --> 00:37:48,434
I apologize.
Things have been moving fast.
534
00:37:48,535 --> 00:37:49,968
Listen, we're gonna need
your scene photos.
535
00:37:50,070 --> 00:37:51,094
Can't help you.
536
00:37:51,204 --> 00:37:53,138
Ken, I don't want to get into
a jurisdictional thing here.
537
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,833
No, no, no, no, no.
We didn't have a crime scene.
538
00:37:55,942 --> 00:37:59,173
The ranger that found the kids literally
swept everything into a picnic blanket.
539
00:37:59,279 --> 00:38:00,974
All we have are the Wing Walker prints.
540
00:38:01,081 --> 00:38:02,173
The what?
541
00:38:02,282 --> 00:38:03,977
Boot prints to and from the crime scene
542
00:38:04,084 --> 00:38:06,382
were made by size
10-and-a-half Wing Walkers,
543
00:38:06,486 --> 00:38:09,421
military-style boots
sold only at military PXs
544
00:38:09,756 --> 00:38:11,781
designed to walk
on the wings of planes.
545
00:38:11,891 --> 00:38:14,382
And you can't buy at a PX
without a military ID,
546
00:38:14,494 --> 00:38:16,428
so our suspect could be military.
547
00:38:16,529 --> 00:38:18,292
Did you guys narrow your list off of this?
548
00:38:18,398 --> 00:38:20,491
- Yeah.
- Did Vallejo?
549
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,693
I don't know. I don't work in Vallejo.
I work here.
550
00:38:22,802 --> 00:38:24,929
Great. I'm gonna need photos
of those boot prints.
551
00:38:25,038 --> 00:38:27,006
Sure, if you send me the handwriting.
552
00:38:27,107 --> 00:38:28,699
I thought Questioned Documents
already did.
553
00:38:28,808 --> 00:38:30,298
Nope. Vallejo's got them, not us.
554
00:38:30,410 --> 00:38:32,401
All right.
I'll have Questioned Documents...
555
00:38:32,512 --> 00:38:34,412
Forget it. I'll telefax it to you.
556
00:38:34,514 --> 00:38:35,981
We don't have telefax yet.
557
00:38:36,082 --> 00:38:38,676
- Okay, I'll put it in the mail.
- We'll mail ours, too.
558
00:38:38,785 --> 00:38:40,446
And call Mulanax in Vallejo.
559
00:38:40,553 --> 00:38:42,646
- Maybe he can get you a mimeo.
- Right.
560
00:38:42,756 --> 00:38:45,122
Why don't you just get a photo
off the original plaster cast?
561
00:38:45,225 --> 00:38:47,318
We'd have to wait,
because they don't have a fax.
562
00:38:47,427 --> 00:38:48,860
We don't have a fax, either.
563
00:38:48,962 --> 00:38:50,691
Look, I'm just trying
to get us coordinated.
564
00:38:50,797 --> 00:38:52,264
Have you called Solano Sheriff's Office?
565
00:38:52,365 --> 00:38:53,992
Why would I call Solano?
566
00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:57,695
Because the two kids that got killed
last Christmas were Solano's.
567
00:38:57,804 --> 00:38:58,998
I thought they were Vallejo.
568
00:38:59,105 --> 00:39:00,402
No, they were over the county line
569
00:39:00,507 --> 00:39:02,702
so you're gonna need
to coordinate with them, too.
570
00:39:02,809 --> 00:39:04,242
Okay.
571
00:39:04,344 --> 00:39:05,436
Bill.
572
00:39:06,146 --> 00:39:08,011
Can I have a word with you?
573
00:39:10,950 --> 00:39:13,043
Where did you see this guy?
574
00:39:13,853 --> 00:39:16,287
We got the call to circle the scene
and look for a Negro male adult.
575
00:39:16,389 --> 00:39:17,856
Where was he?
576
00:39:17,957 --> 00:39:20,391
On Jackson. Heading east.
About the middle of the block.
577
00:39:20,493 --> 00:39:22,518
And this is three minutes
after the shooting?
578
00:39:22,629 --> 00:39:23,789
Give or take. Yeah.
579
00:39:23,897 --> 00:39:26,127
- And you were heading east or west?
- We were going west.
580
00:39:26,232 --> 00:39:28,462
All right, so you're
on Jackson going west.
581
00:39:28,568 --> 00:39:31,696
So the cab was one block
catty-corner southwest?
582
00:39:31,805 --> 00:39:33,466
- Correct.
- Did you slow down?
583
00:39:33,573 --> 00:39:35,234
- Of course we slowed down.
- All right.
584
00:39:35,341 --> 00:39:37,639
Listen, Dispatch said
it was a Negro male.
585
00:39:37,744 --> 00:39:39,006
That was corrected.
586
00:39:39,112 --> 00:39:41,774
No, but at the time
they hadn't changed it.
587
00:39:41,881 --> 00:39:43,940
This guy was white.
588
00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:45,881
Right, not in a hurry.
Kind of lumbering along like...
589
00:39:45,985 --> 00:39:48,579
Lumbering?
What do you mean, "lumbering"?
590
00:39:49,889 --> 00:39:52,585
- Shuffling.
- Stocky? Had a crew cut?
591
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,790
Yeah, that's all correct.
592
00:39:55,895 --> 00:39:57,624
Listen, it was dark.
593
00:39:58,565 --> 00:40:00,590
The guy was wearing a dark jacket.
There's no way...
594
00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:03,191
He would have been covered in blood.
595
00:40:04,804 --> 00:40:06,396
Did you stop him?
596
00:40:08,475 --> 00:40:10,238
Did you talk to him?
597
00:40:10,844 --> 00:40:12,778
- Yes? No?
- No.
598
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,170
You need to get with a sketch artist.
599
00:40:15,281 --> 00:40:18,273
We have to put out
a new composite right away.
600
00:40:21,187 --> 00:40:24,247
Five persons have been murdered
in the San Francisco area,
601
00:40:24,424 --> 00:40:25,823
and in each case the killer...
602
00:40:25,925 --> 00:40:28,416
"I shall wipe out a school bus
some morning..."
603
00:40:28,528 --> 00:40:30,155
San Francisco police...
604
00:40:32,031 --> 00:40:34,761
...to see the Stones in concert
this Sunday.
605
00:40:34,868 --> 00:40:36,927
The new letters
from the Zodiac Killer were sent to
606
00:40:37,036 --> 00:40:38,970
the City room of the
San Francisco Chronicle.
607
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,965
Looming. No looming.
608
00:40:43,076 --> 00:40:46,170
- Have you considered the water theory?
- What?
609
00:40:46,279 --> 00:40:48,941
Geographically, every attack
takes place near a body of water
610
00:40:49,048 --> 00:40:50,345
- or a water-based name.
- This is your water theory?
611
00:40:50,450 --> 00:40:52,884
Lake Berryessa. Blue Rock Springs.
Lake Herman.
612
00:40:52,986 --> 00:40:55,147
Wash-ington and Cherry?
613
00:40:57,123 --> 00:40:58,715
You think?
614
00:40:58,825 --> 00:40:59,849
No.
615
00:40:59,959 --> 00:41:01,358
I'm reading this book,
616
00:41:01,461 --> 00:41:03,088
Homicide Investigation
by Lemoyne Snyder...
617
00:41:03,196 --> 00:41:04,595
- "Leymone."
- ...and he says you look for patterns,
618
00:41:04,697 --> 00:41:06,790
- so I'm looking for patterns.
- No.
619
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:09,232
You can't think of this case
in normal police terms.
620
00:41:09,335 --> 00:41:11,496
- Why not?
- You got four crime scenes:
621
00:41:11,604 --> 00:41:14,505
Solano, Vallejo, Berryessa, and here.
622
00:41:14,607 --> 00:41:18,634
Not a single usable print
at the first three or in any of the letters?
623
00:41:18,745 --> 00:41:22,237
How does our master criminal come
to the city and leave a bloody latent?
624
00:41:22,348 --> 00:41:24,908
I mean, assuming the gloves are his,
625
00:41:25,018 --> 00:41:26,713
he shoots the cabbie
and then takes them off?
626
00:41:26,819 --> 00:41:27,979
So it's not his print?
627
00:41:28,087 --> 00:41:29,850
Maybe, maybe not.
You're missing the point.
628
00:41:29,956 --> 00:41:32,550
- The point is the first attack...
- David Faraday and Betty Jensen.
629
00:41:32,659 --> 00:41:34,217
They both die.
630
00:41:34,327 --> 00:41:36,795
From there on out,
he only manages to kill the girls.
631
00:41:36,896 --> 00:41:38,830
- Not for lack of trying.
- Not for lack of trying.
632
00:41:38,932 --> 00:41:42,459
Mageau lives, Ferrin dies.
Hartnell lives, Shepard dies.
633
00:41:42,569 --> 00:41:45,936
He gets so caught up with the women
he forgets to finish off the men.
634
00:41:46,039 --> 00:41:48,371
Plus, they're all couples
and all on lover's lanes.
635
00:41:48,474 --> 00:41:50,305
- Paul Stine is not.
- Exactly.
636
00:41:50,410 --> 00:41:52,537
Single, male cab driver
on Washington and Cherry doesn't fit.
637
00:41:52,645 --> 00:41:54,010
Doesn't fit.
638
00:41:54,981 --> 00:41:57,245
So, why does Zodiac kill him?
639
00:42:00,086 --> 00:42:02,077
He's breaking the pattern.
640
00:42:11,297 --> 00:42:12,321
Yeah?
641
00:42:12,432 --> 00:42:15,663
Someone claiming to be Zodiac
called Oakland PD a half-hour ago.
642
00:42:15,768 --> 00:42:19,363
He says he's gonna call in on Jim
Dunbar's morning show in three hours.
643
00:42:19,606 --> 00:42:20,664
On television?
644
00:42:20,773 --> 00:42:22,832
He wants Melvin Belli on
to counsel him.
645
00:42:22,942 --> 00:42:25,035
All right. All right.
Let's go wake up Melvin.
646
00:42:27,513 --> 00:42:29,378
Animal crackers?
647
00:42:29,482 --> 00:42:30,779
Glove box.
648
00:42:30,883 --> 00:42:32,578
Are these windows bulletproof?
649
00:42:32,685 --> 00:42:35,210
Yes, Melvin.
You don't have to lie down back there.
650
00:42:35,321 --> 00:42:36,515
This man is a marksman,
651
00:42:36,623 --> 00:42:39,456
could snuff me out
at a moment's notice.
652
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:40,924
Are you sure you're up for this?
653
00:42:41,027 --> 00:42:45,464
Don't you worry about me, Inspector.
I'll be fine when the lights are on.
654
00:42:45,565 --> 00:42:47,294
This man has asked for my help.
655
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,459
The man you're worrying about
snuffing you out?
656
00:42:49,569 --> 00:42:51,503
What are these, cookies?
657
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,264
Dear Lord, do you ever clean this car?
658
00:42:55,375 --> 00:42:58,708
- Shit.
- KGO must have tipped other stations.
659
00:43:08,655 --> 00:43:11,453
Get him talking.
Convince him to meet you somewhere.
660
00:43:11,557 --> 00:43:13,081
If you see an opportunity,
661
00:43:13,192 --> 00:43:15,820
we want you to suggest
Old St. Mary's Church in Chinatown.
662
00:43:15,928 --> 00:43:17,088
You'll be tracing the call?
663
00:43:17,196 --> 00:43:20,290
Pacific Telephone says you need to
keep him on the line for 15 minutes.
664
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,630
We can do that, can't we, Jim?
665
00:43:25,004 --> 00:43:27,336
Fifteen seconds. Clear the set.
666
00:43:33,713 --> 00:43:35,908
Here you go, you drunken reprobate.
667
00:43:36,015 --> 00:43:39,815
We interrupt our regular program
to bring you this news bulletin.
668
00:43:39,919 --> 00:43:41,887
Welcome to this special edition
of our show
669
00:43:41,988 --> 00:43:43,853
in which we are joined
by attorney Melvin Belli
670
00:43:43,956 --> 00:43:47,323
who the Zodiac Killer
personally requested to appear.
671
00:43:47,427 --> 00:43:49,258
Finish up, buddy, and put it in the sink.
672
00:43:49,362 --> 00:43:52,160
- Good morning, Melvin.
- Good morning, Jim.
673
00:43:52,332 --> 00:43:55,699
So, the phone lines are open.
Mr. Belli is here.
674
00:43:55,802 --> 00:43:56,826
Here to help, Jim.
675
00:43:56,936 --> 00:43:58,767
Yes. Here to help.
676
00:43:58,871 --> 00:44:03,570
And we ask the public not to call in,
so that the Zodiac himself can reach us.
677
00:44:12,652 --> 00:44:16,053
I saw your Star Trek, by the way.
It was excellent.
678
00:44:16,155 --> 00:44:18,089
A shame about the show.
679
00:44:18,191 --> 00:44:19,658
Good people.
680
00:44:19,759 --> 00:44:23,388
You know, I've often thought of
becoming an actor full-time.
681
00:44:23,496 --> 00:44:24,861
What was your character's name?
682
00:44:24,964 --> 00:44:27,159
- Gorgon.
- Gorgon. That's right.
683
00:44:28,701 --> 00:44:30,601
Roll the tape. Get the tape.
684
00:44:30,703 --> 00:44:32,967
Jim, we have a call. We're going live.
685
00:44:34,474 --> 00:44:35,668
Hello?
686
00:44:39,245 --> 00:44:41,406
Hello? This is Melvin Belli.
687
00:44:42,582 --> 00:44:44,447
Who am I speaking with?
688
00:44:44,851 --> 00:44:47,251
This is the Zodiac speaking.
689
00:44:50,323 --> 00:44:54,191
Is there something I can call you
that's a little less ominous?
690
00:44:56,229 --> 00:44:57,526
Sam.
691
00:44:57,897 --> 00:44:59,865
- Sam.
- Yes.
692
00:44:59,966 --> 00:45:03,424
Sam, do you think
you need medical care?
693
00:45:03,536 --> 00:45:05,401
Medical, not mental.
694
00:45:05,505 --> 00:45:07,803
Do you have health problems?
695
00:45:07,907 --> 00:45:09,636
I'm sick. I have headaches.
696
00:45:09,742 --> 00:45:11,471
Headaches?
697
00:45:11,577 --> 00:45:12,908
I have headaches, too,
698
00:45:13,012 --> 00:45:15,708
but a chiropractor stopped them
a week ago.
699
00:45:15,815 --> 00:45:17,612
I think I can help you, Sam.
700
00:45:20,052 --> 00:45:21,314
Sam?
701
00:45:23,256 --> 00:45:25,724
He knows they're tracing his calls.
702
00:45:29,395 --> 00:45:33,422
Sam, we'd like you to know
that we are not tracing these calls.
703
00:45:33,533 --> 00:45:37,765
It's a long, difficult process
and ineffective with these short calls.
704
00:45:43,276 --> 00:45:44,334
Sam?
705
00:45:46,612 --> 00:45:49,706
We're not tracing these calls.
You have my word.
706
00:45:50,616 --> 00:45:51,776
Okay.
707
00:45:52,285 --> 00:45:55,550
Sam, you need to tell me
what your problem is.
708
00:45:55,655 --> 00:45:57,520
I don't want to go to the gas chamber.
709
00:45:57,623 --> 00:46:00,114
I have headaches.
I kill, I don't get them.
710
00:46:00,226 --> 00:46:01,557
That is fucked up!
711
00:46:01,661 --> 00:46:05,119
You want to live, don't you?
Well, this is your passport.
712
00:46:05,231 --> 00:46:07,028
How long have you been
having these headaches?
713
00:46:07,133 --> 00:46:08,930
Since I killed a kid.
714
00:46:10,336 --> 00:46:11,701
I don't want to be hurt.
715
00:46:11,804 --> 00:46:14,034
- Why is he calling?
- Hey, just a second, buddy.
716
00:46:14,140 --> 00:46:15,801
You won't get hurt if you talk to me.
717
00:46:15,908 --> 00:46:18,900
And you're not going
to the gas chamber.
718
00:46:19,011 --> 00:46:21,673
I wouldn't think they would ask
for capital punishment.
719
00:46:21,781 --> 00:46:23,646
We should ask the District Attorney.
720
00:46:23,749 --> 00:46:25,808
Do you want me to do that, Sam?
721
00:46:25,918 --> 00:46:28,614
Do you want me to talk
to the District Attorney?
722
00:46:32,492 --> 00:46:34,221
What was that, Sam?
723
00:46:35,228 --> 00:46:37,321
I did not say anything.
724
00:46:37,430 --> 00:46:39,330
We heard a scream.
725
00:46:40,132 --> 00:46:42,259
That was my headache.
726
00:46:43,069 --> 00:46:46,038
You sound like you're in
a great deal of pain.
727
00:46:46,806 --> 00:46:49,832
My head aches. I'm so sick.
728
00:46:51,711 --> 00:46:53,201
I'm gonna kill them.
729
00:46:53,312 --> 00:46:56,145
- Oh, okay.
- I'm gonna kill those kids!
730
00:46:56,249 --> 00:46:57,841
Fantastic.
731
00:47:00,419 --> 00:47:01,818
Sam?
732
00:47:03,356 --> 00:47:07,588
- Let's meet and talk. Just us.
- Okay.
733
00:47:07,727 --> 00:47:10,389
How about Old St. Mary's Church
in Chinatown?
734
00:47:10,496 --> 00:47:11,793
No.
735
00:47:11,898 --> 00:47:15,766
In front of the Daly City
St. Vincent de Paul at 10:30.
736
00:47:15,868 --> 00:47:17,597
I'll see you there.
737
00:47:19,372 --> 00:47:21,306
Take care of yourself, Sam.
738
00:47:45,498 --> 00:47:46,829
My, my, my.
739
00:47:46,933 --> 00:47:50,130
You fellows certainly know
how to put on a secret meeting.
740
00:47:54,607 --> 00:47:57,440
I don't want to go to the gas chamber.
I have headaches.
741
00:47:57,543 --> 00:47:59,568
I kill, I don't get them.
742
00:47:59,679 --> 00:48:01,306
No, it's not him.
743
00:48:02,381 --> 00:48:05,509
It's the voice.
The voice is too high. It's too young.
744
00:48:05,618 --> 00:48:08,314
All right.
Thanks for coming down, Bryan.
745
00:48:09,322 --> 00:48:11,153
That's okay. I got it.
746
00:48:17,363 --> 00:48:18,591
They pulled off the trace.
747
00:48:18,698 --> 00:48:21,758
Our Daly City no-show
called from a mental institution.
748
00:48:21,867 --> 00:48:23,732
Oakland PD's operator is sure
749
00:48:23,836 --> 00:48:26,304
the man she talked to
had a deeper voice.
750
00:48:26,405 --> 00:48:27,565
Calmer.
751
00:48:28,407 --> 00:48:30,568
Might have actually been him.
752
00:48:36,816 --> 00:48:39,751
"So I shall change
my way of collecting slaves.
753
00:48:40,152 --> 00:48:43,588
"I shall no longer announce to anyone
when I commit my murders.
754
00:48:43,689 --> 00:48:46,886
"They shall look like routine robberies,
killings of anger
755
00:48:46,993 --> 00:48:49,962
"and a few fake accidents, et cetera.
756
00:48:50,062 --> 00:48:51,395
"The police shall never catch me
757
00:48:51,497 --> 00:48:53,829
"because I have been
too clever for them.
758
00:48:53,933 --> 00:48:57,369
"I look like the description passed out
only when I do my thing.
759
00:48:57,470 --> 00:49:00,598
"The rest of the time
I look entirely different.
760
00:49:00,706 --> 00:49:05,507
"I shall not tell you what
my disguise consists of when I kill.
761
00:49:05,611 --> 00:49:08,136
"As of yet I have left no
fingerprints behind me,
762
00:49:08,247 --> 00:49:10,738
"contrary to what the police say.
763
00:49:10,850 --> 00:49:13,216
"I wear transparent fingertips.
764
00:49:14,186 --> 00:49:18,919
"All it is is two coats of airplane cement
coated on my fingertips.
765
00:49:19,025 --> 00:49:23,485
"I enjoy needling the blue pigs.
Hey, blue pig, I was in the park.
766
00:49:23,596 --> 00:49:29,057
"You were using fire trucks to mask
the sound of your cruising prowl cars.
767
00:49:29,168 --> 00:49:30,601
"Hey, pig, doesn't it rile you up
768
00:49:30,703 --> 00:49:33,797
"to have your nose
rubbed in your booboos?
769
00:49:33,906 --> 00:49:36,966
"If you cops think I am going to take
on a bus the way I stated I was,
770
00:49:37,076 --> 00:49:40,273
"you deserve to have holes
in your heads."
771
00:49:42,248 --> 00:49:44,409
And you need to look at this.
772
00:49:47,286 --> 00:49:49,652
"Take one bag of
ammonium nitrate fertilizer,
773
00:49:49,755 --> 00:49:51,416
"one gallon of stove oil,
774
00:49:51,524 --> 00:49:53,651
"and dump a few bags
of gravel on top..."
775
00:49:53,759 --> 00:49:55,488
- Okay.
- It's a bomb.
776
00:49:55,594 --> 00:49:57,357
Okay. We gotta call the Army
and see if this
777
00:49:57,463 --> 00:50:00,193
science experiment could actually work.
778
00:50:00,299 --> 00:50:01,823
Another cipher.
779
00:50:04,070 --> 00:50:06,732
- When did these arrive?
- They arrived this morning.
780
00:50:06,839 --> 00:50:08,238
Are you planning to publish?
781
00:50:08,340 --> 00:50:09,534
Robert.
782
00:50:11,043 --> 00:50:12,840
We should have a drink.
783
00:50:16,882 --> 00:50:18,247
Thank you.
784
00:50:20,352 --> 00:50:22,582
So, tell me about yourself.
785
00:50:22,688 --> 00:50:25,816
- You married?
- Divorced. Two kids.
786
00:50:27,226 --> 00:50:29,091
What do you do for fun?
787
00:50:30,629 --> 00:50:32,256
I love to read.
788
00:50:33,199 --> 00:50:35,667
- I enjoy books.
- Those are the same things.
789
00:50:35,768 --> 00:50:38,259
Why you been going through my trash?
790
00:50:40,973 --> 00:50:42,838
I'll come back to that.
791
00:50:43,542 --> 00:50:45,203
How did you know
he was gonna send another code?
792
00:50:45,311 --> 00:50:47,040
I just guessed.
793
00:50:47,146 --> 00:50:49,307
- Just guessed.
- The first one seemed too easy.
794
00:50:49,415 --> 00:50:51,747
All right, this can no longer be ignored.
795
00:50:51,851 --> 00:50:55,446
- What is that you're drinking?
- It's an Aqua Velva.
796
00:50:55,554 --> 00:50:58,455
You wouldn't make fun of it
if you tried it.
797
00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:10,300
But who actually cracked the code?
798
00:51:11,170 --> 00:51:13,400
A married couple who like puzzles.
799
00:51:13,506 --> 00:51:15,667
So what's that tell us about the Zodiac?
800
00:51:15,775 --> 00:51:17,072
- He's no expert.
- Right.
801
00:51:17,176 --> 00:51:18,837
It's just a simple substitution code
802
00:51:18,944 --> 00:51:21,139
like the one that
we used to do as boy scouts.
803
00:51:21,247 --> 00:51:22,771
"A" is one, "B" is two.
804
00:51:22,882 --> 00:51:24,315
We weren't all boy scouts, Robert.
805
00:51:24,416 --> 00:51:27,943
Well, it's not that hard.
You just got to know where to start.
806
00:51:28,053 --> 00:51:29,816
In the first cipher...
807
00:51:29,922 --> 00:51:31,150
You actually carry that around with you?
808
00:51:31,257 --> 00:51:32,952
- Why?
- No reason.
809
00:51:34,093 --> 00:51:37,529
What's the most common double
consonant in the English language?
810
00:51:37,630 --> 00:51:38,722
Consonant?
811
00:51:38,831 --> 00:51:40,128
- The double "L."
- Double "L."
812
00:51:40,232 --> 00:51:44,066
And what's the one word that we know
that he'll use in here, at least once?
813
00:51:44,170 --> 00:51:45,398
- "Kill."
- Right, "kill."
814
00:51:45,504 --> 00:51:46,801
So the Hardens start looking
for double symbols,
815
00:51:46,906 --> 00:51:48,874
which they find here, here, and here.
816
00:51:48,974 --> 00:51:51,408
Each with the same
two symbols preceding them.
817
00:51:51,510 --> 00:51:53,444
So now they've got
a repeating four-letter word
818
00:51:53,546 --> 00:51:55,707
ending with two symbols
that they assume stand for "L."
819
00:51:55,815 --> 00:51:57,442
And since they think the whole word
is "kill" then...
820
00:51:57,550 --> 00:52:00,451
Then you got your "K," you got your "I,"
and you're on your way.
821
00:52:00,553 --> 00:52:02,544
But how do you go
from "A" is one and "B" is two
822
00:52:02,655 --> 00:52:04,020
to figuring out this whole code?
823
00:52:04,123 --> 00:52:06,990
Well, same way I did.
You go to the library.
824
00:52:10,329 --> 00:52:12,263
In this book,
825
00:52:12,364 --> 00:52:16,425
the author presents a very simple
substitution code in the preface.
826
00:52:16,535 --> 00:52:19,333
Eight of the 26 symbols that
he suggests are found in this cipher.
827
00:52:19,438 --> 00:52:20,996
Yeah, but there are non-letter symbols
828
00:52:21,106 --> 00:52:22,334
because there's all
these medieval ones.
829
00:52:22,441 --> 00:52:24,102
I thought they looked medieval, too.
830
00:52:25,778 --> 00:52:27,678
But then I found a code
written in the Middle Ages.
831
00:52:27,780 --> 00:52:28,804
Guess what it's called?
832
00:52:29,782 --> 00:52:31,545
The Zodiac Alphabet.
833
00:52:33,352 --> 00:52:34,546
Jesus.
834
00:52:35,588 --> 00:52:37,146
What do you want out of this?
835
00:52:37,256 --> 00:52:38,746
- What?
- What's your angle?
836
00:52:38,858 --> 00:52:41,452
This is good business
for everyone but you.
837
00:52:44,830 --> 00:52:46,764
How do you mean "business"?
838
00:52:49,668 --> 00:52:52,034
Hey. Come to bed.
839
00:52:52,137 --> 00:52:55,402
I'll be up in a minute.
I need to make a phone call.
840
00:53:07,019 --> 00:53:08,680
- Hello?
- Bill?
841
00:53:09,688 --> 00:53:11,280
There's not many basements
in California.
842
00:53:12,024 --> 00:53:14,185
"Basement for future use."
843
00:53:14,293 --> 00:53:15,783
That's right.
844
00:53:15,895 --> 00:53:19,524
I'll have Vallejo and Napa
check with their city planners.
845
00:53:19,632 --> 00:53:21,827
- Get some sleep.
- Yeah, sure.
846
00:53:34,780 --> 00:53:37,613
"Dear Melvin,
this is the Zodiac speaking.
847
00:53:37,716 --> 00:53:39,877
"I wish you a happy Christmas.
848
00:53:39,985 --> 00:53:43,421
"The one thing I ask of you is this.
Please help me.
849
00:53:43,522 --> 00:53:46,923
"I cannot reach out for help
because this thing in me won't let me."
850
00:53:47,026 --> 00:53:48,357
Thank you.
851
00:53:48,460 --> 00:53:51,554
"I am finding it extremely difficult
to hold it in check
852
00:53:51,664 --> 00:53:54,394
"and I am afraid I will lose control again
853
00:53:54,500 --> 00:53:57,298
"and take my ninth
and possibly tenth victim."
854
00:53:57,403 --> 00:53:59,701
Melvin, he's reaching out to you.
855
00:53:59,805 --> 00:54:01,136
Absolutely.
856
00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:04,767
Inspectors, he sent this letter
directly to my residence.
857
00:54:04,877 --> 00:54:07,903
It is a cry for help,
intended as a private communiqué.
858
00:54:08,013 --> 00:54:10,140
Which is why
you contacted the Chronicle.
859
00:54:10,249 --> 00:54:13,241
The people have a right to know.
Toddy?
860
00:54:13,352 --> 00:54:16,651
- When did the letter arrive?
- In the middle of last week.
861
00:54:16,755 --> 00:54:18,655
It is my belief
that he only penned this letter
862
00:54:18,757 --> 00:54:21,783
because he couldn't get through to me
on the Dunbar show or here.
863
00:54:21,894 --> 00:54:24,419
- He tried to contact you here?
- Several times.
864
00:54:24,530 --> 00:54:26,657
I was out,
but he spoke with my housekeeper.
865
00:54:26,765 --> 00:54:27,959
Didn't leave a number.
866
00:54:28,067 --> 00:54:30,467
He's kind of crafty like that.
Do you mind if I speak to her?
867
00:54:30,569 --> 00:54:33,663
Not at all. But the real story is the letter.
868
00:54:33,772 --> 00:54:35,569
- I'll be back.
- Yeah.
869
00:54:35,674 --> 00:54:37,073
She's right this way.
870
00:54:37,176 --> 00:54:42,512
Inspector Toschi, it is my belief
this is a window into this man's soul.
871
00:54:42,614 --> 00:54:44,309
Killing is his compulsion.
872
00:54:44,416 --> 00:54:47,010
Even though he tries to ignore it,
it drives him.
873
00:54:47,119 --> 00:54:48,143
It's in his blood.
874
00:54:48,253 --> 00:54:51,313
Could be.
Or maybe he just likes the attention.
875
00:55:35,167 --> 00:55:40,605
I didn't mean to scare you,
but your right rear wheel is loose.
876
00:55:40,706 --> 00:55:41,934
Really?
877
00:55:42,041 --> 00:55:45,169
If you like,
I could tighten the lugs up for you.
878
00:55:47,780 --> 00:55:48,906
If you don't mind.
879
00:55:49,014 --> 00:55:51,482
Well, you can't be too careful.
880
00:56:25,918 --> 00:56:28,318
- All done.
- Thank you.
881
00:56:28,420 --> 00:56:30,650
No problem. Have a good night.
882
00:56:35,527 --> 00:56:36,824
It's okay.
883
00:57:31,183 --> 00:57:32,810
Are you okay?
884
00:57:34,419 --> 00:57:37,081
Yeah. Yeah, we're fine.
885
00:57:37,923 --> 00:57:40,357
Must have been worse than I thought.
886
00:57:40,459 --> 00:57:43,326
I can give you a lift to a service station.
887
00:57:45,464 --> 00:57:46,556
Okay.
888
00:57:52,838 --> 00:57:54,863
It's okay. Come on.
889
00:58:02,748 --> 00:58:04,909
I didn't know you had a baby.
890
00:58:06,585 --> 00:58:08,246
Oh, is that okay?
891
00:58:09,788 --> 00:58:11,585
The more the merrier.
892
00:58:21,300 --> 00:58:23,928
You shouldn't smoke. It's a bad habit.
893
00:58:30,309 --> 00:58:33,938
- I think we just passed a filling station.
- It was closed.
894
00:58:39,418 --> 00:58:42,478
Do you always go around
helping people in the night?
895
00:58:42,588 --> 00:58:45,853
When I'm done with them,
they don't need much help.
896
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:49,957
It's okay.
897
00:58:50,596 --> 00:58:52,587
Before I kill you,
898
00:58:52,698 --> 00:58:55,292
I'm gonna throw your baby
out the window.
899
00:59:09,648 --> 00:59:12,310
No! Help! Please! No!
900
00:59:19,157 --> 00:59:22,058
She was on the side of the road.
She flagged me down.
901
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:23,787
- What happened to her?
- She said she jumped from a car.
902
00:59:23,895 --> 00:59:25,726
I found her like this.
903
00:59:25,831 --> 00:59:28,732
- What is it?
- Please, he said...
904
00:59:28,834 --> 00:59:31,667
- It'll be okay.
- Tried to kill me.
905
00:59:31,770 --> 00:59:33,260
My baby!
906
00:59:33,372 --> 00:59:36,773
- Where's her baby?
- She didn't have one when I stopped.
907
00:59:36,875 --> 00:59:38,502
Where's your baby?
908
00:59:45,017 --> 00:59:46,211
Jesus.
909
00:59:53,925 --> 00:59:56,359
- You hid it?
- In case he came back.
910
01:00:11,276 --> 01:00:12,766
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
911
01:00:13,378 --> 01:00:16,245
"By the way, have you cracked
the last cipher I sent you?
912
01:00:16,615 --> 01:00:20,346
"I'm mildly curious as to how much
money you have on my head now.
913
01:00:20,452 --> 01:00:24,183
"I hope you do not think I was the one
who wiped out that blue meanie
914
01:00:24,289 --> 01:00:26,314
"with a bomb at the cop station,
915
01:00:26,425 --> 01:00:28,893
"even though I talked about
killing children with one."
916
01:00:28,994 --> 01:00:30,427
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
917
01:00:30,529 --> 01:00:33,794
"I'd like to see some nice Zodiac
buttons wandering around town.
918
01:00:34,599 --> 01:00:36,089
"Everyone else has these buttons
919
01:00:36,201 --> 01:00:39,796
"like peace, black power,
and Melvin eats blubber, et cetera.
920
01:00:39,905 --> 01:00:41,236
"It would cheer me up considerably
921
01:00:41,340 --> 01:00:43,399
"if I saw a lot of people
wearing my button.
922
01:00:43,909 --> 01:00:46,377
- "Please no nasty ones."
- "This is the Zodiac speaking.
923
01:00:46,611 --> 01:00:49,512
"I shot a man
sitting in a parked car with a .38.
924
01:00:49,614 --> 01:00:52,879
"Zodiac 12, SFPD zero."
925
01:00:52,984 --> 01:00:56,351
"The map coupled with this code
will tell you where the bomb is set.
926
01:00:56,455 --> 01:00:59,151
"You have until next fall to dig it up."
927
01:01:01,660 --> 01:01:03,127
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
928
01:01:03,228 --> 01:01:04,889
"I'm rather unhappy because you people
929
01:01:04,996 --> 01:01:06,588
"will not wear
some nice Zodiac buttons.
930
01:01:06,698 --> 01:01:09,098
"So, I now have a little list,
starting with the woman and her baby
931
01:01:09,201 --> 01:01:10,998
"that I gave a rather interesting ride
932
01:01:11,103 --> 01:01:13,264
"for a couple of hours one evening,
a few months back,
933
01:01:13,372 --> 01:01:15,602
"that ended in my burning her car
where I found them."
934
01:01:15,707 --> 01:01:17,902
We're really not gonna run
any more of his letters?
935
01:01:18,009 --> 01:01:20,500
The new policy. Our brothers in blue
want us to hold back
936
01:01:20,612 --> 01:01:22,239
and see how he reacts.
937
01:01:22,347 --> 01:01:24,440
Four letters in three months,
938
01:01:24,549 --> 01:01:27,484
and this is the first mention
of Kathleen Johns. That's very weird.
939
01:01:27,586 --> 01:01:30,885
That's because he's full of shit.
940
01:01:32,257 --> 01:01:33,884
What do you mean?
941
01:01:35,060 --> 01:01:36,584
You don't know?
942
01:01:38,029 --> 01:01:42,796
Welcome. Please put your stuff down.
You're going down five rows and left.
943
01:01:42,901 --> 01:01:45,495
Looking for the Modesto Bee
from March.
944
01:01:45,604 --> 01:01:48,630
I'm going to stand here
and attempt not to vomit.
945
01:01:48,740 --> 01:01:50,708
- Left.
- Left.
946
01:01:51,743 --> 01:01:54,234
- What am I looking for?
- Kathleen Johns.
947
01:01:54,346 --> 01:01:55,677
Also probably you wanna
pull the Chron from...
948
01:01:55,781 --> 01:01:58,909
You know, never mind. I'll see to that.
949
01:01:59,785 --> 01:02:02,310
Okay, look at this letter again.
The part about Kathleen Johns.
950
01:02:02,421 --> 01:02:04,286
Tell me what facts he gives.
951
01:02:04,389 --> 01:02:07,552
- A woman and her baby abducted.
- Fact.
952
01:02:09,761 --> 01:02:11,922
- The car on fire.
- Okay, now,
953
01:02:13,198 --> 01:02:15,598
look at the article from the Bee.
954
01:02:16,501 --> 01:02:18,059
Seen it yet?
955
01:02:18,170 --> 01:02:20,070
Everything in the letter
already appeared in the article.
956
01:02:20,172 --> 01:02:22,106
And he's done it before.
957
01:02:23,308 --> 01:02:25,936
Officer Richard Radetich,
shot sitting in his car.
958
01:02:26,044 --> 01:02:28,205
Zodiac claimed that he shot someone
in their car.
959
01:02:28,313 --> 01:02:31,578
Couple days after this article came out.
960
01:02:31,783 --> 01:02:33,546
The police already had somebody
in custody.
961
01:02:33,685 --> 01:02:36,245
Zodiac didn't do it,
but took credit for it anyway
962
01:02:36,354 --> 01:02:38,652
because he's in it for the press.
963
01:02:38,757 --> 01:02:40,122
He even stole his symbol.
964
01:02:40,225 --> 01:02:42,489
- What?
- Yeah. Shit.
965
01:02:42,594 --> 01:02:44,255
If I show you something,
you promise not to tell anyone?
966
01:02:44,362 --> 01:02:47,627
- Who would I tell?
- Okay. Totally solid point. Okay.
967
01:02:55,474 --> 01:02:57,169
That's the only place
that word and that symbol
968
01:02:57,275 --> 01:02:59,705
ever appeared together
before the letters.
969
01:02:59,811 --> 01:03:01,301
The guy stole his logo off a watch.
970
01:03:01,413 --> 01:03:02,744
How can somebody
who's killed 13 people do...
971
01:03:02,848 --> 01:03:04,076
He claims he's killed 13 people,
972
01:03:04,182 --> 01:03:05,877
but which ones
can we actually confirm?
973
01:03:05,984 --> 01:03:10,011
There's three in Vallejo,
one in Berryessa, the cabbie. That's it.
974
01:03:11,456 --> 01:03:13,947
Bobby, you almost look disappointed.
975
01:03:14,860 --> 01:03:17,328
Chief's pulling everybody off buses.
976
01:03:17,963 --> 01:03:19,521
Business as usual.
977
01:03:19,631 --> 01:03:21,292
Something'll shake loose.
978
01:03:21,399 --> 01:03:23,594
Not a peep in four months.
979
01:03:23,702 --> 01:03:26,136
First he won't shut up and now...
980
01:03:26,238 --> 01:03:28,502
Maybe we drove him underground.
981
01:03:29,174 --> 01:03:30,766
Maybe he's gone.
982
01:03:31,843 --> 01:03:34,869
311 at 582 Haight, cross at Biltmore.
There's a male...
983
01:03:34,980 --> 01:03:37,175
- Happy birthday, Bill.
- Thanks.
984
01:03:47,359 --> 01:03:49,691
Does it ever bother you
that people call you Shorty?
985
01:03:49,794 --> 01:03:52,285
Does it bother you
that people call you a retard?
986
01:03:52,397 --> 01:03:55,195
- Nobody calls me that.
- Right.
987
01:03:55,300 --> 01:03:58,701
As governor,
I pledge to use all my influence
988
01:03:59,004 --> 01:04:02,997
to make sure that Darlene Ferrin's killer
is brought to justice.
989
01:04:03,708 --> 01:04:08,270
I believe some clues were overlooked
in the murder of Darlene Ferrin.
990
01:04:08,380 --> 01:04:10,211
- I believe her murder was premeditated.
- Who is that?
991
01:04:10,315 --> 01:04:13,307
Florence Douglas, mayor of Vallejo.
She's running for governor.
992
01:04:13,418 --> 01:04:16,410
I believe that the police department
either did not have the money, the time
993
01:04:16,521 --> 01:04:18,386
or, yes, the inclination...
994
01:04:18,490 --> 01:04:21,857
Sayonara, police endorsement.
Good work, Flo.
995
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,554
Does anyone ever call me names, or...
996
01:04:25,664 --> 01:04:27,529
You mean like retard?
997
01:04:27,632 --> 01:04:28,860
Yeah.
998
01:04:29,834 --> 01:04:30,892
No.
999
01:04:35,206 --> 01:04:39,233
Shit. Fuck. Oh, my God. Jesus.
1000
01:04:43,481 --> 01:04:45,108
Tell me that's not a piece
of bloody shirt!
1001
01:04:45,450 --> 01:04:47,077
Fuck! Holy fucking crap!
1002
01:04:47,185 --> 01:04:49,745
"I feel it in my bones,
you ache to know my name
1003
01:04:49,854 --> 01:04:51,981
"and so I'll clue you in.
1004
01:04:52,090 --> 01:04:55,184
"But then, why spoil the game?
Happy Halloween."
1005
01:04:56,661 --> 01:05:00,153
Paul, you did call him
a latent homosexual
1006
01:05:00,265 --> 01:05:01,857
in at least one of your articles.
1007
01:05:01,967 --> 01:05:04,265
Dave. I want a gun.
1008
01:05:07,072 --> 01:05:08,369
A gun?
1009
01:05:13,078 --> 01:05:14,670
You're in Herb Caen.
1010
01:05:14,779 --> 01:05:17,145
"Paul Avery's investigation
has won him the accolade
1011
01:05:17,248 --> 01:05:20,376
"of a message from the Zodiac warning,
'You are doomed.'
1012
01:05:20,485 --> 01:05:23,784
"As a result, several crime newsmen
are wearing lapel buttons reading,
1013
01:05:23,888 --> 01:05:25,981
"'I am not Paul Avery."'
1014
01:05:26,091 --> 01:05:28,150
You should sell these.
You could do well.
1015
01:05:28,259 --> 01:05:30,921
It's been a windfall, since
they published the threat on my life.
1016
01:05:31,029 --> 01:05:32,724
I got the leads
coming out of the woodwork.
1017
01:05:32,831 --> 01:05:35,231
There's one guy down in Riverside.
1018
01:05:35,333 --> 01:05:36,994
I'm gonna drive down
and see him tonight.
1019
01:05:37,102 --> 01:05:40,799
- You wanna tag along?
- No, I have a date.
1020
01:05:41,473 --> 01:05:43,771
- Really?
- Who is this guy?
1021
01:05:43,875 --> 01:05:47,436
He wishes to remain anonymous.
I wish to remain infamous.
1022
01:05:47,545 --> 01:05:51,845
So we're going to get along great.
1023
01:05:58,556 --> 01:06:01,252
Hi. Good evening. Hi.
I'm looking for a Melanie.
1024
01:06:01,359 --> 01:06:03,224
Yes.
It's the young lady sitting by herself.
1025
01:06:03,328 --> 01:06:04,659
Thank you.
1026
01:06:10,935 --> 01:06:12,334
You must be Melanie.
1027
01:06:12,437 --> 01:06:14,337
- Which would make you Robert.
- It would.
1028
01:06:14,439 --> 01:06:17,636
Glynnis told me lots about you.
1029
01:06:17,742 --> 01:06:19,437
- And you have wine, great.
- I do.
1030
01:06:19,544 --> 01:06:21,444
Great. How late am I?
1031
01:06:23,348 --> 01:06:25,873
Just a few minutes, really.
I just got here myself.
1032
01:06:25,984 --> 01:06:29,044
Traffic's bumper to bumper.
I was at the gun range.
1033
01:06:29,154 --> 01:06:32,214
- Glynnis said you were a cartoonist.
- Oh, yeah.
1034
01:06:32,323 --> 01:06:34,154
Well, what're you doing at a gun range?
1035
01:06:34,259 --> 01:06:35,817
Reading.
1036
01:06:35,927 --> 01:06:38,828
Get some more...
You need some more napkins.
1037
01:06:40,131 --> 01:06:42,326
So, you work with Glynnis.
1038
01:06:42,434 --> 01:06:44,368
- For her, actually.
- For her?
1039
01:06:44,469 --> 01:06:46,096
Oh, well...
1040
01:06:47,972 --> 01:06:50,031
My children are terrified of Glynnis.
1041
01:06:50,141 --> 01:06:51,403
Me, too.
1042
01:06:54,813 --> 01:06:55,939
So, the gun range?
1043
01:06:56,047 --> 01:06:59,016
We're... I'm working on...
Do you know the Zodiac?
1044
01:06:59,117 --> 01:07:00,414
- Yeah.
- I'm working with...
1045
01:07:00,518 --> 01:07:02,986
- Do you know who Paul Avery is?
- Sounds kind of familiar.
1046
01:07:03,088 --> 01:07:04,817
He's the writer
that the Zodiac threatened.
1047
01:07:04,923 --> 01:07:06,390
Oh, yeah, I saw that on TV.
1048
01:07:06,491 --> 01:07:09,358
Well, I work near him
and he's going down tonight
1049
01:07:09,461 --> 01:07:12,624
to track an anonymous tipster
down in Riverside.
1050
01:07:13,798 --> 01:07:15,857
Where is Riverside?
1051
01:07:15,967 --> 01:07:17,434
It's near L.A.
1052
01:07:17,535 --> 01:07:21,130
Oh, wow. I don't think Paul knows
that it's that far away.
1053
01:07:23,341 --> 01:07:25,332
Sounds kind of dangerous.
1054
01:07:26,611 --> 01:07:29,512
Yeah. How do you mean?
1055
01:07:29,614 --> 01:07:32,014
Well, you said it was
an anonymous tip, right?
1056
01:07:32,117 --> 01:07:33,550
Yeah.
1057
01:07:33,651 --> 01:07:37,178
So it could be an ambush.
I mean, it could be the Zodiac.
1058
01:07:38,723 --> 01:07:41,123
Don't you think it's kind of stupid?
1059
01:07:41,226 --> 01:07:43,854
Yeah, yeah. Well, Paul has a gun.
1060
01:07:47,699 --> 01:07:50,167
So, do you know what's good here?
1061
01:07:52,003 --> 01:07:54,130
I've never been here before.
1062
01:07:56,274 --> 01:07:58,242
The pasta, spaghetti?
1063
01:07:59,978 --> 01:08:02,037
Are you ready to order yet?
1064
01:08:03,114 --> 01:08:05,912
Yeah, I'll have the penne vodka.
But could you do it in a cream sauce?
1065
01:08:06,017 --> 01:08:07,314
Of course.
1066
01:08:12,290 --> 01:08:14,485
Maybe give us another minute?
1067
01:08:16,361 --> 01:08:18,295
Do you have any change?
1068
01:08:18,396 --> 01:08:20,557
Oh, wait, no wait, hold on.
1069
01:08:20,665 --> 01:08:22,189
Nope. That's a penny.
1070
01:08:22,300 --> 01:08:23,699
Do you have to make a phone call?
1071
01:08:23,802 --> 01:08:27,260
Yeah, you know,
when you were saying that the Zodiac...
1072
01:08:27,739 --> 01:08:29,536
You know, when you said it
was dangerous, I just thought
1073
01:08:29,641 --> 01:08:31,666
- that it is dangerous, and it's...
- Stupid?
1074
01:08:31,776 --> 01:08:33,073
Stupid. And I just thought
1075
01:08:33,178 --> 01:08:37,171
that I should call his wife
and just see if she's heard from him.
1076
01:08:39,551 --> 01:08:40,984
I have some change.
1077
01:09:00,171 --> 01:09:03,470
Okay. Well, she said
she'd call when she heard from him.
1078
01:09:03,575 --> 01:09:05,008
- Good.
- Yeah.
1079
01:09:06,411 --> 01:09:09,847
Melanie, I should really go home
and wait for the call.
1080
01:09:12,984 --> 01:09:16,442
Is this some sleazy plan
to get me to go home with you?
1081
01:09:17,155 --> 01:09:18,622
What? No.
1082
01:09:21,125 --> 01:09:23,093
I'll get the food to go.
1083
01:09:24,796 --> 01:09:25,922
Hello!
1084
01:09:42,146 --> 01:09:44,979
Hi! I'm supposed
to meet somebody here.
1085
01:10:03,234 --> 01:10:04,633
Anything?
1086
01:10:08,273 --> 01:10:09,535
You don't have to stay.
1087
01:10:09,641 --> 01:10:11,074
Are you kidding?
1088
01:10:11,175 --> 01:10:14,269
This is the most interesting date
I've ever had.
1089
01:10:18,549 --> 01:10:19,641
- Paul?
- Robert?
1090
01:10:19,751 --> 01:10:21,309
- Yes.
- You sitting down?
1091
01:10:21,419 --> 01:10:22,511
Yes.
1092
01:10:22,620 --> 01:10:24,417
You're not gonna believe this.
1093
01:10:24,522 --> 01:10:25,511
Dave!
1094
01:10:25,623 --> 01:10:28,217
In a bizarre twist,
the hunted has become hunter.
1095
01:10:28,326 --> 01:10:32,092
San Francisco Chronicle reporter
and Zodiac target Paul Avery
1096
01:10:32,196 --> 01:10:34,255
claims to have uncovered
new information
1097
01:10:34,365 --> 01:10:38,825
regarding the only unsolved homicide
in Riverside County's history,
1098
01:10:38,937 --> 01:10:42,100
a 1966 Southern California murder,
1099
01:10:42,206 --> 01:10:45,266
that Avery now believes
was the Zodiac's first victim.
1100
01:10:45,376 --> 01:10:46,400
What?
1101
01:10:46,511 --> 01:10:47,739
- He didn't call you about this?
- Hang on!
1102
01:10:47,845 --> 01:10:49,335
The Riverside killer
wrote to the press letters
1103
01:10:49,447 --> 01:10:53,076
that I then took personally to
the Office of Questioned Documents.
1104
01:10:53,184 --> 01:10:55,345
And what did this expert tell you?
1105
01:10:55,453 --> 01:10:56,977
What I knew in my gut, Ron.
1106
01:10:57,088 --> 01:10:59,522
The handwriting matches Zodiac's.
1107
01:10:59,624 --> 01:11:01,956
How'd he get the evidence
out of Riverside?
1108
01:11:02,060 --> 01:11:04,255
He took it to Sherwood
without telling us, the son of a bitch.
1109
01:11:04,362 --> 01:11:05,556
You know how bad this looks?
1110
01:11:05,663 --> 01:11:07,858
Hey, how do we know
that this lead is real?
1111
01:11:07,966 --> 01:11:10,230
It's very real. You know how I know?
1112
01:11:10,335 --> 01:11:12,200
Because I saw it on TV.
1113
01:11:19,310 --> 01:11:20,436
Dave.
1114
01:11:20,845 --> 01:11:21,937
Hi.
1115
01:11:22,046 --> 01:11:24,173
Dave, you know Mel Nicolai.
He's working the case for Justice.
1116
01:11:24,282 --> 01:11:25,442
Good to see you, Mel.
1117
01:11:25,550 --> 01:11:27,415
All due respect,
can someone explain to me
1118
01:11:27,518 --> 01:11:29,145
why I'm reading
about breaks in this case
1119
01:11:29,253 --> 01:11:31,084
in the Chronicle instead
of getting calls from you?
1120
01:11:31,189 --> 01:11:32,247
We got screwed.
1121
01:11:32,357 --> 01:11:33,517
Dave, come on.
1122
01:11:33,624 --> 01:11:35,592
You do get your name in the paper a lot.
People talk.
1123
01:11:35,693 --> 01:11:38,662
I don't ever talk about an open
investigation, period. Okay, Ken?
1124
01:11:38,763 --> 01:11:41,425
Dave? Hey. Hi.
1125
01:11:41,532 --> 01:11:44,228
Paul Avery. Can I catch a ride
with you gents when we get there?
1126
01:11:44,335 --> 01:11:46,166
Not a good idea, Paul.
1127
01:11:46,838 --> 01:11:49,602
He's gonna make me take a cab
when we're going to the same place.
1128
01:11:49,707 --> 01:11:52,471
Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you for choosing PSA.
1129
01:11:52,577 --> 01:11:54,670
- Fair enough. Fair enough.
- Please take your seats at this time.
1130
01:11:54,779 --> 01:11:57,680
Remember, smoking is
in the last six aisles only.
1131
01:11:57,782 --> 01:11:59,409
Enjoy your flight.
1132
01:12:02,954 --> 01:12:05,684
Cheri Jo Bates attended
Riverside Community College.
1133
01:12:05,790 --> 01:12:10,056
She studies in the library
the night of October 30th, 1966.
1134
01:12:10,161 --> 01:12:13,597
She leaves with an unidentified male
at closing, 9:00 p.m.
1135
01:12:13,998 --> 01:12:17,764
Her body's found the next morning
in a parking lot, stabbed to death.
1136
01:12:18,336 --> 01:12:21,430
A typewritten confession was sent
to the Riverside Press Enterprise
1137
01:12:21,539 --> 01:12:24,167
on November 29th,
a month after Bates's murder.
1138
01:12:24,275 --> 01:12:25,674
They ran it.
1139
01:12:27,945 --> 01:12:30,641
"I'm not sick. I am insane.
But that will not stop the game.
1140
01:12:30,748 --> 01:12:32,909
"This letter should be published
for all to read."
1141
01:12:33,017 --> 01:12:34,382
He wants to be published.
He calls it a game.
1142
01:12:34,485 --> 01:12:35,850
I mean, this could be our boy.
1143
01:12:35,953 --> 01:12:39,252
Six months later, the police,
the girl's father, and the paper,
1144
01:12:39,357 --> 01:12:41,291
they all received these.
1145
01:12:46,130 --> 01:12:47,927
Double postage, just like Zodiac.
1146
01:12:49,734 --> 01:12:52,134
These are what Sherwood Morrill
matched to the Zodiac letters?
1147
01:12:52,503 --> 01:12:54,334
These and the desktop. Don.
1148
01:12:54,639 --> 01:12:58,939
This was found a couple of months later
by a janitor in RCC storage.
1149
01:13:08,352 --> 01:13:10,513
Sherwood got
a handwriting match off wood?
1150
01:13:12,623 --> 01:13:14,420
Who etches in their own handwriting?
1151
01:13:14,826 --> 01:13:15,952
To be honest with you,
1152
01:13:16,060 --> 01:13:18,426
our letters and your letters,
I don't see it.
1153
01:13:18,529 --> 01:13:21,089
How did Paul Avery
get his hands on the exemplars?
1154
01:13:21,199 --> 01:13:22,530
I gave them to him.
1155
01:13:22,633 --> 01:13:24,498
We talked on the phone the other day
for about an hour.
1156
01:13:24,602 --> 01:13:26,069
And I told him you were gonna be here.
1157
01:13:26,170 --> 01:13:27,831
- You told him we were meeting?
- Yeah.
1158
01:13:27,939 --> 01:13:30,134
I also told him
we don't think this is Zodiac.
1159
01:13:30,241 --> 01:13:32,300
Okay, wait a minute.
1160
01:13:32,410 --> 01:13:35,470
- You don't think this is Zodiac?
- We got a guy we like for it.
1161
01:13:35,580 --> 01:13:37,138
We don't have enough
to pin it on him yet,
1162
01:13:37,248 --> 01:13:38,476
but we're pretty sure it's him.
1163
01:13:38,583 --> 01:13:41,450
If you don't think this is Zodiac,
then why give anything to Avery?
1164
01:13:41,552 --> 01:13:43,179
I'm trying to cooperate.
1165
01:13:43,287 --> 01:13:46,085
Oh, that's how you cooperate?
By giving information to reporters?
1166
01:13:46,190 --> 01:13:47,714
Look, I don't know
about the handwriting,
1167
01:13:47,825 --> 01:13:49,053
but Sherwood says it's a match, right?
1168
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:51,560
So, let's just say
that your guy did Cheri Jo.
1169
01:13:51,662 --> 01:13:52,788
He types the confession.
1170
01:13:52,930 --> 01:13:56,024
Zodiac reads it in the paper,
and he writes a letter taking credit for it.
1171
01:13:56,134 --> 01:13:57,658
Now, that's something he's done before.
1172
01:13:57,768 --> 01:14:00,362
Look, now you have everything we have.
1173
01:14:00,471 --> 01:14:03,872
But, in my opinion,
you guys came south for nothing.
1174
01:14:03,975 --> 01:14:05,966
FUBAR, gentlemen, FUBAR.
1175
01:14:06,077 --> 01:14:08,807
I don't care what he says.
This still could be Z.
1176
01:14:08,913 --> 01:14:12,110
The problem is
the entire state already thinks it is.
1177
01:14:12,216 --> 01:14:15,549
Well, there's your press agent.
Talk to him about it.
1178
01:14:18,089 --> 01:14:20,023
I come in peace.
I don't want any trouble.
1179
01:14:20,124 --> 01:14:22,092
I really don't want to talk to you
right now, Paul. Not now.
1180
01:14:22,193 --> 01:14:25,890
- Just trying to do my job.
- Oh, really? Well, now I can't do mine.
1181
01:14:25,997 --> 01:14:28,261
We're already screwed with
the amount of tips we got on this thing,
1182
01:14:28,664 --> 01:14:30,359
and you just freaked out the entire state.
1183
01:14:30,466 --> 01:14:33,765
I have got Napa, Vallejo, and DOJ
looking at me sideways
1184
01:14:33,869 --> 01:14:36,770
and Riverside's telling me
I'm on a snipe hunt!
1185
01:14:36,872 --> 01:14:39,397
Jesus. Hey, Cheri Jo Bates was a gift.
I gave that to you.
1186
01:14:39,508 --> 01:14:41,169
You and Armstrong
never would have found her.
1187
01:14:41,276 --> 01:14:43,437
This may not be Zodiac.
Does that matter to you?
1188
01:14:43,545 --> 01:14:44,978
- What if it is?
- Does it matter that Riverside may not
1189
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,048
be able to make a case
against their suspect because of you?
1190
01:14:47,149 --> 01:14:49,049
Tell it to Sherwood.
I'm out here, beating the bushes,
1191
01:14:49,151 --> 01:14:50,709
trying to draw him out.
We're in this together.
1192
01:14:50,819 --> 01:14:52,184
No, we're not in anything together, Paul,
1193
01:14:52,287 --> 01:14:54,152
because I'm not interested
in upping my circulation.
1194
01:14:54,256 --> 01:14:57,123
Oh, boy. He wrote me.
He threatened my life.
1195
01:14:57,226 --> 01:14:58,818
Hey, Bullitt!
1196
01:14:58,927 --> 01:15:02,419
Been a year-and-a-half,
you gonna catch this fucking guy or not?
1197
01:15:05,033 --> 01:15:07,399
- Go fuck yourself.
- Happily.
1198
01:15:07,503 --> 01:15:09,494
You should have called me, Paul.
1199
01:15:15,077 --> 01:15:16,271
Thank you.
1200
01:15:29,324 --> 01:15:31,292
- Did you see this?
- Unfortunately, yes.
1201
01:15:31,393 --> 01:15:34,055
Here comes every lunatic in California.
1202
01:15:34,930 --> 01:15:36,227
I'm the Zodiac.
1203
01:15:36,331 --> 01:15:37,889
And how did you kill your victims?
1204
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:40,628
With a gun. No, with a hammer.
1205
01:15:40,736 --> 01:15:42,033
All I'm authorized to tell you
1206
01:15:42,137 --> 01:15:43,695
is that he's still under
government employment.
1207
01:15:43,805 --> 01:15:46,865
- And who authorized you to tell me this?
- That's all I'm authorized to say.
1208
01:15:46,975 --> 01:15:49,170
Only a little rat bastard like Andre
1209
01:15:49,278 --> 01:15:51,769
could have done something
like cut off all the victims' hands.
1210
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:54,246
Zodiac didn't cut off
any of the victims' hands.
1211
01:15:54,349 --> 01:15:56,078
- Are you sure?
- Yes, sir.
1212
01:15:56,184 --> 01:15:58,709
Travis and I worked here
side by side for 10 years.
1213
01:15:58,820 --> 01:16:02,881
His foot gets crushed in an accident
and the killings begin.
1214
01:16:02,991 --> 01:16:04,481
- Coincidence?
- I don't know.
1215
01:16:04,593 --> 01:16:06,458
You're a cop, man. Do the math.
1216
01:16:10,866 --> 01:16:14,097
Have you considered
the killer might be Paul Avery?
1217
01:16:14,202 --> 01:16:15,464
Frequently.
1218
01:16:16,038 --> 01:16:17,335
He was drinking Coors,
getting a load on.
1219
01:16:17,906 --> 01:16:21,000
Starts talking about hunting people.
Like that book.
1220
01:16:21,643 --> 01:16:23,804
Says how you can put a light
at the end of a gun
1221
01:16:23,912 --> 01:16:25,436
to use as a sight in the dark.
1222
01:16:25,547 --> 01:16:27,310
- He said that?
- Yeah.
1223
01:16:28,283 --> 01:16:30,308
So I asked him,
"How would you get away with it?"
1224
01:16:30,786 --> 01:16:32,276
And he said, "It would be easy
1225
01:16:32,387 --> 01:16:34,821
"'cause there'd be no real motive
to the thing."
1226
01:16:34,923 --> 01:16:36,788
Then he said he'd write letters
to the police
1227
01:16:36,892 --> 01:16:38,689
and call himself Zodiac
to mess with them.
1228
01:16:38,794 --> 01:16:40,386
Leigh liked messing with people.
1229
01:16:40,495 --> 01:16:43,487
- You're positive he said "Zodiac"?
- Yeah.
1230
01:16:43,599 --> 01:16:46,693
I thought it was a stupid name.
So I told him.
1231
01:16:46,802 --> 01:16:50,238
He got up all upset and said,
"I don't care what you think.
1232
01:16:50,339 --> 01:16:52,968
"I've thought about it a long time
and that's the name I'm gonna use."
1233
01:16:53,075 --> 01:16:56,408
Did you feel like he'd been
thinking about it a long time?
1234
01:16:56,511 --> 01:16:59,742
He was raw about losing his job
at the school.
1235
01:16:59,848 --> 01:17:02,840
He talked about shooting out
the tires of a school bus
1236
01:17:02,951 --> 01:17:05,351
and picking off the little darlings.
1237
01:17:05,454 --> 01:17:09,515
- He actually used those words?
- That's what made me remember.
1238
01:17:09,625 --> 01:17:12,059
Afterwards, I told my wife
I didn't wanna see him again.
1239
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:13,821
And I haven't since.
1240
01:17:13,929 --> 01:17:16,489
Other thing is, Leigh's into skin diving.
1241
01:17:16,598 --> 01:17:18,657
I know he's been up to that lake
a bunch of times.
1242
01:17:18,767 --> 01:17:21,133
Lake Berryessa?
Did you ever go with him?
1243
01:17:21,236 --> 01:17:25,195
Couple times. We went fishing
by Putah Creek near there.
1244
01:17:25,307 --> 01:17:26,774
Tell him when you put it together.
1245
01:17:26,875 --> 01:17:31,574
About a year ago, in the paper,
there was a story about the Zodiac.
1246
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,774
And it all comes back.
I tried to call the local cops.
1247
01:17:34,883 --> 01:17:36,475
They blew him off.
Thought he was a nut.
1248
01:17:36,585 --> 01:17:40,385
And you're sure
the conversation you had about Zodiac
1249
01:17:40,489 --> 01:17:44,255
took place on January 1st, 1968?
1250
01:17:44,359 --> 01:17:46,088
It couldn't have been any later.
1251
01:17:46,194 --> 01:17:49,095
I started a new job in L.A.
on January 20th.
1252
01:17:49,631 --> 01:17:51,098
I had to move.
1253
01:17:51,199 --> 01:17:53,667
- This is my problem. This guy...
- Arthur Leigh Allen?
1254
01:17:53,769 --> 01:17:56,363
This guy, Leigh,
just lays out his entire evil plan
1255
01:17:56,471 --> 01:17:57,961
to a fishing buddy on New Year's Day?
1256
01:17:58,073 --> 01:18:00,871
I don't know.
He's angry, he's been drinking,
1257
01:18:00,976 --> 01:18:03,103
been thinking about it for a while.
I can buy that.
1258
01:18:03,211 --> 01:18:05,543
So why didn't Cheney
contact us sooner?
1259
01:18:05,647 --> 01:18:07,080
I checked. He did.
1260
01:18:07,182 --> 01:18:10,174
First recorded contact
with the police department about Allen
1261
01:18:10,285 --> 01:18:13,083
was in Pomona. January 10th, 1970.
1262
01:18:13,188 --> 01:18:14,280
He just got lost in the shuffle.
1263
01:18:14,389 --> 01:18:16,050
Did Cheney have anything
against Allen?
1264
01:18:16,158 --> 01:18:17,455
Did Allen screw his wife or anything?
1265
01:18:17,559 --> 01:18:19,254
We're gonna do
a full background check.
1266
01:18:19,361 --> 01:18:22,023
But I got to tell you, I like this guy.
1267
01:18:23,065 --> 01:18:24,965
So, let's pull
some handwriting samples.
1268
01:18:26,702 --> 01:18:29,603
Hi. I talked to Sherwood.
He got the samples.
1269
01:18:29,705 --> 01:18:31,639
- What are you having?
- BLT.
1270
01:18:34,276 --> 01:18:36,801
So, the check stubs are a wash.
There's not enough handwriting.
1271
01:18:36,912 --> 01:18:39,437
The application's got more,
but it doesn't look like Z's,
1272
01:18:39,548 --> 01:18:41,846
so he can't rule him in.
But he can't rule him out, either.
1273
01:18:41,950 --> 01:18:44,817
- Well, that's vague.
- He needs more samples.
1274
01:18:45,887 --> 01:18:47,980
Also, our guy is a pervert.
1275
01:18:49,057 --> 01:18:50,922
When Mel got the application
from Valley Springs,
1276
01:18:51,026 --> 01:18:53,290
they told him that
Allen had been fired for touching kids.
1277
01:18:53,395 --> 01:18:55,522
- Touching?
- Polite euphemism.
1278
01:18:57,199 --> 01:19:00,327
- So what do you want to do?
- Make some phone calls.
1279
01:19:00,435 --> 01:19:02,801
- Are you done with the fries?
- Go ahead.
1280
01:19:02,904 --> 01:19:04,599
Did you and Mr. Cheney have a chance
1281
01:19:04,706 --> 01:19:06,901
to look at the copies
of the Zodiac letters we sent you?
1282
01:19:07,008 --> 01:19:09,704
Yeah.
Some of this stuff is pretty creepy.
1283
01:19:09,811 --> 01:19:12,905
- Yeah, we know that.
- I mean, creepy like Leigh.
1284
01:19:13,281 --> 01:19:15,772
He misspells words like that.
He thinks it's funny.
1285
01:19:15,884 --> 01:19:17,681
What about the handwriting?
1286
01:19:17,786 --> 01:19:20,721
I don't know.
Don't you have experts for that stuff?
1287
01:19:20,822 --> 01:19:23,916
Our man at Questioned Documents
says it's inconclusive.
1288
01:19:24,025 --> 01:19:25,856
Maybe he did it with his other hand.
1289
01:19:25,961 --> 01:19:27,223
The letters are a little too neat
1290
01:19:27,329 --> 01:19:29,729
for someone to have written
with the wrong hand.
1291
01:19:29,831 --> 01:19:31,560
But not for Leigh, right.
1292
01:19:31,666 --> 01:19:33,566
- What do you mean?
- He's ambidextrous.
1293
01:19:33,668 --> 01:19:37,069
He can write with either hand.
Didn't you guys know that?
1294
01:19:37,172 --> 01:19:39,970
In everyday life, Allen uses his left hand.
1295
01:19:40,075 --> 01:19:42,509
Job applications,
letters to friends, et cetera.
1296
01:19:42,611 --> 01:19:45,239
But he writes the Zodiac letters
with his right hand
1297
01:19:45,347 --> 01:19:49,113
producing a different handwriting
that he can't be linked to.
1298
01:19:49,584 --> 01:19:50,915
We got to see this guy, Chief.
1299
01:19:51,019 --> 01:19:52,213
- Where is he?
- Vallejo.
1300
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:55,380
He works at Union Oil in Pinole.
His brother's up there, too.
1301
01:19:55,490 --> 01:19:56,923
See them both.
1302
01:19:57,025 --> 01:19:59,493
Make sure you call Mulanax.
It is his backyard.
1303
01:19:59,594 --> 01:20:02,757
Oh, right, because that
worked so well for us in Riverside.
1304
01:20:02,864 --> 01:20:05,424
Cooperation, that's us, at all costs.
1305
01:20:15,043 --> 01:20:19,070
You can talk to him in here.
Coke machine's busted, by the way.
1306
01:20:20,248 --> 01:20:22,182
I'll go get him for you.
1307
01:20:23,685 --> 01:20:25,812
So how do you guys wanna do this?
1308
01:20:25,921 --> 01:20:29,550
Well, Bill talked to the informants.
He leads, we follow?
1309
01:20:29,658 --> 01:20:31,250
It's okay by me.
1310
01:20:45,173 --> 01:20:47,733
Mr. Allen, I'm Inspector Bill Armstrong.
1311
01:20:47,843 --> 01:20:50,903
This is Inspector Dave Toschi
and Sergeant Jack Mulanax.
1312
01:20:51,012 --> 01:20:55,210
We're investigating the Zodiac murders
in San Francisco and Vallejo.
1313
01:20:55,317 --> 01:20:56,909
Please, sit down.
1314
01:21:05,794 --> 01:21:08,262
The informant notified us
that you made certain statements
1315
01:21:08,363 --> 01:21:11,093
11 months prior
to the first Zodiac murder.
1316
01:21:11,199 --> 01:21:14,134
If they're true,
they're quite incriminating.
1317
01:21:14,236 --> 01:21:16,397
Do you recall
having any such conversation?
1318
01:21:16,504 --> 01:21:17,801
- No.
- Have you ever read
1319
01:21:17,906 --> 01:21:19,669
or heard anything about the Zodiac?
1320
01:21:19,774 --> 01:21:21,002
When it was first in the paper.
1321
01:21:21,109 --> 01:21:23,168
But I didn't follow it
after those first reports.
1322
01:21:23,278 --> 01:21:26,679
- Why not?
- Too morbid. I...
1323
01:21:26,781 --> 01:21:29,579
I told all this to the other officer.
1324
01:21:29,684 --> 01:21:32,152
- Which other officer?
- From Vallejo.
1325
01:21:33,588 --> 01:21:35,021
Do you remember his name?
1326
01:21:35,123 --> 01:21:38,820
No, but it was right after
the murder at the lake.
1327
01:21:38,927 --> 01:21:41,395
And what did you tell this officer?
1328
01:21:42,998 --> 01:21:47,196
I told him that I'd gone to Salt Point
that weekend to skin dive.
1329
01:21:47,302 --> 01:21:50,100
That I was alone
but I met a couple there.
1330
01:21:51,306 --> 01:21:53,433
I have their names at home
if you want them.
1331
01:21:53,541 --> 01:21:55,168
That would be great, Arthur.
1332
01:21:55,277 --> 01:21:57,142
- Leigh.
- What?
1333
01:21:58,046 --> 01:22:00,537
Leigh. Nobody calls me Arthur.
1334
01:22:02,317 --> 01:22:05,718
Also, that day when I came home,
my neighbor saw me.
1335
01:22:05,820 --> 01:22:09,586
It was around 4:00.
But I forgot to tell the other officer that.
1336
01:22:09,691 --> 01:22:11,852
- Neighbor's name?
- Bill White.
1337
01:22:13,695 --> 01:22:15,458
He died a week or so afterwards.
1338
01:22:15,563 --> 01:22:18,532
Heart attack.
So I didn't think to call to follow up.
1339
01:22:21,136 --> 01:22:23,229
The knives I had in my car
with the blood on them,
1340
01:22:23,338 --> 01:22:26,865
that blood came from a chicken
that I killed for dinner.
1341
01:22:29,678 --> 01:22:32,476
- What?
- I had knives in my car that weekend.
1342
01:22:32,580 --> 01:22:36,846
Maybe Bill saw them
and called the other officer on me.
1343
01:22:37,485 --> 01:22:40,181
Well, we'll be checking in on that.
1344
01:22:40,288 --> 01:22:42,085
Well, let me ask you something else.
1345
01:22:42,190 --> 01:22:46,524
Were you ever in Southern California
at any time in 1966?
1346
01:22:47,162 --> 01:22:49,653
- Is this about the Riverside killing?
- Yes.
1347
01:22:50,799 --> 01:22:53,029
Well, I guess I was there
around that time.
1348
01:22:53,134 --> 01:22:56,467
I used to go down there a lot.
I like the auto races.
1349
01:23:00,809 --> 01:23:03,243
Informant says that
you're ambidextrous?
1350
01:23:03,345 --> 01:23:05,279
No, that's untrue.
1351
01:23:05,380 --> 01:23:07,678
You can't write with both hands?
1352
01:23:08,850 --> 01:23:11,910
My teachers tried to make me
when I was a kid, but I couldn't.
1353
01:23:12,020 --> 01:23:14,113
I'm left-handed.
1354
01:23:14,222 --> 01:23:18,386
He also said that you made statements
about killing school children.
1355
01:23:19,094 --> 01:23:20,584
That is...
1356
01:23:20,695 --> 01:23:23,960
That is horrible. That is...
That's a horrible thing to say.
1357
01:23:24,065 --> 01:23:27,398
So, you weren't angry
about being fired from Valley Springs
1358
01:23:27,502 --> 01:23:29,561
for touching your students?
1359
01:23:38,847 --> 01:23:40,542
I'm not the Zodiac.
1360
01:23:41,516 --> 01:23:44,383
And if I was, I certainly wouldn't tell you.
1361
01:23:46,755 --> 01:23:48,552
That's a nice watch.
1362
01:23:50,425 --> 01:23:51,414
Thank you.
1363
01:23:51,526 --> 01:23:52,959
May I see it?
1364
01:23:54,896 --> 01:23:56,329
May I see it?
1365
01:24:08,143 --> 01:24:09,235
Where'd you get it?
1366
01:24:09,644 --> 01:24:11,612
It was a Christmas gift
from my mother two years ago.
1367
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:14,407
That's very sweet.
1368
01:24:14,516 --> 01:24:17,007
So, tell me something, Arthur.
1369
01:24:17,118 --> 01:24:18,244
You don't remember anyone
1370
01:24:18,353 --> 01:24:21,880
you might have had a conversation with
regarding the Zodiac?
1371
01:24:23,358 --> 01:24:28,762
Maybe Ted Kidder or Phil Tucker
at Vallejo Recreation.
1372
01:24:30,065 --> 01:24:31,896
But I couldn't be positive.
1373
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:33,865
I used to work there when...
1374
01:24:37,806 --> 01:24:39,865
The Most Dangerous Game.
1375
01:24:41,176 --> 01:24:42,268
What?
1376
01:24:42,377 --> 01:24:45,540
The Most Dangerous Game.
That's why you're here, isn't it?
1377
01:24:45,647 --> 01:24:47,376
It was my favorite book in high school.
1378
01:24:47,482 --> 01:24:50,940
It's about this man who waits for people
to get shipwrecked on this island.
1379
01:24:51,052 --> 01:24:52,451
Because he was
tired of hunting animals,
1380
01:24:52,554 --> 01:24:54,146
he hunted the people for the challenge.
1381
01:24:54,255 --> 01:24:58,385
And man is the most
dangerous animal of all?
1382
01:24:58,493 --> 01:25:00,984
That's the whole point of the story.
1383
01:25:01,696 --> 01:25:03,027
Great book.
1384
01:25:04,265 --> 01:25:06,893
Or, at least, that's what I told Phil.
1385
01:25:12,574 --> 01:25:13,802
May I go?
1386
01:25:17,445 --> 01:25:18,503
Sure.
1387
01:25:23,318 --> 01:25:27,584
- Thanks for your time.
- I'm willing to help in any way possible.
1388
01:25:27,689 --> 01:25:29,748
I look forward to the day
1389
01:25:29,858 --> 01:25:33,316
when police officers
are no longer referred to as pigs.
1390
01:25:34,329 --> 01:25:35,489
Thanks.
1391
01:25:36,631 --> 01:25:38,258
We'll be in touch.
1392
01:25:50,044 --> 01:25:53,912
So does anyone think this suspect
warrants further investigation?
1393
01:25:54,015 --> 01:25:57,280
These are copies of some
of the Zodiac letters that were sent.
1394
01:25:58,019 --> 01:26:00,920
We'd like you to take a look at them.
1395
01:26:01,156 --> 01:26:03,021
You think my brother's the Zodiac.
1396
01:26:03,124 --> 01:26:05,092
Well, we're looking at him.
1397
01:26:05,193 --> 01:26:06,558
Are you going to arrest him?
1398
01:26:06,661 --> 01:26:10,597
Mrs. Allen, we don't arrest people
just because we're interested in them.
1399
01:26:10,698 --> 01:26:12,131
Well, Leigh's always been troubled.
1400
01:26:12,233 --> 01:26:14,428
Is it true about the children?
1401
01:26:15,136 --> 01:26:16,433
Unfortunately.
1402
01:26:16,538 --> 01:26:19,200
We don't see him much anymore
since we found out.
1403
01:26:19,307 --> 01:26:21,275
What are your feelings
about Don Cheney?
1404
01:26:21,376 --> 01:26:23,776
Don Cheney? My old roommate?
1405
01:26:23,878 --> 01:26:26,745
- Was he the one who contacted you?
- That's confidential.
1406
01:26:26,848 --> 01:26:28,372
Well, Don's a very reliable guy.
1407
01:26:28,483 --> 01:26:31,543
If he were to tell you something,
I'd believe it to be true.
1408
01:26:31,653 --> 01:26:32,813
- This one.
- What about it?
1409
01:26:32,921 --> 01:26:34,912
Here, where he spells
"Christmas" with two "S's."
1410
01:26:35,023 --> 01:26:37,321
We got a Christmas card from Leigh
a couple years ago.
1411
01:26:37,525 --> 01:26:40,221
He spelled it the exact same way.
Christ-mass.
1412
01:26:40,328 --> 01:26:42,762
- Would you still have that?
- I can look for it.
1413
01:26:43,164 --> 01:26:45,257
Thank you. That'd be great.
1414
01:26:46,401 --> 01:26:48,426
Is there anything else
we can do to help?
1415
01:26:48,536 --> 01:26:50,163
The brother said
he would search Leigh's apartment
1416
01:26:50,271 --> 01:26:51,499
next time he went out of town.
1417
01:26:51,606 --> 01:26:53,836
- That gets you around a warrant.
- For the time being.
1418
01:26:53,942 --> 01:26:57,173
If we do find something,
Mulanax will go to the DA in Vallejo,
1419
01:26:57,278 --> 01:26:59,007
and we could search the place properly.
1420
01:26:59,113 --> 01:27:00,580
Now I got a chance to talk to the cop
1421
01:27:00,682 --> 01:27:03,549
who interviewed Leigh Allen
two days after the Berryessa murders.
1422
01:27:03,651 --> 01:27:05,346
Doesn't remember how he got onto him,
1423
01:27:05,453 --> 01:27:08,445
but didn't think he looked like a killer
so he didn't like him for Z.
1424
01:27:08,556 --> 01:27:11,389
- But you do?
- I wish I could've taken the guy in there.
1425
01:27:11,492 --> 01:27:14,427
Take it slow, Dave.
Try and find more stuff for Sherwood.
1426
01:27:14,529 --> 01:27:16,554
A match'll get us farther
on the warrants.
1427
01:27:16,664 --> 01:27:19,758
- Avery's on two.
- Tell him to screw.
1428
01:27:19,867 --> 01:27:24,167
You want me to communicate that
verbatim or can I spice it up a little?
1429
01:27:31,509 --> 01:27:33,841
This suspect is not your Zodiac.
1430
01:27:35,847 --> 01:27:38,475
This sample matches the canceled
checks and the application?
1431
01:27:38,583 --> 01:27:39,572
Perfectly.
1432
01:27:39,684 --> 01:27:42,881
So we've just retested the left hand.
I mean, we know he's ambidextrous.
1433
01:27:42,987 --> 01:27:46,218
In 38 years, I've never seen anyone
that ambidextrous.
1434
01:27:46,324 --> 01:27:48,815
Both hands would have commonalities.
1435
01:27:49,193 --> 01:27:50,455
I'm sorry.
1436
01:27:50,962 --> 01:27:52,691
Just not gonna work.
1437
01:27:54,632 --> 01:27:57,032
- Homicide, Toschi.
- Dave, it's Jack Mulanax.
1438
01:27:57,135 --> 01:27:59,262
Hey. Mulanax. Yeah.
1439
01:27:59,370 --> 01:28:00,769
We struck out with the judge.
1440
01:28:00,872 --> 01:28:02,499
He won't sign off on a warrant
for Allen's house.
1441
01:28:02,607 --> 01:28:04,632
- Why not?
- Said it wasn't enough.
1442
01:28:04,742 --> 01:28:07,074
Now, unless we bring him a handwriting
match or some evidence that...
1443
01:28:07,178 --> 01:28:09,544
How are we gonna get evidence
if we can't toss the house?
1444
01:28:09,647 --> 01:28:11,080
I don't know.
1445
01:28:11,649 --> 01:28:14,550
- I truly am sorry.
- No, no. Thank you, Jack.
1446
01:28:16,454 --> 01:28:17,512
What do you wanna do?
1447
01:28:17,622 --> 01:28:18,953
Don't know what I can do
without Vallejo.
1448
01:28:19,056 --> 01:28:21,889
We need Allen's right hand.
We can't get it without a warrant.
1449
01:28:21,993 --> 01:28:24,086
Are there other guys
you should be looking at?
1450
01:28:24,195 --> 01:28:26,129
Only, what?
1451
01:28:26,230 --> 01:28:28,130
Twenty-three hundred?
1452
01:28:28,232 --> 01:28:29,563
Okay, then.
1453
01:28:32,737 --> 01:28:34,068
Okay, then.
1454
01:29:01,999 --> 01:29:04,661
Paul, you wrote the Justice Department
1455
01:29:04,769 --> 01:29:08,102
asking to be put in charge
of the Zodiac investigation?
1456
01:29:10,141 --> 01:29:12,041
I merely suggested...
1457
01:29:12,143 --> 01:29:13,337
On our letterhead?
1458
01:29:13,444 --> 01:29:15,469
...that those with intimate knowledge
of the case
1459
01:29:15,580 --> 01:29:17,514
create an information clearinghouse
1460
01:29:17,615 --> 01:29:19,742
to promote an exchange
and free flow of ideas.
1461
01:29:19,850 --> 01:29:22,910
- And that you run it.
- Well, who better than me?
1462
01:29:23,988 --> 01:29:25,512
The marked man.
1463
01:29:26,224 --> 01:29:28,192
Paul, if you want to work here,
I need three things.
1464
01:29:28,292 --> 01:29:29,759
One, stop boozing.
1465
01:29:29,860 --> 01:29:33,023
Two, stop doing
whatever else it is you're doing.
1466
01:29:33,130 --> 01:29:36,622
And three, cut this nonsense out.
1467
01:29:36,734 --> 01:29:39,794
Sweetest of Templetons, if at any time
1468
01:29:39,904 --> 01:29:45,103
you feel my excellent work is no longer
in step with this trashy provincial rag,
1469
01:29:45,209 --> 01:29:46,870
I'll more than happily...
1470
01:29:46,978 --> 01:29:50,436
More than happily
decamp for greener pastures.
1471
01:29:50,548 --> 01:29:51,879
Paul, I mean it!
1472
01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:04,225
- Paul?
- Yep.
1473
01:30:04,328 --> 01:30:07,525
- What was that?
- An editorial tête-à-tête.
1474
01:30:08,666 --> 01:30:10,793
- Wanna grab a drink?
- It's 10:00 in the morning.
1475
01:30:10,901 --> 01:30:12,698
Late breakfast?
1476
01:30:13,738 --> 01:30:15,831
- Early lunch, or...
- Paul.
1477
01:30:18,342 --> 01:30:19,775
Are you okay?
1478
01:30:20,645 --> 01:30:21,669
No.
1479
01:30:25,116 --> 01:30:26,913
Thank you for asking.
1480
01:30:29,153 --> 01:30:31,280
Shorty! Let's go out for one.
1481
01:30:31,389 --> 01:30:33,380
Paul, where are you going?
1482
01:30:35,459 --> 01:30:37,927
So, you moved off my brother-in-law?
1483
01:30:38,029 --> 01:30:40,054
We couldn't get a warrant.
1484
01:30:41,632 --> 01:30:45,159
Last year we arranged for Leigh
to get help from a social worker.
1485
01:30:45,269 --> 01:30:46,827
He only went twice.
1486
01:30:46,937 --> 01:30:49,906
We saw him recently for
the first time in nine months.
1487
01:30:50,007 --> 01:30:53,067
My mother-in-law brought him by
to see the new baby.
1488
01:30:53,177 --> 01:30:56,476
After he left,
I went to see that social worker.
1489
01:30:56,580 --> 01:30:59,913
He couldn't talk about a former patient,
so I just asked him straight out
1490
01:31:00,017 --> 01:31:02,178
if he thought Leigh
was capable of killing people.
1491
01:31:02,286 --> 01:31:05,517
- Because of patient confidentiality...
- The man said yes.
1492
01:31:07,358 --> 01:31:09,519
Why hadn't you seen him
in nine months?
1493
01:31:09,627 --> 01:31:11,527
He's going to school in Santa Rosa.
1494
01:31:11,629 --> 01:31:14,962
- Santa Rosa? Where is he living?
- In his trailer.
1495
01:31:15,066 --> 01:31:17,091
- In Santa Rosa?
- Sonoma County.
1496
01:31:17,201 --> 01:31:19,396
We wouldn't have to go
through the Vallejo DA.
1497
01:31:19,503 --> 01:31:20,993
It's been 11 months
since you talked to this guy,
1498
01:31:21,105 --> 01:31:22,629
and now you wanna search his trailer?
1499
01:31:22,740 --> 01:31:24,503
If we find something, great.
1500
01:31:24,608 --> 01:31:27,771
If not, we get his prints and
handwriting samples from both hands.
1501
01:31:27,878 --> 01:31:30,244
I thought Sherwood shut you down.
1502
01:31:30,981 --> 01:31:33,449
What if I can get a second opinion?
1503
01:31:34,618 --> 01:31:36,848
I don't wanna step on Sherwood's toes.
He trained me at this.
1504
01:31:36,954 --> 01:31:39,479
Terry, all I need to know
is if the suspect is ambidextrous.
1505
01:31:39,590 --> 01:31:43,549
Could he possibly have written
those letters with his other hand?
1506
01:31:45,262 --> 01:31:46,627
Between you and me?
1507
01:31:46,731 --> 01:31:50,167
Because there are differing
schools of thought on this.
1508
01:31:51,369 --> 01:31:55,806
Get the samples of his other hand.
If he's the Zodiac, you'll get a match.
1509
01:31:55,906 --> 01:31:58,466
That's the current thinking,
according to Terry Pascoe.
1510
01:31:58,576 --> 01:32:01,841
Meanwhile, I spoke to a psychologist
who'd be willing to testify
1511
01:32:01,946 --> 01:32:04,915
that someone who undergoes
a personality change like Zodiac
1512
01:32:05,015 --> 01:32:07,950
would manifest it physically,
altering his handwriting.
1513
01:32:08,052 --> 01:32:11,647
Which is why Sherwood couldn't
get a match from Allen's samples.
1514
01:32:11,756 --> 01:32:13,986
We got Terry Pascoe,
this psychology guy,
1515
01:32:14,091 --> 01:32:15,422
coupled with Cheney...
1516
01:32:15,526 --> 01:32:16,993
It could be enough for a warrant.
1517
01:32:17,094 --> 01:32:18,220
Get Cheney on the record.
1518
01:32:18,329 --> 01:32:20,889
"And shoot the kiddies
as they came bouncing out.
1519
01:32:20,998 --> 01:32:24,058
"And that he would call himself Zodiac."
1520
01:32:25,069 --> 01:32:26,093
Yes.
1521
01:32:26,203 --> 01:32:29,764
And you're willing to swear
to this, under oath, in Superior Court?
1522
01:32:29,874 --> 01:32:31,273
Without any hesitation.
1523
01:32:31,375 --> 01:32:34,105
Thank you very much, Mr. Cheney.
Thank you very much for your time.
1524
01:32:34,211 --> 01:32:35,542
Thank you.
1525
01:32:37,047 --> 01:32:39,777
Well, looks like you got your man.
1526
01:33:00,438 --> 01:33:01,700
Mr. Allen?
1527
01:33:01,806 --> 01:33:03,706
This is the
Santa Rosa Police Department.
1528
01:33:03,808 --> 01:33:06,606
We have a warrant
to search your residence.
1529
01:33:17,688 --> 01:33:18,814
Hello?
1530
01:33:27,465 --> 01:33:29,695
I'll check with the neighbors.
1531
01:33:31,135 --> 01:33:32,124
Close the door.
1532
01:33:32,236 --> 01:33:35,262
Close the door,
there's rodents running around.
1533
01:33:47,618 --> 01:33:50,143
Neighbor said he tore out of here
about a half-hour ago.
1534
01:33:50,254 --> 01:33:54,088
- You think somebody tipped him?
- We're not leaving till he comes back.
1535
01:34:00,397 --> 01:34:02,126
I'll check the back.
1536
01:34:14,879 --> 01:34:15,971
Jesus.
1537
01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:17,672
- What?
- Squirrels.
1538
01:34:19,850 --> 01:34:21,784
Piece of work, this guy.
1539
01:34:28,592 --> 01:34:31,392
Not one, but two blue windbreakers.
1540
01:34:31,495 --> 01:34:35,158
- Like the Stine scene?
- We'll have those checked for blood.
1541
01:34:35,599 --> 01:34:38,500
And a pair of black gloves.
1542
01:34:39,770 --> 01:34:43,069
Men's seven,
just like the ones we found in the cab.
1543
01:34:43,173 --> 01:34:45,835
Well, he's got the same size shoes
and gloves as Z.
1544
01:34:45,943 --> 01:34:48,173
Probably just a coincidence.
1545
01:34:48,279 --> 01:34:52,113
Dave, I got a gun.
Check that. Two guns.
1546
01:34:53,584 --> 01:34:56,747
They're both .22s.
One automatic, one revolver.
1547
01:34:56,854 --> 01:34:58,344
Well, that's interesting.
1548
01:34:58,455 --> 01:35:01,583
Because he happens to have
an M-1 rifle here in the closet.
1549
01:35:01,692 --> 01:35:04,286
For little darlings bouncing off buses.
1550
01:35:05,629 --> 01:35:07,119
Someone's here.
1551
01:35:14,271 --> 01:35:16,671
Hello, Arthur. Remember us?
1552
01:35:39,263 --> 01:35:40,252
No.
1553
01:35:40,364 --> 01:35:41,422
On the handwriting?
1554
01:35:41,532 --> 01:35:45,024
Ballistics, no match.
Prints, no match. Writing, no match.
1555
01:35:45,135 --> 01:35:46,932
On both hands, right?
1556
01:35:47,037 --> 01:35:48,834
Because we got handwriting
from both his hands.
1557
01:35:48,939 --> 01:35:50,270
And neither hand matches.
1558
01:35:50,374 --> 01:35:52,001
Forget Sherwood.
Let's get another opinion.
1559
01:35:52,109 --> 01:35:54,100
Fellas, he's not your guy.
1560
01:36:00,584 --> 01:36:01,778
Damn it.
1561
01:36:09,093 --> 01:36:10,117
Hey.
1562
01:36:11,095 --> 01:36:13,529
What do you want? Time off?
1563
01:36:15,799 --> 01:36:16,925
A hug?
1564
01:36:17,801 --> 01:36:19,826
Do you know what
the worst part of this is?
1565
01:36:19,937 --> 01:36:21,837
I can't tell if I wanted it
to be Allen so bad
1566
01:36:21,939 --> 01:36:25,204
because I actually thought it was him,
or I just want all this to be over.
1567
01:36:25,309 --> 01:36:27,209
It's because you thought it was him.
1568
01:36:27,311 --> 01:36:28,801
And I did, too.
1569
01:36:31,582 --> 01:36:33,015
You know what? Take some time off.
1570
01:36:33,117 --> 01:36:36,416
Spend some time with your wife
and the kids.
1571
01:36:36,520 --> 01:36:39,045
Go to Candlestick. See a movie.
1572
01:36:40,391 --> 01:36:45,158
"To the city of San Francisco,
I will enjoy killing one person every day
1573
01:36:45,796 --> 01:36:48,196
"until you pay me $100,000.
1574
01:36:49,099 --> 01:36:51,795
"If you agree, say so tomorrow morning
1575
01:36:52,536 --> 01:36:55,664
"in the personal column
San Francisco Chronicle,
1576
01:36:55,773 --> 01:36:57,741
"and I will set up meeting.
1577
01:36:57,841 --> 01:36:59,433
"If I do not hear from you,
1578
01:36:59,543 --> 01:37:02,876
"it will be my next pleasure
to kill a Catholic priest or a...
1579
01:37:05,949 --> 01:37:07,280
"...Scorpio."
1580
01:37:09,787 --> 01:37:11,254
Who's out of their minds?
1581
01:37:11,355 --> 01:37:13,414
I've got to get out of here.
1582
01:37:13,524 --> 01:37:16,789
Where the hell does he expect me
to find $100,000?
1583
01:37:16,894 --> 01:37:19,260
You're not thinking of paying him,
are you, Mr. Mayor?
1584
01:37:19,363 --> 01:37:23,663
The city of San Francisco does not
pay criminals not to commit a crime.
1585
01:37:46,590 --> 01:37:49,058
The killer gets shot in the chest.
1586
01:37:49,159 --> 01:37:51,423
That's how it ends.
1587
01:37:51,895 --> 01:37:53,055
Do I know you?
1588
01:37:53,163 --> 01:37:56,360
I'm Robert Graysmith.
I work at the Chronicle with Paul Avery.
1589
01:37:56,467 --> 01:37:58,025
Dave Toschi. Nice to meet you.
1590
01:37:58,135 --> 01:38:00,626
Dave! That Harry Callahan
did a hell of a job with your case.
1591
01:38:00,738 --> 01:38:03,332
Yeah. No need for due process, right?
1592
01:38:07,678 --> 01:38:09,873
- What do you do at the Chronicle?
- I'm a cartoonist.
1593
01:38:09,980 --> 01:38:11,072
That's nice.
1594
01:38:11,181 --> 01:38:13,081
You're gonna catch him.
1595
01:38:14,752 --> 01:38:17,550
Pal, they're already
making movies about it.
1596
01:38:49,253 --> 01:38:51,414
Hi. We haven't met.
1597
01:38:51,522 --> 01:38:53,353
I'm Robert Graysmith.
1598
01:38:53,457 --> 01:38:55,391
I'm Duffy Jennings.
1599
01:38:55,492 --> 01:38:58,552
- Nice to meet you.
- Good to meet you, man.
1600
01:38:58,662 --> 01:38:59,890
You got a great desk.
1601
01:38:59,997 --> 01:39:02,022
Guy who used to work here
was a great reporter.
1602
01:39:02,132 --> 01:39:03,394
Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sure he was.
1603
01:39:03,500 --> 01:39:05,968
I mean, it's a honor
to leave the Chronicle
1604
01:39:06,069 --> 01:39:08,867
and go work for the Sacramento Bee.
1605
01:39:08,972 --> 01:39:11,133
Dare to dream, right, Robert?
1606
01:39:14,745 --> 01:39:17,680
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you, too.
1607
01:39:17,781 --> 01:39:19,874
I'm just right down there
at the Art department
1608
01:39:19,983 --> 01:39:22,451
- if you need anything, Duffy.
- Yeah.
1609
01:39:25,923 --> 01:39:28,653
- You sure you don't want the car, Bill?
- It's your turn.
1610
01:39:28,759 --> 01:39:31,922
You could just drop me off at my place
and take the car.
1611
01:39:32,029 --> 01:39:33,963
You should keep the car.
1612
01:39:34,731 --> 01:39:35,789
Yeah?
1613
01:39:36,266 --> 01:39:38,325
I'm not coming in tomorrow.
1614
01:39:40,304 --> 01:39:41,794
Why? What's up?
1615
01:39:42,973 --> 01:39:44,201
I'm done.
1616
01:39:45,809 --> 01:39:47,743
I put in for a transfer.
1617
01:39:53,617 --> 01:39:54,845
Where?
1618
01:39:55,485 --> 01:39:57,077
Looking at Fraud.
1619
01:39:59,389 --> 01:40:01,448
I can't be on call anymore.
1620
01:40:04,161 --> 01:40:06,425
I wanna see these kids grow up.
1621
01:40:07,631 --> 01:40:09,861
Hey, good for you, Bill.
1622
01:40:11,768 --> 01:40:14,259
- You'll be okay.
- Yeah. I'll be fine.
1623
01:40:16,406 --> 01:40:17,430
Hey,
1624
01:40:18,442 --> 01:40:21,843
I'm not leaving you
holding the bag on anything, am I?
1625
01:40:23,547 --> 01:40:24,571
No.
1626
01:40:26,950 --> 01:40:28,008
Okay.
1627
01:40:28,719 --> 01:40:30,414
Hey, you know what?
1628
01:40:31,088 --> 01:40:34,854
Maybe you'll have a chance
to try your Japanese food, the raw stuff.
1629
01:40:36,193 --> 01:40:37,251
Yeah.
1630
01:41:09,393 --> 01:41:11,088
I'm not Paul Avery.
1631
01:41:13,764 --> 01:41:16,927
The boys need to be tucked in, please,
and the baby needs changing.
1632
01:41:17,034 --> 01:41:19,332
- I'll flip you for it.
- You wish.
1633
01:41:22,806 --> 01:41:25,468
Nobody has more Zodiac crap
than you do.
1634
01:42:10,120 --> 01:42:12,315
- Are you kidding me?
- Hi, Paul.
1635
01:42:14,124 --> 01:42:16,524
- Permission to come aboard.
- It's right there.
1636
01:42:16,626 --> 01:42:19,390
Anyway, you got shoes on.
This is perfect right here.
1637
01:42:19,496 --> 01:42:21,396
- That's the one.
- Okay.
1638
01:42:23,066 --> 01:42:25,933
- See that? Mesmerizing.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1639
01:42:26,036 --> 01:42:28,664
My own kids
would kill me for one of those.
1640
01:42:30,540 --> 01:42:32,770
- How are you?
- Fantastic.
1641
01:42:32,876 --> 01:42:35,003
I mean, admittedly,
1642
01:42:35,112 --> 01:42:37,376
the Bee ain't exactly
the Chron, but fuck it, right?
1643
01:42:37,481 --> 01:42:40,450
Do you want a drink?
I don't have anything blue, but I got...
1644
01:42:40,550 --> 01:42:42,518
Don't worry about that.
Don't worry about it.
1645
01:42:42,619 --> 01:42:46,180
It's no bother at all.
Nobody comes by from the old days.
1646
01:42:46,590 --> 01:42:47,614
Cheers.
1647
01:42:48,392 --> 01:42:50,519
To your health and mine.
1648
01:42:52,429 --> 01:42:53,794
Mostly mine.
1649
01:42:59,036 --> 01:43:00,526
So,
1650
01:43:02,639 --> 01:43:03,970
what's new?
1651
01:43:06,009 --> 01:43:07,909
- I've been thinking.
- Yeah.
1652
01:43:08,011 --> 01:43:09,239
Somebody should write a book.
1653
01:43:09,346 --> 01:43:12,281
Somebody should write a fucking book,
that's for sure.
1654
01:43:12,382 --> 01:43:14,509
- About what?
- About Zodiac.
1655
01:43:16,153 --> 01:43:17,552
It's not new.
1656
01:43:17,654 --> 01:43:22,284
I've been thinking that
if you put all the information together,
1657
01:43:22,392 --> 01:43:23,950
maybe you could jog something loose.
1658
01:43:24,061 --> 01:43:26,552
And then I was thinking that
nobody knows the case better than you.
1659
01:43:26,663 --> 01:43:27,687
Yeah. That's true.
1660
01:43:27,798 --> 01:43:30,790
You know all the players,
and you have all the files.
1661
01:43:30,901 --> 01:43:32,198
Lost them.
1662
01:43:32,536 --> 01:43:33,594
You lost them?
1663
01:43:33,703 --> 01:43:36,968
Or I tossed them. I don't know.
I moved onto a boat.
1664
01:43:37,407 --> 01:43:39,466
You know that we work
in the daily business, right?
1665
01:43:39,576 --> 01:43:40,838
As in, today.
1666
01:43:40,944 --> 01:43:43,708
What do you think
we were doing back then?
1667
01:43:44,714 --> 01:43:46,841
Do you know that more people die
in the East Bay commute
1668
01:43:46,950 --> 01:43:49,248
every three months
than that idiot ever killed?
1669
01:43:49,352 --> 01:43:50,512
He offed a few citizens,
1670
01:43:50,620 --> 01:43:53,956
he wrote a few letters,
and he faded into a footnote.
1671
01:43:59,463 --> 01:44:02,455
Not that I haven't been sitting here idly
1672
01:44:02,566 --> 01:44:06,525
waiting for you to drop by
and reinvigorate my sense of purpose.
1673
01:44:08,872 --> 01:44:12,000
It was four years ago. Let it fucking go.
1674
01:44:12,109 --> 01:44:14,805
You're wrong. It was important.
1675
01:44:16,079 --> 01:44:18,570
Then, what did you ever do about it?
1676
01:44:19,449 --> 01:44:21,576
If it was so fucking important,
what did you ever do?
1677
01:44:21,685 --> 01:44:24,518
You hovered over my desk,
you stole from wastebaskets.
1678
01:44:24,621 --> 01:44:26,248
Am I being unkind?
1679
01:44:27,424 --> 01:44:30,689
Oh, that's right, I forgot.
You went to the library.
1680
01:44:33,497 --> 01:44:35,465
I'm sorry I bothered you.
1681
01:44:57,587 --> 01:44:59,612
- Hey, hi.
- Hi.
1682
01:44:59,723 --> 01:45:02,157
- Where you been?
- The library.
1683
01:45:33,823 --> 01:45:35,120
Thank you!
1684
01:45:50,874 --> 01:45:54,241
- Inspector Toschi?
- Yeah? One moment, please.
1685
01:45:58,615 --> 01:45:59,809
- Hi.
- Hi.
1686
01:46:01,117 --> 01:46:03,108
We met at the movies once.
1687
01:46:03,620 --> 01:46:04,985
It must have been magical.
1688
01:46:05,088 --> 01:46:06,817
I'm Robert Graysmith.
I work at the Chronicle.
1689
01:46:06,923 --> 01:46:09,687
I was wondering if I could buy you lunch.
1690
01:46:11,428 --> 01:46:13,089
Sure, why not?
1691
01:46:13,196 --> 01:46:15,562
So, you're a friend of Paul Avery's?
1692
01:46:15,665 --> 01:46:18,065
He's actually the reason I'm here.
1693
01:46:19,803 --> 01:46:22,169
I wanted to ask you about Zodiac.
1694
01:46:22,639 --> 01:46:25,870
Well, I appreciate the interest,
but we don't discuss open cases.
1695
01:46:25,976 --> 01:46:28,501
Oh, well, what's going on with it,
day to day?
1696
01:46:28,612 --> 01:46:30,273
We're actively pursuing all leads.
1697
01:46:30,380 --> 01:46:32,940
And you're the only one on it, right?
1698
01:46:34,117 --> 01:46:35,584
Mr. Graysmith,
1699
01:46:36,720 --> 01:46:38,688
Zodiac hasn't written in three years.
1700
01:46:38,788 --> 01:46:41,518
You know how many murders
we've had in San Francisco since then?
1701
01:46:41,625 --> 01:46:43,115
- No.
- Over 200.
1702
01:46:43,226 --> 01:46:46,525
That's a lot of dead people
and grieving families that need our help.
1703
01:46:46,630 --> 01:46:48,222
So, nobody cares.
1704
01:46:48,365 --> 01:46:50,799
Excuse me? I care.
1705
01:46:53,503 --> 01:46:55,767
Okay. Can I show you something?
1706
01:46:58,675 --> 01:47:01,838
I've been doing research
on the first cipher.
1707
01:47:01,945 --> 01:47:03,708
Everything an amateur
would need to create it
1708
01:47:03,813 --> 01:47:06,782
can be found in these books.
1709
01:47:06,883 --> 01:47:10,216
Now, I started thinking
that if you can track these books,
1710
01:47:10,320 --> 01:47:12,720
then maybe you can track the man.
1711
01:47:13,256 --> 01:47:16,089
So, I remember you thought
that Zodiac was military,
1712
01:47:16,192 --> 01:47:19,855
so I went to every base library
and I got a list of every person
1713
01:47:19,963 --> 01:47:23,899
who's ever checked out these books
and that's when I found this.
1714
01:47:28,638 --> 01:47:31,129
- Missing.
- It means they were stolen.
1715
01:47:31,941 --> 01:47:35,502
So, almost every book on ciphers
was stolen from the Presidio Library?
1716
01:47:35,612 --> 01:47:38,206
And the Oakland Army Terminal Library.
1717
01:47:41,017 --> 01:47:45,454
Somebody didn't want a record
of ever having checked out these books.
1718
01:47:45,555 --> 01:47:47,182
Who are you again?
1719
01:47:49,292 --> 01:47:50,919
I just wanna help.
1720
01:47:54,130 --> 01:47:56,394
I can't allow you to help.
1721
01:47:56,499 --> 01:47:58,262
I can't discuss the case with you.
1722
01:47:58,368 --> 01:48:00,802
I can't give you information,
and I certainly couldn't tell you
1723
01:48:00,904 --> 01:48:03,099
to go see Ken Narlow in Napa.
1724
01:48:03,673 --> 01:48:05,038
N-A-R-L-O-W.
1725
01:48:15,051 --> 01:48:19,715
I'm sorry, Mr. Graysmith,
but we don't cooperate with writers.
1726
01:48:19,823 --> 01:48:22,587
Well, I'm not a writer, I'm a cartoonist.
1727
01:48:23,526 --> 01:48:25,721
- And Dave Toschi sent you?
- Yes.
1728
01:48:25,829 --> 01:48:27,797
- Why?
- Maybe he...
1729
01:48:27,897 --> 01:48:30,695
Maybe he thought
that I could do some good.
1730
01:48:31,434 --> 01:48:35,598
- What are you, some kind of boy scout?
- Eagle Scout, actually, first class.
1731
01:48:36,573 --> 01:48:39,736
Well, if you wanna do this,
don't let me stop you.
1732
01:48:40,877 --> 01:48:43,368
Better start with Vallejo, Jack Mulanax.
1733
01:48:43,947 --> 01:48:45,812
I understand what you're trying to do.
1734
01:48:46,583 --> 01:48:48,778
But this is an open police investigation.
1735
01:48:48,885 --> 01:48:50,978
I'm a friend of Dave Toschi's.
1736
01:48:51,087 --> 01:48:54,352
And he said
that you might be able to help.
1737
01:48:54,457 --> 01:48:57,358
I mean, the case is dead.
Zodiac's long gone.
1738
01:48:58,294 --> 01:49:00,455
He's yesterday's news, right?
1739
01:49:01,531 --> 01:49:03,294
That's what they say.
1740
01:49:04,234 --> 01:49:06,065
So, what's the harm?
1741
01:49:06,169 --> 01:49:07,602
No pens, no paper.
1742
01:49:08,171 --> 01:49:10,833
Anything that you see that's relevant,
you got to remember in your head.
1743
01:49:10,940 --> 01:49:11,998
Okay.
1744
01:49:14,244 --> 01:49:15,541
Okay, here we go.
1745
01:49:15,645 --> 01:49:17,704
- Which one?
- All of them.
1746
01:49:17,814 --> 01:49:20,510
And there's more in the next room.
They're all marked with these numbers.
1747
01:49:20,617 --> 01:49:21,811
243-146.
1748
01:49:21,918 --> 01:49:23,749
You don't smoke, do you?
1749
01:49:23,853 --> 01:49:25,946
Once. In high school.
1750
01:49:29,359 --> 01:49:30,724
What's this?
1751
01:49:31,661 --> 01:49:32,958
Thank you.
1752
01:50:01,191 --> 01:50:03,182
Man, you really creeped us out.
1753
01:50:08,965 --> 01:50:10,364
"Nine millimeter.
1754
01:50:12,635 --> 01:50:15,160
"Said nothing and began firing."
1755
01:50:23,980 --> 01:50:25,277
"Most Dangerous Game.
1756
01:50:25,381 --> 01:50:28,145
"Do not eliminate this suspect
because of handwriting.
1757
01:50:28,251 --> 01:50:30,344
"Not because of handwriting.
1758
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:32,888
"Darlene's sister, Linda.
1759
01:50:32,989 --> 01:50:35,651
"It was all just deep breathing. George.
1760
01:50:36,292 --> 01:50:39,056
"It was a strange man. George.
Strange man."
1761
01:50:40,029 --> 01:50:41,656
Thank you so much.
1762
01:50:43,566 --> 01:50:45,557
Oh, briefcase. Oh, thanks.
1763
01:50:48,271 --> 01:50:50,796
- Hey, Jack.
- Hey, Bawart.
1764
01:50:50,907 --> 01:50:52,738
- Who's that?
- That's Graysmith.
1765
01:50:52,842 --> 01:50:56,107
Some cartoonist.
Thinks he's gonna solve the Zodiac.
1766
01:50:57,780 --> 01:50:59,077
Well, good for him.
1767
01:51:29,579 --> 01:51:31,843
- Thank you for meeting me, Inspector.
- No. We're not meeting, Robert.
1768
01:51:31,948 --> 01:51:33,472
We're just two guys
who happen to be sitting
1769
01:51:33,583 --> 01:51:34,743
on the same bench at the same time.
1770
01:51:34,851 --> 01:51:37,251
I've got five minutes.
I've got to get back to the Hall.
1771
01:51:37,353 --> 01:51:40,083
Okay. As far as you know,
did anyone ever get in touch
1772
01:51:40,189 --> 01:51:41,884
with Mike Mageau
during your investigation
1773
01:51:41,991 --> 01:51:44,459
- and show him suspect photos?
- Why?
1774
01:51:44,561 --> 01:51:46,995
Well, he's the only surviving victim
who ever saw Zodiac without a mask.
1775
01:51:47,096 --> 01:51:48,427
No, I mean, why are you asking me?
1776
01:51:48,531 --> 01:51:50,393
Mageau and Darlene,
that's Vallejo's case.
1777
01:51:50,500 --> 01:51:53,264
Paul Stine is mine.
You've got four minutes now.
1778
01:51:53,369 --> 01:51:55,462
Darlene Ferrin was being followed.
1779
01:51:55,572 --> 01:51:57,540
Now, I know Mulanax says
that they already found this guy,
1780
01:51:57,640 --> 01:51:58,629
a George Waters?
1781
01:51:58,741 --> 01:52:00,538
But he also said
that she had a lot of admirers
1782
01:52:00,643 --> 01:52:02,270
who would come to
the restaurant where she worked.
1783
01:52:02,378 --> 01:52:03,970
- She was popular.
- Very.
1784
01:52:04,080 --> 01:52:05,707
Yeah. So...
1785
01:52:05,815 --> 01:52:07,749
She and her husband,
they move into their new house,
1786
01:52:07,850 --> 01:52:09,477
and one night they throw
this painting party.
1787
01:52:09,586 --> 01:52:10,678
And what's a painting party?
1788
01:52:10,787 --> 01:52:12,755
It's a party where people come
and help you paint.
1789
01:52:12,855 --> 01:52:13,947
Sounds like a terrible party.
1790
01:52:14,057 --> 01:52:17,823
Well, supposedly,
somebody who's not Waters shows up.
1791
01:52:17,927 --> 01:52:19,792
And Darlene is terrified of him.
1792
01:52:19,896 --> 01:52:21,625
So you think that Darlene knew Zodiac?
1793
01:52:21,731 --> 01:52:26,191
And if Zodiac knew Darlene,
then maybe Mageau knows Zodiac.
1794
01:52:26,302 --> 01:52:28,133
Maybe. But Mageau's gone.
1795
01:52:28,237 --> 01:52:29,829
So if you wanna connect
Darlene to Zodiac,
1796
01:52:29,939 --> 01:52:31,338
you're gonna have to find another way.
1797
01:52:31,441 --> 01:52:32,772
I have another way.
1798
01:52:32,875 --> 01:52:34,467
Phone calls the night
of Darlene's murder.
1799
01:52:34,577 --> 01:52:37,671
- Yeah, Zodiac called the police.
- No, Dave, there were four other calls.
1800
01:52:37,780 --> 01:52:40,078
There were two to Darlene's house,
one to Darlene's brother-in-law,
1801
01:52:40,183 --> 01:52:42,481
and one to Darlene's father-in-law.
Just heavy breathing.
1802
01:52:42,585 --> 01:52:44,416
They started around 1:30 a.m.,
1803
01:52:44,520 --> 01:52:48,183
and this was before anyone in the family
knew that Darlene had been shot.
1804
01:52:48,291 --> 01:52:50,384
- This was in the Vallejo files?
- Yeah.
1805
01:52:50,493 --> 01:52:51,517
God damn it.
1806
01:52:51,628 --> 01:52:53,357
It's got to be more
than just a coincidence, right?
1807
01:52:53,463 --> 01:52:56,330
I mean, somebody doesn't just randomly
prank phone call a victim's entire family
1808
01:52:56,432 --> 01:52:58,457
90 minutes after they were shot.
1809
01:52:58,568 --> 01:53:00,627
So, either Zodiac shoots
a random couple,
1810
01:53:00,737 --> 01:53:02,227
then he recognizes Darlene...
1811
01:53:02,338 --> 01:53:04,329
Or Darlene was shot on purpose.
1812
01:53:04,440 --> 01:53:07,637
Either way,
Zodiac had to have known Darlene.
1813
01:53:09,545 --> 01:53:11,274
That's good, Robert.
1814
01:53:11,781 --> 01:53:14,978
So, I can't find Mageau,
so maybe I can find Darlene's sister.
1815
01:53:15,084 --> 01:53:16,984
And maybe she can tell me
who this mystery man is.
1816
01:53:17,086 --> 01:53:19,884
Try that. I've got to go. She's very cute.
1817
01:53:23,793 --> 01:53:25,317
You know,
1818
01:53:25,428 --> 01:53:28,761
it's interesting that you should mention
Zodiac calling people at home.
1819
01:53:28,865 --> 01:53:30,298
He did that in San Francisco once.
1820
01:53:30,400 --> 01:53:31,890
What? Who did he call?
1821
01:53:32,001 --> 01:53:35,061
I can't tell you.
That's privileged information.
1822
01:53:35,705 --> 01:53:37,866
But maybe Melvin Belli could.
1823
01:53:40,543 --> 01:53:42,067
Melvin Belli.
1824
01:53:43,012 --> 01:53:45,276
How do I get to Melvin Belli?
1825
01:53:45,381 --> 01:53:48,373
- He should be along soon.
- Oh, that's all right.
1826
01:53:48,484 --> 01:53:50,850
I've really...
I've only been waiting two hours, so...
1827
01:53:50,953 --> 01:53:52,784
He's usually not this late.
1828
01:53:52,889 --> 01:53:55,653
Oh, cookies. Thank you.
These look great.
1829
01:53:56,492 --> 01:54:00,394
- You are here on business?
- I'm writing a book about the Zodiac.
1830
01:54:00,496 --> 01:54:03,431
I remember that. I spoke to him.
1831
01:54:03,533 --> 01:54:08,129
- You mean to Mr. Belli about the case?
- No, to the Zodiac when he called.
1832
01:54:08,237 --> 01:54:11,536
He said he had to kill
because it was his birthday.
1833
01:54:11,641 --> 01:54:14,872
He said it... Wait.
He said it was his birthday?
1834
01:54:14,977 --> 01:54:17,502
Yes. You want something to drink?
1835
01:54:18,548 --> 01:54:22,541
- When was this?
- Oh, so many years ago.
1836
01:54:24,253 --> 01:54:26,813
Mr. Belli was away for Christmas.
1837
01:54:26,923 --> 01:54:28,151
Gone for a week.
1838
01:54:28,257 --> 01:54:30,589
The Zodiac called,
wanting to talk to him.
1839
01:54:30,693 --> 01:54:32,388
I said, "He is not here."
1840
01:54:32,495 --> 01:54:35,396
He said, "I have to kill.
Today is my birthday."
1841
01:54:35,498 --> 01:54:37,432
And then he hangs up.
1842
01:54:37,533 --> 01:54:39,023
Then the letter arrived.
1843
01:54:39,135 --> 01:54:43,162
So, the call came
before the letter of December 20th.
1844
01:54:43,272 --> 01:54:45,206
Mr. Belli was gone for a week?
1845
01:54:45,308 --> 01:54:49,039
He came back on Christmas.
Not a good day to work.
1846
01:54:49,145 --> 01:54:51,079
So, he left on the 18th.
1847
01:54:52,281 --> 01:54:53,748
Is that helpful?
1848
01:54:53,850 --> 01:54:55,283
She said it was his birthday.
1849
01:54:55,384 --> 01:54:59,184
Well, you'd have to confirm that,
now wouldn't you?
1850
01:54:59,288 --> 01:55:00,687
How?
1851
01:55:00,790 --> 01:55:03,884
Well, I never spoke to her,
but maybe my partner did.
1852
01:55:03,993 --> 01:55:06,826
- How do I get a hold of him?
- You don't. Bill wanted out of this.
1853
01:55:06,929 --> 01:55:09,193
As far as I'm concerned,
he should stay out.
1854
01:55:09,298 --> 01:55:10,560
How do I confirm it?
1855
01:55:10,666 --> 01:55:13,191
Well, if my partner
did talk to someone from Justice,
1856
01:55:13,302 --> 01:55:14,860
then they would've had
to put that in a report.
1857
01:55:14,971 --> 01:55:17,269
That's standard procedure.
1858
01:55:17,373 --> 01:55:19,432
- Okay.
- Mel Nicolai.
1859
01:55:19,542 --> 01:55:21,476
- Thank you.
- Goodbye.
1860
01:55:21,577 --> 01:55:23,738
I just need to confirm a date.
1861
01:55:23,846 --> 01:55:25,177
- Mr. Graysmith...
- I've narrowed it down
1862
01:55:25,281 --> 01:55:27,545
between the 18th and the 20th
of December, and I just need...
1863
01:55:27,650 --> 01:55:30,949
Okay, I'll play.
Let's say this phone call did take place.
1864
01:55:31,053 --> 01:55:32,486
Let's say it really was Zodiac.
1865
01:55:32,588 --> 01:55:35,352
Why would he volunteer
the day he was born?
1866
01:55:35,458 --> 01:55:37,585
Plus, nobody died on December 18th,
1867
01:55:37,693 --> 01:55:40,491
just like nobody died over the weekend
when he was gonna kill a dozen people,
1868
01:55:40,596 --> 01:55:42,928
or when he was gonna
shoot school kids or blow up buses.
1869
01:55:43,032 --> 01:55:44,397
He's a liar, Mr. Graysmith.
1870
01:55:44,500 --> 01:55:46,161
What if he made a mistake?
1871
01:55:46,269 --> 01:55:48,294
What if he wasn't lying?
What if it was him on the phone?
1872
01:55:48,404 --> 01:55:50,770
He didn't expect to pick it up,
a nice person to pick up.
1873
01:55:50,873 --> 01:55:52,204
What if? What if? What if?
1874
01:55:52,308 --> 01:55:55,641
Look, off the record,
Bill Armstrong checked this out.
1875
01:55:55,745 --> 01:55:58,339
We took this very seriously.
1876
01:55:58,447 --> 01:56:01,678
None of the suspects had the
same birthday as this phantom caller.
1877
01:56:01,784 --> 01:56:03,945
Bill Armstrong.
1878
01:56:09,525 --> 01:56:11,493
Can I give you a piece of advice?
1879
01:56:11,594 --> 01:56:13,152
You're looking in the wrong place.
1880
01:56:13,262 --> 01:56:16,288
Handwriting, fingerprints,
that's what this whole thing's about.
1881
01:56:16,399 --> 01:56:17,764
Stick to the evidence.
1882
01:56:18,801 --> 01:56:19,825
Hi.
1883
01:56:28,144 --> 01:56:31,272
- Hey. How was your day?
- Long.
1884
01:56:36,719 --> 01:56:38,118
Who's Sherwood Morrill?
1885
01:56:38,221 --> 01:56:40,985
He's a handwriting expert
in Sacramento.
1886
01:56:41,090 --> 01:56:42,182
He called.
1887
01:56:42,291 --> 01:56:44,384
He said he can meet you
tomorrow morning at 7:00.
1888
01:56:44,493 --> 01:56:45,755
Oh, great.
1889
01:56:45,862 --> 01:56:48,695
- So you're taking off work?
- Just an hour.
1890
01:56:50,499 --> 01:56:52,592
Sacramento's two hours away.
1891
01:56:53,736 --> 01:56:55,328
- Really?
- Yes.
1892
01:56:56,105 --> 01:56:57,629
What's this?
1893
01:56:57,740 --> 01:57:00,368
Oh, that's that article.
1894
01:57:00,476 --> 01:57:04,037
"Robert Graysmith has quietly been
shopping his book about the Zodiac."
1895
01:57:04,146 --> 01:57:05,238
Yeah.
1896
01:57:05,348 --> 01:57:07,976
It talks all about you
researching Zodiac.
1897
01:57:08,084 --> 01:57:09,483
Well, that's what the article's about.
1898
01:57:09,585 --> 01:57:12,019
I'm not so sure that's something
we want people to know about.
1899
01:57:12,121 --> 01:57:13,179
Why? Are you embarrassed?
1900
01:57:13,289 --> 01:57:16,452
Robert, what's the one thing
we know about Zodiac?
1901
01:57:17,126 --> 01:57:18,320
He reads the Chronicle.
1902
01:57:18,427 --> 01:57:20,918
Yeah, but he's never
gonna read Herb Caen.
1903
01:57:25,601 --> 01:57:27,899
- Hello.
- Mr. Graysmith?
1904
01:57:28,004 --> 01:57:30,564
The Robert Graysmith
mentioned in the paper today?
1905
01:57:30,673 --> 01:57:33,767
- Yeah?
- I can tell you who the Zodiac is.
1906
01:57:37,580 --> 01:57:38,604
Who is this?
1907
01:57:38,714 --> 01:57:40,841
The Zodiac Killer
is obsessed with movies.
1908
01:57:40,950 --> 01:57:43,646
He recorded his murders on film.
1909
01:57:43,753 --> 01:57:47,120
I tried to tell the police,
but they wouldn't follow through on it.
1910
01:57:47,223 --> 01:57:50,158
There's a man you need to find.
His name is Bob Vaughn.
1911
01:57:50,259 --> 01:57:52,784
- Pen, pen.
- V-A-U-G-H-N.
1912
01:57:52,895 --> 01:57:55,022
He's a friend of the Zodiac's.
1913
01:57:55,131 --> 01:57:57,258
Mr. Vaughn does not know
his friend is a killer,
1914
01:57:57,366 --> 01:57:59,960
and he is storing
some film canisters for him.
1915
01:58:00,069 --> 01:58:01,764
In these canisters is the evidence.
1916
01:58:01,871 --> 01:58:05,238
Okay, yeah, friend? Who is this friend?
1917
01:58:05,341 --> 01:58:06,968
You have quite enough to get started.
1918
01:58:07,076 --> 01:58:08,634
Oh, please.
1919
01:58:08,744 --> 01:58:12,043
The Zodiac's name is Rick Marshall.
1920
01:58:15,918 --> 01:58:17,749
Your toast is burning.
1921
01:58:18,955 --> 01:58:23,949
We choose at some point in our lives
how to physically construct each letter.
1922
01:58:24,660 --> 01:58:26,958
Once we lock that into our brains,
1923
01:58:27,063 --> 01:58:29,361
our handwriting may change
over the years,
1924
01:58:29,465 --> 01:58:32,127
but the moves themselves
remain unaltered.
1925
01:58:32,234 --> 01:58:33,724
- Understand?
- Yes.
1926
01:58:35,237 --> 01:58:37,171
Except Zodiac's doesn't.
1927
01:58:38,874 --> 01:58:40,808
Specifically with his "K."
1928
01:58:41,911 --> 01:58:44,880
In his first letters,
he executed the "K" with two strokes.
1929
01:58:44,981 --> 01:58:46,505
Later letters, he did them with three.
1930
01:58:46,615 --> 01:58:48,776
- Why?
- We don't know.
1931
01:58:48,884 --> 01:58:50,909
Excuse me, I've got to spray this.
1932
01:58:51,020 --> 01:58:54,148
How many suspects
were cleared through handwriting?
1933
01:58:54,256 --> 01:58:55,689
All of them.
1934
01:58:55,791 --> 01:58:59,249
Also the print in the cab.
No match was ever found.
1935
01:58:59,362 --> 01:59:03,298
Is there any way that someone
could beat a handwriting test?
1936
01:59:03,399 --> 01:59:04,491
No.
1937
01:59:04,600 --> 01:59:07,763
Whoever the Zodiac is,
he's not someone I cleared.
1938
01:59:08,704 --> 01:59:12,162
About a month ago, a man showed up
on my doorstep very distraught.
1939
01:59:12,274 --> 01:59:14,333
His name was Wallace Penny.
1940
01:59:15,177 --> 01:59:17,441
He said he knew who the Zodiac was.
1941
01:59:17,546 --> 01:59:19,605
Gave me a name.
1942
01:59:19,715 --> 01:59:21,842
Rick. Rick somebody.
1943
01:59:21,951 --> 01:59:24,385
- Rick Marshall?
- Yeah.
1944
01:59:24,487 --> 01:59:27,012
I think that the man
who you talked to called me, too.
1945
01:59:27,123 --> 01:59:29,717
After he left, then I checked my files.
1946
01:59:29,825 --> 01:59:31,656
I never cleared a Rick Marshall.
1947
01:59:38,868 --> 01:59:39,994
Hello?
1948
01:59:45,107 --> 01:59:46,802
Hello? Who is this?
1949
01:59:56,919 --> 01:59:58,648
It's the wrong number.
1950
02:00:04,860 --> 02:00:07,988
Does the name Rick Marshall
mean anything to you?
1951
02:00:08,998 --> 02:00:11,159
What are you after?
1952
02:00:11,267 --> 02:00:12,325
What do you got?
1953
02:00:12,435 --> 02:00:17,566
Hypothetically, you just named
my favorite suspect in the whole case.
1954
02:00:17,673 --> 02:00:19,197
This is off the record.
1955
02:00:19,308 --> 02:00:21,742
Couple years back,
I was trying to get Marshall's prints.
1956
02:00:21,844 --> 02:00:23,573
I handed him a photo.
1957
02:00:23,679 --> 02:00:26,045
He looks at it. He's about to give it back
and he stops and he says,
1958
02:00:26,148 --> 02:00:28,582
"My goodness,
I got fingerprints all over this."
1959
02:00:28,684 --> 02:00:30,515
And he wipes them off.
1960
02:00:31,120 --> 02:00:32,951
Why didn't you test him for handwriting?
1961
02:00:33,055 --> 02:00:35,683
Because when they finally
did run his prints,
1962
02:00:35,791 --> 02:00:38,055
they cleared him
against the one in Stine's cab.
1963
02:00:38,160 --> 02:00:40,151
- So, then, it's not him.
- Maybe yes, maybe no.
1964
02:00:40,262 --> 02:00:42,389
No. What do you mean?
1965
02:00:42,498 --> 02:00:44,864
Zodiac left gloves behind at the scene.
1966
02:00:44,967 --> 02:00:46,992
If he had the foresight
to bring gloves with him,
1967
02:00:47,103 --> 02:00:49,094
how the hell's he gonna
accidentally leave a print behind?
1968
02:00:49,205 --> 02:00:51,196
But it was in the victim's blood.
1969
02:00:51,307 --> 02:00:52,638
Could have been one of the bystanders,
1970
02:00:52,741 --> 02:00:55,107
or a cop just reaches out,
boom, false print.
1971
02:00:55,211 --> 02:00:57,577
Yeah, but that print
disqualified 2,500 suspects.
1972
02:00:57,680 --> 02:00:58,977
Which is why we also used handwriting.
1973
02:00:59,081 --> 02:01:00,378
But not for Rick Marshall.
1974
02:01:00,483 --> 02:01:03,543
SFPD saw a handwritten sign
in the window of his house.
1975
02:01:03,652 --> 02:01:07,486
Decided it looked nothing
like the Z letters, so they just moved on.
1976
02:01:07,590 --> 02:01:09,820
How do they know
that Rick Marshall wrote the sign?
1977
02:01:09,925 --> 02:01:10,914
My thoughts exactly.
1978
02:01:12,128 --> 02:01:15,859
Rick Marshall was a Navy man.
He received code training.
1979
02:01:15,965 --> 02:01:18,399
He was also a projectionist
at a silent film theater.
1980
02:01:18,501 --> 02:01:20,594
Well, then, how do I get copies
of Rick Marshall's handwriting?
1981
02:01:20,703 --> 02:01:24,571
Three ways.
One, get a warrant, which you can't.
1982
02:01:24,673 --> 02:01:26,800
Two, get him to volunteer,
which he won't.
1983
02:01:26,909 --> 02:01:28,809
Yeah, and three?
1984
02:01:28,911 --> 02:01:30,538
Get creative.
1985
02:01:30,646 --> 02:01:33,376
I don't know what to tell you.
You get it, I'll analyze it.
1986
02:01:33,482 --> 02:01:34,847
Beyond that, you're on your own.
1987
02:01:34,950 --> 02:01:37,384
Okay, what about
the guy who came to see you,
1988
02:01:37,486 --> 02:01:38,885
the one who called me?
1989
02:01:38,988 --> 02:01:41,456
You mean Wallace Penny?
1990
02:01:41,557 --> 02:01:43,650
Yeah. Did he leave a number?
1991
02:01:53,002 --> 02:01:56,267
- Hello?
- Hi, this is Robert Graysmith.
1992
02:01:56,372 --> 02:01:57,361
How did you find me?
1993
02:01:57,473 --> 02:01:59,498
I need a sample
of Rick Marshall's handwriting.
1994
02:01:59,608 --> 02:02:00,905
I told you. Vaughn is who...
1995
02:02:01,010 --> 02:02:03,979
Mr. Penny,
if Rick Marshall is the Zodiac,
1996
02:02:04,079 --> 02:02:06,547
I need a sample of his handwriting
to confirm it.
1997
02:02:06,649 --> 02:02:08,241
Can you help me or not?
1998
02:02:09,952 --> 02:02:14,616
Rick used to draw movie posters
for the theater Vaughn worked at.
1999
02:02:14,723 --> 02:02:16,623
- I'll send one down.
- Thank you.
2000
02:02:26,635 --> 02:02:29,035
- I'll need to see more samples.
- Yeah, but is it...
2001
02:02:29,138 --> 02:02:31,629
It's as close as I've ever seen.
We have to tread lightly here.
2002
02:02:31,740 --> 02:02:34,174
We're talking about
implicating this man as the Zodiac.
2003
02:02:34,276 --> 02:02:37,268
I can get more. I'll just find Vaughn
and I'll track down Linda.
2004
02:02:37,379 --> 02:02:39,347
I mean, Linda is Darlene's sister.
2005
02:02:39,448 --> 02:02:42,144
I've been to the DMV,
and I talked to her parents,
2006
02:02:42,251 --> 02:02:45,345
but still, nobody knows
where to find her.
2007
02:02:45,454 --> 02:02:49,914
Mr. Graysmith, most of the writing
matches the exemplar.
2008
02:02:50,025 --> 02:02:53,051
In a way, though, it's the part that
doesn't match that scares me the most.
2009
02:02:53,162 --> 02:02:55,562
- What do you mean?
- Well, on the poster,
2010
02:02:55,664 --> 02:02:58,758
the one letter that absolutely,
positively does not match
2011
02:02:58,867 --> 02:03:00,425
is the letter "K."
2012
02:03:02,438 --> 02:03:06,306
You wouldn't happen to have any
animal crackers in there, would you?
2013
02:03:06,408 --> 02:03:09,969
Unit Five.
Toschi needs to call in on a landline.
2014
02:03:21,991 --> 02:03:24,357
- Dispatch.
- Hey. Dave Toschi.
2015
02:03:24,460 --> 02:03:26,052
I'll connect you.
2016
02:03:26,862 --> 02:03:28,295
- Dave?
- Yeah. What's up?
2017
02:03:28,397 --> 02:03:30,763
Jennings here from the Chronicle.
2018
02:03:30,866 --> 02:03:32,834
It came in this morning
and you need to see it right now.
2019
02:03:32,935 --> 02:03:33,993
See what?
2020
02:03:34,103 --> 02:03:36,833
The new Zodiac letter.
And it mentions you.
2021
02:03:36,939 --> 02:03:37,997
Okay, okay.
2022
02:03:40,309 --> 02:03:42,573
Shit. All right, come on.
2023
02:03:42,678 --> 02:03:44,612
Hall of Justice!
2024
02:03:44,713 --> 02:03:47,773
Now! Come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on!
2025
02:03:54,023 --> 02:03:55,081
Dave!
2026
02:03:56,225 --> 02:03:58,159
Do you have it with you?
2027
02:04:01,297 --> 02:04:03,731
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
I'm back with you.
2028
02:04:03,832 --> 02:04:06,892
"Tell Herb Caen I am here,
I have always been here.
2029
02:04:07,002 --> 02:04:10,028
"That city pig Toschi is good,
but I am smarter and better.
2030
02:04:10,139 --> 02:04:12,835
"He will get tired, then leave me alone.
2031
02:04:12,941 --> 02:04:16,399
"I'm waiting for a good movie about me.
Who will play me?
2032
02:04:16,512 --> 02:04:18,537
"I'm now in control of all things."
2033
02:04:18,647 --> 02:04:21,138
These guys are from Internal Affairs.
2034
02:04:23,085 --> 02:04:24,814
We need to talk.
2035
02:04:24,920 --> 02:04:26,683
Good evening. Our top story tonight,
2036
02:04:26,789 --> 02:04:29,280
the San Francisco Police Department
has confirmed
2037
02:04:29,391 --> 02:04:31,882
that the man
who calls himself the Zodiac
2038
02:04:31,994 --> 02:04:36,363
and terrorized the Bay Area
has broken his silence of 51 months.
2039
02:04:36,465 --> 02:04:38,933
In a letter claiming,
"I am back with you,"
2040
02:04:39,034 --> 02:04:42,492
the Zodiac makes no overt threats
against the citizenry,
2041
02:04:42,604 --> 02:04:45,767
and muses that his life and times
would make the best movie script yet.
2042
02:04:45,874 --> 02:04:47,364
These carrots are perfect.
2043
02:04:47,476 --> 02:04:48,841
The terse 66 word message
also manages...
2044
02:04:48,944 --> 02:04:49,968
Just go.
2045
02:04:50,079 --> 02:04:53,048
...to mention San Francisco Chronicle
columnist Herb Caen
2046
02:04:53,148 --> 02:04:56,083
and the Department's own
David Toschi by name.
2047
02:04:56,185 --> 02:04:57,777
- May I be excused?
- Are they targets?
2048
02:04:57,886 --> 02:04:58,875
Fine, but you have to come back
2049
02:04:58,987 --> 02:05:00,614
and finish at least half
of what's on that plate.
2050
02:05:00,723 --> 02:05:02,918
More team coverage
on the cipher slayer's return
2051
02:05:03,025 --> 02:05:05,493
begins as Alan Freeman has more.
2052
02:05:05,594 --> 02:05:06,720
Thank you, Eric.
2053
02:05:06,829 --> 02:05:09,297
San Francisco Chronicle columnist
Armistead Maupin says
2054
02:05:09,398 --> 02:05:11,992
that he thinks not only
is this new letter a forgery,
2055
02:05:12,101 --> 02:05:14,035
but it was written by the very man
2056
02:05:14,136 --> 02:05:17,765
trusted to hunt down this killer,
David Toschi.
2057
02:05:17,873 --> 02:05:21,639
Maupin, a very well-respected author,
has gone on record saying
2058
02:05:21,744 --> 02:05:26,340
that he believes Toschi wrote the letter
to drum up publicity for himself.
2059
02:05:26,448 --> 02:05:29,508
Maupin used David
as a character in his column.
2060
02:05:29,618 --> 02:05:31,518
David got a kick out of it
2061
02:05:31,620 --> 02:05:33,611
and so he wrote
a couple of anonymous letters
2062
02:05:33,722 --> 02:05:35,622
asking for the character
to be brought back.
2063
02:05:35,724 --> 02:05:38,716
It was like
writing fan mail to himself. That's all.
2064
02:05:38,827 --> 02:05:41,022
But David did not write that letter.
2065
02:05:41,130 --> 02:05:44,258
No, I'm sure that he didn't.
And I'm sure that this will all blow over.
2066
02:05:44,366 --> 02:05:45,697
Blow over?
2067
02:05:45,801 --> 02:05:47,860
They kicked him out of Homicide.
2068
02:05:47,970 --> 02:05:51,269
They made him give his handwriting
like some common criminal.
2069
02:05:51,373 --> 02:05:53,705
- May I talk to him?
- No.
2070
02:05:54,877 --> 02:05:56,037
Okay, can you just ask him
2071
02:05:56,145 --> 02:05:58,511
if he ever investigated
a man named Rick Marshall?
2072
02:05:58,614 --> 02:06:00,377
Is that all you can think about?
2073
02:06:00,482 --> 02:06:03,883
Mr. Graysmith,
Maupin works at your paper. We trust...
2074
02:06:09,591 --> 02:06:11,058
This girl, she wants music lessons?
2075
02:06:11,160 --> 02:06:12,627
Dave! Dave!
2076
02:06:14,963 --> 02:06:17,329
I'll catch up to you.
2077
02:06:17,433 --> 02:06:19,628
You stop calling my house.
Do you understand me?
2078
02:06:19,735 --> 02:06:21,430
I just need your help to find Linda.
2079
02:06:21,537 --> 02:06:23,471
- Jesus.
- Look, two seconds.
2080
02:06:25,507 --> 02:06:27,839
Look, we've been
running handwriting samples.
2081
02:06:27,943 --> 02:06:30,309
- Who's we?
- Sherwood and I.
2082
02:06:30,412 --> 02:06:31,504
Sherwood?
2083
02:06:31,613 --> 02:06:33,706
Sherwood who was fired
from Questioned Documents?
2084
02:06:33,816 --> 02:06:35,374
Sherwood who drinks
like Paul Avery now?
2085
02:06:35,484 --> 02:06:37,816
- He retired.
- Is that what he told you?
2086
02:06:37,920 --> 02:06:41,788
- What, are you saying he's wrong?
- I'm saying stop calling my house.
2087
02:06:42,724 --> 02:06:44,385
- We ran them on Rick Marshall.
- No, Robert.
2088
02:06:44,493 --> 02:06:45,790
No, I know you don't think it's him.
2089
02:06:45,894 --> 02:06:47,327
I mean, no, I am not having
this conversation.
2090
02:06:47,429 --> 02:06:50,159
But I think that Marshall knew Darlene,
and I can't talk to Mageau or Linda,
2091
02:06:50,265 --> 02:06:51,361
so I'm gonna talk to Bob Vaughn.
2092
02:06:51,467 --> 02:06:52,695
- Robert. Robert, stop it!
- What?
2093
02:06:52,801 --> 02:06:55,031
Okay, the Rick Marshalls
of this world will suck you dry.
2094
02:06:55,137 --> 02:06:56,104
They're blind alleys.
2095
02:06:56,205 --> 02:06:58,673
But he said he wasn't gonna announce
his murders anymore, Dave.
2096
02:06:58,774 --> 02:06:59,832
He was just gonna do them.
2097
02:06:59,942 --> 02:07:02,877
Do you know what the chances
of us arresting someone are now?
2098
02:07:02,978 --> 02:07:07,074
Too much time has gone by, okay?
Too much of the evidence is lost.
2099
02:07:07,182 --> 02:07:10,174
People get old, Robert. They forget.
2100
02:07:10,285 --> 02:07:14,585
Now, I have been a cop for 25 years.
Murder police for 12.
2101
02:07:14,690 --> 02:07:16,988
- What do you do for a living?
- You know what I do for a living.
2102
02:07:17,092 --> 02:07:19,322
- You're a cartoonist.
- So what are you saying?
2103
02:07:19,428 --> 02:07:22,556
I am saying Zodiac was my job.
It is not yours.
2104
02:07:25,567 --> 02:07:28,127
- He's still out there, Dave.
- No, Robert. I am through with this.
2105
02:07:28,237 --> 02:07:30,102
I am through with you.
2106
02:07:36,445 --> 02:07:38,970
What about September 26, 1970?
2107
02:07:39,081 --> 02:07:42,608
- Okay, which one was that?
- The Lake Tahoe nurse goes missing.
2108
02:07:45,487 --> 02:07:46,954
One day before the vernal equinox.
2109
02:07:47,055 --> 02:07:48,852
- Dad?
- Yeah. Mark that.
2110
02:07:48,957 --> 02:07:52,324
Got another one. June 19th, 1971.
2111
02:07:52,427 --> 02:07:55,191
That's got to be
near the summer solstice.
2112
02:07:57,766 --> 02:07:59,097
Oh, guys.
2113
02:07:59,201 --> 02:08:02,227
Don't tell Mom about
our special project, okay?
2114
02:08:02,871 --> 02:08:06,363
How come you and Mom
don't sleep in the same bed anymore?
2115
02:08:09,878 --> 02:08:10,867
Hello.
2116
02:08:10,979 --> 02:08:13,106
Mr. Graysmith,
it's Ken Narlow from Napa.
2117
02:08:13,215 --> 02:08:16,946
Oh, Captain Narlow.
Thank you for calling me back.
2118
02:08:17,052 --> 02:08:18,679
Yeah. How can I help?
2119
02:08:18,787 --> 02:08:22,223
I called you because we've been
cross-referencing lunar cycles
2120
02:08:22,324 --> 02:08:23,916
with the Zodiac's timeline.
2121
02:08:24,026 --> 02:08:28,292
More often than not, each cycle
since '69 corresponds with an attack
2122
02:08:28,397 --> 02:08:31,195
or with one of the letters,
or an unsolved homicide.
2123
02:08:31,300 --> 02:08:34,201
- Who's working with you on this?
- Some colleagues.
2124
02:08:34,303 --> 02:08:35,327
Dad?
2125
02:08:36,338 --> 02:08:38,704
- Ken, can you hold on one second?
- Dad?
2126
02:08:38,807 --> 02:08:40,798
- What is it?
- What's this?
2127
02:08:44,980 --> 02:08:48,245
In the decade since the Zodiac's
last cipher was received,
2128
02:08:48,350 --> 02:08:51,717
every federal agency
has taken a crack at decoding it.
2129
02:08:51,820 --> 02:08:54,687
But today,
where those agencies had failed,
2130
02:08:54,790 --> 02:08:57,418
a cartoonist has succeeded.
2131
02:08:57,526 --> 02:08:59,050
How did you do it?
2132
02:08:59,161 --> 02:09:04,565
Oh, just a lot of books from the library,
and I love puzzles, so I just...
2133
02:09:06,668 --> 02:09:08,863
Yeah. The fucking library.
2134
02:09:08,971 --> 02:09:12,099
I believe that you can accomplish
anything that you put your mind...
2135
02:09:14,910 --> 02:09:17,777
That's a "J"? Okay. Honor Camp?
2136
02:09:19,414 --> 02:09:21,041
Thank you so much.
2137
02:09:22,684 --> 02:09:25,278
Hey, we found Linda.
She's in jail. Isn't that great?
2138
02:09:25,387 --> 02:09:26,513
Why'd you do it?
2139
02:09:26,622 --> 02:09:28,055
Because she'll be able to identify Rick...
2140
02:09:28,156 --> 02:09:30,852
- What are you talking about?
- You went on TV.
2141
02:09:31,460 --> 02:09:33,121
You put yourself out there
for him to see.
2142
02:09:33,228 --> 02:09:34,718
Oh, hon, you're being paranoid.
2143
02:09:34,830 --> 02:09:36,821
Then who's been calling our house
in the middle of the night
2144
02:09:36,932 --> 02:09:37,921
at least once a week?
2145
02:09:38,033 --> 02:09:39,193
Nobody.
2146
02:09:40,969 --> 02:09:42,869
What's it gonna take
for you to be done with this?
2147
02:09:42,971 --> 02:09:45,872
I can't talk about this now.
I have to go see Bob Vaughn.
2148
02:09:45,974 --> 02:09:49,137
Well, that's too bad,
because we're gonna talk about this.
2149
02:09:49,244 --> 02:09:51,576
And when is it gonna be finished?
2150
02:09:51,680 --> 02:09:53,614
When you catch him?
When you arrest him?
2151
02:09:53,715 --> 02:09:55,910
- Be serious.
- I am serious.
2152
02:09:57,819 --> 02:10:01,311
I need to know who he is.
2153
02:10:01,423 --> 02:10:04,551
I need to stand there,
2154
02:10:04,660 --> 02:10:08,562
I need to look him in the eye
and I need to know that it's him.
2155
02:10:10,365 --> 02:10:12,731
Is that more important
than your family's safety?
2156
02:10:12,834 --> 02:10:14,301
Of course not.
2157
02:10:16,238 --> 02:10:18,604
Why? Why do you need to do this?
2158
02:10:20,575 --> 02:10:21,633
Why?
2159
02:10:23,478 --> 02:10:25,605
Because nobody else will.
2160
02:10:25,714 --> 02:10:27,648
That's not good enough.
2161
02:10:27,749 --> 02:10:29,614
Are you done? Can I go?
2162
02:10:44,933 --> 02:10:46,958
- Mr. Vaughn?
- Mr. Graysmith?
2163
02:10:47,069 --> 02:10:48,093
- Yes.
- Hi.
2164
02:10:48,203 --> 02:10:49,534
You needed to speak to me?
2165
02:10:49,638 --> 02:10:52,038
Yes. There's a coffee shop
right on the corner.
2166
02:10:52,140 --> 02:10:55,200
- Why don't we just go to my home?
- Oh, I don't wanna put you out.
2167
02:10:55,310 --> 02:10:57,210
It's no trouble at all.
2168
02:10:57,312 --> 02:10:59,780
- Where are you parked?
- Just right there.
2169
02:10:59,881 --> 02:11:03,214
- You can follow me.
- Oh. Okay.
2170
02:11:21,837 --> 02:11:23,395
Watch your step.
2171
02:11:24,506 --> 02:11:26,167
Come in.
2172
02:11:28,009 --> 02:11:31,240
- Very nice house.
- Oh, thank you.
2173
02:11:31,346 --> 02:11:33,177
It's very rustic.
2174
02:11:33,281 --> 02:11:36,444
- Can I take your jacket?
- No, thank you, I'm fine.
2175
02:11:36,551 --> 02:11:38,519
Okay. This way, please.
2176
02:11:41,156 --> 02:11:43,056
- Have a seat.
- Thank you.
2177
02:11:43,158 --> 02:11:45,683
- How about some tea?
- Oh, no, I'm all right.
2178
02:11:45,794 --> 02:11:47,227
- You sure?
- Yes.
2179
02:11:47,996 --> 02:11:51,864
I wanted to ask you about a film
that the Avenue may have played
2180
02:11:51,967 --> 02:11:53,867
while you were the organist there.
2181
02:11:53,969 --> 02:11:56,233
The Most Dangerous Game?
2182
02:11:56,338 --> 02:11:59,671
Oh, it's a classic. RKO. 1932.
2183
02:11:59,775 --> 02:12:04,474
Fay Wray, Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks.
We've run that picture many times.
2184
02:12:04,579 --> 02:12:06,069
In '68, '69?
2185
02:12:07,716 --> 02:12:09,911
I'd have to check my records. Why?
2186
02:12:10,018 --> 02:12:12,077
Do you remember the Zodiac?
2187
02:12:14,322 --> 02:12:16,586
This is about Rick Marshall, isn't it?
2188
02:12:16,691 --> 02:12:20,092
- He was a projectionist there, right?
- For a time, yes.
2189
02:12:20,195 --> 02:12:24,222
But I have no occasion
to correspond with him these days.
2190
02:12:24,332 --> 02:12:26,800
Okay. Well, there is a connection
2191
02:12:26,902 --> 02:12:29,666
between one of the Zodiac attacks
and that film.
2192
02:12:29,771 --> 02:12:31,500
You mean the symbol?
2193
02:12:32,774 --> 02:12:33,968
Hold on.
2194
02:12:34,543 --> 02:12:38,639
The Zodiac symbol on film.
It's on the countdown.
2195
02:12:42,551 --> 02:12:45,145
It's trimmed off each reel
before it's shown,
2196
02:12:45,253 --> 02:12:47,778
but it always arrives with it.
2197
02:12:47,889 --> 02:12:49,254
Right there.
2198
02:12:49,891 --> 02:12:53,554
The first time I saw it in the papers,
I thought about that.
2199
02:12:54,429 --> 02:12:55,953
We got a tip
2200
02:12:56,064 --> 02:13:00,023
that Rick left a film canister here
that he told you never to open.
2201
02:13:00,135 --> 02:13:03,263
A tip about a mysterious film canister?
2202
02:13:04,139 --> 02:13:05,470
Is it true?
2203
02:13:07,409 --> 02:13:08,569
Yes.
2204
02:13:09,277 --> 02:13:11,575
- Did you open it?
- No.
2205
02:13:11,680 --> 02:13:15,946
- May I see it?
- Rick took it back in 1972.
2206
02:13:17,686 --> 02:13:22,453
This tip is how you got it in your head
that Rick is the Zodiac?
2207
02:13:22,557 --> 02:13:24,218
That and the poster.
2208
02:13:24,326 --> 02:13:25,657
The poster?
2209
02:13:27,629 --> 02:13:29,392
The poster that Rick drew.
2210
02:13:29,497 --> 02:13:32,694
The handwriting is the closest
that we have ever come to a match.
2211
02:13:32,801 --> 02:13:36,066
- Rick didn't draw any posters.
- No, he drew this one.
2212
02:13:36,171 --> 02:13:39,607
Mr. Graysmith, I do the posters myself.
2213
02:13:41,009 --> 02:13:42,840
That's my handwriting.
2214
02:13:51,119 --> 02:13:53,986
I won't take any more of your time.
2215
02:13:54,089 --> 02:13:59,459
Why don't I just go and find out
when we played that film?
2216
02:13:59,561 --> 02:14:01,028
Oh, that's all right.
2217
02:14:01,129 --> 02:14:04,530
It's not a problem.
They're just down in the basement.
2218
02:14:06,368 --> 02:14:09,269
Not many people
have basements in California.
2219
02:14:11,973 --> 02:14:13,031
I do.
2220
02:14:15,243 --> 02:14:17,211
You coming, Mr. Graysmith?
2221
02:14:28,523 --> 02:14:32,186
The original studio one-sheets,
I always kept for myself.
2222
02:14:34,095 --> 02:14:36,620
The cheapo knock-offs
like you brought today
2223
02:14:36,731 --> 02:14:39,859
I end up tossing into the back alley.
2224
02:14:54,382 --> 02:14:55,872
'69.
2225
02:15:01,589 --> 02:15:02,817
You live alone?
2226
02:15:02,924 --> 02:15:08,692
Most Dangerous Game ran in May '69.
2227
02:15:08,797 --> 02:15:11,231
So, that would be about
2228
02:15:12,167 --> 02:15:15,432
nine weeks before
the first Zodiac letter, correct?
2229
02:15:18,373 --> 02:15:19,431
Yeah.
2230
02:15:23,945 --> 02:15:28,211
Do you think he saw the film
in our theater and was inspired?
2231
02:15:34,322 --> 02:15:37,189
Are you sure
there's nobody else in the house?
2232
02:15:38,827 --> 02:15:41,489
Would you like
to go upstairs and check?
2233
02:15:42,230 --> 02:15:43,219
No.
2234
02:15:46,368 --> 02:15:48,893
Thank you. Thanks for everything.
2235
02:15:49,771 --> 02:15:51,238
You're welcome.
2236
02:16:12,560 --> 02:16:13,925
It's locked.
2237
02:16:24,806 --> 02:16:26,103
Thank you.
2238
02:16:29,244 --> 02:16:31,235
Good night, Mr. Graysmith!
2239
02:16:50,765 --> 02:16:54,428
Two killers. Got to be two killers.
One has the...
2240
02:17:02,744 --> 02:17:03,904
Guys?
2241
02:17:37,479 --> 02:17:39,413
You've got five minutes.
2242
02:17:47,455 --> 02:17:48,581
Linda?
2243
02:17:49,791 --> 02:17:51,258
Hi, I'm Robert.
2244
02:17:55,330 --> 02:17:57,059
Did you get my note?
2245
02:17:57,799 --> 02:17:59,767
- What's this about?
- Zodiac.
2246
02:18:01,402 --> 02:18:02,596
Figures.
2247
02:18:04,038 --> 02:18:06,199
- You got the look.
- What look?
2248
02:18:06,875 --> 02:18:08,866
I didn't mean anything.
2249
02:18:10,211 --> 02:18:12,577
Tell me about this painting party.
2250
02:18:13,515 --> 02:18:16,109
I told the cops about that so long ago.
2251
02:18:19,687 --> 02:18:21,621
Darlene always had
a lot of boys around,
2252
02:18:21,723 --> 02:18:23,657
even though she was married.
2253
02:18:23,758 --> 02:18:25,749
And this one guy was weird, though.
2254
02:18:25,860 --> 02:18:29,193
He used to bring her presents
from Tijuana and...
2255
02:18:30,265 --> 02:18:33,029
I don't know why
she was friends with him.
2256
02:18:33,134 --> 02:18:35,602
She once told me he'd killed somebody.
2257
02:18:35,703 --> 02:18:37,102
Really?
2258
02:18:37,205 --> 02:18:39,571
Yeah, I think maybe
when he was in the service.
2259
02:18:39,674 --> 02:18:41,642
- Navy?
- I think so.
2260
02:18:41,743 --> 02:18:43,904
Was he into movies?
Was he a movie buff?
2261
02:18:44,012 --> 02:18:46,913
I can tell you that
he was not into people.
2262
02:18:47,015 --> 02:18:48,346
The party Darlene threw,
2263
02:18:48,449 --> 02:18:51,350
people were supposed to
just show up and drink beer, help paint.
2264
02:18:51,452 --> 02:18:53,682
But this guy showed up in a suit,
2265
02:18:53,788 --> 02:18:56,723
and just sat in a chair
all by himself all night long.
2266
02:18:56,824 --> 02:18:58,257
Didn't talk to anyone.
2267
02:18:58,359 --> 02:19:00,190
And Darlene told me
to stay away from him.
2268
02:19:00,295 --> 02:19:02,126
She was scared of him.
2269
02:19:04,399 --> 02:19:06,867
And a couple of weeks later,
she was dead.
2270
02:19:06,968 --> 02:19:09,436
I'm sorry. Do you remember his name?
2271
02:19:10,438 --> 02:19:14,306
I mean, it was short,
like a nickname, like Stan.
2272
02:19:14,409 --> 02:19:16,707
- Rick?
- No, I don't think so.
2273
02:19:17,612 --> 02:19:19,807
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
2274
02:19:19,914 --> 02:19:22,439
How can you be sure?
It was a long time ago. Think hard.
2275
02:19:22,550 --> 02:19:24,575
I am thinking hard.
2276
02:19:24,686 --> 02:19:26,051
It was Rick.
2277
02:19:27,088 --> 02:19:28,180
No, it wasn't.
2278
02:19:28,289 --> 02:19:30,655
- It was Rick. It was Rick Marshall.
- No.
2279
02:19:30,758 --> 02:19:32,453
Just say it!
2280
02:19:32,560 --> 02:19:34,391
It wasn't Rick.
2281
02:19:42,203 --> 02:19:43,534
It was Leigh.
2282
02:19:46,708 --> 02:19:49,233
- Leigh?
- Yeah, Leigh.
2283
02:19:50,578 --> 02:19:51,875
Sounds right.
2284
02:19:56,718 --> 02:19:59,551
Officer! I need you to let me in.
2285
02:19:59,654 --> 02:20:01,781
- Is this an emergency?
- No, I just need to see one file.
2286
02:20:01,889 --> 02:20:03,516
No, you need to come back
tomorrow morning.
2287
02:20:03,625 --> 02:20:05,820
- One file, just for one second.
- 8:00 a.m., when we're open.
2288
02:20:05,927 --> 02:20:07,554
Sergeant! Sergeant Mulanax!
2289
02:20:07,662 --> 02:20:10,096
Sergeant, I just need to see one file!
2290
02:20:10,198 --> 02:20:13,599
Just give me five minutes.
I know exactly where it is.
2291
02:20:14,602 --> 02:20:15,762
Please!
2292
02:20:29,150 --> 02:20:30,811
I shouldn't be talking to you.
2293
02:20:30,918 --> 02:20:32,909
- You got five minutes.
- Okay.
2294
02:20:35,189 --> 02:20:36,417
Here. Here.
2295
02:20:36,524 --> 02:20:40,290
Linda states that some of
Darlene's closest friends are Leigh,
2296
02:20:40,395 --> 02:20:43,364
who used to bring Darlene
presents from Tijuana.
2297
02:20:43,464 --> 02:20:45,364
- So what?
- He knew her.
2298
02:20:45,466 --> 02:20:47,161
Linda said Leigh. This is Leigh.
2299
02:20:47,268 --> 02:20:49,702
No. That's just one name in a file
that contains hundreds.
2300
02:20:49,804 --> 02:20:51,237
It's nothing.
2301
02:20:51,906 --> 02:20:54,067
- Dave Toschi...
- Agrees with me.
2302
02:20:54,709 --> 02:20:57,576
Our investigation
into this subject is over.
2303
02:21:00,581 --> 02:21:01,843
I'm sorry.
2304
02:21:11,025 --> 02:21:12,151
Hello.
2305
02:21:27,342 --> 02:21:28,741
Who's there?
2306
02:21:32,213 --> 02:21:35,705
- You didn't return my calls.
- Oh, I've been kind of busy.
2307
02:21:35,817 --> 02:21:37,648
Yeah. I can see that.
2308
02:21:39,887 --> 02:21:41,718
How's the book coming?
2309
02:21:44,792 --> 02:21:46,783
I tried to send you these.
2310
02:21:47,895 --> 02:21:49,658
I called the Chron.
2311
02:21:49,764 --> 02:21:52,528
Well, I'm not a cartoonist anymore, so...
2312
02:21:54,102 --> 02:21:55,296
I heard.
2313
02:22:00,475 --> 02:22:03,069
When's the last time
you ate something?
2314
02:22:05,613 --> 02:22:07,706
Nothing makes sense anymore.
2315
02:22:10,418 --> 02:22:12,682
- Did it ever?
- Yeah, it did.
2316
02:22:14,188 --> 02:22:17,089
Robert, it was just the date
that didn't end.
2317
02:22:17,592 --> 02:22:19,355
You don't mean that.
2318
02:22:20,795 --> 02:22:21,989
A little.
2319
02:22:24,866 --> 02:22:26,663
The kids miss you.
2320
02:22:26,768 --> 02:22:29,862
- I can't have them see me like this.
- Neither can I.
2321
02:22:30,638 --> 02:22:32,731
So, do whatever you have to,
2322
02:22:33,708 --> 02:22:35,232
but finish this.
2323
02:23:02,804 --> 02:23:03,862
Dave!
2324
02:23:04,639 --> 02:23:06,266
Dave! It's Robert!
2325
02:23:08,543 --> 02:23:10,170
- Dave!
- Is he actually here?
2326
02:23:10,278 --> 02:23:11,973
I'm gonna kill him.
2327
02:23:12,346 --> 02:23:14,940
I'm calling SFPD. Where's my gun?
2328
02:23:17,518 --> 02:23:18,644
Dave!
2329
02:23:18,753 --> 02:23:20,482
Robert! Go away!
2330
02:23:20,588 --> 02:23:22,556
Dave! He made a mistake!
2331
02:23:22,657 --> 02:23:24,625
- Get away from the window.
- I'll meet you around front.
2332
02:23:24,725 --> 02:23:26,192
No, you won't.
2333
02:23:27,361 --> 02:23:29,556
- You have to hear this!
- No, I don't, Robert!
2334
02:23:29,664 --> 02:23:32,132
The birthday was the one time
that he was weak!
2335
02:23:32,233 --> 02:23:34,030
The one time
that he gave something away!
2336
02:23:34,135 --> 02:23:37,434
- Robert, I am calling the police.
- It's Arthur Leigh Allen!
2337
02:23:42,477 --> 02:23:44,741
Where did you get that name?
2338
02:23:44,846 --> 02:23:46,370
He called the Bellis' house.
2339
02:23:46,481 --> 02:23:48,711
December '69.
"I need to kill. Today's my birthday."
2340
02:23:48,816 --> 02:23:50,784
It was his birthday.
2341
02:23:50,885 --> 02:23:53,786
Arthur Leigh Allen
was born on December 18th.
2342
02:23:56,858 --> 02:23:58,223
Get in here.
2343
02:24:00,361 --> 02:24:02,522
- Here you go.
- Thanks.
2344
02:24:05,500 --> 02:24:07,331
He wrote me, you know?
2345
02:24:08,035 --> 02:24:09,161
2,500 suspects,
2346
02:24:09,270 --> 02:24:12,706
the only one who ever wrote me
a letter was Leigh Allen.
2347
02:24:13,774 --> 02:24:15,469
They like to help, you know, sometimes.
2348
02:24:15,576 --> 02:24:17,009
Yes, Robert, I know.
2349
02:24:18,479 --> 02:24:21,175
He was arrested January 1975
for molestation.
2350
02:24:21,282 --> 02:24:23,182
He sent me that when he got out.
2351
02:24:23,284 --> 02:24:26,014
"Dear Dave, if I can ever be
of any help to you, just let me know.
2352
02:24:26,120 --> 02:24:27,951
"I'm sorry I wasn't your man."
2353
02:24:28,055 --> 02:24:29,613
And it's typewritten.
2354
02:24:29,724 --> 02:24:32,090
Using a typewriter is not a crime.
2355
02:24:33,561 --> 02:24:35,324
And he knew Darlene.
2356
02:24:36,731 --> 02:24:38,722
It's in the Vallejo files.
2357
02:24:43,938 --> 02:24:47,271
Mulanax said that
he was your favorite suspect.
2358
02:24:47,375 --> 02:24:51,334
That you spent two years on him,
and that nobody ever came close.
2359
02:24:54,415 --> 02:24:56,383
All the evidence said no.
2360
02:24:57,685 --> 02:24:59,915
Sherwood disqualified his handwriting.
2361
02:25:00,021 --> 02:25:03,149
The same Sherwood
that drinks like Paul Avery now?
2362
02:25:04,058 --> 02:25:05,992
Yes, you have Sherwood Morrill
in writing saying,
2363
02:25:06,093 --> 02:25:07,117
"I'm sorry, this just won't work."
2364
02:25:07,228 --> 02:25:08,991
- But you also have Terry Pascoe...
- His protégé.
2365
02:25:09,096 --> 02:25:10,120
Yeah, fine, it's his protégé,
2366
02:25:10,231 --> 02:25:12,062
but he's a handwriting expert
nonetheless, and he's saying,
2367
02:25:12,166 --> 02:25:14,862
"Do not disqualify this suspect
on the basis of handwriting."
2368
02:25:14,969 --> 02:25:16,903
- So the two cancel each other out.
- No, they don't.
2369
02:25:17,004 --> 02:25:18,301
It was Sherwood's case.
2370
02:25:18,406 --> 02:25:19,873
He was the head
of Questioned Documents.
2371
02:25:19,974 --> 02:25:21,305
If it went to trial,
2372
02:25:21,409 --> 02:25:24,378
all the defense would have to do
is call Sherwood to the stand.
2373
02:25:24,478 --> 02:25:27,106
And there was no way of getting Allen
into court in the first place,
2374
02:25:27,214 --> 02:25:28,442
because there was no evidence, Robert.
2375
02:25:28,549 --> 02:25:29,709
What do you mean,
there's no evidence?
2376
02:25:29,817 --> 02:25:30,909
You have him seen with the ciphers.
2377
02:25:31,018 --> 02:25:33,248
The military boot prints.
The same size shoes and gloves.
2378
02:25:33,354 --> 02:25:35,549
The Most Dangerous Game.
The Zodiac watch.
2379
02:25:35,656 --> 02:25:36,850
The background with school children.
2380
02:25:36,958 --> 02:25:38,789
The misspellings of Christ-mass.
The bloody knives.
2381
02:25:38,893 --> 02:25:40,758
All circumstantial.
2382
02:25:40,861 --> 02:25:43,591
Paul Stine's shirt, his wallet, his keys.
2383
02:25:43,698 --> 02:25:45,461
We should have found
one of those things in that trailer.
2384
02:25:45,566 --> 02:25:47,261
- We didn't.
- That's...
2385
02:25:49,704 --> 02:25:51,695
Okay. Catherine Allen states that
2386
02:25:51,806 --> 02:25:53,933
"Leigh cleaned out his trailer
on Friday after work
2387
02:25:54,041 --> 02:25:57,704
"and moved it to Santa Rosa
on Saturday, August 7th, 1971."
2388
02:25:57,812 --> 02:25:59,803
You interviewed him
at the refinery on August 4th.
2389
02:25:59,914 --> 02:26:01,438
- Yeah.
- So, he's cleaning out his trailer,
2390
02:26:01,549 --> 02:26:05,383
he's moving into a different county
48 hours after you interviewed him?
2391
02:26:06,988 --> 02:26:09,980
Okay. Okay.
Look at the stuff side by side, Dave.
2392
02:26:10,091 --> 02:26:11,183
All right.
2393
02:26:11,292 --> 02:26:14,056
Okay, Arthur Leigh Allen
and the Zodiac, their timelines.
2394
02:26:14,161 --> 02:26:16,823
- When was the first murder in Vallejo?
- Christmas, 1968.
2395
02:26:16,931 --> 02:26:19,525
Eight months before that,
Allen is fired for molesting his students
2396
02:26:19,634 --> 02:26:21,727
and his family discovers
that he's a pedophile.
2397
02:26:21,836 --> 02:26:24,134
- Now, when do the letters begin?
- July, '69.
2398
02:26:24,238 --> 02:26:25,899
After the murder of Darlene Ferrin.
2399
02:26:26,007 --> 02:26:29,067
And they continue
until you go to see him at work.
2400
02:26:29,176 --> 02:26:32,407
Now, after that, do any of the letters
contain swatches of Paul Stine's shirt?
2401
02:26:32,513 --> 02:26:34,310
No. Because he dumped them,
because he got scared.
2402
02:26:34,415 --> 02:26:36,144
Because he knew
that you were on to him.
2403
02:26:36,250 --> 02:26:39,981
- So, when's the next letter from Zodiac?
- Not until January of 1974.
2404
02:26:40,087 --> 02:26:41,486
He is silent for three years.
2405
02:26:41,589 --> 02:26:43,386
Then, in '74, he feels comfortable again
2406
02:26:43,491 --> 02:26:45,356
because everybody's moved off
Allen as a suspect.
2407
02:26:45,459 --> 02:26:46,448
And what do we get?
2408
02:26:46,560 --> 02:26:50,553
Three new letters from Zodiac
in January, May, and July in '74.
2409
02:26:50,665 --> 02:26:53,759
- But then the letters stop.
- What happens to Allen?
2410
02:26:57,304 --> 02:26:58,771
He's arrested.
2411
02:26:59,707 --> 02:27:03,040
January, 1975,
they send him to Atascadero.
2412
02:27:03,144 --> 02:27:06,045
We don't get another letter from Zodiac
the entire time he's there.
2413
02:27:06,147 --> 02:27:08,775
- When is he released?
- August, '77.
2414
02:27:08,883 --> 02:27:12,614
Allen gets out. He types you an apology,
and then what?
2415
02:27:12,720 --> 02:27:15,883
We get our first new Zodiac letter
in four years.
2416
02:27:21,529 --> 02:27:24,896
Okay. Zodiac had to have known
Darlene Ferrin, right?
2417
02:27:24,999 --> 02:27:27,229
Yes, because of the phone calls
on the night of her murder.
2418
02:27:27,334 --> 02:27:30,132
Because of the Vallejo file,
2419
02:27:30,237 --> 02:27:32,228
we know that Darlene knew
a man named Leigh?
2420
02:27:32,339 --> 02:27:33,328
Yes.
2421
02:27:33,441 --> 02:27:35,204
So, all coincidence aside, Robert,
2422
02:27:35,309 --> 02:27:38,107
how can you be sure that Leigh Allen
is the Leigh from this file?
2423
02:27:38,212 --> 02:27:40,680
Now, Vallejo is a small town,
but it's not that small.
2424
02:27:40,781 --> 02:27:42,078
How do you put
the two of them together?
2425
02:27:42,183 --> 02:27:45,346
This is a case that's covered
both Northern and Southern California,
2426
02:27:45,453 --> 02:27:47,819
with victims and suspects
spread over hundreds of miles.
2427
02:27:47,922 --> 02:27:49,651
- Would you agree?
- Yes.
2428
02:27:50,925 --> 02:27:53,723
Darlene Ferrin worked
at the Vallejo House of Pancakes
2429
02:27:53,828 --> 02:27:56,319
on the corner of Tennessee and Carol.
2430
02:27:59,166 --> 02:28:03,899
Arthur Leigh Allen lived in his
mother's basement on Fresno Street.
2431
02:28:05,639 --> 02:28:09,006
Door to door, that is less than 50 yards.
2432
02:28:12,446 --> 02:28:13,913
Is that true?
2433
02:28:14,949 --> 02:28:16,439
I've walked it.
2434
02:28:20,287 --> 02:28:21,720
Jesus Christ.
2435
02:28:28,429 --> 02:28:29,418
So?
2436
02:28:33,367 --> 02:28:34,925
The prints, the handwriting...
2437
02:28:35,035 --> 02:28:38,004
- I'm not asking you as a cop.
- But I am a cop.
2438
02:28:40,875 --> 02:28:42,900
I can't prove this.
2439
02:28:43,010 --> 02:28:45,945
Just because you can't prove it,
doesn't mean it's not true.
2440
02:28:46,046 --> 02:28:47,673
Easy, Dirty Harry.
2441
02:28:51,285 --> 02:28:52,809
Finish the book.
2442
02:29:01,762 --> 02:29:04,196
Thank you. Thank you for breakfast.
2443
02:30:12,499 --> 02:30:13,989
Can I help you?
2444
02:30:15,669 --> 02:30:16,658
No.
2445
02:31:37,851 --> 02:31:39,182
Mr. Mageau.
2446
02:31:40,087 --> 02:31:42,385
Thanks for coming to see me.
2447
02:31:42,489 --> 02:31:43,820
You're the one I talked to on the phone?
2448
02:31:43,924 --> 02:31:47,451
I'm George Bawart. Vallejo PD.
I took over for Jack Mulanax.
2449
02:31:48,495 --> 02:31:51,464
It's been 22 years.
I don't know how I can help you.
2450
02:31:51,565 --> 02:31:52,725
Well, this is just a formality.
2451
02:31:52,833 --> 02:31:54,232
I'm gonna show you
a group of photographs.
2452
02:31:54,335 --> 02:31:56,200
Now, the person that shot you
may or may not be
2453
02:31:56,303 --> 02:31:58,328
among these photographs.
2454
02:31:58,439 --> 02:31:59,633
You don't have to pick anybody out
2455
02:31:59,740 --> 02:32:01,901
just because I'm showing you
these pictures, you understand?
2456
02:32:02,009 --> 02:32:03,533
Yes, sir, I do.
2457
02:32:04,445 --> 02:32:05,776
All right.
2458
02:32:06,814 --> 02:32:08,304
Take your time.
2459
02:32:08,816 --> 02:32:11,614
If you don't recognize anyone,
that's okay.
2460
02:32:23,097 --> 02:32:24,428
That's him.
2461
02:32:25,933 --> 02:32:27,867
How sure are you?
2462
02:32:27,968 --> 02:32:29,799
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
2463
02:32:32,506 --> 02:32:33,632
He had a round face like this guy.
2464
02:32:33,741 --> 02:32:34,935
Wait. Am I to understand
2465
02:32:35,042 --> 02:32:36,805
that you're now identifying
the second photograph?
2466
02:32:36,910 --> 02:32:39,970
No, no. Just that
he had a round face like that.
2467
02:32:42,049 --> 02:32:43,516
It's this man.
2468
02:32:44,451 --> 02:32:45,748
All right.
2469
02:32:47,588 --> 02:32:50,648
Now, on a scale of one to 10,
10 being positive,
2470
02:32:54,762 --> 02:32:56,354
how sure are you?
2471
02:33:00,134 --> 02:33:01,761
At least an eight.
2472
02:33:04,571 --> 02:33:08,405
The last time I saw this face
was July 4th, 1969.
2473
02:33:11,678 --> 02:33:14,374
I am very sure
that's the man who shot me.
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