Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed

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Summary: Zodiac finally unmasked
Review: This is the third book about Zodiac I have read and it is not the best. Graysmith's first ZODIAC book was better and so was THIS IS THE ZODIAC SPEAKING.Those books are essential reading on the Zodiac Killer. The first deals with the suspects and murders the second book deals with a psychological profile of the killer.
ZODIAC UNMASKED does present an interesting case against the suspect in the book but some of the socalled evidence is circumstantial. But not all of it.
Some evidence is pretty substantial. I will give examples
1. Zodiac victim Michael Mageau identifies Arthur Leigh Allen as the man that shot him by a licence photo.
2. Zodiac wrote in one of his letters that he kept pipe bombs in his basement. Allen had bombs in his basement.
3. The Zodiac killed 2 women and shot 2 men and killed another. Also he threatened to blow up a school bus full of children and shoot them as they come "bouncing out".Then he taunted the police with letters.Allen told his friend that he would do this and it happened. He told his friend that he would call himself the Zodiac. He said he would hunt his victims. What is the odds that someone else would do all this?
4. Allen was in Atascadero and the letters to the police stopped.
5. Allen was pulled over by police for speeding away near a crimescene and on his front seat was a long bladed knife dripping blood? Why didn't he hide it under the seat?
6. He drove the same kind of car as the Zodiac.
7. The description of the Zodiac matched Allen.
8. The police found cryptograms at Allen's residence.
9. Allen asked a friend on how to disguise his handwriting.
10.Allen mentioned to friends he would change his appearance.
You can explain away a couple of coincidences but not all of those. The reason why he wasn't arrested was because they couldn't match his handprinting to the letters and his DNA didn't match the residual saliva on the stamps he sent.If Allen was alive today he would probably be in jail for being the ZODIAC
killer.
Graysmith tries to say that Allen knew Ferrin (a victim) and that all the others murders were thrown in to confuse the police.Did the Zodiac stalk his victims from the get-go or did he come across them at random? A witness to the Ferrin murder said he heard Zodiac arguing with the two victims before he shot them.
Read the book and decided for yourself. I like to keep an open mind but I am pretty satisfied that Zodiac was finally unmasked.