Sort out the cases that happened successively:
On July 4, 1969, which is also the Independence Day of the United States, Dana was shot in a car, but the boy who was with him survived;
On September 27, 1969, on the shore of Lake Ivy, a couple was murdered , boy survived;
a taxi driver was killed with fingerprints and gloves used by Zodiac;
after 2 2/1, a woman with a child claimed to have been kidnapped by Zodiac near Route 132 in Modesto, California;
in these cases In between, the criminal sent a letter to the newspaper in the name of Zodiac, giving proof of the crime and giving a password letter, claiming to be published by the newspaper. After that, there were also calls to the TV station to meet with lawyer Melvin Belli, but no one showed up in the end.
After that, the police locked the suspect on Arthur Leigh Allen, and many behaviors fit the suspect; however, the identification of the handwriting on his left and right hands ruled out the suspicion.
Ten years later, the police officers Toschi, Bill and others who followed the incident also turned to others. The reporter Paul Avery, who was involved in the incident, was also drunk and decadent all day long. Only the newspaper cartoonist Robert Graysmith was following the incident. . For more than ten years, Robert Graysmith has also been like a paranoid madman, seeking help from Toschi who knows the case best, investigating a large number of files that have long been dusted, visiting handwriting experts, prisoners and even strangers who never knew each other. And the family members did not hesitate to appear on TV, but after excluding Rick Mashall, the clues pointed to the former suspect Arthur Leigh Allen, but there was not enough evidence to prove these, and he finally wrote them into a book.
The film has no ending like the real-life Zodiac case, Arthur Leigh Allen, who in 1991 was testified by the boy who survived 1969, was about to prosecute, but died of a heart attack a week before the meeting; in 2002, after finding new DNA evidence in an envelope But it does not meet Allen, and the police still refuse to exclude Allen. San Francisco police stopped investigating the case in 2004, while other locations remain open.
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