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

    Written by Robert Graysmith

    Narrated by Robert Graysmith

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    Robert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac-America's most elusive serial killer.

    Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares, and bizarre cryptograms that baffled FBI code-breakers. Then as suddenly as the murders began, Zodiac disappeared into the Bay Area fog.

    After painstaking investigation and more than thirty years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac's true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private life that led to the crimes, and provides startling theories as to why they stopped. America's greatest unsolved mystery has finally been solved.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781977389541
    Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed

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    • 3/5
      After seeing Zodiac in theatres in early '07 (and how is it this fascinating film did not garner an academy award nomination?) I had high expectations of what I figured would be an equally fascinating, compelling read. Big disappointment. While the movie flows and builds toward a suspenseful conclusion, Zodiac Unmasked regresses to most of the material in its precursor, Zodiac, making the narrative of the sequel choppy and frustratingly redundant. Had I not read Zodiac first, perhaps I would have found the sequel more compelling, but there simply was not a whole lot of new information to glean from Unmasked that I didn't already know from either the first book or the first-rate film. And while I admire (sort of) the amount of misanthropic, obsessional research that went into the writing of the book, I don't admire the plain, drab writing style. This story could have been a true crime classic in the hands of a skilled writer. I can heartily recommend the film, but I'm sorry to say the books leave a lot to be desired.
    • 2/5
      This is Robert Graysmith's second book about The Zodiac killer.

      Author Robert Graysmith was on the staff of the San francisco Chronicle when the hooded killer's first letter arived.After 8 years of research Graymsith revealed 100 of facts never before released.. and his own theory of the Zodiac's true identity but they did not caught him.


      Now 19 years after Zodiac was published it seems they have finally caught him.
      Zodiac Unmasked!!
      (I have just read Zodiac and can't wait to read this one.
      Hardback

      Update January 23st 2008
      It has been a long time since I read this book but I recall I was very disappointed by this book. It promised answers but in honesty it were just guesses. Lots of repetition.

    • 3/5
      Zodiac taught me that serial killers are either paranoid schizophrenics that have voices telling them to kill or they’re sociopaths. There was a lot of careful research done for this book, and I can appreciate that. I think the Zodiac is a fascinating example of a serial killer, but you can't help but cringe when you're reading some of the descriptions of the murders. It’s definitely creepy that a killer that sadistic and psychotic was never caught.
    • 3/5
      After seeing Zodiac in theatres in early '07 (and how is it this fascinating film did not garner an academy award nomination?) I had high expectations of what I figured would be an equally fascinating, compelling read. Big disappointment. While the movie flows and builds toward a suspenseful conclusion, Zodiac Unmasked regresses to most of the material in its precursor, Zodiac, making the narrative of the sequel choppy and frustratingly redundant. Had I not read Zodiac first, perhaps I would have found the sequel more compelling, but there simply was not a whole lot of new information to glean from Unmasked that I didn't already know from either the first book or the first-rate film. And while I admire (sort of) the amount of misanthropic, obsessional research that went into the writing of the book, I don't admire the plain, drab writing style. This story could have been a true crime classic in the hands of a skilled writer. I can heartily recommend the film, but I'm sorry to say the books leave a lot to be desired.