These two days the beautiful country broke a big news,
October 2021,
An investigative squad of 40 former law enforcement officers and detectives,
Through the media, it was announced that the murderer of the Zodiac had been caught!
Speaking of this zodiac killer, some people may not know much about it.
He was a serial murderer who committed multiple murders in San Francisco in the late 1960s.
Between 1968 and 1974, seven people were murdered by him, two of whom survived.
After the murderer committed the crime for the first time, he began to write letters to the local newspaper.
sending greeting cards or deliberately leaving clues to provoke the police,
And gave himself the nickname "zodiac",
The letter contains four passwords and encrypted content,
The murderer claimed that he could know his name as long as he cracked the password.
But there are still three undeciphered passwords.
His true identity has always been one of the biggest mysteries in the history of Criminal Investigation in the United States.
Countless documentaries and films have also come into being,
Now, this daring suspect has finally been arrested,
It's also time to revisit this high-scoring suspense film based on him —
The Zodiac
David Finch
The film's lineup is luxurious—
The director, David Finch, has directed "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Fight Club".
Starring, "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr., "Hulk" Mark Rufflow, "Mystery" Jack Gyllenhaal,
Pick one at random, all of them are movie emperor level.
The story begins in 1969 —
Midnight, July 4, 1969,
A married woman drove to the outskirts with her lover Michael,
Just when I couldn't describe it, a car stopped behind them.
Then out of the car came a man with a gun,
Five shots were fired at the two men, and both died instantly.
The next day, the police received a call to the police.
And the person who called was the murderer of this shooting,
The murderer not only revealed the details of his crime,
He also claimed that a murder six months ago was also committed by himself,
The tone of his speech was casual and calm, obviously premeditated.
The police immediately tracked the call,
Found the other party in a phone booth a few blocks away from the police station,
The police were quick to act, but the murderer was too cunning and had long since escaped.
A few months later, he wrote to several major local newspapers.
Describe the details of the crime to prove that he is the murderer.
At the same time, encrypted content is included, requiring newspapers to publish on the front page.
Otherwise, you will commit murder again.
Unexpectedly, the first password was quickly cracked by a couple of teachers.
But the content is not about his identity, as the murderer said.
Instead, it expresses a large amount of the pleasure of killing people by yourself.
The murderer seemed to be angry.
Immediately another letter was sent with a new password.
Moreover, he also gave himself a title - the zodiac.
Despite the murderer's repeated provocations,
But because there are too few clues, the police investigation has been stalled,
Until the occurrence of the third case.
The third case is the closest the police have been to the killer.
Or the nine-centimeter Ruger pistol.
The victim at this time became a taxi driver in San Francisco.
The crime occurred almost at the same time as the report,
There were also witnesses, and the car also left mutilated fingerprints.
The next day, the killer sent the blood-stained clothes to the newspaper,
He said triumphantly that if the stupid police had searched the park well last night, they would have found him.
In addition to this, he threatened to attack the school bus,
For a time, parents were panicked.
Paul, then a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, closely followed the Zodiac case.
At the same time, the case also attracted the attention of his colleague Robert, a cartoonist who loves to decipher.
So they went on a reconnaissance with Detective David and his partner Bill.
San Francisco police transferred physical evidence from other crime sites,
According to the military boot shoe prints left by the killer, the survivors' confessions, and the identification of notes,
Police painted a rough portrait of a white man, a soldier, and a tall killer.
But every time it seems close to the truth,
Killers will adjust the killing pattern, from a pair of lovers to a single man,
He has been playing cat and mouse games with the public and enjoys it.
The crime continues, and so does the provocation.
But the police's timeline of solving the case goes from hours to days, weeks, months.
Just when he was about to fall into a dead end, Paul found another clue -
The zodiac sign used by the zodiac killer in his letter,
It comes from a brand watch called zodiac!
Moreover, the Zodiac killer is also inextricably linked to a murder in 1966.
Paul immediately set out to investigate.
Maybe it's the constant approach that makes the killer panic,
He sent Paul a bloody threatening letter, but none of this stopped Paul's steps in solving the case.
But in the end, this evidence still can't find the killer.
On the contrary, there is a trend of fake killers turning themselves in everywhere.
Once again, the real murderer escaped.
Fortunately, in the fog, a suspect appeared.
The whistleblower is the man's fishing friend,
According to the description of the friend, the man's heart and behavior are very consistent with the Zodiac Killer,
The police decided to get close.
They found the strangely behaved man who happened to be wearing a "Zodiac" brand watch, Arthur Lee Allen,
He has severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, has pedophilia,
Have had a similar crime plan, live very close to the place where the crime occurred,
And the handwriting is very similar to the killer.
Police searched Alan's home,
Found countless indirect evidence that he was the killer,
But at the moment when the dawn came,
Ballistic, fingerprint and note identification showed that Allen was not the killer.
The clue is so broken again, everything is back to square one...
The storyline of "Zodiac" is easy to remind us of Bong Joon-ho's classic suspense movie "Memories of Killing".
The same is a serial murder case, and there are some similarities between the two,
But David Finch focuses on a plain and delicate tone in this film,
Telling the ins and outs of the whole case, there is less tension, but more delicacy.
Of course, the biggest similarity between the two films is the pursuit of the truth.
Skynet restored, neglected without leakage,
Now the Zodiac Killer has finally fallen into the net,
It also confirms that sentence again -
All the suspense, there is a day when the hammer is finalized.