The other day, a big news broke in the United States, and an independent investigation team called "Solvers" claimed that they had found the Zodiac killer, and the suspect was named Gary Francis Post.
As soon as the statement came out, it instantly stirred up thousands of waves, you know, this zodiac killer suspense case, is one of the largest unsolved cases in the United States at the end of the 60s of the last century, until more than 50 years later today.
The Zodiac Killer, a highly intelligent serial killer in the United States in the late 1960s, was involved in several murders in Northern California, claiming to have killed 37 people.
After each crime, he always wrote letters to the media, bragging about murders, and left behind passwords that hid his true identity, and as of 1974, he left behind four letters containing four passwords.
The investigation team deciphered his full name "Post" based on the code he left behind, but unfortunately, as early as August 14, 2018, Post had died and was never suspected by the police.
In 2007, based on the true story of the Zodiac Killer, the United States adapted it into a movie "The Zodiac", revealing the secret of the killer who had been at large for more than 50 years.
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The film's protagonist, Robert, is a cartoonist in the San Francisco Chronicle, and on a very ordinary day, a letter sent to the newspaper changed his life.
The letter writer, who claimed to be the perpetrator of two murders, demanded that the San Francisco Chronicle publish the encrypted letter in a newspaper published Friday or he would carry out the killing.
To prove he wasn't lying, he also described in his letters some details of the case that only the killer and the police knew, as well as a message encrypted with special symbols.
In addition to the San Francisco Chronicle, two other newspapers also received encrypted letters with different contents, and after several newspapers published encrypted messages, many curious people participated in the puzzle game.
Soon after, an elderly couple deciphered the contents of the letter, and in the encrypted message, the murderer likened the killing to hunting, and the killing could bring him great pleasure, which was obviously a murderer with extreme psychological distortions.
Immediately afterward, the newspaper received a second letter from him, this time giving himself a code name: zodiac, the twelve constellations of astronomy, hence the name of the constellation killer.
While the media maintained communication, the zodiac killer did not forget his "old business", and after a month and a half, he committed the crime again, as before, the target was still a couple.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he only killed the woman, which is the second time that the man has survived under him, and in the three cases that have occurred so far, the girls have all been killed.
Such a high-profile perverted killer has caused panic among the people, and some cities have even begun to impose curfews, and the police are always on guard while investigating the real murderers.
In addition to the police investigation, the major media have also discussed the zodiac killer, and after gaining the attention of all walks of life, the zodiac killer is even more arrogant.
Not only did he not stop killing, but he also upgraded his own password, and even provoked the media by mailing a corner of clothes stained with the blood of the victim, enjoying this sense of superiority in iq crushing others.
As social concern grew, more and more people became involved in the investigation of the case, and in July 1971, someone reported his former colleague Alan to the detective in charge of the case.
Allen, who worked in elementary school and lost his job after sexually harassing schoolchildren, was dissatisfied with this, and claimed to attack the school bus and kill students, which coincidentally the Zodiac killer had expressed in a letter to the media.
The police searched Alan's home and found countless circumstantial evidence that he was the killer, and at the moment of dawn, ballistic, fingerprint and note identification showed that Alan was not the killer.
Because there is no evidence, Allen is acquitted, the people involved in the investigation of the case are tortured to exhaustion, the transfer of the post, the departure of the job, only Robert is still obsessively searching for the truth.
After repeatedly identifying notes, consulting semiotics books in the library, receiving mysterious calls, contacting the suspects, and finding the basement in the killer's letter, Robert determined that Allen was the murderer.
However, like the police, Robert has no direct evidence to prove his reasoning, and can only write a book about his experience in the pursuit of the murderer for more than ten years: "The Zodiac of Suo".
A few years later, Robert met his "real culprit" Alan at a grocery store, and Alan smiled politely and asked, "Can I help you?" ”
Robert stared at him deadly, Alan's eyes also changed from relaxed, to doubtful, even a little frightened, after a few seconds of staring at him, Robert answered a no and left...
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The film was directed by Seven Deadly Sins director David Finch and starred "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr., "Hulk" Mark Ruflow, and "Mystery" Jack Gyllenhaal.
Unlike other works of criminal reasoning, the film does not rely on devious and complex criminal means to attract the audience, but restores the facts to the greatest extent.
After all, in real cases, there are no clever arrangements, no subtle reversals, and some are just boring investigations, repeated deliberations, and cruel reality.
At the end of the film, the murderer is not brought to justice, as is the case in real life, the murderer died as early as 2018 and was never suspected by the police before his death.