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

Description

The San Francisco Chronicle hailed Robert Graysmith's Zodiac as "provocative...the taut narrative brings the horror back jolt upon jolt."

And that wasn't even the whole story.

When the Zodiac killings began in 1968, Robert Graysmith, employed at the San Francisco Chronicle, became fascinated with the case. Before the murder spree was over, Zodiac claimed 37 victims. His mocking notes to authorities dared them to catch him. They never did. Now after following the clues for thirty years, Graysmith provides the final chapter-with hundreds of never-before-published photos and the only complete reproduction of the Zodiac letters.

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-01-25
Summary: "Where to begin.."

Robert Graysmith has spent much of his professional life in the quest to convict Arthur Leigh Allen of the Zodiac killings. Well, convict is probably too reasoned a description. Libel, suggest without facts, accuse without merit would probably be closer to the truth. There is a problem of course. That being that in 40 years of "investigating" Graysmith has not produced one shred of physical evidence that ties Allen to the crimes. He has established that Leigh Allen was strange cat, but that doesn't really distinguish him much in California does it? Graysmith weaves a florid yarn of distortions, half-truths and downright lies to convince the reader that there is a case here where frankly none exists. The author soft-pedals the unpleasant reality that neither the partial dna, finger or palm prints collected through the letters from Zodiac and the crime scenes match his suspect. In addition, Allen's handwriting (right or left-hand) does match any known Zodiac sample. Police tossed Allen's trailer, cab and home on more than one occasion without finding any articles linking Allen to the crimes. This despite the fact that Zodiac was known to have taken "trophies" from his crimes. Undeterred, Graysmith proceeds to insinuate that Allen committed most of the unsolved murders in California during the last 30 years in addition to the five known Zodiac murders. Does the man have no shame? Ask yourself why Graysmith did not disclose the name of the Zodiac until after Leigh Allen's death. Well the question answers itself. Leigh Allen was very disturbed man by all accounts. Hell, he may be the Zodiac for all I know, but there is absolutely no evidence, other than pure circumstance, that would establish this.

At the risk of piling on here, this is also one of the most poorly written books of the last century. Any self-respecting high school english teacher would give this a C- for effort and the number of words used. How an editor let this get to press is the only mystery involved in the Zodiac unmasked.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2009-11-30
Summary: "Too confusing"

I read the original Zodiac book shortly after its release and loved it. I have been fascinated with the case ever sense. It was well written and keeps the reader interested from start to finish. However, the Zodiac Unmasked is different. The author jumps back and forth in time and repeats information so many times it is nearly impossible to correctly follow what is happening. Though the book has some interesting information not included or available for the original book, it is a chore working through the book to get it. I was very dissappointed with this book after enjoying the first and the movie so much. Unless you are a die hard slueth that cannot get enough of this case, I would avoid this one and stick to the first.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-11-18
Summary: "If it's haunted you, then you must know...."

If you've always been curious or even haunted by not knowing who the Zodiac killer of the late 60's and early 70's in the Bay Area was, then you have to read this book. No one else but Robert Graysmith has or could have compiled such a detailed account of who the prime suspect was and still is. His name is...you've got to read the book.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2009-08-27
Summary: "What a load of fertilizer"

To think this twisted mess actually made a lot of money (especially with that movie) is a *real* crime. At least the much better ZODIAC, made some attempt to be fair. Check the visual sightings reported in the first book that had a suspect in the 5'9" - 5'10" range, and about 185 to 190lbs. Graysmith's choice in late sixties was 6'0" and weighed around 240lbs. #
The author twists and bends alleged events to somehow "prove" Allen was at that place when the horrible crime occurred. Allen allegedly went to Riverside in the sixties for auto races, so this means he probably murdered Cheri Bates, etc. etc. #
Results of handwriting tests and lie detector tests that Allen passed are glibly explained by Allen's tremendous I.Q. (ala Prof. Moriarty?)or, devious drug taking. This slop came before the DNA test proved Allen's lack of guilt on the murders. We don't recall any child molesters that murdered co-ed types in their spare time. #
Two stars at best, but you can spend better time watching GRAYSMITH UNMASKED (6 parts) on YouTube.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2009-03-16
Summary: "In desperate need of a competent editor"

I would have loved this book had the writing and organization been as well-executed as the author's investigation.

Based on the content of the book, it would seem that the author is the most informed person alive regarding this case. There are multiple instances in the book of police departments buying bulk quantities of his 1986 book "Zodiac" in order to learn about the case as they worked on aspects of it.

And there was a lot of information scattered throughout this book. But unfortunately, 'scattered' describes both the quantity and its organization at the same times.

Long passages of quotation are often repeated. Observations are made repeatedly. There are numerous inexplicable non-sequitors within a given section. The order and delineation of chapters and their sub-sections seems as often as not to be totally arbitrary. Finally, the book features so many long quotations that at times it seems to be nearly all quotation - which alone isn't a bad thing, but the writing style deviates from standard formatting and attribution techniques, which often leaves you hunting around in an effort to remember just who is being quoted in a given passage.

I suppose all of that is to say that this book was in dire need of a competent editor. By the last quarter of the book I would regularly encounter passages of quoatation for the third time and be able to quote them myself from memory as I read them. Just very poor structure and editing.

I enjoyed the writer's style though - whenever I wasn't cursing his wandering mind.

I haven't read any other Zodiac books. I found the subject matter very interesting, but I would advise anyone looking seriously at this book to search around and see if there aren't any books published since 2002 that are more competently edited.

As for the subject matter, I walk away from the book with the distinct impression that the Vallejo PD had a very simple, solvable case within their grasp early on long before the Zodiac took to the media and for some reason just dropped the ball. The Darlene Ferrin case in particular appears (by the book's description) to be so very cut & dried that I'm left wondering just how they could not have solved it. Kinda left me thinking there's more to her story ... the book didn't dig into her apparent relationships with police officers very deeply.