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An amateur investigator's hunt for the Zodiac killer

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Re: An amateur investigator's hunt for the Zodiac killer

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Post by cuckcuckspruce »

anonymfus wrote: post #7
stordoff wrote: post #6

Looking up the Zodiac Killer (as I only know the _very_ fuzzy details), I noticed something interesting on Google: "Do you manage the online presence for Zodiac Killer?". I can't imagine too many people are in a hurry to say yes to that!

I imagine his online manager is not very good considering the lack of response to accusations of him being Ted Cruz.

Ted Cruz would not be satisfied with just ruining the lives of 37 people.

Re: An amateur investigator's hunt for the Zodiac killer

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Post by alexkavon »

cuckcuckspruce wrote: post #11
anonymfus wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine his online manager is not very good considering the lack of response to accusations of him being Ted Cruz.

Ted Cruz would not be satisfied with just ruining the lives of 37 people.

That we know of

Re: An amateur investigator's hunt for the Zodiac killer

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Post by lobster_johnson »

sudouser wrote: post #8
vermooten wrote: post #3

He spoiled The Pledge for me.

a forgettable movie

Wonderful novel, though. The book is by the great Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and is basically a deconstruction, as well as a subversion, of the detective novel (in fact, its subtitle is "Requiem for the Detective Novel").

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Post by nickgrosvenor »

The theory seems compelling to me. The same guy they found by searching the newspaper for similar language, happens to be one of the guys police interviewed near the crime scene walking his dog. Among other coincidences. Pretty fun to speculate, don't think it'll ever get solved, but it's interesting.

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Post by wayanon »

I feel bad for the Norwegian’s friends and family having this accusation levelled at him. However the idea has appeal because it’s almost like he was selling each murder as though it was an imported car, something exotic, rarified, only for a particular discerning audience.

Re: An amateur investigator's hunt for the Zodiac killer

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Post by wayanon »

nickgrosvenor wrote: post #15

The theory seems compelling to me. The same guy they found by searching the newspaper for similar language, happens to be one of the guys police interviewed near the crime scene walking his dog. Among other coincidences. Pretty fun to speculate, don't think it'll ever get solved, but it's interesting.

You’d think these days there would be a way to analyse language in the public domain for similarities though perhaps the job is just too big.

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Post by mrleiter »

>In an even broader sense, this frustration captures man’s existential dilemma in a Platonic universe of unknowable absolutes. Truth exists. Answers exist. A hard foundation of reality exists underneath a concealing fog. But humans will not always see it.

That is the reason why we want it so desperately. The unknown absolute - does it exist? Is there an absolute answer to everything? Is there a God?

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Post by intAligned »

As it turns out, the guy behind the Zodiac nick just confessed to be the Monster of Florence, the author of at least 7 murders of young couples in the area of Florence, Italy. Nothing official has been released to the public yet, but it seems he's a dismissed US Army officer. Here's the article in the Italian press: http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/killer-zodiac-mi-ha-c...
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