A quick google doesn't show this guy on lists of common suspects.
Where did he come from and what is supposed to be his motive?
Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer
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#12Time for another zodiac movie, this time including the subsequent murders and the eventual posthumous uncovering of the murderer. No matter how convincing the evidence it's just not satisfactory that the guy can't be tried.
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#13Well that's a relief. Now they can arrest and prosecute him!
Not sure if missing a /s but FTA:
The Case Breakers say they have identified the Zodiac Killer as Gary Francis Poste, who passed away in 2018.Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer
#14So no one from the film.
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#15Mr. Cruz ? /s
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#17bit unsettling hearing about his posse.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Case Breakers say they have identified the Zodiac Killer as Gary Francis Poste, who passed away in 2018. It would appear not.
I believe the parent comment was a sarcastic remark on that very fact.
Yeah, I realized that a little too late :P .
Usually I'm pretty decent at picking up sarcasm over the internet, but not today it turns out.
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#19Looking at the press release [1], it still feels relatively circumstantial to me. Not sure that we can deem the Zodiac Killer to be fully identified yet. It's definitely not nearly as cut and dry as when they identified the Golden State killer. [1]: https://secureservercdn.net/166.62.114.250/g9q.07b.myftpuplo...
Do you know what circumstantial means?
It doesn't mean "weak". It means "pertaining to circumstances".
Nearly all evidence is circumstantial.
DNA is circumstantial evidence. Fingerprints are circumstantial evidence. A smoking gun is circumstantial evidence.
Trials are based on circumstantial evidence. Hans Reiser was arrested, tried, and convicted of murdering his wife based on nothing but circumstantial evidence that a murder even occurred. They didn't even have her body.
If a lawyer would jump up and shout "Objection, evidence is circumstantial", the judge would look at them and say "Yeah, no shit, what's your actual objection?"
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#20I imagine the Zodiac Killer was actually more than one person.
Of course, this was back in the time when creating attractive codewords for dangerous criminals was the norm.
Who's to say that the coded messages sent to newspapers weren't actually meant for other people involved in the activity?