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Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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At least the Zodiac killer is recent enough for uncovering their identity to feel sort of feasible. That said, I personally find the idea of it being Ted Cruz so amusing that I see little reason to amend my head-canon, regardless of evidence presented.

I believe that would require time travel.

"Asked how a teenage boy could've committed a crime more than two decades ago, a police spokesman explained 'He's very clever.'"

Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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The guy REALLY looks like the police sketches too. Almost perfectly the same, except for maybe a slight difference in nose width.

Does anyone else have issues with identifying and describing facial features. I have no problems recognizing people, but there’s no way I can verbalize them on a specific features basis. What kind of disorder do I have?

I think that's fairly typical for people who aren't used breaking down images into their constituent parts. In the language of computer vision, it would be like saying that our visual cortexes don't need to know how to segment a face into detailed descriptions of eyes, a nose, a mouth, etc., in the same way as it is necessary to be able to segment a wolf from a forest scene.

But it can also be trained. See, e.g., Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards.

Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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post #113

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The guy REALLY looks like the police sketches too. Almost perfectly the same, except for maybe a slight difference in nose width.

Does anyone else have issues with identifying and describing facial features. I have no problems recognizing people, but there’s no way I can verbalize them on a specific features basis. What kind of disorder do I have?

Have a search for "aphantasia" and see if your experience matches.

Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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That's cool and all, but I personally enjoy it because of Ted's personality specifically, not his specific political affiliation. And also who cares? It's clearly a joke, one that happens to appeal to my particular sense of humor. There are oodles of topics that provide plenty of political ammunition, but anybody who takes this one seriously is an idiot.

Sorry, but I just recently watched a crowd of angry trolls sell memes and Internet in-jokes as facts to droves of angry Facebook users, and then they combined forces to elect a fascist. I no longer believe this kind of crap is inconsequential.

I don't think you're helping your case with this comment.

Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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post #130

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Does anyone else have issues with identifying and describing facial features. I have no problems recognizing people, but there’s no way I can verbalize them on a specific features basis. What kind of disorder do I have?

Perhaps the artists are trained to ask questions of witnesses that reveal details you wouldn't be able to give up unprompted?

I’ve had this exercise with my wife and I couldn’t even describe her nose, mouth, forehead or ears even though I see her everyday.

Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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I'll need some more evidence to believe it. They're strongly citing the "scars" on his forehead which, to my eye, look a lot like the wrinkles on anyone's forehead.

If you look closely, different people don't tend to have matching forehead wrinkles.

Yes, but these photos are so low resolution that it’s not clear they’re exactly matching here, either. And it’s not clear that a police sketch has accurate forehead wrinkles. I could not describe my wife’s forehead wrinkles to a sketch artist, for example.

Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone else have issues with identifying and describing facial features. I have no problems recognizing people, but there’s no way I can verbalize them on a specific features basis. What kind of disorder do I have?

Have a search for "aphantasia" and see if your experience matches.

I’d say it sounds more like prosopagnosia.

Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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This seems super dubious. I just watched the 2007 film Zodiac this week so it's recently on my mind. The prime suspect, Arthur Leigh Allen, has so much incriminating evidence against him that it's just nuts to me that anyone considers this anything but a solved case.

Seriously, just read this:

https://zodiackiller.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Leigh_Allen#Incr...

Most importantly of the list, a guy he shot who lived picked him out of a set of photos and said he was certain that was the man who shot him.

Like....how can you go through that list and come to any other conclusion? It seems very clear that it was just procedural error by the police that let him get away with it back then. When investigators contacted him anew in 1992, he suddenly died of heart failure before they could interview him.

Re: Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer

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post #78

For anyone disinterested in giving any FOX site clicks, here's an alternative source: https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Investigators-claim-thi...

I'm with you on not wanting to send traffic to Fox, but it's worth noting that this is Fox 13/KSTU, which is a local Fox affiliate in Salt Lake City, but is not owned by Fox (it's owned by Scripps Broadcasting). I have no idea how revenue from traffic to their website relates to their relationship with Fox, but it's not a direct relationship.

(I fondly refer to them as "Let's Play News", because the quality and professionalism of their local newscasts tends to be hilariously low.)

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