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This is probably from watching way to many profiling style crime dramas, but do serial killers ever just stop like this? I thought they typically escalated until they were caught.
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...
This is probably from watching way to many profiling style crime dramas, but do serial killers ever just stop like this? I thought they typically escalated until they were caught.
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...
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...
so, the hypothesis that _Zodiac =Monster of Florence_ would make a lot of sense, because it explains Douglas's observation. if that was the case, the Zodiac would be an absolute exception in the sense that he grew old and retired.
further, Douglas, from many years of experience of investigating serial killers, observes that killers have a 'signature'. a handwriting in their crimes, so to speak. and at first glance, the signature of the Zodiac and the Monster are very similar indeed, as others have mentioned.
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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").
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.
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...