No one saw this one coming. Unheralded new book claims to reveal whom the Zodiac Killer was. [View all]

[John1956PA]

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There have been many books which purport to identify the shadowy perpetrator of the Zodiac Killings which haunted northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The number of competing theories about the killer's identity rightfully causes any new book on the subject to be met with skepticism. However, after looking at two of the arguments purportedly contained in the book which HarperCollins released yesterday, May 13, 2014, without any advance publicity, I am intrigued.

The book The Most Dangerous Animal of All http://www.amazon.com/The-Most-Dangerous-Animal-All/dp/0062313169 is from a Louisiana businessman who was raised by adoptive parents. The author sets forth his arguments to support his claim that his biological father Earl Van Best, Jr., who died in 1984, was the Zodiac Killer. Two arguments which impress me are that at least one of the cryptograms sent by the Zodiac killer at the height of the crimes contains a multi-directional sequence of letters spelling out "E V Best Jr" and that the sketch of the killer (a police artist's rendering based upon the description of one of the few survivors) matches the appearance of E V Best, Jr., as he looked at that time.

My information is based on a Daily Mail online article at the following link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2627426/Revealed-The-real-face-Zodiac-Killer-compelling-evidence-adopted-man-search-biological-father-led-explosive-discovery.html

Here are a few images from the article:






Earl Van Best:





Police artist sketch: