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Oct 7, 2021 · Below are some of the high profile suspects, including some highlighted by Zodiackiller.com, a website devoted to obtaining and archiving all available materials related to the Zodiac Killer...
Jun 27, 2023 · Here Are All Theories and Suspects in the Case. The unsolved murders that terrorized the Bay Area in the '60s have sparked profiles of the Zodiac Killer, dozens of suspects, and even conspiracy theories as to the murderer's identity. By Caitlin Schunn Jun 27, 2023, 3:20 PM ET.
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- LAWRENCE KANE. Why Suspected: Kane worked in the same Lake Tahoe hotel as Donna Lass, who disappeared in 1970 and may have been another Zodiac victim.
- ROSS SULLIVAN. Why Suspected: The 1966 murder of Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside, Ca. bore many similarities to the Zodiac killings. Staffers at the Riverside City College library, near where Bates’s body was found, said a coworker, Ross Sullivan, had made them uncomfortable and disappeared for several days after the murder.
- ARTHUR LEIGH ALLEN. Why Suspected: Portrayed as the prime suspect in Robert Graysmith’s books, one of which was the basis of the 2007 movie, “Zodiac,” Allen was questioned by police in 1969 and again in 1971 after a friend told authorities Allen had talked about wanting to kill people and secure a flashlight to a firearm, as the Zodiac did.
- RICHARD MARSHALL. Why Suspected: Marshall, a ham radio operator and movie projectionist, lived in Riverside in 1966 and in later in San Francisco near where Stine was murdered.
While many theories regarding the identity of the Zodiac have been suggested, the only suspect authorities ever publicly named was Arthur Leigh Allen, a former elementary school teacher and convicted sex offender who died in 1992.
- Arthur Leigh Allen. Heavily favored by cartoonist turned true crime writer, Robert Graysmith, suspect Arthur Leigh Allen became the main focus of his book, Zodiac, which in turn popularized the belief that Allen was the killer.
- Ross Sullivan. Ross Sullivan was suspected in the 1966 murder of Riverside City College student Cheri Jo Bates and while the case remains unsolved, it is believed by some investigators that Bates was the Zodiac's first victim.
- Jack Tarrance. In 2007 Dennis Kaufman claimed that his stepfather, Jack Tarrance, was the Zodiac killer. Though Tarrance died in 2006, Kaufman produced several pieces of evidence that he believed incriminated his stepfather in the murders.
- Earl Van Best Jr. Gary Stewart published his 2014 true crime book, The Most Dangerous Animal Of All, alongside author Susan Mustafa in an effort to name his biological father, Earl Van Best Jr., as the now notorious Zodiac killer.
Sep 6, 2023 · Infamous Serial Killers. The Zodiac Killer. The self-named Zodiac Killer is directly linked to five murders in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and claimed to commit as many as...
During the 1990s several investigators claimed to have identified the Zodiac killer; the suspect most often cited was Arthur Leigh Allen (1933–92), a Vallejo, California, schoolteacher who had been institutionalized in 1975 for child molestation, though his identification with the Zodiac killer has never been substantiated.
