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Feb 26, 2016 · Does Ted Cruz bear a physical resemblance to police composite drawings of the Zodiac Killer? Yes. Would a trial by court of public opinion in the state of Florida prove Ted Cruz guilty...
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- Kaitlyn Tiffany
Mar 8, 2016 · In all seriousness and as best we can tell, no. An exhaustive investigation by the Washington Post's Philip Bump reveals that Cruz was born in 1970, while the Zodiac Killer's first...
- Matthew Yglesias
May 2, 2016 · Update: The full poll is out. "38% of Florida voters think it's possible that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer," PPP's Tom Jensen writes. "10% say he for sure is, and another 28% say that they...
- Lawrence Kane
- Ross Sullivan
- Arthur Leigh Allen
- Richard Marshall
- Richard Gaikowski
- Earl Van Best Jr.
- Jack Tarrance
- Donald Lee Bujok
Why Suspected:Kane worked in the same Lake Tahoe hotel as Donna Lass, who disappeared in 1970 and may have been another Zodiac victim. He served in the Naval reserves, where he might have learned coding, and a 1962 car accident left him with a brain injury that could have compromised his ability to control urges. He was arrested for peeping in 1961...
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. Sullivan also sported a crew cut and glasse...
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. Allen wore a Zodiac-brand wa...
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. Visitors to his home told police they found him peculiar and that he had talked about finding ”something much more exciting than sex.” Marshall liked old movies, including “The Red Phantom,” w...
Why Suspected:Gaikowski edited a counter-culture newspaper in San Francisco. A former coworker sent long, rambling letters to law-enforcement agencies accusing him of being the Zodiac and said Gaikowski invited him to engage in violent acts together. The accuser, nicknamed “Goldcatcher,” appeared in disguise on an episode of the HISTORY Channel’s “...
Why Suspected:In his 2014 book, “The Most Dangerous Animal of All,” Gary Stewart made a case that his biological father, Earl Van Best Jr., was the Zodiac. Stewart said Best resembled the composite sketch of the Zodiac, lived in California at the time of the killings, was interested in ciphers, knew a Satanist and a Manson-family member and liked G...
Why Suspected:Dennis Kaufman also received extensive publicity claiming that his late stepfather, Jack Tarrance, was the Zodiac. Kaufman said Tarrance was a dead-ringer for the composite sketch and claimed to have a stash of incriminating evidence, including a roll of film depicting possible victims and a bizarre hooded costume like one the Zodiac ...
Why Suspected:The hooded man who stabbed the couple at Lake Berryessa said he had just escaped from a prison in Montana, according to Bryan Hartnell, who survived the attack. Researcher Kevin Robert Brooks developed a lengthy circumstantial case implicating Donald Lee Bujok, who was released in 1968 from Montana’s Deer Lodge Penitentiary after serv...
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May 18, 2023 · Sen. Ted Cruz this week leaned into a long-running joke that paints him as a possible suspect behind the infamous Zodiac Killer murders in the late 1960s. It was reported on Wednesday...
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- Elizabeth Elkind
Jun 27, 2023 · Crime News Murders. Who Is the Zodiac Killer? 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.
After more than 40 years, one of the most notorious unsolved murder cases in US history has reportedly been solved after an independent team of investigators identified who they believe was the Zodiac Killer – and it’s not Ted Cruz.
