similar killing style and his
threatens. He even wrote
about insane details such as
killer taping a flashlight on
his rifle to shoot in the dark,
or shooting out a bus full of
children. Allen was also at
Lake Beryessa in the time
of the murder. Police found
bloody knives in the back of
his car, which he claimed to
kill chickens for dinner with.
After the court order, the
Allen´s fingerprints and Zo-
diac´s were compared and
the results came out nega-
tive… for the police. So the
case still remains unsolved.
In 1991 a possible witness
accused Allen as Zodiac ba-
sed on a photography, but
Allen meanwhile died of na-
tural causes and couldn´t
attend to the lawsuit.
Recently (2014) Garry
Steward published a book
The Most Dangerous Animal
of All, in which he claims
the Zodiac was his father,
Earl van Best Jr., who real-
ly resembled the man from
police´s sketch. But nothing
could be definitely proven,
not even in this case. In the
movie industry was Zodiac
a huge inspiration for Dirty
Harry (1971) directed by Don
Siegel, which includes seve-
ral scenes with kidnapping a
Artur Leigh Allen
bus full of children. In 2007 a
movie Zodiac arrived to the
cinemas which was based on
Robert Graysmith´s books
about this case and the iden-
tity of Zodiac was unraveled
as Allen‘s.
Even though there´s thou-
sands of conspiracy theories
and more than 2 500 sus-
pects, the case still remains
unknown. Forever?
Article by
t0xic
Sources of pictures:
1. http://penny-dreadful.wikia.
com/wiki/Vanessa_Ives
2. https://sk.pinterest.com/
pin/133982157644480737/
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