Books about horrible murderers are a dime a dozen, but with the exception of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, none have been as good of a read as Zodiac. I’ve read the book twice and still find it to be one of the premier examples of true crime prose. What a thrill I got when presented with the opportunity to interview the author as a result. Graysmith’s novel has remained in print ever since and is the basis for a great new feature film of the same name by David Fincher. Only in this instance, the bad guy was never caught. It was the type of grandstanding you’d expect from a Batman villain. I was a high school senior in the Bay Area of California, right in the heart of where the actual crimes took place, and his book was a thrilling read about a series of murders by a man who taunted the police with coded letters, threats, and even pieces of a victim’s clothing. I picked up Robert Graysmith’s Zodiac when it first came out in 1986. Inspector David Toschi has since passed away in 2018 but is referred to in the present tense in this piece. NOTE: This is an interview I did with Robert Graysmith back in 2007 right when the David Fincher film based on his Zodiac book came out.
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