America's Most Wanted Goes on the Hunt for the Zodiac Killer

A major motion picture about the notorious Zodiac Killer, who terrorized the San Francisco Bay area starting in the late 1960s and has never been caught, will hit theaters in a few days. America's Most Wanted, the nation's top crime-fighting show, has long been involved in the hunt for The Zodiac. In a special episode airing Saturday, Feb. 24 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX, America's Most Wanted host John Walsh will examine the true story of the Zodiac murders, and lay out the clues that could finally lead to the elusive serial killer's capture.

Walsh will take viewers to the crime scenes and other locations connected to the case, accompanied by Robert Graysmith, an expert on "The Zodiac and the author of the book "Zodiac Unmasked." In the film Zodiac, which opens on March 2, Graysmith is portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal. The special episode of America's Most Wanted will include interviews with Gyllenhaal and the film's other stars, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr., along with clips from the movie.

During the broadcast, Walsh also will reveal, for the first time, details about threatening letters he received that include bizarre symbols similar to those The Zodiac put in his taunting letters to newspapers. The sender of these letters to the America's Most Wanted host has never been identified.

Although The Zodiac's violent killing spree began - and perhaps ended - nearly four decades ago, Walsh believes that with the help of America's Most Wanted viewers, whose tips have led to the arrests of more than 900 dangerous fugitives to date, this case can still be solved, and The Zodiac's victims can finally get the justice they've long awaited.

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Zodiac was released March 2nd, 2007 and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Richmond Arquette, Bob Stephenson. The film is directed by David Fincher.


Sources: FOX

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  1. TheZodiac

    Let me ask you,how can you be a expert,when you still did not catch me?get a degree in something else and then,maybe you can call your self a expert,but until i'm caught,your still a amateur,your friend,the zodiac.

    4 years agoby @thezodiacFlag

  2. gots2bee

    Both the unsolved Zodiac case and the unsolved I-45 Killers cases in Houston/Galveston are decades long. Zodiac killed in late 60's and early 70's. The I-45 murders started in the early 70's and are still going on. Zodiac was a lone killer but the I-45 murders point to more than one killer working the Houston/Galveston areas. Thus far, only Anthony Allan Shore has been cault killing Mexican girls around I-45. The first killer and others killing white girls are still on the loose. One killer likes brown haired girls and one victim Laura Miller was killed in the 80's. Tim Miller, the girls father was sent a letter in 2005 at his "Equusearch" office in Dickinson, Tx. The person who wrote this letter said he had killed Laura and many others. The letter writer also taunted not only Miller but the police too. Said he was too smart to be cault. Perhaps this guy might be a little bit of Zodiac fan? Only his letter had cut out newspaper words instead of handwriting. In any event, the police need to stay on the ball. Go get 'em!

    4 years agoby @gots2beeFlag

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