Well, they did find the Golden State Killer through geneological DNA so it's possible we could still find out who the Zodiac Killer was, even if he's not alive anymore, but chances are he's dead as I think the Golden State killer is around 71 and Zodiac committed his crimes about 10 years older, so IF they were around the same age (though they might not have been) that could put him in his early 80s....at the very least he'd be very old.
I find him fascinating also. Another is the Black Dahila Murderer, but I think they know who he was.
There was an old documentary about cop...forget his first name but his last name was "Hodell"...I think either he or his father's named might have been "George", well this cop is CONVINCED his father was the Black Dahlia murderer and makes a very convincing case.
His father as also a surgeon who could have bi-sected corpses like the BDM did.
Then there was H.H. Holmes the 1st American serial killer, and I don't know if anyone else has seen it...but did anyone else see that documentary series that I think might have been called "American Killer" (not sure if that was it) where one of H.H. Holmes' descendents, like his great great grandson, is trying to prove that H.H. Holmes and Jack the Ripper are one and the same??
Interesting show. I need to look it up and see if there will be a 2nd series but my guess is there won't be as it was hard for him to gain evidence to try to prove his theory and I don't see how the show could likely end definitively with him being able to prove or disprove that Holmes and the Ripper were or weren't the same person.
There did seem to be some compelling evidence that they COULD have been the same person though, but far from any kind of solid proof.
There was, I think I recall, a Zodiac letter which at the bottom had two or three lines of what appeared to be just random characters . . . what is the prevailing theory on that one, if there is one?
O yes, H H Holmes and the Jack The Ripper theory, but then again some say that Arthur Conan Doyle was Jack the Ripper too . . . Holmes was the one when he was executed this massive thunderbolt hit the top of the prison.
When one wonders if kids these days and people of all ages are making everything more depraved and things are worse than ever, the Holmes and Jack The Ripper cases provide a lot of food for thought . . . even Jeffery Dahmer in the 1990s wasn't totally original in what he did, and people have been shooting people from book depository and hotel windows, cutting off heads, gassing people, sticking them in iron maidens, molesting little kids, and throwing people off buildings since time immemorial . . . it is an issue of epistemology I think . . . one can turn on the television, radio, computer, smart phone or whatever and see what people are doing -- riots, murders, stealing shit, throwing petrol on people and setting it alight . . .
Of course there is the Cosby case, apparently the biggest serial rapist case in history -- like other cases of forcible rape and facilitating same with drugs, I really can't figure the reason for this kind of thing, which, if I am not mistaken, animals don't even do to each other, still existing in the human species when we have extended our own life expectancy many times over and learned to heal ourselves and animals too, decoded our own programming (genome), walked on the Moon, figured out how to make morphine out of coal tar and petroleum, and are about to become a multi-planet species . . . one could imagine a case for someone conking someone on the head or otherwise risking a fatality in self-defence and similar reasons, but Cosby's kind of assault appears to exist just to propagate evil and turn people against one another and destroy each other for whatever evil reason. And not only was Cosby a rapist, he was a poisoner too . . . administering drugs to people without their consent, apparently another monopoly of humankind for some inscrutable reason . . .
Well, there was the Mme Bathory serial blood-drinking/murder case several hundred years before Dahmer, and Vlad the Impaler centuries before than simply doing on a broader scale rather common methods of propaganda of the deed during times of war, perhaps the ne plus ultra of psychological warfare, at least of things about which we know . . .