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The crosshair-like symbol used by the Zodiac Killer in signing his correspondence

The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California from at least the late 1960s to the early 1970s. His identity remains unknown. His crimes, letters and cryptograms to police and newspapers inspired many movies, novels, tv set and more.

This commodity's list focuses on entertainment ("popular civilization") inspired past the events, with a few references to documentary and true crime media.

Motion picture [edit]

• The Zodiac Killer (1971), released while the killer was notwithstanding active, was directed by Tom Hanson and starred Hal Reed and Bob Jones.^[ane]
• Zodiac Rapist (1971), a pornographic horror flick loosely based on the crimes directed by John Lamb with John Holmes in the leading role.
• Dirty Harry (1971), released while the killer was however active, was loosely based on the Zodiac example, featuring a serial killer who calls himself "Scorpio" (a sign in the Zodiac),^[2] who at one point kidnaps a school motorcoach full of children, mirroring the real Zodiac'south threat to shoot children on a school passenger vehicle.^[3]
• The Exorcist III (1990) has a character named the "Gemini Killer", loosely based on the Zodiac Killer.
• Disguised Killer (2000), a short movie filmed in Vallejo and set in the nowadays, is based on the Lake Herman Road murders.^[4]
• Zodiac Killer (2005) is set in the present. The motion picture, written and directed past Ulli Lommel, features a nursing home employee who begins copycatting the Zodiac, angering the original killer (played by Lommel), who is revealed to exist a member of a moralistic secret society, and who has been living under the guise of Zodiac good Simon Vale.^[five]
• The Zodiac (2005) focuses on telling the story of a Vallejo detective involved in the instance, and how it affected him and his family.^[6]
• Curse of the Zodiac (2007) is a loose retelling of the original murders, likewise written and directed by Ulli Lommel.^[7]
• Zodiac (2007) is based on the two non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith: Zodiac and Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America'south Almost Elusive Serial Killer.^[eight] Filming locations included San Francisco and Los Angeles.
• Seven Psychopaths (2012) has the Zodiac Killer make a brief appearance in a flashback, presented as a hippy who lives with a number of white rabbits and displays a Gandhi poster on his wall.
• Awakening the Zodiac (2017) stars Shane West and Leslie Bibb as a nearly destitute couple, who discover a 50-year-old 8 mm moving picture reel showing murders by the Zodiac Killer, leading them to effort and solve the case (rather than contact the police force) then that they might make some money.^[ix]
• The Batman (2022) has a version of The Riddler based on the Zodiac Killer with a similar costume, symbol, and utilise of a Halloween greeting card to taunt an individual.^{[10] [11]}

Music [edit]

• The decease metallic band Macabre's album "Sinister Slaughter", from 1993, features a song entitled "Zodiac", most the killer.^[12]
• The bottom of the cover art of Guns N' Roses' anthology "The Spaghetti Incident?", from 1993, contains a code using the killer'south symbols, which has been deciphered equally "fuck'em all".^[13]
• San Francisco metal ring Machine Head's 1997 anthology The More Things Change... features "Claret of the Zodiac", inspired by the Zodiac killer.
• The Zodiac Killers, a San Francisco based punk rock band has drawn imagery and words from the killer for the albums "The Virtually Thrilling Experience" "Have a Blast", and "Society's Offenders".
• The Japanese horror punk band Balzac have a side project band, founded in 2004, consisting of the same band members that is called Zodiac. Vocal lyrics make frequent references to the words and actions of the Zodiac Killer.
• German EBM band SAM 2008 album "Constructed Adrenaline Music" features a rails called "Zodiac Killer".
• Kamelot'due south album Poetry for the Poisoned, from 2010, features two songs, "Dear Editor" and "The Zodiac", about the Zodiac Killer.^[14]
• The song "National Disgrace" past Atmosphere contains a reference to The Zodiac Killer.
• Japanese doom metal band Church of Misery wrote a vocal about the Zodiac in 2013 entitled "Sick of Living", quoting Zodiac's cryptic nature and the infamous slice of verse carved under the desktop in the Riverside Urban center College library.
• American deathrock band Christian Decease's 2000 anthology Born-Once again Antichristian features a track called "Zodiac (He Is Still Out There...)", about the Zodiac Killer.
• The Grateful Dead vocal "Dire Wolf", from 1969, written by lyricist Robert Hunter and guitarist Jerry Garcia, contains the refrain "Don't murder me...I beg of you lot, don't murder me..." which was inspired by the air of paranoia that settled over the San Francisco area during the peak flow of the Zodiac murders.

Television [edit]

• The season two episode of Nash Bridges, titled "Zodiac", has the inspectors following a copycat using the aforementioned methodologies as the original killer.
• The Zodiac case forms the basis for "The Mikado", a second flavour installment of the goggle box series Millennium. The episode, featuring a fictionalized version of the Zodiac Killer known equally Avatar, was written past Michael R. Perry and starting time aired on February half dozen, 1998.^[fifteen]
• The show Psych has a recurring serial killer/killers "Yin/Yang", whose crimes bear similarity to the Zodiac Killer's, played by Marry Sheedy.
• The series Heroes graphic symbol Sylar, portrayed past Zachary Quinto, is loosely based upon the Zodiac Killer. Sylar taking his proper noun from a sentinel mirrors one theory regarding the Zodiac Killer. I suspect was allegedly given a "Zodiac" brand sentinel that had the same logo (a crossed circle) that the killer used to sign his letters. As well of note, earlier one alleged victim died, she was followed by a suspicious human wearing horn-rimmed glasses.
• A Flavor 6 episode of Medium, entitled "The Medium is the Message", portrayed a killer chosen "The Libra Slayer" who showed a proclivity for symbols. His case was decades old, much similar the Zodiac Killer's.
• The Zodiac Killer is mentioned numerous times in Criminal Minds, a television programme which follows a squad of profilers at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. On January 18, 2012, the episode "True Genius" was aired, featuring a Zodiac Killer copycat active in the Bay Area. Recurring villain George Foyet, a.1000.a. "The Boston Reaper", was heavily based on the Zodiac.
• In the American Horror Story series, the Zodiac Killer is depicted every bit a masked figure and first appears every bit ghost in the American Horror Story: Hotel episode "Devil's Night", attending James Patrick March's dead serial killer party while apologizing for being tardily from "writing some letters". In American Horror Story: Cult, the Zodiac Killer is suggested to exist a member of Valerie Solanas' SCUM cult and that the "Zodiac Killer" was coined by a homosexual member who took credit for the series murders and sent the infamous cryptic letters to the police force.^[16]
• The "Magnifying Glass" episode of the MacGyver reboot (original air date 02/10/17) features the team tracking down a Zodiac Killer copycat.^[17]
• The episode "Affiliate Seventeen: The Town That Dreaded Sundown" from the 2d flavour of Riverdale features a Zodiac copycat killer called the "Black Hood" killer, who like Zodiac sends taunting letters and cryptograms.^{[xviii] [19]}

Video games [edit]

• In the 2007 video game Manhunt 2, the player character Daniel Lamb is modeled later the Zodiac Killer's composite sketch.
• The principal adversary of 2010'south Cause of Death volume 4, "Zero", is largely inspired past the Zodiac Killer.
• Sentinel Dogs 2 features a pre-gild mission where the protagonist Marcus Holloway has to find a Zodiac Killer copycat and solve his mystery.^[20]
• Zodiac is a passive detail added in the Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth expansion, represented past the crosshair symbol.
• In the 2022 game Series Cleaner, the level "Horoscope Date" has the thespian graphic symbol hired by copycat killer to clean up a crime scene similar to the Lake Berryessa murder. The player grapheme takes dwelling house the copycat'south hood as a memento.
• The 2022 video game This is the Zodiac Speaking revolves around journalist Robert Hartnell equally he undergoes therapy after he survives an run into with the Zodiac. Whilst undergoing it, he visits the Zodiac'due south law-breaking scenes through his dreams and attempts to piece together the timeline of events of each murder instance.^[21] The game's protagonist is based on Bryan Hartnell, who survived 8 stab wounds to the back from the Zodiac Killer.^[22]

Literature [edit]

• The California Crime Book, "Horror-Telescopic For Murder (The Zodiac Killer)", a 1971 novel by Robert Colby.
• Cracking Crimes of San Francisco: True Tales of Intrigue by the Bay, "This is the Zodiac Speaking...", a 1974 novel by Duffy Jennings.
• Zodiac Killer: Still at Large, a 1977 novel by Cliff Smith Jr.
• Slap-up Unsolved Mysteries, "Zodiac-The Sign of Death", a 1978 novel past James Purvis.
• The Zodiac Killer, a 1979 novel by Jerry Weissman.
• Zodiac, a 1986 novel by Robert Graysmith.
• 1 Was Not Plenty: True Stories of Multiple Murderers, "The Zodiac Killer", a 1986 novel by Georgina Lloyd.
• Duet For The Devil, a 2000 novel by T. Wintertime-Damon & Randy Chandler.
• Zodiac Unmasked, a 2002 novel by Robert Graysmith.
• San Francisco's Finest: Gunning For The Zodiac, a 2012 crime suspense thriller by Joseph Covino Jr.
• The Zodiac Paradox, a 2013 tie-in novel with the tv set series Fringe, features the Zodiac Killer existence brought from the testify'due south parallel universe due to ane of Walter's experiments.
• The Most Dangerous Animate being of All: Searching For My Father... And Finding The Zodiac Killer a 2022 novel past Gary L. Stewart.
• The Stringer, a 2022 thriller by Terry Cubbins.
• Unsub, a 2022 crime thriller by 1000000 Gardiner.
• Trail of the Zodiac, a 2022 law-breaking thriller by Jon Mills.

Miscellaneous [edit]

• During the 2022 U.s. presidential campaign, diverse opponents of Texas Senator Ted Cruz's candidacy initiated a farcical rumor on Twitter that Cruz was the Zodiac Killer. The topic has picked up interest every bit an internet meme, even as claimants take stated that they do non seriously believe it.^{[23] [24] [25] [26]} In a Feb 2022 survey of Florida voters washed by Public Policy Polling, 10% of respondents stated that they believed Cruz was the killer, while 28% felt that the possibility could not exist ruled out.^[24] Cruz was born in 1970, the year after the last confirmed Zodiac-related murder was committed. One columnist observed that the rumor campaign'due south persistence, despite its complete implausibility, is "a matter of style over substance".^[25] Several people involved with the meme acknowledged to National Public Radio that they were well enlightened that Cruz could not perhaps exist the killer, and added, "... it'southward all about a feeling they have about Cruz: they think he's creepy."^[26] Cruz himself has acknowledged the meme, tweeting a photo of one of the killer'due south coded messages in October 2017.^{[27] [28]} In 2020, following the decryption of a previously undecipherable letter from the Zodiac Killer, Cruz once once more best-selling the meme.^{[29] [thirty]}

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