hi all, new poster
Hi there, wanted to post a brief introduction. This site is a wealth of information, and I'm well down the rabbit hole at this point. haha. I'm in my mid 20s, from Massachusetts. My first exposure to this case was early, when I was about nine or ten discovering a misplaced copy of Graysmith's Zodiac book at the library and being attracted to the garish yellow cover. I knew my mom (despite being a true crime nut herself) wouldn't allow me to check it out, so I stashed it in a forgotten reference section where I would return often and pore over the ominous ciphers, eerie letters, and ghostly composite sketches. Then I grew up, and forgot about the Zodiac crimes, while maintaining a casual interest in true crime and crime fiction. I saw the Fincher film when it came out, enjoyed it very much (with some reservations, I was a film student, and am an insufferable movie snob), and continued on with my life. Oddly enough, I've since become a cartoonist. I'm currently working on a true crime project (not about the Zodiac), so have been doing a lot of research into various unsolved homicides etc, mostly to get a feel for the vocabulary and complexities of a real investigation. Then I came upon this and other Zodiac sites, and my fascination with the grand-daddy of unsolved murder cases has grown stronger than ever. I look forward to learning more about this case and the investigation, I don't know if I can bring anything particularly helpful to the table, but I have a pretty strong knowledge of 50s comic books and classic cinema, which are some of the things that particularly attract me to this case. Happy hunting!