Graysmith, Robert

"Robert Graysmith was on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when [serial murderer] Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer brought to justice. In this ... account of Zodiac's eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith reveals hundreds of facts previously unreleased, including the complete text of the killer's letters"--Amazon.com.

True-crime author Robert Graysmith offers a definitive case study of the terrorist who spread Anthrax through the U.S. mail in the months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Reveals the true identity of an elusive serial killer, known as Zodiac, who terrorized San Francisco between December, 1968 and October, 1969, killing more than forty people before he disappeared, never being brought to justice.

The author presents evidence to support his contention that notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper left Glasgow and London and took up a post as pastor of San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church where he continued his grisly work.

Who was Zodiac? A serial killer who claimed 37 dead. A sexual sadist who taunted police with anonymous notes. A madman who was never apprehended. This is the first, complete account of Zodiac's reign of terror. Is he still out there?.

First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.