Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Confirmation tonight,
-What is that at the bottom? -Leftovers.
-Where you been? -The library.
How do I get to Melvin Belli?
So, what do you think he'll do next?
"To prove this, here is a blood-stained piece of his shirt.
from the San Francisco Police Department
He said, "I have to kill. Today is my birthday. "
Give or take. Yeah.
How long have you been having these headaches?
-Nice to meet you. -Good to meet you, man.
January, 1975, they send him to Atascadero.
What are your feelings about Don Cheney?
You know that we work in the daily business, right?
-We ran them on Rick Marshall. -No, Robert.
-Hey, hi. -Hi.
Close the door.
Dispatch, this is 43L2, heading south on Knoxville Road.
On the handwriting?
So, he left on the 18th.
Do you want me to do that, Sam?
The letters are a little too neat
Dave! He made a mistake!
Maybe he thought that I could do some good.
"Here is part of a cipher.
Hello?
What are you doing?
It is you waiting in the hall if you speak again.
We should have a drink.
My baby!
"This is the Zodiac speaking.
Five persons have been murdered in the San Francisco area,
I think I can help you, Sam.
Right there, boss.
That's a lot of dead people and grieving families that need our help.
What about September 26, 1970?
-Maybe he can get you a mimeo. -Right.
My head aches. I'm so sick.
It may be the beginning of a crime wave.
Is there anything else we can do to help?
It was four years ago. Let it fucking go.
-Was that your husband? -No.
Yes.
Haven't got around to it.
We'll go on page... Page four.
You'll be tracing the call?
What do you do for fun?
People.
-May I talk to him? -No.
Where's your baby?
So, you weren't angry about being fired from Valley Springs
A shame about the show.
-This is my problem. This guy... -Arthur Leigh Allen?
We've got Alfred from Vacaville.
Christ, kid.
We're investigating the Zodiac murders in San Francisco and Vallejo.
This was found a couple of months later by a janitor in RCC storage.
Yes, Melvin. You don't have to lie down back there.
I also killed those kids last year.
-She can vouch. -Go put on the Folgers.
Jesus. Hey, Cheri Jo Bates was a gift. I gave that to you.
But not for Rick Marshall.
I'm George Bawart. Vallejo PD. I took over for Jack Mulanax.
It was Leigh.
"then move on to kill again
Maupin used David as a character in his column.
-What's that? -That's the Zodiac at the lake.
Well, I'm not a writer, I'm a cartoonist.
He's a friend of the Zodiac's.
Oh, that's that article.
I'm left-handed.
"If you do not print this cipher by the afternoon of Fry,"
How do they know that Rick Marshall wrote the sign?
I'm Robert Graysmith. I work at the Chronicle.
It's in the Vallejo files.
-And who authorized you to tell me this? -That's all I'm authorized to say.
Been a year-and-a-half, you gonna cure this fucking thing or not?
Because when they finally did run his prints,
-You're not finished? -No, I'm finished, Carol. I'm finished.
A little.
-Really? -Yes.
Not a single usable print at the first three or in any of the letters?
I don't care what he says. This still could be Z.
And when is it gonna be finished?
Traffic's bumper to bumper. I was at the gun range.
We got two Vallejo killings, now there's one in Napa. Why Napa?
Maybe. But Mageau's gone.
-Did they hear a shot? -No.
who interviewed Leigh Allen two days after the Berryessa murders.
And how did you kill your victims?
"Hey, pig, doesn't it rile you up
Paul, what's on the crime beat?
Mageau and Darlene, that's Vallejo's case.
These are copies of some of the Zodiac letters that were sent.
Right, not in a hurry. Kind of lumbering along like...
I am thinking hard.
-Correct. -Did you slow down?
We weren't all boy scouts, Robert.
He says he's gonna call in on Jim Dunbar's morning show in three hours.
So, nobody cares.
We choose at some point in our lives how to physically construct each letter.
how sure are you?
our handwriting may change over the years,
but it was written by the very man
"I am finding it extremely difficult to hold it in check
Door to door, that is less than 50 yards.
Yeah?
Horrid. I'm thinking we go with not so horrid.
-Hey, Pete? -Yeah, Dave.
This is off the record.
That's the current thinking, according to Terry Pascoe.
-What's this about? -Zodiac.
I'm gonna show you a group of photographs.
Thank you, Eric.
What do you got?
Mr. Graysmith, most of the writing matches the exemplar.
-Who would I tell? -Okay. Totally solid point. Okay.
-Who's that? -That's Graysmith.
How did you do it?
Fuck off and die!
You put yourself out there for him to see.
All of them.
Thank you.
been thinking about it for a while. I can buy that.
It was Sherwood's case.
-That's great. Happy birthday. -Thanks.
Okay. We gotta call the Army and see if this
It was minty.
And he knew Darlene.
Animal crackers?
-Did you see this? -Unfortunately, yes.
Let's go.
Well, you'd have to confirm that, now wouldn't you?
I can get more. I'll just find Vaughn and I'll track down Linda.
So, almost every book on ciphers was stolen from the Presidio Library?
The background with school children.
Is that more important than your family's safety?
-Let's meet and talk. Just us. -Okay.
"The best part of it is that when I die,
Oh, just a lot of books from the library, and I love puzzles, so I just...
No.
"I'm sorry, this just won't work. "
We need to get matches on blood and fabric.
Vic in San Francisco, you're on the line. You're not scared of the Zodiac?
You need to see this.
Well, if you wanna do this, don't let me stop you.
She tied you loose, didn't she?
Can I have a word with you?
Roll the tape. Get the tape.
-I can't have them see me like this. -Neither can I.
Take your time.
or he'd kill more people.
Mr. Vaughn does not know his friend is a killer,
"and I will set up meeting.
I've got five minutes. I've got to get back to the Hall.
-Did it ever? -Yeah, it did.
Go to Candlestick. See a movie.
Tell me that's not a piece of bloody shirt!
All right.
Unlike in the city where you have Satanists running around.
-What do we really got? -We're swamped.
-Jesus. -Look, two seconds.
I can't tell you. That's privileged information.
Not many people have basements in California.
Give us a sec.
At least an eight.
we want you to suggest Old St. Mary's Church in Chinatown.
-Paul, what are you doing? -Hyman, I wrote it. It's done.
It's his third fare of the night. Does anyone have any animal crackers?
Dave? Hey. Hi.