Peacock’s new true crime documentary series Myth of the Zodiac Killer reexamines the evidence collected, including the letters and cryptograms, using new technology. The trailer for the two-part docuseries reveals investigators will be using AI to help figure out if all of the correspondence was, in fact, written by just one individual.
Peacock offers this description of the docuseries premiering on Tuesday, July 11, 2023: “The identity of the serial killer known as ‘The Zodiac’ has been confounding investigators for nearly fifty years, but an unlikely and unconventional theorist may have finally shed light to America’s most famous cold case by asking a question that no one else has ever dared ask: what if the reason the Zodiac has never been caught…is because he never existed in the first place?”
Andrew Nock directed the documentary series and serves as an executive producer along with David Karabinas, Brad Bernstein, James Buddy Day, Anne Garofalo Paterno, and Cynthia Childs.
The Zodiac Killer began terrorizing Northern California with the murder of David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen in Vallejo, CA on December 20, 1968. The still unidentified killer followed that up by stabbing Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard on July 4, 1969 at Lake Berryessa. Shepard died of her injuries, but Hartnell survived the brutal attack.
The killing spree continued on September 27, 1969 in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood. The Zodiac Killer shot and killed Paul Stine, a cab driver, and then taunted the police by mailing them pieces of Stine’s shirt.
Zodiac sent four cryptograms to newspapers while he was active, and to date, only one has been solved. Although fingers have been pointed at multiple individuals over the decades, the police still have not identified the Zodiac Killer.
