Robert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac—America's most elusive serial killer.Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares, and bizarre cryptograms that baffled FBI code-breakers. Then as suddenly as the murders began, Zodiac disappeared into the Bay Area fog.After painstaking investigation and ...

From National Bestselling author Robert Graysmith comes the original book about the mysterious UNABOMBER, the elusive mailbomber who baffled authorities for 17 years, creating the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history.November 15, 1979, the cockpit crew aboard American Airlines Flight No. 444 felt a concussion, a “thump,” and heard a “loud sucking noise” come from the area of the forward cargo hold. The sleek, silver outer skin of...

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Zodiac , Auto Focus and Black Fire.DAVID FINCHER WAS AFTER THE TRUTH.WITHOUT IT, HE WOULD NOT SHOOT ZODIAC.For nearly two decades, Hollywood had been trying to make a movie of Zodiac, and for nearly two decades, it had failed.In 2003, producer Brad Fischer, and screenwriter Jamie Vande...

Marli Renfro was Janet Leigh's body double in the Hitchcock classic Psycho. When she disappeared, it was believed she was the victim of a serial killer. It was a mystery that took decades to solve-and a crime that could only have happened in Hollywood.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac, Auto Focus, and Black Fire.SO CLOSE TO SHORE,SO FAR FROM FORTUNE.WITH THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD, THEY CAME. San Francisco, 1849. Some arrived by land, but most came by sea. From packet to clipper, the first steamers, and even a stolen paddlewheeler, ships of every kind poured in through the Golden Gate. Packed to the gills with passengers ...

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of 'Zodiac' and 'Zodiac Unmasked'.AMERICA WAS THE CRIME SCENESix days after the devastating events of 9/11, as the dust still clung to the air over New York, a new terror descended upon America. An invisible enemy that when inhaled, fatally ravaged the lungs, body, and brain.Mysterious envelopes filled with lethal powder contaminated everything and everyone they ca...

During the 1920s, in more than a dozen cities, over four years, and across two continents, women were being butchered. Eyewitneses claim the perpetrator was a hulking Bible-carrying brute who lumbered on all fours, and laughed maniacally with each new slaughter.The crimes haunted San Francisco Police Captain Charles Dullea, the last honest cop in one of the most notoriously corrupt departments in the country. But nothing could have prepared Dullea for where the case- and the truth-...

The 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.When 28-year-old San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer at a local bathhouse in 1863, he was seeking a subject for his first novel. As Twain s...

A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead on a lover’s lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill again. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven. The real toll may have reached fifty. He was never caught.“After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there is only one name their equal in terror: the deadly, elusive, and mysteri...

The Zodiac serial killer terrorized the San Francisco Bay area from December 1968 to October 1969 when the violent killings suddenly stopped. But the fear continued into another decade as the killer mailed a series of threatening letters and cards to several newspapers and police agencies. Considering the information in these letters and cards as diary entries, a unique profile of the killer soon emerged. The search was now on for a teacher well versed in astronomy not astrology and when foun...

Heather Barnett's mutilated body was discovered by her son and daughter on their return home from school in Bournemouth one November afternoon. The police quickly ascertained that the murder was premeditated and meticulously planned down to the last macabre detail: the killer had not left one single piece of DNA evidence -- even the bloody footprints from a distinct pair of trainers did not lead out of the house but ended in the front room, without any further trace. As a bizarre and sicke...

Restless Souls is the true, bone-chilling chronicle of the Manson Family murders and its aftermath, from the point of view of the victims' families.When actress Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, the world was shocked. More than forty years later, the gruesome barbarity of the "Manson Family" still fascinates and horrifies.This true crime memoir by Alisa Statman, a 20-year Tate family friend, and...