Jack the Ripper brutally butchered women with a knife. Elizabeth Short, who some have called the “Black Dahlia”, was tortured and cut in two, with her body staged to shock those who viewed it. The Zodiac Killer attacked couples parked on deserted roads and on lake shores. Investigators never identified those killers. But why? The reasons cross a hundred years but were very much the same.
The investigators cast the cases using brands they were familiar with, but which were the wrong ones. If we step back and examine the evidence, what can we be sure of? How far can we go to identify the killers? By using a modern, unbiased perspective not intended to prove any specific theory, can we do better than the original investigators did?
You might be surprised by what we can establish with an unbiased look at the original evidence. We can get rid of the hype and the attempts to focus on personal theories; we can expose the unknown faces of killers who have hidden behind the dark shadows of uncertainty for too long.
Was Jack the Ripper attempting to gather his victim’s heads? Was the body of the “Black Dahlia” purposely mutilated to mimic a serial killer’s signature? Did police funnel all evidence through the wrong theory, ignoring evidence that could have proved who Zodiac really was? This book answers those questions and defines what really happened so long ago.
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