Robert Graysmith: Thank you for having me. While recovering in the hospital, Mageau provided a description of his attacker which did not match Arthur Leigh Allen. Graysmith claims that experts endorsed his solution and the film ZODIAC depicts a television interview of Graysmith regarding his solution. George Bawart, a close friend of mind, tracked down Mike to a LA airport and was able for the first time show him a photo line up of five driver's license pictures of two suspects and fillers. At that moment I was free. Yet he states that in 1981 he "dropped in on Sherwood Morrill "to compare handwriting of a suspect with the Zodiac's (ZODIAC, pg. Later he discovered that they belonged to a woman passenger from earlier in the day." Log in or Sign up to join the discussion. Respectfully, Paul Avery, Investigative Reporter, The San Francisco Chronicle." We know Zodiac was 6 feet tall, weighed about 230 and was balding from descriptions and physical evidence. Robert Graysmith: In those days I weighed 145 (mainly from the stress of the search) was shorter and had much bigger feet. # 28 - Washington, D.C.: What was Jake Gyllenhaal like? Graysmith's ridiculous claim that "every" letter was handled by a photogengraver is nothing more than yet another attempt to cast doubt on evidence which has been used to clear his pet suspect. Here is an example of the manner in which Graysmith "changed" the facts in ZODIAC. A task force would have been formed and the superior forensics would have ended his career before it began. Investigators believed that this man was the same man seen by the boy, and his father, at the lake, indicating that they did not describe the man as bald. Allen's driver's license, issued on October 13, 1967, described him as six feet tall, 250 lbs, with brown hair. Fincher just needed a spooky scene near thr end for pacing. Graysmith claims that a task force would be formed today, yet he ignores the fact that a task-force was essentially created at the time of the original investigation. In his answer here, Graysmith once again created his own facts and evidence in order to make his suspect seem guilty. He ended up representing Mike in court in one of those ironic path crossings of the only two surviving victims. I located witnesses at Berryessa who identified Allen as being at the lake that day--the son of the now deceased dentist and one of the college women. That is why I have always thought the American public should be enlisted to solve difficult crimes. The only evidence which could be cited to support such claims would be Michael Mageau's highly questionable identification of Allen as the Zodiac shooter (an identification which was not endorsed by the Vallejo police department), and, Don Cheney's claim that he had once accompanied Allen to the restaurant where a Zodiac victim worked as a waitress. The size of the gloves indicates that the killer left the gloves behind to mislead investigators or that the gloves belonged to someone other than the killer and are not related to the crime. Graysmith has never produced any evidence to support his claim that the boy had identified Allen as the man he had seen at Lake Berryessa on the day of the Zodiac attack. Mike Mageau, the surviving victim from the July 4, 1969 shooting at Blue Rock Springs, was hospitalized with pins in his legs and wounds to his face and neck. According to Graysmith, the Zodiac used handwriting samples obtained from several different people and an enlarger/projector in order to fabricate his handwriting style. In short, Mageau's description did not match Allen and his identification of Allen, despite these descrepencies, led many to question the accuracy of his identification. Robert Graysmith: Thanks for asking. The bombs which Allen had in his basement were pipe bombs; the bombs described by the Zodiac were not pipe bombs and were in no way similar to pipe bombs or the "bomb recipe" allegedly found during the search of Allen's home in the early 1990s. He looks nothing like Zodiac but I have never been able to shake the feeling that he knows more than he realizes. I compiled this in a book called SHOOTING ZODIAC, which ends where most Hollywood books begin. Several people allegedly named on that list, including Dean Ferrin's brother, Arthur Leigh Allen's brother Ron, and others have denied that they ever attended such a party. Jake simply observed me and I saw in the film he caught every mannerism, even wore my awful 1970s clothes. He visited Dave in San Francisco and came back as him. Graysmith states that he is glad to have left the case behind but, at the same time, every word he utters proves that he has been consistently obsessed with the case, writing two books in less than 7 years. They replace one with the other. These match the 150 receipe cards that the director found. Zodiac 1 / Zodiac 2 Bob Stephenson. This individual was identified and authorities concluded that he was not the Zodiac. "I thought he was so young to be bald," he said. FACT CHECK: Graysmith never mentioned this "Leigh" in his books and he had never identified this man. Det. Several work very well. Robert Graysmith: Melanie and hang around together all the time, laugh, go to art shows and attend the movies just to see the Zodiac trailer. I am satisfied that Dave Toschi, Bawart, Capt. They are all printed in Zodiac (1986) and Zodiac Unmasked (2002). Back then police departments were not sharing info. Whoever Zodiac is he is a skillful artist.