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The Question Remains: Who is the Zodiac?

Only one killer solves the riddle of the Zodiac. Theodore Kaczynski, dubbed the Unabomber, fills in the gaps of the Zodiac mystery to present the full picture of both criminal careers.

Ted Kaczynski:
— had experience building bombs which he threatened to use on school children as the Zodiac, and that he subsequently used to kill his victims as the Unabomber
— had a psychotic break at age 24, where he convinced himself that he was free of any moral or ethical standard that would prevent him from killing anyone he chose
— was a professor at UC Berkeley as the Zodiac murders began, and had easy access to all of the murder sites and victims
— was a prolific letter writer whose primary mode of communication was the written word, just like the Zodiac killer
— was a genius-level mathematician who was fully capable of creating the Zodiac ciphers, as demonstrated by the codes found in his cabin after his capture in 1996
— as the Zodiac, acted out his plan for gaining the attention of the public that he later presented in his Unabomber manifesto
— possessed the type of weapons, disguises, and margin notes that would be expected of the Zodiac serial killer

The evidence is there. The answer is Ted Kaczynski.

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ASIN : B07GCFV5S6
Publisher : Genius Book Publishing (September 27, 2018)
Publication date : September 27, 2018
Language: : English
File size : 10416 KB
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Print length : 366 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1947521039
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- #542 in Biographies of Serial Killers
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- #2,922 in Murder & Mayhem True Accounts

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Pamela S. Simone

Very Disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2018

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After the first two books, I was really looking forward to this one. I didn't really expect a solution to the case but I didn't think it would fall back on one of the suspects who has definitely been cleared, as anyone familiar with the case knows.
The motivations driving Zodiac and the Unabomber are entirely different. Zodiac was random while Kaczynski picked targets for very specific reasons. The manifesto and Zodiac letters are nothing alike and the writers have very distinct styles. It is harder than one would think to try and change styles. Zodiac liked being close to his prey. Kaczynski distanced himself from the crime scene. There are so many problems with this suspect, it would take another book to clarify them.
Serious followers of the case know this book and its theory are highly flawed and the conclusion is forced to fit the suspect. This is the type of sleuthing that has kept this case running off track.

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Lucas Hood

Don’t Waste your Money

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018

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In a word, awful ! ... The writer gave his uneducated guess away on the History or on TLC or one of those type of TV channels ... Why buy the books? ... Besides the crummy writing, that’s why I sent all 3 of them back ... Trust me, you’re wasting your time if you try to read them ...

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Chris Volkay

Mark, great book, to bad so few people are able to realize it

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2018

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Don't have a lot of time but your book is great. You are of course right about everything you're saying. I too have looked at the work of Doug Oswell and A.J. Wilks, they are correct as well. An interesting caveat the the Tylenol case is that if you use the new fancy geographic profiling that is now being used by all the cool kids in town, you see that it is a perfect match. The six death and five locations of Tylenol all together form a half circle to the north of Ted's parent's house. If you connect those murder locations and then draw a circle where the expected killer would reside, it is a relatively small circle that just happens to include the Kaczynski hone. And all of the murder sites are somewhat equidistant from the house, maybe 20 minutes away. Wow, what a freakin' coincidence. I'm interested in this case as i believe it to be the crime story of the century. Which century? I don't know. perhaps all of them. And i believe he did many other murders than just the ones listed in these 3 cases. It's all there really. I'm going to write more about this some other place, but I really wonder if you need a sort of higher intelligence to be able to hold all of this information in your head, sort it out. A study once showed that men with iQ's of 75 were 3 times more likely to be in a traffic accident than a man with an Iq of 100. I think that means a lot. The higher IQ mind can hold more information, can deduce relative speeds and come to conclusions. The more limited mind cannot cipher the info as readily and plows into cars. Gotta go but you've hit it right on track. TJK is the most wily killer to ever live

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Greg Haynes

I really loved the first 2 books in this trilogy of sorts ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2018

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I really loved the first 2 books in this trilogy of sorts and could not wait for the third book to come out. The authors suspect is ridiculous! If he had named the Easter Bunny as the Zodiac I could not have been anymore surprised. Third book is not on par with the first 2. Too bad.

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Martin Shell

Read The Book Before You Form An Opinion!

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2018

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Very interesting & well written (and deeply researched book). More later...

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S. W. Simpson

"The poetry of logical ideas"

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019

This is the Zodiac argument which many find icky, zany, the crookedest of them all: Theodore Kaczynski is the Zodiac. Mark Hewitt's first two Zodiac books in the series earned high praise, including 5-star reviews. Yet many of these same reviewers appear to have grown rather angry after the author, in this third and final instalment, seemingly betrayed them by daring to name Ted Kaczynski as the Zodiac. Their consternation is apparent, with several reviews plunging to 1-Star.

For many, it's hard to look beyond the usual Zodiac suspects. As Hewitt notes, the Zodiac persona was "a fabrication and did not actually exist" and "contained so many contradictions…that many were able to make the facts of the case fit any number of suspects." The creative license of Robert Graysmith hasn't helped, nor David Fincher's 2007 film "Zodiac" which promulgated much of Graysmith's pestilential narrative.

Former cartoonists and cyber-sleuths aren't the only ones susceptible to "cognitive bias." Just a couple of years before the GEDmatch Geneology breakthrough, renowned detective Paul Holes convinced himself he'd definitively identified the Golden State Killer. The champagne was still on ice when his suspect's DNA results came back, clearing him. Holes was devastated – and positively mortified. "I took a suspect and made him fit the case."

The strength of Hewitt's argument regarding Kaczynski is that the author's logic isn't mired in the same mythos that plagues many of the other Zodiac suspects and theories. His case is based on facts and flows from the meticulous research presented in his earlier works. Here, his deep dive into Kaczynski's early childhood is equally impressive, so too his insight into Kaczynski's youth and journey into academia. Hewitt presents a reasoned and plausible account of how Kaczynski's path from prodigy to professor could have led to the evolution of both the Zodiac and the Unabomber. As Hewitt keenly observes, "neither of the two crime sprees is understandable or complete without the presence of the other."

The sheer breadth and depth of Hewitt's research and analysis is remarkable. In addition to the Zodiac correspondence, Hewitt examines much more material including Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera 'The Mikado', Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Agent', Richard Connel's 'The Most Dangerous Game', and, of course, 'The Unabomber Manifesto.' His findings provide too many thematic consistencies and linguistic reciprocities to ignore. Even more compelling evidence comes from the exploration of mathematics, a subject which powerfully unifies both cases. The symbol used by the Zodiac is "at heart a mathematical representation," writes Hewitt, referring to the Unit Circle. "Even the word 'cipher' has at its root mathematics." This evidence leads us unambiguously to a single suspect - mathematics genius Theodore Kaczynski.

Much boils down to the question of coincidence or chance. For instance, what are the odds that Kaczynski's favourite book, 'The Secret Agent', is heavily referenced in the Zodiac letters? (The cryptic use of "Tut, Tut, Tut," in the Torture letter is telling.) Or that Unit Circles connect to "boundary functions" - Ted Kaczynski's area of mathematical expertise? Or that both campaigns involved letters written to the press? Or that besides the Zodiac and The Unabomber, "no other serial murderer in human history [has] ever claimed an accompanying symbol?" These are significant questions to which Zodiaphiles ought to give their attention.

Regardless of the odds, the Zodiac himself proclaimed his name and "idenity" (sic) were to be found within his ciphers. Many dismiss this as a ruse while failing to acknowledge the distinction between "name" and "identity." Through applied "literary forensics," Hewitt shows that not only does a name emerge, but a portrait of a personality - an identity - is also revealed.

Of course, it would seem that anyone can find a pet suspect's name hidden within the various cryptograms. Even this reviewer discovered more Kaczynski references while examining "The Pines" card. Bear in mind; the card is deemed to be a possible hoax.

"Sought Victim 12" - Contains an anagram of "Gothicism." The Gothics – specifically the Ostrogoths – were ruled by Theoderic the Great, often referred to as Theodoric.

"12" - "Ted Kaczynski" contains 12 letters.

"Around in the snow" - To 'ski' is to move "around in the snow."

We now have THEODOR(IC) SKI or I THEODOR SKI (the C remains; we now need the letters E K A Z Y N to complete the full name.)

Other wording on the card contains anagrams which all happen to express death-related themes:

"Pass Lake Tahoe areas" - Includes anagrams of both "hopeless" and "Telophases." Telophases translates into "end stages."

"Sierra Club" - Contains an anagram of "reburials."

Furthermore, if we remove the letters making up the word "telophases" from the phrase "Pass Lake Tahoe Areas" we are left with A A K E A R A S, giving us 'K A E' towards the missing group of letters (E K A Z Y N) above. Collectively, we now have:

"I T H E O D O R E K A C - - - S K I" - with just Z Y N remaining.

Coincidence? In this case, probably.

Mark Hewitt provides far more convincing constructs than those above. The revelations from the interpretations of the ciphers and various phrases and passages within the Zodiac letters, and their implicit reference to Theodore Kaczynski, really do defy the odds. Yet anyone who has read Douglas Oswell's brilliant book "The Unabomber and the Zodiac" will know that the appearance of the name "Theodore Kaczynski" seems far more calculated than contrived. Oswell's hypothesis on the Name Letter's "Z13" cipher, involving the mathematical theory of sets, is extraordinary. Hewitt's examination of the phrase "…to mask the sound of your cruzeing…," among others, is equally astonishing, the revelations fitting perfectly with the Zodiac's penchant for obfuscation, as well as Ted Kaczynski's artifice.

Ultimately, Mark Hewitt reveals a suspect who, more than any other, brings context to both the Zodiac and the Unabomber campaigns, inextricably tying one to the other. A sophisticated and intellectual criminal whose "moral solipsist philosophy" perfectly fits the profile of each — a domestic terrorist who hid behind a faux philosophy designed to disguise his motives and justify his attacks. A man, full of rage, who sought to exact revenge by resorting to violence "in response to not fitting into society." A man who felt "awfully lonely" when ignored.

Still, there are those who can't look beyond the likes of Arthur Leigh Allan, Richard Gaikowski, Lawrence Kane or Ross Sullivan. It's worth noting that for over forty years, no professional law enforcement investigator or amateur sleuth had the name Joseph James DeAngelo written down on even so much as a piece of scrap paper. Professional and amateur investigators have been on the Zodiac case - again, for decades - collectively producing a list of suspects which is by no means little. They can't all be right. But they could all be wrong.

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amputee

What a fresh and innovative theory!

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2019

Wow, you certainly solved the Zodiac case now! Your suspect is someone who was brought into suspicion decades ago by someone else! A standing ovation for you, Sir Hewitt. I have known for many years that Zodiac's bomb diagram was more sophisticated and powerful than bombs that Ted made decades later. On many occasions, his bombs failed to kill their ambitious targets of singular humans. Yes, the Zodiac's bombs were never fully legitimized as a credible threat, but the authorities certainly took him seriously and implemented major security measures to defend against them. The Unabomber as a viable suspect is farfetched at best. Even Leigh Allen isn't the Zodiac, despite far more (circumstantial) evidence, no matter how much that hack Graysmith needs to be right. Nice job on the 340 cipher, Graysmith! Your "solution" is utterly pathetic.

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Emjay- Left & Pip “Psyco” - Above

Read the 2 books released before. Hunted & Profiled

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2018

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This series has been an eye opener. It does show what research the writer has done.

I also bought the 3 books on Audible to listen to when I'm on a long distance drive. I have read each book a couple of times as I have been told the second time helps take more in.

Mark Brodie

Good book, bad suspect

Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2018

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Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Mark's two previous books on the Zodiac killer, I was surprised and disappointed to discover who his prime suspect was. I won't spoil it here, for those who haven't bought the book yet, but the suspect is not a new one. Though the book itself is very well written, the evidence presented is extremely flimsy, consisting largely of comparisons of the words and phrases (mostly very common words) used in letters written by both the Zodiac and his suspect--hardly convincing or even suspicious. His argument that this suspect could have been in the Bay area for the murders although it has been well established that the suspect was in fact in a different part of the country at the time, is quite far-fetched and little more than speculation.
Bottom line: a weak suspect from an excellent writer.

Whitechapel

Recommended

Reviewed in Canada on November 12, 2018

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Very thoroughly researched. Plainly written and a fine conclusion to the trilogy.
Well recommended.

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