Migliori Libri su Zodiac il serial Killer

Robert Graysmith’s New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California’s unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers’ lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven dead. The real toll may have reached fifty. Robert Graysmith was on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer brought to justice. In this gripping account of Zodiac’s eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith reveals hundreds of facts previously unreleased, including the complete text of the killer’s letters.

«Sulla parete sono appesi ritagli di giornali, ritratti identificativi e una mappa stradale di Milano. Sono articoli di quotidiani americani, di San Francisco. Il commissario Maspero riconosce le testate. Nei titoli rimbalzano le parole killer e murderer e un nome inquietante: the Zodiac”. Milano, luglio 1971. Una giovane donna viene massacrata a coltellate nei bagni dell’Università Cattolica: sullo specchio l’assassino ha tracciato con il sangue una croce inscritta in un cerchio. È lo stesso simbolo inserito qualche giorno dopo in un crittogramma con cui viene rivendicato un duplice omicidio. Il commissario Vittorio Maspero si mette sulle tracce del feroce serial killer the Zodiac, così si presenta, che ha già firmato una lunga scia di delitti in California. Il poliziotto, catapultato in un’indagine oscura, alla ricerca di un nesso con altri misteriosi omicidi, è ancora una volta affiancato dall’inquisitore padre Jadran, inviato del Sant’Uffizio, dalla mente lucida e fredda. Due investigatori diversi, uniti nella caccia allo stesso mostro.

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 more than thirty years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac’s true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private life that led to the crimes, and provides startling theories as to why they stopped. America’s greatest unsolved mystery has finally been solved. INCLUDES PHOTOS AND A COMPLETE REPRODUCTION OF ZODIAC’S LETTERS