The Zodiac Murders Two Theories August 10, 2010 by Edward Jay Epstein

Theories that have been advanced  in this case include: 1. Arthur Leigh Allen.  Allen was the prime suspect of the police in 1969 on the basis of an eye witness.   Survivor Michael Mageau identified Allen as the man who shot him from a picture on his 1968 driver's license.   However, since his fingerprints  did not match those taken from Stine's taxi cab , no charges were ever filed against him.  In 2002, his DNA was tested but did not match the DNA found on the envelopes of the letters, 2. The Invention Theory.  According to this theory, the Zodiac was a construct. A policeman with access to the unpublished details of the first two attacks, wrote the letters to the newspapers inventing "the Zodiac."  He may simply have wanted to link these two cases.   The publicity then provoked a copycat killer to wear a Zodiac costume and attack the couple at the lake, and also the taxi-driver. This would why the evidence from the different crime scenes did not match a single suspect.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   if you have any comments please reply below: your email: