Warning: This article contains mentions of murder and sexual violence.

Netflix's This Is The Zodiac Speaking revisits the enigmatic serial murderer who was prolific in the late 1960s, adopting the self-styled moniker of "the Zodiac." 65 years after the gruesome killings, the perpetrator remains unidentified, making the Zodiac case, as suggested by The Guardian, one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in the history of American crime. The fact that the killer taunted the police, the media, and the public with a series of letters and cryptic ciphers, challenging the authorities to identify him, only added to his image.

To this day, no one knows the full extent of the Zodiac's crimes in his letters, he claimed 37 murders, but only seven have been confirmed (via San Francisco Chronicle). However, the failure to catch the Zodiac was less mystery than dumb luck, institutional incompetence, a plethora of unlikely suspects, and a...