Zodiac Killer's identity revealed, but he's already dead - report

• Published date: 07 October 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

However, he has already been dead for three years.

Gary Francis Poste was known to have murdered five people in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s. In the end, the authorities had never caught him.

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The team said that Poste had been painting homes throughout his career.

Investigators believed that Poste was responsible for hundreds of murders miles away but had never been linked to him.

The incidences inspired the 2007 film Zodiac, which tells the story of the manhunt for the killer, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr.

What makes Poste different from other criminals is that...