Life In The DPC!

Robert Graysmith’s obsession with the Zodiac killer may have been naught as recent development may show that a different man could be the serial killer that terrorized northern California in the 1970’s. Graysmith theorized that the Zodiac was former Santa Rosa, CA resident Arthur Leigh Allen and depite his nearly obsessive research into finding the killer Allen was never formerly charged.

A Pollock Pines man recently announced that his step father, Jack Tarrance, was the Zodiac and he has turned evidence to the FBI for further analysis.  Torrance passed away in 2006 and his son, Dennis Kaufman, has spent the last eight years trying to prove that he is the Zodiac.

If this is true, if Tarrance is the Zodiac then a lifetime of Graysmith’s work and the subsequent movie by David FIncher are all irrelevant. More importantly Arthur Leigh Allen life was sullied and his legacy destroyed because of Graysmith’s obsession. A part of me wonders why Kaufman would try to convict his step father even though the man had been dead for years. I realize justice needs to be served but one can assume that a man would protect his own and accordingly Kaufman would suppress any evidence he found lying around the house. Maybe though, Kaufman was trying to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the last fifty-years and to offer closure to the victims.