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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.

T.R.O.Y. Isaac Hayes:

Isaac Hayes, idol of Life In The DPC, has passed away at the age of 65. Hayes was largely known for his role as “Chef” in the Comedy Central cartoon  South Park.
DPC.com will always remember Hayes as an Oscar award winning musician, for the Shaft soundtrack, and for his movie roles in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and his starring role as Truck Turner.

We’re gonna miss you, Isaac.

Madden NFL 2009 will be released on August 12th, 2009 with former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre on the cover. At the time of release Favre was retired and became the first non active cover boy in the history of the vidoe game franchise. Until recent developments it would also seem that Favre was going to be the first player to avoid the Madden Curse.

Prior to 1999, every annual installment of the Madden NFL series primarily featured John MaddenElectronic Arts selected Garrison Hearst to appear on the cover, and has since featured one of the league’s top players on every annual installment.^[5] Since then, certain players have experienced a decline in performance, usually due to an injury. For example, quarterback Michael Vick appeared on the cover of on its cover. In 1999, Madden 2004, and suffered a leg injury that sidelined him for most of the 2004 season.^[5] In a similar example, running back Shaun Alexander, then the league’s reigning Most Valuable Player , was featured on the cover of Madden NFL 2007, and sustained a foot injury that caused him to miss six starts.^[6] As a result, Alexander’s rushing statistics were substantially less than those from the previous season.^[6] - Wilikpedia.org

Of course Favre is likely to come out of retirement and any NFL franchise should be reticent to trade for the future Hall of Famer due to his inclusion on the cover of the latest version of Madden. I am not saying he will get injured, his 253 consecutive starts point to the contrary, but he could under perform like many of his Madden cover boys predecessors.

Madden cover curses aside history is not on the side of Favre. There is also a nasty precedent of aging quarterbacks hanging on too long and playing for different teams at the end of their careers( i.e. Joe Namath, Johnny Unitas and Joe Montana). Of course Montana played fairly well for Kansas City but he was never the same quarterback and this is the likely scenario for Favre.