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Really misleading

Revisado: 11-07-22

There is barely any info here and nothing that you wouldn’t be able to read for free on a Wiki article. Everything involving the Toolbox Killers is covered in probably an hour so with the facts being re-stated several times. The book is padded with erroneous information and overviews about other murderers that are exhaustingly listed out one-by-one in encyclopedic fashion.

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Mostly unnecessary

Revisado: 05-13-20

Robert Graysmith's second book on the famous Zodiac Killer case is incredibly incoherent and stunted. While the author does a serviceable job of narrating his own work the material is hard to make sense of at times. The information about the case hasn't been arranged according to any timeline and there's barely an attempt at trying to weave it into a story. My biggest complaint is that most of this book is recycled from his first book. And again it is wrought with factual inaccuracies about the case and baseless accusations presented as fact. Graysmith doubles down on Arthur Leigh Allen as the prime suspect by giving us heaps of circumstantial evidence, a great deal of which is hearsay, completely untrue, distorted or of little to no significance to the case. While his first book was flawed it did at least serve as a decent introduction for someone new to this case so long as they would be able to discard some of Graysmith's irrational theories and ridiculous "solution" to a Zodiac cipher. The first book also had a much better narrator (Stefan Rudnicki), I was disappointed to see that he was not featured here. But then again this material is so dense and esoteric it would make sense that the author himself might be the only one to give it a proper recitation.

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