Wasn’t Hodel the killer?
Don’t know. His son tried to make that case after learning from his sister that their dad was a suspect and had a file.
But he also thinks his dad was the Zodiac killer
And THIS was a weird story about eh Zodiac killer that most people haven’t heard. There was a movie made about him while the crimes were still occurring to try to lure him to the theater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zodiac_Killer_(film)
In a 2012 interview and again in a 2017 interview, Hanson stated that the production of the film was motivated by an elaborate plot to catch the killer, who Hanson reasoned would not be able to resist attending the film’s premier.[1][2]
Release
The opening night screening took place at San Francisco’s RKO Golden Gate Theater on April 7, 1971. Audience members were asked to write their answers to “I think the Zodiac kills because ...” and drop their entries into a large box in order to enter a raffle to win a motorcycle donated by Kawasaki. The unsuspecting filmgoers didn’t know that there was a volunteer crouched inside the box comparing their handwriting with samples of the Zodiac’s, and that there were goons (including members of the film’s cast) waiting in the wings ready to apprehend and interrogate anyone whose penmanship raised a red flag. [3]
http://templeofschlock.blogspot.com/2012/12/zodiac-hunter-interview-with-tom-hanson.html
...TOS: Meanwhile, those yellow cards were still going into the box at a steady rate?
HANSON: Yeah, everything else worked the way it should. I mean, people went and saw the movie, and they dropped those cards in to win the free motorcycle. We would look at them, and there was all kinds of bullshit in there — “He kills because he’s been treated badly,” on and on. And then on the fifth or sixth night, I forget which night it was, one of those yellow cards came through the box – “I was here, the Zodiac.” That was all that was on there.
TOS: You didn’t see who dropped it into the box?
HANSON: No, we were screwed up because of [Ray Cantrell] almost dying in that goddamn freezer, so we didn’t get a physical identification of him. I think this was the second showing, and there weren’t that many people — I’m going to say 40 or 50, something like that. One of my guys was up by the projection booth and one of the other guys was in the theater, but we didn’t have a visual to go on...