The recent nonsense about “Marvin and the Black Dahlia” is nothing new; false alarms spread by the news media is part of Zodiac history
(The above newspaper headline is dated April 29, 2009.)
My first experience with Zodiac False Alarms happened way back in May 2001, and I detailed the experience at an early version of this website:
These two screenshots aren’t easy to read on phones, but they tell the story of what continues to this day:
The formula hasn’t changed for 25 years or more — a titillating tease; the promise of impending big, official news; and then…nothing.
Remember several years ago when the Zodiac was supposedly proven to be a guy named Gary?
Hopefully it won’t take people another 25 years to learn that the Zodiac case won’t be solved on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, in a press release…or even in the National Enquirer. But I won’t hold my breath.
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