"This Is the Zodiac Speaking" Into the Mind of a Serial Killer

Subjects:

• Crime & Justice » True Crime
• Psychology » Abnormal Psychology

Reviews:

• Anyone who is interested in true crime or American history needs to read this book. It is a tremendous and well carried out effort by the authors and also has the power to transport the reader back in time to a place in history where peace and tranquility were shaken to the core by a man in a mask who has yet to meet his date with Lady Justice. This book reminds us all about the frailty of human life and our beliefs about safety and secruity and about how simply these can be taken away from us by a stranger.
  —Criminal Justice Review Autumn 2004

• Endorsement From Alan W. Benner, Ph.D
  San Francisco Police Department
  35 years service, retired as SFPD's Chief Psychologist: Michael Kelleher and David Van Nuys have combined journalistic and psychological skills to resurrect the Zodiac Case and give it new life. I was among the uniformed officers searching for Zodiac 30 years ago. Back then, we were never provided the kind of specific facts and theories so well compiled by Kelleher and Van Nuys, nor did we have these psychological profiling capabilities available to us. This excellent rendering of Zodiac's evil psyche could have made a difference. As it is, this deft analysis raises the possibility that the Zodiac may still be among us. We may get him yet!
• Endorsement From Doug Davis
  Haverford College: Unless the Zodiac killer is finally apprehended or decides to resume his public personna, this is probably as close as we will get to a sense of what moved an individual both to such extremes of private violence and to such demands for public acknowledgment. Thanks to Kelleher and Van Nuys, a new generation is invited to puzzle over what drives an individual like the Zodiac.
• Endorsement From Stanley Krippner
  Saybrook Graduate School: A thrilling detective story, one that many of its readers will not be able to put down. Kelleher and Van Nuys have done their homework in spades; the result is a book that explores those dark and dangerous dimensions of the human psyche that many people tend to ignore. The authors make a compelling case that the Zodiac was suffering from a dissociative identity disorder, in other words that 'multiple personalities' were involved in his crimes.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• In the Beginning
• Heyday of Murder
• Murder, Fear, and Uncertainty
• Taunting
• Slipping Away
• Killing In Silence?
• The Return
• Legends, Myths, and Facts
• Portrait of a Killer
• What Will We Ever Know?
• Appendixes
• Bibliography
• Index