This is the Zodiac Speaking is an upcoming American mystery thriller series. It is directed by Ari Mark and Phil Lott. This series is going to get released on 23rd October on Netflix. It stars Robert Graysmith, Tom Voigt and Rita Williams.
The storyline of the movie revolves around a family that is searching for answers about the prime suspect in the violent and shocking ‘zodiac’ murders. The mysterious plot of the series has raised the excitement level and viewers want to know whether the movie is based on a real-life story or if it is based on a novel or a book.
Is 'This is the zodiac speaking' based on a true story?
The answer to this question is yes. This is the Zodiac Speaking is a docuseries based on real-life incidents. The synopsis of the series reads, “In this true-crime docuseries, a family searching for answers shares clues and eye-opening testimonies about the prime suspect in the Zodiac murders.”
The Zodiac Killer is a name given to the unidentified serial who committed crimes in Northern California during late 1960s. This zodiac killer had murdered five people in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969. He targeted three young couples and a male cab driver. This case of the Zodiac Killer has been described as “the most famous unsolved murder case in American history.”
The zodiac killer assaulted 7 people. Out of them, 5 died and 2 survived. The victims included David Arthur Faraday, Betty Lou Jensen, Michael Renault Mageau, Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, Bryan Calvin Hartnell and Cecelia Ann Shepard and Paul Lee Stine. However, Hartnell and Mageau survived the attack.
This zodiac killer used to send a series of messages to newspapers and threatened them that he would commit more murders if his messages were not printed by the newspapers. His letters consisted of a series of cryptograms. His letters always started with “This is the Zodiac speaking” and signed with a weird symbol of a circle and a plus sign on it. In the letter he explained that he was killing these individuals in order to collect them as his personal slaves in the afterlife.
Arthur Leigh Allen, is the only man ever named by the police as a suspect. He was a former elementary school teacher and convicted sex offender. In 1992, he died of a heart attack.