{"product_id":"2940169809923","title":"Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Nation's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead on a lover¿s lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill again. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven. The real toll may have reached fifty. He was never caught.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e¿After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there is only one name their equal in terror: the deadly, elusive, and mysterious Zodiac. Since 1968 the hooded mass murderer has terrified the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area with a string of brutal killings. Zodiac, in taunting letters sent to the newspapers, has hidden clues to his identity by using cunning ciphers that have defied the greatest code-breaking minds of the CIA, the FBI, and NSA.¿¿from the book\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Graysmith was on staff at the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e in 1969 when Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer brought to justice. In this gripping account of Zodiac¿s eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith reveals hundreds of facts previously unreleased, including the complete text of the killer¿s letters¿and his own theory of the \u003cspan\u003eZodiac¿s true identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161847316720,"sku":"2940169809923","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169809923_p0.jpg?v=1769901018","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169809923","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}