Interview - Robert Graysmith (’Zodiac’)
Mystery of history
Zodiac author Robert Graysmith speaks
By Robert Newton
It was 1968, in San Francisco. Robert Graysmith was a cartoonist.
“I was 24 then,” Graysmith explains, “and one of the youngest cartoonists working for a metropolitan newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. I figured that a lot of the modern greats learned on newspapers and moved on from cartoons to creating fine art, so I would, too. Then, the strange letters started.”
These strange letters, written in a variety of different codes, were sent to the Chronicle and two other area newspapers, and were intended for publication. They were from a man who claimed to be responsible for three murders that year, a man would later identify himself as, simply, “Zodiac.”
Robert Graysmith was then a detective.
Graysmith’s penchant for solving puzzles, his convenient proximity to Chronicle reporter Paul Avery and his obsessive nature put him in the center of the Zodiac storm. […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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