This article contains spoilers from the Netflix docuseriesThis Is Zodiac Speaking.
How to put this politely?
Many streaming documentaries of late have demonstrated …low effort.
Netflixs latest investigative offering,This Is the Zodiac Speaking, is thankfully neither.
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Who Was The Zodiac Killer?
So lets recap what we actually know about Zodiac.
Mageau survived his wounds, Ferrin did not.
The Zodiac had the couple tie each other up with plastic clotheslines before stabbing them multiple times.
Hartnell survived the stabbings but Shepard did not.
Why Is Arthur Leigh Allen The Most Likely Suspect?
Naturally, many Zodiac Killer suspects have been identified and investigated over the years.
One, however, continues to stand out as the most prominent and likely candidate.
But police never had enough hard evidence to charge him.
Allen died of a heart attack in 1992
What Are The Seawater Familys Claims?
And thats whereThis Is the Zodiac Speakingcomes in.
This Is the Zodiac Speakingcontains many small details from the Seawaters adolescence that point to Allens Zodiac culpability.
Connie even recalls working on sewing together a black hood for him.
More important that those small details, however, is the timeline that the Seawaters present.
Still, the docuseries does also offer up some interesting bits of corroborating evidence to the Seawaters accounts.
The most notable new piece of evidence comes from one of the Zodiacs many coded letters.
To this day, its unclear if this is an authentic Zodiac correspondence or a copycat.
A new detail does fromThis Is the Zodiac Speakingdoes lend some credence to its veracity, however.
The computer purportedly decrypted the victims name as Connie Henly, to which they could find no significance.
Both Connie Seawater and Tammie Lee Prueter report, however, that the Phyllis Seawaters maiden name was Hensley.
Arthur Leigh Allen was one of the few people who would know that.
Finally, the Seawaters also claim to be in possession of one of Allens knives.
The docuseries reports sending it to law enforcement for forensic testing but has not yet heard back yet.
Does The Netflix Docuseries Corroborate David Finchers Zodiac?
Most fascinatingly, we likely would have never heard the Seawaters stories at all if it werent forZodiac.
All three episodes of This Is Zodiac Speaking are available to stream on Netflix now.
