A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.
David Fincher's template for the film was Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men (1976).
Mike Mageau:
Where have you been? I've been waiting since 7:00.
In reference to the Paul Stine murder (October 1969), Graysmith says to Toschi that "Most serial killers are male." The English term and concept of "serial killer" is commonly attributed to former FBI Special agent Robert Ressler in the 1970s.
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