Cringe moments in otherwise good episodes

[Gaith]

Apparently this thread is about the Zodiac Killer now.

 

[Set Harth]

Allen was a not very bright weirdo and a creep, and if he had been Z, I think there's a pretty good chance he would have slipped up at some point, and/or broken down and confessed to police.

Arguably he did slip up in various ways -- "those bloody knives in my car were from killing chickens!" isn't terribly convincing -- but I don't tend to see him as someone who would have confessed. The closest he ever came to that would be some weird interview comments like "I think there's a real Zodiac out there". Really? Because the rest of us know there's a real Zodiac out there, but you "think" there's a real Zodiac out there. Curious.

 

[Gaith]

Arguably he did slip up in various ways -- "those bloody knives in my car were from killing chickens!" isn't terribly convincing

And why did Allen admit to having those knives in his car in that day at all, months later, when it was unprovable? Again, he really didn't seem very bright, which isn't uncommon with serial killers, but Z the writer seemed pretty clearly sharper than that. He may well have toyed at times with the letting others suspect him of being Z, including the police in that very interview but that doesn't mean he was Z, and it's not a very bright thing to do.

The closest he ever came to that would be some weird interview comments like "I think there's a real Zodiac out there".

Yeah, Allen's weirdness is not in dispute. He was a sex offender, after all. But that doesn't necessarily make him Z.


And, of course, Doerr also arguably slipped up, implying in writing that he'd killed somebody, a detail which went unnoticed until just recently.

 

[Set Harth]

What kind of person would imply that the existence of the Zodiac is a matter of opinion?

 

[Akiraprise]

Guys, take the Zodiac conversation elsewhere please.