The Most Dangerous Animal of All

I watched this doc thinking it was about unmasking the Zodiac killer. It is not. It is about an abandoned boy's longing to find his missing father which turns to obsession. The first three episodes are gripping if you think you are about to see the Zodiac unveiled, then the bubble is burst in the fourth episode when you discover you have been led down a path on which the author and the perpetrator of the lie himself have been lost using the same erroneous conclusions based on misleading misinformation.

A big disappointment for any viewer, unless you watch to see a sad man waste his life fooling himself with his own lies. In the end I felt for him, but more felt disgust that the filmmakers would profit from this broken man's story and would waste our time on it.

What starts as a cautionary tale as to how it is dangerous to start an investigation after already drawing your own conclusion devolves into the nonsensical ravings of someone desperate for fame. He is clearly NOT an impartial investigator but rather someone desperate to prove his own theory and sell books. Case in point with his "proof" that he pulled from the cypher. He attacks anyone with differences of opinion or actual facts that disprove his claims rather than respond with evidence of his own. He claims a police investigator would actually coverup the identity of a famous serial killer rather than bring the information to light and become the most famous cop in america. The lunatic even bought glasses to make himself look like the composite sketch of the zodiac. He is clearly sick and perhaps that's why women keep divorcing him and because of his fear of abandonment. The only person who "believes" him is the AUTHOR WHO JUST WANTS TO SELL BOOKS.

The number of reviewers who missed the POINT of this documentary is painful to behold. This documentary is not about solving the Zodiac case. A lot of these reviewers also seem to be reviewing the people in the documentary rather than the documentary itself. The documentary is telling a story ABOUT these people, it's not a platform for their beliefs.

You'll learn a lot by watching this, just drop your preconceived notions about what it is. No one's duping you here, you're duping yourselves by dgoingin assuming this is something it isn't.. This documentary makes an incredibly important point, one that is as profound right here and now in the US than it has ever been.

I bet these same people would say "Dear Zachary" duped them.and they want their money back.

Just the name of the fourth episode made me feel like "eh" I felt duped. Hard to believe and the "son" and PI seemed to get caught up on their own would be fame.

This was sad - on a deep level. Gary (the main character) was so mentally and emotionally unstable, that by the 2nd episode, I was done watching it. Seeing this obsessive man justify his his issues by calling it "I have to find my father"...so much so that he literally ruins every single relationship in real life in order to feed a delusion all to try to make the Zodiac killer "fit" his narrative and allow him to be SOMEBODY (after what obviously is debilitating low self esteem). His poor wife HAS to be a victim of emotional and verbal abuse...smh. No adult that broken or obsessive has ANY healthy relationships - I'm sorry.