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Change his daughter to her daughter in the section regarding Kathleen Johns in the addition victims section. Suspect doesn’t have a daughter, Johns does who she was accompanied by at the time of incident 203.211.109.13 (talk) 12:49, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
YouTuber 'GroovyGavin' interviewed the Grandson of a potential suspect who presented evidence on the fact that their Grandfather may have been the Zodiac Killer. This is presented with timelines and I suspect more evidence will be brought out around this in the future.
It's not YouTube. Hoffman has been an unofficial suspect for over 4 decades and was mentioned in related books and websites.
Here are the main reasons:
- Hoffman made the same "funny spelling errors" as Zodiac killer. This is very strange and uncommon coincidence, mentioned many times including in the post below from zodiackillerfacts.
- Hoffman's first name is Richard. His name and description matches the survivor's description.
- He was in law enforcement and an officer in patrol in the same region in multiple killing nights. He said he didn't see anyone suspicious. He had an unmarked car and had a flashlight to investigate, similar to some survivor reports.
- Zodiac's first call was from a phone booth, two blocks away from Hoffman's station.
- Hoffman was very interested in the case. He injected himself into anything related. He was a consultant in Fincher's Zodiac film. He was also one of the main four interviewees in Zodiac documentary.
- There are more interesting notes on his personality and body language. Those cannot be considered as facts, but surely make him look like a sociopath. His daughter removed all ties with him due to domestic violence, too.
Hope you research on this person and add an entry to the suspects link. No need to tie this to the recent claims by a social media personality who claims to be his grandson. Urraco64 (talk) 18:28, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Done M.Bitton (talk) 13:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)