The unsolved crimes of the Zodiac Killer — including the murders, taunting Zodiac letters, and cryptograms sent to Northern California police and newspapers — have inspired a large body of entertainment media spanning music, television, video games, and literature, as well as documentary and true-crime works.
This page serves as an index to the cultural works the source documents. Major categories include:
- Music: songs and concept works by Macabre, Guns N’ Roses, Machine Head, The Zodiac Killers (punk band), Balzac’s side project Zodiac, SAM, Kamelot, Atmosphere, Church of Misery, Christian Death, and an indirect influence on the Grateful Dead’s “Dire Wolf.”
- Television: copycat-driven plots and fictionalized killers in shows such as Nash Bridges, Millennium, Psych, Heroes, Medium, Criminal Minds, American Horror Story, MacGyver, Riverdale, Lou Grant, and Robot Chicken, plus documentaries.
- Video games: titles including Manhunt 2, Cause of Death, Watch Dogs 2, The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, Serial Cleaner, This Is the Zodiac Speaking, and Mewgenics.
- Literature: nonfiction and fiction works including books by Robert Graysmith, Gary L. Stewart, and many others.
- Internet meme: the satirical claim linking U.S. Senator Ted Cruz to the case.
Where these works name real suspects or advance theories about the killer’s identity, the claims belong to the respective authors and creators, not to Zodiex.