An independent case archiveThursday, July 9, 2026
ZODIEX
We can't solve it. But we can file it.

The San Francisco Police Department investigated the Paul Lee Stine murder and the broader Zodiac Killer case. According to a 2009 report it had reviewed an estimated 2,500 suspects, of whom only about a half-dozen were considered credible. The SFPD marked the case inactive in April 2004 citing caseload, then reactivated it by 2007. Its crime lab developed a partial DNA profile from the Zodiac’s letters in 2002.