"There's a primal wound that adoptees have," proclaims memoirist Gary Stewart at the start of the documentary The Most Dangerous Animal of All. "If you weren't loved enough to be kept, how can you expect someone else to love you?" This self-mythologization via self-pity is the approach that Stewart takes to presenting his near-fantastical claim: that he believes his father to be the Zodiac Killer.
The identity of the Zodiac Killer, who murdered five victims in the late 1960s and early 1970s while taunting the San Francisco police and populace through the media (as recounted in David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac), has long been a true-crime holy grail.
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