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[–]Equal-Temporary-1326 17 points18 points  (0 children)

An excellent movie, but it's not 100% historically accurate.

[–]VT_Squire 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Hell, I'm not even involved in the case and I had someone drop a mysterious package in my mailbox.

[–]_heyoka 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What was in it? And what about it made it mysterious?

[–]jolynnnelson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They probably got prank calls. When I was a kid that was common to prank call people

[–]GimmeDatHoe 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Who's to say? It's possible. It's possible he got crank called, that Allen didn't like being called out, that this and that.

No way to know, honestly. 

[–]jolynnnelson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right! The more he might have states on tv or radio he didnt like it the more it would have happen back then #67 (IYKYK)

[–]BlackLionYard 7 points8 points  (10 children)

Did Graysmith actually receive mysterious phone calls as was suggested in Fincher’s film

Given all the other shit Graysmith has simply made up, I won't waste time on this claim. I assume it's false, and realistically there is nothing Graysmith could ever do to convince me otherwise.

[–]thatguy94ontheredeye[S] 4 points5 points  (8 children)

Did anyone involved in the case claim to have received mysterious phone calls, though?

[–]BlackLionYard 3 points4 points  (4 children)

The calls to houses associated with Darlene early on 7/5/69 have been endlessly discussed. Some people take them as indications that Z knew Darlene, perhaps even targeting her. Others are satisfied with more innocent explanations. Personally, I think they were coincidental.

[–]Aromatic-Speed5090 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Yes, and it's hard for people today to understand how common wrong-number calls and crank calls were in the past. To read meaning into all such calls would be a mistake.

[–]-Kerosun- 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Heck, as a preteen/teen in the 90s, crank calls were still a thing (yes, me and my friends did it some). Nearly everyone got a yellow/white pages and could look up just about anyone and dial their number. Caller ID wasn't really that common, and there was that one code that would make you number hidden or whatever when you called.

[–]jolynnnelson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*67 was the code of I remember correctly

[–]thatguy94ontheredeye[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you

[–]JR-Dubs 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm not sure where I read it, but i think Darlene's brother was calling the house hoping to speak with her because he wanted to buy (or otherwise secure) weed from her, so he didn't say anything when she didn't pick up the phone. I think he has admitted he made the calls. But i don't have a source for that ...

[–]doc_daneekaI am not Paul Avery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure where I read it, but i think Darlene's brother was calling the house hoping to speak with her because he wanted to buy (or otherwise secure) weed from her,

I am about 90% sure that it was Tom Voigt he said this to.

[–]Rusty_B_Good 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No one but Graysmith actually knows, and he may not be the most reliable narrator.

If it makes a difference, my childhood house in my little hometown (before cell phones) used to occassionally get deep breathing phone calls. I never answered one, but my sister did. These were either perverts or pranks. If someone was deep-breathing Graysmith, it may have just been a random weirdo and not necessarily Zodiac.

[–]JR-Dubs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like everything else Graysmith wrote, it's to be taken with a grain of salt. If I thought the Zodiac was prank calling me, I would definitely make a police report (at least). Plus he was hot on Rick Marshall for a long time, why would Zodiac (who is almost certainly not Rick Marsall) try to intimidate a guy who is wrong about who Zodiac is?