Oak Island/Escobars Millions/Hunt for the Zodiac

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When Baton Rouge businessman Gary L. Stewart began looking for his birth father, he thought his search might end with the two sharing a hug and having a cup of coffee together. He never imagined that his hobby would turn into an investigation that took him into the mind of one of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century.

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After meeting his birth mother in 2002, Stewart started keeping a journal mainly focused around the experience of learning about his new family in San Francisco. His birth mother was reluctant to disclose any memories of his father, but finally relented and gave Stewart and a family friend the information that led them to Earl Van Best Jr.

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The final part of the book is the payoff. Seasoned true crime writer and co-author Susan Mustafa correlates decades of evidence and that adds strength to the previous section’s conjecture resulting in a compelling work of true crime that makes a strong case for Best being responsible for the series of murders and horrifying threats that paralyzed San Francisco with fear in the late 1960s and early 1970s.


Stewart also recounts his attempts to share evidence and obtain information regarding the case with the San Francisco Police only to be stonewalled or ignored, which he asserts is the result of his birth mother’s second marriage to a high-ranking city police officer. While “The Most Dangerous Animal of All” does not provide enough evidence to officially close the book on the predator known as the Zodiac, well-respected publisher HarperCollins stands behind Stewart and Mustafa’s work. Even if the theories presented eventually prove to be untrue, it is a meticulously well-constructed work that is worth the read for true crime fans.

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