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The Consult: Real FBI Profilers

82. Profiling the Zodiac Killer – Part 3

The Consult: Real FBI Profilers

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Talk Radio, True Crime

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Writer, researcher, and podcaster Michael Butterfield returns for Part 3 of our discussion on the Zodiac case. In this episode, we discuss the murder of Paul Stine, a cab driver who was shot and killed by the Zodiac on October 11, 1969, in San Francisco.

Michael is the host of the podcast Zodiac: A to Z and the author of the upcoming book The Zodiac Killer: The Story of America’s Most Elusive Murderer, scheduled for release on May 6, 2025.

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0:58.3

Sometimes the cases we discuss involve children.

1:02.1

Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler.

1:29.3

Joining me again are my colleagues, Susan Costler Drew and Bob Drew, who are also retired FBI profilers,

1:37.3

and we work together in the FBI's behavioral analysis unit.

1:41.3

And I also want to mention that both Susan and Bob have extensive experience working

1:47.5

cold case homicide. So they bring a lot of knowledge to these types of cases. Today we're continuing

1:54.7

our discussion with Michael Butterfield, one of the leading experts on the Zodiac Killer. Michael is a writer and researcher

2:02.9

who has been investigating the case for over 30 years. He hosts the podcast Zodiac A to Z and his

2:11.0

upcoming book, The Zodiac Killer, The Story of America's Most Illusive Murder murderer, will be released on May 6th.

2:20.3

If you haven't listened to parts one and two, I recommend going back and checking those out

2:24.9

first.

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