84. Profiling the Zodiac Killer – Listener Questions
The Consult: Real FBI Profilers
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Writer and researcher Michael Butterfield joins retired FBI profiler Julia Cowley to answer listener questions about the Zodiac Killer case.
Michael is the host of the podcast Zodiac: A to Z and the author of the new book The Zodiac Killer: The Story of America's Most Elusive Murderer.
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| 1:06.6 | Music Welcome to the consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler, and today I'm joined once again by someone who knows more about |
| 1:31.7 | the Zodiac Killer Case than just about anyone. Welcome back, Michael Butterfield. Hi there. |
| 1:37.3 | Hi. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm doing great. I'm glad to have you back. |
| 1:42.6 | For those of you, if you haven't listened to our four-part series, Michael joined us for that and helped us go through the Zodiac Killer Case. And we discussed in part four, our analysis, our profile of the Zodiac and what we thought his personality traits and characteristics were, his motives, |
| 2:03.1 | etc. So if you haven't listened to those, go back. But this is going to be a special episode |
| 2:07.6 | because of all the questions from the listeners. So Michael has agreed to come back and help |
| 2:12.8 | answer some of these questions. The great questions, too, some from psychologists and people like that. |
| 2:19.7 | So they're really good questions. But before we get started, I just want to kind of go over |
| 2:24.4 | on Michael's background. He's a longtime researcher and a recognized expert on the Zodiac case, |
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