There’s a new book coming out today that is sure to quickly move up the New York Times Bestsellers list, titled, “The Most Dangerous Animal Of All.”
The book that was kept very hush, hush by Harper Collins makes a claim from Gary Stewart, a vice president at a Louisiana construction company, that his father was the infamous Zodiac Killer who murdered five people in the Bay Area of California but was never caught. Here’s the book’s official plot summary:
An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial killers in America.
Ooooh creepy.
According to a report in New York Magazine, Stewart approached the publisher with his claim, they bit, and he soon began co-writing the book with true-crime writer Susan Mustafa. Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time somebody has claimed to be the child of the Zodiac Killer. It is however, the first time those claims have been proven “legally sound” according to a Harper-Collins publicist response to New York Magazine.
She didn’t share many details of the book, but told me that Stewart’s father had a criminal record in San Francisco (“forgeries, bad checks”), and there was a strong resemblance between his father’s mug shot and the police sketch.
Apparently, the police sketch was a good one. Said Andreadis: “If you look at Gary’s photo next to the sketch of the Zodiac next to his father’s mug shot, you can see that there is very clearly more than just a passing resemblance. They look alike.”
The book is currently available in hardcover.