Zodiac Killer in Popular Culture - Television

Television

  • The Zodiac case forms the basis for "The Mikado," a second season installment of the television series Millennium. The episode, featuring a fictionalized version of the Zodiac Killer known as Avatar, was written by Michael R. Perry and first aired on February 6, 1998.
  • The Zodiac killer is mentioned numerous times in Criminal Minds - a television program which follows a team of profilers at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. On January 18, 2012, an episode set in the Bay Area with a Zodiac Killer copycat aired.
  • The Nash Bridges season 2 episode "Zodiac" has the protagonists following a copycat using the same methodologies as the original killer.
  • The show Psych has a recurring serial killer/killers 'Yin/Yang' whose crimes bear similarity to Zodiac
  • The show Medium had a killer in a Season 6 episode named "The Libra Slayer", a serial killer with a proclivity for symbols whose case was decades old, much like the Zodiac Killer.

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