Robert Graysmith

Robert Graysmith (born September 17, 1942 in Pensacola , Florida ) is a non-fiction author from the USA . He writes about serial killers like the Zodiac killer .

He was born under the name Robert Gray Smith. After divorcing his first wife Margaret Ann, he changed his name to Graysmith in 1976. He met his second wife Melanie while working at the San Francisco Chronicle , where she worked as an artist. They have a daughter together. The two separated in 1980 and finally divorced in 1983.

Graysmith's first encounter with the Zodiac murders was while he was a cartoonist for the SF Chronicle. Graysmith is considered to be one of the leading specialists in this series of murders. When a copycat attacker became active in New York in 1990, the New York Post contacted him.

He has authored several books, two of which, The Murder of Bob Crane and Zodiac , were made into films. In the movie Zodiac , Robert Graysmith is played by Jake Gyllenhaal .

In 2010 his book The Girl In Alfred Hitchcock's Shower was published about Marli Renfro and Myra Davis, the two doubles of Janet Leigh in the famous shower murder scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho .

Works

• Zodiac . St Martins Press, New York 1986, ISBN 0-312-89895-9
  • German edition: Zodiac - On the trail of a serial killer . Translated by Norbert Jakober. Heyne, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-50035-8
• The Sleeping Lady. The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate . Dutton, New York 1990, ISBN 0-525-24779-3
• The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes? Crown Publishers, New York 1993, ISBN 0-517-59209-6 (later republished as Auto Focus: The Murder of Bob Crane )
• Unabomber. A desire to kill . Regnery, Washington 1997, ISBN 0-89526-397-1
• The Bell Tower. The Mystery of Jack the Ripper finally solved ... in San Francisco . Regnery, Washington 1999, ISBN 0-89526-324-6 (working title: Ghostfleet )
• Zodiac Unmasked. The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed . Berkley Books, New York 2002, ISBN 0-425-18332-7
• Amerithrax. The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer . Berkley Books, New York 2003, ISBN 0-425-19190-7
• The Laughing Gorilla. A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder . Berkley Books, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-425-23014-5
• The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower . Berkley Books, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-425-23231-6

Film adaptations

• 2002: Auto Focus - Director: Paul Schrader
• 2007: Zodiac - Directed by David Fincher

Web links

• Robert Graysmith in the Internet Movie Database (English)