Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton’s office is in London’s Whitechapel, the place where notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper committed his heinous acts during the 19th century. But it is to the Bay ...

For years Shackleton had been considering the idea of making a documentary centered on the Zodiac Killer. The mysterious and legendary serial killer haunted the Bay Area in the late 1960s and has been ...

In 2012, an autobiographical novel by Lyndon Lafferty titled “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge” was published. Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British filmmaker, artist, and critic Charlie Shackleton gets the chance to work out feelings about the Zodiac killer documentary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Courtesy of Sundance Institute Watch enough true-crime documentaries and patterns begin to emerge—a situation that speaks to the ...

"Zodiac Killer Project" is a documentary about a documentary that never got to be made. Charlie Shackleton tried to buy the rights to a memoir that explored a theory about who might have murdered five ...

None of us talk about the inherent predatory nature of true crime documentaries. They pick over the bones of cold cases and unspeakable crimes, retraumatize survivors, dramatize crimes to the point of ...

"It feels like a puzzle right on the verge of being solved..." Music Box Films has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Zodiac Killer Project, which premiered at the 2025 ...

I’ve never been a huge fan of true crime. Before I understood what media literacy meant—before I understood that media broadly yields meaning, not all of it reasonable—my reluctance to dive into the ...

Exclusive: Shackleton recreates for audiences a documentary about the 1970s Bay Area serial killer he was ultimately not commissioned to make. British filmmaker, artist, and critic Charlie Shackleton ...

Director Charlie Shackleton thought he could have his cake and eat it too. For years Shackleton had been considering the idea of making a documentary centered on the Zodiac Killer. The mysterious and ...