Introducing: Season 4 of Crimes of the Times

About this episode

This episode introduces the new season of 'Crimes of the Times,' focusing on the Zodiac killer and the Black Dahlia case.

Here is a sneak peak at the new season of another Los Angeles Times Studios podcast called "Crimes of the Times." In the show, L.A. Times staff writer Christopher Goffard revisits old crimes in Los Angeles and beyond, from the famous to the forgotten, the consequential to the obscure, diving into archives and the memories of those who were there. This new season kicks off with a four part series about how an amateur codebreaker may have cracked the Zodiac killer's infamously complex Z13 code, and how the name it reveals potentially connects the Zodiac killer to another notoriously unsolved California murder: The Black Dahlia.

Topics covered

• true crime
• Zodiac killer
• Black Dahlia
• Los Angeles crimes
• codebreaking

Keywords

• Los Angeles Times
• old crimes
• archives
• murder

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Z13

Books & works: Crimes of the Times, The Black Dahlia

Places: Los Angeles, California

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