FOR THE LAST two years Toschi had been chief of security for the posh Pan-PacificHotel at 500 Post Street. As director of twenty-four-hour security he conducted discreet surveillance of the VIP’s floor and coordinated with their security people–grueling work. “Many times computer companies asked me to meet with their own corporate security manager. . .do a walk-around of the hotel and the rooms where equipment is going to be,” Toschi said. “Times people would call me and I would be so tense and exhausted–missing luggage and missing items from rooms.” And yet, around each bend in the hotel’s labyrinth of corridors, Toschi’s nemesis still lurked. A stone’s throw away Zodiac had flagged down Stine’s cab that long-ago Columbus Day. Toschi recalled the legions of Zodiac suspects. Had there ever been a greater mystery? The legend grew. A new generation became obsessed.
As if he had never vanished, Zodiac turned up later as fodder for television dramas. One day location directors for the Nash Bridges television program arrived unexpectedly from Hollywood and checked into the Pan-Pacific. As Toschi inspected their five rooms, one asked him, “Are you familiar with the Zodiac killer story? That’s our next project.” He laughed, knowing how many years he had spent hunting Zodiac. “What was it like to be on the hunt for a serial killer?” they asked, and so he told them. When Toschi saw the completed show, he said, “At least they didn’t make me a nut. I even got o save the life of Nash Bridges [Don Johnson] through the character of his former mentor. The plot is that Bridges hears his mentor in homicide, Dale Cutter, a retired inspector, is having family problems. After many years, he goes hunting for Zodiac again. The drama ends with the real Zodiac still alive and making a call to Bridges.”
Unsolved Mysteries would profile Zodiac, and the Fox Net-
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