By Michael Schneider

General editor of the variety

Netflix has acquired the three-part docuseries “This is the Zodiac Speaking,” which promises to shed new light on the unsolved murder case of the Zodiac Killer. The series, which hails from Ample Entertainment and is directed by Ari Mark and Phil Lott, will feature new interviews and clues that provide further evidence that the only person ever named as a suspect — Arthur Leigh Allen — is likely the real perpetrator.

“There are only a handful of true IP murder cases that are not only quintessentially American, but truly define an era,” Mark said. The Zodiac case, he said, “also defines the true crime genre in many ways.”