This is the Zodiac Speaking docuseries will reveal new secrets on Netflix in October

Netflix Lifers, we're closer than ever to spooky season, and we can hardly contain our excitement! This October, Netflix will be releasing many new horror titles on its platform, such as The Platform 2, It's What's Inside, Time Cut and many others. Now, we've just learned that a new true crime docuseries called This is the Zodiac Speaking will be released just in time for Halloween as well. The exact release date is Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.

Based on the title of the docuseries, you probably already know what it'll be about. Yes, it's about the infamous yet still unidentified serial killer, the Zodiac Killer. From 1968 to 1969, the Zodiac Killer went on a killing spree throughout Northern California. While he has claimed to have killed 37 people, he's only been directly linked to five murders, with two victims surviving.

In Netflix's upcoming three-part docuseries, coming from Ample Entertainment and helmed and executive produced by Ari Mark and Phil Lott, viewers are promised to be given new information about the unsolved Zodiac Killer mystery. With new interviews and clues, This is the Zodiac Speaking places more evidence on Arthur Leigh Allen being the actual killer. Allen was a convicted sex offender and the only Zodiac suspect that police ever publicly named. He died in 1992.

The docuseries will feature interviews with some of Allen's former students and friends. In fact, we'll see some of his former students share archival and physical evidence that seemingly links Allen to the Zodiac murders. Lott and Mark also had input from Robert Graysmith, the author of the books on which the 2007 mystery thriller Zodiac is based, to help with the docuseries. They tell Variety that Graysmith really put the Zodiac Killer mystery "in perspective" for them.

Here's what Lott had to say about his and Mark's new Netflix docuseries via Variety:

"A lot of this material is brand new. It hasn’t been seen before because when [Allen] died, there was no more investigation from a law enforcement perspective. So there’s no one really to send it to. So we got to look at all those letters and read the crazy, very incriminating material."

Phil Lott

We're still waiting for the trailer to drop, which will most likely be released by the end of September. No worries! We'll make sure to come back and share it with you right away. But for now, you'll just have to stay tuned to Netflix Life.