02516cam a2200385 i 4500 361483670 TxAuBib 20150128120000.0 130912s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014469596 9780062313164 0062313169 (OCoLC)857966964 TxAuBib rda Stewart, Gary L. The most dangerous animal of all : searching for my father ... and finding the Zodiac Killer / Gary L. Stewart with Susan Mustafa. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, [2014] x, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354) and index. Prologue -- The ice cream romance -- Signs of the Zodiac -- The truth deciphered. "An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. It was a quest that would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan D. Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long search for his father following a complex trail of startling twists and connections. Combing through government records and news reports and through conversations with his father's relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues, including forensic evidence, identifying his father as one of the most infamous and still-wanted serial killers in American history"--Publisher description. 20150128. Stewart, Gary L. Best, Earl Van Jr. Adoptees United States Biography. Birthfathers United States Biography. Birthfathers United States Identification Case studies. Serial murderers California Biography. Birthparents Identification Case studies. Mustafa, Susan D.