the king of colma: tHE MAN WHO KILLED THE ZODIAC

Target Audience: Readers of I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule, and true crime enthusiasts drawn to high-stakes cold case revelations. 

Overview: The King of Colma exposes an explosive, long-buried chapter in the history of Northern California’s most notorious cold case: the Zodiac Killer. Set against the unique backdrop of Colma, California—the infamous "City of Souls" where the dead outnumber the living by a thousand to one—the narrative centers on Ray Ottoboni, who served for decades as the town's Mayor and Chief of Police. Following Ottoboni’s passing, an unearthing of his private journals, estate files, and personal investigative archives revealed a shocking secret: Ottoboni maintained a clandestine, decades-long pursuit of the killer that culminated in a lethal off-the-books confrontation in which he took down the Zodiac suspect himself. Written by Ottoboni’s son-in-law, The King of Colma weaves intimate family discovery with cold-case investigative reporting, detailing how a small-town police chief took matters into his own hands and buried the truth beneath the cemetery town he governed.