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clint van zandt was with the fbi at the time of the attacks. >> zodiac played the extreme chess xwam.ayed mental gymnastics against the public, the media. he challenged everybody out there, catch me if you can. >> reporter: along the way, police became suspicious of man against arthur lee allen. >> it didn't seem to match his voice, his cadence. >> reporter: now more than 40 years later, the original zodiac investigators are either long retired or dead as the trail grows colder. >> it was one of those things that both my late partner and i thought about for the rest of our lives that we couldn't make it. simple as that. i still think about that. we couldn't make it. >> reporter: the zodiac killer may have moved on, but so, too, as one of his few surviving victims. >> i have not been in fear of my life that he's going to walk in the door and finish the job. i just haven't. maybe that's a defense mechanism, but it works. >>> still to come here on "today" a look back at one of your other favorite stories from 2011. lester, jenna and amy venture into the wild. their taxes are done right,

nbc news analyst clint van zandt is a former fbi profiler. good morning. ayla's dad said he put her down at 8:00 p.m., went back to check on her 12 hours later and she was gone. what is the first thing that jumps out at you? >> well, 12 hours. i am a parent and grandparent and i can't ever recall a time when i put one of my children or grandchildren down and either didn't go back and check on them, realize there was supposedly a second baby sleeping in the same bedroom, and there was the victim's biological father, his mother, and some people who were nonrelated so there were a number of people within this house. someone, surely, would have had some reason to go in that bedroom. so i think law enforcement has to figure out the reason why nobody had any contact with that little girl for 12 hours. >> speaking of law enforcement, you've been involved in cases like this. >> yes. >> what are the police and fbi doing right now behind the scenes? >> one thing they have to do, carl, is create a timeline. they have to take a look at like 24 hours before until the b

nbc news analyst clint van zandt is a former fbi profiler. good morning. ayla's dad said he put her down at 8:00 p.m., went back to check on her 12 hours later and she was gone. what is the first thing that jumps out at you? >> well, 12 hours. i am a parent and grandparent and i can't ever recall a time when i put one of my children or grandchildren down and either didn't go back and check on them, realize there was supposedly a second baby sleeping in the same bedroom, and t was the victim's biological father, his mother, and some people who were nonrelated so there were a number of people within this house. someone, surely, would have had some reason to go in that bedroom. so i think law enforcement has to figure out the reason why nobody had any contact with that little girl for 12 hours. >> speaking of law enforcement, you've been involved in cases like this. >> yes. >> what are the police and fbi doing right now behind the scenes? >> one thing they have to do, carl, is create a timeline. they have to take a look at like 24 hours before until the baby