If you've spent much time on the Internet during this insane election season, you've probably seen somebody make a shocking claim about a certain senator from Texas. It turns out that many online believe that Ted Cruz might actually be the infamous Zodiac Killer that terrorized Northern California in the late '60s and early '70s. On one hand, this seems unlikely as Ted Cruz was born in 1970 and the first Zodiac murder was in 1968. But on the other hand, nobody knows who the Zodiac is. So...

Let's take this from the beginning. The meme began back in 2013, with a Twitter joke from @RedPillAmerica.

But it really took on a life of its own during Cruz's run for the presidency.

So why do people like to say that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac. I think there are a few key reasons.

1. He's a bigoted zealot, who by all reports is one of the most repulsive, awful human beings you could ever meet. I mean, even his fellow Senate Republicans feel that way. Lindsay Graham joked last month that "if you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you." You know what kind of person ordinary people are most okay with killing? Murderers.