Heidi Cruz wants you to know her husband isn't the Zodiac Killer

Heidi Cruz: my husband is no killer.
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Heidi Cruz is sticking up for her husband Ted, who, in a long-running joke, is often accused of being the Zodiac Killer. It's taken on a life beyond just internet memes: A February poll found 38 percent of Florida voters think it's possible the Republican presidential hopeful is responsible for the gruesome homicides.

"Well, I've been married to him for 15 years, and I know pretty well who he is, so it doesn't bother me at all," Cruz told Yahoo News on Monday. "There's a lot of garbage out there."

Whether you're married to Ted or not, you don't need to crack a cipher to figure out the Texas senator wasn't even born in time to have committed the earliest Zodiac crimes, which began in the late 1960s. Cruz, surely much to the chagrin of the conspiracy theorists, was born in 1970.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.