THE FOOTPRINTS AT BERRYESSA
At 4.20 pm on September 28th 1969 'Dean' from Pacific Union College contacted the Napa County Sheriff's Office and informed police that three young women from the college had been sunbathing by Lake...
View ArticleTHE TAPESTRY OF MURDER
There is no definitive evidence to totally negate the idea that the 340 cipher contains a viable solution- with the mystery and allure of the Zodiac Killer code the driving force behind people wishing...
View ArticleIT'S ALL IN THE WORDS
Looking east on Springs Road The best evidence we have in the Zodiac case, are not the murders themselves, but the copious letters and cards the killer mailed over many years. They may not have told us...
View ArticleTHE MODUS OPERANDI OF THE ZODIAC KILLER
The most important editorial decision made in the Zodiac Killer case was the publication of an article in the Sunday San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle newspaper on August 3rd 1969, labeling the...
View ArticleNO BROWN CAR AT THE PAYPHONE
Officer Richard Hoffman arrived at the Blue Rock Springs parking lot at approximately 12.13 am on July 5th 1969. Shortly thereafter, an ambulance was summoned (arriving at around 12.20 am), and...
View ArticleEXPOSED-THE ZODIAC REVEALED BY DR MARK HEWITT
On September 27th 2018, the third instalment of Dr. Mark Hewitt's trilogy of Zodiac books will be available. 'EXPOSED: The Zodiac Revealed, the final instalment of the Zodiac Serial Killer series,...
View ArticleTHE IMPRINT OF A KILLER
The sighting of a 'suspicious' male roaming the hillside of Lake Berryessa was reported by Dr Rayfield & Son and the three young women at different times during the Saturday of September 27th 1969....
View ArticleTHE SHRINKING LIGHT
On December 20th 1968 the Zodiac Killer, supposedly acting alone, pulled into Gate #10 just off Lake Herman Road and parked his vehicle alongside the Rambler of David Faraday. The headlights of each...
View ArticleTHE IMPASSE ON LAKE HERMAN ROAD
The long held narrative of Lake Herman Road is of a couple, David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen, pulling into the Gate #10 turnout and parking on the east side facing the field. They remained parked...
View ArticleTHE PAYPHONE CALL AT MAIN STREET
The following is a little background information for people just starting to learn about the Zodiac case.Approximately seventy minutes after the attack on Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard at Lake...
View ArticleTHE FOUR DOTS OF DEATH
On December 30th 2013 Tahoe27 gave us the 'Wheel of Death' from the Tim Holt comic book. It contained a Rota Fortunae style game in which 'Redmask' would discover his fate based upon twelve methods of...
View ArticleTHE HALLOWEEN CARD MIRROR
It seemed rather fortunate that the 'Halloween' card mailed on October 27th 1970, if designed totally independently to the 340 cipher, that Paradice and Slaves could be found perfectly bisecting the...
View ArticleTHE BULLET IN THE STINE LETTER?
Just over a year ago we ran an article outlining the missing evidence at Lake Herman Road. Not only did a shell casing go missing from the crime scene to the submitted items at the Department of...
View ArticleTHE 32 SYMBOL CODE- HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
The Zodiac Killer gave us a map code on June 26th 1970, stating the "map coupled with this code will tell you where the bomb is set." To this day no bomb has been unearthed and the threat was likely...
View ArticleIN THE ZODIAC CROSSHAIRS
It is important when we examine the writings of the Zodiac Killer to view them in context to the news breaking during the time in which he put pen to paper. The 1970s were a turbulent period in San...
View ArticleAFTER THE FLOOD
"There are approximately 230 miles of levees protecting over 50,000 acres of marsh land in the Suisun Marsh. Only about a third of the Delta levees (385 miles) are part of a federal flood management...
View ArticleZODIAC KILLER ROUNDTABLE
Zodiac researchers Michael Morford, David Oranchak and Michael Butterfield sat down with House of Mystery Radio - KKNW Seattle to produce a four part roundtable discussion about the 'unholy trail' of...
View ArticleA BETRAYAL OF TRUST
When Stephanie Guttman turned down the opportunity to accompany Cheri Jo Bates to the Riverside City College library on the afternoon of October 30th 1966, did she make alternative arrangements that...
View ArticleTHE RIVERSIDE GROUNDSKEEPER
On the morning of October 31st 1966 at 6:30 am, Cleophus F. Martin (49), a groundskeeper at the Riverside City College discovered the stricken body of Cheri Jo Bates in an alleyway between two vacant...
View Article"MY RIVERSIDE ACTIVITY"
The most detailed description of the Zodiac Killer was presented in the days after the murder of Paul Stine in Presidio Heights, likely arrived upon by an amalgamation of two sets of eyewitnesses. The...
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