DAYS BEFORE THE PAUL STINE MURDER
When determining whether the "concerned citizen" card mailed to Sergeant John Lynch on August 10th 1969 was written by a helpful member of the public or the Zodiac Killer, we need look no further than...
View ArticleTHE TWO STRAY CASINGS IN THE CORVAIR
Michael Mageau (19) In the early minutes of July 5th 1969, the Zodiac Killer stood close to the passenger side of Darlene Ferrin's 1963 brown Corvair and unleashed seven shots in total. His final two...
View ArticlePLANTING A SEED OF MURDER
Although I believe the Cheri Jo Bates murder and accompanying communications have nothing to do with the Zodiac Killer, it would be foolish to unequivocally rule out of any of the commonly mentioned...
View ArticleTHE "I AM BACK" PHONE CALL IN 1978
Click image to enlarge letter It has regularly been stated that there was an approximate four year hiatus in Zodiac communications from 1974 to the arrival of the "I am back with you" letter on April...
View ArticleA ZODIAC LETTER NEAR RIVERSIDE?
After his displeasure that the citizens of San Francisco would not wear "some nice buttons", the List Letter on July 26th 1970 continued with a future tense narrative from the Mikado's As Some Day it...
View ArticleTHE POETRY OF ENCRYPTION
Scytale cipher The San Francisco Chronicle ran a very clever newspaper article on October 22nd 1969 challenging the Zodiac Killer to issue another cryptogram that would surely contain his name....
View ArticleTHE GREATEST COPYCAT IN TOWN [EXTENDED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 12/02/2022]
From August 4th 1969 to March 13th 1971 the Zodiac Killer mailed 12 authenticated letters (inc. Fairfield letters} that carried the introduction of "This is the Zodiac speaking" on the first line of...
View ArticleAN ORINDA MURDER NEAR THE ADAMSES
October 17th 1970 communication. Click image to enlarge. On October 17th 1970 there is a strong possibility that the Zodiac Killer mailed a correspondence from Berkeley to Dr. Edward C. Adams, a...
View ArticleRE-EXAMINING THE AUTOPSY REPORT OF CHERI JO BATES
An archived forum post on May 4th 2000 from ZodiacKiller.com concerning the once Riverside Detective Steve Shumway stated "Until now, a key piece of evidence supporting RPD’s claim has been withheld....
View ArticleRE-EXAMINING THE AUTOPSY REPORT OF CHERI JO BATES [PART TWO]
The following examination is not a claim to the factual dymamics of the crime committed on October 30th 1966, but one interpretation regarding the senseless murder of Cheri Jo Bates in the driveway...
View ArticleWAS PAUL STINE MURDERED AT WASHINGTON AND CHERRY EIGHT MINUTES EARLIER?
Many esteemed researchers in the Zodiac community like to say that some of the most beneficial and trusted information in the case can be found in the pages of original source documentation, such as...
View ArticleGILBERT AND SULLIVAN IN THE HALLOWEEN CARD
If we want to discover the motivation and design of a Zodiac communication, we usually have to look no further than one or two newspaper articles precedent to the correspondence in question. Can the...
View ArticleRE-EXAMINING THE AUTOPSY REPORT OF CHERI JO BATES [PART THREE]
Despite having reservations that the murderer of Cheri Jo Bates was the author of the Confession letter, let us look at certain aspects of the Confession letter in relation to the published details of...
View ArticleTHE SIGNATURE OF ZODIAC
Linda Blair as Regan The following is an amalgamation of previous articles: Six months after the Zodiac Killer's Albany, New York letter and code, another letter would arrive at the San Francisco...
View Article"THERE'S NO DOUBT I WILL DO MY THING"
As shown numerous times before, we can usually find the inspiration for Zodiac communications by looking at the most recent newspaper articles published in the Bay Area or Los Angeles. The November...
View ArticleSHAKING THE ANCESTRAL TREE
Anna Kane (26) Anna Kane (26) was found strangled to death alongside the Ontelaunee Trail in Pennsylvania on October 23rd 1988, but her killer was not identified until 2022 after a breakthrough in...
View ArticleDID ZODIAC TARGET A WATERVLIET WOMAN?
David Oranchak (zodiackillerciphers.com) and Nick Pelling (ciphermysteries.com) unearthed some extremely interesting information regarding the Albany letter mailed by the Zodiac Killer on August 1st...
View ArticleCODEBREAKING FOR THE MASSES
David Oranchak David Oranchak has just released another excellent Youtube video on his Let's Crack Zodiac series, examining the numeric codes of Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who killed three and...
View ArticleGEORGE SCHILL-THE MAN WHO DESIGNED THE EUREKA CARD [POSSIBLY MAILED BY THE...
The American Greetings Card The American Greetings card or Eureka card was believed to have been mailed by the Zodiac Killer in December 1990, depicting a wintry scene of a snowman and rabbit on its...
View ArticleDID ZODIAC KNOW THE EVENTUAL BODY DEPOSITION SITE OF LEONA ROBERTS?
Two of the least understood communications possibly mailed by the Zodiac Killer were the Day-by-day forecast for Cancer and Day-by-day forecast for Leo horoscopes, with the first mailed from...
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