OLD NORSE FOR KILL
In previous articles I have attempted to show that the February 3rd 1974 SLA Letter was mailed by the Symbionese Liberation Army, along with the Citizen Card and Red Phantom Letter. However, the...
View ArticleTAPED CONFESSION OF A KILLER
In a series of articles it has been shown that the Zodiac Killer was extremely unlikely to have reappeared in 1974 firing off four communications - of which three were primarily aimed at the feature...
View ArticleTHE ANSWER TO THE 32 SYMBOL CODE - STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
This has been covered before, but I just wanted to expand in a little more detail without pinpointing a particular location. How embarassing is the notion of a 50-year-old unsolved cipher, that we were...
View ArticleTHE ANSWER TO THE 13 SYMBOL CODE - STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
The 13 Symbol Cipher is simply too short for any meaningful decryption without a key or the answer. It is certainly possible to arrive at the correct solution using a key provided by Zodiac, but then...
View ArticleTHE RAGE OF CONCERNED CITIZENS
In a previous article we compared a postcard from the Symbionese Liberation Army 'Hearnap' FBI files threatening the daughter of President Richard Nixon, to the Citizen Card purportedly mailed by the...
View ArticleA FIFTY-YEAR JOURNEY
If the Zodiac Killer was a resident of Vallejo or its surrounding areas, then a murder in the northwest corner of San Francisco would be the perfect choice for a number of reasons. With a vehicle...
View ArticleA FEMALE KILLER AT RIVERSIDE?
It is clear that everything contained in the November 29th 1966 Confession Letter was harvested from the newspapers, and whoever created the typed letter was deliberately dragging orchestrated words...
View ArticleTHREE MONTHS AFTER THE MOUNT DIABLO CODE
The following article will coalesce several pieces of work from 2019 into one cogent story regarding a handful of communications mailed by the Zodiac Killer in 1970. For some, the following will be...
View ArticleTHE "MCDONALD'S" LETTER
Two letters were mailed and postmarked February 1st 1988 and February 8th 1988 to McDonald's at 2 Northgate Park, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Both contained the word "attention" written on the envelope,...
View ArticleRIVERSIDE-THE TRAIL OF BLOOD
It is common knowledge that in many knife attacks, such as the one perpetrated on Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside on October 30th 1966, the attacker will often cut themselves with their own knife. The...
View ArticleTHE PHONE CALL "TRACE"
The Zodiac Killer placed a phone call to police dispatcher Nancy Slover at 12:40 am on July 5th 1969, reporting his attack on Michael Mageau and Darlene Ferrin at Blue Rock Springs Park, while also...
View ArticleSTAR GAZER HOROSCOPE
We know the Zodiac Killer was an avid reader of the newspapers, often replying to law enforcement officers such as Vallejo Police Chief Jack E. Stiltz and Captain Martin Lee, as well as arbitrary...
View ArticleTHE INCONCEIVABLE TIMELINE
Mike Rodelli stated in his book The Hunt For Zodiac:The Inconceivable Double Life of a Notorious Serial Killer that the "All points bulletin (APB} went out over three police radio channels and was...
View ArticleTHE "AMBLER TOURS" LETTER
Although there is extremely limited information on this communication, it is essentially the only communication in the FBI files not covered on this site. There is little to glean from the details...
View ArticleTHE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ZODIAC KILLER-ZODIAC MANIAC BY GLENN WALL
Click image for Amazon Books linkA half-century after the shadowy killer known as Zodiac terrorized Northern California, the case remains stubbornly stalled despite the massive gains made in solving...
View ArticleTHE "DEEP REAL ESTATE" AD
Click image to enlarge A pasted card, mimicking the 13 Hole Postcard was mailed to the home address of Dr. Edward C. Adams at 102 Camino Don Miguel, Orinda, California, postmarked October 17th 1970...
View ArticleTHE SACRAMENTO DMV LETTER [PT2]
Chaucer, an excellent investigative contributor to the Zodiac forums, noted correctly that Robert C. Cozens was director of the State Motor Vehicles from 1969 until at least 1976. Here is a notation...
View ArticleCECELIA SHEPARD MURDER- CONCEIVED ON AUGUST 4TH 1969
The Zodiac Killer committed the senseless slayings of David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen on December 20th 1968. Six and a half months later he would follow this up with a second attempted double murder...
View ArticleZODIAC'S LOST HIS BOTTLE
Unearthed by Michael Morford in 2013, here is an unusual addition to the Zodiac Killer communications featured in the Modesto Bee newspaper on May 11th 1973. A bottle was discovered floating in the...
View ArticleTHE ZODIAC KILLER IN NEW YORK?
Doreen Gaul (19) and James Sharp (15) were murdered on November 21st 1969, their bodies discovered in a Los Angeles alleyway, between Arapahoe Street and Magnolia Avenue. A threatening typed letter...
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