BODIES ON THE BEACH IN SANTA BARBARA
The nude and beaten body of a young woman ("Winona" or "Ronnie" Davis) was found on an Isla Vista beach, adjacent to the University of California at Santa Barbara on January 18th 1971 with a cut on...
View ArticleSEARCHING FOR A Z13 SOLUTION
Edgar Allan Poe On October 22nd 1969, the San Francisco Examiner newspaper published anĀ articleĀ by Will Stevens, which laid down a challenge fromĀ Professor D.C.B.Ā Marsh of theĀ American Cryptogram...
View ArticleEXAMINING THE AUTOPSY REPORT OF DAVID FARADAY
The close contact wound to David Faraday's left ear was almost certainly delivered by a killer standing in front of him, or by a killer standing to the right side of David Faraday (17), while the young...
View ArticleWAS THE KILLER SEEN HEADING TOWARDS VALLEJO ON DECEMBER 20TH 1968?
On 12.24.68 James Owen in the police report stated thatĀ "He definitely saw two cars, a station wagon and another vehicle,Ā parked approximately three or four feet to the right of the station wagon. He...
View ArticleABC STAGE 67 "THE CONFESSION"
It has recently been shown how phrases from the Riverside newspapers have been used to create the Riverside Desktop Poem in November/December, The Confession letters on November 29th 1966 and the...
View ArticleTWICE, BY REASON OF INSANITY
SEPTEMBER 27TH 1932 In a previous article I examined the notion that the Confession letter mailed on November 29th 1966 was the forerunner to the July 31st 1969 Zodiac letters.Ā When "The Most Dangerous...
View ArticleTHE INCONVENIENT TESTIMONY
It has been widely accepted for 56 years that the Zodiac Killer entered the Lake Herman Road turnout on December 20th 1968 and parked abreast and to the right of the Faraday Rambler, before commencing...
View ArticleSTANDING AT THE GRAVESITE OF SNOOZY?
On October 22nd 1969 Eric Weill hijacked the Zodiac Killer's appearance on the Jim Dunbar TV Show and passed himself off as the infamous Bay Area murderer, effectively claiming responsibility for the...
View ArticleGETTING A FOOTHOLD IN THE SCORPION CIPHER
It could be argued that the author of theĀ Scorpion letters,Ā which were mailed toĀ John Walsh, presenter of the popular television showĀ America's Most Wanted,Ā was hinting he was once the infamous Zodiac...
View ArticleTHE MURDERS IN RIVERSIDE AND POWAY
The Nancy Drew YouTube channel recently highlighted an individual called Flake Crawford Casto, who graduated from Ramona High School in Riverside in 1965, the year before Cheri Jo Bates. He was...
View ArticleJACK THE RIPPER AND THE CONFESSION LETTER
It is without much doubt that the Zodiac Killer had an ability to garnish his letters using references from newspapers, days, weeks, months, and sometimes years previous. Absent of stocking up on piles...
View ArticleTHE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MURDER
Sourced from a 1932 newspaper (image added) As Zodiac researchers and sleuths, we have long sought a credible link between the Zodiac murders and the Riverside activity in 1966 and 1967, if one exists....
View ArticleA JOURNEY "FROM HELL" TO RIVERSIDE
Recently I have been examining whether the Zodiac Killer was responsible for both the Confession letters on November 29th 1966 by searching for historic text in the newspapers of yesteryear. In the...
View ArticleBEYOND THE GATE #10 TURNOUT
Detective Sergeant Leslie Lundblad In the immediate days after the Lake Herman Road murders on December 20th 1968, investigators appealed for any eyewitnesses who traveled the route that night and saw...
View ArticleWAS THE HELEN AXE SIGHTING WRONG?
If the police come knocking at your door to ask what time you went to the movie theater last night, or went for a walk in the countryside, you would usually furnish them with the time you set out or...
View ArticleOUT OF SIGHT ON THE WEST BANK?
One of the eyewitnesses on Lake Herman Road on December 20th 1968 was James Owen, who described seeing the Faraday Rambler parked on the east bank with an unidentified vehicle to its right,...
View ArticleDID THE ZODIAC PASS THE WALKING CHICKEN?
I would like to revisit the abduction of Kathleen Johns (22) just west of Modesto on March 22nd 1970, considered by many the primary outlier beyond the canonical four in the Bay Area. After the murder...
View ArticleBRINGING WHITECHAPEL TO RIVERSIDE
On October 31st 1966, the body of Cheri Jo Bates was discovered lying in a driveway adjacent to the Riverside City College library, stabbed six times in her upper torso and right arm, before being...
View ArticleYOURS TRULY, JACK THE RIPPER
Click image for book on Amazon The wording of "I saw and think "The Exorcist" was the best saterical comidy" in the January 29th 1974 letter was an immediate response to the movie winning four Golden...
View Article"THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL OF ALL" BY FREDERICK "FRITZ" JOUBERT DUQUESNE
When interviewed about the release of the movie "The Most Dangerous Game" in 1932, its associate producer, Merian Caldwell Cooper (born 1893) repliedĀ "man is the most dangerous animal of all". Merian...
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