LAWRENCE KANE
Lawrence Kane (26th April 1924-May 20th 2010), has always been closely linked with the disappearance of Donna Lass, last seen at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel on September 6th 1970, on account of the fact he worked in the same building. One person who is convinced of Kane's guilt in the killings is that of Harvey Hines, a retired law enforcement officer who notes a close comparison between the Zodiac letters and Lawrence Kane's handwriting, as well as whole host of circumstantial evidence he has compiled down the years. Read more |
ARTHUR LEIGH ALLEN
Arthur Leigh Allen became probably the most scrutinised of all the suspects attached to the case, but to this day the crime remains unsolved. Allen was also the only suspect to be served with search warrants by police. But as yet no definitive evidence has directly implicated him in any of the crimes, despite several key pieces of circumstantial evidence pointing in his direction. Moreover DNA and fingerprints lifted from several items connected with the crimes have failed to produce any match. Read more |
RICK MARSHALL
Rick Marshall was born in Texas (1928-2008), which makes him the correct age range as testified to by surviving eyewitnesses of between 35-45 years, during the confirmed four attacks and five Zodiac murders. He lived in the key areas during the majority of the attacks, residing in Riverside near to the murder scene of Cheri Jo Bates in 1966 and in a basement residence in Scott Street, San Francisco, just a few miles from Washington and Cherry Street where taxicab driver Paul Stine was killed with a single shot to the head. Read more |
RICHARD GAIKOWSKI
Richard Gaikowski (March 14th 1936-April 30th 2004) a newspaper journalist and filmmaker, also became a name linked to the Zodiac case in respect to several key points, having been brought to the attention of Zodiac investigators by an informant, who to protect his identity went by the codename 'Goldcatcher' and worked with Gaikowski at a Bay Area newspaper, making about 10 hours of secret recordings of his former work colleague. Read more |
TED KACZYNSKI
Ted Kaczynski (born May 22nd 1942), widely known as the Unabomber, was also considered a suspect in the Zodiac killings due to his interest in ciphers and his penchant for engaging with authorities, media outlets and victims of his crimes in the form of letters and manifesto's . He contacted authorities in 1995 wanting a 50-page article he had drafted called Industrial Society and its Future published in a leading newspaper or journal, stating his murderous bombing campaign would cease if this criteria was met. His reign of terror, killing three and injuring a further twenty-three others, ended on April 3rd 1996 when he was arrested in Montana. Read more |
Ross Sullivan
On February 22nd 2014, Mike Morford reignited a thread from his previous forum, concerning a person of interest in the Zodiac case - that of Ross Sullivan. The Zodiac Killer Site forum has in its possession an interesting typed letter from the Riverside City College Library, 4800 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, California, concerning the case of Cheri Jo Bates, savagely murdered on October 30th 1966 outside the said library. Some of the workers at the RCC had suspicions about Ross Sullivan, based on his character and various circumstantial evidence. Unfortunately for them, their suspect was not apparently held in the same regard by police at the time of Cheri Jo Bates' murder. |
GARETH SEWELL PENN
Gareth Penn inadvertently, or otherwise, thrust himself into the Zodiac limelight when he set about University of California, Berkeley professor Michael O' Hare, convinced that this man was indeed the killer everybody had been searching for, along with his belief that O' Hare was involved in the murder of Joan Webster, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate who disappeared after her arrival at Boston's Logan International Airport on 28th November 1981. Read more 
JACK TARRANCE
Born February 24th 1928, a late addition to the Zodiac suspect list, after his name was put forward by his stepson Dennis Kaufman in 2007, backing up his claims by producing a blooded looking knife, disturbing images on rolls of film, handwriting samples of his stepfather he claimed were very similar to the Zodiac letters, and more interestingly, a black hood found rolled up inside of an amplifier, that could have been the very same one used during the murder of Cecelia Ann Shepard and the attempted murder of Bryan Calvin Hartnell at Lake Berryessa on September 27th 1969 where the killer donned a form of executioner's costume adorned with the Zodiac's trademark symbol. Read more |
DONALD LEE BUJOK
Born: July 6th 1936, Died: October 1993 Driving through the dark lanes and highways from Montana to the fringes of Vallejo may have seemed a daunting journey for many back in December 1968, especially having just been released from Old Montana State Prison near Deer Lodge, but Donald Lee Bujok was no ordinary man. Possibly fuelled by his mission to exact his revenge on the police and authorities and gripped by the psychosis that shaped his very nature, the thousand-mile long journey began, before he would reach the dim flicker of the California skyline, driven by a disorder that few understood and not many would fail to forget. Read more |
