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DONALD LEE BUJOK-ZODIAC SUSPECT

1/19/2012

 
Kevin Robert Brooks has done extensive research into the Zodiac case and firmly believes he has identified the notorious serial killer as Donald Lee Bujok, with numerous interesting 'coincidences' between Bujok's life and the Zodiac letters. But here we will concentrate on his findings regarding the Halloween card, mailed on October 27th 1970 to Paul Avery, a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle.

Firstly, Donald Lee Bujok had a military background, serving with the Sixth Infantry Division for approximately eight months in 1954. The 6th Infantry Division of the United States Army was active in World War I, World War II, and the last years of the Cold War. Known as "Red Star" - and formerly called the Sight Seein' Sixth - the 6th Division was reactivated on the 4th October 1950 at Fort Ord, California. There the division remained throughout the Korean War, training troops and providing personnel for combat, but was never deployed overseas as an entity itself and was again inactivated on the 3rd April 1956.
While stationed there, Bujok would have come across the California Veterans Association symbol which looks very similar to the symbol the Zodiac placed on the upper left of the envelope and at the foot of the card once opened (seen here below left).
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Kevin Brooks draws your attention to the symbol at the bottom of the Halloween card , believing the lined section with four dots to stand for ZV4F, decoded to: Zodiac is a veteran with 4F, regarding the medical grounds to which Donald Lee Bujok was released from the army. The medical release records indicated issues of mental health, to which Bujok suffered throughout his life. Classifications are detailed in Wikipedia: "Registrant not acceptable for military service. To be eligible for Class 4-F, a registrant must have been found not qualified for service in the Armed Forces by a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) under the established physical, mental, or moral standards. The standards of physical fitness that would be used in a future draft would come from AR 40-501", Wikipedia.  Also, the familiar Zodiac crosshair symbol could be found at the garrison during the time Bujok was stationed there (see below right). It marked the spot for a helicopter landing pad - from where he drew the inspiration for the crosshairs that he used in later Zodiac correspondence.

The author of the Halloween card envelope also underlined the L, A and V of the misspelled name of Paul Avery, indicating he was a member of the Light Armored Vehicle Division, with the misspelled surname Averly hinting towards his middle name of Lee.

The front of the Halloween card contains the message, "I feel it in my bones, you ache to know my name, And so I'll clue you in", followed by the word BOO! once the card was opened, signifying his name BUJOK. The card was also 'sprayed' with multiple eyes, drawing the observer to another subtle hint left by Donald Lee Bujok - that he was a member of the Sightseeing Sixth Infantry Division.
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Donald Lee Bujok was stationed at Fort Ord in the East Garrison, close to where the crosshairs were located in the bottom left corner of the image.
Donald Lee Bujok served 11 years in Old Montana State Prison, Deer Lodge for the cold-blooded murder of Deputy Otto Fossen on October 5th 1957. This is particularly pertinent because the attacker of Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard claimed to have been an escaped prisoner from Deer Lodge, Montana, having killed a couple of guards, before he eventually tied up and brutally stabbed the young couple at Lake Berryessa on September 27th 1969. This is at least the story generated by Detective Sergeant John Robertson who interviewed Bryan Hartnell at his hospital bedside.  
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The skeleton's position within the card was possibly portraying memories of his time in prison, in which prisoners were hung by their wrists to the cell bars as a form of punishment - and similar to how Paul Stine's body was discovered in the taxicab at the Presidio Heights murder scene. A prison disturbance (Jerry's Riot) broke out at Old Montana State Prison in 1959, detailed in an excellent book by Kevin S. Giles. In it he described the punishment meted out by prison guards at the jail, of  "a cruelty that included extortion and beatings, that included blackjacks and iron pipes. Parolees came forward with tales of some convicts being tear gassed in their cells. Others hung Christ like from the bars in the hole, where handcuffs chaffed their wrists until they bled. In this dungeon men lived round the clock on bread and water diets. Stories got out that in some cases they got a surprise meal of pork, purposefully soaked in salt. Thirsty men cried out for more than two cups of tepid water that was allowed to them". On July 26th 1970, the Zodiac Killer would mail the Little List letter, in which he described what he would like to do to his slaves in the afterlife: "Others shall be placed in cages + fed salt beef untill they are gorged then I shall listen to their pleass for water and I shall laugh at them".  Were these images from Old Montana Prison seared into the mind of Donald Lee Bujok, just like the following phrases on the Halloween card. 
The writing By Gun, By Knife, By Rope and By Fire represented methods employed by prisoners to taunt guards they had held captive during the uprising at the prison on 16th April 1959, which became widely known as Jerry's Riot. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia "This started a twenty-four-plus hour standoff in which Myles railed openly to the media outside the walls; Alton retired to his cell after an argument with Myles, convinced that no escape was forthcoming; Jones was again allowed to leave the prison to negotiate with Powell and, under orders from the warden, did not return; and the hostages survived repeated threats of death by fire, rope, or knife. The hostages were eventually crowded into three cells, and the frightened men planned to press the thin prison mattresses against the bars to ward off any attack, but they knew the shield would not hold long against fire or at all against the rifles". link

One prisoner, Edward Wayne Edwards, who served alongside Donald Lee Bujok in Montana Prison, would later go on to release a book entitled Metamorphosis of a criminal. This book detailed the harsh living conditions inside the jail and several of its inmates. One in particular caught the eye of Edward Edwards, who he described as his most "uncomfortable memory" from his time at the Deer Lodge Prison. A prisoner who held the belief that anyone killed by him would become his slave in the afterlife. Here is the crucial extract:
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Montana State Prison photograph of Donald Lee Bujok
"An inmate who particularly stands out in my mind was the man who killed a deputy sheriff. When the posse found him hiding out in an outhouse, he told them "You can't convict me because I swallowed the evidence." He had swallowed the bullets. This demented individual showed an overwhelmingly interest in science fiction and Egyptian literature. He believed that anyone he killed would be his slave in the next life. He was generally disliked and distrusted by the other inmates. I personally felt that he was one of the most deranged and potentially dangerous persons in the prison. You never knew when he was going to erupt. ​Unfortunately, this inmate idolized me, for the simple reason that I had earned the respect of the population- something, deep down, he desperately wanted to do. He had an uncanny knack for making your skin crawl. Today, when I think about all the different types I met in that excuse for a penitentiary, this man remains my most uncomfortable memory".   PDF page 230     
This is possibly where the inception of the Zodiac Killer, along with his inspiration gathered momentum, eventually to be realized during later communications, such as the 408 cipher mailed on July 31st 1969 and Little List letter mailed on July 26th 1970.

Finally, photographs of Donald Lee Bujok wearing military issue glasses, which he often wore in later life, bear an uncanny resemblance to the famous Zodiac composite sketch. For the full analysis of Kevin Robert Brooks interpretation and theories on why Donald Lee Bujok is a firm candidate for the Zodiac attacks, please visit here: He is now waiting on news from the FBI and Napa County for the results regarding the evidence he has submitted, to hopefully discover if his prime suspect matches the DNA and fingerprints held in storage in the Zodiac case files.
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Zodiac the Montana Connection by Kevin Robert Brooks Three 21-year-old women from Pacific Union College saw a man acting oddly at Lake Berryessa in Napa Valley, California on September 27th 1969. The man was watching them from a thicket in the rolling hills. "He smoked cigarette after cigarette" the woman said. They described him as "fairly nice looking, well built and about 6'00", commenting that he had hair that was too perfect, or it was an obvious wig. Below I have added a wig (photoshop) to Donald Lee Bujok's face, because in 1969 he wore a crew-cut, was slightly receding and had light brown hair with a red tint to it... Wait till I show the world what he looked like in October of 1969!  This passage is courtesy of Kevin Robert Brooks.
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