AROUND IN THE SNOW

7/12/2024

Identified murderer Joseph Stephen Holt, responsible for the murders of Brynn Rainey (27) in 1977 and Carol Andersen (16) in 1979, had a love of skiing (a passion he shared with Donna Lass). When murderers dispose of bodies they often choose locations they are familiar with, so I thought I would identify the four main ski resorts around Lake Tahoe in 1970. The four locations were the Heavenly Mountain Ski Resort next to his 1390 Keller Road address, the Diamond Peak Ski Resort, the Pallisades Tahoe Ski Resort (formerly Squaw Valley) and Donner Ski Ranch (Northstar Ski Resort opened in 1972).

If Joseph Stephen Holt drove from his 1390 Keller Road home towards the Sahara Tahoe Hotel, he would pass by Van Sickle.Park where the body of Brynn Rainey was found on August 20th 1977. From here, heading northwards, he would pass the Diamond Peak Ski Resort and Incline Village (the advertisement that featured on the Pines card). Heading westwards he would reach the Northstar Ski Resort where a human skull was found in 1986, then he would have gone past the Donner Ski Ranch and Clair Tappaan Lodge (the Sierra Club on the Pines card), before continuing westwards and arriving at Yuba Gap, the location of Donna Lass' skull. Traveling to Yuba Gap from his home on the west side of Lake Tahoe, he passes the Pallisades Tahoe Ski Resort (formerly Squaw Valley), the Donner Ski Ranch and Clair Tappaan Lodge. The attempted double murder of Heidi Hoffman (16) and Lenny Parsons (19) on December 13th 1969 occurred on Saddle Road by Heavenly Valley Ski Resort. All of these "Lake Tahoe areas" are "around in the snow".

Richard link

7/12/2024 10:35:18 am

It's unusual how strange coincidences can be forged to Zodiac, not that I believe for a second that Joseph Stephen Holt was Zodiac. Even though the 340 cipher was solved, the words "paradice" and "slaves" have the potential to be seen on the fabric of the card. They run down the the centre vertically and horizontally just like the "paradice" and "slaves" on the Halloween card. Click my name to view. The Halloween card is thought to have been inspired by the Tim Holt comic book with "redmask", "lady doom" and "By Fire, By Gun, By Rope and By Knife". Therefore, if a connection exists between the 340 cipher and Halloween card, we can loosely connect "Holt" to the 340 cipher with the signature "Zodiac" apparent on the 20th row. A 340 cipher mailed on the birthday of Joseph Stephen Holt.

Richard link

7/12/2024 10:53:02 am

Frank Benwell Holt toured with several D'Oyly Carte companies from 1887 to 1898, as understudy and sometime principal exponent of the comic baritone roles. His first named part was Ko-Ko in The Mikado, a role he filled briefly in February 1887 with Mr. D'Oyly Carte's "D" Company, following the departure of John Wilkinson.

Richard link

7/12/2024 11:02:31 am

Rampage (1963) - Screenplay by Robert I. Holt

Richard

7/12/2024 11:12:00 am

Upon release of "The Most Dangerous Game" Merian C.Cooper declared that "man is the most dangerous animal of all", because the movie featured a madman who switched from hunting animals to hunting humans on a remote island. The Rampage movie advertised with "The woman who was the most dangerous game of all", "The screen's mightiest excitements go on the rampage" and "Big, Bold, Bob Mitchum is on a Rampage".

Richard

7/12/2024 11:13:09 am

Two ciphers, two Holt's.

Richard

7/12/2024 11:03:51 am

Just examples of how to piece together nonsense in the Zodiac case.

Scott Norton

7/12/2024 02:28:14 pm

One housekeeping note annotating another great post by you Richard. "Palisades" Tahoe Resort was known, until 2020, as Squaw Valley-the site of the1960 Winter Olympics.

It would have been known by that name in Holt's days in Tahoe.

The named was changed because "Squaw" was considered a slur to Native Americans.

Richard

7/12/2024 03:00:08 pm

Thanks Scott, I've updated the article to note its former name.

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