HEROLD THE THIRD

5/5/2020

Recently I have examined a connection between the 1969 and 1987 Vallejo Times-Herald envelopes not only through handwriting, but through design. We know of only three communications to the Vallejo Times-Herald, mailed on July 31st 1969, October 27th 1987 and September 25th 1990. There is a strong possibility that the Bay Area murderer mailed all three. I am sure he was a killer who meticulously kept all the newspaper cuttings written about him over the years and drew inspiration from them when he mailed his latter communications, dropping in subtle clues beyond the capability of the casual hoaxer.

If we take a look at the three July 31st 1969 letters, you will notice that the communication addressed to the San Francisco Chronicle contained the word "cipher" spelled correctly five times. To the San Francisco Examiner the word "cipher" was spelled correctly three times. In the Vallejo Times-Herald he spelled the word "cipher" correctly once, while spelling it incorrectly on the only other occasion, depositing the letter "Y" into the word (cyipher). The author of the postcard mailed on September 25th 1990 from Oakland, addressed the card as the Celebrity Cypher to the Vallejo Times Herold Vallejo CA. The 1969, 1987 and 1990 communications all used the full address of the newspaper, despite the publicly known July 31st 1969 letters to the Chronicle and Examiner only using the title of Vallejo Times.

But more crucially, both the communications on July 31st 1969 and September 25th 1990 addressed the Vallejo Times-Herald as "Herold", switching the "A" for an "O". I have contacted the editor of the Vallejo Times-Herald for a clearer image of the October 27th 1987 envelope and he promised to have a look in the files. Not only would we be able to view the handwriting in greater clarity, but we would find out if he addressed the envelope "Herold" for a third time. If he did, then the Bay Area murderer would have mailed only three communication to the Vallejo Times-Herald (that we know of), and all would have contained the misspelling of "Herald" to "Herold".

Below is an FBI file from November 8th 1973 carrying the name of Leslie B. Lundblad, analyzing some handwriting in respect to the Vallejo Times-Herald envelope, the Debut of Zodiac letter and the Little List letter. It is accompanied by two excerpts from the Zodiac Killer FBI files (Part One). All three FBI documents feature the address used on the July 31st 1969 Vallejo Times-Herald envelope. All three show that it was addressed to the Vallejo Times Herold, just like the 1990 Celebrity Cypher. What is the betting on the October 27th 1987 envelope containing the word "Herold" as well? Could a casual copycat just keep getting so many things correct, despite having no access to any of the preceding Zodiac envelopes - or is it more likely that the Zodiac Killer was more nuanced than we give him credit for.

Rubislaw 32 link

5/5/2020 06:55:12 pm

Nice spot indeed , Richard , on both the '' Cypher '' and '' Herold '' allusions which , really must now , point to the Zodiac in 1969 , being the same Zodiac that offered up the 1990 Celebrity Cypher .

With last June's uncovering of the photograph on the picture postcard , that asked a few more questions of law enforcement , and their reasoning for denying it to Lyndon Lafferty , in 2006 , it was becoming apparent that its Zodiac authenticity was already known , but information that had been deliberately denied the public .

That makes the 1990 Celebrity Cypher an '' unconfirmed '' correspondence , that always really was a '' confirmed '' correspondence , all along . And , asks further questions of law enforcement's probity , with respect to a number of other correspondences , previously deemed '' unconfirmed '' , including the 1987 letter , in particular , as another sent to the Vallejo Times-Herald .

Your highlighting of what the FBI knew , in particular , before , must bode well in further correspondence investigations , and hopefully , LE will relent a little , and come clean , where they are able .

For now , shall we cal it the '' Triumph Herold '' moment ?

Richard

5/6/2020 12:58:56 am

And don't forget the Concerned Citizen card on August 10th 1969, where the author replaced the "Y" of cryptograms to "criptograms". The Zodiac seemed to like switching vowels to give the impression he was a dumbass. Victim to "Victom", satirical to "saterical", comedy to "comidy" and front to "frunt" just a small selection of simple switches. That is why the latter three 74 letters should give people pause for thought when believing they are penned by Zodiac. In the latter three 74 letters he spelled Symbionese, consternation, evidenced, glorification, deplorable, justifiable, sensibilities, psychological and anonymously correctly. If you believe vehemently believe that the SLA letter, Badlands card and Red Phantom letters were undeniably Zodiac, then it's only logical to conclude his prior spelling errors were manufactured and deliberate. I am certain that the 1987 envelope will reveal "Herold" - just another example of lazy Zodiac switching, but again in contradiction to his renaissance during three consecutive 1974 letters, which I reiterate, none were addressed in a format the Zodiac had ever used before. There are two possibilities [1] The three 1974 letters were not Zodiac, or [2] He suddenly snapped out of his illiteracy for just a brief 6 months.

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 03:26:28 am

It has certainly thrown a few things up in the air .At the moment , I don't believe in the SLA letter (... though another SLA letter might exist in the SLA FBI File , from the Zodiac...) , and don't believe in the '' A Citizen '' signature , of the Badlands letter , with the jury out on the Red Phantom letter ( undecided ) .

Also , I believe in the keys sheet from '' Concerned Citizen '' , but not sure if the short '' Concerned Citizen '' letter is genuine .

But , this confidence in the 1990 Celebrity Cypher , now augers well for a good case , to believe that the Zodiac is the author of the 2001 New Years card , and by implication , had been alive for 30 years after the Bay area terror campaign , having written at least a few correspondences , in that 30 years .

Shawn

5/6/2020 05:23:56 am

In reference to your prior "Peer Review" article on the "Peer Review" youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVAbwhinyzg

I also agree his stance on the case was nicely presented and the video was well done if not professionally.

Evan from Texas did not address Horan long-standing Achilles heel regarding Zodiac was not a real person who killed.

That is, The killing of Paul Stine at Presidio Heights. Snook would have actually had to become Zodiac (a murderer) in order to get a piece of Stine's shirt to send out in 3 different letters.

Horan has always grappled with the Presidio Heights problem to his theory even suggesting a cop could have easily got a piece of shirt from SFPD evidence.

I think anyone trying to make evidence fit a person or theory because they are so invested in that person or theory should watch "DB Cooper, Case Closed".

The documentary features a crime reporter and ex-fbi agent who eventually make a team of professional team of researchers suspect evidence fall apart in front of them. Much like the Gary Stewart documentary.

Richard

5/6/2020 06:46:05 am

Sorry about the comment box problems Shawn, we'll have to put it down to one of those strange computer glitches that occur from time to time. It's odd that some people can post, but not others. Weird.

I agree, a well presented video, but as you mention, the massive stumbling block is the Stine murder. It would rely on a roaming officer sneaking into the taxicab or morgue and surreptitiously cutting away a piece of shirt in order to continue the Zodiac hoax. We also have to reconcile that why would a hoaxer (or team of hoaxers) choose a taxicab murder that didn't in any way resemble the three previous crimes. Surely, if you are attempting to make the hoax believable, you would choose a crime that resembled the confirmed cases to some degree. The whole conspiracy/hoax angle, like many of the conspiracy theories, are obviously much more an appealing read or watch in terms of entertainment, but they are extremely liberal with the truth. If you look at Thomas Horan's hoax theory in its entirety, you end up asking, why is this more likely than the story already told. It requires more hoops to jump through and more square pegs in round holes to make it work. When interviewed alongside Mike Morford, he had Robert Graysmith, Hal Snook, Dennis Land and Keith Power all possibly involved in this grand conspiracy, that began with a nondescript murder (in American terms) in a lovers lane in Benicia. Of all the murders in America, this one was chosen as the birth of the Zodiac Killer. Or is it more likely the "Great Zodiac Killer Hoax" has evolved from the publicity that preceded it.

It will be interesting to see how the next video circumvents the problem with the shirt pieces - or reasons with Thomas Horan's claims. The evidence for Thomas Horan creating this hoax "hoax" theory, can be seen in some other topics he covers. Hoax or conspiracy theorists seldom confine themselves to one topic. They see conspiracy everywhere - and says more about themselves than the subject matter they are 'invesigating'.

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 03:41:18 am

To be honest , I think that the SLA letter , that the FBI claim is the Zodiac's , has been '' apportioned '' to the Zodiac , to make him look stupid , deliberately .

But, in the SLA FBI Files , there might be 4 or 5 that are from the Zodiac .

I think that the SLA phenomenon and kidnapping of Patty Hearst , was retrospectively , an opportunity to catch the Zodiac , that was missed , by the FBI , on account of the Zodiac representing an '' under card '' priority , once resources were needed , more urgently , with events SLA - related , at the time .

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 03:44:09 am

I should really refer to them as the HEARNAP Files .

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 04:03:30 am

I certainly believe , anyway , that the Zodiac was the one who sent a '' cut and paste '' to Dr.Frederick Hacker , who became Randolph Apperson Hearst's confident , when his daughter ,Patty , was kidnapped .

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 09:57:02 am

I have just read Detective Sergeant John Lynch's official account of the '' Concerned Citizen '' letter c/w key sheet , Richard , and tentatively take back what I said about the accompanying letter .

The whole '' Concerned Citizen package '' is almost certainly the Zodiac , having spent two laborious , but productive days , working through the '' 408 '' key sheet , to find that it corrected a number of apparent spelling errors , as presented , in the Harden's original published solution '' version '' .

This is what Detective Sergeant John Lynch reported , from August 11th 1969 :

8-11-69 An anonymous letter , post marked San Francisco , received . This letter contained a card which encoded a '' key '' which writer hoped will be beneficial in connection with the cipher letter written . The '' key '' is the solution to the cryptograms that appeared in the papers . The '' key '' also contained a set of alternatives to some of the symbols and letters that appeared in the cryptograms . Copy of this '' key '' will be sent to Donald HARDEN for possible decoding of unscrambled letters in original cryptograms . Letter went to the FBI for fingerprints .

So, at that time , August 11th 1969 , the '' 408 '' cipher , in three parts , were known as '' cryptograms '' .

The FBI were already dealing with '' Forensics '' , but too early for the FBI to deal with '' Cryptanalysis '' and , John Lynch was quite happy for a member of the public , Donald Harden , to look at this new set of cipher keys .

( Reference : '' Solving the Zodiac '' by C.Symons , Page 180 )

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 11:34:44 am

As reported by John Lynch , he was examining the contents of a letter , the '' concerned citizen '' letter , that had a postmark of August 10th 1969 - the very day that the Harden's solution was published .

It took the Hardens about two days , to accomplish their '' solve '' .

If '' concerned citizen '' wasn't the Zodiac , it would , by logic , be the case that it only took '' concerned citizen '' about half a day at most , to have a viable solution ready , for sending off to John Lynch .

Virtually impossible scenario , to imagine ( ? ) .

'' concerned citizen '' realistically had to have been the Zodiac .For , even if '' concerned citizen '' was pinching solution ideas from the Hardens , and then conveying how he , '' concerned citizen '' improved on the Harden's solution....then half a day is still close to unrealistic .

'' concerned citizen '' in all probability , had to have had his solution already . Therefore , had to have been the original cipher maker , and so , had to have been the Zodiac , himself .

Richard

5/6/2020 11:49:31 am

All the parts of the cipher were available in the August 3rd S.F. Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, technically giving the concerned citizen about one week to come up with a key to the solution, just like the Harden's. But if the concerned citizen was piggybacking off the August 9th 1969 Chronicle article that showed parts of the key, the concerned citizen likely had about a day to send in his own version.

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 12:28:18 pm

Logged on the August 3rd date , Richard .

I'm too keyed into this August 10th date . '' Zodiac '' sees the Harden's published '' 408 '' solution , on that morning - and goes ''ballistic '' , because it makes his solution look tame , with too many apparent spelling errors , sucking the menace out of the message that is conveyed , in the solution .

Then , at 1:40 p.m , the Zodiac phones up Vallejo P.D. and speaks to George Bawart , impersonating the mystic and astrology / christianity guru , Robert Coon , offering a solution to the remaining 18 characters of the 408 - which is , in effect , taking the p*ss ( Robert E.EEE ).

So , the Zodiac initially feels better about himself . But this doesn't last long , and the devil's horns start to emerge again . He needs another tact , and decides to write a '' nice '' letter to John Liynch , with the cipher keys sheet , so at least he feels vindicated , to himself , that the correct solution , his solution , will be conveyed ASAP , and that the Harden's '' glory '' will not last .

But , the Zodiac was , to a large degree , wrong . The Hardens did go down in history , with the case....and the Zodiac just had to suck on it .

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 03:34:39 pm

From what I have seen of other newspaper's front pages , for Sunday August 10th 1969 ,this was the first day of full coverage of the Tate murders , which had taken place the night of Friday August 8th , into early morning of Saturday August 9th .

So , perhaps that August 10th , involved the Harden's publication of the ''408 '' solution , sharing the news , in the San Francisco Chronicle , with the Tate murders ( ? ) .

Perhaps , not enough for the Zodiac to be annoyed at how his cipher solution debuted , but also the fear of future competition from something more macabre and evil , that turned out to be the Manson Family .

Rubislaw 32 link

5/6/2020 07:03:54 pm

David Herold was the accomplice of John Wilkes Booth , in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln .

Herold and Booth escaped ,but eventually surrounded hiding in a barn in Virginia . Booth was fatally wounded , and Herold surrendered , but was later executed for his role in Lincoln's murder .

Richard

5/7/2020 06:10:43 am

Rubislaw, have you ever mentioned the Joan Webster Santa Claus card?

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5/7/2020 06:31:31 am

I need a prompting , of what that was , precisely , Richard .

Richard

5/7/2020 08:22:10 am

You'll find out shortly!

Rubislaw 32 link

5/7/2020 08:44:07 am

This sounds very interesting , Richard .I have a list , as such , that her family ( ...more particularly , father George...) received , after her disappearance .But , that list may only be a part of the hoaxes and extortion , that was received .

Sizeable reward money , attracts '' all sorts '' ( ? ) .

5/10/2020 10:15:27 am

Richard

Black Box Ned 88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puV4p0xHOsk&t=0s

Ned has a very interesting discussion pointing out the difference in the legal systems interests and those of the curious.

Richard

5/10/2020 10:46:21 am

Already watched it BB. I like this guy - he takes no money, doesn't ask for any Patreon contributions - yet he consistently produces videos every day. I admire his commitment and desire for mystery.

5/10/2020 12:38:28 pm

Talking about money.

I think it is OK to make money on these things as long as we let it be known that we are;

1 Putting forward speculation or opinion which is fine as long as we remember to counterbalance extremes.

2 Organizing and giving out facts, data and truth as accurate as possible. Admitting mistakes and re-editing.

3 Selling works of fiction is fine. This form of literature has added to our scope of knowledge greatly.

But, the danger is when we don't allow our audience to know which of these stances we are speaking from.
I make many mistakes and of-course will make more in the future - but hopefully I can realize them. And, at-least try to correct them before they cause problems. The thing is - it is a difficult thing - not knowing if the audience is understanding what I am saying. Or did I just say something all wrong. Not at all what I intended.
That is not their fault - that I did not edit it properly. I think it is all about being humble. Which can be difficult.

5/11/2020 01:44:11 pm

Opinion: Hearst paved way for Trump as demagogue in U.S. politics
Author of the article:Charles Ungerleider

William Randolph Hearst, was opposed to the “unjust power of certain corporation managers” and appealed to the “unobtrusive socialist working man,” “the natural bigot,” and the “rather shiftless, thoughtless loafer who follows the herd to which he belongs.”

Although many Americans would like to think of him as a political outlier, Donald Trump is simply the most recent manifestation of American populist demagogues, one of the most prominent of whom was William Randolf Hearst.

Hearst was another media personality — the newspaper magnate who, at the turn of the 20th century, professed to be, as some described it, the millionaire Moses of the working class. A recent biography of Hearst by David Nasaw provides many parallels between Hearst and Trump.

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/opinion-hearst-preceded-trump-as-demagogue-in-u-s-politics/

5/11/2020 05:59:31 pm

Opinion:
The old Boston Herald, was the media mogul, William Randolph Hearst's way of getting in the minds of the people of Massachusetts selling his tabloid journalism and tweaking the masses.

The Herald American converted to tabloid format in September 1981, but Hearst faced steep declines in circulation and advertising. The company announced it would close the Herald American—making Boston a one-newspaper town—on December 3, 1982. When the deadline came, Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch was negotiating to buy the paper and save it.

Joan Lucinda Webster, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate, disappeared after her arrival at Boston's Logan International Airport on 28th November 1981. She may not have been killed until after midnight - making it a Daliday.

Sensational murders and mystery's sell news papers like hotcakes. This Hearst M.O. began back with the Hearst London Tabs and the Jack the Ripper murders. Accompanied by the play of the Mikado. This was the same thing that happened in San Francisco in 1969 & the Zodiac.

William Randolph Hearst had five sons: George Randolph Hearst, born on April 23, 1904; William Randolph Hearst Jr., born on January 27, 1908; John Randolph Hearst, born in 1910; and twins Randolph Apperson Hearst and David Whitmire Hearst, born on December 2, 1915.

Randolph Apperson Hearst was the father of Patricia "Patty" Hearst. He died December 18, 2000
He was married to Catherine Hearst a Roman Catholic and a conservative supporter of Nixon and Regent of the University of California. She was an advocate for the removal of radical activist Angela Davis from a teaching position at the school. Randolph died ten days after Paul Avery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Herald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Apperson_Hearst

Rubislaw 32 link

5/13/2020 04:48:37 am

Some good information there , BB , and consolidated under one roof .

These newspaper magnates can be completely unscrupulous , when '' needs must '' .

Rupert Murdoch famously arranging to change his nationality , from Australian to American , so that he could continue on his media corporate expansionism , in the USA .

Not such stringent rules were placed on Murdoch in the UK , who has continued with his '' world domination '' ambitions .

An elderly but still sprightly man , having purchased a carer , in Mick Jagger's ex-wife Jerry Hall , he still seems determined to leave a legacy of unrepentant monopoly , in his wake , and when he finally kicks the bucket .

He will not be missed , particularly by 100's of celebrities and even families of victims of serious crime , who have had their phones tapped in the past , by his financed '' tools of the trade '' , in pursuit of the next headline story .

A disgrace to the human race .

Tom1

5/12/2020 05:15:02 am

It is amazing how the haters connect Trump to totally unrelated matters.

5/13/2020 02:30:04 pm

Thank you for your feedback.
Georgia's History of newspapers stems from Hearst as he held interest in many of the areas papers ever since. The world we live in today was established from Georgia's Jekyll Island where the media tycoon William Randolph Hearst owned a vacation home. He deployed his shady sensational journalistic practices as always when in 1912 he purchased "The Atlanta Georgian" as daily afternoon newspaper. The Munsey’s Magazine described Jekyll Island as “the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible” club in the world. In 1910 Daddy Warbucks AKA Paul Warburg devised a scheme to take over the world at a famous meeting on Jekyll Island. Using trickery of congress he got them to require us to pay for the use of their fiat money through their private company called the Fed. This all had to be kept on the-down-low. The obvious way was with the Hearst run media. They had to agree to make any views opposed just look like fairy dust. And, any person opposed - made out to just be crazy. The Fed is a private company. Interest we pay on the borrowed money is theirs to keep. They pay shills to defend this as a good thing - even in the face of the national debt exploding. If you say anything about gold standards or silver backed dollars you are shut down, and deemed to be a wacko. Thank Hearst he is buried in their family plot in Colma, Ca..

https://oldgeorgiahomes.com/2017/08/jekyll-island-millionaires-row/
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053729/

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