LET THE INSPECTORS FOLLOW THROUGH

6/24/2016

We have three contesting accounts of the Donald Fouke sighting which will be outlined here;
DONALD FOUKE MEMORANDUM:  http://www.zodiacciphers.com/uploads/orig.jpg
#1. "I respectfully wish to report the following, that responding to the area of Cherry and Washington Streets a suspect fitting the description of the Zodiac Killer was observed by officer Fouke walking in an easterly direction on Jackson Street and then turn north on Maple Street."

2007 ZODIAC DOCUMENTARY:  https://youtu.be/HI0jnsbZwys?t=1h26m39s
#2. "We turned west on Jackson Street, as we approached Maple Street I noticed on the north side of the street a white male adult. We slowed down as we passed him, I don't know, we we're still rolling, saw that it was a white male, step on the gas, 5, 10, 15 seconds tops from first spotting him to passing him. He sort of looked down, perhaps this lumbering gait, stumbling along, like a semi-limp might have come up in my mind, because he was putting his head down when he spotted the police car, and turned into the entrance way of a house, and by entrance way I mean stairs that are leading up that are concrete to a path, that leads to a front door. Never saw him get to the top of the stairs. You want the address of that residence, 3712 Jackson Street."

2002 ABC PRIMETIME INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTARY:  https://youtu.be/FPPr7JXISxc?t=32m55s
#3. Narrator "We asked officer Don Fouke to take us back to the place where he spotted the man he later realized was Zodiac." Donald Fouke "He came down the north side of the street and turned and went up a flight of stairs into a courtyard." Narrator "He brings us very close to the house, then occupied by the man Mike Rodelli suspects."
The address of that house is 3636 Jackson Street.

The first thing to clarify, is that the ABC Primetime documentary is clearly showing the occupants of the vehicle parked just past Spruce Street, close to 3636 Jackson Street. It can be identified using a visual reference from Google Maps. The houses themselves, shown in the video, are located much closer to the sidewalk and street compared to the properties located by 3712 Jackson Street, one block west. So where did Donald Fouke actually spot Zodiac, it cannot be all three.
If we take a look at his statement in the 2007 documentary and look at the property at 3712 Jackson Street (assuming the layout has not changed drastically) we see only seven steps leading from the sidewalk to the pathway. This sounds like the house he is describing, "stairs that are leading up, that are concrete, to a path, that leads to a front door."

The area of 3712 Jackson St

Donald Fouke gave a very detailed description of the suspect 'as he rolled past in 5, 10, 15 seconds tops.' He mentioned that he didn't see the suspect reach the top of the stairs, so obviously the suspect was still close to the sidewalk (evident by the photograph).
There may be much debate about how Donald Fouke can give such a detailed description with limited lighting and such a short time period, but what he actually stated in the 2007 Zodiac documentary regarding 3712 Jackson Street can be visually corroborated.
In the ABC Primetime video it could be argued that being 2002, this is his initial identification of a specific residence, his memory is 5 years fresher and he is physically seen revisiting the location, so this is actually an 'in situ' recollection, not harbored from memory alone. But this is not 3712 Jackson Street, it is 3636 Jackson Street, 413 feet and nearly one full block distance eastwards. Had Zodiac been seen approaching this house, his next turning north, would take him into Spruce Street and Julius Khan playground, not Maple described in Donald Fouke's memorandum.

Click the photograph to enter Google Maps

On the right is a photograph of 3636 Jackson Street.
As described by Donald Fouke in the 2007 documentary, a suspect is seen walking on Jackson Street and turning into a residence. If his wording in this documentary was applied to this address of 3636 Jackson Street, and "not quite reaching the top of the stairs", for "5, 10, 15 seconds tops", a suspect entering this residence would be spending all, if not the majority of his time with his back to Donald Fouke, making his identification and detailed description of the killer all the more unlikely. This particular house is set back and its front pathway is at street level, better described as a "concrete path, leading to some stairs, that leads to a courtyard and front door." Slightly different to his recollection in the 2007 documentary.
But his description in the ABC Primetime documentary does sound more in tune with this residence "He came down the north side of the street, and turned, and went up a flight of stairs into a courtyard." This house has a courtyard.
However for Zodiac to walk in a stumbling manner, to reach these stairs, seems difficult to imagine, as Donald Fouke's police car rolls by the Zodiac Killer in 5 to 15 seconds "from first spotting him to passing him." Even traveling at low speed he cannot maintain a visual on these stairs long enough for Zodiac to leave Jackson Street, travel the length of the path and reach them, unless the police car is stationary. The field of view is too narrow. For this short time period, he certainly would not be looking into the Zodiac's eyes, only the grey hair on the back of his head.

The statement in the 2007 documentary of Donald Fouke receiving the initial radio broadcast "We turned west on Jackson Street, as we approached Maple Street I noticed on the north side of the street a WMA", cannot separate the issue by itself, of where Zodiac was spotted.

The diagram on the left shows the area between the Jackson/Maple and Jackson/Spruce intersections. Had Zodiac been walking here, the remark of Donald Fouke in the 2007 documentary could still apply. The police car would still be "approaching Maple" and the Zodiac would still be on the "north side of the Street". However his 3712 Jackson Street sighting would be negated, as would a Zodiac turning into Maple Street, as described in his memorandum. The San Francisco Chronicle article dated October 12th 1969, indicating a man seen running into Julius Khan playground, in alliance with the Zodiac Killer's 'Bus Bomb' letter, also seems to support the Zodiac being spotted by Donald Fouke approaching Maple Street. The Zodiac Killer stated "p.s. 2 cops pulled a goof abot 3 min after I left the cab. I was walking down the hill to the park when this cop car pulled up + one of them called me over + asked if I saw anyone acting suspicious or strange in the last 5 to 10 min + I said yes there was this man who was runnig by waveing a gun & the cops peeled rubber + went around the corner as I directed them + I disappeared into the park a block + a half away never to be seen again." From 3712 Jackson Street or just shy of Maple Street it is nearly 1 1/2 blocks traveling distance to Spruce Street and Julius Khan playground and is approximately 3 minutes from the Washington and Cherry murder scene.
It is hard to believe however that Donald Fouke could misidentify the area around 3636 Jackson Street, for 3712 Jackson Street, it is at least a block away, the layout of the buildings are different, and Mike Rodelli's suspect, one would assume he must have been informed of, lived at 3636 Jackson Street. This doesn't mean that Mike Rodelli's suspect, 3636 Jackson Street and the Zodiac Killer are inextricably linked, the murderer of Paul Stine may simply have feigned to enter the residence at 3636 when he saw the police car of Donald Fouke and Eric Zelms approaching. If we try to answer the question of where Zodiac was spotted using memory as the overriding indicator, it seems we arrive back to the memorandum issued on November 12th 1969 as the likely 'tale', of a Zodiac Killer heading into the blind access of Maple Street.
Donald Fouke went on to say in the 2007 Zodiac documentary, after meeting Pelissetti and being updated on the WMA description "we turned around to get to the Presidio, and my reasoning on that was because turning down Maple would lead through the Presidio wall directly into Julius Khan playground, which had a lot of foliage, so we turned and looked for the alleged suspect in the area of Julius Khan playground." Turning down Spruce Street leads directly into Julius Khan playground, not the visually blind access of Maple, or is this nitpicking.
I just don't know anymore, "let the inspectors follow through."

23 Comments

Greg H.

6/24/2016 03:36:46 pm

If I had to choose, I think it was 3712 that was the likely entrance. I went back and listened to his interview from "Zodiac Speaking" and I believe it lines up close enough, at least for me, so that it's 3712 rather than 3636.. He "turned into the entrance way of a house, and by entrance way I mean stairs that are leading up that are concrete to a path, that leads to a front door." 3712 has stairs exactly like he describes here. The stairs at 3636 don't commence until about 15 or 20 feet from the sidewalk, plus there is a garage which is obscuring the vantage point of these stairs (or any person using them) from the street. This also squares (not literally, but figuratively) with the orginal memo of Zodiac's "turn north on Maple Street"; 3712 is the next house from the corner of Jackson-Maple..

I know we've said that he'd be better inclined to correctly identify 3636 Jackson whilst on street level and revisiting it firsthand. But the other side of this is that he was being "led" by the interviewer and film crew and essentially ended up becoming their 'yes-man'..They wanted to interject Mike Rodelli's suspect into this piece; having Fouke go along with things juices up the entertainment value...But Fouke wasn't quite ready for prime-time, as they say...His body language and demeanor appears much more confident and self-assured in the 2007 interview..He'd had an additional 5 years to think it over and become more comfortable being the center of focus in the limelight...

He also says "as we approached Maple." Only 3712 really conforms with this statement..3636 is too far east on Jackson to say that they were "approaching Maple"...
My money is on 3712...

Greg H.

6/24/2016 03:39:59 pm

Plus, Zodiac would have needed more time to get all the way to 3636 - it's another 400-plus feet, as you mention, and he was only 'lumbering' along..It seems the unfolding of things, the short minutes it took as he walked away and the cops arrive, puts him nearly precisely at 3712...

Richard

6/24/2016 03:59:56 pm

"They wanted to interject Mike Rodelli's suspect into this piece; having Fouke go along with things."
That is my opinion also Gregory, it is easy sometimes to just get cajoled into a false premise. My money is also on 3712 or prior to the Jackson and Maple intersection, as this ties with Spruce, the Chronicle article and Graysmith's account.

Alex Lewis

6/28/2016 04:45:02 pm

"They wanted to interject Mike Rodelli's suspect into this piece; having Fouke go along with things."

Only Don wasn't on the same page as they inferred A Suspect had gone toward Kjells House and when asked how He felt about the WMA turning into a house and Kjell living right there semi-rebuffed the notion by declaring that, if this were the suspect and His house, He Himself is miffed that it wasn't easily discovered way before Mike Rodelli suspected Kjell.

To my cynical mind, Fouke here is telling them two and two don't make Fouking 5, and just because 'A WMA' turned toward a home does not mean 'hey-presto......KQ = ZK'

Greg H.

6/24/2016 03:46:05 pm

In addition, by saying it's 3712, it also allows for Zodiac's statement about entering the park a block and a half away (at Spruce) to be true, as well as helping the witness report of someone running up Spruce to gain better credibility..

Richard

6/24/2016 04:02:13 pm

I concur.

Greg H.

6/24/2016 10:31:23 pm

From the 2002 piece: Narrator: "He brings us very close to the house then occupied by the man Mike Rodelli suspects"...Narrator to Fouke: "How do you feel to have brought us almost right to the doorstep of an individual that has been singled out?"

The way the piece is edited and presented makes it imply that 3636 is the house that Zodiac entered..But if you read the quote I took down above, they never actually specifically say that it's 3636 - only that it's they are "very close" to it and almost at "at the doorstep" - which describes 3712's location...

So Fouke is basically unerring..He very likely took them to 3712 but because of the relevancy of Rodelli's suspect, the production overlooked 3712 and shifted our focus to 3636..

A cunning sleight of hand on their part, but 3712 is the address...

Greg H.

6/24/2016 10:55:42 pm

Here's an interesting, if overlooked clue, I noticed when reading Zodiac's Nov. '69 letter..He says: "p.s. 2 cops pulled a goof abot 3 min after I left the cab. I was walking down the hill **to the park **"
Now, depending how you read it, this could suggest his destination all along was the park. But why?..What benefit might he have in fleeing to a park at night in lieu of the usual alternative escape plans we have figured, i.e. that he had a car waiting someplace nearby, or an apartment/home that he'd walk to?...Was the park a shortcut back to where his car was parked / home located?..Perhaps he lived or parked in the residential area that surrounds the perimeter of the park on its east side and it was expedient to cut through the park for getting there faster?...
Just speculating, of course, but he does, in effect, tell us he where was heading: "down the hill to the park"..Another thing: when he says he was walking "down the hill," this describes the part of Jackson St., near 3712, where he was spotted by Fouke to a tee..The road is clearly a hill, slanting downward...

Richard

6/25/2016 02:21:49 am

The exit to the east of the park, if he entered, was the logical choice, especially considering the dogs and police were sweeping the park west to east, north and south. The car angle has always been pushed, but many people have stated that leaving a vehicle close to the scene, say Jackson/Maple may draw attention from the wealthy residents or there was a risk he may have been observed in the area getting into his car, risking the license plate being noted. I am not convinced by this argument, nevertheless placing a vehicle somewhere by the east exit, say Vallejo St, minimizes this concern and provides separation from the immediate locale. I never believed Zodiac lived in San Francisco, because of his 40 minute time gap between his BRS attack and the phone call. He could equally have made this call anywhere en route back to San Francisco with no risk whatsoever, but chose the Springs/Tuolumne intersection closer to the crime scene, it seems an odd choice. However in the San Francisco crime, the use of a vehicle would suggest a man who parks his car up, either walks or uses alternative transport to reach the theater district by the Westin St Francis Hotel, then gets a taxicab for the sole purpose of committing murder and reaching the vicinity of his vehicle. What a carry on. Another alternative, is he lived somewhere in the Cow Hollow region, so actually no vehicle was involved whatsoever. I personally go with the park, Spruce, Cow Hollow, vehicle angle, back to Benicia or Vallejo.

Richard

6/25/2016 02:24:48 am

For now at least. But I am always thinking of alternatives that make more sense.

Alex Lewis

6/28/2016 04:51:55 pm

"Now, depending how you read it, this could suggest his destination all along was the park. But why?..What benefit might he have in fleeing to a park at night in lieu of the usual alternative escape plans we have figured"

I believe I have answered this numerous time now Gregory, and I shall repeat once more, Zodiac clearly decided to rush to the park because, as we all know, what better way to celebrate a good murder than playing on the see-saw with abundant glee?

This, most obviously, was why Donald was responding there with red light and siren such was His eagerness to oppose Zodiac from the confines of the opposing side of the aforementioned sea-saw.

Richard

6/25/2016 01:52:37 am

Norse helped out on the forum, makes sense;
"Unless I'm mistaken 3712 jibes with what Fouke stated in one of his interviews with Rodelli/Dean. So, he had already confirmed this address prior to the 2007 documentary.
To be precise (but this is from memory), what he did in said interview was to narrow the house down to a couple of alternatives, one of them being 3712."

Richard

6/25/2016 03:14:38 am

One more thing Gregory, there is nothing incompatible with Donald Fouke's memorandum of Zodiac turning into Maple, and the Chronicle/Graysmith's account of witnesses seeing a man turning into Spruce and running into Julius Khan playground. The Zodiac could easily have turned into Maple as a ruse. Once the cop car continued into the distance, Zodiac could easily have re-entered Jackson and continued onto Spruce, making these two observations perfectly feasible. It's just the 3636 claim that bucks the trend.

Richard

6/25/2016 09:04:31 am

Another important thing to remember Greg, is that if the neighbors and eyewitnesses are correct in seeing Zodiac run into the Julius Khan playground, as stated in the San Francisco Chronicle and Robert Graysmith's book, plus Zodiac backs this up by his 1 1/2 blocks statement in the 'Bus Bomb' letter, why if he had a vehicle parked somewhere by the intersection of Jackson and Maple would he totally bypass it and travel another block on foot. The sensible option is get the hell out of there. The police officers searched the adjoining streets and the park for upwards of one hour. Zodiac mentioned the dogs never came within 2 blocks of him, they were to the west. One grouping was by Julius Khan playground, so he had to be at least in the park opposite Laurel Street or beyond. He only had a short window of time to exit before the dogs traveled across the park eastwards, so his likely exit was east into Cow Hollow. This would suggest he didn't have a vehicle parked either in the Jackson/Maple or Jackson/Spruce intersections, otherwise why not get in it and drive off. Also based on an initial destination given to the taxicab driver of Washington and Maple, you certainly wouldn't leave your car beyond Spruce, having to walk exposed on Jackson St for a prolonged period or longer than necessary. Spruce was the first visible thoroughfare and area of concealment. So if it wasn't on Jackson and he definitely used a vehicle, it was likely positioned by Cow Hollow, with protection and separation provided by the park.

Greg H.

6/25/2016 11:24:52 am

Obviously any number of scenarios are all quite possible, Richard..If I was committing the crime, I'd park somewhere in an intermediate vicinity. Not mere feet away from the murder, but not necessarily on the other side of the park either where I'd increase my risk of exposure by having to walk a rather long distance. Not only that, but walking through that park itself at night could present a problem in the form of possibly being stopped by a guard or watchman - esp. if they possessed a police scanner and heard of the shooting. It was a military installation, after all. But I wonder just how much security and patrol was going on at the Presidio in those days. For all I know, it could have been a safer bet than walking the city streets. Then again, with all the mayhem and hooligans that were running around in the aftermath of the Summer of Love the vigillance inside the Presidio may have been ramped up to look for people doing, or selling, drugs in the park...Just speculating, of course...

His escape route through the park also suggests he either did a dry run to get himself familiar with the maze-like structure of the Presidio, or that he had a personal history and knowledge of the place. It would no doubt be very easy to get lost in the circuitous roads and unconventional design patterns of the place.

Regarding Fouke's memo and mention of Maple St. I was watching the remainder of what he had to say about this in "Zodiac Speaking," and the interviewer (off camera) asks him why he didn't include Zodiac's entrance at 3712 in the report..Fouke says: "I thought that's what I had wrote in the scratch all these years."
What do you make of this, Richard?..Do you think this was an honest mistake by Fouke, that he said "north on Maple" rather than "3712"..Mind you, Zodiac could not have done both - at least not witnessed by Fouke. Fouke saw him for only a few seconds, so Zodiac did one or the other.
Then again, you can interpret his report "north on Maple" to, in a broad and general way, to suggest he probably meant to imply 3712 but did not want to state the address outright (to protect and not alarm the residents?)...This may have been a very noble thing for Fouke to do -- with the caveat, however, that he told his superiors the true address Zodiac entered in confidentiality..But it doesn't appear he ever did any such thing...

One final comment..If we accept Fouke on his word that Zodiac entered some residency, must we not now strike down the idea that any sort of interaction occurred between he and the police?..I don't see how the two idea could be really be mutually compatible..Is Zodiac entering the stairway to some home when he gets stopped by police and then tells them 'yeah, there's a man down that way waving a gun'?...That doesn't seem likely...
Zodiac seemingly was forced with a split second decision as the patrol car blared down Jackson, does he stay his course and keep walking along the sidewalk or make a sudden veer off his path and turn into the nearest stairway he saw...I have little doubt that Zodiac thought he was going to be stopped and arrested then and there, which would explain his "flight" onto these stairs. It was an intitial attempt at escape should the police have stopped their car and exited with guns drawn..He was probably hemmed in either way - had he stayed on the sidewalk or gone into the yard of the nearest home - but I believe his survival instincts kicked in and compelled him to get off the sidewalk in an attempt at fleeing from his supposed pursuers...

It's unfortunate the police didn't recognize the oddness of this behavior - that a hobbling individual would make a sudden entrance at a residence just as they were approaching..But you really can't fault them, they were looking for a black man and could not afford to waste precious time checking out someone who may well have been entering his own home and who did not, at the time, match their suspect description...

Richard

6/25/2016 11:57:21 am

Donald Fouke tied himself in knots in that video and came out of it very poorly. If I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, I would say 38 years is a long time ago. I believe Zodiac likely began to enter 3712 as a pretense he was the homeowner, was stopped, he mentioned seeing somebody up the way, and the cops bought it. That's my take for now, until I change it again. Did you know that 2961 Vallejo Street, among others has 802 square feet of basement and this is the view facing it. I wonder what happens when this area rains heavily.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@37.7941393,-122.4435747,3a,75y,95.51h,94.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scB-d22QXQA6eRjv_fIh6bw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

2961 Vallejo St
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Washington+St+and+Cherry+St,+San+Francisco,+CA,+USA/2961+Vallejo+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA,+United+States/@37.7927619,-122.4467592,505m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x808587301b6b6cc5:0x8ad56b1d3e042f1!2m2!1d-122.4572353!2d37.7886851!1m5!1m1!1s0x808580d2b832b281:0xc9c72a840b81729a!2m2!1d-122.445969!2d37.793557!3e2?hl=en

This is only an exactly but this area is called Cow Hollow for a reason. It is beset by steep inclines either side, including the park, which Jackson St demonstrates. Could this be where he was swamped a while back.

Richard

6/25/2016 11:58:02 am

http://www.city-data.com/san-francisco/V/Vallejo-Street-81.html#googleMap

http://listings.findthehome.com/l/53571817/2961-Vallejo-St-San-Francisco-CA-94123

Richard

6/25/2016 12:01:14 pm

It's meant to say, "This house is only an example."

Alex Lewis

6/28/2016 05:02:50 pm

i've been thinking about another angle, though, given the things we've been discussing..Zodiac says he was in the park and then "the car drivers should have just parked their cars and sat there quietly waiting for me to come out of cover."

He is, in My opinion, talking shit here and just trying to goad police by claiming He outwitted them on the night and was there to be caught "If the had searched the park properly"

No cars would have needed to wait quietly for Him to come out of cover because they were there to drag Him from any grounds based cover. It's only Z who is claiming the search and those conducing it were inept. Lee counters by describing a most thorough and careful search "Tree by Tree and Bush by Bush, a mouse couldn't have escaped our attention."

Greg H.

6/25/2016 03:15:41 pm

Interesting find there about the homes east of the park and the inclusion of a basement in some, as well as their proclivity to flood...

I've been thinking about another angle, though, given the things we've been discussing..Zodiac says he was in the park and then "the car drivers should have just parked their cars and sat there quietly waiting for me to come out of cover."

Now if it was part of his plan to enter that park would he really have been taking "cover," as he mentions here? More likely he would have beelined his way through the park and gotten to his theoretical car or house on its east perimeter..
When you take this fact and couple it with the witness report that someone was running down Spruce St. and into the park, I start to suspect that his escape plans were foiled by the sudden police presence on site. He didn't know those kids had seen him and called the cops until Fouke and Zelms are red light and sirening it down Jackson to the scene of the murder. Zodiac then panics and says to himself that he better get the heck off Jackson St. He was lucky enough to avoid the detection of the first patrol car, but for all he knew more of them could be on their way. Therefore he makes a snap decision to run left at Spruce and take shelter in the park.
At this point he figures he'll bide his time in the park, not aware that an intensive manhunt, including search dogs, is about to commence in the park with him being their target. (Just as he didn't know the teens had called the cops, he also didn't realize he'd been seen running down Spruce into Julius Kahn Park, or however exactly it was determined the park was the correct place to search.)

Once the manhunt gets underway he probably figures he is about to be nailed, but through some grace or mercy he's able scurry behind various trees or brush until the police call off the dogs sometime later - at which point Zodiac is basically free to go on his way, wherever that takes him...

But my main point here is that I think the decision to enter the park may not have been intentional, but rather he was driven there initially to hide until the police frenzy calmed down..

It's very much an open question what he did at that point, hours after the murder, when the police and dogs fanned out and left the area..

By the way, nice point you make above about him waiting some 40 mins after the shootings at BRS before making the phone call..It is definitely a good clue with regards to where he might have been based...But he was certainly no stranger to San Fran. when you consider the preponderance of letters he mailed from the big city...

Greg H.

6/25/2016 03:41:04 pm

"I believe Zodiac likely began to enter 3712 as a pretense he was the homeowner, was stopped, he mentioned seeing somebody up the way, and the cops bought it.
'

Maybe I'm too trusting, but I watch Fouke in those videos and I don't think he's lying or hiding anything. I actually think he's an honest man. It's difficult for me, actually, to reconcile how any of these people would sit down in front of a film-crew and unblinkingly tell boldfaced lies into the camera for the world to witness. And in saying this I include people like Ralph Spinelli, Don Cheney and Sandy Panzarella. If what you have to tell are lies, protect whatever's left of your dignity and don't do videotaped interviews.
I personally could never do something like that and lie so convincingly. Yet these people, Fouke and the others I've mentioned, appear to have conviction and confidence behind their words. I don't know, Richard.. It's a wild one, for sure...

But I don't believe Zodiac spoke to the cops..I think they saw him and kept driving..It's asking a lot, in my opinion, that Zodiac would have so much grace and equanimity under fire - after just killing a man minutes before, his adrenaline must have been pumping - to so coolly be able to misdirect two cops ("yeah, he's down that way") while he was very likely crapping himself when he saw the siren blaring patrol coming right at him. In my view, the reason he entered the home is because he panicked when he saw the cop car; had he been calmer he'd have just kept on his way. He obviously could have been planning to not go gently into the night and may have entered the property to be able to get behind some bushes in the front yard and shoot it out with the charging cops, had they stopped their car and came after him.

Alex Lewis

7/17/2016 01:43:41 pm

""I believe Zodiac likely began to enter 3712 as a pretense he was the homeowner. . . "

That's a big risk/Gamble. If He Offers Don "Yes Officer, this is where I live." Then Fouke thanks Him and Z's on His way down the Homes Pathway.....What if Don hasn't gone anywhere and a glance back over Z's Shoulder see's Fouke stationary, still exactly where He stopped, waiting this Man head toward 'His Residence?'

What's Zodiac to do? Knock the door and upon it being answered say "Hi Honey, I'm Home' and the Woman reply "I beg your pardon? Who on Earth are you?"

I've often thought if He, Our Secret Pal The Red Phantom, did not disappear into a Home along Jackson somewhere then My close second would be rear garden of 3712. This as a location has always struck me as just perfect for Him to hear the motorcycles go by, to hear that of which He passes comment on of: "you were using fire
trucks to mask the sound of your cruzeing prowl cars." while being able to hear and audibly determine, or visually see, there were "Two Groups" of them Barking off to His West.

Hypothetically, IF Zodiac were hidden in the rear Garden Area of 3712, then Fouke's actions are Promoted from Extreme Negligence to Criminal Incompetence by not immediately rushing back there, cordoning off the residence, and searching it.

Alex Lewis

7/17/2016 01:58:55 pm

I know the more popular theory says Zodiac had awaiting set of wheels, but that has never added up for me personally, it defeats the point of The Taxi completely if Z's car was close by.

Why plant you get away car up in PH's Presidio Heights area, take atram or cab down to the The Union Square, arrive there, call another cab to then drive you back up there to your waiting vehicle killing driver at the journey 's end?

Just no need to be going back and forth, running around San Fran unnecessarily when, Had He had a getaway car up near Maple/Cherry, He could have done from up at that location that which He did from Union Sq. and simply ring a cab to come to, I dunno, Taxi please for A Mr I. A. Nutbag, Appt. 187, West Pacific, yet somewhat Homicidal, Avenue and just allow Paul to arrive, He get in, Shot Fired, get back out and into His Escapology Get Away Machine, or more commonly referred to as, Car' Lol.

LET THE INSPECTORS FOLLOW THROUGH

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