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MARY ALICE WILLEY AND INGLESIDE

1/5/2019

 
The Zodiac Killer mailed the 'Button' letter and Phillips 66 Map on June 26th 1970 overlaying his crosshairs over Mount Diablo. Just a month later, realizing the clues in the Button letter were insufficient, he gave us the answer in the 'Little List' letter declaring "PS. The Mt. Diablo Code concerns Radians & # inches along the radians". The crosshairs with the bold SFPD = 0 were telling us exactly where he planned to 'set his bomb'. By identifying the location in degrees, using a black, bold circle and coupling it with a 'dig' at the San Francisco Police Department, he was effectively giving us the target and the location. His target was the San Francisco Police Department subtended at an angle of 246 degrees from true north. Bearing in mind his bomb threats were focused in San Francisco, all we had to do was find the police department. How experienced the Zodiac Killer was regarding radians is unknown, but he designed a form of clock face with a directional marker pointing true north and then stated "0 is to be set to Mag.N" (which was approximately 17 degrees in 1970). We don't actually need to know how many radians he intended, from which point, and whether they were meant to travel clockwise or anticlockwise around the clock face, because the bold, dark circle is already the answer.   
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On the left I have combined the crosshairs from the 'Button' and 'Little List' letters. The bold, dark circle is 246 degrees around the circumference (which is 4 radians + magnetic north). A radian is 57.3 degrees, so 4 X 57.3 + 17 degrees = 246 degrees. If we deduct 2 radians from true north we get 360 - 114.6 = 245.4 degrees. So, whether we use 2 radians anticlockwise from true north or 4 radians clockwise from magnetic north, the result falls within the circumference of his bold, dark circle (246 and 245.4 degrees). 

Drawing a line through this bold, dark circle from Mount Diablo and across San Francisco, it passes near only one police station, that of Ingleside. It isn't absolutely accurate, but it is the closest police station the measurement relates to. This is why he added SFPD next to the bold, dark circle rather than placing it at the foot of his letter in customary fashion. His bomb was to be set in the vicinity of the San Francisco Police Department at Ingleside. Whether he actually meant it is debatable, but it was the threat that was likely his main goal - sowing more fear into the heart of San Francisco.

The Zodiac Killer made many bomb threats in the 1970s, including references to "black power" in the April 28th 1970 'Dragon' card, along with his Symbionese Liberation Army letter in 1974. This has led some to ponder if the Zodiac Killer was somehow affiliated to a radical group, or possibly infuriated by groups such as the Black Liberation Army or Black Panthers, stealing the limelight away from his dwindling publicity: "I would like to see some nice Zodiac buttons wandering about town. Everyone else has these buttons like, black power, melvin eats bluber, etc". The Zodiac Killer may have been mailing correspondence well into 1971, with communications such as the July 13th 1971 'Monticello' card, 148 character cipher, and quite possibly, the unseen DMV letter. At this period of time, it appeared as though the Zodiac Killer was desperately attempting to connect himself to the murders of Debra Gaye Furlong, Kathy Ann Snoozy and Kathy Bilek, all savagely stabbed in excess of fifty times.   

PictureMary Alice Willey
Mary Alice Willey arrived in San Francisco in 1969, making some questionable alliances, including the black power movement. "She became a strident devotee of George Jackson, the charismatic but militant San Quentin inmate who had gained international fame for his best-selling prison classic, "Soledad Brother." She wrote letters to Black Panther Johnny Spain, who was also incarcerated at San Quentin. And she began associating with members of the Black Liberation Army, a violent offshoot of the Black Panthers that would become implicated in the Aug. 29, 1971, killing of a police officer at San Francisco's Ingleside Station. There is reason to believe that Mary Alice may have played a role in the attack and the slaying of Sgt. John V. Young". Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle. 

While in San Francisco she dated a fellow student, Patrick Warren McDowell, who claimed he belonged to the Symbionese Liberation Army, a group ultimately responsible for the kidnapping of Patty Hearst in 1974. In February 1971 he was arrested for the failed robbery of the Sugar Bowl Ski Lodge near Lake Tahoe, having borrowed Mary Alice Willey's car.

If the Zodiac Killer was still closely following the news in 1971, as it appears he was, regarding Snoozy, Furlong and Bilek, then it wouldn't have gone unnoticed that the Ingleside Police Station he had threatened to bomb just over a year ago, had now come under attack. On August 21st 1971 a gun was smuggled to George Jackson in San Quentin Prison. As Jackson was being escorted back to his jail cell, a guard noticed the gun. Jackson raised the weapon and, paraphrasing Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, declared: "This is it, gentlemen. The dragon has come." As he later ran across the prison courtyard, a guard opened fire killing Jackson instantly. 

On August 29th 1971, a woman who bore a resemblance to Mary Ann Willey, wearing a blond wig, entered Ingleside Police Station to report a stolen purse. "Police have long thought the woman who had come to the station to report her stolen purse was a lookout connected to the Black Liberation Army, and they believed that woman was Mary Alice". Chronicle.  A short time later several black men entered the station and murdered John V. Young with a shotgun through the grill of the reception desk. Within two weeks of this attack Mary Alice Willey had vanished. 

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On September 11th 1971 a worker stumbled across the body of a woman while driving along the Delta-Mendota Canal in Stanislaus County near Patterson - close to the abduction site of Kathleen Johns on March 22nd 1970. There was no evidence of sexual assault, but she had been stabbed at least 65 times, and her murderer had attempted to sever her fingers and hands. An identification was not made. 

"In March 1970, a pregnant woman and her 10-month-old daughter were abducted near Modesto by a man who drove them around the valley and, according to some police reports, threatened to kill them. Kathleen Johns and her daughter ultimately escaped and hitched a ride to the police station in Patterson. While giving her statement, Johns reportedly saw a drawing of the Zodiac Killer and claimed he was the one who abducted them.

Johns' conflicting statements, though, cast doubt upon whether she had, indeed, encountered and survived the Zodiac. The murder Hedrick is revisiting happened just 18 months after that abduction. The Zodiac claimed 37 kills, though only the five were confirmed. There's nothing to suggest the Zodiac Killer, who never was captured, claimed credit for this murder, sheriff's Detective Marc Nuno said". Read more at The Modesto Bee.


Nearly four decades later, in September 2008, her body was exhumed from Patterson cemetery, and using a forensic sculptor to reconstruct her face and modern DNA testing, she was finally identified as Mary Alice Willey.​

Lori F
1/5/2019 09:31:12 am

Great info Richard. Thanks for everything you do here. I read the book by Randall Scott Clemens (thanks for the info and link) and found his take on the bombs and locations, including the Phillips 66 map, quite thought provoking.

No matter which interpretation of all interpretations of all things Zodiac one chooses to believe, the Zodiac Killer seems to me to be highly intelligent, regardless of his mental health status.

As a child in the 60s and 70s I collected buttons. I still have quite a few but do not have and cannot remember anything that remotely looked like the cross hairs or zodiac. I wonder if any ever did exist??

Thanks again.

Richard
1/5/2019 10:27:05 am

I've never seen any Zodiac or crosshairs buttons from the 1960s or 1970s. I suspect Zodiac was insinuating that SFPD should start creating counterculture buttons for him. I doubt he had any real expectation that anybody would wear suchlike. It was more of a case of feeding his new found inflated ego Lori. The nearest anybody came was the "I am not Paul Avery" buttons worn in jest after the Halloween card.

Tom1
1/5/2019 02:19:06 pm

The number of murders, the murder rate, and the rate of murders that went unsolved increased dramatically concurrent with the growth of the counter culture revolution in Calif. It all began with the summer of "love". "Peace Brother".

BB
1/6/2019 06:32:22 pm

Richard

I think we need to always keep in mind that it's due to the vastly superior mind - to that of the average person that we know anything about anything having to do with radians without the genius of Gareth Sewell Penn.

http://zodiackillersite.forummotion.com/t72-gareth-penn?highlight=penn

Of course I am being a smart ass. But, for a long time

Raymond Grant
Cris Farmer
and
Mike Martin
have studied Gareth.
These folks are some of the most prominent names of people placing Gary Penn
AKA George Oaks AKA Gareth Sewell Penn at the top of the suspect list. None are saying that they know this to be fact. Only that out of all the known suspects he is the strangest and seems to have the most circumstantial evidence pointing his way. The things like apparent confessions namely. Which some may chalk-up to insanity. But, now there is a newbie of the block going by JLGF and doing these Zodiac Killer Insight series on YouTube. This is a way of researching through experimenting with the math of the forensics. And, though it leads down many empty rabbit holes. It allows for the average person to be able to do some interactive research of there own. I think that there could be something worth while come of this.

"I also pondered Mike's last question. What would poses Gareth Penn to write a very comprehensive book under a pseudonym, implicating himself as the Zodiac, and mail it off to LE and the media?"

Gareth Penn and his father from Texas Hugh Scott Penn could be the duo that so many have speculated - to which they may make up the Zodiac character. As the Texarkana murders of 1946 were so similar that his father Hugh may have paved the way for his son 20 years later in 1966. Do I know any of this for sure? Of course not. Its just speculation until the DNA is done.

Richard
1/7/2019 12:22:43 am

I did a lot of the maths analysis in the early days of this site BB, but eventually realized the majority of what I wrote was drivel and deleted it. The mathematical trickery employed by randomly throwing numbers around is quite easy to do, and can be manipulated to say anything. The problem with the videos you mention, is the author has a predetermined number in mind which he searches for by adding, taking away, multiplying etc, with no explanation why he chooses any particular mathematical step at any point. It assumes you know that Zodiac was going to add a number rather than take it away, with no logical choice for the step. If you can get one identical formula that works through several cards or letters that may be a different matter, rather than throwing numbers around like a mathematical salad until you arrive at your predetermined number. It's like having a suspect and deliberately searching for the name throughout the cards, letters and ciphers. I've no doubt you'll find it if you look long enough. Gareth Penn is no doubt an intelligent man with a high IQ, as is Ray Grant and Thomas Horan, but often people with extremely high intelligence are not satisfied with ordinary answers to the Zodiac mystery, they want to turn it into a something magical and ingenious to satiate their high IQ. The desire to use your high functioning brain to arrive at something or some theory that matches your intelligence. The key word to me anyway is modesty. The endless use of the word "solved" in the Zodiac case has become superfluous and serves nothing more than to ingratiate oneself above all other mere mortals, and the Zodiac case, for me anyway, isn't a competition of who has the right answer. The Zodiac had an extremely inflated ego, that has probably been surpassed by many chasing him.

Toots
1/6/2019 07:49:20 pm

Richard, your drawing is interesting and reminds me of a couple of things. Bear with me, as I think "out of the box" on this theory...

Your drawing reminds me of a clock.
I've always thought the Bomb Map was a drawing of the Golden Gate racetrack (horses) that is located in Albany, CA. I've been there many times. If you look at google maps, the racetrack (especially the infield) looks very similar to Z's Bomb Map drawing, and the clock used for timing horse races.

I did some research on the land that this racetrack sits on.
Fleming Point was once the site of the Giant Powder Company, in the late 1800s. They made dynamite. The company blew up 4 times back in those days, with many dying. The explosions could be considered a "messy bluff", as the company was build on high bluffs.

http://www.berkeleyhistoricalsociety.org/history-notes/the-giant-powder-company.html

Interstate 80 is right next to the racetrack and a car underpass with a low ceiling is right next to the racetrack. The kind of underpass that a "bus goes bong car pass es by ok", as Zodiac wrote.

This land also has 3 creeks that that drain into it, one of the creeks is named the Schoolhouse Creek.

Could Z have mentioned "Black Power" as a play on words, actually meaning Black Powder, as in dynamite.

Now here's the interesting part. Guess who owned Golden Gate Fields for 25 years...Kjell Qvale, the SF luxury car importer that lived near the Paul Stine killing and was walking his dog when the killing occurred.

I'm not implying that Qvale was Zodiac or had anything to do with Zodiac. But I'm questioning whether Z was giving out clues in his typical, cryptic way.

Richard
1/7/2019 01:12:21 am

The crosshairs being a clock face is a reasonable supposition Toots, with the zero likely the starting point in any degrees from that point (as opposed to a 12). I have no doubt Zodiac was giving out clues in many of his correspondences, it's finding one that when people read they shout "Eureka". For the most part, I think Zodiac was focusing primarily on San Francisco, hence his tally of letters to the Chronicle, but not necessarily a resident of San Francisco - possibly and very likely somebody who worked there. The question Toots, is did the Zodiac ever have any intention of ever creating a bomb and placing it, or was it more likely an idle threat to keep San Francisco on tenterhooks. The Qvale angle on horses and racetracks would depend on how highly you rated Kjell Qvale as Zodiac. I respect Mike Rodelli as a Zodiac researcher, and I have read his book, which has lots of factual information and research, which I would recommend. The Kjell Qvale implication as Zodiac, however, I fail to see. Mike is correct, Kjell Qvale as Zodiac, does have time to reach his residence, change clothes, grab the dog and return to the corner of Jackson and Maple in time to meet Pelissetti, but he has to literally do a turnaround in 2-3 minutes. The major stumbling block for me, is Mike accepts that Officer Donald Fouke passed 'Kjell Qvale' on Jackson, and Donald Fouke did give a detailed description of the man he saw. Mike is also correct, that it was a big mistake that superiors didn't get Fouke to create a sketch of the suspect immediately, to compare it to the 3 teenagers sketch. Nevertheless, his facial recollection of the killer, when he saw the teenagers sketch, he agreed with, only saying the man was a little older and heavier. If Qvale was Zodiac, he wouldn't have been certain how much Donald Fouke saw his face (which it turned out was good), so why would Kjell Qvale go home, change, grab the dog and then return to virtually the same area Donald Fouke spotted him. Kjell Qvale would have had no idea what Officer Fouke was doing in the next 10 minutes - presumably searching the area along with other police. What if Donald Fouke had returned to the approximate area he saw the responsible and saw Kjell Qvale, supposedly the man he had just passed several minutes before. He would have recognized Qvale as the suspicious suspect he encountered shortly before. Why would Qvale, who just eluded capture - and Donald Fouke - then return to the same area he was last seen by Donald Fouke. Had Donald Fouke seen him again he surely would have recognized him, after all he described the subject but for the colour of his eyes. To me anyway, it makes no sense.
I know your not implying Qvale as Zodiac Toots, but if Zodiac chose a racetrack, it would surely have to have significance to him. The connection to Albany is certainly an outlier that cannot readily be dismissed, especially with a nurse at the "end of shift" having Donna Lass implications. However, I tend to believe his bus bomb diagrams were mostly hot air and idle threats, that nevertheless had to be taken seriously.

BB
1/8/2019 04:20:06 pm

Richard - YouTube

The Secret Behind Numbers 369 Tesla Code Is Finally REVEALED!

18-unsolved
3+6+9=18 or 6+6+6=18
Man is a carbon based unit
Carbon = 6p 6n 6e
3,6,9 the keys to the universe
Mt. Diablo is the center of 0369
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread349614/pg1
Jack the Ripper = 13 characters
Gareth Sewell Penn =184, 1+8+4=13
13=7+6
42=7x6
42=GSP 7+19+16

Gareth Penn's 1981 article Portrait of the Artist as a Mass Murderer is where Penn (aka George Oakes) says the Zodiac used the murder scenes as artistic expressions on a map. As above, so below.

http://www.culturecourt.com/M/LR/Hodel/Hodel.htm

George Oakes = 108 = 6x18
666=37x18

Richard - don't give up on numbers
We have to be able to make mistakes
That's what keeps us human
We learn from our mistakes
That's what keeps us humble

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgpJVg_vyc
The zodiac killer 340 genius solution
Instead of Ross Sullivan look for Gareth on line 17
also - The zodiac killer insights by JLGF may have something in his latest

We need you Richard
Our system is corrupt
But you're doing good

Toots
1/7/2019 05:23:48 am

Thanks Richard,
I totally agree and believe that racetracks did have a big significance to Zodiac. My suspect, whom Sacramento LE is currently doing DNA testing, owned and raced thoroughbred horses. Qvale wasn't Zodiac, but the Zodiac had fun dropping remote clues about he and his family through innocent bystanders, like Qvale and others.

BB
1/7/2019 11:00:48 am

Thanks Richard
And I agree also.
It is all about ego.
Your deleting the drivel is proof of humility.
Something the Zodiac has none of.
Though you are able to swallow your pride.
The suspicious GSP can not.
He is the most egotistic of the named suspects.
Even showing his shoes he buys at Sears.
As if this proves he is not the Zodiac.
What it says to me is this is where the Higgins 80 was purchased.
And old habits are hard to break. Though his shoe size has increased, as most men reach middle age spread experience. Penn is still shopping at the same store.


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