A while ago I wrote an article on the newspaper sources used in the construction of the October 6th 1970 "13-Hole" postcard, unearthed by many different contributors. Jarrett Kobek, author of "Motor Spirit" and "How to find Zodiac", identified the September 23rd 1970 San Francisco Chronicle article that contained the upside-down text of "THERE ARE REPORTS".. So I did a little extra digging and found that the overwhelming majority of the upside-down text can be found in this article (shown below). The upside-down text read "There are reports city police pig cops are closeing in on me. Fk I'm crackproof. What is the price tag now". Everything in red can be sourced from this single article on page 54 of the San Francisco Chronicle. The word "I'm" can be found next to this article on page 54. On page 53 we can find "What is" (with the uppercase W). And on page 29 we can find "the price", "The price" and "double in price" (in darker print). However, these two words were not cut out together, so it's clear that the Zodiac Killer, knowing the message he wanted to send, originally sourced (and possibly pasted) the word "the" from the article below, before flicking back through the pages to the "Business Section" he had already read in order to find the word "price". This would have been the likeliest page to find this word. It can be found on page 53 along with "What is", so this is an option too. Everything in the upside-down Zodiac text was therefore sourced from three pages of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper (pages 29, 53, 54). It must be noted that the word "pig", "closeing", "crackproof" and "tag" were all created using two cuttings (or more).
PAGE 54 OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE ON SEPTEMBER 23RD 1970
The rest of the newspapers identified for the remainder of the text on the "13-Hole" postcard were found by Vasa Croe, Brubaker, Cragle and Jibberjabber. If I've missed anybody, please let me know. In total, three newspapers were identified: The San Francisco Chronicle on September 23rd 1970, The San Francisco Examiner on September 25th 1970 and the Oakland Tribune on September 25th 1970. These cuttings were sourced from newspapers published just one and three days after the news broke about the disappearance of Donna Lass from the Sahara Tahoe Hotel & Casino at Lake Tahoe. Donna Lass went missing on September 6th 1970, the newspapers first reported her disappearance on September 22nd 1970, and the upside-down text was sourced from the San Francisco Chronicle on September 23rd 1970. So was the "13-Hole" postcard a response to the abduction of Donna Lass?
Donna Ann Lass In an earlier article I examined the upside-down text "around in the snow" on the "Pines" postcard, believing that it may have signified the area where the body of Donna Lass could be found - and if we righted this text through 180 degrees by turning the postcard around, the "Sierra Club" pasting (Clair Tappaan Lodge) and the punch-hole would likely identify the location of Donna Lass' burial site. I believe it did to incredible accuracy. The upside-down text for the "13-Hole" postcard was sourced from the San Francisco Chronicle on September 23rd 1970, which was the day after her disappearance from the Sahara Tahoe Hotel & Casino was first reported in the newspapers. So was this text sourced with the express purpose of highlighting something about Donna Lass? The "13-Hole" postcard and "Pines" postcard both had inverted text and punch-holes.
Were the 13 punch-holes on the "13-Hole" postcard signifying the burial sites of his 13 victims? The Zodiac Killer victim total hadn't increased from July 26th 1970 to the time the "13-Hole" postcard arrived at the San Francisco Chronicle, so why didn't the Zodiac Killer increase his victim count in October to include Donna Lass from September 6th 1970, if he was her murderer? Was it because she was only currently recognised as a disappearance and the Zodiac Killer wanted to play games with law enforcement, which he would ultimately achieve when he mailed the "Pines" postcard on March 22nd 1971? Or was he writing "13" on the postcard as confirmation, because his July 26th 1970 letter claiming the same number of victims, was not currently published in the newspapers.
Were the 13 punch-holes on the "13-Hole" postcard signifying the burial sites of his 13 victims? The Zodiac Killer victim total hadn't increased from July 26th 1970 to the time the "13-Hole" postcard arrived at the San Francisco Chronicle, so why didn't the Zodiac Killer increase his victim count in October to include Donna Lass from September 6th 1970, if he was her murderer? Was it because she was only currently recognised as a disappearance and the Zodiac Killer wanted to play games with law enforcement, which he would ultimately achieve when he mailed the "Pines" postcard on March 22nd 1971? Or was he writing "13" on the postcard as confirmation, because his July 26th 1970 letter claiming the same number of victims, was not currently published in the newspapers.
But what was the article about on page 29 of the San Francisco Chronicle on September 23rd 1970, the day after Donna's disappearance was first reported in the newspapers, that the Zodiac Killer may have sourced to use the word "price" for his upside-down text on the "13-Hole" postcard? The Zodiac Killer had three choices on the same page. One was about the Sanoma mines, one was about stock prices, and the other was about the Boise Cascade Corporation, the very company whose advertisement he had used on the "Pines" postcard on March 22nd 1971. Therefore, a fighting possibility exists that the Zodiac Killer used a cutting about the Boise Cascade Corporation for both postcards, indelibly linking them together.
PAGE 29 OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE ON SEPTEMBER 23RD 1970
As pointed out earlier, the Zodiac Killer also took cuttings from the Oakland Tribune on September 25th 1970, three days after Donna Lass was reported missing. If the Zodiac Killer had buried Donna Lass west of Clair Tappaan Lodge and the Boise Cascade Corporation developments at Incline Village, did he select the word "price" from the above page of the Chronicle newspaper article, knowing that he would later mail a cryptic postcard mentioning the "Lake Tahoe areas" and provide us with a further cutting from the Boise Cascade Corporation, but this time with directions to her remains? Even if the word "price" was not sourced directly from the Boise Cascade article above, and he instead opted to cut the word "price" from the darker "double in price" text on page 29, he would still have used two San Francisco Chronicle newspaper pages containing Boise Cascade articles to fashion both postcards. When the San Francisco Chronicle published this advertisement about Boise Cascade at Incline Village on March 19th 1971, did the Zodiac Killer seize his opportunity and decide to reveal the burial site of Donna Lass?. The Oakland Tribune on September 20th 1970 also ran an article about the Boise Cascade Corporation (see below). However, they mentioned "Incline Village", five days before the Zodiac Killer may have taken "price" from a Boise Cascade newspaper article, six months before he mailed a postcard on March 22nd 1971, using a Boise Cascade advertisement depicting Incline Village. .
THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE ON SEPTEMBER 20TH 1970
ALSO FROM PAGE 29 OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE ON SEPTEMBER 23RD 1970
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