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THE CONFLICTING STORIES AT PRESIDIO HEIGHTS

11/17/2020

 
Subsequent to the official police report regarding the Paul Stine murder on October 11th 1969 there has been limited further contact with the Robbins teenagers, who observed the Zodiac Killer in and around the taxicab that night. The later recollections of the Robbins kids went something like this: Not many know this, but Lindsey (being 16. feeling immortal, and believing the suspect to be armed with only a knife) ran out of his door to see where Zodiac was going. He ran to the corner of Cherry and watched as Zodiac continued his casual pace right up to the corner of Jackson & Cherry.
At this exact point, the first SFPD car arrives with two officers. One, Pelissetti, approached Lindsey and tried to extract what was happening. The other officer went to the cab and found the bloody victim. While Pelissetti was asking questions, Lindsey was trying to explain that the suspect was in sight on Cherry St. By the time Pelissetti got the point, they both looked and the Zodiac was gone.
The following is not to doubt their recollections, but much of the interaction between them and Officer Armond Pelissetti remains unresolved.
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According to their statements, they told Officer Armond Pelissetti that the man walking towards the intersection of Jackson and Cherry was the attacker of Paul Stine, clearly pointing to the man walking north on Cherry Street on the east side. "By the time Pelissetti got the point, they both looked and the Zodiac was gone". However, there seems little to show that Officer Armond Pelissetti ever got the point. Moments later he would discover to a 99.9% certainty that Paul Stine had been killed. With the perpetrator having been clearly pointed out to him walking up Cherry on the east side (close to Jackson), it doesn't take much reasoning to conclude he turned east into Jackson Street, given the time that they looked away and looked back. Wouldn't the appropriate course of action taken by Pelissetti been, to have got to the radio and immediately informed the other units of a white killer traveling east on Jackson Street towards Maple. The killer at that point would have had considerable journey time along Jackson Street before a possible exit at the next intersection. But from what we have seen in the various interviews from Pelissetti during the last five decades, there is no mention of his discussion with the teenagers and why he failed to act on their pointing to the killer (assuming their story to be accurate).

In the 2007 Zodiac documentary he stated "The kids had told me that whoever had done this crime left the cab and was ambling or walking down Cherry Street in a northerly direction, kinda towards the Presidio. I walked that way myself, I did not run, because there are innumerable alcoves and parked cars. So, I went down following every technique I knew so I didn't get my head blown off. Got down to the corner of Jackson Street - had to make a choice - I was on the east side of the street so turned right to the east and went up in that direction". This statement seems to negate that any conversation between him and the Robbins kids ever took place, or that he completely ignored everything they pointed to that night. If he had been told by Lindsey that the perpetrator was approaching the corner of Jackson and Cherry, and then was gone, not only would he have known the killer was not hiding behind a parked car or in any alcove along the majority of Cherry Street, he would have known the killer likely turned east on Jackson Street. But the impression given in the 2007 documentary was of an officer unaware of being told anything. His only reason given for turning east on Jackson Street was because he was already on the east side, not that the perpetrator was pointed out to him on the east side of Cherry, and then moments later had vanished.

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There still remains another conflict regarding this statement by the Robbins kids. If Armond Pelissetti and Donald Fouke received the initial radio broadcast (APB) at the same time (about 9:58 pm), with Armond Pelissetti arriving at the crime scene no quicker than 40-50 seconds, then Pelissetti is getting Zodiac pointed out to him approaching the intersection of Jackson and Cherry at about the minute mark. One minute into Donald Fouke's journey, he gets a visual on the Zodiac Killer approaching Jackson and Maple, with one block separating the sightings at the same time of 9:59 pm.

If both sightings are of a lone Zodiac Killer, then one of the stories pertaining to the Robbins kids or Donald Fouke is factually incorrect. One killer can't be in two places at the same time. To this day, the discrepancy has yet to be explained.


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