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RICHARD GRINELL, COVENTRY, ENGLAND
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THE JANUARY 10TH 2001 CARD [PT3]

3/26/2020

 
Recently we covered the January 10th 2001 Happy New Year card, stating it was likely mailed by the same individual as the December 1990 Eureka card, When the individual authored the 2001 card and mailed it to the San Francisco Chronicle, we have to remember that the 1990 Eureka card wasn't made public until 2007. Therefore, he couldn't have been imitating the design of the 1990 Eureka card envelope. There has been an over emphasis on comparing the handwriting between the two communications, with some believing the handwriting is a good match, and others not so sure - and this is par for the course. To determine whether these communications were created by the same author (or the Zodiac Killer) we have to analyze their composition and their layout.

For those who strongly believe the 1990 Eureka card is the Zodiac Killer, this is an important question. If the communications can be linked, then advocates for the 1990 Eureka card must advocate for the 2001 Happy New Year card also. It would rule out any suspects dead or incarcerated subsequent to December 1990 and up to January 10th 2001 such as Theodore Kaczynski, who was arrested on April 3rd 1996 and given eight life sentences. It would also rule out high profile suspect Arthur Leigh Allen, who died on August 26th 1992. Now obviously, staunch advocates of Theodore Kaczynski or Arthur Leigh Allen, who also believe that the 1990 Eureka card was Zodiac, will almost certainly reject the 2001 Happy New Year card by default, or now distance themselves from the Eureka card if it was proven beyond reasonable doubt it was linked to the 2001 card. Here is a comparison between the envelope handwriting before we move on.
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Any hoaxer or copycat who wants to mail an imitation Zodiac letter, particularly in 1990 and 2001, has a wealth of genuine Zodiac communications to draw upon, including the envelopes. The November 16th 1970 Paul Avery newspaper article in the San Francisco Chronicle was one such example of how to address an envelope in Zodiac fashion. The need to mimic and convince the reader you are the genuine Zodiac, would supersede the requirement of the real Zodiac to convince the reader he is the genuine Zodiac. The real Zodiac doesn't need to convince anybody he is the Zodiac Killer, because he knows he is. One can therefore argue, that a communication in 1990 or 2001 that is pertaining to be from the Zodiac Killer, that looks nothing like the Zodiac Killer, could very well be from the Zodiac Killer. The need to mimic old communications is not a requirement for the real killer. So when researchers state that the 2001 Happy New Year card looks nothing like old Zodiac communications, they may very well be negating their own position of rejecting it. Why should the 1990 or 2001 handwriting look like the handwriting from twenty to thirty years ago. Handwriting varies over time and is easily manipulated.

The 1990 Eureka card and 2001 Happy New Year card, whether Zodiac or not, were mailed eleven years apart. We are not aware of any other Zodiac or copycat communications in between these years. If there has been any, they have not been released. We have to look at these two communications in respect to all the confirmed and suspected copycat letters from 1969 to 2001 (a span of 32 years). If these two communications were not the same author (and the 2001 author couldn't have copied the 1990 author), then it is unusual that these latter two communications are both festive greetings cards, never before mailed to the newspapers by the Zodiac Killer or a copycat in the thirty-two years prior. Not withstanding the handwriting, it is also the first time the Zodiac Killer or a copycat had employed the address format of "901 Mission Street" and the numbering "94103". So we have two communications, both are festive cards, and both use an envelope address format never employed in any previously publicized letters from the Zodiac Killer or otherwise. We have to ask the pertinent question of why a copycat would attempt to look nothing like the real killer. He is effectively imitating nothing the Zodiac Killer had done previously, and negating the art of imitation.       
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Richard
3/26/2020 05:26:40 am

Just a little footnote: Zodiac may very well have frequented card shops or outlets familiar to him in 1990 and 2001.

1990 card: *The American Greetings Card Company was founded in Brooklyn, Ohio in 1906 by Jacob Sapirstein, a Polish immigrant. It was originally called the Sapirstein Greeting Card Company.

2001 card: Carlton Cards was founded by Hubert Harry Harshman in Toronto, Ontario in 1920. By 1933, it became incorporated. In 1956, Carlton Cards was purchased by American Greetings. Little is known about Harshman, but he did file a patent for card display with United States Patent Office in 1928.

Richard
3/26/2020 05:28:13 am

Greetings card companies sold in designated outlets.

BB
3/26/2020 11:37:34 am

Direct evidence

1. Witness Evidence
a. Witnesses (The who)
a1. The people in the immediate circle
a2. The family
a3. The coworkers and co-eds and the friends
a4. Letters and cards and envelopes and the ciphers (The why)

2. Circumstantial Evidence
a. Circumstances (The what and where)
b. Forensics (The how and what)
c. Time-line (The when)


Witness evidence is based on direct evidence of a witness's
personal knowledge or observation of a fact.

Circumstantial evidence is direct evidence of a fact from
which a person can reasonably interpolate that fact.

An investigation does not start with direct evidence.
Investigations begin with clues that may lead to evidence.

While this type of understanding evidence is the way of courts.
It is also an excellent way of investigating leads to find a suspect.

BB
3/26/2020 11:46:44 am

IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE HANDWRITING ON THE ENVELOPE FOR THE HAPPY NEW YEARS CARD IS DISGUISED.

Richard
3/26/2020 12:33:44 pm

Don't you think a copycat would disguise his writing to look like Zodiac, rather than disguise his own not to look like Zodiac. The capitalized T's and N's strongly suggests that this author is not trying to mimic the Bay Area murderer. The author signed the card "Zodiac" and stated "You thought I was dead. No way", while simultaneously using "901 Mission", "90143" (never used before) and writing in a style not particularly similar to the 69 and 70 communications that were readily available to any budding copycat. The 2001 communication is effectively arguing against itself, claiming to be Zodiac while doing everything not to look like Zodiac. One could argue that the 2001 communication is not a selling job.

BB
3/26/2020 01:13:40 pm

I think he disguised it to probably get around mail handlers who turn everything over to the authorities that they suspect is The Zodiac's.
He may have wanted his items to go where they were actually intended. The Editor at the Chronicle.

Rubislaw 32 link
3/26/2020 01:39:51 pm

Paul Avery died on December 10th 2000 . Anyone studying this case would conclude that , if the Zodiac was still alive then , he would not let the passing of his '' Secret Pal '' slip by , without marking it , in some way .

The 2001 New Years Card is what materialised - surely ?

BB
3/26/2020 02:52:28 pm

Rubislaw - That is probably why Jan 10th was selected. Paul Avery's death being precisely a month prior.

Rubislaw 32 link
3/26/2020 04:24:31 pm

Absolutely possible BB , and little doubt of the recognition of Avery's passing , anyway .

And , '' hand delivered '' information , by Kevin Fagan , 18 years later , to mark the 50th anniversary of Lake Herman Road....who then has the breathtaking temerity to infer that we should not get too excited about its extent of authenticity .

'' Pull the other one '' , Kevin , '' It has bells and whistles attached ''.

Why did he try to dampen our spirits , at the same time as giving us the first credible '' unconfirmed '' for nearly four years ( ? ) .

And , tantalise those showing initial interest , with no explanation for an omitted signing of the card .

BB
3/26/2020 05:31:23 pm

R&R

Paul Avery (bad-ass) was married to the famous prostitute Margo St. James. She is proud to admit it. She is still alive.

St. James founded COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) in 1973. The forerunner of COYOTE was WHO: Whores, Housewives and Others; Others in this case meant lesbians. The first meeting of WHO was held on Alan Watts's (The coolest professor of all time) houseboat; and the name COYOTE came from novelist Tom Robbins who dubbed St.James the coyote trickster. Wikipedia

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/forty-years-in-the-hustle-sex-work-margo-st-james-interview-activism-coyote

She may have read the book "Trick Baby" by Ice Berg Slim - That may have been where she learned what a trick was. That word trick - she knew the definition of - is why she was arrested. The book of Slim's is how most white people learned how to understand street lingo. Reading Ice's many books about the ways of the street can open your eyes to how to be street smart. And, those colorful little books show the dirty cops in the 60's as corrupt. And why they could get away with their crimes. Those books are literally where the streets came to be understood by we average white people. Ice Berg Slim actually defined the terminology in his books. Most of which came out 1967 to 69. You know - Paul was probably a well read fan too. Just take a look at him on Wikipedia - wearing a pimp.

hat.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Avery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QoGc5cyIyI

"White Folks" aka "Trick Baby" was a con-man that was a sandy blond haired white man yet of Afro genetics descent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EefnA9GbZUc

BB
3/26/2020 06:53:54 pm

missed the word - HAT - wearing a pimp hat

Rubislaw 32 link
3/26/2020 07:14:44 pm

Thanks for the extra information , BB .

I had read up a bit about his wife , who sounds interesting , and has led a full life .

Just caught some footage of Paul Avery , near the end of his life who , was obviously always willing to talk about the case , but did look a ghost of the vibrant and confident man who , was not really fazed by the Halloween Card , at all .

Avery succumbed to emphisema which latterly restricted his mobility .But , was still able to turn up , every week , for a good '' chinwag '' session with old boy mates from the press ,going back to the days when the Zodiac story first broke .

Past '' hard living '' though , had taken its toll .

BB
3/28/2020 06:28:30 pm

Sighting In on The Zodiac Killer - New Update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7u8IgLrVQ

Drew Beeson discovers that Don Cheney was in the Air Force 2 years

A couple months after Zodiac's 1962 Oceanside cabby murder - Don announces he will be getting married Sept. 8th 1962.

Arthur Allen passed the polygraph. Don's polygraph results - for the first he was absent and the second was inconclusive.

The bus bomb technology would have been "no problem" for a mechanical engineer.

BB
3/28/2020 06:50:41 pm

Don Cheney was a Chairman of the Society of the Automotive Engineers SAE and a member of the Mechanical Engineers Club at Bakersfield College.

BB
3/29/2020 01:38:21 pm

Cheney was "out to get" Allen.
He admitted being the one that told-on Allen in the first place.
Cheney new about the Zodiac watch.
Zodiac had a widows peak like Cheney had.
He was not bald like Allen was.
He was 5' 8" 200lb
Allen was 6' 250lb
I wonder if Allen knew Cheney was the wolf in sheep's clothing?
All this to get Allen to go down for the Zodiac murders. Because he supposedly inappropriately touched his daughter. Which Cheney's daughter says never happened.

Rubislaw 32 link
3/30/2020 05:21:30 pm

On a matter of opinion , the presumed third 1978 letter of July 19th alludes to diving , and could be a '' blame game '' move against Allen .

The possible Zodiac cipher '' S1 '' attributed to '' Scorpion '' appears to '' finger point '' Ted K twice , in the cipher text .

But , for the most part , and opinion granted , the blame is pointed at WJGrant . The '' Weimar '' link to Judith Hakari in the '' Peek through the Pines '' card , a case in point . Although the card is often ascribed to Donna Lass , there is actual evidence of Grant's residency....and actual evidence of a body .

Though , the FBI might like to have '' us '' , and the South Lake Tahoe P. D. , to think different ( ? ) .

Rubislaw 32 link
3/30/2020 05:48:23 pm

Now , that's a surprise (...to me , anyway...) .

Ted K was arrested on April 3rd 1996 . This probably places Scorpion's '' S1 '' cipher , shortly after that .

It may well be , that Scorpion's five known ciphers were delivered in a much more '' sandwiched '' period of time . With the '' flag /Totem poles '' cipher probably the end of 1996 .

The FBI never make it easy for us ?
( Take note - Detective Jake Herminghuis )


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