Luigi Warren Luigi Warren, Ph.D, is a Messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA) pioneer, who has written many Zodiac Killer articles on his Substack platform "Thought Crimes", including most recently, several on the identification of the remains of Donna Lass, along with his analysis of the Dragon Card and how it may be connected to the 1962 murder of Donna Frislie who was found in a shallow grave by two gold prospectors near a gold mine. Luigi has generously referenced my website a few times and has posed the following question in an article on January 7th 2024: "As far as I know, no one has ever made much of the coincidence in timing between the "Dragon card" and the discovery of Hakari’s body, despite an indirect linkage through the Lass case. Still, why should they?" He added "No one has ever offered a convincing rationale for why Zodiac would have selected the greetings card used in this communication".
I took a look at this communication yesterday - and not totally convinced that the choice of the card necessarily has to have a meaning - I looked at it in respect to Zodiac's previous letter on April 20th 1970, which was mailed the same day the Robert Salem murder broke in the newspapers (with Zodiac having been scrawled in blood at the murder scene), Impeccable timing by a killer who hadn't written for four months, and stated "I hope you have fun trying to fiygure out who I killed". He didn't kill Robert Salem but the uncanny timing of this letter,suggested that he wanted police to think he did.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have been long been argued for the depiction on the "Dragon card", along with gold prospectors suggested by Luigi Warren. If anybody can categorically nail down the card designer's intent behind the image, then we may have a greater possibility of determining if any meaning lay behind its selection. Without this, the card is open to many interpretations, just like the Halloween card mailed on October 27th 1970. Even with the designer's input on the meaning of the image, I have little doubt hundreds of forged connections could be made, depending on what Luigi or I (or anybody else) wanted to sell to the reader.
I took a look at this communication yesterday - and not totally convinced that the choice of the card necessarily has to have a meaning - I looked at it in respect to Zodiac's previous letter on April 20th 1970, which was mailed the same day the Robert Salem murder broke in the newspapers (with Zodiac having been scrawled in blood at the murder scene), Impeccable timing by a killer who hadn't written for four months, and stated "I hope you have fun trying to fiygure out who I killed". He didn't kill Robert Salem but the uncanny timing of this letter,suggested that he wanted police to think he did.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have been long been argued for the depiction on the "Dragon card", along with gold prospectors suggested by Luigi Warren. If anybody can categorically nail down the card designer's intent behind the image, then we may have a greater possibility of determining if any meaning lay behind its selection. Without this, the card is open to many interpretations, just like the Halloween card mailed on October 27th 1970. Even with the designer's input on the meaning of the image, I have little doubt hundreds of forged connections could be made, depending on what Luigi or I (or anybody else) wanted to sell to the reader.
The Dragon card, April 28th 1970 For example, I want to convince the reader that the "Dragon card" having been mailed only eight days after the April 20th 1970 letter, is a continuation of the Robert Salem story, suggesting that police are dragging their feet in connecting Zodiac to this crime. He then selects a card depicting Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to advance his case. In the quest of Don Quixote, the author, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, depicts the struggle between Don Quixote and the Basque squire as an epic combat between equals. Their adventures together begin with Quixote's attack on some windmills which he believes to be ferocious giants. They next encounter two Benedictine friars and, nearby, an unrelated lady in a carriage. Quixote takes the friars to be enchanters who are holding the lady captive, knocks one of them from his horse, and is challenged by an armed Basque travelling with the company. The combat ends with the lady leaving her carriage and commanding those travelling with her to "surrender" to Quixote. Wikipedia.
The story depicts an epic battle: "With the sharp-edged swords of the two valiant and enraged combatants held and raised on high, they seemed to threaten heaven, earth, and the abyss: such was their boldness and bearing. The first to strike a blow was the choleric Basque, and he delivered it with so much force and fury that if his sword had not turned on its way down, that single blow would have been enough to end this fierce combat and all the adventures of our knight; but good fortune, which had greater things in store for Don Quixote, twisted the sword of his adversary, so that although it struck his left shoulder, it did no more than tear through the armor along that side, taking with it as it passed a good part of his helmet and half an ear, both of which, in fearful ruin, fell to the ground, leaving him in a very sad state". Although Don Quixote survived, he would be partially disfigured by having part of his left ear cut off. Robert Salem had his left ear cut off and removed from the crime scene. However, this is a connection, among many, that can be easily fashioned from the "Dragon card". There may be a meaning behind Zodiac's "Dragon card" but I highly doubt this is it. The "Dragon card" has too many variables open to interpretation. Give me a meaning behind the mythical "Dragon" (possibly from a newspaper article in the days or weeks before April 28th 1970 concerning Zodiac) and we may be in business.
Please visit Luigi Warren's Substack to read his analysis of the Zodiac case.
The story depicts an epic battle: "With the sharp-edged swords of the two valiant and enraged combatants held and raised on high, they seemed to threaten heaven, earth, and the abyss: such was their boldness and bearing. The first to strike a blow was the choleric Basque, and he delivered it with so much force and fury that if his sword had not turned on its way down, that single blow would have been enough to end this fierce combat and all the adventures of our knight; but good fortune, which had greater things in store for Don Quixote, twisted the sword of his adversary, so that although it struck his left shoulder, it did no more than tear through the armor along that side, taking with it as it passed a good part of his helmet and half an ear, both of which, in fearful ruin, fell to the ground, leaving him in a very sad state". Although Don Quixote survived, he would be partially disfigured by having part of his left ear cut off. Robert Salem had his left ear cut off and removed from the crime scene. However, this is a connection, among many, that can be easily fashioned from the "Dragon card". There may be a meaning behind Zodiac's "Dragon card" but I highly doubt this is it. The "Dragon card" has too many variables open to interpretation. Give me a meaning behind the mythical "Dragon" (possibly from a newspaper article in the days or weeks before April 28th 1970 concerning Zodiac) and we may be in business.
Please visit Luigi Warren's Substack to read his analysis of the Zodiac case.
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