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RICHARD GRINELL, COVENTRY, ENGLAND
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THE MISSING LINE IN THE 408 CIPHER?

4/21/2020

 
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The Zodiac Killer made an error when transitioning from cipher two (mailed to the San Francisco Examiner), to cipher three (mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle) in the 408 cipher. Since the Zodiac Killer used the word "people" six times in his July 31st 1969 communications, it's probably a safe bet that the missing word in "The best part of it is that when I die I will be reborn in paradice and all the (?) I have killed will become my slaves", is people. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that the Zodiac Killer ever intended to leave 18 characters at the foot of the 408 cipher - rather 12 characters.

Dave Oranchak, author of the hugely successful website Zodiac Killer Ciphers, managed to stick a giant monkey wrench in this conclusion with an excellent idea, by suggesting that the Zodiac Killer may have inadvertently missed out a whole line from his cipher. Although this may on first consideration seem less likely, it must be noted that row 17 and row 18 would both begin with the letter "E" in the new presentation. Dave Oranchak  came up with an idea for the missing line (shown below left), to which I added a further suggestion (shown below right). The idea behind my suggestion, was utilizing the words chosen by the Zodiac Killer when he threatened to kill more "people" in his July 31st 1969 letters.


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#1. In his communication to the Vallejo Times-Herald, the Zodiac Killer wrote "I will cruse around and pick of all stray people or coupples that are alone then move on to kill some more untill I have killed over a dozen people".

#2. In his communication to the San Francisco Examiner, the Zodiac Killer wrote "
If you do not print this cipher, I will go on a kill rampage Fry night. This will last the whole weekend, I will cruse around killing people who are alone at night untill Sun Night or un till I kill a dozen people".

#3. In his communication to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Zodiac Killer wrote "I will go on a kill ram-Page Fry. night. I will cruse around all weekend killing lone people in the night then move on to kill again, until I end up with a dozen people over the weekend".  

The reason to suspect the missing section of 17 letters/characters would have been "lone or stray people", is because the Zodiac Killer used these exact words in the Vallejo Times-Herald and San Francisco Chronicle above. This suggestion by Dave Oranchak, of the Zodiac Killer accidentally omitting a whole line from his plaintext draft to ciphertext encryption, would have the added benefit of filling 407 of the 408 characters in the cipher.

It is easy to see how the Zodiac Killer may have made this mistake, when his original draft had the letter "E" beginning both row 17 and row 18. A cipher created by the Zodiac Killer using 407 characters out of 408 spaces (arranged 17 X 24) seems far more acceptable. This would have left little room for his identity on the final row, if indeed one was ever meant to be reserved for the final line of the cipher. The only possibility would have been "Z" - now that takes me back a few years. 

Thanks to Dave Oranchak.
BB
4/22/2020 01:15:06 pm

Gaikowski in the dictionary of names goes back to Ireland and Britain.

The unsolved 18 has been linked to the name Robert Emmet {the Irish leader executed for wanting to free Ireland}.

Richard Gaikowski was the ultimate boogie man for Hoover.

He was a communist
He was a journalist
He was against war
He was a peace loving hippie that lived in a commune and wrote about flower power.

'' Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Express Times was one of a number of underground newspapers successfully infiltrated by the FBI, which had a paid informant on the staff. '' {That informant was Purple Blaine aka "Goldcatcher” and “Zakatarious” also Blaine Blaine} .

http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/The%20San%20Francisco%20Express%20Times%20aka%20Good%20Times.htm

''Starting in April 1969 the San Francisco Express Times changed its name to Good Times''

Hoover Hated Hippies - He wanted war and had them shut down.

Richard
4/22/2020 01:46:40 pm

Trouble is, Robert Emmet or Robert Emmet the hippie could never satisfy 12 characters. I have never taken this answer seriously, like the vast majority of people.

Rubislaw 32 link
4/22/2020 07:08:01 pm

I think you make a good point , BB , with :

'' Richard Gaikowski was the ultimate boogie man for Hoover ''

And , a good point , if only on the basis of a perceived stereotype .

I would think it unlikely that the FBI didn't at least , have a small file on Richard Gaikowski , as an underground journalist and potential political subversive .

And ,this would have been , in all probability , 20 years before Gaikowski's spurned lover , Blaine Blaine , came along handing the FBI 100 plus page reports on Gaikowski being the Zodiac , with added Christmas Cards ( one in the month of May )...signed as if by Gaikowski , himself .

The implications are that , the FBI had already crossed Gaikowski off their list of unofficial and personal Zodiac suspects , a long time before Mr.Blaine emerged on the scene as , quote , '' one of the top 3 kooks of all time '' .

BB
4/23/2020 08:53:47 am

"Robert Emmett Rodifer was called Robert Emmett the Hippie and was an actual person that grew up with ALA in Southern California."

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/zodiackillerfr/robert-emmett-rodifer-emmett-the-hippie-t1433.html

Not totally crazy after-all. The unsolved were manipulated purposefully and said to be unsolved. For what reason?
That is where the name identifying the Zodiac would be. But only if it is not covered by switching out a few letters.

Rubislaw 32 link
4/23/2020 09:26:00 am

The Robert Emmett Rodifier link is an extraordinary coincidence ,BB.

On personal experience , I first thought that the perceived anagram to solve , was a reference to Herb Caen .But , then I laboriously went through the same cipher making process , as '' concerned citizen '' and his keys since , I believe that this was the Zodiac's keys , that he sent to Detective Sergeant John Lynch , in a bit of a huff , over witnessing the publication of the Hardens solution , with way too many apparent spelling errors .

The re-enactment of the Zodiac / concerned citizen took me about two days , but worth it , to find out that the Zodiac had employed 8 polyphonic symbols , and that each polyphonic symbol equated to an '' either-or '' choice ( i.e. one of two alphabetic letters , although the keys sheet , sometimes indicated a choice of 4 ).

Anyway...the long and the short of it is , as I am confident that the FBI 's Cryptanalysis Unit found out also....was that with 3 polyphonic symbols deployed in the final line of the 408 , the Zodiac had left behind 8 ( 2x2x2=8 ) different permutations of symbols , that that final line ( plus 1 symbol ) could been .

Hence , whatever the Zodiac might claim , that those final 18 symbols might represent in plain text solution terms , there would be no proof that he would be telling the truth .

Although the Zodiac may well have planned to leave a '' second solution '' puzzle , to be solved , in the form of an anagram...it does appear that he started using those final 18 '' placements '' as '' correcting bay '' to ensure the main solution message worked , to his satisfaction....and therefore sacrificed a viable '' second puzzle '' for the potential cipher breaker , to solve .

My advice to others - forget trying to solve the 18 characters as a viable anagram , and spend more time on the other ciphers or cryptograms , instead .

BB
4/23/2020 12:13:29 pm

This is no longer a legal matter.
They say that there is no statue of limitations on murder.
That is not necessarily the absolute truth.
After 50 years things become history.
The criteria for things to be labeled historic is 50 years.
DB Cooper and the 1962 escape from Alcatraz have been dropped by LE.
People are curious so they will continue to seek the name of the Zodiac
But LE does not care. They have made it past the 50 year time period.
They are not going to be given any more money to go after a ghost.
The legal case that could be built up could easily be defeated in court.
This case is dead. People just want to know his name for history's sake.
That's all anyone can hope to ask? Who was the Zodiac?

Rubislaw 32 link
4/23/2020 02:44:08 pm

Yes , the case for a solution doesn't look in great shape , and particularly as two years has slipped by , since GSK's arrest , with high expectations beyond this piece of criminal history .

It can only be solved , on cases after the Bay area era . What those cases are , remain to be seen , although I believe I have a fair idea . All I can do , at present is highlight to politicians , that they have been lied to , in the last five years , and focus them on my concerns that the judiciary are walking related cases to that of the Zodiac's , ''out of time '' as you intimate .

Did they bite off more than they can chew ? I fear so , but hope not .

BB
4/23/2020 05:06:02 pm

"the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am,
1 December 1948, on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia." Wikipedia

1941 there was a weird murder in New Orleans of a California man called Alfred "Bud" Lord whose body was found on a deserted wharf (the police suspected he was dragged there from another part of town as his shoes had signs of red clay on them, which wasn't available in the crime scene/docks area) dressed all fancy with a bullet in his head, inside his belt the killer inserted a small torn-up piece of paper with the inked text (handwriting that resembles the 1960s "zodiac"): "He knew too much. too bad!

http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=96&t=3424

These two murder mystery's resemble one another - The bodies propped up on the beach etc. etc. etc.
I wonder what is going on - Is this a technique learned.
Like in a "How to book" how to get away with murder by misleading detectives with baffling clues?

Rubislaw 32 link
4/23/2020 07:34:55 pm

Of interest BB .

I shall probably spend the next few days , anyway , garnering the attention of another politician , in mind . And , it would serve no constructive purpose , other than further speculation on other crimes ,I believe , were committed by the Zodiac...but , on the basis of transparency , one crime I will be bringing to the attention of the next politician , will be the disappearance and murder of Joan Webster , a Zodiac outlier case , that does receive a number of pages of attention , in the FBI's Zodiac Files .

Beyond the murder of Cheri Jo Bates , it ought to be noted that Joan Webster is the next outlier murder case , in terms of the FBI's quantity of attention .

For , Donna Lass has not even proven to have been murdered , nor actually deceased .

Just to point any readers , to '' Joan Webster's Bearded Man '' , easily accessed on Google images . This composite represents the description given , by a taxi driver at Logan Airport , Boston , after a face to face altercation , with the Bearded Man , Ms.Webster was last seen with , in November 1981 .

The Zodiac , 12 years on from Presidio Heights ? I believe so .

BB
4/24/2020 02:54:56 pm

On July 20, 1969, Ben Villarreal arrested Donald Warren Porter for Darlene's murder.

I can't find where I read - Ben Villarreal was involved with more than just BRS.

Rubislaw 32 link
4/24/2020 07:35:04 pm

Interesting - presume Mr.Porter was arrested '' on suspicion of '' , and released , shortly after ?

BB
4/25/2020 02:38:41 pm

April 25th 1934 Don Cheney the guy that sets-up ALA

On April 25, 1972, 20-year-old Jeannette Kamahele was last seen hitchhiking on the Cotati on-ramp off of Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, California.
https://counteverymystery.blogspot.com/2020/04/disappearance-of-jeannette-kamahele.html
Near ALA's home - on Don's 38th B-day
Today is April 25th - Daliday
Happy 86th B-day Don - You hated ALA to death.

Donald L Cheney = z13
D = cross hair symbol

BB
4/25/2020 07:53:13 pm

Celtic new years day is called Samhain October 28 - November 3
Most just cut through the red tape and say Halloween.
Their writing looks like stick figures and is called Olgam
Their calendar is 13 months and is based on the phases of the moon.
The months are named after trees. April is the willow.
Sam is a popular name for Celts and is the name of god.
April 28 - May 3 is Beltane Day Celtic first day of summer
Yule begins on December 20.
October is the only month with no tree - instead it is ivy.
The murders in October were next to ivy.

https://www.learnreligions.com/celtic-tree-months-2562403

Rubislaw 32 link
4/26/2020 06:29:40 am

If we take the Zodiac's cross hairs symbol back to its originality , it has to be acknowledged that it is the sign of the '' Celtic Cross ''.

BB
4/26/2020 09:01:10 am

Ogham not olgam oops

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham

BB
4/26/2020 09:06:44 am

The back ward F in the 408 key
is Ogham for D

BB
4/26/2020 10:41:16 am

I'm just learning the Celtic stuff - so I noticed another mistake I made, - The new year month is November and is represented by the reed plant.
The place the Zodiac chose to kill Stine had trees for street names.
https://www.learnreligions.com/celtic-tree-months-2562403
Also the name Cheney may be French for Oak tree. It (oak) represents the 7th month June 10 - July 7. The Celtic letter D is the 7th letter of their alphabet. Is the murder at BRS 777? And LB representing 999 for 9/27/69?

And in old times October 10th or 11th was a Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel called Michaelmas.

"Marked the beginning and end of the husbandman year in medieval England, harvest is over, the accounts are settled for the year".

https://www.packrat-pro.com/celts/celtholidays.htm

BB
4/26/2020 11:33:56 am

The Reed Moon was called Negetal, pronounced nyettle by the Celts, and is sometimes referred to as the Elm Moon...

https://www.learnreligions.com/celtic-tree-months-2562403

Exact dates for these holidays can't be pinned down. They have been lost over time.

LB murder sight was Twin Oak Ridge.
Bryan Hartnell towered over the killer.
To state the obvious - he should have either fought or ran.
Fight or flight is always the right answer.
Never do like Katie Couric told the 911 victims and just
hunker down and wait for help to come.
Hundreds died listening to that BS.
Mother Nature (the only god) gave you adrenaline for a reason.
Learning from others mistakes is the best way to learn.
First hand leaves scars.

BB
4/27/2020 10:56:57 am

George Washington High School opened on August 4, 1936

BB
4/29/2020 05:45:07 pm

Yggdrasil Day, celebration of the world tree Yggdrasil, of the reality world it represents, of trees and nature — 22 April. - This is also the date for Earth-day.

Wheel of the Year - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year

This pagan Holiday is on April 22nd may correspond to the April 22, 1986 the murders of Koy Ien Saechao and Choy Fow Salee for the Zodiac killer. And the Wheel of the Year may be akin to the Wheel of Doom.

Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense mythical tree that plays a central role in Norse cosmology, where it connects the Nine Worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil

Perhaps the Zodiac was borrowing ideas from various pagan sources to fulfill his gathering of slaves notion.

BB
4/30/2020 02:33:48 pm



Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 – April 11, 1916) was an American journalist

Davis died of a heart attack on April 11, 1916, while on the telephone. It was seven days before his 52nd birthday. His friend and fellow author John Fox, Jr. was surprised by his sudden death, writing, "He was so intensely alive that I cannot think of him as dead—and I do not. He is just away on another of those trips and it really seems queer that I shall not hear him tell about it." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis

Could Ray Davis be a sacrifice to Richard Davis. They're tragic deaths were both reported on April 11.
Richard was involved with the yellow journalism associated with Hearst's Spanish American war.
The Zodiac almost seemed to be working for the Hearst's. Only making his hits seem like random killings?
r h could stand for Randolph Hearst. April 11 is a Daliday. The Ripper and the Zodiac sold a lot of newspapers.

Rick Hanson
8/24/2020 06:55:16 pm

What bamboozlement...The last eighteen are solvable, the errors are intentional and it is not "ALL THE (PEOPLE) I HAVE" it is "ALL THEY HAVE" and the "Y" for the last "I" in the eighteen is part of the solve.


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