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THE SAN FRANCISCO 1973 MURDERS

12/10/2013

 
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Nancy Patricia Gidley (24) was last seen alive on Thursday, July 12th 1973 leaving the Rodeway Inn at 895 Geary Street in San Francisco, forever synonymous with the area that Paul Stine collected his final taxicab passenger, before being callously gunned down in the Presidio Heights district, almost four years earlier on October 11th 1969. Her body was found on Sunday, July 15th 1973, nude and strangled in the grounds of George Washington High School in the Richmond area, although it was believed she was murdered elsewhere. Formerly stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base for four years, until the early months of 1972, Miss Gidley an X-ray technician, arrived in San Francisco in mysterious circumstances, supposedly invited to be the maid of honor at a wedding, which apparently nobody was able to verify. Before leaving her home in Idaho, she also told close friends her intention to work as a freelance writer at the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, but staff at the Chronicle, again, had never heard of her.  
 
This murder was only the tip of the iceberg, that began 47 days earlier, when the body of Rosa Vasquez (20) was discovered close to the Arguello Boulevard entrance to the Golden Gate Park on May 29th 1973. She had been strangled and thrown from the nearby road. Almost three years earlier, Donna Ann Lass disappeared from the Sahara Tahoe Hotel on September 6th 1970 after finishing her shift as a nurse. A few months earlier in June she had moved to South Lake Tahoe from San Francisco, where she had previously been employed as a nurse at the Letterman General Hospital in the Presidio, near the Paul Stine murder scene. Curiously, Rosa Vasquez was also employed at the Letterman General Hospital as a keypunch operator. A keypunch is a device for delivering punch holes at specific locations on a card face, to carry information for a relevant task. This was apparent on two cards possibly mailed by the Zodiac Killer, when the 13-Hole postcard was received on October 5th 1970, along with the Pines card on March 22nd 1971, albeit prior to the murder of Rosa Vasquez. She had been a resident of 834 Bush Street, close to the collective of the Good Times newspaper at 2377 Bush Street, where Zodiac suspect Richard Gaikowski worked as an editor for the publication (although the Good Times had produced its last offering by the turn of 1973).

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Twelve days later, a pregnant Yvonne Quilantang (15) from Delta Street in Visitacion Valley, San Francisco was found strangled in a Bayview district vacant lot on June 12th 1973. She had been out to buy groceries.

Finally, Angela Thomas (16), a resident of Belton, Texas had traveled to San Francisco for brief stay. After a day out in Hayward she visited friends in the Presidio district of San Francisco, but neither of her friends were home at the time and she was last seen walking away from the area at 9:00 pm on Sunday, July 1st 1973. She was found naked and smothered the following day in the grounds of the Benjamin Franklin Junior High School. 

All four had a military connection, a trait often associated with the Zodiac Killer due to a number of factors, which included the Wing Walker footprint impressions taken from the Lake Berryessa crime scene, the Riverside alleyway heel print at the site of Cheri Jo Bates' murder and the possible links to the Vandenberg Air Force Base, due to the lot number of the unspent ammunition at the scene of the Domingos/Edwards murders in 1963.

Nancy Gidley was stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County. Rosa Vasquez was a keypunch operator at Letterman Army Hospital. The father of Angela Thomas was an army sergeant, previously based at the Presidio. And finally, Yvonne Quilantang was having a relationship with a soldier from Missouri (albeit not a strong connection). There is no evidence to suggest that any of these four victims were Zodiac crimes, although there is reason enough to consider these four murders may have been committed by a single perpetrator, due to numerous similarities and occurring within such a short time frame. 

Some researchers believe that Lawrence Kane and the Zodiac Killer may be one and the same, trailing Donna Lass from San Francisco to South Lake Tahoe, having lived at 217 Eddy Street, close to Mason and Geary Streets in San Francisco at the time of the Paul Stine murder. Latterly, working near the workstation of Donna Lass at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel according to former law enforcement officer Harvey Hines. Is it possible he returned in 1973?. Both Donna Lass and Rosa Vasquez murdered, having worked at the same hospital, inside of three years seems unusual, albeit probably coincidental. The identity of the Zodiac Killer may never be known, but did he continue his reign of terror beyond the murder of Paul Stine on October 11th 1969?  

Christen Allen Iman
10/28/2018 12:16:29 pm

San Francisco victim Angela Thomas had left the home of a friend, Robert Garner on Infantry Terrace, Presidio, if you'd like to know where exactly on the base she was last seen alive.
I spoke with Bob many years ago in order to gather details about her personality (victimology)
I was the guy Robert Graysmith referred to as "Craig" on page 253 of Zodiac Unmasked.
I've never met or spoken to Graysmith, but what he quoted me as saying was accurate.
I was discussing my interview with Allen with detectives.
I have some interesting information concerning Leigh and his interest in "polygons". I've seen several if his creations and they certainly link a number if crime scene locations in multiple jurisdictions.
I was writing a book about this but decided not to. Maybe I can give you a few things that might be of help...
My email is:
chrisiman2017@gmail.com

Jim
7/19/2019 06:42:55 pm

Chris.....Sure I'd be interested in any info you may have.


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