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THE SECRET CODES OF ZODIAC

5/20/2020

 
THE 340 CIPHER WAS CRACKED ON DECEMBER 3RD 2020 BY DAVE ORANCHAK, SAM BLAKE AND JARL VAN EYCKE, SO THIS EARLIER ARTICLE SHOULD BE VIEWED IN RESPECT TO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.
PictureEdgar Allan Poe
On October 22nd 1969, the San Francisco Examiner and Dr. D.C.B. Marsh of The American Cryptogram Association designed a newspaper article with the express intention of trapping the narcissistic Zodiac Killer into inadvertently giving us his name, by carefully dropping key words into the framework of the article. The Zodiac Killer, it can be argued, took up the challenge and was led by the wording in the article. Dr. D.C.B. Marsh stated "The killer wouldn't dare, as he claimed in letters to the newspapers, to reveal his name in the cipher to established cryptogram experts. He knows, to quote Edgar Allan Poe, that any cipher created by man can be solved by man". 

It is perfectly conceivable that by dropping the name of Edgar Allan Poe, who was synonymous with coded challenges to his audience, into the newspaper article in an offhand way, Dr. D.C.B. Marsh was probably hoping the Zodiac Killer would use the techniques of Poe in offering us his name in subsequent ciphers. This would allow Marsh to narrow down the avenues of encryption used in any future Zodiac correspondence. When we consider the November 8th 1969 and April 20th 1970 codes of Zodiac, in comparison to Poe's A Few Words on Secret Writing, it is conceivable that the Zodiac Killer brought an essay from the last century into the heart of the Bay Area and presented this historic offering to The American Cryptogram Association.

So, after reading this newspaper article, the Zodiac Killer toddled off to the nearest library and searched for the works of Edgar Allan Poe. He arrived at A Few Words on Secret Writing - and remembering that Marsh had invited him to create a cipher "however complicated" - the Zodiac Killer took a prompt from the Poe essay and did completely the opposite. Wouldn't it be expected by observers, having had his 408 cipher cracked in a matter of days by the Harden's - and being challenged by Marsh to create a cipher "however complicated" - that the Zodiac Killer would dish out the mother of all ciphers. A cipher so devilishly fiendish, we would still be sweating over it 50 years later. The Zodiac Killer, knowing this would be expected of him, did completely the opposite and created a cipher on November 8th 1969 so unbelievably easy, that it still slipped through the cracks of the over-thinking mind. Not only that, but he got his idea from the wording of Edgar Allan Poe, as Marsh had hoped. 

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The essay of Poe stated "Many of the cryptographs were dated in Philadelphia, and several of those which urged the subject of a bet were written by gentlemen of this city. Out of, perhaps, one hundred ciphers altogether received, there was only one which we did not immediately succeed in resolving. This one we demonstrated to be an imposition — that is to say, we fully proved it a jargon of random characters, having no meaning whatever". The Zodiac Killer wasn't one in a hundred, more like one in several million, so he certainly wasn't going to play by the rules. He now knew that he was going to create a cipher of nonsense, but not entirely without meaning.

The Zodiac Killer studiously continued down the essay just one paragraph, until the wording triggered off the second light bulb in his head. It stated "A very common, and somewhat too obvious mode of secret correspondence, is the following. A card is interspersed, at irregular intervals, with oblong spaces, about the length of ordinary words of three syllables in a bourgeois type. Another card is made exactly coinciding. One is in possession of each party. When a letter is to be written, the key-card is placed upon the paper, and words conveying the true meaning inscribed in the spaces. The card is then removed and the blanks filled up, so as to make out a signification different from the real one. When the person addressed receives the cipher, he has merely to apply to it his own card, when the superfluous words are concealed, and the significant ones alone appear. The chief objection to this cryptograph is the difficulty of so filling the blanks as not to give a forced appearance to the sentences. Differences, also, in the handwriting, between the words written in the spaces, and those inscribed upon removal of the card, will always be detected by a close observer".

Or, the card is punched with 13 holes, which when placed in true 'Dick Tracy' style over the 340 cipher, reveals the skeletonized version of Paradice and Slaves bisecting the cipher, 17 by 17 in cruciform. The rest of the 340 cipher filled with random noise, but fashioned in such a way to give the appearance of design, by forming the tell-tale signs of a real cipher. The Zodiac Killer even had the brazen cheek to correct one character of nothing, thereby feeding the false notion of a cipher he was conscientiously trying to get right. He even had the time to sign his work of art on the bottom line of his masterpiece. A work of art, but a work of fiction, that has been believed as credible for longer than Robert Graysmith. 

Several paragraphs later, and in order, the Zodiac Killer arrived at the Marsh trigger. Remember the challenge laid down by the eminent cryptographer: "Zodiac has not told the truth in his cipher messages to the Examiner, the Chronicle and the Vallejo Times-Herald. Zodiac has not done this, because to tell the complete truth in relation to his name - in cipher code - would lead to his capture. I invite Zodiac to send The American Cryptogram Association a cipher code, which will truly and honestly include his name". This challenge is whirring around Zodiac's brain when he observes the piece of text in Poe's essay that mimics the challenge of Marsh. The text reads "This challenge has elicited but a single response, which is embraced in the following letter. The only quarrel we have with the epistle, is that its writer has declined giving us his name in full. We beg that he will take an early opportunity of doing this, and thus relieve us of the chance of that suspicion which was attached to the cryptography of the weekly journal above-mentioned — the suspicion of inditing ciphers to ourselves. The postmark of the letter is Stonington, Conn. S———————, CT., APRIL 21, 1841".

When we consider the challenge of Dr. D.C.B. Marsh to encourage the Zodiac Killer to give us his name in cipher form, with an encryption technique of a split alphabet presented in A Few Words on Secret Writing (shown below) - in combination with the postmark of April 21st above - then it is rather revealing that Zodiac should begin his April 20th 1970 cipher with "This is the Zodiac speaking. By the way have you cracked the last cipher I sent you. My name is....", and form it into 13 characters beginning with A, and ending with M. The Zodiac Killer was kind of mischievous like that.

It turned out that Zodiac didn't give us his name in full in the 13 character cipher, but he did give us something. 


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Rubislaw 32 link
5/20/2020 05:11:34 am

Hidden Codes .

Certainly of interest , but I would equally suggest , perhaps mischievously , that the majority of Zodiac followers are '' close to '' desperate to know the name of the Zodiac Killer ( ? ) .

That has never troubled me , and see the Zodiac's '' core motive '' has far more of importance . To understand , at least . nine tenths of the reason for him doing what he did . And , within the context of the Bay area reign of terror , was the Zodiac a '' player '' in this unfolding opera , for whom we have some awareness ( ? ) .

In recent correspondences with some who regard themselves as followers of the D B Cooper case , it is apparent that the majority believe that D B Cooper was both the Skyjacker and author of letters attributed to him . So , they believe that DB Cooper survived the fall , and then went on to practice '' small-time '' extortion , through correspondences . And , because they believe this scenario , then start to look for hidden meaning in those letters - including hidden but identifiable codes , that then require solving , once identified .

A sense , if you will , of one thing leading on to another , with the core motive of the '' solver '' , to find D B Cooper's real name .

I believe that the Zodiac was the author of the letters to D B Cooper , but clearly not the '' jumper '' and , in no way or form , left clues behind , as to his real identity .

But , with the Zodiac's own body of correspondence work , as claimed by him , The Zodiac , there is enough in quantity to believe that , and as time went on , he might just dangle something close to a real name , as a prize for tackling one of his puzzles , as Dr. Marsh dared him to .

Well ,if it is of any interest to others , I have the Zodiac down for having left a name , of sorts , in both his 1990 Celebrity Cypher and his solution to the riddle expressed , related to Z263 , contained within the 1988 New Canaan Letters .

So, April 1988 and September 1990 , the Zodiac might have started to become a little more daring....in his own sense of himself , that is .

But , twenty years earlier , the Zodiac was riding a crest of a wave , if only for about 15 months , with the authorities often seeming to be '' putty in his hands '' .

Why should the Zodiac give up his identity , and with it , himself ?

Back then , there were two golden rules , to which the Zodiac adhered :

Don't soil your own back yard...and don't give away your name .

Toots
5/20/2020 08:20:18 pm

I'm certainly interested in hearing more about Philadelphia, Poe, and his cryptogram. Especially since my suspect was originally from Philadelphia, then returned there in 1980 after being in Bay Area from late 60's.

Tom1
5/21/2020 07:13:43 pm

It was designed not to be solved, so by definition it is not a cipher. It is a word puzzle that requires an overlay and a key. Neither one exists. In addition to that it is gibberish

Rubislaw 32 link
5/21/2020 09:33:03 pm

He who laughs last , laughs longest (? ).

Interesting that Dr.Marsh's challenge to the Zodiac , with its Edgar Allen Poe allusion , came on October 22nd 1969 .

For , Dr.Marsh and the FBI . in particular , may not have had to wait long , for a reply of sorts from the Zodiac :

The ( presumed ) Zodiac's San Jose Cryptogram of November 21st 1969 , and just one month later .

If ,as I claim , the solution to be correct :

'' 0 - 1 , FBI - 0 ''

And , inferring : '' Eggman - One , Eggmen - Nil '' .

A '' buy in '' to '' I am the Walrus '' , A Lennon and McCartney song , whose verse ends with the line :

'' Man , you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe .''

But , this little tale probably didn't end there , with grounds for believing that the FBI got their own back on the Zodiac , more than likely , after the conviction of The New York Zodiac , Heriberto Seda , in 1996 , conceivably publishing a Zodiac cipher ( Flag / Totem Pole ) , and placing it beside an Edgar Allen Poe misquote , from Seda :

'' Sleep my little dead how we loathe them . ''

The Flag / Totem Pole cipher is very likely to have been the work of the real Zodiac who , would have been confronted with counter-intelligence's little revenge , on a return to cipher making , as illustrated by the cipher's solution :

'' This is the Zodiac speaking . I am in control . Who masters be ready for more . Yours truly . ''

Perhaps a case of a game that started with Dr,Marsh , and ended with the FBI ( ? ) . With the Zodiac having been up for the challenge , and Edgar Allen Poe becoming used as the '' tools of engagement '' .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/21/2020 09:47:02 pm

And indeed , this is what I am suggesting . The Zodiac did answer Dr,Marsh's challenge , one later .With the name that the Zodiac gave as :

The Walrus .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 05:43:07 am

So often is the case that internet contributors , frustrated with the Zodiac's ciphers , and not having definitively found the Zodiac's real name , say something along the lines of :

'' Well , the Zodiac's 408 cipher is the only one that has been solved .''

I beg to differ !

The following are the Zodiac's cipher , for which I suggest that the FBI's Cryptanalysis Unit have solved ( ..and we with due credit to , and acknowledgement of The Hardens and Heck brothers...) :

1 ) The 408 cipher in its entirety , with 8 polyphonic symbols deployed , and '' no solution '' to the final 18 characters being availed by the Zodiac ( concerned citizen ) .

2 ) The San Jose Cryptogram , with its inferred solution , as '' The Walrus '' , in answer to Dr.Marsh's request .

3 ) Z148 and knowledge that the Zodiac was still making pathetic attempts to claim for Karl Werner's three victims .

4 ) Z263 , and originally offered to George Webster , father of murder victim , Joan Webster .

5 ) The Flag / Totem Poles cipher , circa 1996 .

The FBI may also have solved Scorpion's S2 , S3 , and S4 ciphers ( The Zodiac when a frequent flyer to Newark Airport ) . In additon , a partial solution to The Albany Cipher .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 05:58:25 am

And , may I suggest , the Zodiac still didn't give up his real name , with his '' My name is ----'' cipher , the following year .

From first offering the inferred '' The Walrus '' , the Zodiac , and off his own bat , then went and offered '' Son of the Mighty Caliph '' .

The sheer cheek of it all ?

More fool '' us '' , if we feel that we have been cheated , for , the Zodiac turned out to be a lying and duplicitous scoundrel , whenever it suited his purposes .

Toots
5/22/2020 06:09:58 am

I'm confident he gave his name in the first 12 chars of the Albany cipher.

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 06:24:55 am

For me , anyway , Toots , though others may feel different , the Zodiac's Albany Cipher offered '' Donnie H Henly '' , and gave reference to '' Albany Vehical Center ''.

With the Zodiac alluding to the start of his love affair with cars .

'' Donald Hugh Henley '' is better known as simply '' Don Henley '' , drummer and lead vocalist of the band , '' Eagles '' .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 06:36:28 am

And , just to underline , Mr.Henley is NOT the Zodiac .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 08:43:22 am

The Zodiac is '' Alive and well '' ?

This usage of the term '' Alive and well '' has been observed three times in three years . Were the three correspondences all the work of the Zodiac ?

D B Cooper letter #3 December 1971, Oregon 970 postmark , letter sent to the Oregonian Newspaper :

'' Am alive and well in hometown P.O. ( Portland Oregon )...''

Signing : D B Cooper

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Albany Letter , August 1973 , postmarked Albany , New York .

'' I am not dead or in hospital . I am alive and well...''

Signed : ( Zodiac cross hairs symbol )

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August 1974 Nova Scotia Letter , postmarked Truro , Nova Scotia .

'' Pat Huerst is alive and well in San Jose , Calif....''

Signed : Mr.X For the S.L.A.

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Alive and well - Dec. 1971, 970 Oregon
Alive and well - Aug. 1973, Albany , New York
Alive and well - Aug, 1974, Truro , Nova Scotia

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2001 New Years Card , January 2001

'' You thought I was dead ? No way ! ''

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BB
5/22/2020 02:01:13 pm

2001 New Years Card , January 10th 2001.

How can Randolph or Avery have had this sent?

They died the month before. Was the most famous cop of all time (Dirty Harry) once again
trying to keep the character (the Zodiac) alive?
Or was it the cartoonist
Rob Graysmith whom wrote "The Laughing Gorilla" about a laughing serial killer that terrorizes San Francisco.

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 02:31:06 pm

That's a great spot on Randolph , BB .

So , we have :

Paul Avery : April 2nd 1934 - December 10th 2000

Randolph Apperson Hearst : December 2nd - December 18th 2000

I think that the 2001 New Years Card was from the Zodiac , mostly motivated by '' Secret Pal '' Paul Avery's death . But , Randolph Hearst's death may have expedited the sense of urgency , in picking an appropriate time , to make a figurative appearance , as which materialised in the New Years Card .

Retrospectively , the first three films featuring '' Dirty Harry '' , which were '' Dirty Harry '' ( 1971 ) , '' Magnum Force '' ( 1973 ) and '' The Enforcer '' ( 1976 ) , really had used up the best of cinema audience's interest and , although '' Sudden Impact '' ( 1983 ) and '' The Dead Pool '' ( 1988 ) saw a belated return to the series , the novelty of a San Francisco detective , in a Harris Tweed jacket , dishing out his own version of the law , had worn off .

By 2000 , Clint Eastwood was making a successful return to , and popularising the '' Western '' genre again . But ,as we have found out , in the last year , there was at least a nod in Eastwood's direction , from the Zodiac , with the 1990 Celebrity Cypher .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 02:35:52 pm

Randolph Hearst , born in 1915 .

BB
5/29/2020 12:05:08 pm

Z13 - RANDOLPHEARST

1-The 888 slots spell Poe

2-The D is in the Zodiac's cross sign slot

3-The editors [during the Zodiac period] Hearst and Avery of the Chronicle and the Examiner die Dec. 2000. The Zodiac comes out of a long hibernation January 2001.
Happy New Year is declared to be Jan. 10, 2001 by the Zodiac on that first Daliday.

4 In most western societies the first born male is the inheritor. However in the bible
as in Hearst's family it is the last born male that is the heir apparent. Randolph Hearst took over the father's pride "The Examiner". Though there were three papers used by the Zodiac character - the tells always pointed to "The Examiner." as being his home.

Richard
5/29/2020 12:26:51 pm

Type Edgar Allan Poe here

http://landmarkbiblebaptist.net/666-888.html

BB
5/29/2020 04:32:46 pm

EDGAR ALLAN POE = 666 that's interesting

I typed in RANDOLPHEARST = 906 - 18 (6+6+6) = 888

BB
5/30/2020 06:18:24 pm

DONALD J TRUMP = 888

BB
5/22/2020 03:41:31 pm

It seems a bit wacky to talk like this.
But, this way should be explored.
The world of comics. That is the Zodiac's world.

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 04:33:50 pm

Absolutely agreed as an influence , on the Zodiac who , was almost certainly reading '' The Funny Papers '' , before he started an appetite for the '' grown up '' newspapers .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 03:56:37 pm

Just on a shared contemplation of the 1990 Celebrity Cypher , this selection of Carmel beach '' almost certainly '' had Clint Eastwood in mind , if not a general threat by inference , of the wealthy and famous , close to the Bay area , from the Zodiac . With Clint Eastwood's Mayor role only recently relinquished .

I have expressed a sense that the FBI had been reluctant to allow the Vallejo P.D. , to give Lyndon Lafferty the postcard picture , with the '' plain side '' cipher , in 2006 , for strategic reasons , to do with the politics of the affluent .

But , given that there seems repeating evidence that often is the case that the FBI leek into the public , possible Zodiac correspondence , for purposes of feedback , then it may be the case that the FBI denied Lafferty the picture , for the following reason :

The FBI Cryptanalysis Unit had failed to solve the 1990 Celebrity Cypher , in 16 years of trying . They probably concluded that they , the Cryptanalysis Unit had been too swayed by a Clint Eastwood link to the cipher's solution , on account of the '' Celebrity '' name , and the depiction of Carmel Beach .If they were to receive any worthwhile solution suggestions , then better it be to withhold the picture which , had seemed to handicap their , the FBI's attempts .

Quite probably , as simple a reason as that .

But , what does seem to be the case is , that the FBI are / were convinced of the 1990 Celebrity Cypher's Zodiac authenticity , from the very beginning .

BB
5/22/2020 06:55:21 pm

Rubislaw 32

Did you read my book I posted under
THE DER FUHRER DEATH LIST

Rubislaw 32 link
5/22/2020 09:05:36 pm

So many references for me , I decided to set it aside for now , BB , but will look at it in more detail , soon .

Only in as much as I am mostly back on the FBI vaults , at present .

I will be back , with questions to ask , after my '' FBI Journey '' ( ! ) .

BB
5/29/2020 09:04:04 am

No bother - I screwed up again - as usual. I'm referring to the idea of the Red Hood.

It is not mine.

I just found out that Howard Davis had already figured it out back in the year 2003.

Oh well, I guess someone could use it as a case study. The lesson being to do plenty of research to find-out if someone has already been there. I had thought arrogantly that I actually discovered something of my own. This case is so thrashed over that there is noting left but piles of picked thru scrap.

At any rate it shows that Howard's discovery is a sound one. The proof is in the time line. Bates killing in 1966. Batman could be CJB's Father. And the Joker/The Red Hood was his enemy. The ultimate super-villain who later called himself The Zodiac (only doing so to blame his SF activity on ALA then get away scott clean). The Batman TV show also began in 1966. The r h signature is 1966 - when the construction workers stored the desk with the poem.

Rubislaw 32 link
5/23/2020 06:52:01 am

I am often accused of being too cryptic , myself , and so , if anyone is interested , or desires to draw comparisons with their personal names ,I will just state in a succinct manner , some names offered by the Zodiac.

Dr.Marsh's challenge - The Walrus

'' My name is ---'' cipher - '' Son of the Mighty Caliph '' ( Ali Baba )

Albany Cipher - Don Henley

The Exorcist Letter - D B Cooper

1990 Celebrity Cypher - Frederick the Great

In addition , that the Zodiac's bomb location was at Candlestick Park.

Perhaps , some may be unaware that Frederick the Great is often regarded by historians as the greatest military tactician of all . And , a personal hero of both Robert E.Lee and Winston Churchill .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/23/2020 05:27:58 pm

Here's another :

Z263 Riddle - Barbara Eden drew the symbol ( An ingot ) , for Wayne Rogers .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/23/2020 08:23:55 am

Don Henley is an interesting one . For the implications are that the Zodiac was familiar with a '' teenage'' Henley , working part-time for his father , Con Henley's car spare parts business .

Don was brought up , with his father and mother , Hughlene , in LInden , on the east side of Dallas , Texas .Some of father , Con's business would be made , at travelling automobile fairs , and a regular fair at Albany , on the west side of Dallas , provided good income .

I have already informed the FBI of this .

Interesting, that a possible Texas link cropped up , with the Santa Claus Card .

But , Texas is a very big State .

BB
5/23/2020 10:59:07 am

1941 is the year that;

1 - WWII began Dec.7th
2 - Orson Welles movie Citizen Kane was released
3 - The Joker was invented - the ultimate comic book super-villain
4 - The killer's cross like signature was first used

1951 William Randolph Hearst dies.
1951 the comic book story arc in the Batman and Detective Comics [DC] series is revealed.

Randolph Apperson Hearst : December 2nd 1915 - December 18th 2000
He was age 26-36 during that time period and age 46-56 during the Zodiac killer time 1961-1971 so probably not the killer but he did become chairman of the Hearst board 1973 coincidentally the same year the SLA began. Then on February 4, 1974, 19-year-old Patty Hearst two weeks before her 20th birthday was kidnapped from her Berkeley California apartment by the "lefty" guerrilla group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. They were more like terrorist gun nuts and doomsday freaks and bank robbers than fighters for equality. They were made up mainly of black prison convicts and under-educated meaning of life seeking whites. Hence the "symbiotic" term in SLA was to stand for that relationship between poor black and rich white working together for the goal of equality.
Even the overly cautious Jeffery Tobin says Patty did not have Stockholm syndrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpDcW1GlbNM&list=PLLKPcwhV3wAlpTD7zqOM4_2qTyJ42a2yT&index=12

BB
5/23/2020 11:49:45 am

Richard
Drew Beeson found some more interesting things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIY6mrIYHSc

Rubislaw 32 link
5/23/2020 12:43:17 pm

BB , do you think , or maybe a supporter ( ? ) of believing that '' R A.'' , left in the '' Real Estate '' person ad. , 1976 , was meant to stand for Randolph Apperson ?

BB
5/23/2020 01:27:50 pm

Ron Allen?
Don Cheney's BFF

Rubislaw 32 link
5/23/2020 01:52:19 pm

I see , Ron Allen .

I have seen a possible ALA link to the July 1978 letter.

Are there others , that you perceive , BB ?

It can matter not what a popular census thinks , it does seem to be the case that , historically , investigating police appeared to take more interest in ALA , than any other suspect . Though it a given that law enforcement weren't legally allowed to take an interest in Grant , after 1973 .

BB
5/23/2020 02:38:26 pm

Rodney J Alcala was born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala-Buquor in San Antonio, Texas August 23, 1943

https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/alcala-rodney.htm

Rubislaw 32 link
5/23/2020 04:40:23 pm

Oh yes , The '' Dating Game Killer '' .

Born in San Antonio , Texas . Killed in California and New York . On Death Row , since 1980 .

Interesting , that the suggestion made about Alcala was that he started killing again , after being rejected by his TV date , who called him '' creepy '' (...unsurprising ? Lol...).

The inference , as psychological commentary , that '' rejection '' is the most usual motivator for a serial killer , to re-offend .

Rubislaw 32 link
5/23/2020 07:31:53 pm

Interesting perhaps , that Alcala was a specialist strangler .He enjoyed the thrill of bringing his victims in and out of consciousness , extending their lives for a long period , for his gratification .

From what we know of the Zodiac , so far , it seems that he wasn't one to hang around , nor cared about concealing his victims .

But , if the Zodiac went on to kill again , it might have been partly because he missed it , as something empowering , and therefore may have considered the act itself , as something for which to derive pleasure . Although what we witness of him as a phenomenon , suggests that reading or hearing news about his accomplishments , would have still been high on his priorities .

I had not realised , till recently , that Jack the Ripper was exclusively a strangler , on documented evidence , anyway . And , he strangled quickly , as well as desecrating his victims quickly , also .

No evidence , so far , that the Zodiac desecrated his victims , but like Jack the Ripper it would appear that he desired to leave the crime scene ASAP .

BB
6/24/2020 09:30:38 am

Yes the RIP would silence them by strangulation first

otherwise too much noise - screaming - but they were

not dead yet because the heart was still pumping blood.


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    The Zodiac Killer may have given us the answer almost word-for-word when he wrote PS. The Mt. Diablo Code concerns Radians & # inches along the radians. The code solution identified was Estimate: Four Radians and Five Inches To read more, click the image.
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