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THE SHADOW OF MURDER AND COINCIDENCE

9/30/2020

 
Using the words of Mike Oh from That Chapter, this old story involves a man who isn't the Zodiac Killer, but has probably more going for him than 99% of the suspects ever named. Those old coincidences just keep following this bloke around northern and southern California. He first came to the attention of the newspapers on October 21st 1969 regarding the Zodiac case, when he underwent six hours of questioning in Ukiah, California. Bruce Kenneth Swanson (30) was arrested by California Highway Patrol for speeding along Highway 101 (120 mph) just north of Ukiah, suspected of failing to pay a Ridgewood Motel bill. When his vehicle was searched they found a 14-inch knife, a bloody shirt and pair of shoes, and a woman's handbag. They also noted a resemblance to the infamous Zodiac Killer sketch (presumably from Lake Berryessa). However, after Napa law enforcement had traveled to Ukiah for a sit-down with Bruce Kenneth "Gift of the Gab" Swanson, the police allowed him on his merry way, satisfied with his explanations. Wouldn't you just loved to have been a fly on the wall in that interrogation room - but never mind - it probably went something like this: Bruce: "I was driving along the road like a maniac and hit a deer crossing the road, which I had to drag onto the verge, getting blood all over me. Fortunately, I happened to have a change of clothing with me because I was staying at the motel overnight. I bought the 14-inch kitchen knife and the woman's handbag for a female acquaintance of mine". Police Officer: "Ok, sounds reasonable, on your way lad".   
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Bruce Kenneth Swanson grew up in San Bernardino County, was a 1957 graduate of Pacific High School, married his wife Barbara Ann Gaines at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, honeymooned in Santa Barbara and then moved into 1267 Mt. View Avenue, San Bernardino. If this is the correct location. it is 7.5 miles from the Redlands home of Elizabeth Lurene Ernstein (14), who went missing on March 19th 1968, heading back home from Moore Junior High School in Mentone. The home of Bruce Kenneth Swanson was also 11.6 miles from Terracina Drive, the location of Cheri Jo Bates murder. Map.

Tragedy then struck the family of Swanson, with his wife apparently committing suicide and killing their three children. "Mother, 28, Kills 3 Children, Self UPLAND (AP) A 28-year-old woman killed herself and her three small children Saturday by carbon monoxide poisoning, police reported. Officers said Mrs. Barbara Ann Swanson ran a hose from the exhaust pipe of her car into the vehicle and then closed the windows. The children were identified as Eric Edward, 4; Elisa Marie, 3; and Keith Kenneth, 1. Mrs. Swanson's husband, Bruce, 27, earlier had filed a missing person report and was apparently out looking for her the time the deaths occurred, police said." San Bernardino County Sun, December 19th 1966: "The tragedy which destroyed the family of Bruce K. Swanson, 27, occurred after an apparent happy ride in the car by the mother and her children. A service station attendant in La-Verne told Upland police Mrs. Swanson had asked directions to the nearest hamburger stand. The children were dressed in pajamas and bathrobes, the attendant said. In answer to his request that she 'come back soon,' Mrs. Swanson said that she would. But 12 hours later, Mrs. Swanson's husband, worried and tired after an all-night search for his family, walked into a lemon grove adjacent to the yard and found the station wagon".

Much of these details can be found online, but after a bit of brain-storming and endless sleepless nights, I have managed to make potential Zodiac communications and murders follow this man around like a proverbial shadow, turning him into one of those "good old Zodiac suspects" who never was - and will never be the Bay Area murderer in a million years. Off went Bruce Kenneth Swanson from southern California to northern California sometime in the late 1960s, just in time for the Zodiac murders and communications to begin, and nestled himself in Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, Despite the fact he wasn't the Zodiac Killer or a murderer, coincidence would seemingly follow him around.

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On December 1st 1969 Elaine Davis (17), a Pleasant Hill High School senior disappeared from her 158 Pioneer Avenue home in Walnut Creek, believed to have been forcibly removed from the residence by one or more assailants, while in the presence of her three-year-old sister, Heidi. Her glasses and her purse containing four dollars were still in the home. Her parents described Elaine as shy, with no boyfriend or relationship problems at the time of her disappearance. Her mother had driven to nearby Concord at 10:30 pm to pick up her husband from work and was out of the residence for just 45 minutes - and it is during this period of time that Elaine Davis vanished.

On December 19th 1969 the body of a young woman (in 2000, eventually identified as Elaine Davis after an exhumation) was discovered floating off Light House Point near Santa Cruz, CA. The body was decomposed with extensive damage, described as a partial torso with arm-bones and parts of the legs. Santa Cruz's deputy county coroner, Luther Young stated "We'll work on this case until we run out of leads, but right now we have nothing that would indicate any identification. I wouldn't venture to say the body is that of Elaine Davis. We have never ruled on that possibility and we have never ruled it out".

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On Wednesday December 10th 1969 Leona Roberts left her job at the White Front Discount Store in Pleasant Hill (560 Contra Costa Boulevard) at approximately 5:00 pm for the eleven mile journey to her friend's apartment (Greg V. Valo) at 749 Tormey Avenue, Rodeo. This location is only 8 miles from the Lake Herman Road murder site. At about 5:50 pm a neighbor, Susan Clark, heard the sound of a girl screaming, followed by somebody running from the rear of the apartment. A suspicious male was observed many times between the front door and a blue station wagon, before he eventually drove away. The man was described as 25 years old, 5'8", short blond hair and wearing brown trousers and a jacket. A while later her boyfriend arrived home to find a disturbance inside the apartment, scuff marks near the back door and her red Volkswagen parked outside. 

Here is an excerpt from Websleuths by Steph54 "On 28 December 1969, a man searching for driftwood on the beach at Bolinas Lagoon in Marin County found the nude body of Leona Roberts. It was later determined that a unique wristwatch was missing from the girl's wrist, but a Napa High School class ring given to her by a neighbor still remained on her finger. The tan dress she wore when last seen, along with two pairs of bell-bottomed pants, a blouse, a black purse and wallet, a key chain with car and house keys were also reported missing. There were marks on the wrists and ankles indicative of binding, but the coroner was unsure whether they occurred before or after death. The cause of death was reported as "due to viral infection of an unidentified species." It was also reported that there was "evidence of choking which could probably be linked to the virus". link.

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Cosette Ellison (15) disappeared from her 423 Canyon Road, Moraga residence (near Walnut Creek) on Tuesday March 3rd 1970, believed to have been forcibly taken from outside her home after getting off the school bus from Campolinda High School. She was dropped off by bus driver, Eugene Yee, at 3:20 pm, who saw her cross the road and remove some letters from the mailbox before heading along the driveway. The bus driver noticed a man sitting in a truck near the residence. On his return journey 10 minutes later, the truck had edged closer to the driveway of the Ellison household but the occupant was no longer inside. Thirty minutes later, at approximately 4:00 pm, Mr and Mrs Richard Ellison returned to an empty house. Cosette's school books were not in their usual place and no mail had been brought into the house, suggesting something untoward had happened close to the time Eugene Yee passed the Ellison residence. On January 1st 1971, nearly a year after the disappearance of Cosette Ellison, her body was found in a ravine of the Mount Diablo foothills. The residences of 423 Canyon Road and North Gate Road are extremely rural and spread, with a reduced chance of being overseen in the commission of an abduction. This may have been a consideration for the perpetrator, who likely followed school buses to a more remote setting. The risky nature of forcibly removing somebody from outside their residence necessitates a lack of eyewitnesses.

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Patricia King (20) was murdered while attending Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill on March 5th 1970. The college layout has altered over the last 48 years, but we can pinpoint the key locations based on the wording in the newspapers. Patricia King of 2200 Lisa Lane, Pleasant Hill had attended Diablo Valley College for her gym class at 7:00 pm on Thursday evening. Her classmates informed investigators that Patricia usually only stayed for the first hour of her gym class, which is what transpired that evening, when the young woman left the building at approximately 7:50 pm. Her boyfriend was expecting her back at her home and became concerned when she didn't return by 8:15 pm.

Patricia King's body was found by a workman, Ernest Ellington, at 7:20 am the following morning in the DVC Vikings football stadium. She was wearing a black blouse and three-quarter length coat and had been strangled with her own gym tights. The newspaper reports stated "A purse (handbag) with her identification was found on the front seat of her car, in a lot adjacent to the stadium. A pair of leather sandals were on the floorboard. Her car keys were found on the Pleasant Hill campus parking lot Friday afternoon". Detective Sergeant Sam Ginsburg said "it was impossible to tell at this time if the girl knew her slayer. There was no reason for her to go into the stadium area coming to or from the parking lot to the class".

I have placed the relevant locations of these young girls in respect to Pleasant Hill in the Google map above.

Returning back to the Vallejo News Chronicle article reporting on Swanson being quizzed for six hours the morning of October 21st 1969, it stated "He had been arrested by the California Highway Patrol Monday (20th) on US 101 north of Ukiah", obviously with "squealling tires and raceing engine" so as to attract everybody to his car in Mendocino County. The following morning, after his release by Ukiah law enforcement, somebody was driving on Lake Mendocino Drive at 3:00 pm that same day (October 21st 1969) just north of Ukiah and threw a note attached to a twig at an eight-year-old girl. The crudely printed note read "You're Next - Z". A few minutes later, a man asked another eight-year-old girl in Bargain Lane what color panties she was wearing. There had also been a spate of "Zodiac sightings" in nearby Anderson Valley.   
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The San Francisco Chronicle ran an article on November 8th 1969, stating "The string of sadistic calls began on October 23rd 1969 (the day after the Jim Dunbar Show call). On one occasion, the caller told Williams he had gone to a Martinez school in search of victims but had left when he found police there. Another time, the teacher said the caller, whose voice he described as muffled as if speaking through a handkerchief, said he was going to "kill the lady in the blue house". These calls began two days after the Ukiah incidents. 

Daniel Williams (24), a teacher at Salesian High School in Richmond, told police the caller talked of how he intended to kill several persons, then last; Sunday said: “You’re the dead duck.” Williams went out and when he returned home found someone had pried open the screen on a back door. However, a police search showed nothing was missing. But after the officers left and Williams took a drink from a bottle of opened soft drink in his refrigerator, he found it tasted “metallic” and immediately spat it out. Police reported Friday that the bottle contained more than enough arsenic to kill a human being. Williams said the caller identified himself as the still sought Zodiac Killer of five, but police discounted the idea. The caller would “sob and complain of headaches". Williams said, and on one occasion said he had gone to a Martinez school in search of victims but left when he found police there. Williams said the caller told him: “I’m too smart for them".

If the caller had told Daniel Williams that "he had gone to a Martinez school in search of victims", then he didn't have far to travel if he lived in Pleasant Hill. The city of  Martinez is only 6 miles to the north, with the residence of Daniel Williams at 1234 Bush Street a mere 5 miles away.

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Approximately eleven months later, a pasted card, mimicking the 13-Hole Postcard was mailed to the home address of Dr. Edward C. Adams at 102 Camino Don Miguel, Orinda, California, postmarked October 17th 1970 from Berkeley. Edward C. Adams was a psychiatrist. The card read "Mon Oct 12, 1970. Edward Adams. The Zodiac is going to change the way of committing murders. I shall announce when I shall commit my murders, The Adamses are Next. you taught me to mean it. ADAMS YOU ARE NEXT. Zodiac". The home address of Dr. Edward C. Adams is 8 miles from Pleasant Hill.

Seven-and-a-half months later, on June 1st 1971, a woman from South Dora Road, Ukiah complained she had received a series of threatening phone calls from an adult male, one of which stated "This is Zodiac - you're next". Her residence at South Dora Road is only 4 miles from where the threatening note of "You're Next - Z" was thrown to the eight-year-old girl walking on Lake Mendocino Drive. One man is relevant to all these locations, particularly on October 21st 1969. The city of Ukiah is 115 miles from San Francisco, yet here we have two reports of similar threats with extremely similar phraseology, separated by over a year-and-a-half, when the peak of Zodiac activity had subsided.

We have taken Bruce Kenneth Swanson from the Riverside area and the murder of Cheri Jo Bates and Elizabeth Ernstein in 1966 and 1968, through the sad demise of his wife and children, into the heart of northern California and the Pleasant Hill connected murders of Elaine Davis (12/01/69), Leona Roberts (12/10/69), Cosette Ellison (03/03/70) and Patricia King (03/05/70). We have shown the Ukiah connection through two threatening messages of "You're Next - Z" and "This is Zodiac - you're next", to the ominous communication and phone call to Dr. Edward C. Adams in Orinda and Daniel Williams in Martinez. However, Bruce Kenneth Swanson is not the Zodiac Killer, or likely the murderer of any of these young women. This presentation was put together to show how easy it is to create a series of events to paint a picture of perceived involvement in murder. The reason today we have hundreds of suspects in the Zodiac case, many of which are staunchly presented as the Zodiac Killer, is perfect testimony to the frailty of techniques such as this. If these coincidence building techniques were reliable in identifying the Zodiac Killer, everybody would have reached the same conclusion as to who the Bay Area murderer was. The fact we have hundreds of Zodiac Killer's today, is evidence that this approach to case building is wholly flawed. Of course, it goes without saying, that everybody has a better case for their suspect than the one I have presented here.  

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Cragle
9/30/2020 08:08:21 am

Hi Richard,

Just a small alteration for you. In the case of Leona LaRell Roberts, Greg Vaio was her boyfriend only in the platonic sense, She was still engaged to her fiance Bernard Pfister, who was away on military duty, at the time.

Richard
9/30/2020 08:23:41 am

Thanks Cragle.

Mo
9/30/2020 09:06:12 am

Whatever became of Mr. Swanson?

Richard
9/30/2020 10:01:15 am

As of six years ago, I read he was living in Texas.

Shawn
9/30/2020 03:32:17 pm

Richard,

There is talk that you put out so much Zodiac content that you must have a staff of writers.

I hope you pay them well.

:)

Richard
9/30/2020 03:49:48 pm

I haven't heard that talk Shawn, but no, it's strictly just me. And besides, I couldn't afford to employ anyone on a Royal Mail pension. The Zodiac Killer is just a hobby when I'm not down the boozer.

Roger
9/30/2020 04:24:02 pm

You really must find out where he lives and do one of these follow up "live confrontations". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YkUYZSsnbo You can use his astonishment and looks of disinterest and utter chagrin as further "proof" of the man's guilt. Clearly if he does not co-operate or refuses to provide you with straight answers to your very direct questions, this means he must be hiding something. Of course, I am only kidding, but this is the kind of muckraking we would expect from many amateur sleuths! The irony is that this guy could be the Zodiac, but then again, so could 54 million other men who were living in that part of California at the time, many of whom could be "fitted" to the Zodiac scenario by using subjective reasoning and highly cherry-picked information.

Richard
9/30/2020 04:44:06 pm

It reminds me of law enforcement when they interview people in relation to a crime/murder and they are completely open and honest. Then they interview you a second time and ask you all the same questions. Then they interview you a 3rd, 4th and 5th time, and you keep repeating yourself. When they ask you for an interview for the 6th time, understandably you tell them to fuck off and you lawyer up. Then the police say "he's got something to hide, otherwise he'd be cooperative". You simply can't win with irrational logic such as this.

Roger
9/30/2020 03:58:41 pm

Oh wow, what a story and yes, this is exactly the way Zodiac suspects are borne! The newspaper report from the time is just vague enough to allow for different interpretations. For example, it reads as though the police casually dismissed him after 5 seconds, but that probably was not the case. My guess is he would have remained on their radar as a possible suspect for many years after. With that aside, it is astounding how many cases have involved an early suspect who was cleared of any involvement, but who is later discovered to be the culprit, and of course that "fact" alone is grist for the mill for any amateur sleuth who intends to write a book on a Zodiac suspect. Putting it another way, I think to complete this lesson, you should actually write a book, then go on the defensive as other people try to pick holes in it. You could then write another book about the valuable lessons you have learnt from the experience, which would be a refreshing change to the Zodiac case. Most authors of books involving Zodiac suspects end up defending their original script come hell or high water for the remainder of their lives. I have not known of any that have issued a retraction, so once again you could break new ground here. Just kidding. lol!

Richard
9/30/2020 04:35:14 pm

Yup, as you gathered it was an exercise in stringing coincidences together to artificially create a case. In many instances, particularly with theories, the aim is to make as many connections as possible, no matter how weak they are, however, filling a bucket full of 1,000 weak sauces doesn't make a strong bucket of sauce. There are many cases where the early suspects are the eventual killer, but either dismissed through lack of evidence or some flimsy alibi given to them by a family member. The police in this case said Swanson gave them a reasonable explanation. Well, it couldn't have been that believable because it took them six hours to come round. It certainly wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Zodiac Killer has already passed through law enforcement in the Zodiac case at some point, but I sincerely doubt it's any of the usual crew discussed over and over and over again. The fact remains however, that this guy has more going for him than most, despite the fact I would still attribute him a zero percent chance of being Zodiac. Like I said, if techniques like this worked in identifying the Zodiac Killer, we would all arrive at the same name.

BB
10/3/2020 10:03:28 am

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the EVB deal was retracted. Not by Stewart but by the co-author.

Rubislaw 32 link
9/30/2020 05:34:39 pm

From Solano County Sheriff's Office Facebook :

'' The Unabomber , Ted Kacynski was investigated for connections to the Zodiac Killer .However , he was later ruled out as a suspect by the FBI and SFPD .''

Are we allowed to take that as read ?

Anything official ought to come from the case's legal custodian's , the CA DOJ .

So we have led to believe in the last 2-3 years , the Vallejo P.D. still have an active role to play in the case , beyond '' fetch & carry '' requests from the CA DOJ .

And that has turned out to be a complete illusion .

One would think ( ? ) , that any important news should come from the CA DOJ .

irishbrummie01
9/30/2020 07:05:29 pm

For a while there you sounded just like Eve Carson. What a moral dilemma.

Rubislaw 32 link
9/30/2020 07:22:10 pm

Well , Irishbrummie01 , after the debacle of the William Grant surveillance operation in 1973...then closely followed on its heels , by the illegal Husted Report , one would have thought that the Vallejo P.D. would never allow their heads to rise above the parapet , only to be resoundingly ridiculed , once again .

But , they didn't account for the desperation and blind vanity of the double-act that was '' Tom & Terry '' .

irishbrummie01
9/30/2020 10:55:05 pm

How about giving "Tom & Terry" a little break? I think they deserve it, don't you?

irishbrummie01
10/2/2020 12:53:28 am

"Poyser was suspended until the day of his retirement" Where do you get off by making such speculative comments about this detective? He retired due to ill health.

Tom has done more for this case than anyone else I know. Yes he's made mistakes along the way but so what? Every person makes mistakes don't you agree?

Roger
10/2/2020 09:13:12 pm

And what is so "illegal" about Husted's report? It was a criminal investigation and as such can only be considered as a police report. It may contain errors, perhaps even manipulates the facts in order to frame a suspect, but that does not mean it is "illegal". The legality has not been tested in a court of law, so everything and everyone must be deemed innocent until proven guilty. Any notion of legality is therefore purely related to opinion. There is just too much reasonable doubt for anyone to know if the facts presented in the report are entirely truthful or partly fabricated, or to what degree that might be. On reading this report there does seem to be a determined desire on the part of its author to cherry pick highly circumstantial evidence and frame the suspect by way of those circumstances with the addition of mere gossip. I doubt if anything in this report would stand up to scrutiny in a court of law, but once again, this has never been tested, so any concepts of legality we may assign to it are purely our own and purely speculative. It is of course a very poorly written police report. https://www.zodiackiller.com/Walker1.html

Rubislaw 32 link
9/30/2020 06:19:49 pm

It's the elusive '' 8th victim '' that seems to be the outstanding mystery , of the Zodiac's 1969 activity . If that victim ever existed .

From '' 7 '' claimed , on November 8th , to a '' 9th & 10th '' threatened in the letter to Melvin Belli .on December 20th .

What happened ?

Rubislaw 32 link
9/30/2020 06:52:55 pm

If accepting the Zodiac's San Jose correspondence , his two Day-by-Day cards , and two Fairfield letters , the '' 8th victim '' was never accounted for .

'' Truth or lies '' - it is difficult to accept that the Zodiac either couldn't count , or didn't falsely make representation for an '' 8th victim '' .

Is there a missing letter , then ?

Rubislaw 32 link
10/1/2020 11:27:14 am

What I would suggest is , that unlike Snoozy & Furlong , it is possible that an '' 8th victim '' remains a mystery that DOJ criminologists have yet to solve , albeit with certain candidates in mind , such as Elaine Davis and Leona Roberts .

Part of the reason why correspondences like the two Fairfield letter were never ratified may be because puzzles like the Z38 cipher may yet reveal further clues .

Most seasoned followers are aware of this anomaly , and make efforts to give good reasons for a particular victim candidate , but it could be equally the case , that one never existed .

Richard
10/1/2020 11:49:23 am

I wouldn't be surprised if Zodiac had identified a victim as number 8, but left people like us to guess who it was. I don't believe he just invented number 8 without prior knowledge that a victim was a reasonable mark for people to attach Zodiac to. If I had newspapers.com, I would look between the dates of Zodiac's total going up, and attempted to find something speculated as a Zodiac attack. If the November 21st 1969 letter was claiming 8 victims, then he may have identified a victim in the 12 days between November 9th and 21st.

Rubislaw 32 link
10/1/2020 12:29:57 pm

Prior to November 21st sounds a good idea , Richard .

When we see a police report ( Lynch of the Vallejo P.D.) documenting the ESP / Good Citizen letter , 4 days prior to Presidio Heights which , does not even warrant a mention in the FBI Files , it does make one think that there could be one or two Zodiac correspondences , out there , barely heard about .

Mo
9/30/2020 07:33:48 pm

Hey Richard,

Do you know the circumstances that lead five residents of Anderson Valley to claim that they “had seen the killer” as stated by The Ukiah newspaper?

Richard
10/1/2020 02:27:04 am

No Mo, these reports obviously were in the wake of the taxicab shooting, so maybe residents were seeing what they wanted to see, even in Ukiah. Only one person has to claim they saw the Zodiac Killer and before you know it everybody is on high alert and seeing Zodiac everywhere, in a sort of mass hysteria. The Mendocino County authorities had to be seen to cover their backsides, so Captain Hays Hickey of the California Highway Patrol met with authorities on October 20th 1969 to finalize plans for a CHP-Sheriff's Unit Protection on half a dozen or more school buses in the outlying districts of Mendocino County in the wake of Zodiac's threats. Operation Zodiac initially began with three outlying areas covered on October 20th 1969, believing the killer was more likely to threaten areas of a more rural nature. October 20th, the day after the article (Message to the Zodiac Killer) in the Examiner, somebody made a threat to the Palo Alto Times saying he intended "to pick the kids off as they get on the school bus", so all outlying areas upped their security, including Ukiah who had the reported Anderson Valley sightings.


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