KSZL is a commercial radio station that is licensed to and serves Barstow, San Bernardino County, California, United States. The station is owned by California Communications of Barstow, LLC and broadcasts a news/talk format. The station first signed on in 1947 as KWTC. Originally owned by William T. Brown, Burton C. Boatwright, and Robert E. Reno—doing business as Mojave Valley Broadcasting Company. In June 1950, KWTC joined the Liberty Broadcasting System, an early radio network that carried live re-creations of Major League Baseball games.
On March 13th 1971, the Zodiac Killer mailed a letter to the Los Angeles Times newspaper in response to him being connected to the murder of Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside on October 30th 1966. The letter stated "This is the Zodiac speaking Like I have allways said, I am crack proof. If the Blue Meannies are evere going to catch me, they had best get off their fat asses + do something. Because the longer they fiddle + fart around, the more slaves I will collect for my after life. I do have to give them credit for stumbling across my riverside activity, but they are only finding the easy ones, there are a hell of a lot more down there. The reason I'm writing to the Times is this, They don't bury me on the back pages like some of the others". This letter implied that he was still on the prowl for more victims, while insinuating his Riverside activity down south, in which he borrowed some of his wording from the movie trailer Vanishing Point (1971), a film released in the USA on March 13th 1971. The release date of the film marrying with the date this letter was mailed and postmarked from Pleasanton.
On March 13th 1971, the Zodiac Killer mailed a letter to the Los Angeles Times newspaper in response to him being connected to the murder of Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside on October 30th 1966. The letter stated "This is the Zodiac speaking Like I have allways said, I am crack proof. If the Blue Meannies are evere going to catch me, they had best get off their fat asses + do something. Because the longer they fiddle + fart around, the more slaves I will collect for my after life. I do have to give them credit for stumbling across my riverside activity, but they are only finding the easy ones, there are a hell of a lot more down there. The reason I'm writing to the Times is this, They don't bury me on the back pages like some of the others". This letter implied that he was still on the prowl for more victims, while insinuating his Riverside activity down south, in which he borrowed some of his wording from the movie trailer Vanishing Point (1971), a film released in the USA on March 13th 1971. The release date of the film marrying with the date this letter was mailed and postmarked from Pleasanton.
Courtesy of Jibberjabber The majority of the movie features car delivery driver, Kowalski, being pursued by police while delivering a Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco. Here are some of the key points from the Vanishing Point trailer, spoken by the narrator: "They want to get him and put him away, but there'll have to catch him first". The author of the Los Angeles letter stated "If the Blue Meannies are evere going to catch me, they had best get off their fat asses + do something". The trailer of the film continued with a host from the KOW radio station reporting the chase and remarking "And there goes the Challenger being chased by the Blue, Blue Meanies on wheels".
Just under two weeks after the Los Angeles Times letter and release of this film, somebody claiming to be the Zodiac Killer rang the KWTC radio station in Barstow, California on March 26th 1971, stating "This is the Zodiac. I'm coming out there". This was spoken twice before he hung up. Barstow is located in San Bernardino County, 59 miles north of Riverside.
Of course, this phone call could have originated from somebody with a beef against the authorities and/or residents of Barstow, using the Zodiac Killer pseudonym to engender fear in the community. However, the interesting aspect of the phone call was its delivery to the KWTC radio station, just 13 days after the Los Angeles letter using wording from the KOW radio station host in the Vanishing Point movie. When the Los Angeles letter was received by the Times, it is very doubtful that any connection was made between the latest Zodiac letter and the movie, let alone the choice of words in the letter mirroring the KOW radio host. Therefore, it is rather curious that somebody claiming to be the Zodiac Killer happened to choose a radio station relatively close to Riverside, following a letter that quoted a radio station and mentioned Riverside activity.
Just under two weeks after the Los Angeles Times letter and release of this film, somebody claiming to be the Zodiac Killer rang the KWTC radio station in Barstow, California on March 26th 1971, stating "This is the Zodiac. I'm coming out there". This was spoken twice before he hung up. Barstow is located in San Bernardino County, 59 miles north of Riverside.
Of course, this phone call could have originated from somebody with a beef against the authorities and/or residents of Barstow, using the Zodiac Killer pseudonym to engender fear in the community. However, the interesting aspect of the phone call was its delivery to the KWTC radio station, just 13 days after the Los Angeles letter using wording from the KOW radio station host in the Vanishing Point movie. When the Los Angeles letter was received by the Times, it is very doubtful that any connection was made between the latest Zodiac letter and the movie, let alone the choice of words in the letter mirroring the KOW radio host. Therefore, it is rather curious that somebody claiming to be the Zodiac Killer happened to choose a radio station relatively close to Riverside, following a letter that quoted a radio station and mentioned Riverside activity.
Vanishing Point (1971) is about a long-distance car chase through the Mojave Desert. The main character, “Kowalski,” is a loner, a Vietnam War veteran, and an ex-cop. He is fueled by drugs that allow him to keep going without sleep, and successfully outruns the police every time a new pursuit begins. Las Vegas, often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and 2nd-largest in the Southwestern United States. Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, in the Mojave Desert of Southern California, which is the natural route along the main highways from the Mojave Desert to San Francisco. In other words, Barstow is in the Mojave Desert, featured in the Vanishing Point movie, that was quoted by the Zodiac Killer in his March 13th 1971 letter, just two weeks before the phone calls to Barstow.
If one phrase summed up the Zodiac Killer, it was "the monster that challenged the world". The title of a 1957 movie starring Tim Holt - a western star, who inspired the comic book series and worked alongside such movie greats as Humphrey Bogart and Ginger Rogers. The majority of the underwater scenes in the film were shot at Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles. Other primary filming locations included the Salton Sea, as well as Brawley and Barstow, California. It is speculated by many Zodiac researchers that part of the Halloween card design was inspired by the Tim Holt comic book #30.
THE ZODIAC KILLER PHONE CALLS TO BARSTOW [PART TWO]
Thanks to Jibberjabber for his assistance in this matter.
If one phrase summed up the Zodiac Killer, it was "the monster that challenged the world". The title of a 1957 movie starring Tim Holt - a western star, who inspired the comic book series and worked alongside such movie greats as Humphrey Bogart and Ginger Rogers. The majority of the underwater scenes in the film were shot at Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles. Other primary filming locations included the Salton Sea, as well as Brawley and Barstow, California. It is speculated by many Zodiac researchers that part of the Halloween card design was inspired by the Tim Holt comic book #30.
THE ZODIAC KILLER PHONE CALLS TO BARSTOW [PART TWO]
Thanks to Jibberjabber for his assistance in this matter.
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