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Richard Grinell, Coventry, England
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ZODIAC FBI FILE REVEALED

1/3/2017

 
PictureCheryl Segal
In part 4 of the Zodiac FBI files (page 9 through 16), another subject was investigated regarding the Zodiac crimes, with respect to San Francisco. Although not redacted, the subject in question was James Findley, now serving a life sentence in Ohio for the murder of 16-year-old Cheryl Segal on Saturday, October 17th 1970.

Cheryl and her friend had visited a local cafe, the Firefly Tavern, from where they accepted a lift from James Findley. After her friend had been dropped home, Cheryl continued on her journey with Findley, from which she would never return home. The next day she was discovered naked with a bullet wound to the head. The killer had inflicted a deep laceration across her torso, carved the letter Z onto her stomach and removed her left nipple - which is why this attracted so much attention from Northern California.

On October 21st 1970, San Francisco law enforcement were contacted by the Cincinnati Post and Times Star, concerning a subject arrested by the Cincinnati Police Department on a murder warrant issued in Butler County. The FBI file stated "Source advised that (redacted) has been charged with murder of 16-year-old girl and noted victim's body had been mutilated, including the superficial cutting of a Z on the abdomen and excision of the nipple of left breast. Source noted that (redacted) had reportedly been in San Francisco during August 1970. Advised that on August 4th last and August 30th last, Brenda Vance (23), negro female, and Janice Smith (22), NF, were found murdered in San Francisco. Both were prostitutes working in San Francisco area. Both died from severe blows to the head. Smith's body was mutilated extensively, including removal of nipple from left breat. Vance's body had numerous burns of torso and breasts. (redacted) believes both victims were abducted at gunpoint and taken to abandoned dwelling and murdered".  ​       

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The murder of Brenda Vance and Janice Smith in August bore uncanny similarities to the murder of Cheryl Segal in Cincinnati. This coupled with the carved Z symbol in the latter was enough to initiate an investigation into this subject regarding the Zodiac Killer, and several pages of information can be viewed here in the FBI files, starting on page nine. 
​​http://www.zodiacciphers.com/uploads/4/9/7/1/4971630/zodiac4.pdf

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James Findley has so far been denied parole.
For further information visit this link: 
http://www.blockparole.com/cheryl-segal/
Although this was not the Zodiac Killer, the next Zodiac mailing on October 27th 1970 was the Halloween card. The only confirmed Zodiac correspondence that featured the letter Z.
ophion1031 link
1/5/2017 01:50:27 am

Great find, Richard. I had a weird theory that Zodiac may have been a patient of a psychiatrist in San Fran. His office was just 3 blocks from where Paul Stine picked up Z, and the psychiatrist's home was located at... yep, the corner of Washington & Cherry. I think it is possible that this man upset Zodiac during a session, and he killed Stine at that location to send a message... or something along those lines. Anyways, the psychiatrist was originally from Cincinnati and was a prominent doctor there and then later in SF. The psychiatrist was too old, IMO, to be Z, but there are a few things about him that I found interesting. I am also looking into this guy and a possible tie to the MK Ultra experiments. I think he may have been one of the doctors experimenting on people. Also, I have always thought there is a slight possibility that Zodiac himself could be one of the "victims" of these experiments. Hell, maybe it was more than one "patient" that they sent to do the killings. Anything is possible, right?

Richard
1/5/2017 01:59:31 pm

Cheers Ophion, it gets us nowhere mind. It is extremely plausible Zodiac had connections or a residence close to Washington and Maple. As for the experiments, I'm not sure, but as you say anything is possible. Zodiac left many victims in his wake, if he was a victim, he was likely a victim of his own maladjusted brain by whatever means, nature or nurture.

ophion1031 link
1/8/2017 02:31:21 am

True! I have a bunch of free time on my hands at work every night and these are the weird things I think about.


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