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Wavy hair glasses suspect in the murder of Betsy Aardsma and pictures of Ted Kaczynski.
COLLEGE LIBRARY MURDERS 1966 - 1969: CASES THAT MAY BE RELATED - BATES & AARDSMA
Cheri Jo Bates, Riverside, CA - Murdered at campus library by knife, 10/30/66
Confession letter in Cheri Jo Bates murder, Riverside, CA - probably mailed on 11/28/66
Betsy Aardsma, State College, PA - Murdered in campus library by knife, 11/28/69
Joan Webster, Boston, MA - Harvard grad student, father ex-CIA/VP at IT&T, killed, 11/28/81
PICTURES
Left: Cheri Jo Bates
Right: Betsy Aardsma
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THE VICTIMS
We know that it is most likely around late August/early September of 1966 when Kaczynski states he was "born again" and decided to "really kill everyone I hate." He states he was suffering from "acute sexual starvation" and that some of the people he wants to kill are love making couples, "college students" and "promiscuous" young men and women. Looking at these cases we see possible links between them.
Note also that the Zodiac Killer is a prime suspect in the death of Ms. Bates, and that the interest in Kaczynski as a suspect for the Zodiac has been renewed and is ongoing. Kaczynski was in the SF Bay area at the time of the Zodiac murders, and like the Zodiac, wrote to newspapers demanding his words on the front page and was an expert in codes and bombs.
The Zodiac was known to do mailings and crimes on the anniversary dates of other crimes. Looking here, we see that the confession letter in the Bates case was mailed November 28, 1966. Betsy Aardsma was killed exactly three years later, on November 28, 1969. (12 years later, Joan Webster was murdered in Boston, a possible Zodiac crime, on November 28, 1981).
Looking at the pictures of Cheri Jo Bates and Betsy Aardsma, there are clear similarities - the girls are beautiful, with fresh faces and mid length hair. If perhaps not looking quite like sisters, they certainly look like they could be cousins, from the same family.
Both these women were in the same age range and all were college students. They were intelligent, charming, independent and assertive. They were "good girls" to use the language of the times - they lead clean lives with no clear suspects in their murders.
Before enrolling at the University of Michigan, Aardsma visited and spent extensive time in Ann Arbor in 1966-1967, Ted's last year there, they both shared an interest Native American Indian cultures and in politics, Aardsma was researching a mathematician when killed and most importantly a witness has placed Ted at the murder scene, in the Penn State library the day before the murder.
Bates was killed in Riverside, California during the time that evidence shows Ted went out there in the late Fall/early Winter of 1966 to interview with the University of California, Berkeley, which also has campuses in LA and Riverside.
Bates was stabbed multiple times and kicked in the head; Aardsma was killed by a single brutal knife thrust to the heart.
MO MATCHES AND OTHER SIMILARITIES IN THE MURDERS
There are very notable similarities between the murder of Ms. Bates in California on October 30, 1966 (when evidence shows Kaczynski was in that state), and the murder of Ms. Aardsma on November 28, 1969 at the Penn State library (when evidence shows Kaczynski was there, at that library). University of Michigan graduate Betsy Aardsma, attending Penn State graduate school, was brutally murdered. Like the murder of Ms. Bates:
* The murder took place within one day of a major Fall Holiday (Bates Halloween, Aardsma Thanksgiving).
* The murder took place at or in a campus library (Bates at the library, Aardsma actually in the library).
* The weapon in each case was a short knife, approximately 1 inch wide and 3 1/2 to 4 inches long.
* The attack was brutal and the victims led clean lives with no obvious suspects.
* In both cases taunting letters were sent after the crime.
* A CRYPTIC MORBID POEM MENTIONING DEATH WAS ETCHED ONTO A WOOD DESK and found at the Riverside college, and talked about killing a girl in a red dress, and Aardsma was wearing a red dress when killed. The Riverside poem had the initials "RH". REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME HERE, THERE WAS ALSO A CRYPTIC MORBID SAYING MENTIONING DEATH ETCHED INTO A WOOD CHAIR ARM and found at Penn State and associated by police to be probably linked to the murder of Aardsma. The Aardsma saying had the initials "RSK". (Interestingly, to throw police off track, Kaczynski later put a message in a bomb signed "RV")
After the Zodiac murder of cab driver Paul Stine in October 1969, and the release of the Zodiac composite sketch in early November 1969, the SF area would have been very hot for the Zodiac. It would be prudent for him to leave, and in fact, Ted's brother David says Ted did leave California at that time and came home to Illinois. That puts him in the eastern half of the US and a days drive from PA when Aardsma is killed. Ted's father was from PA, and Ted later sent a bomb to a professor at Penn State University. Prior to the murder of Aardsma, Zodiac claimed 7 victims - but in his Christmas letter to Melvin Belli he says he may take a ninth and tenth victim. Who was number 8? Could it have been Aardsma?
Most importantly, a witness picked out a picture of Ted Kaczynski as being present in the Penn State library the day before Aardsma was killed, acting strangely and perhaps wearing an afro wig.
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Above is a map of the Aardsma murder scene, at the Penn State library.
If a spot of blood was found where the man walked by - far away from the murder scene - either he was a good samaritan (highly unlikely and not seen by anyone) or he was almost certainly the killer.
Cheri Jo Bates, Riverside, CA - Murdered at campus library by knife, 10/30/66
Confession letter in Cheri Jo Bates murder, Riverside, CA - mailed on 11/28/66
Betsy Aardsma, State College, PA - Murdered in campus library by knife, 11/28/69
Joan Webster, Boston, MA - Harvard grad student, father CIA/VP IT&T, killed, 11/28/81
I am struck by the similarities between Penn State grad student Betsy Aardsma, murdered 11/28/69, and Harvard grad student Joan Webster, murdered 11/28/81. 12 years later, to the day. There was a writing on the arm of a dorm room chair in the Aardmsa case, and writing on a Harvard bathroom wall in the Webster case, a message and code from the Zodiac.
The look between these two intelligent and beautiful East Coast graduate students is strikingly similar.
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This is a reward poster in the Webster case.
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