Recent content by bdsjr

Cab driving in those days was a very hazardous profession. I've searched "cabbie shot" or similar on Newspapers.com. Way too much crime involving those poor guys. There was a guy back then (late 60's) that decided not to be a victim. He killed several bad guys who tried to rob him but SF...

We'll probably never know why he chose Stine. It could have been as easy as it was the first available cab he saw so he waved him down, the plan already in place.

At the very least, his fingerprints should be compared to the Zodiac case latents. Fingerprint technology has improved so dramatically, especially last decade with the FBI's NGI system. Around 2013, the FBI was contacting state investigations bureaus to resubmit all cold case latents because...

A change in MO does not always make sense and you are right, if he hadn't proven it or claimed it, no connection would have been made, just another robbery and shooting of a poor cab driver by some recently paroled-born to lose-ne'er do well. I'm of the opinion that the Stine murder is a...

First off, your description of him hiding in plain site is exactly what I think is very possible. I will even go so far as to say that he may have been hiding in plain site on the east side of Vallejo somewhere in the triangle between Blue Rock Springs, Lake Herman Rd. and the Tuolumne/Springs...

That's one creepy dude. Although I have no way for knowing for sure, I really suspect that the Zodiac killer was someone who evaded arrest throughout his entire life, and that is one of the biggest reasons he was never identified. According to FBI files, there is an excellent chance that the...

I think this all started as a little boy who was abused psychologically and possibly physically by a caretaker. Emotional needs that a child has we’re not being met. Then at school, he felt different from others, such as an outsider might feel. Rejection and indifference towards him were...

Donna's good friend and former roommate Carol Anne Emrich went to Vallejo High School with your guy. She was in the Class of 1962. Same class as Arthur Dean Ferrin. Remember your podcast with Joanne Goettsche? She said Donna went to Vallejo with Carol to visit Carol's parents, who lived 1500...

Good questions! Here is what I think below. It's only my opinion and worth what you pay for it but I've been living in Vallejo and Napa California in the years 1968 and 1969 for 13 months straight now. I have been sleeping, eating, and breathing everything Zodiac including on Newspapers.com...

You are definitely on to him, persona wise. Some FBI profilers have come to that same conclusion. If you go back in this thread a couple of months, I summarized one of the retired FBI profiler's ideas about him. You can also find that podcast which is really good stuff. My opinion: he was a...

Well, I don't think I would call him a "romantic" but I think there is a possibility (repeat: possibility) that he's some sort of lover's lane avenger. He might have been cheated on as a young man, maybe blaming another guy for stealing his sweetheart in high school or something. Something...

Bingo! If he didn't take credit, he knew there was something, however slight, that could lead police to him. That is my opinion.

You're right about the Peggy Trainor deal. Contrary to initial reporting, she did not live right next door but she lived not too far away, in a close by neighborhood is my memory. I think there is something else to consider and I don't think it really ever gets much traction. The Zodiac...

This is obviously a very late response, since I am just now reading this but better late than never. Over the past couple of days, I have spent hours researching one particular firearm, a Sears, Roebuck, and Co. store brand J.C. Higgins, model 80, .22LR automatic pistol. The CA Bureau of...

As a side note, you should really look at adding Leona Larell Roberts to your list, a Napa teenager kidnapped from Rodeo, CA on December 10th, 1969. Suspect seen outside of the duplex where she was kidnapped was a dead ringer for several of the Zodiac descriptions, short, young, stocky, dark...