Who do you think the Zodiac Killer actually is?

  • #181
Am definitely late coming around to the idea of Zodiac being tied to the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker murders, thought at first there could be no way, but have become increasingly convinced he is. Think he is alive, he lived most/all of his life in CA; he is likely first-generation American; he was/is married and was employed in academia with some focus/interest in music/theater; background in high school sports, university educated, perhaps some military; and some tie to Sonoma vineyards; think he had meaningful and long-lasting connections to the Santa Rosa area and Saramento area, and do think he murdered Cherie Bates. I think he is involved in the SRHMurders in some role, think he is behind the murder of Carolyn Davis. Carolyn Davis per some sources noted she'd witnessed a double murder in Shasta County, that sounds very much like a potential Zodiac situation. And strychnine was historically used on vineyards to control gophers and voles, (Believe the EPA put an end to such use in 1972.) Moreover, there was some symbol reminiscent perhaps of Zodiac near Carolyn's site. Don't know if he was involved in other/all the SRHMurders, but I know Lori Kursa may have had two attackers per sources. While I can't picture "Zodiac" allowing cooperation in his crimes, I can maybe picture him participating in such crimes with his partner/s completely unaware they were cooperating with-- Zodiac. Meaning his cohorts would be aware he was a murderer, but not "that" murderer, not Zodiac.

It's theoy only and there are a lot of other theories on other threads RE: the strychnine which make a lot of sense, and no relation to Zodiac.

I do think at the very least, though, that Zodiac had at least "some" involvement in the SRHMurders.
Interesting about the use of strychnine in the vineyards, I worked at Mondavi winery in October 1969, bottling Christmas packages of wine. I was in a CBS TV movie, which was being filmed there, starring Burt Reynolds. It was named "Hunters are For Killing". Burt also had a stalker back then who was never caught. I often wonder if Zodiac was also an extra in that movie, or watched it being filmed in the Santa Rosa area. I doubt Zodiac was ever a rapist, but did some of the other SRH murders. I also believe Zodiac murdered Ellen Hansen in Santa Cruz County, March 29th, 1981. Witnesses who saw the killer said he didn't look like David Carpenter. The man they described fit my suspect, who claimed to be Zodiac!
 
  • #182
Sandy--please contact the host of the Zodiac Speaking podcast with your information. I'm certain he would love to investigate.
He knows who I am and has probably read my thread on ZodiacKiller.com. I am not interested in doing any more podcasts.
 
  • #183
Also think Zodiac was involved in the arts/music in some way and obsessed with Eastern/Japanese culture. Mikado is set in Japan, and he references it very frequently. I'm at a loss for any other such work he mentions or alludes to with such frequency. I doubt it's a coincidence there was a production of Mikado gearing up for its upcoming opening night at Presentation Theater at University of San Francisco right around the time cabbie Stine was shot. Stine's cab was hailed in the theater district about a 12 min drive from Presentation Theatre. Stine & occupant were then headed to a location about four minutes from Presentation Theater. I believe Zodiac may have been at that theater earlier that day and was returning to a location near that area when he murdered Stine. In one of the same articles discussing this production, they note how work is continuing on another production (one I see being performed as early as 1959), "Lock Up Your Daughters."

From possible Zodiac letter: "Keep your sisters and wives and daughters off the streets and alleys" ... "I am stalking your girls now."

If he's in theater, even as a quasi-serious dabbler, he can put together some very good disguises, and I don't think he was lying about the disguises after seeing his bizarre medieval executioner's outfit.

Think his symbol with the cross through the circle is a sun cross reference and he's aware of Druidic symbols. College educated and at a pretty selective college. All jmo. And just adding note about the vineyard connection (I think Zodiac has one) and a possible keen interest in Eastern/Asian studies. A lot of Japanese people worked in the Sonoma vineyards, although their lives and livelihoods were seriously disrupted once WWII came with the internment camps. I'm seeing many of the people impacted tried to return, but it was something of a nightmare for them and many could not do so. Personally, I don't think Zodiac was himself japanese, but I'm wondering if he interacted with Japanese people in ways he'd have felt were meaningful. That could have happened in a vineyard environment.
 
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