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REALLY digging this big time.
Zodiac: had deep rooted major grievances with life being unfair from a very young age, likely caused through vicitmization as a child through some type of abuse, humilated by this, had a resentment towards authority, Mostly agreed, not sure on the abuse, but he witnessed something that made him aware of gross injustice. He has a strong sense of victimization. Has zero respect for authority, jmo.
...was fairly intelligent but not a genius, high school education but not much past that, maybe some technical training or some minor post high school education, was an under achiever professionally...very possible he had a short but mundane term in the military, Mostly agreed, especially on the mundane military career. But disagree on the schooling aspect, think his parents were hard workers and pretty successful, and he went to a good university in California and probably ultimately went into an academic position where he had enough autonomy and flexibility to mask himself pretty well
...strong feelings of exclusion and inadequacy, regularly ignored by others socially and romantically, felt his intellect was very underappreciated, was lonely, angry, vengeful, quiet, brooding, not interested in activities with others unless he was in a superior role, used arrogance to mask insecurities but was non confrontational and non threatening to others in daily life... Mostly agreed, jmo thanks to what was a financially successful family situation, he likely WAS in a superior role a lot of the time. And I do think he was married, but thinks he should have "done better" in that regard. So he's frustrated.
Likely to have been bullied physically in school on a regular basis I doubt it, but jmo.
...resents others success in the financial, social, romantic realms. Believes that life has unfairly excluded him from being able to achieve success, childhood trauma has led him to such a feeling of inadequacy that he has compensated for it with the Zodiac persona. He feels life dealt him bad cards for sure, but think he was financially secure and raised a family.
Had "compensatory" interests in comic books and movies where there was an underdog character... He's into theater/singing/music, that's my guess. And the disguises-- I bet that's actually true.
Paul Stine murder in SF, picked an upper class socio-economic neighborhood due to resentment for being a financial under achiever, as a way to give them fear, did the bus bomb threat to scare children since he was scared as a child and no one did anything to protect him. He's probably from a quite comfortable financial situation himself but resents many of his peers greatly and views himself as "exceptional" and an anti-hero of sorts. The threat he made on the bomb never materialized
-- that we know of. But it may have been designed to mask crimes we have no idea as of yet that he committed.
I know a lot of people on these different threads will talk about evil with these perps, and they're right. But I don't see that word thrown around too much with Zodiac. He's got everyone's head into the ciphers and trying to pick apart his letters, myself included. But Zodiac made a puzzle game out of his senseless, brutal murders. He has gotten away with doing so for decades. I believe he himself had a very comfortable life as he did it. He's like an "anti-" Andy Warhol. Whereas Warhol sought to harness culture to celebrate the mundane, Zodiac sought (jmo) to trivialize his brutal, horrifying acts by making them into some kind of horrifying Seek-and-Find puzzle. If ever there was a case where a brain should be in a bottle on some specialist's shelf-- it's him.
Just pure evil.
