Could C Harry Ott have been "chariot" disguised and if so, what possible meaning could it have? OR "Harry Cott? "haricot" (Fr. for "bean")…just thoughts that came to mind…also, C Harry is close to "cherry."
Was there ever money on his head? I was trying to remember, but I don’t think I have ever read about a Zodiac reward. Maybe he was hoping this letter would instigate one.
There was. The kids at the local high school in Vallejo offered a 1000 reward.
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Yes, but I think that was before Zodiac actually came into the mix. There was a reward associated with Donna Lass as well.
I don’t recall every seeing anything on "Zodiac’s" head in an official capacity.
“…they may be dealing with one or more ersatz Zodiacs–other psychotics eager to get into the act, or perhaps even other murderers eager to lay their crimes at the real Zodiac’s doorstep.“ L.A. Times, 1969
See…i don’t buy that it was just him being arrogant. It has a question associated with it as if he had asked about it earlier…maybe in another unpublished letter that the FBI is keeping from the public.
It strikes me as him messing with them by saying there was another letter that the public doesn’t know about.
The line sounds like he asked it before and is now reiterating that he wants to actually know how much is on his head at this point.
Why would the FBI keep any other letter out of the public’s purview? FOIs have been submitted endlessly for over four decades, and yet, not one person has ever even suggested there’s any other letters out there. So in all likelihood, there aren’t, and I cannot imagine what in the world The Zodiac could have said that would be a state secret almost fifty years later. Even Soviet secrets have been declassified. So I don’t think there are any other letters.
I think The Zodiac was just talking, per usual, polishing his ego and image in the public’s face. He probably imagined himself as America’s Most Wanted. Probably saw himself as some WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE kind of perp, with a heavy bounty attached. Maybe he saw his face at the Post Office via the composite. Or on a telephone pole, for all we know.
The Zodiac liked to talk. He liked to make noise. He liked to flap his gums. No real reason to think he wasn’t doing the same here.
JMO.
^^^^ Here here! I agree whole-heartedly with this jroberson ^^^^
Just too damn bad he couldn’t have experienced the culmination of the real world’s version of his stupid little fantasy and had a couple prison guards escort him and help him sit his little fanny down in the chamber and sucked on some cyanide fumes ’til he was good and dead.
