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Albany NY Medical Center letter/cipher August 1973

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buyerninety
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Hmmmm.
Albany N.Y., despite being on the Hudson River, actually is a seaport. THAT I find interesting.

Unfortunately, I notice that most interpretations of the 12 symbols making up the ‘name’ part
of the cipher feature a ‘CON’ or ‘CONN’ in it.
That suggests to me that the name could be an anagram of, say, the surname
CORNING or OCONNELL, with remaining letters making up the first or similar name.

For CORNING, say the unknown 4th, 5th and 7th symbols represent any of ‘R’, ‘I’ and ‘G’.
Additionally, If the 8th symbol is NOT the same as the 33rd and 41st symbols (‘H’), (a
reasonable assumption, as it does look different), then it could represent a different
letter, say, ‘L’, therefore allowing a first or similar name of say, ELLEY. Relevance?
Albany’s then famous (or perhaps infamous) Mayor;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erastus_Corning_2nd
had both a wife named Elizabeth, and a daughter named Elizabeth;
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/obitu … na-dudley/

For OCONNELL, another infamous Albany political figure;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._ O’Connell
it seems the name of his wife and any daughter(s) or mistress(es) are dificult to find
on the internet.

It is unknown if any of these females may have been associated with the Albany Medical
Centre at that time, either as a patient or in the management structure or perhaps in
some other honourary or voluntary capacity (both male political figures above were noted
for nepotism).

If the Zodiac Killer (or pretty much anyone else who read political articles in the Albany
newspapers), also read the article about the Zodiac maybe being ‘dead or in hospital’,
then possibly they decided to have a poor-taste ‘leg pull’ against one of these infamous
political figures by sending the ‘Albany letter’ to the Albany Times Union newspaper.
This is actually not as improbable as it seems at first glance – such were the times;
http://web.timesunion.com:80/specialreports/tu150/stories/politics.as p”> https://web.archive.org/web/20120108053 … litics.asp

 
Posted : December 3, 2018 11:07 pm
(@sdur12494)
Posts: 126
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Hmmmm.
Albany N.Y., despite being on the Hudson River, actually is a seaport. THAT I find interesting.

Unfortunately, I notice that most interpretations of the 12 symbols making up the ‘name’ part
of the cipher feature a ‘CON’ or ‘CONN’ in it.
That suggests to me that the name could be an anagram of, say, the surname
CORNING or OCONNELL, with remaining letters making up the first or similar name.

For CORNING, say the unknown 4th, 5th and 7th symbols represent any of ‘R’, ‘I’ and ‘G’.
Additionally, If the 8th symbol is NOT the same as the 33rd and 41st symbols (‘H’), (a
reasonable assumption, as it does look different), then it could represent a different
letter, say, ‘L’, therefore allowing a first or similar name of say, ELLEY. Relevance?
Albany’s then famous (or perhaps infamous) Mayor;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erastus_Corning_2nd
had both a wife named Elizabeth, and a daughter named Elizabeth;
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/obitu … na-dudley/

For OCONNELL, another infamous Albany political figure;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._ O’Connell
it seems the name of his wife and any daughter(s) or mistress(es) are dificult to find
on the internet.

It is unknown if any of these females may have been associated with the Albany Medical
Centre at that time, either as a patient or in the management structure or perhaps in
some other honourary or voluntary capacity (both male political figures above were noted
for nepotism).

If the Zodiac Killer (or pretty much anyone else who read political articles in the Albany
newspapers), also read the article about the Zodiac maybe being ‘dead or in hospital’,
then possibly they decided to have a poor-taste ‘leg pull’ against one of these infamous
political figures by sending the ‘Albany letter’ to the Albany Times Union newspaper.
This is actually not as improbable as it seems at first glance – such were the times;
http://web.timesunion.com:80/specialreports/tu150/stories/politics.as p”> https://web.archive.org/web/20120108053 … litics.asp

Albany is a seaport?
I lived in ny and was frequently in Albany my last month there never heard that before. That is interesting!

 
Posted : January 16, 2019 7:36 am
ophion1031
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Posts: 1798
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Hmmmm.
Albany N.Y., despite being on the Hudson River, actually is a seaport. THAT I find interesting.

Unfortunately, I notice that most interpretations of the 12 symbols making up the ‘name’ part
of the cipher feature a ‘CON’ or ‘CONN’ in it.

That suggests to me that the name could be an anagram of, say, the surname
CORNING or OCONNELL, with remaining letters making up the first or similar name.

For CORNING, say the unknown 4th, 5th and 7th symbols represent any of ‘R’, ‘I’ and ‘G’.
Additionally, If the 8th symbol is NOT the same as the 33rd and 41st symbols (‘H’), (a
reasonable assumption, as it does look different), then it could represent a different
letter, say, ‘L’, therefore allowing a first or similar name of say, ELLEY. Relevance?
Albany’s then famous (or perhaps infamous) Mayor;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erastus_Corning_2nd
had both a wife named Elizabeth, and a daughter named Elizabeth;
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/obitu … na-dudley/

For OCONNELL, another infamous Albany political figure;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._ O’Connell
it seems the name of his wife and any daughter(s) or mistress(es) are dificult to find
on the internet.

It is unknown if any of these females may have been associated with the Albany Medical
Centre at that time, either as a patient or in the management structure or perhaps in
some other honourary or voluntary capacity (both male political figures above were noted
for nepotism).

If the Zodiac Killer (or pretty much anyone else who read political articles in the Albany
newspapers), also read the article about the Zodiac maybe being ‘dead or in hospital’,
then possibly they decided to have a poor-taste ‘leg pull’ against one of these infamous
political figures by sending the ‘Albany letter’ to the Albany Times Union newspaper.
This is actually not as improbable as it seems at first glance – such were the times;
http://web.timesunion.com:80/specialreports/tu150/stories/politics.as p”> https://web.archive.org/web/20120108053 … litics.asp

What if it is not a name? Could be Conn for Connecticut?

A few minutes ago on a toilet not very far, far away….

 
Posted : January 21, 2019 11:54 am
(@karborn)
Posts: 24
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Albany NY Medical Center letter 1973 august letter –

‘ ALBANY is A nice town. ‘

Ross Sullivan year book signing user: Ham Friend posted –

‘ ed – to a nice guy, though quiet he a nice fellow. ‘

Odd use of ‘nice’ in both sources.

 
Posted : January 24, 2019 12:50 am
Tahoe27
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Posts: 5315
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Albany NY Medical Center letter 1973 august letter –

‘ ALBANY is A nice town. ‘

Ross Sullivan year book signing user: Ham Friend posted –

‘ ed – to a nice guy, though quiet he a nice fellow. ‘

Odd use of ‘nice’ in both sources.

What makes it odd in your opinion?


…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

 
Posted : January 24, 2019 10:35 pm
(@karborn)
Posts: 24
Eminent Member
 

Albany NY Medical Center letter 1973 august letter –

‘ ALBANY is A nice town. ‘

Ross Sullivan year book signing user: Ham Friend posted –

‘ ed – to a nice guy, though quiet he a nice fellow. ‘

Odd use of ‘nice’ in both sources.

What makes it odd in your opinion?

Its a very flat, emotionally dead and neutral way of describing a person or a town to me. ‘That was a nice cup of tea.’ Maybe, but for people or towns i think generally youd expect something a bit more descriptive… . Seems a bit simple, flat. Void..

 
Posted : March 5, 2019 2:04 am
shaqmeister
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Posts: 227
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Has anyone followed up the possibility that, rather than the name in the cipher being of the form:

CONNIE + middle initial + HENLY

it could be referring to a “Constance O’Henly?”

https://www.houseofnames.com/o-conly-family-crest

“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)

 
Posted : May 20, 2019 11:19 am
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