Marie Anstey is another possible victim listed in Graysmith’s YB #14. She died within a day or so of Eva Blau death. I think that Marie’s death was covered in the Santa Rosa newspaper because at the onset of each investigation the cause of death was unclear and other similarities.
Marie was found in Lake County near the border with Napa County in a very rural area. The road she was found on is named Morgan Valley Road in Lake County but it is a continuation of Berryessa-Knoxville Road in Napa County.
These articles do not take you through a definite cause of death. I think that there are probably more detailed articles in the VTH as Marie was a resident of that city. But these articles do pretty well detail the finding and identification of her body. I have included the March 31, 1970 article that I posted in Eva Blau’s thread here as well because the article covers Marie equally as much.
Maybe someone can go to the library in Vallejo and get more articles on Marie’s death?!?
I was able to find a short article from an out of the area newspaper that gives Marie’s cause of death. It seems she, too, was found to have died from an overdose of mescaline. I would like to see a longer more detailed article about her cause of death though.
Eva Blau and Marie Anstey lived in different counties, how odd that they both would have the same cause of death and have died pretty much in the same 24 hour period. When you look at both cases together it does seem terribly suspicious.
Three more articles about Marie Anstey. One that focuses on her and two which include her as well as Eve Blau. They seem to be waffling on the cause of her death with these articles.
I would still like to see some articles from the VTH, her hometown newspaper.
VTH 3/24/1970
Articles by Sandy & Zam*
VTH 3/25/70
page 1 of 2
VTH 3/25/1970
page 2
VTH 3/26/1970
VTH 3/26/1970
VTH 3/27/1970
VTH 3/31/1970
VTH 4/10/1970
Page 1 of 2
VTH 4/1/1970
VTH 4/2/1970
page 1 of 2
VTH 4/3/1970
VTH 4/3/1970
VTH 4/5/1970
Thanks, for posting these.
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Seagull, thanks for putting these altogether.
I seem to recall this was unofficially solved as some local "hippies"/bikers eventually told LE that her death was accidental (was high on mescaline and hit her head on a rock in the water), but they didn’t report it because they didn’t want any LE scrutiny on them. All I can find now is part of this thread (fifth post):
http://www.officialcoldcaseinvestigations.com/showthread.php?t=9808
which is by no means authoritative.
Here’s Marie’s find-a-grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107199936
btw — sorry to note, but its "Antoinette" not "Antionette".
I took the spelling of the middle name from Marie’s birth record at Ancestry.com. Not saying it’s the correct spelling of the name but it is what the record states.
California Birth Index, 1905-1995 about Marie Antionette Romo
Name: Marie Antionette Romo
Birth Date: 15 Aug 1945
Gender: Female
Mother’s Maiden Name: Munoz
Birth County: Solano
I took the spelling of the middle name from Marie’s birth record at Ancestry.com. Not saying it’s the correct spelling of the name but it is what the record states.
California Birth Index, 1905-1995 about Marie Antionette Romo
Name: Marie Antionette Romo
Birth Date: 15 Aug 1945
Gender: Female
Mother’s Maiden Name: Munoz
Birth County: Solano
Ok, fair enough 
apparently Antionette is a variant of Antoinette.
Ironically, I always spell her last (married) name as "Antsey" instead of "Anstey".
Seagull, thanks for putting these altogether.
I seem to recall this was unofficially solved as some local "hippies"/bikers eventually told LE that her death was accidental (was high on mescaline and hit her head on a rock in the water), but they didn’t report it because they didn’t want any LE scrutiny on them. All I can find now is part of this thread (fifth post):
http://www.officialcoldcaseinvestigations.com/showthread.php?t=9808
which is by no means authoritative.
Here’s Marie’s find-a-grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107199936
btw — sorry to note, but its "Antoinette" not "Antionette".
Sounds right, this wasn’t The Z.
"Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it." George Costanza from Seinfeld
Seagull, thanks for putting these altogether.
I seem to recall this was unofficially solved as some local "hippies"/bikers eventually told LE that her death was accidental (was high on mescaline and hit her head on a rock in the water), but they didn’t report it because they didn’t want any LE scrutiny on them. All I can find now is part of this thread (fifth post):
http://www.officialcoldcaseinvestigations.com/showthread.php?t=9808
which is by no means authoritative.
Sounds right, this wasn’t The Z.
That being said, my feelings are leaning toward Napa County homicide being more than happy to attribute a murder to anyone other than Z, even if it doesn’t end in a conviction.
To that end, we just started a thread on unsolved Napa County homicides, ostensibly not attributable to Z: http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=657
I am not an expert, but death by (direct) mescaline overdose seems highly unlikely.
Online sources (which are of course, as credible as the paper they are written) seem to agree.
Erowid is a standard place to ask these questions:
http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=1778
and they say "extremely unlikely". Given that its a somewhat rare drug, and therefore probably expensive, I find it hard to believe that two (and was there a man that was a third) were fed enough to test the (Erowid’s) claim.
Back to the name, a few of the articles write "Antonette", but I’m sure no one was paying attention. Seems like her full name was Marie Antionette "Toni" Romo Anstey. Some references just call her Toni Romo.
Yes, it does seem unlikely that anyone could OD on mescaline but I believe the caveat is that it depends what the mescaline was cut with during manufacture. I doubt that much of the street stuff was pure and organic, then and now. The manufactured product back then could have contained all kinds of nasty stuff. And the labs that could test it accurately were few and far between. I believe that both Eva Blau and Toni Anstey’s testing was done at the state lab in Sacramento but there was no guarantee that they knew exactly what the composition of the drug really was because there were so many new drugs on the streets that they just didn’t have test for.
I would just expect the toxicology report to indicate a lethal dose of strychnine (e.g.) not mescaline, per se.
But I see your point and I’m not an expert, only suspicious.
Here’s clip from one of your posts. "Hippies Sought", looking for a "hippe-type persons traveling in an off-white VW bus…". Also, note that the body was dragged into the brush(as we noted elsewhere, Z’s established MO was to leave the bodies in place and in a public area).
A big hmmmmm….
if Tom Kennedy claims to have brought Marie Antointette Anstey back home, why had she gone out again? His brother went to identify her body…
Anybody knows if Tom Kennedy or his brother drives a whte Chevrolet? Or if they have ever been cleared frmo Marie’s murder?
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