The letters in the Miller case-

One side was hand printed, and the other side was made from magazine cutouts. Interesting to me, was that if you turned the handwritten side either end up like a playing card, you could still read a message. This was also true of the Lass case mailings. This simply is NOT a common practice.

For what it’s worth, a suspect in the Lass case who worked with her at the casino, Victor Jonasson, wound up moving to and living in the League City/Houston area

Also, in the Houston area, was the case of Cheryl Henry & Andy Atkinson. They were parked on a lovers lane in that area,, when they were approached by somebody that ordered them out of the car, and into a nearby field. They were tied up and killed with a knife. Henry was raped apparently which doesn ot match Zodiac M.O. However, a letter was mailed to police in the case, and again, there are some similarities to Zodiac here(and some differences)

The candy kane F, some of the numbers, etc. Similar. Some key differences too. Most interestingly of all, was the word CHRONICLE. The word used odd spacing C HRON IC LE. This same exact spacing was used by Z when he wrote that word

I have asked TRAV to do some comparisons of these letters from these cases against Z to see what is similar and what is different

Calder Drive, ‘killing field’ gets into my mind…very typical mo..although the letter imo might be authentic, this somehow reminds me a copycat issue.

http://www.khou.com/news/crime/Man-conv … 15165.html
http://wikimapia.org/8061236/Calder-Dri … ing-Fields

QT

Enlarged and maybe easier to read. Quite a small image to start with.

Thanks for the enlargement Trav.

The letter K looks nothing like Zodiac’s. The candy kane F looks like Zodiac’s, as do the numbers. Trav,did Z ever make an & symbol like the one here?

Probably something similar but not sure off the top of my head. There’s a repeating style throughout this on certain characters though I haven’t seen Zodiac use. I agree that the numbers look ok and the ‘f’ could certainly be a Zodiac f but the rest of it is all wrong in shape and form and the angles as well.

Ok here’s the numbers. Zodiac’s are on the bottom. I don’t see a match. Some of the 3’s might be similar but even then I see differences. The angles in the numbers from the letter seem consistent to each other and that doesn’t match.

And the letter and envelope. I’ve tried to pick up on things that I consider strong style choices or writing habits to compare and there’s some pretty obvious differences. Even when you look at Zodiac’s upper case M’s, his styling is consistent even into the more disputed letters so in that respect I think it’s quite a strong habit given that he sticks to it even when he’s trying to write in a different style. I would expect to see it here but I see quite strong evidence of another habit at work in this letter and it’s at odds with Zodiac’s IMHO.

Here’s a quick clip on the murders from when the bodies were found around August 25, 1990:

In mid 2009,When I first discovered the League City/Houston cases & letters and mentioned them as possible Zodiac crimes, I didn’t think that Dennis Kauffman and crew would latch on to them as possible crimes of Jack Tarrance. Of course, I am skeptical of him being zodiac, and even more about ‘evidence’ presented over the years by Kauffman. I reached out early on to Tim Miller (Father of I45 murder victim,Laura Lynn Miller),and then eventually,I heard thru the grapevine that Kauffman did some time after me.

That I-45 corridor is a tough one considering the number of murders , am I right in thinking that’s the ‘Texas killing fields’ area or have I got my highways mixed up?

The Miller letter is interesting, the girl goes missing 10years after the Red Phantom letter and it’s mentioned in an almost off-hand way in the letter, I would expect a hoaxer to be less subtle (rather like the ‘z’ near the checkers on the top right of the envelope, that’s a lot more clumsy). Has Traveller or anyone else done any work matching that letter to Z at all? I think it shows more promise than the reward demand from the other crime, but some things also don’t ring true. Certainly worth a look imo, I’m willing to give it a go if it’s not already been done/ no-one else with more experience fancies losing another couple of hours out of their life (I’d love to know how many hours Traveller has clocked up on his analyses, he must be as qualified as a true ‘expert’ by now surely, 10,000 hours is the benchmark I believe ).

That I-45 corridor is a tough one considering the number of murders , am I right in thinking that’s the ‘Texas killing fields’ area or have I got my highways mixed up?

The Miller letter is interesting, the girl goes missing 10years after the Red Phantom letter and it’s mentioned in an almost off-hand way in the letter, I would expect a hoaxer to be less subtle (rather like the ‘z’ near the checkers on the top right of the envelope, that’s a lot more clumsy). Has Traveller or anyone else done any work matching that letter to Z at all? I think it shows more promise than the reward demand from the other crime, but some things also don’t ring true. Certainly worth a look imo, I’m willing to give it a go if it’s not already been done/ no-one else with more experience fancies losing another couple of hours out of their life (I’d love to know how many hours Traveller has clocked up on his analyses, he must be as qualified as a true ‘expert’ by now surely, 10,000 hours is the benchmark I believe ).

The handwriting on it has been heavily traced,so i don’t know how easy it is to compare. Somebody said that the writing is done in such a way to match the sign or business card of Corvette Concepts in League City. Corvette concepts was the site or a triple homicide. In fashioning the writing to match the corvette concepts sign/business card, the writer seemed to be linking themselves to the corvette murders. We have seen Zodiac do this. In the letter to Belli, it was discovered by Ricardo if memory serves, that Zodiac changed his writing to mimic the house number on Belli’s house,meaning he likely was there at some point.

The flip side of the letter with the pasted magazine pieced also fits the questioned Lass letters-

*Made from cut out pieces of newspaper/magazine

*There is a message to the reader from either the top, or the bottom, so like a playing card,you could turn either end up and read a message. This is a highly unusual feature that I have ever only seen done before this letter, on the Lass mailings.

*The writer(paster)basically says, police will never catch him

*Upsdide down cross resembles Zodiac symbol

*Refers to themselves as Phantom

*Mentions that they left fake clues,’SuperFudge’,much like Zodiac used airplane glue according to him

The letter smacks of zodiac, without mentioning Zodiac. The subject matter, words,phrasing clues, etc of this letter, as well as that of the Lindy Sue Biechler letter, are the two best examples I have seen to date of letters very similar to zodiac.

Traveller1st is welcome to look at the writing in this letter, but I don’t know how well he would do due to heavy tracing,and what may be eraser marks.

Here’s some links to articles on the corvette murders-
http://thepolicenews.net/html/gcpnmar06final.pdf
http://thepolicenews.net/html/TPNMar11.pdf

Like Zodiac at Berryessa, the corvette murderer used both a knife & gun. Unless there was more than one killer, it would be hard to kill multiple people with a knife,that is unless you controlled them with a gun, and then stabbed them. The guy that was shot,police theorize, may have walked in on the crime. The lack of motive in the case is what makes it so interesting.

This is a good site about the I-45 killings, and has good info on Laura Lynn Miller-
http://psu-sk.tripod.com/frames/i45-calder.html

Trav,if you want to take a stab at it, here you go,again, I don’t know what you will find,as I see signs of tracing and possible eraser use

Hmm… I’m not necessarily suggesting a connection but there are some eerie similarities to BTK (Dennis Rader) in this card.

– It refers to "more projects to come" (Rader referred to his potential victims as "projects", assigning specific project names to each).

– It refers to "Officer Pat Cereal Profile Process work" (Rader sent one communication in a Special K cereal box as a witty allusion to himself as a "cereal killer").

– It refers to "the Phantom" (Rader offered suggestions for his own moniker as serial killer including the "Garrote Phantom").

– It refers to "My MO changes" (Rader was well aware of "M.O.", including a section devoted to M.O. in his puzzle and stating in a letter "Since sex criminals do not change their M.O. or by nature cannot do so, I will not change mine".

– It refers to "this monster in me" (Rader: "Where this monster enter my brain I will never know. But, it here to stay").

– The "word association" clues (railway, attack, neighbors) reminds me a lot of the BTK word search puzzle.

– A letter sent to a victim’s family member (Rader mailed a poem and drawing to a woman whose husband (Phillip Fager) and two daughters were murdered and long suspected to be BTK victims).

– The overall juvenile humor, the "666′ and doodles, false return address name and even the possible allusion to Zodiac (Z) all remind me of Rader.

Definitely some huge psychological similarities here if nothing else although Rader was known to stalk outside of his home area and take credit for victims he didn’t kill. FWIW, Houston is roughly 600 miles from Wichita.