Bump…. Man do I want to know who wrote this

Some common writing habits with Zodiac, including candy cane letter F, and same way of writing ‘This’. The writer even phrases it in a way that sounds like, ‘This is the Zodiac speaking’, and this is over 8 months before LHR murders. Also, compare the letter J from the draftboard letter and the Riverside desktop. And compare letter S between Zodiac, the Riverside Desktop, and draftboard writer

This is no copycat, this was written over a year before the 1st Z letter

Trav is also looking over this letter or parts of it for me. I think he disagrees with my assessment, but I value his exam techniques.

One dissimilarity is that as far I know all confirmed Zodiac letters are in cursive while this one is not. I had not seen this letter before, certainly interesting.

One dissimilarity is that as far I know all confirmed Zodiac letters are in cursive while this one is not. I had not seen this letter before, certainly interesting.

That’s true, but Zodiac used a hybrid of cursive & printing, and this writer goes back between using both

One dissimilarity is that as far I know all confirmed Zodiac letters are in cursive while this one is not. I had not seen this letter before, certainly interesting.

That’s true, but Zodiac used a hybrid of cursive & printing, and this writer goes back between using both

We must have a different definition of cursive.

I think at times some individual letters touched, but I have never seen cursive.

One dissimilarity is that as far I know all confirmed Zodiac letters are in cursive while this one is not. I had not seen this letter before, certainly interesting.

That’s true, but Zodiac used a hybrid of cursive & printing, and this writer goes back between using both

We must have a different definition of cursive.

I think at times some individual letters touched, but I have never seen cursive.

Do you mean in Zodiac’s letters, or in this Draftboard letter? By cursive,I meant that Zodiac’s letter d for example, does not look like a printed D but rather a cursive D

I agree with Tahoe. I don’t remember much cursive in the zodiac letters IMO. Sidenote: it’s crazy they don’t teach cursive in school anymore!

This is the first time I am seeing this letter. Just started reading and studying it. This guy is trying to paint himself sick. I don’t think he is. I think its a ruse. Overall, I think this is an early Zodiac letter and love it. Double postage. Iconic imagery for the stamp. The variations in writing style. The similarities in certain letters to that of Z’s. The imagery he paints with the hills, god like image, with phrasing etc is a lot like Z. This is him for sure in my opinion.

The building he drew in this letter I think, since he refers to religion in his writing, is old St. Hilary’s. Old St. Hilary’s is a Tiburon iconic hillside landmark and was originally a mission church named for St. Hilaire; Bishop of Poitiers. John Reed held the title to El Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio, a Mexican land grant that included the Tiburon Peninsula and, deeded the site for $2 to the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Archdiocese of San Francisco built the church as a place of worship for local railroad workers in 1888.

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Is italic more correct? In dutch the word "cursief" means slanted letter, which is what I meant.

Edit: more or less slanted in the wrong direction, like Mannali.

Some people think this letter was written somebody trying to get out of the draft. Somehow, somebody deemed it worthy of getting added to the FBI’s Zodiac files,despite it being written way before the 1st Z letters. They have the person’s name & his selective svc number. I hope they ruled him out properly. Besides being very Z like to me, Ross Sullivan went to high school in Syracuse,so I want to know if he wrote it, but even if he didn’t, I still want to know the Author

I agree the draft board letter is very Z like. It’s in that FBI file for a reason IMHO. Cannot discount a connection with Ross to Syracuse, NY. I suppose this time he learned how to spell Syracuse correctly

1963 San Fran reminds me of Sandy for some reason. Driving by the beach and such. But then there are other strange elements. Am I right in believing he mentioned a doctor in his typed portion (next to crossed out word)? Misspelled it doctir?

Idk next moment it seems like some of it sounds like Manson or a Manson followers gibberish. Acid and stuff – That kind of personality.

Then that guru or Gandhi reference was it?? Godlike? NY connections? Kind of makes me think of Robert Durst (if not Ross Sullivan with NY connection too obviously). Durst went to Berkley/SF area often and participated in maharashi type stuff with the likes of John and Yoko!

What it comes down to for me right now, To be fair, is that this letter does seem like the ramblings of a schizotypal/scchizophrenic personality that has taken too much acid. If he indeed mentioned a doctor in his misspelling and references that there should be record that he can’t even drive a car without hallucinating, well he must have had a record of mental illness and was treated by doc. Sounds more and more like Ross’s personality type. Was Ross in Berkeley in March of 63? Or near there at a mental hospital?

Makes me think of Ross’s arrest – running out to the phone booth naked as a jay bird freaking out – doesn’t just sound like he was having a psychotic episode alone. Almost sounds like he had a bad acid trip along with his schizo issues.

Some people think this letter was written somebody trying to get out of the draft. Somehow, somebody deemed it worthy of getting added to the FBI’s Zodiac files,despite it being written way before the 1st Z letters. They have the person’s name & his selective svc number. I hope they ruled him out properly. Besides being very Z like to me, Ross Sullivan went to high school in Syracuse,so I want to know if he wrote it, but even if he didn’t, I still want to know the Author

Well, the Selective Service Number as given by the author is 30 58 47 678. The third number represents the person’s year of birth (i.e., 1947). Since Ross was born in 1941, I’d have to say it’s not him. There is a way to find out who the number belongs to (it’s detailed on the SS website for people born before 1960), but there are some stringent stipulations.

Also, wasn’t Ross in California by the time he was 16? He wouldn’t have needed to register until he was 18. I think it’s within 30 days of your 18th birthday.