I believe I can identify the female model in a car tire showroom on the first page images.

I believe she is a pageant winner. This company used pageant winners for advertising. One twin was involved in pageant competitions.

Pageant winners sometimes have connections to the 4-H clubs.

The company also had other advertisements like this one.

Morf made a connection to shapely Blue Eyed Brunettes being in the papers and linked one with pageant content.

viewtopic.php?f=106&t=1441&p=46827&hilit=pageant#p46788

Shapely [whatever color]-Eyed [insert hair color here]. Many iterations and appear a lot in pageant descriptions.

There are more. For example,

The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California)02 Sep 1966, Fri

Also this unsolved murder.

The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California)17 Mar 1966

Sebastapol.

From viewtopic.php?f=81&t=4963

I think Coon got it absolutely right.

Snoopy’s home ice rink is 4 min drive around from the corner and down W Steele Ln from my POIs home. 25 min walk.

12 min drive to place of work from the ice rink down the 101.

POI’s dad was also connected to Union Oil.

Here is another connection to the fire department. See first page and POI’s dad.

This is not the first time I have seen connections to volunteer firemen, especially with respect to the organisation of pay in later years in which meetings in SF were organized in the early 60s.

Dear Marshal:

By the time you read this your partner fuzzy will be at robber’s roost. Take my advice and forget him and get out of this terroritory. I’d hate to see you end up with a bullet in your back.

The Frontier Phantom

The Sheriff in that scene is actually listening and should be for good reason. Good film. Plenty of slapstick humor also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYkd8K … u.be&t=365

Also Napa Sheriff went to great lengths pointing out that other newspapers were changing their original composite. They didn’t want anything changed. The correct one is on the right. All of it’s content appeared on the news channels also. Nothing was changed. See first page on this thread and scroll down for it.

If you want to see the original taxi driver homicide composite in high quality (for example the pupils and iris are visible in it) then go here https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/231076 1min 13 to the end.

Also it is not uncommon to have inversions made by witnesses. Even LE witnesses at that.

ex-officer (fired) Joseph James DeAngelo on the left and Detective Bill McGowen’s composite of the Visalia Ransacker on the right.

As a note McGowen lost partial sight in one of his eyes due to his flashlight blocking the bullet. Glass shards went into his eye.

McGowen got it right though. He kept his stakeouts quiet because he thought VR had inside knowledge. When he did that he came face to face with VR who would later go on to become EAR and ONS.

There were stakeouts of lover lanes for the Zodiac. The Zodiac was able to avoid them all and plan for a daylight attack somewhere else.

SRHM offender was able to do exactly the same thing obviously.

“Concerned Citizen Key Gives Name.”

The background to this is somewhat easy to follow. The Zodiac mailed three letters to different newspapers on July 31, 1969. He sent them to the Vallejo Times, San Francisco Examiner, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Included in each communication was 1/3rd of a cipher. The reader was to combine all three ciphers and try to decode it.

The three ciphers combined to form 408 characters. Informally called the Z408.

Donald and Betti Harden had cracked it, and the San Francisco Chronicle reported it on August 9. The article reads:

“A ‘Murder Code’ Broken”.
A Salinas High school teacher who is an amateur cryptographer said yesterday he has broken the cipher sent to three Bay Area newspapers by someone claiming to have committed three Vallejo murders.
The unsigned letters to the editors of The Chronicle, the Vallejo Times-Herald and their Examiner said the writer had killed two Vallejo teenagers last December and a young woman on July 4.
Donald G. Harden, a history and economics teacher at North Salinas High School, saw the cipher, which was reprinted in the newspapers and told The Chronicle yesterday he and his wife had broken it after “about 20 hours of working on it off and on.”
“As you can see,” Harden said “his spelling is rather poor and in some places he has made errors in the use of his own cipher.”
GIST
These errors, Harden said, showed in incomprehensible grouping of letters, but the gist of the writer’s message was fairly clear.
As Harden broke it, the cipher reads:
“I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most hongertue animal of all to kill something gives eryetheyo a thrilling experience it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it I athae when I did I will be reborn in paradice and all the I have killed will become my slaves I will not give you my name because you trs to sloi down or atop my collecting of slaves for my afterlife ebeo rief emeth hoptj.
Harden said the writer tried to make the cipher more difficult by using 12 different symbols of “e” the most commonly used letter in the language.
To further throw cryptoanalysts off the track Harden said the writer used a backward “q” 16 times in an effort to make an analyst thin that stood for “e” as indeed. Hardenm first thought it did.
MORE
Harden said he broken the code by looking for four letter patterns which would fit in with the word “kill”.
“We felt that ‘kill’ would be used more than once.” He said.
In the message the writer used “kill” once, but “killing” twice and “thrilling” and “killed” once each.
Vallejo Police Sergeant John Lynch, in charge of the investigation of the murders and of the cipher letter writer asked The Chronicle to send Harden’s code breaking worksheets to him for further checking, which was done.
When the ciphers first came to police attention, Navy cryptographers were asked to attempt to break the code, but with no reported success.
It appears the Hardens may have gotten some of it wrong as the full translation should have read:
I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest, because man is the most dangerous animal of all. To kill something is the most thrilling experience. It is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl. The best part of it is that when I die, I will be reborn in paradise and all that I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow down or stop my collecting of slaves for my afterlife.
Many people will be familiar with text due to the Zodiac movie directed by David Fincher and released in 2007. However what they may not be so familiar with is that Sgt. John Lynch was sent a “key” to the cipher in a communication sent on August 10 and signed by a “concerned citizen”.

“Morf13” who is the Zodiac expert Michael Morford and owner of zodiackillersite.com, obtained these.

It read:
Dear Sergent [Lynch]
I hope the enclosed “Key” will prove to be beneficial to you in connection with the cipher letter writer.
Working puzzles criptograms and word puzzles is one of my pleasures. Please forgive the absence of my pleasures. Please forgive the absence of my signature or name as I do not wish to have my name in the papers and it could be mentioned by a slip of the tongue.
With best wishes.
concerned citizien

August 10 is one day after the publication of the August 9th Harden solution. It is addressed to Sergent Lynch, who happens to be the Sergent mentioned in the article. They sent in a worksheet ‘key’ with it.

Concerned citizen key
Who sent this communication is a mystery, but it seems to have gained the FBI’s attention, covering it in their reports. It is probably from the Zodiac. I want to interpret what this worksheet means, and I think it contains clues to his name and identity.

This section is the right-hand column. Why duplicate letters on the right-hand side that the Zodiac already had on the left-hand side? Did he lack the space to add them on the left side? No, there is ample space.
Look back at the Z408 and notice there are two types of triangles. One empty and the other shaded in.
So one of the triangles on the right was supposed to be shaded yet was left non-shaded. We are supposed to shade it in. So I shaded it in.

He needed to explain the reverse Q symbol (top of the right-hand column) and the two triangles after covering A-Z. Yet he duplicated the letters AIENL for that column, which are already on the left side. He had room for this, so it’s odd. It stands out and has no explanation.

Why did he create a semi-circle around the letter and symbols? They do not appear on the left-hand column? There is a dividing line down the page already. It’s odd and has no explanation.

The reverse Q at the top right-hand column indicates that he is starting to reference letters he did not reference in the left-hand column. Following it up with two triangles tells us that is the direction he is going in. Then you get AIENL out of the blue.

When we shade it in, do we get the shape of a ‘D’?

Let’s rearrange the rows a bit.

Can you make out the name here starting with D and finishing with ANIEL?

This explains why he didn’t shade in the triangle.
It explains why he selected those letters.
It explains why he used a semi-circle around them.
It explains why this communication at all. He is responding to the challenge he didn’t give his name.

We also find the short version in the original 3 part cipher next to the Zodiac symbol. It is the first three characters of the word dangerous, 6th line down of 1/3.

D is the Zodiac symbol.

It can explain why the Zodiac decided upon a 17 x 8 grid. He could have used any size he wanted. It also explains why the omitted shading and why the letters AIENL. If you remove this explanation, they remain odd and mysterious. Alternative explanations must explain this. Also, keep in mind the Zodiac symbol used in DAN.

Let us now look at some possible combinations of AIENL first of all.

Aelin Ailen Ainle alein Aleni
Alien Aline A-line A line Aneli
Aniel anile Eilan Einal Elain
El-Ain El Ain Elani Elian Elina
Enlai Ilane Ilena Inale laein
Laien laine lanei Lanie Leani
Leina Lenai Lenia liane liean
Liena Linae linea Line A Naile
Neail Neila Ne’ila Nelia Niela
Nilea

Some 4 Letter Words – Anil eina elan ilea lain lane lean lien line nail. Some 3 Letter Words -Ail ain ale ane ani lea lei lie lin nae nai nil
Some 2 Letter Words. Ae ai al an el en in la li na n

When we add the letter D things don’t get much more complicated either.
Adelin ADline Adniel Aldein Aldeni
Aldine Aliden AlienD alined Andeli
Andile Daelin Dalein Dale,IN Dalien
Dalnie Daneil Daniel Danile Danile
Dealin Dealin’ Delain Delani Delian
Delina Denail Denali Denial Dialen
Dilean Dinale Dineal Eiland Einald
eladni Elanid Elidan Elinda Elnadi
Endial Enilda Inalde Indela inlade
inlead inleda Ladein ladine laiden
Landie leadin lead-in LeadIn Leanid
LeDain Ledian ledina Lednia Leinad
Lendia Liaden Liedna LienDa linead
Linead nailed Naledi Nelida

These are not all co-equal contenders. It is essential to think about the concept of equality when it comes to large batches of data. There is no need to pause everything because it’s big. A pause button would be arbitrary. Apply more methods where you can. For example, when we factor in the Zodiac being a white American male, we can whittle down those names quickly. If we consider Officer Fouke’s description of the Zodiac as having ‘Welsh ancestry,’ we are given more filters we can use. Consider common names, words, and terms before uncommon ones, etc.

If D and the Zodiac symbol might be relevant then what else is there in the this key?

D and a backwards F and the Zodiac symbol.

D.F – Zodiac

Plus when you align the name Daniel, the letters on the right also give us a sentence.

Here it is as a group of images.

I also figured out more since then, however I am reluctant to put it out there. It seems to me that there just different standards for different people. Bars get set high for some and then moved down low for others. I am expected to produce statistical significance calculations but other don’t have to present these, I can’t use coincidences that make me fall out of my chair but others can, I am not allowed to use more than one methodology on a puzzle but others can, I can’t cross-reference with overarching explanations to things outside of a puzzle but others can.

I really don’t understand why Bauer’s solution is ‘wrong’ either but suddenly all the stuff he did wrong is now okay to consider.

That is baffling.

Anyway there you have it. My reason why the Concerned Citizen Card exists the way it does.

Nope.

"History: Prison guard was insulted by Zodiac newspapers (documented) after getting beaten up in Vallejo by Vallejo high school students."

Have you posted this in another thread before? I know I have read about that somewhere, probably at least 3 years ago.

"History: Prison guard was insulted by Zodiac newspapers (documented) after getting beaten up in Vallejo by Vallejo high school students."

Have you posted this in another thread before? I know I have read about that somewhere, probably at least 3 years ago.

This was a find I made mid 2019. I didn’t develop the LE connection until the end of 2019 and start of 2020. What you see here is the work I did in 2020 to the summer of 2020.

I put this on Reddit and TV’s site and I think one or two others but retracted them from some of those places when I got the feedback I needed.

It is only here now.

Maybe you might be confusing this with TV’s WATERSON suspect? https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/zodiack … t7906.html

That pretty much ends right there TV’s argument this work I am doing isn’t a valid POI. They based all that Waterson research on three points. His lips look like the composite. He was airforce. He was in the very general area.

All this will move forward the day an official decides they are just as fed up like most people that a POI gets a pass because they are LE. It is only when there is above and beyond the evidence needed to look into LE characters that they do it (Joseph James DeAngelo for example). The Zodiac knew this. His face was on the composite. He left loads of evidence behind. The only way the Zodiac got away with it was because of WHO he is.

I did a lot more work this year that has led me to believe he directly manipulated the case by interfacing with LE. I think LE know this. I think it is the big embarrassment that they don’t want made public which is just as much a goal as finding the Zodiac. The Zodiac knew all this. They just didn’t know which one of them he was or how he was good at making suggestions that filtered through the ranks and set them off on wild goose chases. He knew if he was caught he would embarrass them still. It was a win win situation for him. Hence why he was so brazen. He hates LE because he was an underachieving LE possibly demoted to a prison guard or menial work. That’s basically it coupled with a strong hatred of kids from Vallejo/Napa and I would say kids in general. Which is why I think he is a good candidate for the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders too.

I have enjoyed your updated and am following this closely. Your theory is just as good (and in some ways stronger) than anyone elses’s

They based all that Waterson research on three points. His lips look like the composite. He was airforce. He was in the very general area.

God forbid anyone actually believes your bullshi*.

Waterson was accused of attempted kidnapping a block from where Lass disappeared. And a ton more.

Please go back to exile.

I have enjoyed your updated and am following this closely. Your theory is just as good (and in some ways stronger) than anyone elses’s

Thanks. I need to put together the work I have done for half a year following this and do something with it. Lots there.

A rather attentive sleuth has found an FBI report connecting the name DANIEL up with the ZODIAC case.

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threa … ge.132012/

That news was placed on this site under "Hello It’s Me" in unconfirmed letters about 7 years ago BD Holland. The letter-writer who stated "Daniel" very likely made a mistake. He should have stated "Darron". This missing child, Darron Glass, was deemed part of the Atlanta Child Murders. Here is a piece I wrote about it in May 2020.
https://www.zodiacciphers.com/zodiac-ne … rron-glass

"Daniel Please Call Home"
Indianapolis Star on November 29th 1980