As you all may see, the costume and the arrangement of death assurement tools that the zodiac (or the second guy in this scheme due to the body size/weight and hair color differences from Blue Rock Springs 2.5 months earlier and Presidio Heights 2 weeks later) brought with him were based and inspired – once more, like the "Halloween card" to Paul Avery on October 27th, 1970 – and were not some kind of "sophisticate" or "innovative" mindset. Just a fat loser, obssessed with the early 1950s Western comics (if he was in his early 30s by 1969, he was surly about middle school kid when reading it, and an unpopular bullied one for certain), who used a Saturday afternoon to assault another couple who had what he couldn’t achieve on his own.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Hmlu4KY
* Minor Edit: added a space where two words got sticked together.
That’s my poi: viewtopic.php?f=96&t=4009
Great find. It seems that the comics are a huge key to understanding Zodiac’s fantasies and motives.
There is nothing unique or unusual about how those items are depicted in Holt’s drawings.
There is nothing unique or unusual about how those items are depicted in Holt’s drawings.
If the Halloween card was authentic then it suggests Tim Holt held much meaning to him. It’s not a stretch to think that it might have influenced his costume.
Every western-themed comic is going to show guns and holsters and ropes. And there were a ton of western-themed comics.
Every western-themed comic is going to show guns and holsters and ropes. And there were a ton of western-themed comics.
Right, and it seems he was a big fan of them.
Death wheels were part of other genres of entertainment, not just cowboy stuff.
This is just a drawing by Graysmith, doesn’t mean it actually looks like the guy at LB that day. Someone would have to ask Hartnell his opinion of the drawing.
This is just a drawing by Graysmith, doesn’t mean it actually looks like the guy at LB that day. Someone would have to ask Hartnell his opinion of the drawing.
The one was based on witness descriptions.
The Zodiac used a gun, westerns have guns, therefore the Zodiac was inspired by westerns. Oh I’m sorry, he used a rope as well.
I understand that there are plausible references to Tim Holt in the letters. But it’s not as though he shot his victims with a peacemaker. I mean he’d have been hard pressed to think of more generic murder weapons than a gun, a knife and some pieces of rope.
Yea that is tons of speculation. One can say Zodiac was into car magazines cause he drove one!
