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11/29/66 The "Confession" letter

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traveller1st
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Ciiiiiiil.

I mean … Cooooooool. :P


I don’t know Chief, he’s very smart or very dumb.

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 6:10 pm
up2something
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As Norse said earlier… the "victom" thing is kinda huge. Even if it says "victon", it just definitively pushed me over into the "Z wrote this" camp.

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 6:14 pm
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Thank you for digging up the letter. This is exactly what I would expect the letter to look like, blurry and hard to read. There are even fold lines that further verify that it is most likely photocopy, not a transcription, of the original.

I’m guessing that the versions we have seen of the letter are different because the transcribers had different beliefs as to what the letter said and that the letter writer didn’t mail out two different versions.

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Posted : May 29, 2015 6:29 pm
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It sure looks like VICTOM to me. Compare the other I’s and O’s in the letter.

Now, if this is more or less what the original(s) looked like, it lends support to the "not two versions" theory, IMO. It’s very blurry – several words which can be interpreted in this way or that.

Great find! There isn’t a transcription of the letter in the FBI files, by the way – preferably one done by the FBI themselves?

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 6:42 pm
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As Norse said earlier… the "victom" thing is kinda huge. Even if it says "victon", it just definitively pushed me over into the "Z wrote this" camp.

Welcome to the club, we are always accepting new Members :lol:

Great Find by the way, you just saved me from re-reading 1500 pages of FBI Files this weekend! ;)

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Posted : May 29, 2015 6:44 pm
up2something
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As Norse said earlier… the "victom" thing is kinda huge. Even if it says "victon", it just definitively pushed me over into the "Z wrote this" camp.

Welcome to the club, we are always accepting new Members :lol:

The desktop will take a bit more convincing though. ;)

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 6:51 pm
morf13
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As Norse said earlier… the "victom" thing is kinda huge. Even if it says "victon", it just definitively pushed me over into the "Z wrote this" camp.

Welcome to the club, we are always accepting new Members :lol:

The desktop will take a bit more convincing though. ;)

Baby Steps :D

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Posted : May 29, 2015 6:52 pm
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Not that I want to spoil the party…but:

According to the stats, there are three common ways to misspell the word: victum, victom and victem.

The first is the most common, but victom follows pretty closely. Roughly one fourth of the people who misspell victim do so following Z’s example.

To be exact, victum was opted for by 34% of the people who misspelled the word, followed by victom at 23% and victem at 13%.

These are stats from spellchecker.net, based on millions of spell checks between 2010 and 2012. But – and that is the key question here – how many people misspell victim to begin with? Is it a commonly misspelled word?

Anyway, if it is indeed VICTOM then it’s one more in the bag no matter how you look at it. And I’m pretty sure "victim" is less commonly misspelled than "twitch".

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 7:02 pm
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Great find !!! concerning the Confession letter envelope :)

Here is a copy of an old post of mine, the post I posted a link to the other day, it was originally posted at zodiackillerfacts.com Nov 2011.
(In my original post I had the DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 3: written as VICTOM when it in fact said VICTON, I have now corrected it.

I find it SO odd how LE apparently changed and added words, even sentences, in the original Confession letter when writing out a copy, bc as I understand it the "yellow Confession letter" is a copy written by LE right?.

http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/forum/ … 208#p23208

I made this file back in Jan 2009, but never got it posted, here it is:

THE CONFESSION LETTER NOVEMBER 29,1966

For some reason there are many inconsistances between
the Oct 3, 1969 Department Of Justice report version of
THE CONFESSION, and the, to most of us KNOWN, version
of THE CONFESSION.

The words highlighted in red, are words that are ONLY to be found in the, to most of us, KNOWN version.

Which of thise two versions that is the true ORIGINAL ZODIAC version, I´m not 100% sure.

And WHY there are all thise incosistances, I don´t know???

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 3: VICTON
COPY Line 3: VICTIM

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 4 : BEAUTIFUL BLOND BABY SITS NEAR THE STORE
COPY Line 3 : BEAUTIFUL BLOND THAT BABYSITS NEAR

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 6 : BRUNETTE
COPY Line 5 : BROWNETT

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 9 : SO, DON´T MAKE IT EASY FOR ME
COPY Line 7/8 : SO, DON´T MAKE IT TO EASY FOR ME

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 14 : MINUTES
COPY Line 12 : MINUTS

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 14: THE BATTERY MUST HAVE BEEN DEAD BY THEN :
COPY Line 12 : THE BATTERY MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT DEAD BY THEN

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 24/25 : SHE SQUIRMED AND I KICKED HER IN THE HEAD TO SHUT HER UP.
COPY Line 21/22 : SHE SQUIRMED AND SHOOK AS I CHOAKED HER, AND HER LIPS TWICHED. SHE LET OUT A SCREAM ONCE AND I KICKED HER IN THE HEAD TO SHUT HER UP.

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 26: I THEN FINISHED THE JOB CUTTING HER THROAT
COPY Line 23 : I THEN FINISHED THE JOB BY CUTTING HER THROAT

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 31 : IT WAS JUST A WARNING PERIOD
COPY Line IT 27 : IT WAS JUST A WARNING

DOJ´s ORIGINAL Line 31 : BEWARE I AM STALKING YOUR GIRLS NOW.
COPY Line 27 : BEWAREI AM STALKING YOUR GIRLS NOW.

Hi, english is not my first language so please bear with me :)

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 7:03 pm
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Not that I want to spoil the party…but:

According to the stats, there are three common ways to misspell the word: victum, victom and victem.

Stop it. You’re gonna kill my buzz.

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 7:06 pm
traveller1st
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Not that I want to spoil the party…but:

According to the stats, there are three common ways to misspell the word: victum, victom and victem.

Stop it. You’re gonna kill my buzz.

The desk stuff I just sent you will convince you beyond any doubt whatsoever.


I don’t know Chief, he’s very smart or very dumb.

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 7:23 pm
up2something
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Love it. I’d tell you to post it, but I’m afraid someone might run with it with, um, new claims.

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 8:22 pm
morf13
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Love it. I’d tell you to post it, but I’m afraid someone might run with it with, um, new claims.

Hey, I feel left out. :?

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Posted : May 29, 2015 8:23 pm
Tahoe27
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Yah, it is "victon"….still, like Seagull said, that blurry version is more of what is expected. That envelope to the cops is horrible. lol


…they may be dealing with one or more ersatz Zodiacs–other psychotics eager to get into the act, or perhaps even other murderers eager to lay their crimes at the real Zodiac’s doorstep. L.A. Times, 1969

 
Posted : May 29, 2015 8:27 pm
morf13
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Yah, it is "victon"….still, like Seagull said, that blurry version is more of what is expected. That envelope to the cops is horrible. lol

Hope I get some luck with getting copies of these letters & envelopes from the FBI. Not that they will look excellent, but they may be somewhat better

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Posted : May 29, 2015 8:40 pm
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