Yes, ITA! IMO, he used the carbon papers as he was afraid the typewriter might be identified if he sent the original. After several carbons or used carbons, the print becomes "fuzzy" and sometimes difficult to read.

Curiously, he didn’t send the same carbon copy to RPD and Enterprise. They are obviously two different takes of the same letter. There are at least 10 differences btw the versions, though difficult to make out on the Press version (e.g., underlining "The Confession" vs. no underline, 19 vs. 13 characters for the name, "brunett" vs. "brownett", etc.). Why do you suppose he would do that?

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Sometimes I could just kick myself….I missed the reference earlier in this topic about there being two letters sent out.
Very happy to have learned this. Ahhhh better late than never.

Can someone post the Two letters so I can compare them? Or are they already posted together somewhere?

Please.

Well, for me, I couldn’t seem to get it straight, particularly with smaller envelopes. And as Trav pointed out, the thickness of the envelope tended to make it jam and/or crinkle. Then again, my typewriter kinda sucked.

For me it was the rolling aspect, and trying to get the keys to land in the center of the envelope. Always hard to roll the envelope to the right spot.

I can see it now, mean, evil, super villain typing a dark & sinister confession letter, and then failing miserably to type the envelope finally giving up after going thru 5 or 6 envelopes, and hand writing it

Exactly. I wish he had — fumbled with it on the roller, hit himself with the keys a few times trying to straighten it, and inadvertently covered the envelope with fingerprints and maybe a drop of blood or two

Can someone post the Two letters so I can compare them? Or are they already posted together somewhere?

Please.

I looked for the letter that was sent to RPD but all I could find was a DOJ report which transcribes the letter. At the beginning of the page it describes how the letter was found, too.

And here is the letter that was sent to the newspaper.

I’m a little confused, Deb. The letter pictured with the press envelope is not the one you claim is the press letter. That’s why I assumed the yellowish pic is the one that was sent to RPD.

http://zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=71&p=33876#p33876

I still think this is a major find by Seagull. Not that if we ever see the envelope, it will reveal something earth shattering, but rather that somehow, this was overlooked all these years by everybody. Thanks for always looking with fresh eyes Seagull. This proves that it always pays to go back and review this case with fresh eyes.

I still think this is a major find by Seagull. Not that if we ever see the envelope, it will reveal something earth shattering, but rather that somehow, this was overlooked all these years by everybody. Thanks for always looking with fresh eyes Seagull. This proves that it always pays to go back and review this case with fresh eyes.

Not to take away from Deb, but this has been discussed previously…

http://www.zodiackiller.com/mba/cjb/596.html

Maybe, ‘forgotten about’ is a better phrase.

Confession Letter pictured with Press envelope:

Confession Letter not in picture above:

Regardless of which is which, the point I was trying to make is that the versions were indeed different. The one I had assumed was the Press version (because it is pictured with the Press envelope) is not easy to read. This is the best I got…

I was just doing a side by side but your’s will suffice.

Again, very difficult to confirm, but in the blurry version, the author seems to have spelled "victim" as either "victom" or "victon" (the DOJ transcription reads "victon"). Now where have I seen it incorrectly spelled with an "o" before? Hmmmm…

Again, very difficult to confirm, but in the blurry version, the author seems to have spelled "victim" as either "victom" or "victon" (the DOJ transcription reads "victon"). Now where have I seen it incorrectly spelled with an "o" before? Hmmmm…

It is very hard to tell but it does appear that something other than the correct spelling might be happening there. From the blurred shapes and assuming it’s not an ‘I’ spacing ‘looks’ to suggest ‘VICTON’ rather than ‘VICTOM’. This makes sense in a weird way because N-M is a very common or ‘commin’ typing mistake given their proximity to each other. Actually I-O is the same. Maybe he didn’t have much light in his basement in the shadow of his death machine.