Jeeez! If this is all a coincidence, this is one hell of a coincidence!
I’m surprised almost nobody reacts to this find…
I’m surprised almost nobody reacts to this find…
Why? There are plenty of double letters in words that don’t fall within the lines on the page. And the ones within the lines don’t seem to denote anything significant.
If looking for similar things on that page that "could" have significance, you could say the same about Z’s use of alliteration … "of Oct", "my murders", "look like", "few fake", "the time".
It’s cool that Jelberg is looking at the letters like this though, and sharing his observations. It’s a different approach that might lead to something.
It’s not only the double letters, but also the repetitions of full words. And alliterations (and assonances, and I think "the time" is neither one or the other, by the way) actually reinforce what we already know about the Zodiac; he liked to play with words, sounds, etc. It would be no surprise that he would write letters like he did cyphers. It was already showed that he used portemanteau words mixing several languages. Given his mastery of words and languages, Really, I wouldn’t be surprised if his letters were based on a double meaning entirely, not mentioning hiding his first name
Really, I wouldn’t be surprised if his letters were based on a double meaning entirely…
I have no doubt that the letters and diagrams contain more than meets the eye; clues that are hidden in plain sight.
To see some clues you have to look at more than one page of the letters at once.
For example:
If you look at both the letter and the bomb diagram that were sent on April 20th 1970
side by side,
some interesting artifacts can be noticed.
The letters A and B are all over the diagram and letter.
Also notice that there are words where the dot of the letter
"i" is over another letter in the word.
The first letter "a" we see has a dot over it.
If you draw a vertical line through this dot,
the line passes through "I hope you" at exactly the same place it does in the bomb diagram.
Furthermore the part in the bomb diagram talking about the A + B swiches[sic]
subtly hints at treating words differently based on how they intersect with the line.
You can see that "B" = words that the line passes through without hitting any letters.
& "A" = hits a letter in the word (maybe a vowel – I don’t know for sure)
The word "bomb" occurs twice in the letter. One occurrence is much closer to one of zodiac’s "misspellings".
If you moved the "k" from "back" up a line in place of "c" in "cid" you would have the correct spelling "a kid".
&
If you moved the "c" from "back" up a line you would have "accid" as written in the bomb diagram.
the "bomb" that is closer to this area has a
"b" dis con-ected from it by the line passing through.
lots of the dots line up
and many of Zodiac’s letters have this reoccurring theme of periods
and dots of letters lining up exactly.
and I find it hard to believe it’s an ACCID!!!↑!!!
And now the question: did he do it just for fun, or in the hope of misleading the cops whom he knew would study his letters very closely (they did at the time, didn’t they?)?
And now the question: did he do it just for fun, or in the hope of misleading the cops whom he knew would study his letters very closely (they did at the time, didn’t they?)?
Here is an example that we KNOW Ted wrote:
The Penthouse Letter – UNABOMB
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Doing the exact same thing as in the Zodiac letters shown at the beginning of this thread…
Here is an example that we KNOW Ted wrote:
The Penthouse Letter – UNABOMB
enlargeDoing the exact same thing as in the Zodiac letters shown at the beginning of this thread…
One would think that someone as precise as we know Ted could be, would want to type a clean letter when he finally was going to be published in Penthouse. Yet, in this snippet, he leaves a crossed-out word in it. If he doesn’t, the doubles do not line up (The FC would be above "letters", not after), but with the cross-out, they do line up. So maybe the crossed-out word was on purpose, which would support your theory.