We discuss the report, as well as inconsistencies in it, in our latest episode of Zodiac Speaking Podcast

What are chances that 2 people from same small, quiet area(both in medical field) would vanish so close together, and not a sign of either one ever be found? Also, his office was 3 miles from Donna's new apartment. The year before, he got into an accident on Donna's road as seen in this article. I am still trying to pin down his actual home address to see where he lived. 

The only drawback to this theory, since Donna was new to the area, could she have ever met or been connected to him prior? 

Donna Lass

Facts:

The facts I got from the contemporary newspapers state the following:

Miss Donna Ann Lass, 25, a nurse who worked in South Lake Tahoe's Sahara Casino, went missing after her work shift on September 6, 1970. She was never seen again. There appears to be little to zero to indicate how she vanished. Nothing was unusual except for a missing Donna Lass.

Pines Card:

Donna Lass got national newspaper coverage when the Zodiac killer mailed in correspondence nicknamed the Pines card by researchers, postmarked March 22, 1971.

This Pines card was officially declared a Zodiac communication by Sherwood Morrill, also mentioned by the newspapers. It is believed the Zodiac is referencing Donna Lass.

There are several words formed from newspaper cut-outs pasted onto the card, and they read as the following:

· Sought Victim 12

· Peek through the pines

· Pass Lake Tahoe areas

· Around in the snow

· Sierra club

In addition to this, the card had a hole punched through it. The same punching was used around the sides of the card to give it the appearance of waves.

Investigators in the papers tried to connect the card clues with a possible dumpsite for the body of Donna Lass. They made some deductions, but the one they seem to focus on was that the image used in the card was traced to an advertisement for Incline Villages at Lake Tahoe. There are many more suggestions for locations, but nothing turned up.

13 Hole Card

If there was any doubt over the card being a Zodiac communication, it was with luck that researchers unearthed what they thought was a hoax Zodiac communication. The October 7, 1970 communication, called the 13 hole card by researchers, resembled the Pines card but had 13 holes punched out and using some wording the Zodiac was known to use.

Therefore, it is believed this communication is a prototype of the Pines card, and because the papers didn't print it, Zodiac created the Pines card to try and get attention.

New Trail

I believe I have found a new trail. I have been interested in the possibility of a golf connection for a while because of various things pointing to it and the use of a puncher on these cards.

I recently found that it is possible to explain the whole card, find a possible location, and put it all together by using this golf theme.

1. The puncher and holes can be associated with golf scorecard punching. The Zodiac kept scores in his communications.

2.  Sierra CLUB is an organization but the double meaning is probably a golf stick.
3. Around in the snow. Another double-meaning for "a round" of winter golf.
4. Pass Lake Tahoe areas. Double-meaning a "golf membership pass".
5. The prototype calls the victim a big thirteenth, not a big thirteen. That is consistent with what you would call the thirteenth hole.
6.  Pines card is therefore referencing the 12th hole.

There is more. I also found a news article that held many references and even included some interesting ones that we have covered. So it seems a casual sports and recreation writer had put the words and meanings together in an unrelated topic-golf.

Halfway down you get the flow of keywords.

It reads:

"Then northward back to Sierra, through Long  Pine and Bishop, to Lake Tahoe, where they found the most interesting golf course of all, the Tahoe Paradise Golf club."

Sierra, through, pine, lake Tahoe, club, and then an extra word that really should get our attention-Paradise. A particular word the Zodiac used very often included in his coded messages. The Zodiac referenced Paradise (spelling it Paradice) many times over in his communications. It even appears in the latest Z340 crack