Welcome to the forum Detective Poyser.

Thank you for your introduction and as I’m sure Mike has already said, the team here will be on hand for any assistance we may be able to offer. We appreciate how incredibly non-stop your job must be and that this is a very much non-immediate case. Pleasure to make your acquaintance.

Trav.

Hi and welcome to the forum. It is a real treat to have you here. Thanks so much for joining.

Terry, glad to have you here! As I’ve told you, it’s refreshing to speak to somebody investigating this case that is enthusiastic about doing so. I hope that if time permits,you may be able to answer some questions about the case that have never clearly been answered (assuming they won’t jeopardize your investigation). Looking forward to hearing your take on stuff, and to talking to you more.

Welcome Detective Poyser. As others have already stated, it’s a treat to have you here, and knowing that while there are many cases that are higher priority at the time, that you still are doing what you can on this cold case that has baffled many many people over the years. I look forward to reading anything and everything you have to offer!

Once again…welcome!

Welcome!

Great to see someone working the case on this board – really a treat.

I’m sure we all understand that you’re busy on (many) other fronts, but I hope you can find the time to post every now and then – I’m sure there are plenty of things you can clear up for us regarding the evidence in the case.

Welcome again – looking forward to hearing more from you.

Ahhh Vallejo.. fun town in the 80’/90’s..getting kinda skittish there nowadays.Lots of luck and welcome to the board..

Welcome Terry!

Welcome and thank you for joining us Detective. It’s a pleasure.

I hope members here, should you decide to contact Detective Poyser, do so with diligence and brevity when at all possible. I have seen the files of another detective and ONE person gave him a report that was about 500 pages. Most investigators have an obligation to read over materials you provide so it would be worthwhile to your cause to get to the fine points of your case…at least in the beginning. If there is any merit to what you share, they will take it the next step further.

Terry, these are questions that I have, not sure you can or will answer them, but I have researched and can not find the answer:

1) Have any prints (finger,palm,etc) from any of the crimes in various jurisdictions(Vallejo,SF,NAPA,etc)been compared to one another, and if they have, has their been any matches to each other?

2)Riverside PD has print & DNA evidence in the Cheri Jo Bates case. Do you know if it has been compared against prints & DNA in the Zodiac case? My theory is that it has, and there was no match, which is why Riverside has steadily repeated it’s stance that Cheri was not killed by Zodiac.(I think this is also likely, that Zodiac didn’t kill Cheri, but merely wrote the letters & desktop poem in her case,hence no DNA or print match)

3)Since the CA DOJ is no longer handling any of the Z case(besides lab & print work from what I hear),who has all of the Zodiac stuff that they had? I am curious who is in possession of the Riverside Desktop poem which was linked to Zodiac?

Again, I understand that there are things you are unable to answer due to the investigation, so if you can not comment on these questions,I understand.

Mike

Not sure about the print comparisons, but will know more over the next few months after meeting with the other Detectives assigned to the Z case with other jurisdictions.

As for evidence, I know we have the Vallejo letters and envelopes, as well as clothing and items from the BRS shooting. We also have seven 9mm cases and seven slugs in various types of condition. Much of the evidence is stored with SFPD. It will take me some time to determine what is there in SF, and what is here. I still need to uncrate our stuff and see what is there besides the BRS evidence, such as items taken from ALA during the search of his home. Today I tried to find crime scene photos on my lunch hour, with negative results. Then I went back to my normal case load….

I will find out more over the summer and hope to be able to fill you in. I appreciate all the hard work from the researchers over the years on this case. However, for Vallejo, my case falls on simple physical evidence from the scene, not code theories. We have a ton of stuff mailed in over the years with family photos, letters (handwriting samples), cryptography sleuths info, etc. etc. etc.

As this is a side detail, I will try to keep at it and am interested in the case as much as anyone, but it will take some baby steps on my part to go over what has been done, and what can be done with modern case investigation techniques. A lot of questions will be answered once I meet up with the guys/gals working the case with other agencies such as Napa SO, SFPD, FBI….

Terry

How very interesting and good to know a co-ordinated approach is being used to gather all evidence. It would be most interesting to also gather, if possible, a list of all those poi’s who were named and cleared by LE and re-examine them or run whatever prints are available again with the databases now available.

Hopefully you will be able to read the DMV letter so much has been made of and hinted about.

Thanks for all your efforts on this and all your other cases.

Thanks Terry. Gotta be cool looking thru all that stuff knowing there may be something in there that could break the case wide open. And in a way, you’re actually handling some of the biggest pieces of evidence in the history of American crime.

I also agree 100%, that you need solid physical evidence to solve this case, DNA,prints,Ballistics,etc

very interesting..
and a warm welcome

Yeah your right Mr. Lowe

Welcome detective.

Soze