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Yes, the Bank of the West commercials were from 2012. This was over five years since I had met KQ in his office when his friend told me that KQ’s mind "wandered," so I had to take it easy on him when I asked him questions about the case. In the video, KQ’s passport from 1929 is shown. He had told me in 2006 that it was not he to whom Pelissetti spoke on the night of the Stine murder but that he was "unable" to locate his passport to prove he was in England that night. I thought it odds that he had "misplaced" the 1969 passport but had the one from forty years before 1969 to use in this commercial. Four years after I spoke to him, he opened a comedy club on Van Ness near his dealership. Also in 2012, he had sat down with an author for a book about his business acumen. Some case of "early dementia" in 2006! Dementia is usually progressive and unrelenting.

The clincher was in 2009 when the Chronicle wrote an article about KQ’s 90th birthday. In that article, he stated that he was just learning to play the piano. As anyone familiar with dementia knows, it affects your recent memory. That is why people with dementia can reminisce about the old days but can’t recall what they did yesterday. Some case of "dementia" that had supposedly progressed four years but still allowed him to open a new business and learn to play an instrument in 2009 and 2010. That is not to mention the fact that he was consistently described as being "spry" and young for his age in articles post-2006.

Obviously, I believe that the evidence shows that the "wandering mind" story was a ploy to create plausible deniability for the statements he made to me that day in 2006.

Mike

That link is now dead, I think this is the same video, on youtube:
https://youtu.be/JfEbYbTNMKE

I know he’s very old in it, but 2 things did grab my attention:
1) He seemed to speak very slowly and deliberately just like the descriptions of Zodiac’s voice. This may be age, or maybe he always spoke like that.
2) There is a distinctive accent to his voice that is very hard to place. Again this may have changed with age but he had been in the USA for 40 years by the time of the Zodiac murders. This is surely enough time to give him the kind of ‘drawl’ accent that Bryan Hartnell couldn’t place. As soon as I heard KQ’s voice I thought of Bryan Hartnell’s description.

What works against his voice is that he doesn’t sound much like Gyke, who Nancy Slover favoured as having the most Z-like voice that she’d heard.