The bus letter had the hallmarks of rudimentary skills of electrical mechanics drawings or even an automotive electrician. sort of first or second year apprentice or someone who had studied a book to get the info.

Yes – but doesn’t that amount to just about…anyone. Who might have thought about such a device? And who knew how to read pretty basic text books? Or, who had read some sort of literature written by someone who knew how to read pretty basic text books?

The salient point is that the device is utterly impractical, surely. If Z actually possessed a certain degree of learning (formal or informal), he would have known this.

And if you know it, why do you design this…crap? Surely, it’s much more effective – terror wise – to present them with a bomb schematics that actually looks half plausible.

They would have known right away that his bomb was nothing to worry about.

I thought artists were creative people, Zodiac was a destroyer.

He actually looks just like the sketch.

Now, where have I heard that before…?

He has a widow’s peak, but doesn’t look just like the sketch. I actually think he could make for a fair Suspect given his link to Napa, and Deer Lodge. other than being in prison for the 1st Z attack

Ross Sullivan was into art and was a fair Artist by some accounts, and also into poetry.

Hey Norse,..just checked out the wiring diagram .. Not sure why it would not work.. Drawing is rudimentary at best but switching seems pretty right, parallel and series wiring power supply and he even thought through bus size height to car.. Now without googling I reckon that’s pretty up there in the early 70 s to run with photo electric switching… Pretty dumb way to set something off.. Way to elaborate, why so much trouble.. My guess he gets infatuated with ideas and runs it through his head more than most. I think it’s the photo electric switching that makes me think this. Not sure how much of this sort of stuff would have been taught if you were in the right division in the army..any ways I think auto electrics with a taste of love for electronics and a bit of training in the army maybe

You may be right, my friend – you certainly know more about this stuff than I do.

The switch or trigger mechanism is the key, I think. The wiring and such, as you say, is apparently sound – so says another guy who knows more about this than me. But the thing simply wouldn’t go off. There’s not enough power to detonate it – the thing lacks a proper detonator, in short.

Now, if the above is true – what sort of person would draw up that thing? Someone who had read a book about explosives without properly understanding it? Someone who had some superficial knowledge about bombs (wiring) but who had never actually built one, and who didn’t master the subject sufficiently, even theoretically, to be able to design a properly working device?

Hard to tell – but the latter category could certainly have been a soldier of some kind, I suppose. Someone who had been given some basic lessons, but who never went beyond that.

Dang! You’re pretty good at adding those glasses.

The second little photo looks even more like the sketch to me (and more in the time frame). The sketch always seemed to show a scrawnier guy, imo–not that that was the case, just could never understand why they didn’t bulk him up a bit.

Those two look darn close to me! (Not that he is Zodiac, but those two photos definitely look alike.)

Hehe, thanks T.

I just added some gray to the areas under his eyes that are completely blank because of the reflection (or whatever it is) in the original photo – and then added the specs. Then I flattened the image, photoshop style, to make it more like a drawing. Nothing added as such.

Yes, I think it’s a pretty damn good resemblance, actually.

But, of course, unless anyone should be mistaken – what this means, if it means anything, is that looking like the sketch is like…looking like too many people to make it interesting.

And I don’t think Z looked like the sketch. Not in terms of expression, facial features and details. It would be a sensation defying all odds if the sketch artist (a cop who had some experience drawing faces – he wasn’t even a professional sketch artist, correct me if I’m wrong) managed to capture Z’s mug with photographic accuracy.

Has anyone been able to compare samples of the white ink Ross Sullivan was using at the RCC library to the Halloween card?

As always I apologize if this has been covered already…

Thanks.

Has anyone been able to compare samples of the white ink Ross Sullivan was using at the RCC library to the Halloween card?

As always I apologize if this has been covered already…

Thanks.

Now that’s a great line of inquiry to follow

Wow good question

How would one do that?

How would one do that?

Seems nigh impossible.

It’s possible to make a pretty good guess as to which ink Ross would have used at the library if this was some sort of standard ink they (or every library) used at the time. Other than that, you’d need to know specifically what ink it was – and I have no idea how you’d go about determining that.

Well, if you managed to obtain a sample of said ink, and you were damn sure it was the right kind, you could extract a sample from the HC and compare them.

But does the HC actually exist as evidence anymore? I’ve heard various stories about that card being lost.

Last but not least, you need someone to actually care enough to carry it all out – someone in LE, that is.

I was thinking about Pink Phantom visiting that library looking for clues. If there were books or other materials that were coming in at the time Ross was marking them, that are still there in the stacks somewhere, that would be the way to obtain a sample. Maybe a magazine subscription, for instance, or an obscure book first published around then?

Please don’t tell me LE has "lost" the Halloween card… is there no limit to their incompetence in this case??