The newest reports say a lot more about RH that I had not read before and it is all very Z like profile wise! Also in the article it says he attacked a female blackjack dealer in Casino and we also have nurses he killed… Reminds me of Donna Lass’s profile/professions.
"Two psychiatrists are scheduled to appear at a hearing Thursday to discuss the results of a court-ordered mental exam to determine whether Halbower is mentally fit to stand trial.
It’s not the first mental exam on Halbower, who has spent most of the last 50 years in prison or on the lam.
A 1987 psychiatric report for an Oregon court concluded that Halbower was an intelligent man who suffered from “a severe personality disorder, with a propensity toward criminal behavior.”
Halbower earned a high school diploma in prison, but he has had no other education, court records show. He does not appear to possess job skills, although he took drafting classes and dabbled with art behind bars in Michigan, Nevada and Oregon.
Still, that psychiatric report said Halbower “feels that he is pretty accomplished, that he should be able to teach, that he has a great many qualifications” and yearned to be a famous artist or a rock-and-roll star. The report concluded that Halbower’s “life is replete with poor impulse control, narcissism and a certain grandiosity.”
By his own reckoning, Halbower’s criminal career began when he was 9 years old in his hometown of Muskegon, Michigan, when police picked him up for “breaking windows in a cottage,” the psychiatrist said.
Four years later, he stole and wrecked a car and then ran away from a juvenile detention facility. It was the beginning of a pattern of crime, prison and escape.
Halbower has been arrested at least 10 times as an adult and convicted of larceny, rape, attempted murder, escape and other felony charges, court records show.
“He’s a bad man,” said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, who is prosecuting Halbower for the Gypsy Hill killings.
Halbower’s attorney did not return calls seeking comment.
His brother said Halbower was often truant from school and didn’t get along with teachers or fellow students.
“He was a loner, and he was mean,” said John Halbower, who still lives in Muskegon. “He was a bully.”
But John Halbower said his brother never displayed any particular hostility toward women, though he broke off contact when Rodney moved to Nevada in 1975.
The day after Christmas of that year, Halbower was released from a Reno jail on $5,000 bail with pending rape charges. Five months later, he was sentenced to life in prison.
It was during those five months, from his release to his sentencing in Reno, that authorities say he went on a killing spree in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Halbower would never have been charged with murder and linked to the five California murders and the killing of a University of Nevada nursing student in Reno had he not escaped from prison in December 1986. He stole and made his way to Oregon, where he soon was arrested for rape and attempted murder.
An Oregon jury convicted Halbower. He was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison and returned to Nevada to finish his prison term.
When Nevada paroled him in 2013, he was sent back to Oregon, where prison officials took a DNA sample and submitted it to a national database investigators use to revive stalled investigations.
Meanwhile, Reno police reopened an investigation into the 1976 killing of a nursing student found near the University of Nevada. A woman who confessed to murder spent 30 years in prison for the crime, but evidence mounted that she was mentally unfit and probably innocent." http://m.elkharttruth.com/news/michigan … iller.html
I found a MySpace for RH I think lol not sure if it is a B.S. Page Or not. Old pic of him from page attached in this post.
He is connected to a Bill Richards from MI. Here’s RH – looks like a silly cartoon hat was drawn and pasted on his head in the picture. strange.
According to this article, Rodney was imprisoned in Michigan at the time of CJB, as well as all of the canonical Zodiac crimes:
According to this article, Rodney was imprisoned in Michigan at the time of CJB, as well as all of the canonical Zodiac crimes:
I’m having a hard time because one news report it said he broke out of jail once in the 60’s. How can we be so sure he didn’t break out after his 1965 conviction? At 17 Years Old He gets 5 years in 1965 with possibility of parole and then we find him in 1970 again arrested for robbery. So as soon as he got out in 1970 he was popped again immediately (if he spent all 5 years in prison). That seems almost too soon IMO, but hey it’s possible.
My biggest question is: if he entered in 1965 for 5 years at 17 years old wouldn’t he have been in a juvenile detention center when beginning that sentence? Then would he be transferred in 1966 to another adult prison facility once he turned 18? Why isn’t this mentioned in the timeline?
I don’t understand why the 1960’s jailbreak was mentioned in one article and not in this one? This one doesn’t mention his first jailbreak until 1970. I’m guessing he first broke out in January of 1970 and immediately knocked someone up and had a kid by the end of the year? When I read between the lines as far as his time in MI goes it seems like they were real numbskulls in granting him parole in 70 after he had already escaped months if that before! IMO Basically he kept getting popped and Muskegon kept "losing" him when he broke out or paroling him even though he obviously was not a good candidate for it. Sorry but that’s incompetence at its finest. Btw it would suck to be his kid – some bad luck there.
Was Halbower in Riverside around 1966? If not, it’s doubtful his RH initials would connect with the Bates case.
This piece from the December 14th 1970 Ludington Daily News does mention his myriad escapes.
Sorry if it has been brought up before, but it looks like back in January they connected this guy via DNA to the Bay Area Gypsy Hill murders of 1976.
It has. On a few occasions. Using ‘Halbower’ in the search function found the references to it. 
“I don’t know Chief, he’s very smart or very dumb.“
Sorry if it has been brought up before, but it looks like back in January they connected this guy via DNA to the Bay Area Gypsy Hill murders of 1976.
It has. On a few occasions. Using ‘Halbower’ in the search function found the references to it.
Always a good idea to use the search function first. 99% of the time, it’s been discussed. I learned this the hard way too back in the day!
“…they may be dealing with one or more ersatz Zodiacs–other psychotics eager to get into the act, or perhaps even other murderers eager to lay their crimes at the real Zodiac’s doorstep.“ L.A. Times, 1969
This piece from the December 14th 1970 Ludington Daily News does mention his myriad escapes.
Thank you Coffee Time! Gosh the guy really was an escape artist – and a jerk! Getting in a chase with his woman and child in the car and crashing it only to flee? Shameless.
So it looks like he did escape in 1965. Not sure when or if he was picked up again. and then was arrested years later in February of 1969 in Michigan, but escaped from the police car and got away.
Some interesting dates going on there when he escaped. I wonder if that’s all? It seems difficult to find record of all of his escapes. Going to check threads to see if anyone worked on getting a definitive list of when he was incarcerated and when he wasn’t.
All I can think right now is that if it were found out that RH was the Zodiac PLENTY of people would be very upset at the incompetence of the justice and correctional systems in handling RH.
I can’t find RH handwriting anywhere. No letters. No nothing.
RH’s brother John Halbower made statements to the press and seems to really think RH is a no good, mean SOB. Maybe someone (Morf?) could contact John and ask him if RH was ever known to be in Riverside in late oct/early nov 1966 or SF during the dates of the Zodiac crimes? Also if he has any of RHs handwriting from birthday cards, letters etc.?
I just feel like much more can be explored in regard to RH.
I also think it’s interesting he got busted for forgery. What did he think he could trick people with his handwriting or something?
Correction – Rodney likely conceived his child with his gf Sometime around Nov/Dec of 1969 – which is a month or 2 after the Stine murder.
I hate to be crude, but could zodiac have not felt rage toward the lover’s at lover’s lanes anymore after finally finding a female he could be sexually active with?
Apparently Rodney was an artist when he wasn’t busy murdering.
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AnnCrew
Aug 26, 2012, 04:04 PM
I have four cariatures that I found in my mothers stuff. They were done in 1958 @ Ponds Lodge in Island Park Idaho. They are of my mother, father,brother and myself. They are on heavy paper about 11 x 14, done with charcoal. They only marking is in the lower right hand corner that reads MARK with the number 58 underneath. I vaguely remember having them done and would like some more info on them
I also have another charcoal of my younger brother and myself. It is done on thin paper about 11 x 18. On the back of the picture, written in pencil is Rodney Halbower, underneath that reads West Yellowstone 1978
Aprilj618
Feb 25, 2013, 01:17 AM
That painting was done by my father, Rodney Halbower. I remember being with him at the Chicago zoo and different parks when he painted portraits for people. April Halbower ( Aprilj0819@yahoo.com )
Fwiw, April is the name of his daughter per birth records.
Tahoe, wasn’t there a postcard with caricatures on it of a man and a woman? Everyone was wondering who might have made the caricature? Going to see if I can source it and drop it over here.
Here’s the postcard/caricatures
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.ph … u=14945813
And the thread it is discussed in
http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtop … f=25&t=464
I believe it was just a card that caught Morf’s eye and that is the only basis of the theory that it could have been the work of Z, but yeah… Funny coincidence that RH is doing caricatures in the 70’s and that Morf was interested in this caricature made in the 70’s. Just wanted to note.
Interesting that the caricature was done by RH in 1978 in Idaho
If I’m reading all correct – at the time an unnamed POI in the ATL child murders was thought to have been around the Boise, Idaho/Deer Lodge, MT areas in 1978-1979. His personalized license plate had expired and was surrendered in 1980 (or 1988 hard to read) in North Carolina.
His personalized license plate was registered in Deer Lodge, MT in 1978-1979 – though Idaho was checked out as well in regard to this license plate possibly being used there. They couldn’t find the plate registered there, but I’m assuming they checked bc their POI was in that area sometime around 1978-1979. It seems that POI picked up and moved to Oregon and didn’t leave any info to forward mail or anything. Interesting that RH also had Oregon as his stomping grounds many times and ended up murdering there.
