I am excited to listen to the latest episode…! Probably waits til Monday for me.
As an aside I been thinking about the Zodiac’s total confirmed crime spree: 12/20/1968 – 10/11/1969, 295 days. Not a whole year.
That timeline portrays an offender escalating rapidly.

Day ‘zero’, 12/20/1968 LHR shooting
07/04/1969 BRS shooting, 196 days later – 66%
09/27/1969 Lake Berryessa stabbings, 85 days later – 29%
10/11/1969 Presidio, 14 days later – 5%

But moving into 1970 there are only his poison pen letters and no confirmed Zodiac attacks after that rampage escalation….

The Salem murder, a home invasion stabbing, is very similar to the Bennallack murder in Sacramento six months later.

As an aside I been thinking about the Zodiac’s total confirmed crime spree: 12/20/1968 – 10/11/1969, 295 days. Not a whole year. That timeline portrays an offender escalating rapidly.

Not that I don’t love it when you put your Criminal Minds vernacular on display, it’s just that most people here would prefer to read about this particular episode of the podcast IMHO.

The Salem murder, a home invasion stabbing, is very similar to the Bennallack murder in Sacramento six months later.

Right. Neither one fits.

The Salem murder, a home invasion stabbing, is very similar to the Bennallack murder in Sacramento six months later.

Right. Neither one fits.

According to Tom Voigt, there is an unreleased Zodiac communication – and physical evidence contained in the Halloween card – that definitively ties Zodiac to the Bennallack murder.

According to Tom Voigt, there is an unreleased Zodiac communication – and physical evidence contained in the Halloween card – that definitively ties Zodiac to the Bennallack murder.

I don’t think Tom is that confident that Zodiac killed Nancy. I wish it was true. The police have a full DNA profile of Nancy’s killer.

The Salem murder, a home invasion stabbing, is very similar to the Bennallack murder in Sacramento six months later.

Right. Neither one fits.

According to Tom Voigt, there is an unreleased Zodiac communication – and physical evidence contained in the Halloween card – that definitively ties Zodiac to the Bennallack murder.

Ties him how?

Ties him how?

Tom was apparently told by Dave Toschi about something "extremely gross" contained in the Halloween card that linked Zodiac to the Bennallack case.

A little on William Heirens …… there are a lot of people who believe that he was railroaded, for good reason, IMO. I try to be skeptical about those sorts of claims. But it’s like this: The Chicago police told the media that Heirens had failed a lie detector test. A few years later, the experts writing a textbook on the use of lie detectors were doing research and wanted to use that test as an example. When asked for it, the Chicago police dragged their feet. They finally gave the test results to the experts. The experts looked at it and decided he had passed. It was an extremely shady prosecution. So it’s not hard to believe that that guy was running around.

It’s also a (tenuous) link to the Black Dahlia Avenger. The spines of the Black Dahlia and Suzanne Degnan were both severed at the same spot, which is the easiest place to cut through it. It’s one bit of evidence pointing to a doctor being the BDA.

This is definitely the best episode. A lot of stuff I didn’t know.

Not that I don’t love it when you put your Criminal Minds vernacular on display, it’s just that most people here would prefer to read about this particular episode of the podcast IMHO.

Then Perpy Tom you just skip over my posts. Are you a child? Do you need help with the internet? Maybe some supervision?

Not that I don’t love it when you put your Criminal Minds vernacular on display, it’s just that most people here would prefer to read about this particular episode of the podcast IMHO.

I don’t enjoy posts from dim-wit amateur ambulance chasers, so i ignore those.

What’s the story that you mentioned about other incidents near the area of the Johns abduction? You all mention it, but I’ve never heard about that.

What’s the story that you mentioned about other incidents near the area of the Johns abduction? You all mention it, but I’ve never heard about that.

On the same evening as the Kathleen Johns abduction, two men, Frederick Beaman and William Horton were traveling on Highway 132, near Highway 33 and Interstate 580 when a man passed them in a white 1959 Buick, continued for about one mile down the road where he pulled up and attempted to flag them down. They ignored the man’s gesturing and continued on without stopping. The incident was reported to Sergeant Hall of the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office on March 23rd 1970, the day after the Kathleen Johns abduction. They had read the abduction account in the Modesto Bee newspaper and believing it to be relevant information, reported it to authorities. A follow up on their account was attempted at 300 Kerr Street, Modesto, the residence of Frederick Beaman, however, his mother Teresa Watson who also resided at the above location had no idea of his whereabouts. Future attempts to contact these two witnesses failed and the lead petered out.