We would need more specific diagnoses.

I diagnose problems aside from his mental health issues. Among them:

*By all accounts Ross was described as being much larger than Zodiac was described.

*Outside of Riverside, Ross can’t be conclusively placed anywhere the Zodiac was.

*The librarians were told he had an alibi for Bates. I was told he also had an alibi for Berryessa.’

Hell, lots of people wrote off Gaikowski because "he was in Europe!!!" which of course turned out to be nonsense. (Can you imagine if Gaikowski had been 6’4" and 275 LBS???)

PS:

Ross was in Europe for the LHR event. Prove me wrong.

So how did Narlow have Ross on his radar?…

So how did Narlow have Ross on his radar?…

Riverside PD contacted Napa County shortly after the Berryessa event.
http://zodiackiller.com/RiversideMemo1.html

I also detail it here:
https://youtu.be/0bKUoRLs-Q4

So how did Narlow have Ross on his radar?…

Riverside PD contacted Napa County shortly after the Berryessa event.
http://zodiackiller.com/RiversideMemo1.html

I also detail it here:
https://youtu.be/0bKUoRLs-Q4

Odd Sullivan’s name would have even came up if Riverside had cleared him with his alibi. Seems they werren’t confident in that alibi.

So how did Narlow have Ross on his radar?…

Riverside PD contacted Napa County shortly after the Berryessa event.
http://zodiackiller.com/RiversideMemo1.html

I also detail it here:
https://youtu.be/0bKUoRLs-Q4

Odd Sullivan’s name would have even came up if Riverside had cleared him with his alibi. Seems they werren’t confident in that alibi.

Those librarians were pretty aggressive. They didn’t get what they wanted from Riverside PD (Ross arrested?) so they reached out elsewhere. Typical. That’s what Paul Avery’s tipster did, he didn’t get the reaction he wanted from Riverside PD, so he went fishing elsewhere.

Not quite, they didn’t reach out to anyone. Dave Peterson from the Vallejo Times Herald reached out to them. It was a good thing Paul Avery’s tipster reached out to him, if not Riverside would still blindly be chasing bad POI’s in the Bates case without results(not that they are getting results) and who knows if/when Zodiac’s Riverside activity would have been linked

I was revisiting this lesser known picture of Ross and was struck again by comparing it to the sketch, even though his hair is longer in this picture.

Bottom picture. (I’ve linked my site because I can’t post pictures in this forum but mods feel free to post the pic and remove the link.)

https://zodiackblog.home.blog/2019/07/1 … ss-spirit/

Well I finally got all the way through this thread. It’s very impressive what you guys are doing—I’m looking forward to exploring the other POIs.

We would need more specific diagnoses.

I diagnose problems aside from his mental health issues. Among them:

*By all accounts Ross was described as being much larger than Zodiac was described.

*Outside of Riverside, Ross can’t be conclusively placed anywhere the Zodiac was.

*The librarians were told he had an alibi for Bates. I was told he also had an alibi for Berryessa.’

Hell, lots of people wrote off Gaikowski because "he was in Europe!!!" which of course turned out to be nonsense. (Can you imagine if Gaikowski had been 6’4" and 275 LBS???)

PS:

Ross was in Europe for the LHR event. Prove me wrong.

Ross wasn’t 6ft4. Ken Narlow was confident Zodiac was well over 200LBS, Ross fits that bill. The biggest hurdle is placing him in Vallejo,Napa, etc. But as far as looking identical to sketch, and being placed in the RCC library, he has a leg up

So how did Narlow have Ross on his radar?…

Ross is NOT mentioned in any reports in Napa. I had a good contact there a few years back who told me that Ross was not even in their database as a suspect

Donald Fouke estimated the Zodiac Killer’s weight to be ca. 141lb / 64 kg.

In this video Donald Fouke says that Lee Allen was about 100 lbs heavier than the man,
believed to be the Zodiac killer, that Donald Fouke saw at Jackson Street October 11th, 1969,
minutes after Paul Stine was murdered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktYO2IKfMo

Lee allen’s weight October 6, 1969 was ca 241 lb./110 kg

https://www.zodiacciphers.com/zodiac-ne … e-timeline

"On October 6, 1969, just months after the shooting at Blue Rock Springs Park, Allen was interviewed by a Vallejo detective
who described the suspect as “6’1″, 241 (lbs), heavy build and is bald.” "

So… 241 lb minus 100 lbd = 141lb / 64 kg.

So… the only person who saw the Zodiac Killer, without any disguise, estimated the Zodiac Killer’s weight to be ca. 141lb/64kg

This IMHO excludes Ross Sullivan as a possible Zodiac suspect, once and for all.

141lbs… so we should be on the looking for a woman, or midget. I appreciate what you’re trying to say, it speaks strongly against Ross being a good suspect. But obviously Fouke is contradicting other eyewitnesses and coming up with a weight that seems very unlikely.

Here is a challenge: find me any newspaper article that publicly released the July 31st 1969 envelope mailed to the Vallejo Times-Herald between 1969 and 1987. If not (and barring the usual claims of an inside job), Ross Sullivan can with near certainty be ruled out as the Zodiac Killer.

Here is a challenge: find me any newspaper article that publicly released the July 31st 1969 envelope mailed to the Vallejo Times-Herald between 1969 and 1987. If not (and barring the usual claims of an inside job), Ross Sullivan can with near certainty be ruled out as the Zodiac Killer.

I am curious, what does the envelope mailed have to do with ruling out Ross?

Here is a challenge: find me any newspaper article that publicly released the July 31st 1969 envelope mailed to the Vallejo Times-Herald between 1969 and 1987. If not (and barring the usual claims of an inside job), Ross Sullivan can with near certainty be ruled out as the Zodiac Killer.

I am curious, what does the envelope mailed have to do with ruling out Ross?

It’s best explained in the link Mike. If the author of the October 28th 1987 letter was just an idle, casual and poor hoaxer as many claim, then he managed to use exactly the same 13 words on the envelope as the July 31st 1969 envelope, he mimicked "please rush to editor" twice, his V’s were exaggerated in both cases, there were no commas or punctuation marks in either envelope, he addressed the October 28th 1987 envelope with the full address of Vallejo Times Herald (which Zodiac did in 1969), whereas in the published July 31st letters text only Vallejo Times was written, so didn’t copy. It is also my belief that both the 1987 and 1969 envelopes were addressed incorrectly as "Herold" as was the Celebrity Cypher in 1990. If the 1969 envelope wasn’t published prior to October 28th 1987, how could this lazy hoaxer mimic so perfectly this envelope. If the 1987 letter was Zodiac, Ross would be ruled out.

https://www.zodiacciphers.com/zodiac-ne … 7-part-two