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On Mac’s website he has a list of links he likes, and one of these links to the University Chicago Press, an academic press. So I clicked through to their journals section which is the only button still active on Wayback. I had a quick scan of the different sections, thinking what might appeal to Mac, and noticed “Crime and Justice” which seemed appropriate considering Mac had a MA in Criminal Justice.  
 
So I clicked through and there’s immediately a sample article on offer: 
 
‘Click here for a sample chapter
(PDF format) from Volume 28:
“Understanding Desistance from Crime”
 
The article is still downloadable. The subject of the article is why criminals stop offending. The article begins with the sentence “Why do they stop?” and goes on to explain that a number of factors “are sturdy correlates of desistance (e.g., good marriages, stable work, transformation of identity and ageing”.
 
 
Posted : October 27, 2021 12:51 pm
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Posted by: @morf13

A clear copy of the wedding announcement for Mac

Reminds the Berryessa composite.

 

“Nobody called him Arthur.”

 
Posted : October 28, 2021 10:23 am
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Very interesting parallels, Morf!

Does McGruber have any psychological indicators for crime? Explosive temper? Delusions of grandeur?

That was too much!

 
Posted : December 3, 2021 6:01 pm
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According to the 1973 city directory, Mac’s cousin Ernest Card was living in at 2774 Monterey Rd, Santa Clara a short distance from Monticello. I need to check back in the directory to see if he lived there in 1971, when the Monticello card (“near Monticello”) was sent. 

This is right next to Oak Hill Memorial Park where Kathy Furlong is buried. 

 
Posted : December 7, 2021 6:00 pm
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Map detail showing the proximity of Ernest Card’s address to Monticello. 

 
Posted : December 7, 2021 6:01 pm
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Just read about this guy for the first time over the last couple days.  Very interesting find.  The locations, sketches, and the code book sound promising.  Would love to know what this bombshell evidence is.  Hopefully we finally get this mystery solved.

 

Morf really emphasizes the code book and points out that with other suspects people would be touting that as compelling evidence if any were found to be in possession.  That’s true.  But it makes me wonder what’s more damning/coincidental, having the book or Ted having created his own journal ciphers and one of them being a period 19 (decades before the 340 was solved).  

 
Posted : December 31, 2021 8:13 pm
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With regard to Mac’s digital artwork of the clock and coffee cup: I just noticed that if you centre a clockface/compass on Mt. Diablo and adjust for Mag North, the timing of 5:55 aligns exactly with Lake Berryessa attack site. 

See here: 

 
Posted : January 25, 2022 8:40 am
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Posted by: @andr3w_0

With regard to Mac’s digital artwork of the clock and coffee cup: I just noticed that if you centre a clockface/compass on Mt. Diablo and adjust for Mag North, the timing of 5:55 aligns exactly with Lake Berryessa attack site. 

See here: 

Interesting

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Posted : April 4, 2022 10:24 am
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Hey everyone, I have not posted much here about Mac because of the major ongoing discussion of Mac at Tom’s site. However, the thread there has been overrun with trolls mostly attacking me and as Andrew put it- engaging in a smear campaign. It’s been so bad, I have decided it’s not healthy or worth it to be there so I am moving my discussion of the case to ONLY here on my site.

I encourage all of you interested in Mac to post here and avoid the debacle that the Mac thread at Tom’s site has turned into.

If Mac’s wife Kim decides to join here, which I hope she will, I’d definitely expect her to be treated with kindness and respect (which since I know this is a troll free zone will not be a problem) She’s been kind enough to share her insights and answers regarding Mac. I’d like to help rule him out with her help if possible.

If anyone has differences of opinion re;MAC, your opinions are welcome. You don’t have to be a Mac supporter to post here, but you DO have to be respectful and there is a zero tolerance policy on trolling

Look forward to robust, drama-free, troll-free conversation of Mac

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Posted : April 4, 2022 10:30 am
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Later as time permits, I will add and correct things in this thread based on new info and what Mac’s wife Kim added 

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Posted : April 4, 2022 10:43 am
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Mac is such an interesting suspect. Really flew under the radar and everybody’s noses if he turns out to be Z. Look forward to the update from stuff his wife said. 

 
Posted : April 5, 2022 9:19 pm
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I’m sure there will be some further commentary on the small sample of Mac’s handwriting that his wife shared on Tom V’s forum. 

But in the meantime, I see a good match between Mac’s number 6 and Zodiac’s (as it appears on the Mt. Diablo map). 

 
Posted : April 6, 2022 12:09 pm
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Here’s Mac from Univ of SD 1968 

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Posted : April 8, 2022 8:50 pm
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Is no one suspicious of the fact that Kim and Mac only met the same year they were married and yet he was 150lbs when they did meet? We’ve seen the wedding photos, and he’s not 150 there, or 200. And he’s probably not 225. I’m sorry for how it sounds, but that information is not right.

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Posted : April 12, 2022 7:15 pm
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I am locking this thread but leaving it up for a couple days in case anyone wants to read up on Mac to this point. 

The discussion of Mac will move behind closed doors by invite only.

Mac’s info is with the police right now and they are the ones that will officially rule him in or out as being Zodiac 

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There is more than one way to lose your life to a killer

http://www.zodiackillersite.com/
http://zodiackillersite.blogspot.com/
https://twitter.com/Morf13ZKS

 
Posted : April 12, 2022 10:07 pm
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