Who the hell is Kimberly McGath?

"For the low price of only $38.99!" Ha! The book is 166 pages! Yikes…..

That’s what I like about this case. It’s been solved so many times, and yet people keep working on it.

-glurk

so has anyone read the book… I’m dying to know who did it.

so has anyone read the book… I’m dying to know who did it.

I think it was Professor Plum, in the Library, with a Rope.

-glurk

SFPD: googol
Me: 0

She’s a former detective from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. Here’s a news article talking about her involvement with DNA testing related to the "In Cold Blood" murders:

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/truman_ … atest_lie/

For anyone interested, there’s a Facebook page. Little book snippets and stuff alluding to holding ciphers up to mirrors and such…

https://www.facebook.com/zodiacsettlingthescore

I asked her if she could offer any info about her analysis of the ciphers. She replied that her analysis could be found in the book.

From years and years of experience with "solutions ", I have learned before undertaking a serious and time consuming analysis of a proposed solution, I try to find out who the solution reveals as the Zodiac. If it reveals Allen, Gaikowski, a team, the solver’s stepdad or ex-husband, I will still take a look at the code work, if the work and reasoning is shown. But if it points to an unlikely suspect and/or involves excessive wide anagrams and trick methods, I mostly leave it to others (like doranchak, glurk, up2,etc.) to do a complete analysis or debunking.

She may be a former detective, but so was the guy who falsely accused his father of being Zodiac and the Black Dahlia Killer. And detectives have no special training in codes.

She is being mysterious and not freely sharing info, which is not a good sign. Anyone know who is revealed as the suspect ?

She won’t say, because she wants people to buy the book to find out.

She takes a shot at me and/or Doug Oswell at her site. She correctly notes that Z had a wider variance than most sk’s, going from killing couples to terrorizing a city with bomb threats. She then states this makes him unlike TK who "basically stuck to mailbombs." Yeah, uh, basically. Except for shooting mine site worker with a rifle. And poisoning and stabbing dogs. And fantasizing about killing noisy love making couples and promiscuous single women. Etc. ,etc.

She also says Z is unlike Gacy who only killed young boys. Except Gacy killed young men, not boys.

And she hints the code analysis involves holding them up to a mirror. I also find it odd she does not use the SF sketch but the Lake sketch, which may or may not be Z. Wanna bet her suspect looks nothing like the SF sketch?

That’s what I like about this case. It’s been solved so many times, and yet people keep working on it.

-glurk

And all of these Authors keep making money, and they don’t even have to be right. sort of like the weather man

I also find it odd she does not use the SF sketch but the Lake sketch, which may or may not be Z.

Indeed. I have a list of don’t-dos when it comes to presenting either theories in general, or "cases" against particular "persons of interest". It includes: "Do not make too much of the composite sketches associated with the case."

And in her case, I would add: "If you’re going to make a deal out of a sketch, at least go with the one that undoubtedly represents Z, flawed as it may be on all sorts of levels. Do not go with the one that could represent a person who is irrelevant to the investigation."