Much of Zodiac true crime theories run on the assumption that the Paul Stine SFPD sketch is the best rendition of what the Zodiac looked like. The very different sketch by the three young women at Lake Beryessa is usually treated with skepticism. I wonder, do we have this backwards?
I won’t focus too much on the SFPD sketch. But after reading up on the Nancy Bennallack murder, thought to be a possible Z attack, and seeing the suspect sketch that’s similar to the Beryessa sketch …. I wonder, does that brings the primacy of the SFPD sketch into doubt?
The young women at Berryessa saw the guy for a long time, in broad daylight, without stress of knowing a crime was being committed. That last point is not small. In the DB Cooper case, the FBI reportedly most trusts the description of a student sitting near Cooper over the stewardesses because the student was unaware of a crime. The same goes for the women.
Yes, absolutely.
It was Arthur Leigh Allen.
“Nobody called him Arthur.”
I’ve never seen ALA with such a thick head of hair. However, the pixellation obscures ALA heavily balding several years before Zodiac’s murders began.
Yes, jacob – you’re right. The main abstacle of this picture is to show that he’s spot on along with the Zodiac’s build.
This suspect’s hair (or lack of it, mostly) is the main problem with his appearence regarding to the Zodiac’s. But then – there were wigs at the time.
He had dark brown curly hair (showing through the eye-holes) at Lake Berryessa and then straight reddish crew cut at the Presidio Heights. Overall, it looks like description of two different persons. Also, the S.F. composite sketch looks like a man who isn’t heavy builded at all – which we know was the case with Zodiac. He was overweight, bulky-looking and barrel-chested.
“Nobody called him Arthur.”
