My dad had an office at Sacramento and Laurel. This is 5 blocks from Washington and Maple. My dad was a psychiatrist. The building he was in was all psychiatrists and mental health professionals. You had excellent transportation to the office from downtown, on the 55 Sacramento and 1 California.
The real long shot would be: the guy was seeing a psychiatrist in that building, and was therefore familiar with the neighborhood.
I think, had the Zodiac not killed a sole and it was someone else doing the deed, he would be right here with us all. He was a researcher and he did his homework long before he fired the first shot. He had reasons for choosing the way that he had (victims,locations, etc) and they weren’t psychiatric, although, he needed it.
Soze
Yeah, I’m afraid you’re probably right. Vince Repetto in Mike Rodelli’s excellent book questions an outsider zeroing in on Washington and Maple, which got me thinking.
Maybe. Maybe not. Just my take on the guy. I’ve not read Mike Rodellis book and likely wont. To date I have not read a single book on the subject of Zodiac. I’m a just the facts kinda person.
Soze
What strikes me about the neighborhood is that the one different sheet of paper used for the letters, IIRC, was a Woolworth brand. The world’s largest Woolworth’s at the time was only a few blocks from where Stine picked up the Zodiac.
I think there may have also been a Woolworth’s back then in Laurel Village, near the murder scene, but not positive.
Woolworth’s was a big chain of what was known as dime stores, ten-cent stores and five and dimes. There were many in the Los Angeles area as well so that paper could have been purchased at any one of their locations.
