Soze I was not able to find a marriage date for Gerald and his wife but I did find they were listed as married in the 1957 Carlsbad NM Polk’s Directory. He was not married in the 1956.

Also in 1957, he graduated from high school. Here is his senior picture. His middle name is David, looks like a typo in the yearbook.

I am amazed at how many alleged Zodiac letters there have been which never made the headlines in a big way or were simply filed away by LE as "maybes". I seem to keep finding new ones. I am sure that not all of them can be dismissed as hoaxes, especially the earlier ones. I recently came across one from Albany in 1973 that I somehow missed. It is worded: "You were wrong. I am not dead or in the hospital. I am alive and well." I personally believe this was sent by the Zodiac. If it was his work, that would place him in Albany, NY in 1973, coinciding with the gap in his California correspondence. I guess even serial killers take vacations!

http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?t=60

One thing is always clear from his correspondence. Z was not really a perfectionist. If he made a mistake in a letter he would not re-write the whole letter from scratch as a perfectionist might. He would simply cross it out and keep going. Lines did not have to be straight. Spelling mistakes did not matter. Codes could be bogus. Bombs could be duds, to which he would freely admit later. Capital and lower case lettering were frequently mismatched. Drawings were juvenile. The letters are not the work of a perfectionist who obsessed about tiny details. They are the work of a person who got his kicks out of taunting the police and the public. He obviously relished the sense of control and enjoyed the idea of manipulating people through his writing. Changing his mind and going back on his word were all just grist for the mill for him. In fact changing his mind probably gave him a sense of power. A perfectionist may otherwise feel obliged to carry out a direct threat. The Zodiac was not a perfectionist in my opinion.

@RedRyder, some of these letters were fakes or hoaxed, and some they wee not sure about or held back for one reason or another. I too have big interest in the Albany letter,and think it could be legit

Albany is 2 1/2 hours from Binghamton, where Ross grew up. If he was out there in 1973 (perhaps hospitalized or with family,) it would fit in with his timeline nicely. The Ross Timeline says:

Ross Sullivan’s death certificate says he had been in Santa Cruz county for 3 years, so 1974 marks the end of his possible absence from Santa Cruz since 1968.

Maybe we are missing the point of the baseball tickets being mailed to a couple who just happen to live in the area of a "missing boy" from the "Mare Island" baseball league?
Has anyone checked to see when that boy went missing and if he was ever found ?

If it were true that Zodiac sent those tickets so he could sit near them at that game. He would have had to buy at least 3 tickets to be sure he was close enough. You can’t buy tickets and ask for tickets close to those seats, as far as I know when ever I went to a A’s game with other people one of us would buy them for all of us so we would all be together.

Zodiac wasn’t a nice guy who would do something like that without a evil motive or for media attention.

There is a good possibility that he is a A’s fan and has Oakland connections. Remember the phone call to the Oakland police to get Mel Belli on the Dunbar show?

Most people who lived in San Francisco were Giant fans, my other suspect is a Giants fan, saw him last week wearing a Giant’s baseball cap in San Francisco near the main library. He has to walk with a cane now but can walk pretty fast for a old man about 75- 80. He still has his horn rimmed glasses and a band to hold them. He kept circling around me for hours , just to taunt me. Security noticed it and said that the man seemed very strange. ( That is a understatement )
My main suspect is a Oakland Raider fan and a A’s fan. While I was at that stadium during the filming of "Money Ball" about the A’s. I wondered if Zodiac who I believed liked the A’s and movies was there as well? Hundreds of people showed up to be extras in that movie so it was hard to see everyone.

I believe that the police staked out the seats,etc,looking to see if anybody suspicious showed up

A poster by the name of Calstock has an interesting theory that the Phillips 66 map shows the bomb target as being either the Oakland Alameda County Colliseum, but I believe it could have been the Oracle Arena, located just 35 yards from Oakland Alameda County Colliseum. He also points out that Gerald Tagert is an anagram for "LARGE TARGET." Both of those venues would be considered a large target I suppose.

A poster by the name of Calstock has an interesting theory that the Phillips 66 map shows the bomb target as being either the Oakland Alameda County Colliseum, but I believe it could have been the Oracle Arena, located just 35 yards from Oakland Alameda County Colliseum. He also points out that Gerald Tagert is an anagram for "LARGE TARGET." Both of those venues would be considered a large target I suppose.

what do we do with the "D"

A poster by the name of Calstock has an interesting theory that the Phillips 66 map shows the bomb target as being either the Oakland Alameda County Colliseum, but I believe it could have been the Oracle Arena, located just 35 yards from Oakland Alameda County Colliseum. He also points out that Gerald Tagert is an anagram for "LARGE TARGET." Both of those venues would be considered a large target I suppose.

what do we do with the "D"

My weird sense of humor has a funny answer to that, but I don’t think it would be appropriate to post here hahaha. But in all seriousness, that anagram is very possible and pretty damn clever if accurate.

Yes the Zodiac is a A’s fan, at least my suspect who I believe is Zodiac is a huge A’s fan.

He is also a fan if the Raiders !

I’m thinking that if the tickets were sent by Zodiac that it served no more purpose than to
thwart authorities . But then again , they may not have been from Zodiac in the first place
or Zodiac was counting on his own presumption that they wouldn’t go to the game . Just part of
his “ dangerous game “ I suppose .

Rick Monday, a centerfielder for the Chicago Cubs, received national attention when he rescued the American flags from two fans who had gotten on to the field and tried to burn the flag. Monday had played with the A’s in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Other players on those early A’s’ teams were Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Bert Campaneris, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, Dave Duncan, Rollie Fingers and Jim Nash. I think Billy Martin managed Oakland in that time frame. If anybody made contact with the Zodiac from the Athletics’ organization it was Billy as he was a real "man about town." If the Zodiac was a life-long resident, it was more likely he was a San Francisco Giants fan because they had moved in the bay area in the late 50’s and thy had Willie Mays.

was TK a white sox fan?..any of the other known Z poi’s like sports?

On the trail of my suspect, at the post office where I have shown his picture many times, ( because I saw him there one day. I was told that he doesn’t talk much.) He was more friendly towards Jim who is no longer working there. I would check with Jim from time to time to see if he had learned anything, like the guys name? The next time that Jim saw the suspect who I call Honcho, Jim asked him what his name was? The man said "I am a fan of the Raiders". If that is true he was very happy with the awesome game they played yesterday! Proving that he is a sports fan.
His buddy RH is a fan of the Oakland A’s, according to what one of his children said one day to me.

Oct 22 1969 a call was made to OPD by a man saying he was the Zodiac and wanted to talk to F Lee Bailey and if not him then he wanted to talk to Mel Belli. The officer who took the call said he was convinced he spoke to the Zodiac.
I don’t care what you have been told about that show which I watched that day in 1969, That was not Eric W making those calls.
You can check it out for yourselves by listening to both voices on "You Tube", they are not even close. Eric may have made a call to Belli’s home, but he was not the person who called the Jim Dunbar show.

Rick Monday, a centerfielder for the Chicago Cubs, received national attention when he rescued the American flags from two fans who had gotten on to the field and tried to burn the flag. Monday had played with the A’s in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Other players on those early A’s’ teams were Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Bert Campaneris, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, Dave Duncan, Rollie Fingers and Jim Nash. I think Billy Martin managed Oakland in that time frame. If anybody made contact with the Zodiac from the Athletics’ organization it was Billy as he was a real "man about town." If the Zodiac was a life-long resident, it was more likely he was a San Francisco Giants fan because they had moved in the bay area in the late 50’s and thy had Willie Mays.

He was a very mediocre player at best. But holy cow, did he break the hearts of all Canadians!!!

I’m bumping this.

Did anyone get a hold of the actual letter or envelope?