@shaqmeister
Can you help me understand a few things about your cattle watering hole theory?
Unfortunately, @coder1987, I find that I have reached the limit of anything I could constructively add. Please accept my apologies.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
Fair enough. Your past efforts on Z32 are notable I’ve found. We might disagree on the proposed solution, but I do respect your work on this cipher. Many others did not bother to try, but you did.
Unfortunately, @coder1987, I find that I have reached the limit of anything I could constructively add [on the “we’re just looking at a cow watering hole” clarification].
But hey, write me another creepy ‘obituary’, why don’t ya.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
You’ve proposed a criterion: does the location match the bomb diagram from the April 1970 letter? Let’s apply it. The diagram shows a device buried underground in a hillside location. The decoded coordinates point to a hillside in unincorporated Solano County with a triangular topographic depression — confirmed by standing water in wet-season imagery — that is consistent with excavated and backfilled soil. The Zodiac wrote “You have until next Fall to dig it up.”
Again, just as a point of record. The taunt “You have until next Fall to dig it up” came at the end of the “School Buss” letter (26 June 1970, primary source) and follows the specific threat:
“I promiced to punish them if they did not comply, by anilating a full School Buss. But now school is out for the summer, so…”
No school buses were running at the time, hence such were safe from roadside bombs. In 1970, schools would have gone back on the day after Labor Day which, if I recall correctly, was on 07 September, hence early in “the Fall.”
To the best of my knowledge all school buses in the area were safe from cows even outside the summer break.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)