For some reason these letters written to baseball player Jackie Robinson reminded me of the way Zodiac wrote the address on the envelope to Riverside
letters.
And the first line on the ‘Bus Bomb’ letter. It’s quite a common style for disguised writing. Even at that I can differences in the styling where the Robinson letters have extended final strokes on the K and the R’s. Even though it’s a generic style Zodiac doesn’t employ it in his versions. Also whereas the writer of the Robinson letters have opted for normal A’s, Zodiac carried the style through on to his and ‘squared’ off the tops. Still a good spot, not a million miles off even for that style. The R’s in some instances, despite the extension, look pretty good.
Where these in the newspapers and if so would you know when?
“I don’t know Chief, he’s very smart or very dumb.“
WHen & Where were they postmarked?
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Trav,not to go off topic,but there were some JFK/OSWALD documents that some people thought looked like Z’s writing. Any thoughts?
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These were postmarked from Southern CA also. I see some stuff that looks alot like Z, but then also, a curly looking C, that I dont remember Z using
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I found them reported in this http://snipurl.com/27lz7yh newspaper in 1951, but not reproduced.
Zynchronicity, I think. *shrug*
Linbergh kidnapping ransom note it begins "Dear Sirs" notice the strange symbol in the bottom, and them look at the next link for the Adolph Coors kidnapping ranson letter.
The only version I could find of the Joe Corbett letter he sent after kidnapping Adolph Coors in 1961. Corbett was deeply interested in the Linbergh kidnapping and possibly copied the original Linbergh letter with "Dear Sirs" and the strange symbol at the bottom.
Jay – your second link (the Bing search) isn’t working for me; a pity.
It shouldn’t surprise us that criminals re-use what they believe is a "good idea" when they read it in the newspapers, I suppose, such as the symbol (and paper piercings) from the Lindbergh letters. Especially such an avid "student of crime" as The Zodiac Killer seems to have been.
And there are only a finite number of ways to skin a cat, after all.
Interesting… perhaps this was young Zodiac’s way of sabotaging the Dodgers to help his beloved Giants?
Kidding, of course, but I think both letters have one important thing in mind… namely that their creators both altered their handwriting to make it as generic (and therefore untraceable) as possible. I suppose if you are writing to threaten someone, whether that be Jackie Robinson or the father of a murder victim, it would be wise as well as cowardly to disguise your handwriting in such a manner.
