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The thing is about this case is that when someone does discover a potentially vital bit of info or evidence, nobody in an official position cares. . . hope they do reply and it’s positive, but I wouldn’t hold your breath. To LE Agencies in CA, the word ‘ZODIAC’ is like a crucifix to a vampire, and they don’t want to go anywhere near it. I get the impression he (Z) is the proverbial thorn in their sides and made them look like buffoon’s more than they care to remember as it is.

Then I must thank my lucky stars. I have had quite a few conversations with law enforcement with regards to Zodiac and have never been made to feel as though my thoughts on the subject were not important or that the mere mention of zodiac was a "proverbial thorn in their side". It was quite obvious in those conversations that they did CARE about the case and the victims are their #1 priority.

Soze

I wasn’t suggesting the police officers from back then, or even those that are serving today, wouldn’t talk to you or any member of the public about the case. I meant from the perspective of actively investigating a new lead or piece of evidence etc. Like a TV show requesting a sample of the Zodiac DNA so that the show could use their own resources to compare it to suspect Gaikowski and that request was quickly ‘denied’ with the SFPD refusing.
Harvey Hines first took his report to one of the top LE Officers (Can’t remember who it was or even in which County) and before he could even open his report file was asked "What makes you think you have succeeded and solved this case where others, who are highly experienced and some of the best homicide Detectives out there, failed?"
Apparently Hines then, having been sat down for seconds, knew where this was heading and picked up his folder, said nothing to his superior, and walked out of the guys office.

I am not saying the individual officers won’t be happy to chat to you or anyone else about the case, it’s getting them to look into it officially again that the SFPD top man (forget his name, only read it once in an article so i’ll simply refer to him as ‘Chief’) seems to be dead set against. Two Detectives came forward not that long ago to say they wanted and tried to investigate the case and asked the Chief could they have the files and evidence to go over and the Chief, they said, responded with a stern ‘NO, leave that case where it is, we have too many current cases and not enough Detectives as it is.’ That is fair enough and understandable. But the two Detectives then asked could they have the files and evidence so that they could investigate the case on their own time at home. They said the Chief them got fairly angry and told them words to the effect of ‘Forget about that old case, it stays where it is" and if memory serves me, the Chief even hinted any such attempts to investigate the Z case by them would be detrimental to their career’s. They went on the record with this after both retired from the Dpt.