If it was Z who actually had called the Dunbar TV show: He asked for attorney Francis Lee Bailey to come into the show (btw, what if someone from TV was just repeating what Z had said..this would explain the different voices).
This is a new hint, as Francis Lee Bailey was not only defending a ‘Sam’ Sheppard a few years ago (explaining the caller to name himself ‘Sam’), but also Patty Hearst – the daughter of the SF Chronicle owner.
http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/belli.htm
If this is true, it would place Z not only in the field of SF Chronicle and Belli, but also in the SLA environment. Z asking for a (later) SLA lawyer AND writing about the SLA in his letters, completely independent of Bailey, seems to be more than a coincidence.
In this context it is important to understand that the SLA letter as well as the Patty Hearst abduction, both happened in February 1974.
That was four years later!
Ok, Z wrote about SLA when Patty Hearst had been abducted about ten days earlier..but why had Z asked exactly for this lawyer, years before defended her? Was Bailey going for the Patty Hearst defence just because it was him who Z had asked for in the Dunbar TV show?
I doubt it..it rather seems as if Bailey had connections to the Hearst family years before, in 1970 already.
Then one simple question occurs immediately:
How did Z know about Bailey representing the Hearst Family, with Bailey four years later in fact defending Patty Hearst in her SLA issues?
Z is well-known with the legal part of the Hearst family.
This is also the reason why he had been writing to the SF Chronicle as well as Melvin Belli. it does not seem to be an option that an average citizen (serial killer) simply had chosen Bailey as well as Belli for his communication, without understanding their connection to the Hearst family.
And, to establish this thought, it is also well going with the nasty Melvin Belli ‘buttons’ of the American Lawyers Association.
Was Z a disappointed lawyer who had lost a Hearst contract? Then Tarbox coming up with that issue? Big hmm..
QT
*ZODIACHRONOLOGY*
Bailey and Belli where probably the two top high profile defense lawyers at the time. Bailey was also known for besides the Shepard case, The Boston Strangler too and obvious both was before Hearst. Just my opinion just think Zodiac wanted to talk to one of the two most notable defense attorneys at the time. Who knows though maybe there is more of reason why Zodiac chose Bailey first.
Bailey and Belli where probably the two top high profile defense lawyers at the time. Bailey was also known for besides the Shepard case, The Boston Strangler too and obvious both was before Hearst. Just my opinion just think Zodiac wanted to talk to one of the two most notable defense attorneys at the time. Who knows though maybe there is more of reason why Zodiac chose Bailey first.
True…anybody else would ask for ‘a lawyer’ or a lawyer well-known to him. Z asks for the two most prominent, to gain media attention. Increase of SF Chronicle sales? Or Zodiac Inc. paper? Nevertheless..even if Z had asked for a prominent lawyer, how does it come that, in 1970, he exactly asks for the one who defends Patty Hearst in 1974? With Z later even commenting on the SLA issue?
Either did Z follow those attorneys’ activities very closely and/or he was directly connected to it, e.g. being a lawyer by himself. Or simply being well-known to the Hearst family.
QT
*ZODIACHRONOLOGY*
Yea it maybe possible Zodiac had a interest in the legal law field.
I have a theory about this. I think Zodiac, after narrowly escaping following the shooting Paul Stine in Presidio Heights, might have felt his days were numbered. I believe that by calling the Dunbar show to ask for Bailey, Z was preparing his defense, as Bailey had recently represented the self-confessed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, in Massachusetts. When he couldn’t get Bailey, Z then took up a correspondence with his second choice, Melvin Belli. The Christmas card is significant. In it, Z seemingly betrays feelings of vulnerability: he "wants to reach out" but is afraid of "this thing in me." He writes of feeling like he is "drownding."
My take? It’s a ruse. Zodiac is laying the groundwork for an insanity plea, no doubt inspired by the film version of Gerold Frank’s ‘The Boston Strangler’ in which DeSalvo, played by Tony Curtis, is portrayed as suffering from dissociative identity disorder and thus confined to a mental institution rather than going to prison for his crimes. (In reality, DeSalvo served his sentence at Walpole State Penitentiary, which leads me to suspect what many have said all along: that Zodiac was more a movie buff than a reader.) Over the course of the following year, Zodiac sees that the police aren’t any closer to him and slips back into his usual routine of taunts and box-scores.
"There are such devils."
-The Pledge
I have a theory about this. I think Zodiac, after narrowly escaping following the shooting Paul Stine in Presidio Heights, might have felt his days were numbered. I believe that by calling the Dunbar show to ask for Bailey, Z was preparing his defense, as Bailey had recently represented the self-confessed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, in Massachusetts. When he couldn’t get Bailey, Z then took up a correspondence with his second choice, Melvin Belli. The Christmas card is significant. In it, Z seemingly betrays feelings of vulnerability: he "wants to reach out" but is afraid of "this thing in me." He writes of feeling like he is "drownding."
My take? It’s a ruse. Zodiac is laying the groundwork for an insanity plea, no doubt inspired by the film version of Gerold Frank’s ‘The Boston Strangler’ in which DeSalvo, played by Tony Curtis, is portrayed as suffering from dissociative identity disorder and thus confined to a mental institution rather than going to prison for his crimes. (In reality, DeSalvo served his sentence at Walpole State Penitentiary, which leads me to suspect what many have said all along: that Zodiac was more a movie buff than a reader.) Over the course of the following year, Zodiac sees that the police aren’t any closer to him and slips back into his usual routine of taunts and box-scores.
There definitely could’ve been an element of ‘setting up a defence’, I won’t deny that.
However, I truly believe that Zodiac was bipolar or similar.
