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<Speculation is that CJB and CS knew each other quite well in Riverside, that being "one strand" that begins to link the two crimes.> …
Yep. Zodiac was smart but that doesn’t mean he was some super genius, you don’t have to be a super genius to do what Zodiac did, just well disciplined…
<There’s very little new ground to be plowed in the Zodiac case. Most angles have been worked. New suspects are about the only thing new to be disc…
<Gaikowski lived and worked near Stine’s home> Wrong.
If he left his right palm print on the cab door frame while he reached back in he may have been left-handed.
Sorry, which letter was that? What date?
If Stine knew his killer, wouldn’t LE have worked it that way?
Geary was one-way going west, so passengers entered cabs on Geary equally from the left and right sides. It does seem significant that he took the ti…
<But a small handful of his letters were not canceled by machine – they appear to be manually canceled. And the theory proposed above is that the r…
The wildcard might be though that the witnesses had the killer wiping down the left passenger-compartment door. That could imply that he entered the c…
You make several good points, but my guess is there was never an ‘incorrect’ suspect-description in the broadcast. That would explain a lot.
Good idea!
Agreed. If he had those concerns, why risk writing letters.
The textbook answer is that preservation and storage is vital — the real life answer seems to be that DNA is a crapshoot.