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Zodiac Killer /// Part 2 /// 796

October 23, 2024 / 01:15:23

This episode of True Crime Garage covers the Zodiac Killer, profiling techniques, and the potential identity of the killer. Guests include Mark Hewitt, author of the Zodiac Trilogy, who discusses geographic profiling, the Zodiac's moniker, and suspects like Arthur Lee Allen.

Mark Hewitt explains geographic profiling and its relevance to the Zodiac Killer, suggesting that the killer may have lived outside California during the crime spree. He discusses the significance of the Zodiac's name and how it differs from other serial killers' monikers.

The conversation shifts to Arthur Lee Allen, a primary suspect in the Zodiac case. Hewitt outlines both the strengths and weaknesses of Allen as a suspect, emphasizing the lack of forensic evidence linking him to the crimes.

Hewitt also presents his theory that the Zodiac Killer may be Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber. He draws parallels between their methods and motivations, arguing that both individuals share a penchant for deception and a desire for notoriety.

The episode concludes with a discussion on the challenges of identifying the Zodiac Killer and the ongoing fascination with the case. Hewitt's books on the subject are recommended for further reading.

TLDR

Mark Hewitt discusses the Zodiac Killer's identity, profiling techniques, and his theory linking the killer to Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

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particular killer did you factor in or attempt to use any geological profiling when try attempting to unmask
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as they say the Zodiac because typically we need at least three geological markers or locations and here with
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zodiac we absolutely have four at the least I mean I mean we have our four attack and murder locations yeah um
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Geographic called profiling something that uh has emerged in the 1990s looking at places that uh perpetrators live or
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work in trying to from the GE geographic location of the attacks figure out where they are
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comfortable with where they spend time uh some work has been done into the geographic profiling of the zodiac uh it
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may not be useful in some crimes some crime spre it not um the Zodiac may have been tied to Southern California crime
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scenes in which case we say well um does this say something about the individual
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it is possible that the Zodiac was clever enough and criminally sophisticated to outsmart Geographic
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profiling there's some thought that he may not have been living in California continuously during the crime spree um
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for instance while the attacks occurred in in in Greater frequency the letters that
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he spent were that he sent were were sent in different um different groupings different clusters letters were sent a
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week or 10 days apart and that gives the idea that maybe the Zodiac came into town wrote a letter waited a week wrote
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another letter and then took off and wasn't actually living in California if that's the case then Geographic
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profiling would be precisely useless but the work that I've seen pinpoints the zodiac is living somewhere around
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valo um maps have been generated of Darker regions of where he more like Al lived or worked based on where the crime
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scenes took place um but that's kind of obvious because the first two crime scenes took place in or near valo what
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what seems to be occurring with the zodiac is a progression toward greater visibility in other words he started in
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the north bay area in uh valo which was a rather small town at the time moved to
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Lake beresa which was even more remote so the early attacks took place in very vacant
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remote areas and then moved to San Francisco because of the need some need for publicity where he could get uh a
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greater visibility through uh Bay Area press and B the Bay Area Police Department if that was his motive then
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maybe Geographic profiling says less about this type of criminal than it would about a criminal who was trying to
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keep secret trying to not get caught something like the the Golden State killer or Ted Bundy or any number of
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other serial killers who don't look for publicity so the zodiac is changing victims
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locations and the manner in which he attacks his victims is is that is that to create
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this overall um threat to society meaning this can happen anywhere anytime with any object and it doesn't matter if
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you're a man or woman everybody in society could possibly be a victim that's a reasonable conclusion that uh
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that seems to be um starting in a remote area and ending up in downtown or in in
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the confines of San Francisco give the impression that anybody is vulnerable and that may have been either part of
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his message or part of his intent to bring fear to everybody everywhere Mark in your book expose exposed you
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expose who you believe the true identity of the Zodiac Killer the person you suspect of being the Killer part of
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identifying the Zodiac as you include is how and why the Zodiac moniker originated so could you take us let's
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start there with this part of our conversation how and why did the Zodiac moniker originate okay thank you for
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mentioning the third book of my Trilogy exposed the Zodiac revealed in my first two books I do not deal with any
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potential individuals the the only person I mentioned was Arthur Lee Allen because he was the the the police's
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suspect early on in the investigation and the only one that they were able to look into in any great depth in the with
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suspicions of being the Zodiac I deal with the the moniker of the zodiac the the name the zodiac what I found really
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interesting in part of my research was that every other serial killer is given a name based on what they do where they
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do it maybe how they do it may Jack the Ripper the hillside stranglers the uh um
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BTK bind them torture them kill them each one of these names we know why that IND idual was given the name it it says
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something about them but with the Zodiac suddenly we have this serial killer who
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has a name and we don't know why this individual has this name in fact the Zodiac was given three monor monikers
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within the Press prior to him giving us his own moniker he was called the cipher
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Slayer or the cipher killer or the code killer each of these could have been picked up upon on picked up on by the by
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the Killer and used but he didn't in August of 69 he sent a letter with the very terrifying opening line This is the
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Zodiac speaking now what did that mean it sounds like a a Godlike pronouncement or possibly something that an airline
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pilot would say this is your captain speaking uh it was an odd phrase especially because the Zodiac was never
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known to actually say it in the instances that we have when he made telephone calls to police departments or
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when he spoke to Brian and Cecilia at Lake barasa he never used that phrase he never said this is the Zodiac speaking
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the only time he used that phrase was in a letter so he wasn't actually speaking
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he was writing well it proved to be such a valuable tool for him that after his first use of it every other letter
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essentially every other letter that he wrote following that time began with that opening catchphrase this is the
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Zodiac speaking it uh it it brought palpable fear to individuals people would joke about it
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in the neighborhood in the communities that he attacked um but the question is where did it come from people suspected
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that maybe he had an interest in astrology um Robert greith the author of zodiac said that all of the attacks took
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place within three days of celestial events in in in the heavens the problem with that is there are so many events in
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the heavens that uh pretty much every date in the calendar is within three days of some winter solstice or phase of
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the moon or whatever um so it remains a mystery what he meant by this is the Zodiac speaking other
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than to terrify people or why he chose the name the Zodiac to identify himself and then
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along with that he provided a symbol which is a Crosshair symbol a cross surrounded by a circle and some people
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have said that well that just that's just a symbol referring to zodiac or all 12 signs of the zodiac but why the
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killer gravitated toward it is not entirely clear in fact it's debated to this day to me this killer comes off as
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he's not interested in your thoughts or not interested in society's thoughts and
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so you're not going to give me a name I can only give myself a name does that does that make any sense at all yeah
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yeah and then and it's not unusual BTK gave himself his name the Son of Sam David burkowitz in New York City gave
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himself a name even though he was called the 44 caliber killer in the Press but it says something about an individual
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who refuses a name given to him in the Press comes up with his own name but with burkowitz and with Raider we know
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what the names meant and how it functioned in their lives with the Zodiac we we just don't know there's
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been some susp let's say some suspects that that is is laughable and you can hear me cracking myself up there
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for a second but uh I think it I want to say that it started you know I'm of a certain age so maybe it started well
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before this and I'm just not aware but when I became aware of it would have been about the mid to to late 90s where
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it it maybe it's something in the water out there in California but at some point it got to be where everybody and
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their cousin had a uh an uncle a stepfather or their own F their biological father people coming out of
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the woodwork saying oh my dad or my uncle stepfather was the Zodiac and why and a lot of times it really boiled down
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to like well he looks like the composite sketch and he was a really he was a really mean guy news flash for you all
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the zodiac is Way Beyond really mean guy okay it takes it takes it takes a whole
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another level of hate and evil to do what he did and then go out and do it again this whole thing with and I feel
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like I just keep waiting for the next person to come forward saying that it's their that it was their father um well
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it reminds me a lot of the Black Dalia it's like yeah if if your father wasn't old enough to be the Black Dalia
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murderer then then he's the Zodiac well there were even some that if that wasn't
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good enough for you my uncle not only killed the kill was the Zodiac Killer but also was the Black Dalia killer as
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well yeah just to be clear in your book exposed you're not saying your father your Uncle stepfather anybody like that
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had anything to do with these killings no no I have relatives who were not always the nicest people but no I have
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no serial killers in my family as far as I know person that is often mentioned the most and this goes back to Robert
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Grey Smith's book zodiac unmasked and then the the movie that came out what was that 2006 or seven Zodiac movie
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Seven which I I I don't know what you're you know we don't have to play ciso and
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eert here but I I loved the movie and it's um it's rare or at least it used to be for a long time that a True Crime
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Story made its way to a blockbuster picture like that being a true crime buff I I always enjoyed when that
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happened I thought that they they carried it out very well but Arthur Lee Allen is the suspect who is often
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discussed starting with Grace Smith's book and again in the movie movie as well talk about Arthur Lee Allen and and
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and maybe give us even a little bit of a a short pros and cons list for for Mr Allen why is he good why does he make a
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good zodiac suspect what why does he make a bad zodiac suspect well I uh love the movie Zodiac I've seen it dozens of
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times probably because of the content of the movie uh it's it's a subject near and dear to my heart uh it particularly
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first half hour of the movie is very accurately done there there's some Hollywood
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Liberties done to that that aren't exactly correct but Fincher did a lot of effort into put a lot of effort into
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making sure the costumes were accurate and um much of the dialogue was correct or reasonably correct the first half
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hour of that movie gives a very accurate portrayal of the different attacks that
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are recorded on film the rest of the movie is dialogue driven and so many people find it a little bit slow and the
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fact that the Zodiac was never identified leaves the movie with kind of a an empty ending but I think that's all
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part of the experience that who is the Zodiac and why did he kill why did he appear why did he disappear that's all
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part of the Mystique but with respect to Arthur Le Allen he was the the police's uh only
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real suspect in the early years of the case he was brought to the attention of uh police departments in the early in 69
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while the attacks were still taking place but why precisely he was brought to the attention of the police is not
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exactly known we don't know from police reports who turned them in and why but arth Allen was kind of a weird
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individual so it's not surprising that he was turned into the police throughout the Bay Area every
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person who was a little bit different got looked at in fact uh many many people turned in their husband or their
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father or their cousin or their ex-husband or their ex-boyfriend saying oh they must be the Zodiac so thousands
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of people were looked into but Arthur Lee Allen seemed to have some connections to the case that the police
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could not Overlook for one he wore a watch that had a Crosshair symbol on it a zodiac
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symbol that was a zodiac Seawolf watch and very few places in human society the word zodiac and the
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Crosshair symbol occur together well they occur together on the watch that he wore um so maybe he
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uh maybe he was drawn to that symbol for that reason uh it was also uh somebody came forward a a former coworker and
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former friend of Arthur Le Allen came forward to the police and said you know Arthur Lee Allen claimed that he wanted
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to kill people and he wanted to call himself the Zodiac and they he would kill strangers so that they would never
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connect it with him those are the reasons why he was looked into a number of people were absolutely convinced that
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Arthur Le Allen was guilty they just couldn't prove it one of whom was Robert Grey Smith who wrote the book zodiac and
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then the follow-up book zodiac un masted and it was from those two books that the
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movie Zodiac was comprised so um Al also Dave tusy the lead investigator for sfpd
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homicide who headed up the Zodiac uh investigation for nine years he was convinced that Arthur Le Allen was
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responsible but he just couldn't prove it part of the reason that Arthur Le Allen became the only suspect is because
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nobody else really fit the bill and they had nobody else to look at and so he was
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given an awful lot of attention um part of the problem for investigators was the fact that Arthur
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Lee Allen enjoyed the attention like the Zodiac he seemed to enjoy needling the police which was not an uncommon Pastime
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back in the 1960s so it it it seems in the larger picture that Arthur Le Allen was
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throwing the police department's red meat of information that seemed to implicate him in the crimes that he
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might be responsible and so that only tormented them more and wanted to look into his
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life and his activities more at least two search warrants were executed on his on properties of
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his um but no case was ever put together and it's my suspicion that uh no case could be put together because it just
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wasn't him uh none of the forensics matched but at the same time the police were never absolutely certain that the
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fingerprints or later DNA shred or um other information uh implicated him he's not the type of person who would be
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the Zodiac at least by my mind in my my research Arthur Le Allen spent three years in custody for child
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molestation well people with a sexual interest in children do not go out and kill heterosexual couples engaged in
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sexual behavior in lovers Lanes areas it's just not the way serial killers think and it's not the way they work
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serial killers tend to stay within their own community in other words a gay serial killer will kill gay victims a
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heterosexual individual will kill heterosexual victims and a child molester is if they were to become a serial
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killer will kill children for me a big reason that I was able to exclude Arthur Le Allen was because of his personality
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as I have gotten to know the cases the attacks the letters choices that the Zodiac made in various times and the
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contact that he had with people I came to the conclusion that he was a very cerebral person a person who was very
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quiet who was um calculating but very hesitant in front of other people um there were great
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stretches of time time that uh Brian hartell recorded at Lake beresa reported that the Zodiac didn't seem to know what
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he was doing and didn't know what to say next um the the police officers who received the phone calls from the Zodiac
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said that he appeared to be reading from a script that it wasn't a natural conversation that he was having in fact
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he spoke over at least one of the individuals that he was talking with he wasn't conversing with them
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that says that that's completely the opposite of the idea that we get from Arthur Lee Allen's
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personality Arthur Le Allen had a kind of a verbal diarrhea where he would talk talk talk talk and he wouldn't want to
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talk about the Zodiac or he wouldn't want to talk about anything that he was involved in but he would he would tell
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talk about something Arthur Le Allen was the type of person who was able to get attention when he needed it when he was
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in large groups of people or even small groups of people he would do something to impress other people whether it be U
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he was a skilled diver a skilled swimmer but when he couldn't get positive attention he knew how to get negative
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attention by making threats by appearing scary by by doing something outrageous that's exactly the opposite type of
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person that the Zodiac has revealed himself to be in his attacks and in his letters it didn't help that Allen
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would play into this idea that he's the Zodiac or suspected of being the Zodiac right he he almost very
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boisterous would tell people I'm being investigated I'm they're looking at me because they think I'm the Zodiac and he
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seemed to get an excitement or at least get something out of telling people that
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and he he didn't mind as strange as it sounds he didn't mind being a air quotes zodiac suspect no he reveled in it um he
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told people he was being investigated as zodiac which he was but he also told people he was incarcerated for three
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years in a tasad because he was the Zodiac well he wasn't or at least that's not why he uh was incarcerated for three
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years but that's what he told people he shared the trait with the Zodiac of like
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to um um needle the police and U and get attention and and be this the center of
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unfortunately made the mistake of reading the police reports on those the charges that he faced and the
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accusations from the the boy and from from the things that he was accused of and let's be
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clear convicted of he was a pretty hardcore pedophile and and especially with this this one particular victim but
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I think that he I think that he enjoyed telling people that he's being investigated as the Zodiac or was locked
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up for being the Zodiac because it it it was an ability it was a way of hiding or
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masking who him being a pedophile which is I mean one the most disgusting criminal that that many can think of and
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so I think that he thought that this I think he wanted people to think that he was something Superior some kind of
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mystery something interesting I at the end of the day I think he wanted people to think that he was anything other than
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what he really was and that was this pervert pedophile that's reasonable yeah what are your thoughts on I believe they
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came out in 2021 the the case Breakers 40 independent investigators got together did their research and then
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came out saying that they identified the Zodiac as Gary post yeah i' I've not uh
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had real good feelings about the case Breakers I believe the group has grown to more than 50 now and these are um a
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collection of people who have been in law enforcement or been investigators or whatnot retired police
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departments and they have supposedly formed a group of of uh ex officers who want to solve
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cases uh it seems to be more uh a case of a group of people wanting to be on television and wanting to be part of the
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next documentary whatever that may be supposedly the case Breakers have solved the DB Cooper case they've solved the
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Zodiac case they've solved other cases as well um what does it mean that 50 investigators have solved the Zodiac
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case they've named a person well do all 50 of these investigators uh sign on to the fact that they believe that this is
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the Zodiac because at the same time they're saying that they've solved the case they're also demanding that current
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law enforcement look into the DNA possibility that there's a match between post and the Zodiac well if you know who
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the zodiac is and you can prove it why are you looking for a DNA match so so there are a lot of questions in my mind
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I have never seen any evidence that convinces me that post is the Zodiac um a photograph of him in that
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era I think it's the 1970s or the 1980s shows evidence that post had a scar on his
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forehead well the claim of this group is that that matches the the markings on the head of the
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zodiac because the picture that was created in the aftermath of the Paul Stein murder shows folds or lines on the
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Zodiac's forehead that seem similar to the scar that Gary post has in the photograph the problem is the original
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photograph that was the original picture that was created by investigators did not have forehead lines on it and uh a a
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revised picture was made when um somebody presumably a police officer said no we don't we don't give the age
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between 25 and 35 we give the age between 35 and 45 so the artist felt compelled to add some age to the Zodiac
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picture and Drew a couple of lines on his forehead folds of of what wrinkles may look like in his
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forehead but as far as anybody could tell these were not um composed were not added because of a report that somebody
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said that he had a a scar or lines in his forehead that looked a certain way so that seems to be the major point of
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tie between post and the Zodiac um I I'm very skeptical if if they have more information I'd love to see
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it um but from what I've seen it it appears to be someone looking for getting involved in a documentary and
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and evidently the the group has already done one documentary on DB Cooper yeah well and and you can't use lines on
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on a picture of someone from the Circa 67 68 69 lines on someone's forehead and compare them to a composite
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sketch with lines on the suspect's forehead that's not a fingerprint by any standard and it's it's so far from a
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fingerprint is Mike Mao still live do you know I don't he was interviewed in 2007 in conjunction with the 2007
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release of finer movie I have not heard of news of him since because he's remained very under the surface and I
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think for obvious reasons but you know in ' 92 as The Story Goes Mike mou picked
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Arthur Lee Allen out of a police lineup saying that's him he's the man that shot
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me I mean these case crackers case Breakers what whatever they're called U you know let's maybe maybe show uh Mike
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maou or somebody that we can get better confirmations rather than some lines on on a photograph compared to lines of a
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drawing of an unknown individual one theory that became rather popular when Joseph D'Angelo was identified as the
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Golden State killer one someone who moved around changed the way uh change the type of crimes that he was
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committing we do know that there was some level of communication from him as well mainly to victims but uh what are
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your thoughts on Joseph D'Angelo being a good or bad zodiac suspect yeah he was arrested in uh early
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2018 and people who know the Zodiac case immediately said no this isn't the guy uh D'Angelo was involved in three
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separate criminal campaigns as a as a serial killer he uh started out as a burglar somebody who went into people's
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homes and took things it wasn't uh it wasn't a matter of trying to enrich himself because he left cash that was
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out in the open and took things that had very little value he started out as a burglar became a rapist and then became
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a murderer somebody who killed in conjunction with his rapes the Zodiac was never known to burgle he did he was
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not a rapist that had that functioned in no manner whatsoever in any of his attacks and he didn't kill in order to
00:34:43
cover up his crimes or to silence Witnesses or to kill people that he had first raped so therefore there's there's
00:34:50
very little comparison between the two the the motives seem entirely different D'Angelo did not seek attention did not
00:35:00
attempt to terrorize a neighborhood he did inadvertently but he attempted to stay under the radar as much as possible
00:35:09
the only phone calls he made or the correspondence that he had with uh with citizens was following up with victims
00:35:18
and ret terrorizing them by contacting them he was not known to contact the police he was not known to look for
00:35:25
headlines um he was not known to taunt a community and one thing we should probably point out here too in regard to
00:35:34
Arthur Lee Allen I mentioned the the word fingerprint here Arthur Lee Allen from my understanding was at one point
00:35:43
dismissed by police after fingerprint and handwriting comparisons they said at the time in 71 did not
00:35:51
match yeah and even the um Mike Mao's U interview with the police Poli where he met with George Bower and looked at a
00:36:01
lineup of uh suspects he did indicate Arthur Le Allen he said that's the man who shot me I'll never forget that as
00:36:11
long as I live which sounds really great it sounds like a match it sounds like hey we have him but then Mike mou turned
00:36:18
and looked at another picture and said yeah he had a face a little bit like this guy so um in the end Mao was only
00:36:27
able to give an 80% certainty that Arthur Lee Allen was responsible the fact that he indicated other pictures
00:36:36
had similarities to the person who attacked him uh made his identification essentially worthless uh a somebody in a
00:36:46
defense attorney in court would absolutely tear to shreds Mike mou trying to um say that Arthur Le Allen
00:36:54
was responsible in the same way a defense attorney would abs tear apart the case Breakers saying that look this
00:37:00
line This scar on post looks very similar to a picture on a artist created rendering of the zodiac um that's just
00:37:09
not usable evidence and the other thing too that makes it difficult right is the
00:37:15
the timing of the attack on Mike Mao it it would have been very dark at that time it's very likely that the killer
00:37:24
the shooter used a flashlight has he just been looking for that face in the dark for decades and finally he's being
00:37:31
presented with faces No that that's not the case at all at the time following the attack Mike mjo said I don't want to
00:37:39
look at pictures I don't want to make a composite because I only saw the killer in profile and as you said it was at
00:37:48
night so the lighting was bad there was a flashlight waving around likely uh striking him in the eyes as well so he
00:37:57
said he was not able to identify the victim identify the perpetrator he did look at a number of books and books of
00:38:07
of uh photographs uh of potential perpetrators he never was able to say he looked more like this guy then this guy
00:38:15
he just looked at them and said you know I don't recognize any of these people the identification in 1992 in no way
00:38:23
represents uh what Mike mou was saying you know immedi Med after the attack let's get to your suspect then because
00:38:31
one day you decide to write a letter to your suspect can you tell us about writing that letter why you CH you chose
00:38:38
to put pen to paper and who you address that letter to okay first of all I don't
00:38:44
like the the term suspect um it it has a legal connotation when the police department identifies somebody as a
00:38:52
potential perpetrator and calls them a suspect immediately that individual is granted Extra Protection under the law
00:39:02
and so even police departments don't like to use that word you'll notice uh police departments will say somebody is
00:39:08
a person of interest or somebody exists under an umbrella of Suspicion similar wording that that allows them to
00:39:16
continue an investigation without being worried about all of the Extra Protection that an individual has when
00:39:24
when um amateur detectives say they have a suspect really doesn't mean anything it means that they know a little bit
00:39:31
about the case and they've picked a person that they think is responsible but um probably the word suspect is is not a
00:39:40
good one to use what I say in my research is that I present my research conclusions what I have concluded based
00:39:48
on the evidence that I've gathered and the way I look at uh at the evidence and I attempt to make conclusion is based on
00:39:58
on facts not based on what I think a lot of times people when they say they they're suspect is so and so they're
00:40:05
referring to their their opinion and I've even seen people on the internet say well my top three suspects or my top
00:40:12
five suspects that really concerns me because that says that at least two or more people are entirely
00:40:22
Innocent but they're um being dragged through a a a mud of suspicion as I came to know the case um
00:40:33
Let me let me back up when I first looked into it I assumed that Arthur Lee Allen was responsible I did that because
00:40:39
of my knowledge of the case from Grace Smith's books um I figured that as I leaned into
00:40:46
the case and got to know the details I would either convince myself that yes indeed Arthur Le Allen was responsible
00:40:54
or else I would um come to know on a psychological level some perpetrator that I might never name somebody who may
00:41:02
have been lost to history um as I came into knowledge of the case and grew in my understanding
00:41:11
both of those original suppositions were were eliminated I came to believe that Arthur Le Allen had nothing to do with
00:41:18
it other than he liked attention the same way that zodiac did and it my research conclusions led me to somebody
00:41:26
who is not like to history um through great detail and looking at the case I came to the conclusion that the zodiac
00:41:35
is Theodore kazinski also known as the unibomber it's not a wildly popular theory on the
00:41:44
case but as I put together the evidence and as I collected it it occurred to me that the only way to understand the
00:41:53
Zodiac case is to understand its continuation as that of the unibomber and the only way to understand the
00:42:00
crimes of the unibomber is to understand its precedent the crimes of the zodiac serial killer the Zodiac who disappeared
00:42:09
in 1970 as far as anybody knew reemerged in 1978 under the guise of the unibomber a
00:42:17
separate and different campaign designed to look very different than that of the
00:42:23
zodiac and yet the similarities between the two are incredible and there appears to be a great
00:42:31
progression in crimes and in the need for publicity from the Zodiac that is continued on through the crimes of the
00:42:39
unibomber one of the things that you point out that I thought was very fascinating was when you look at
00:42:45
comparing serial killers there's not a ton of similarities between what what Bundy did
00:42:54
and what BTK did but when you compare the unibomber to the Zodiac you have a lot of similarities and and also a thing
00:43:05
that you you brought to my attention that I've never even heard before was not only were there letters to not only
00:43:13
did the Zodiac give letters but he also Drew bomb bomb diagrams and sent those out with the letters yeah on the surf
00:43:23
surface of it the Zodiac seems very different than the unibomber and it's led a number of professionals to lay
00:43:32
their professional um reputation on the line and say there is no way that the Zodiac could be Theodore kazinski
00:43:40
because the unibomber is so different than the Zodiac and they've gone on to say you know the Zodiac did this and the
00:43:49
unibomber did that and it looks entirely different the problem is what we know about the zodiac is what the Z zc wants
00:43:57
us to know about the Zodiac we see his attacks and we can gather information on them but the bulk of what we know about
00:44:04
the Zodiac we have gathered through the letters that he has sent well who says the Zodiac has to tell the truth through
00:44:13
his letters and with respect to the unibomber we got to know the unibomber through the the unibomber manifesto that
00:44:24
was sent out a year prior to Ted kazinsky arrest and a lot of people have read the
00:44:31
manifesto and said oh okay I get the unibomber I get the manifesto I know what he did and why he
00:44:38
did it well what's to say that Ted kazinski had to tell the truth in the manifesto and in fact uh there seems to
00:44:46
be an awful lot of deception within the manifesto and in fact his very reason for killing as the unibomber doesn't
00:44:53
really hold up to light when you begin to look at it in any great depth so that the truth about the Zodiac and the truth
00:45:04
about the uniom is an awful lot closer than people have been led to believe and people have concluded I don't believe
00:45:11
the media did a very good job of reading the manifesto and presenting the unibomber to the the general public um
00:45:20
there's a lot of misunderstanding and it led um writer Alon Chase to say every you know about
00:45:27
the unibomber is wrong which is quite a blatant statement but I have come to believe it that the more you look into
00:45:35
his life and his actions and what he has claimed about himself um a lot of it doesn't hold a lot of weight no he he
00:45:45
is and that's the thing that made me so damn angry about the manifesto and and look the what is we've studied and we've
00:45:56
studied we' put our best women and men on it we've studied serial killers what makes them tick why do they do what they
00:46:03
do nature virtues nurture there's no no end of what can be studied what could potentially be learned but then each
00:46:12
serial killer is in ways contradiction to the previous one that you studied before and but the one commonality that
00:46:20
they all share they're Liars the Zodiac the Zodiac was a liar Ted kazinski was a
00:46:28
liar whether they're one and the same it doesn't matter they were liars and the the thing the thing here is you read
00:46:37
that Manifesto and I'm so glad that you said that because that's the one of the things that angers me the most about the
00:46:43
unibomber case is oh yeah I get it I he was a man on a mission he was a mission oriented killer [ __ ] he was a holier
00:46:52
than thou you know uh do what I say not as I do type of type of guy at the end of the day and he he stole from his
00:47:02
neighbors he he fantasized about killing about shooting uh teenagers or children he he
00:47:11
he was he was he wasn't just scum for mailing bombs to people that maimed and and
00:47:19
killed he was he was scum because he was scum when he woke up in the morning and
00:47:23
he was scum when he went to bed every night that's that's who he was and he had a deep seated hatred for so many
00:47:33
people that he had to go live out in the damn Woods to be by himself and so this
00:47:40
look like the cap to the captain's Point earlier you you spend it um enough time
00:47:46
by yourself you can come up with some brilliant things to say well that's what the manifesto was he spent enough time
00:47:53
by himself that he could or orchestrate this and piece this whole thing together
00:47:57
for the rest of us to read and and and try and for a second to believe to have somewhat of an understanding of this
00:48:05
very flawed very complicated man who likely didn't understand his own intelligence and clearly had a lot of
00:48:15
problems with the emotion and with connecting on a real human level with anyone else Nick I have never heard a
00:48:24
more accurate description of Ted kazinski and believe me I've I've heard a lot um I'm working right now on a
00:48:34
rather comprehensive biography of Ted kazinski and you hit the nail on the head as far
00:48:42
as my research into the man he poached he was not an environmentalist he as as he seemed to
00:48:50
Proclaim within the the words of the manifesto John Douglas has written that um when Ted kazinski took a six-year
00:48:59
break from his bombing it was his prediction he claimed that Ted kazinski would work on number
00:49:08
one improving bombs but also number two developing a justification for what it was that he was doing so in many ways
00:49:17
the manifesto is a justification for his activities his murders and he has claimed that the reason that he killed
00:49:27
people was to give his ideas a fair hearing well the truth is a lot of people have ideas and a lot of people
00:49:34
want their ideas to be heard but the idea that he went out and killed people because he needed to get his message out
00:49:41
it was such an important message and he was such a benevolent person that he wanted to help humankind none of that
00:49:48
made any sense the truth is when you look very close into Ted kazinski the reason he killed is because he enjoyed
00:49:57
killing and so the words of the zodiac apply very closely to Ted kazinski he likes killing because it's so much fun
00:50:06
so if if we're on a speed date right and you had a couple minutes to make your case for Ted kazinski uni bommer being
00:50:21
the zodiac what what would your major points be well and I and I think has to one thing that we've not gotten into yet
00:50:30
here Mark is the the chronologic the Chron sorry the chronology of Ted kazinski where he was
00:50:40
living at the time what he was doing and then comparing that to the Zodiac the Zodiac timeline yeah to really um
00:50:50
connect the two it took me a 400 400 page book to uh lay out all of the evidence so so it's difficult to me to
00:50:58
uh to do speed dating um but I did gather the information into six or seven constellations um groups of evidence
00:51:08
that seem to connect the two it's been common in the Zodiac Community to notice uh a scar on the forehead or the way
00:51:17
somebody writes their ease or some some minor piece of evidence and then built up a a a philosophy of that convicts
00:51:26
this person of being the Zodiac the the evidence that I use to link the two is is gathered into quite a large
00:51:34
collection divided into six clusters or six constellations um with respect to timeline Ted kazinski was a professor at
00:51:44
UC Berkeley he was on Christmas uh vacation your Christmas break during the murder at Lake Herman Road one month
00:51:55
after that he abrupt sent a resignation letter to his school which really shocked his uh superiors his last day of
00:52:04
being a professor UC Berkeley was June the 30th 1969 four days later the Blue Rock
00:52:10
Springs Park murder took place after kazinski left UC Berkeley there's a two-year Gap in his life where very
00:52:18
little is known with specificity as to where he was what he was doing that two-year gap of time ended in July of
00:52:27
1971 and that's the time that Ted kazinski purchased property in Montana and began to build his cabin the bulk of
00:52:35
the zodiac activity happened during that two-year break the two-year Gap in Ted gazinsky life the murders the bulk of
00:52:45
the letters um what the Zodiac did happened during that two years following Ted kazinsky move to Montana only a
00:52:55
single verif IED zodiac letter was ever sent and that was sent in 1974 three years after the The Zodiacs
00:53:04
three years after kazinski had moved to Montana so it's entirely possible that Ted kazinski traveled to the Bay Area in
00:53:13
1974 and at that time sent one final zodiac letter but the six clusters that uh of information that I gathered
00:53:22
include bombs um some people say well you know this zodiac killed with knife and guns and the unibomber killed with
00:53:30
bombs and so they're very different and there's no way the two could be one but the truth is the Zodiac himself uh made
00:53:39
that change made that alteration in his own life following the murder of cab driver Paul Stein he sent two different
00:53:47
bomb diagrams to the Press saying I'm going to start killing people with the use of bombs um Ted Kaz inski in Montana
00:53:57
rope bomb diagrams some of that he sketched out in three dimensions exactly as the Zodiac did the Zodiac improved
00:54:05
from his first bomb making it into a second Revis bomb diagram and Improvement Ted kazinski improved upon
00:54:13
his bombs when he was in Montana the unibomber bombs were very distinctive and very easy to recognize for
00:54:21
investigators because they took great um great pains to put in a second failsafe uh
00:54:32
circuit kazinski was worried that his bombs would not work and so he often put a second circuit in the Zodiac bomb
00:54:40
diagrams contain two circuits or a circuit used also for a second use um so there so they're great similarities
00:54:49
there the Zodiac was uh had a had a strong connection to mathematics if you think of what codes are and the Zodiac
00:54:58
sent four codes in his letters codes are at base a mathematical operation codes are symbols that need to be solved well
00:55:08
Ted kazinski was a PhD mathematician who is a prodigy and a a a a worldclass mathematician as he was a professor at
00:55:18
UC Berkeley um if you go back and look at the Zodiac letters there's an awful lot
00:55:24
of mathematics within them the use of the word radians um many many symbols not only in
00:55:32
the not only in the codes but in the actual writing and a number of um Illusions or ideas that the writer of
00:55:41
the zodiac letters was a teacher a professor and a mathematician are all there so that uh I see many connections
00:55:51
between the two but also a great deal of effort putting into trying to make individuals look different um when Ted
00:56:01
kazinski was a professor and Following being a professor people knew his handwriting people had a familiarity
00:56:08
with him even if it was not very close and so he put a great deal of effort into disguising his handwriting and
00:56:15
disguising the tone with which he wrote his letters and he was a young man at the
00:56:21
time he was 27 at the time of the zodiac attacks as the UN bber when he was arrested a lot of people think of the
00:56:29
unibomber from Ted kazinsky arrest he was led out of his cabin and taken away in handcuffs at the age of 53 almost at
00:56:38
the age of 54 he was at a very different time in his life therefore it was very easy for Ted kazinski to present himself
00:56:47
differently to present himself more as he was in actuality but not entirely the unibomber did enough to mask himself so
00:56:56
that people didn't know that he was a a PhD Professor um and and and incidentally we discussed earlier about
00:57:05
the intellectual level of the zodiac and how that's a hotly debated issue Ted kazinski as the unibomber did a
00:57:11
fantastic job of presenting himself as possibly a bluecolor worker somebody who didn't have a lot of
00:57:19
Education in other words uh Ted kazinski was presenting himself in his letters and in his Communications and in his
00:57:28
Manifesto as somebody who was not as intelligent as he actually was but somebody who was trying to
00:57:36
convince the investigation that he was more intelligent than he was so investigators kind of snickered and said
00:57:43
yeah here's this dumb bluecollar worker trying to present himself as more more intelligent than he is but we know that
00:57:50
he's only a blue color worker whereas it seems that the Zodiac did very much the
00:57:56
same thing presented himself as somebody who wasn't very intellectual somebody who couldn't spell very well somebody
00:58:03
who didn't have good penmanship but at the same time tried to throw in words like radians and photo electric to get
00:58:12
investigators to think that he was a dumb person masking himself as somebody who was more intelligent than he
00:58:18
actually was when you talk about his handwriting I I noticed some of Ted kazinsky letters if you look at that
00:58:26
actual letter compared to how he addresses the letter almost looks like two two separate people um how do you
00:58:34
mean how he addresses his letter do you mean the handwriting yeah so like the handwriting when he is putting the
00:58:42
address and everything is like in all caps and and has one style you know any graphic artist or whatever would go well
00:58:51
this is one font and then when he writes the letter it's almost in a completely different font yeah Ted kazinski
00:58:59
addressed envelopes in a block letter and uh his brother David kazinski claimed that uh his whole life at least
00:59:09
since the time that the two of them were corresponding his brother Ted always addressed his envelopes in Block
00:59:15
lettering zodiac did the same the Zodiac printed almost everything that he ever wrote which for the 1960s was a little
00:59:26
6s and 70s was a little bit odd because most people knew cursive and use cursive
00:59:31
it's not in Vogue today it's not being taught any longer but people generally wrote in cursive the Zodiac never did
00:59:40
and neither did Ted kazinski I corresponded with him for about two years and all of his letters to me the
00:59:47
envelopes were in Block lettering and the letters themselves sometimes page page after page were done in a very
00:59:55
careful printing the only cursive that I ever received from kazinski was his uh signature at the end of a line where he
01:00:02
wrote Ted kazinski in a very small script you mentioned John Douglas uh legendary retired FBI agent in criminal
01:00:13
profiler John Douglas earlier we've had the privilege of interviewing him several times here in on in the garage
01:00:21
but you you mentioned what he said about Ted kazinski now let's go back and compare that to what he said about the
01:00:30
unidentified the unknown killer who he profiled the Zodiac Killer when he profiled the Zodiac Killer yeah he um
01:00:38
profiled he actually had the Zodiac Case Files on his desk for only a single day
01:00:43
back in the 1970s his hups assigned him to work on the Zodiac case for no apparent reason gave him the
01:00:52
files and he started to work on them the very next day the same files were removed from him and they said no we
01:00:58
don't want you to work on this any longer you need to work on something else he wasn't sure why he uh he was
01:01:05
given the case or why the case was taken away it was never explained to him but he said something very interesting he
01:01:10
said that that the Zodiac was more intelligent than he let on in his letters and that the Zodiac had the
01:01:19
meticulousness of a bomb maker I thought that was really interesting even despite
01:01:25
the messy script that the Zodiac wrote John Douglas realized there was a certain amount of skill and intricacy to
01:01:35
what it was that the Zodiac was doing I don't believe he ever made the case that
01:01:41
uh kazinski was the Zodiac in fact he has written on both the unibomber and on the I andon kazinski said many of the
01:01:52
same things about the two of them but has never um made the leap of saying that they were the same person yeah as
01:01:59
far as suspects go or sorry Persons of Interest go he was more willing to work the angle of words that were said by the
01:02:09
Zodiac Killer when interacting with the victims at Lake berasa and maybe clues that he dropped or of course he could be
01:02:16
lying but even if he were to have been lying he had to have some knowledge of what it was that he was saying at the
01:02:24
the time there yeah I believe Douglas came down on the fact that uh the perpetrator was Arthur
01:02:32
Le Allen or somebody similar to him somebody somebody who was ineffective and socially incompetent one of the
01:02:40
bigger arguments against Ted kazinski being the zodiac is that well after he was apprehended of course they took
01:02:48
apart his the Little Shack that he was living in piece by piece with all the books that were in there with him and
01:02:54
went through everything I I mean you want to talk about really throwing a guy in all of his belongings underneath a
01:03:01
microscope that's exactly what they did and got several different sets of eyes to review and use that microscope to to
01:03:10
look at everything with this guy and so the argument would be well they never found anything once they apprehended him
01:03:17
to link him or to say that he was or suggestive that he was the Zodiac Killer but then you can take that same argument
01:03:26
and apply it to Arthur Lee Allen as well I mean he he's I I might be a little incorrect on
01:03:35
some of the details here but Arthur Lee Allen at the the age of 52 I think it was suffers a heart attack calls for
01:03:44
help in the paramedics arrive at his house and so a lot of Arthur Lee Allen's belongings and things were gone through
01:03:52
because it it wasn't like he was didn't become a suspect or a person of interest
01:03:58
until after he had passed and then later they had to go back and go well we missed out on this one no he was he was
01:04:04
alive and well for a large part of when people were considering him as a possibility for being the Zodiac yeah I
01:04:12
ironically what you say is absolutely true they looked at his his belongings Ted kazin's belongings and found nothing
01:04:19
to specifically forensically tie him to being the Zodiac but ironically the search of his cabin is another of the
01:04:28
clusters of evidence of showing a familiarity between kazinski and the Zodiac when they took apart kazinsky
01:04:36
cabin they found many books they found disguises that consisted of glass sunglasses and a hood because you know
01:04:45
the Z the the unob bomber used a a hood and sunglasses as part of his disguise they also found codes they also found
01:04:55
bum creation material these are precisely the things that we would expect to find
01:05:01
in the home of the zodiac were he to be arrested and his belongings gone through
01:05:09
if you think of um the home of Ted of of Ted Bundy or the home of Gary Ridgeway the uh Green River Killer or the home of
01:05:20
John Wayne gasy any of these individuals would not be expected to have disguise es because as far as we know none of
01:05:29
them wore disguises there would not be any codes and in fact no codes were found in these
01:05:36
individuals we would not expect to find a lot of books um and yet these are precisely the things that we would
01:05:42
expect to see from the Zodiac and these are the classifications the the the types of things that were taken from the
01:05:50
uni bomber's cabin once he was arrested and am I correct by thinking though two Ted kazinski moves across the country to
01:05:58
go to school moves back across the country and then moves far again so I would I would expect that he wouldn't
01:06:06
have many personal belongings from his past if any yeah and and in connection with that kazinski was very meticulous
01:06:15
about all of his belongings he attempted to distance himself from a lot of his Crimes by um purging his his uh
01:06:26
belongings of things he he categorized everything in his life and with respect to incriminating evidence he would list
01:06:34
something by how incriminating it was what needed to be done with it um did it need to be burned could it be buried um
01:06:42
is it mildly embarrassing to him or is it completely incriminating in um felonious behavior
01:06:50
and and because he wrote a lot about this a lot of things in his possession just a lot of things disappeared from
01:06:57
his possession before he was arrested he wrote about uh how he would destroy things and how he would hide things and
01:07:04
what he would do to prevent himself from being caught so while when he was arrested there was an awful lot of
01:07:10
evidence of him being the unibomber there was not evidence of other crimes he had committed in his life and that
01:07:18
gives us the idea that he may have entirely purged his life of the zodiac crimes if he was responsible
01:07:26
one of one of uh his greatest fears and he wrote about this regularly and his uh
01:07:31
his brother confirmed this he did not want to be considered mentally ill even though he was diagnosed as having
01:07:40
schizophrenia with paranoia at least on a provisional basis through the courts after he was
01:07:46
arrested as many schizophrenics he attempted to present himself to the public as somebody who was entirely sane
01:07:55
he was afraid of his life's work the manifesto not being believed or being ridiculed because maybe he was insane
01:08:02
maybe he was crazy mentally maybe he suffered from a mental illness um his whole life this is something he fought
01:08:09
against his father compared him to a coworker who suffered from schizophrenia and ended up being in uh
01:08:17
institutionalized as a result of it Ted kazinski appears to have fought against the whole notion that he was insane um
01:08:25
following the death of the the murder of Paul Stein when he became a letter writer because he was not killing any
01:08:32
longer the Zodiac's letters became more and more desperate and more and more ridiculous and bizarre and people
01:08:40
stopped taking them very seriously because well he wasn't killing anymore and what he was writing about just was
01:08:48
starting to be silly so it appears that the Zodiac wrapped up that campaign and completely rid himself of it um for fear
01:08:57
that he would be considered mentally ill one thing that when we started this when
01:09:01
the captain and I started True Crime garage we were eager to we were already into True Crime and eager to be a part
01:09:10
of the True Crime Community but one thing that that that I've never liked you know I like to have the open
01:09:15
discussion these cases are unsolved for a reason we don't know until we know and
01:09:19
so I've never found it to be I found it to be very off-putting when someone says
01:09:25
oh don't present me with your person of interest because you know I got my own Theory and yet some of those people if
01:09:35
you don't like their guy then you're wrong and they don't want to have a conversation but the thing that annoys
01:09:42
me so much with so and it's very few people but but some of those same people will then later look at investigations
01:09:49
and go well the cops locked in on a on a suspect too quickly and then they built
01:09:53
their case around around that guy well essentially if if you've locked in on a guy and you're not willing to have
01:09:59
conversations about another guy then you're doing the exact same thing and I know you're not of that type you're
01:10:05
willing to have other conversations and and look you're presenting a theory and I I enjoy the theory I think that Ted
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looks as good for this as anyone else uh he's he's a better he's a better person
01:10:21
of interest than a lot of other ones he separates himself from a lot of individuals simply because we know he's
01:10:28
capable of murder we know that he had murder on his mind and he successfully did it whether he was the Zodiac or not
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so that sets him apart from a large portion of the population and this this whole idea clearly it look it was it was
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not lost on us we didn't we didn't broadcast this or shout it from the mountain tops when we covered zodiac in
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2021 but one thing we did with it was purposefully done was that we covered zodiac in five episodes the Tylenol
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murders and two the unibomber and two and all of those episodes ran between the episode numbers of 470 and 483 so
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there there was reason for putting those Nine episodes with in a 14 episode batch
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so I I love the theory before we wrap up here Mark please tell everybody where they can get your books or where they
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can find you my books are available as they say wherever books can be found um with respect to the Zodiac I've written
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the Zodiac serial killer Trilogy which consists of hunted profiled and exposed and three weeks ago I released my
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Memoirs entitled obsessed my Relentless pursuit of the Zodiac Killer some of the
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interesting material that you'll find in my most recent book is how I came to acquire and own the unib bombers cabin
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Library also how I corresponded with Ted kazinski across two years kazinski of course passed away in June of last year
01:12:10
he took his own life Behind Bars um partially because he had been diagnosed with cancer and was in the late stages
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of uh his life I can be contacted through my website dru.com doct hewitt.com and I enjoy interacting with
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other people answering questions or um just discussing the Zodiac case and uh I I really appreciate the opportunity to
01:12:39
be here and to talk with the two of you well and now we want to thank you for joining us as well and now the three of
01:12:45
us will leave the garage together we're going to walk to the nearest bar and consume as many Aqua Velva cocktails as
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we can together so thanks Mark for joining us I know that this uh it will be something really to enjoy by the the
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listeners and it's a lot of a lot of uh thought will be brought forward and and be had because of our conversation here
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today so thank [Music] you want to thank you so much for joining us here in the garage thanks for
01:13:24
telling your mother thanks for telling your brother thanks for sharing the cases on social media it means the world
01:13:30
Colonel do we have any recommended reading for the beautiful beautiful listeners yes please Captain we have
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plenty of recommended reading for you this week that's because the great Mark HT who you heard with us here in the
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garage this week he's got four count them one two three four books all centered around the Zodiac and his
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investigation and Research into this still unsolved case so look for Mark htt's books all on the Zodiac you can go
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to our website and check out our recommended page we'll have them listed there for you and while you're there
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make sure you sign up on the mailing list and until next week be good be kind and don't litter
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Episode Highlights

  • High Five Casino
    Play your favorite slot and table games with a chance to win real cash prizes!
    “It's always free to play and free coins are given out every four hours.”
    @ 00m 18s
    October 23, 2024
  • True Crime Garage Introduction
    Join hosts Nick and Captain as they dive into true crime stories while enjoying a beer.
    “Thanks for listening!”
    @ 02m 11s
    October 23, 2024
  • Zodiac Killer Profiling
    Exploring the geographic profiling of the Zodiac Killer and the complexities involved.
    “Geographic profiling may not be useful in some crimes.”
    @ 05m 15s
    October 23, 2024
  • The Zodiac's Deception
    A suspect reveled in being seen as the Zodiac, masking his true nature.
    “He wanted people to think he was something superior.”
    @ 28m 01s
    October 23, 2024
  • Case Breakers and Skepticism
    A group claims to have solved the Zodiac case, raising questions about their motives.
    “It seems to be more a case of wanting to be on television.”
    @ 29m 09s
    October 23, 2024
  • Uncovering the Unabomber
    Theories connect the Zodiac to Ted Kazinski, suggesting a shared need for publicity.
    “The only way to understand the Zodiac case is to understand its continuation as that of the Unabomber.”
    @ 41m 39s
    October 23, 2024
  • The Justification of a Killer
    Ted Kazinski claimed his murders were to give his ideas a fair hearing.
    “He claimed that the reason he killed was to give his ideas a fair hearing.”
    @ 49m 24s
    October 23, 2024
  • The Zodiac Connection
    Exploring the similarities between Ted Kazinski and the Zodiac Killer.
    “There are many connections between the two, but also a great deal of effort to appear different.”
    @ 55m 51s
    October 23, 2024
  • The Purging of Evidence
    Kazinski meticulously distanced himself from incriminating evidence before his arrest.
    “He categorized everything in his life by how incriminating it was.”
    @ 01h 06m 26s
    October 23, 2024
  • Mark's Zodiac Investigation
    Mark HT shares insights from his four books on the Zodiac case.
    “Look for Mark HT's books all on the Zodiac.”
    @ 01h 13m 41s
    October 23, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • Gather around, grab a chair, grab a beer, let's talk some true crime!
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  • He wanted people to think he was something superior.
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  • The Zodiac was a liar; Ted Kazinski was a liar.
    Zodiac Killer /// Part 2 /// 796
  • He wanted to help humankind? None of that made any sense.
    Zodiac Killer /// Part 2 /// 796
  • He enjoyed killing because it's so much fun.
    Zodiac Killer /// Part 2 /// 796
  • He was afraid of being considered mentally ill.
    Zodiac Killer /// Part 2 /// 796

Key Moments

  • True Crime Introduction01:53
  • Zodiac Killer Discussion04:14
  • Zodiac Suspect Revelations25:02
  • Unabomber Connections41:35
  • Zodiac Comparisons55:51
  • Aqua Velva Cocktails1:12:48
  • Recommended Reading1:13:30
  • Closing Remarks1:14:14

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