About Don Cheney

Don Cheney is an engineer who went back to roughly 1962 with Leigh Allen. According to the Director's cut DVD Cheney and two other students were renting an apartment while going to college when Arthur Leigh Allen became acquainted with them. Leigh seemed to show a violent streak in some of his conversations with them and one of them named Sandy didn't like his personality. However as time went by Leigh was fired from a teaching job for child molestation and came to Cheney after he served time in Atascadero for help in writing a resume'. Allen took Cheney for a ride one day on Lake Herman road near a "lovers lane" area and did the same at a similar area at Blue Rock Springs. It was at these areas Allen's dark side came out and he said what he would like to do to a young girl and it wasn't pretty. Cheney went to the police some time after this and reported that Allen wanted to become the Zodiac. Nothing was done. Cheney also went to Allen's trailer. While he was there Allen asked him to lick stamps on thank-you notes he was sending out. This automatically put Cheney's DNA on the envelopes. Cheney didn't like this because Arthur Leigh Allen was becoming the major suspect in the Zodiac case. Detective Bawart of the Vallejo Police Dept. Decided to do a polygraph test on Cheney. I think he took him up to Tacoma, Wash. for a test and he drank too much the night before and could not take the test. He took it the next day and it came back inconclusive. Bawart didn't like this. Back at Allen's trailer Allen introduced Cheney to an older gentlemen next door and suddenly the old man gave Allen a dressing down. He said "I've seen what's going on over there and...". Leigh Allen said "Someday I'm going to kill that old man." Time went on and one day Bawart got a phone call saying Arthur Leigh Allen was dead and that was that. Allen's DNA didn't match the second time it was tried. This was 1992 I believe. D. Lathers