In March of 1971 a post card arrived at the Chronicle. It was addressed to Paul Avery and covered with newspaper cutouts of pictures and phrases. The phrases " Sought victim 12," and "peek through the pines," "pass Lake Tahoe areas," "Sierra Club," and around in the snow" had been cut from the newspaper and glued down. Zodiac had decorated the edges with half-moon cuts made by a conductor's punch. Pasted to the back of the card was an artist's rendering of what was later discovered to be an ad for Forest Pines, a condominium village currently under development near Incline Village on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Victim number twelve may have been Donna Lass, twenty five, a pretty nurse with frosted blond hair, who had been missing since 9-6-70, after she left work at the Sahara Hotel in Stateline, Nevada. The casino nurse's car was found near her small apartment, but there was no sign of a struggle and only her purse and the clothes she was wearing were missing. An unidentified male caller had told Donna's landlord of an illness in her family. The call was a lie. By telephone, detectives in San Francisco and Nevada tried to divine the meaning of the enigmatic "around in the snow."And had Donna been killed and buried near the new development? The ad for the condos had run in the S. F. Chronicle two days before.
If you look at the post card just to the right of center you will see a "round" shape like a donut. This could be the a "round" in the snow the killer was talking about.
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