As Norman Bates is eating his toasted cheese sandwich , at night in the kitchen, a knock is heard at the back door. Miss Spool comes in and says, "I guess you were expecting me." Norman says, "I was expecting someone but I didn't know when." Miss Spool and Norma Bates were sisters and Norma stole Mr. Bates away from her and became Norman's father. When Norman was a baby Miss Spool killed Mr. Bates and kidnapped Norman. She was caught and put in a mental hospital. When they let her out she killed anyone who pestered Norman. This accounts for some or most of the murders in the former movie (Psycho).
Norman offers her tea, milk and sugar while she explains all of this to him. While in the kitchen, Norman kills her with a coal shovel. (Back of the head). He then starts to call her mother, actually thinking she was his mother, and carries the corpse upstairs to his mother's bedroom. She says she's not tired and to put her close to the window so she can keep an eye on him to make sure he's not playing with any nasty girls. Norman comes out and stands in front of the house. End of Psycho II.
In the first paragraph the last line should read (Psycho II).
To be continued as Psycho III.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Psycho II
This time as Norman is on the phone, he's either talking to "mother" in his mind or Miss Spool because she tells him to get rid of Mary Loomis for good. He says, "No mother! Mary has been kind to me. I can't kill her," and Mary hears the conversation. She tells him to hang up the phone and goes upstairs to the extension. While she is telling Norman to hang up, Dr. Raymond comes out of Norman's room and grabs her. She turns around and shoves a butcher knife in the left side of his chest. He falls over the banister to the hall floor below. Norman says, "that's alright, I'll take care of you 'cause your my loving mother." Mary argues with him and she stabs him in the stomach, chest and both hands. They fight all the way to the furnace cellar where Mary discovers her mother in the coal pile, dead. Sheriff Hunt comes in with a deputy and just as Mary is about to fatally stab Norman in the back, the deputy shoots Mary dead.
The next scene is the police station where an officer from Bakersfield has come down to Fairdale to sit in on the proceedings. Sheriff Hunt says Mary killed her own mother over Norman. The desk man of the Fairdale Hotel is there signing papers as to what Mary said to her mother the day before. Somebody says, "everybody seems to be drinking coffee." Sheriff Hunt says, "Ready to go home now Norman?" Norman Nods a yes.
When Norman goes home, he goes down cellar and replaces the flagstone in the cellar floor where the knife, dress and wig were. He then throws three shovels full of coal into the furnace and looks at his bandaged hands that are bleeding a little. He then goes up to the kitchen. This is where the whole plot of the movie changes. ......con't
The next scene is the police station where an officer from Bakersfield has come down to Fairdale to sit in on the proceedings. Sheriff Hunt says Mary killed her own mother over Norman. The desk man of the Fairdale Hotel is there signing papers as to what Mary said to her mother the day before. Somebody says, "everybody seems to be drinking coffee." Sheriff Hunt says, "Ready to go home now Norman?" Norman Nods a yes.
When Norman goes home, he goes down cellar and replaces the flagstone in the cellar floor where the knife, dress and wig were. He then throws three shovels full of coal into the furnace and looks at his bandaged hands that are bleeding a little. He then goes up to the kitchen. This is where the whole plot of the movie changes. ......con't
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Psycho II
Miss Spool was Norman's aunt - his mother's sister.
Vera Miles gets into an argument with Mary at the hotel in town where she's staying. Mary tells her not to come out to the motel or she'll be sorry. Nevertheless Lila comes out to the motel and she is followed by Dr. Raymond to the mansion. Lila enters the house through the storm cellar doors on the side and goes into the furnace room. A loose tile in the floor holds a dress, butcher knife and cheap wig. As she lifts the tile she hears a sound like footsteps and looks up just in time to see a tall woman dressed in black shove a butcher knife down her throat which protrudes an inch out the back of her neck. She is then buried in the coal pile next to the furnace.
Sheriff Hunt wanted Mary and Norman at the swamp so it must be the work of Miss Spool. Sheriff Hunt tells Mary and her mother, (now dead), to leave the area. Back at the mansion Norman is playing the piano when Mary rushes in and tells Norman they have to leave. Norman convinces Mary they'd be caught so they decide not to run. In the meantime the phone rings and Dr. Raymond is calling from the motel office but Norman answers, "yes mother", which infuriates Mary and she goes upstairs to the other phone and tells Norman to hang up and he does. They then sit and talk in the living room. The phone rings once more and this time Norman talks to his mother, probably Miss Spool. This infuriates Mary all the more. The plot is very convoluted.
Vera Miles gets into an argument with Mary at the hotel in town where she's staying. Mary tells her not to come out to the motel or she'll be sorry. Nevertheless Lila comes out to the motel and she is followed by Dr. Raymond to the mansion. Lila enters the house through the storm cellar doors on the side and goes into the furnace room. A loose tile in the floor holds a dress, butcher knife and cheap wig. As she lifts the tile she hears a sound like footsteps and looks up just in time to see a tall woman dressed in black shove a butcher knife down her throat which protrudes an inch out the back of her neck. She is then buried in the coal pile next to the furnace.
Sheriff Hunt wanted Mary and Norman at the swamp so it must be the work of Miss Spool. Sheriff Hunt tells Mary and her mother, (now dead), to leave the area. Back at the mansion Norman is playing the piano when Mary rushes in and tells Norman they have to leave. Norman convinces Mary they'd be caught so they decide not to run. In the meantime the phone rings and Dr. Raymond is calling from the motel office but Norman answers, "yes mother", which infuriates Mary and she goes upstairs to the other phone and tells Norman to hang up and he does. They then sit and talk in the living room. The phone rings once more and this time Norman talks to his mother, probably Miss Spool. This infuriates Mary all the more. The plot is very convoluted.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Psycho II (1983)
They later find Toomey's car in Falls Lake, the swamp, locked in the trunk.
Norman quit his job at the diner and decides to recondition Bates Motel by painting it a light yellow. While painting one afternoon he sees a figure up in mother's bedroom window. It's actually Mary Loomis dressed up to look like Norman's mother. Norman then goes up to the house and is locked in for hours. A moaning voice calling Norman is heard and finally Mary opens the door and lets Norman out. Mary actually did this so she could take all the furnishings out of "mother' room" down the back stairway.
In the meantime, two young teenagers enter the fruit cellar through a window and spread an old mattress out and start to smoke and fool around with each other. The girl suddenly hears a thump and freezes. Her boyfriend says she's just high and not to pay attention. A minute later she hears another thump and this time her boyfriend hears it too. They look through a opening in the fruit cellar door and see a woman in a black dress with a butcher knife. She exits through the cellar window but he's not fast enough and is stabbed to death while his fingers squeak a vertical pattern down the cellar window. She runs, falls down, and continues to run away as fast as she can. She actually tells Sheriff Hunt about the incident. The killer was probably Miss Spool.
A while later, Sheriff Hunt comes to the front door and tells Norman and Mary about the girl who is in the squad car down by the motel. The body of the boy is gone and the fruit cellar cleaned up. Mary covers for Norman.
Upstairs Norman is washing his face when the toilet gives a burping noise. Norman flushes it and blood spills over the floor. Mary comes up and is mad. A rag is found in the toilet but nobody knows how it got there. After this Mary gets her pistol her mother gave her. Norman comes up from downstairs and says his mother is down there. They decide to sleep there for the night but Norman can't sleep. There now is sort of a romantic scene between the two and she holds Norman's head in her lap. There's small talk but it's obvious there is something between them when he tells her she smells like a toasted cheese sandwich like his mother used to give him when he was in bed with a fever.
It's quite possible that Miss Spool did most of the killing, including Toomey. She gives it away at the end of Psycho II when she says, "when I saw what they were trying to do to my poor little boy I couldn't stand it so one by one.........." Miss Spool was Norman's aunt his mother.
Norman quit his job at the diner and decides to recondition Bates Motel by painting it a light yellow. While painting one afternoon he sees a figure up in mother's bedroom window. It's actually Mary Loomis dressed up to look like Norman's mother. Norman then goes up to the house and is locked in for hours. A moaning voice calling Norman is heard and finally Mary opens the door and lets Norman out. Mary actually did this so she could take all the furnishings out of "mother' room" down the back stairway.
In the meantime, two young teenagers enter the fruit cellar through a window and spread an old mattress out and start to smoke and fool around with each other. The girl suddenly hears a thump and freezes. Her boyfriend says she's just high and not to pay attention. A minute later she hears another thump and this time her boyfriend hears it too. They look through a opening in the fruit cellar door and see a woman in a black dress with a butcher knife. She exits through the cellar window but he's not fast enough and is stabbed to death while his fingers squeak a vertical pattern down the cellar window. She runs, falls down, and continues to run away as fast as she can. She actually tells Sheriff Hunt about the incident. The killer was probably Miss Spool.
A while later, Sheriff Hunt comes to the front door and tells Norman and Mary about the girl who is in the squad car down by the motel. The body of the boy is gone and the fruit cellar cleaned up. Mary covers for Norman.
Upstairs Norman is washing his face when the toilet gives a burping noise. Norman flushes it and blood spills over the floor. Mary comes up and is mad. A rag is found in the toilet but nobody knows how it got there. After this Mary gets her pistol her mother gave her. Norman comes up from downstairs and says his mother is down there. They decide to sleep there for the night but Norman can't sleep. There now is sort of a romantic scene between the two and she holds Norman's head in her lap. There's small talk but it's obvious there is something between them when he tells her she smells like a toasted cheese sandwich like his mother used to give him when he was in bed with a fever.
It's quite possible that Miss Spool did most of the killing, including Toomey. She gives it away at the end of Psycho II when she says, "when I saw what they were trying to do to my poor little boy I couldn't stand it so one by one.........." Miss Spool was Norman's aunt his mother.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Psycho I and Psycho II
It should be noted that the end of Psycho I Hitchcock superimposed the skull of his mother over Norman Bates' face just for about a half second. This was done on only a few of the movies and most of the audience probably missed it.
I was talking to a psychiatrist friend of mine and it was his feeling that it's not likely that a person can have two or more distinct personalities in the same mind. Norman had two. His mother and himself.
PSYCHO II
Norman was put in an institution for twenty two years where they erased all the bad parts of his memory under the care of a psychiatrist names Doctor Raymond. In the meantime Lila Crane, Marion's sister played by Vera Miles went on a crusade getting over seven hundred names on a petition to keep Norman institutionalized. She, in the meantime, married Marion's boyfriend Sam Loomis who, a few years later, died. She also had a girl by Sam. Her name was Mary, played by Meg Tilly. Miss Spool, who works in the local diner, plays a major part in the murders in and around the Bates Motel, although it's not known until the end of the movie when she visits,(her last visit), Norman late at night in the kitchen of the house.
Norman is released under the care of Dr. Raymond in the Kern County Courthouse under the objection of Lila Loomis who is thrown out of the courtroom by the presiding judge. Dr. Raymond takes Norman to the Motel, now in need of upkeep, and while going up the stairs to the house, sees someone in his mother's window. Mary Loomis dressed up to look like his mother. Both she and her mother Lila are trying to destabilize Norman and put him back in the institution because of his murdering Marion, Lila's sister, in Psycho I. Norman also meets Warren Toomey, the man, played by Dennis Frantz, who was hired by the hospital to run the motel while Norman was away. Frantz also had a major part in the T V series NYPD years later. Frantz says he's running a motel that makes money, drugs and all, and that infuriates Norman. Norman fires his motel manager and they part with Frantz saying, "My customers have a good time. What do yours get Bates? Murdered. Murdered by you, you loony!"
Mary agrees to stay in the house with Norman and they sit in the kitchen to eat. Norman loses his appetite and so does Mary. She says she learned from Myrna, a waitress, that he'd been locked away. Norman explains and they go to bed. Mary upstairs and Norman Downstairs.
The next thing you hear is a horn blowing at the office and Toomey yells up to the house, "Hey you nut cases I just wanted to let you know that I'm leaving." You hear a crow cawing and the next thing you see is Toomey being stabbed in the motel office by a woman in a long black dress.
I was talking to a psychiatrist friend of mine and it was his feeling that it's not likely that a person can have two or more distinct personalities in the same mind. Norman had two. His mother and himself.
PSYCHO II
Norman was put in an institution for twenty two years where they erased all the bad parts of his memory under the care of a psychiatrist names Doctor Raymond. In the meantime Lila Crane, Marion's sister played by Vera Miles went on a crusade getting over seven hundred names on a petition to keep Norman institutionalized. She, in the meantime, married Marion's boyfriend Sam Loomis who, a few years later, died. She also had a girl by Sam. Her name was Mary, played by Meg Tilly. Miss Spool, who works in the local diner, plays a major part in the murders in and around the Bates Motel, although it's not known until the end of the movie when she visits,(her last visit), Norman late at night in the kitchen of the house.
Norman is released under the care of Dr. Raymond in the Kern County Courthouse under the objection of Lila Loomis who is thrown out of the courtroom by the presiding judge. Dr. Raymond takes Norman to the Motel, now in need of upkeep, and while going up the stairs to the house, sees someone in his mother's window. Mary Loomis dressed up to look like his mother. Both she and her mother Lila are trying to destabilize Norman and put him back in the institution because of his murdering Marion, Lila's sister, in Psycho I. Norman also meets Warren Toomey, the man, played by Dennis Frantz, who was hired by the hospital to run the motel while Norman was away. Frantz also had a major part in the T V series NYPD years later. Frantz says he's running a motel that makes money, drugs and all, and that infuriates Norman. Norman fires his motel manager and they part with Frantz saying, "My customers have a good time. What do yours get Bates? Murdered. Murdered by you, you loony!"
Mary agrees to stay in the house with Norman and they sit in the kitchen to eat. Norman loses his appetite and so does Mary. She says she learned from Myrna, a waitress, that he'd been locked away. Norman explains and they go to bed. Mary upstairs and Norman Downstairs.
The next thing you hear is a horn blowing at the office and Toomey yells up to the house, "Hey you nut cases I just wanted to let you know that I'm leaving." You hear a crow cawing and the next thing you see is Toomey being stabbed in the motel office by a woman in a long black dress.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Psycho I & Zodiac
It seems strange that the tape of the Zodiac calling the police was lost. It seems that maybe someone that worked at the VPD might have taken it but this is only an assumption. More than one person had heard that tape. The tape would have given the police a voice graph of the killer which would be very, very helpful. Maybe it's still around.
Psycho:
Lila Crane then, after she had gone through the upstairs rooms, went back downstairs. In the meantime the conversation between Sam Loomis and Norman Bates in the office had become more abrasive. Finally, Norman said,"where's the woman you came here with ?" Norman hits Sam over the head and starts up the steps towards the mansion. Lila sees him coming and hurries around to the steps in the hall leading to the cellar. Norman comes in, stops, and goes upstairs. Lila looks toward the cellar, then looks up, and then looks again toward the cellar. She then goes down cellar. Then she goes into the next room which is the fruit cellar and sees Mrs. Bates in a chair. She taps her on the right shoulder and Mrs. bates slowly turns around. Lila sees a skeleton that has been dead many years. She screams. It's then that Norman comes rushing in with his mothers clothes on with a butcher knife in his hand shouting "I'm Norma Bates." There's so much screaming in the movie houses that most don't hear Norman at all. Sam Loomis comes in and wrestles Norman to the floor.
The next scene is the sheriff's office in Fairvale City Hall. All involved are there. Simon Oakland plays the psychiatrist. He comes in and says the following. "I got the information but not from Norman, I got it from his mother, that is the mother portion of Norman's mind. Norman doesn't exist. He only half existed to begin with." Lila says, "Did he kill my sister?" The psychiatrist says, "Yes..........and no." He explains that there were two people in Norman's mind, Norman and his overbearing mother. The guilt caused this and there was a constant conflict in his mind. Norman was often both personalities. He could speak in his mother's voice, Virginia Gregg & Jeannette Nolan, and answer in his own. He was never all Norman but he was often only "mother." "When the mind houses two personalities, there is always a battle. Norman stole the corpse from the grave. A weighted coffin was buried. Norman stuffed her full of sawdust and treated her body with chemicals so she would keep as best she would. He was jealous of her so he assumed she was as jealous of him. But, when reality came too close he dressed up as mother with a cheap wig he bought, a dress and a butcher knife and killed whomever was in the way. She was there but she was a corpse.
Psycho:
Lila Crane then, after she had gone through the upstairs rooms, went back downstairs. In the meantime the conversation between Sam Loomis and Norman Bates in the office had become more abrasive. Finally, Norman said,"where's the woman you came here with ?" Norman hits Sam over the head and starts up the steps towards the mansion. Lila sees him coming and hurries around to the steps in the hall leading to the cellar. Norman comes in, stops, and goes upstairs. Lila looks toward the cellar, then looks up, and then looks again toward the cellar. She then goes down cellar. Then she goes into the next room which is the fruit cellar and sees Mrs. Bates in a chair. She taps her on the right shoulder and Mrs. bates slowly turns around. Lila sees a skeleton that has been dead many years. She screams. It's then that Norman comes rushing in with his mothers clothes on with a butcher knife in his hand shouting "I'm Norma Bates." There's so much screaming in the movie houses that most don't hear Norman at all. Sam Loomis comes in and wrestles Norman to the floor.
The next scene is the sheriff's office in Fairvale City Hall. All involved are there. Simon Oakland plays the psychiatrist. He comes in and says the following. "I got the information but not from Norman, I got it from his mother, that is the mother portion of Norman's mind. Norman doesn't exist. He only half existed to begin with." Lila says, "Did he kill my sister?" The psychiatrist says, "Yes..........and no." He explains that there were two people in Norman's mind, Norman and his overbearing mother. The guilt caused this and there was a constant conflict in his mind. Norman was often both personalities. He could speak in his mother's voice, Virginia Gregg & Jeannette Nolan, and answer in his own. He was never all Norman but he was often only "mother." "When the mind houses two personalities, there is always a battle. Norman stole the corpse from the grave. A weighted coffin was buried. Norman stuffed her full of sawdust and treated her body with chemicals so she would keep as best she would. He was jealous of her so he assumed she was as jealous of him. But, when reality came too close he dressed up as mother with a cheap wig he bought, a dress and a butcher knife and killed whomever was in the way. She was there but she was a corpse.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Psycho I
Arbogast walks into the motel office and then into the parlor and notices the stuffed birds on the wall. He then starts up the three tiers ofd stone stairs towards the Bates mansion. He slowly opens the main door and goes in. He then starts the slow climb to the second floor. As he gets to the top a tall person in a dark dress with a butcher knife meets him and stabs him in the face and he falls down the stairs hitting the bottom with a crash. The killer then begins to stab him numerous times and that's the end of the Private Investigator.
Sam and Lila are still waiting at the hardware store. Sam decides to go out to the Bates Motel and does so and finds nothing except "mother" sitting in the bedroom window, not answering the door. He comes back to the store and he and Lila decide to go to see Sheriff Chambers.
They get Sheriff Chambers, (John MacIntire), out of bed. The sheriff calls Norman Bates but gets nothing except the P. I. had left. Then the sheriff tells Sam and Lila that Mrs. Bates died ten years before. Actually Norman murdered his mother and her boyfriend with iced tea laced with strychnine but the sheriff said she killed her lover and then took some herself. ("Ugly way to die,) the sheriff said.
Norman's real father was really killed by Miss Spool, a waitress in Statler's nearby diner, years before. She was in love with him but her sister, Norma, stole him away from her when Norman was just a baby. Miss Spool was put in an asylum for a while. She appears again at the end of Psycho II and tells Norman her story.
Now Sam and Lila decide that they can no longer wait so they decide to go out to the old Bates Motel and try to find out what happened to Marion, Lila's sister. They are greeted by a suspicious Norman Bates who gives them cabin #10 as man and wife. At their first chance they come up to cabin #1, the late Marion's cabin, and go inside. In the bathroom they find a clue on a piece of paper which has the $40,000 less $700 on it proving Marion was there a week before. After seeing this they decide they have to go up to the mansion on the hill and talk to mother Bates.
While Sam keeps Norman busy talking in the office, Lila goes up to the mansion and goes in. It should be noted that Norman has carried his mother down to be hidden in the fruit cellar. Lila looks around and then starts to go up to mother's room. It's all very fancy like they all were in the 1800's. Mother's body imprint is in the mattress and there is even a sink in the bedroom with roses imprinted in the basin. All very typical of that period--Victorian. It should also be noted that the floors in the house are alternating colors of oak, light and dark. Lila then goes into Norman's bedroom and finds children's toys and adult items such as a record player, 33 1/3, version of Eroica, 1803. She also finds some porno books. In the 1800's porno was done up in nameless leather covered books. (to be continued)
Sam and Lila are still waiting at the hardware store. Sam decides to go out to the Bates Motel and does so and finds nothing except "mother" sitting in the bedroom window, not answering the door. He comes back to the store and he and Lila decide to go to see Sheriff Chambers.
They get Sheriff Chambers, (John MacIntire), out of bed. The sheriff calls Norman Bates but gets nothing except the P. I. had left. Then the sheriff tells Sam and Lila that Mrs. Bates died ten years before. Actually Norman murdered his mother and her boyfriend with iced tea laced with strychnine but the sheriff said she killed her lover and then took some herself. ("Ugly way to die,) the sheriff said.
Norman's real father was really killed by Miss Spool, a waitress in Statler's nearby diner, years before. She was in love with him but her sister, Norma, stole him away from her when Norman was just a baby. Miss Spool was put in an asylum for a while. She appears again at the end of Psycho II and tells Norman her story.
Now Sam and Lila decide that they can no longer wait so they decide to go out to the old Bates Motel and try to find out what happened to Marion, Lila's sister. They are greeted by a suspicious Norman Bates who gives them cabin #10 as man and wife. At their first chance they come up to cabin #1, the late Marion's cabin, and go inside. In the bathroom they find a clue on a piece of paper which has the $40,000 less $700 on it proving Marion was there a week before. After seeing this they decide they have to go up to the mansion on the hill and talk to mother Bates.
While Sam keeps Norman busy talking in the office, Lila goes up to the mansion and goes in. It should be noted that Norman has carried his mother down to be hidden in the fruit cellar. Lila looks around and then starts to go up to mother's room. It's all very fancy like they all were in the 1800's. Mother's body imprint is in the mattress and there is even a sink in the bedroom with roses imprinted in the basin. All very typical of that period--Victorian. It should also be noted that the floors in the house are alternating colors of oak, light and dark. Lila then goes into Norman's bedroom and finds children's toys and adult items such as a record player, 33 1/3, version of Eroica, 1803. She also finds some porno books. In the 1800's porno was done up in nameless leather covered books. (to be continued)
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Zodiac and Psycho I
Note: Is it possible that the Zodiac used a surrogate to do his dirty work?
Norman Bates watched Marion Crane undress through a peep hole in his parlor into cabin #1 and then went up to the old mansion and waited. While taking a shower, a woman in a long black dress came into cabin #1 and stabbed Marion to death. In a few minutes Norman came running down the stone steps to the motel and discovered Marion's body draped across the bathtub.
Norman immediately got a mop and pail and cleaned up the bloody tub and tile wall in the bathroom. He then took the shower curtain and wrapped Marion's body in it. Janet Leigh was not wrapped. A woman named Marlee Renthro was used. She was a Playboy Playmate with the same measurements as Janet Leigh. She was put in the trunk of the '57 Ford sedan and driven to the swamp of the motel. The swamp was called Falls Lake by Universal and had a hydraulic lift in the water similar to what gas stations use. This let the car go down halfway and stop for anxiety effect. Then the lift let the car submerge all the way. (Lic. NFB-418). The car was up for sale much later with a $150.00 bill attached for motor cleaning. Alfred Hitchcock did this. The transmisasion, (automatic), and rear end, also had to be cleaned of water. There were no second takes on this operation.
The scene now shifts to Sam Loomis' Hardware store in Fairvale, Ca. It's a week later and Lila, Marions sister, has come in to talk to Sam about Marion and the $40,000. P I Arbogast, Martin Balsam also enters the store and they all talk. Martin says he's going out on the old highway to check motels about Marion's disappearance.
Martin Balsam stops at the Bates Motel and talks to Norman. He sees Marie Samuels on the register and at once becomes suspicious. Eventually Norman asks him to leave and he stops at a phone booth and phones Lila. He says he's going back to the motel to see if he can talk to Norman's mother up in the window of the second floor of the old Bates house. Mother is always in the window of her bedroom. He tells Lila he'll be back in an hour or less.
This is where the plot thickens.Arbogast drives a late model Mercury sedan, '59 or so.
At the motel Norman walks down past the rooms and disappears halfway. Arbogast pulls up to the motel. ........con't.
Norman Bates watched Marion Crane undress through a peep hole in his parlor into cabin #1 and then went up to the old mansion and waited. While taking a shower, a woman in a long black dress came into cabin #1 and stabbed Marion to death. In a few minutes Norman came running down the stone steps to the motel and discovered Marion's body draped across the bathtub.
Norman immediately got a mop and pail and cleaned up the bloody tub and tile wall in the bathroom. He then took the shower curtain and wrapped Marion's body in it. Janet Leigh was not wrapped. A woman named Marlee Renthro was used. She was a Playboy Playmate with the same measurements as Janet Leigh. She was put in the trunk of the '57 Ford sedan and driven to the swamp of the motel. The swamp was called Falls Lake by Universal and had a hydraulic lift in the water similar to what gas stations use. This let the car go down halfway and stop for anxiety effect. Then the lift let the car submerge all the way. (Lic. NFB-418). The car was up for sale much later with a $150.00 bill attached for motor cleaning. Alfred Hitchcock did this. The transmisasion, (automatic), and rear end, also had to be cleaned of water. There were no second takes on this operation.
The scene now shifts to Sam Loomis' Hardware store in Fairvale, Ca. It's a week later and Lila, Marions sister, has come in to talk to Sam about Marion and the $40,000. P I Arbogast, Martin Balsam also enters the store and they all talk. Martin says he's going out on the old highway to check motels about Marion's disappearance.
Martin Balsam stops at the Bates Motel and talks to Norman. He sees Marie Samuels on the register and at once becomes suspicious. Eventually Norman asks him to leave and he stops at a phone booth and phones Lila. He says he's going back to the motel to see if he can talk to Norman's mother up in the window of the second floor of the old Bates house. Mother is always in the window of her bedroom. He tells Lila he'll be back in an hour or less.
This is where the plot thickens.Arbogast drives a late model Mercury sedan, '59 or so.
At the motel Norman walks down past the rooms and disappears halfway. Arbogast pulls up to the motel. ........con't.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Serial Killers - Psycho I
Notes:
1. Marion Crane's '56 Ford plate number - ANL-709 ........Janet Leigh July 9th.
2. Marion Crane's '57 Ford plate number - NFB-418 ........Norman Francis Bates April 18th.
As Marion drove up the highway towards Bakersfield the rains came and Bernard Hermann's music kept in time with the windshield wipers----foreshadowing anyone? Up ahead the sign for Bates Motel appeared so she pulled in. I might note that they made a mistake by leaving a floodlight on on the left of the picture, but it's only seen for a second or two. They left it in the movie. Marion, (Janet Leigh), Gets out of her '57 Ford and knocks on the office door, leaving the car and wipers running. After knocking and blowing the horn she gets back in and turns off the wipers and motor. (She might not have knocked). Soon Anthony Perkins comes down from the old mansion on the hill and lets her in the office to sign in. Ricardo Gomez, from San Francisco was a big help on these finer details. We talk quite often about this movie along with the Zodiac case. MK-Zodiac.com.
Marion and Norman talk for a few minutes and she signs in as Marie Samuels, (her lover's name is Sam). Norman is immediately attracted to Janet Leigh and assigns her to cabin #1. He said it was closer in case she wanted anything. They both go into the cabin and he asks her to have a small supper with him and she agrees. He says he'll be back with his (trusty umbrella). Up at the house she hears his mother's scolding voice thru the motel room window. (Mother is played by Virginia Gregg.) He comes back and they decide to eat in the office parlor. The conversation runs thru all of our human emotions but there is a darkness coming on the scene that we all can feel. Norman uses the saying that "we all go a little mad sometimes" which is used in the following movies of Psycho. Meanwhile, the $40,000 sits on a lampstand in cabin #1. This conversation is one of the greatest in all of Hollywood movies. Marion is tired and decides to go to bed after a shower and therefor we come to the murder scene of which Janet Leigh is most famous for in 1960.
......con't
1. Marion Crane's '56 Ford plate number - ANL-709 ........Janet Leigh July 9th.
2. Marion Crane's '57 Ford plate number - NFB-418 ........Norman Francis Bates April 18th.
As Marion drove up the highway towards Bakersfield the rains came and Bernard Hermann's music kept in time with the windshield wipers----foreshadowing anyone? Up ahead the sign for Bates Motel appeared so she pulled in. I might note that they made a mistake by leaving a floodlight on on the left of the picture, but it's only seen for a second or two. They left it in the movie. Marion, (Janet Leigh), Gets out of her '57 Ford and knocks on the office door, leaving the car and wipers running. After knocking and blowing the horn she gets back in and turns off the wipers and motor. (She might not have knocked). Soon Anthony Perkins comes down from the old mansion on the hill and lets her in the office to sign in. Ricardo Gomez, from San Francisco was a big help on these finer details. We talk quite often about this movie along with the Zodiac case. MK-Zodiac.com.
Marion and Norman talk for a few minutes and she signs in as Marie Samuels, (her lover's name is Sam). Norman is immediately attracted to Janet Leigh and assigns her to cabin #1. He said it was closer in case she wanted anything. They both go into the cabin and he asks her to have a small supper with him and she agrees. He says he'll be back with his (trusty umbrella). Up at the house she hears his mother's scolding voice thru the motel room window. (Mother is played by Virginia Gregg.) He comes back and they decide to eat in the office parlor. The conversation runs thru all of our human emotions but there is a darkness coming on the scene that we all can feel. Norman uses the saying that "we all go a little mad sometimes" which is used in the following movies of Psycho. Meanwhile, the $40,000 sits on a lampstand in cabin #1. This conversation is one of the greatest in all of Hollywood movies. Marion is tired and decides to go to bed after a shower and therefor we come to the murder scene of which Janet Leigh is most famous for in 1960.
......con't
Monday, June 17, 2013
Serial Killers - Psycho I
The idea for Psycho came from a man named Ed Gein who lived in the outskirts of Plainfield , Wisconsin. He did in his neighbors, mother, so called friends and others. By the way, Ricardo Gomez brought this to my attention. Anthony Perkins chose the name Ed in Psycho IV.
It's a story about a man who runs a motel, (Bates Motel), in Fairvale , Ca. in the County of Kern. Probably in the Tulare region of Central Ca. Hitchcock chose Anthony Perkins to play Norman Bates, Janet Leigh to play Marion Crane, John Gavin to play Sam Loomis, (Marion's lover), Vera Miles to play Marion's sister Lila and others. Hitchcock's daughter also has a small part as an office worker at the start of the film. Her character's name is Pat.
The camera focuses closely on Marion in the beginning as we see that she has a love affair that's going nowhere and cannot marry because of financial reasons. In the real estate office where she works she suddenly sees a large amount of cash, ($40,000), which intices her to steal it and take it to her lover, Sam Loomis. The real estate office is in Phoenix, Arizona which is a long drive from Fairvale, Ca. Nevertheless, instead of banking the cash, (all 100 dollar bills), she takes it and starts a drive to Fairvale, Ca. in her 1956 Ford sedan. Halfway there she decides to switch cars and stops at a used car lot, (California Charlie's), and is shadowed by a trooper, (Mort Mills), who suggests that instead of pulling off the road and napping, there are plenty of "safe" motels in the area. The first dark joke of the film. At the car lot she buys a 1957 Ford sedan for $700 and her car and she takes off in a storm for Fairvale.
Notes:
1. Film time - 11/59 to 2/60
2. Cost $800,000
3. Profit to Hitchcock - $357,000,000.
4. Release to public - 6/60
to be cont.
It's a story about a man who runs a motel, (Bates Motel), in Fairvale , Ca. in the County of Kern. Probably in the Tulare region of Central Ca. Hitchcock chose Anthony Perkins to play Norman Bates, Janet Leigh to play Marion Crane, John Gavin to play Sam Loomis, (Marion's lover), Vera Miles to play Marion's sister Lila and others. Hitchcock's daughter also has a small part as an office worker at the start of the film. Her character's name is Pat.
The camera focuses closely on Marion in the beginning as we see that she has a love affair that's going nowhere and cannot marry because of financial reasons. In the real estate office where she works she suddenly sees a large amount of cash, ($40,000), which intices her to steal it and take it to her lover, Sam Loomis. The real estate office is in Phoenix, Arizona which is a long drive from Fairvale, Ca. Nevertheless, instead of banking the cash, (all 100 dollar bills), she takes it and starts a drive to Fairvale, Ca. in her 1956 Ford sedan. Halfway there she decides to switch cars and stops at a used car lot, (California Charlie's), and is shadowed by a trooper, (Mort Mills), who suggests that instead of pulling off the road and napping, there are plenty of "safe" motels in the area. The first dark joke of the film. At the car lot she buys a 1957 Ford sedan for $700 and her car and she takes off in a storm for Fairvale.
Notes:
1. Film time - 11/59 to 2/60
2. Cost $800,000
3. Profit to Hitchcock - $357,000,000.
4. Release to public - 6/60
to be cont.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
S. Morrill & Riverside Letters and PSYCHO.
Source: Zodiac Unmasked - R. Graysmith
1970: An examination of enclosures [case 36-F-586] A through E [three envelopes and letters, photographs of five names beginning with H, two letters addressed to an acquaintance of the suspect, seven pages exemplar writing and writing and material of the prime Riverside suspect] resulted in the following conclusions:
1. It was first determined that the handprinting of the envelopes and letters of enclosure A was by the same person who prepared the handprinting appearing on the desk, a photograph of which is enclosure B of this report.
2. A comparison of this material with the Zodiac letters revealed many characteristics which resulted in the conclusion that A and B were in fact prepared by the same person responsible for the Zodiac letters.
3. One thing was certain---the Riverside Police Dept.'s prime suspect's handprinting did not match the Riverside letters. Morrill ruled that Zodiac did write those letters.
Note:Since this blogsite has been a lengthy discussion of the Zodiac and his escapades in and around San Francisco I thought it might be interesting to discuss the movies of PSYCO by Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Many people have seen Psyco 1,2,3 and 4 but have not absorbed all that they have seen either on the screen or on DVD's. Co-buff Ricardo Gomez and I have discussed Hitchcock's most famous thriller and I thought I could discuss many of the fine points (of which there are many). This does not mean we'll stop talking about the Zodiac--No- No. I'll just blend the two topics together. There is just as much to talk about in Psycho as there is in the Zodiac and although Psycho is fiction it can open our minds to a different perspective. Excuse the misspelling of Psycho in capital letters above. By the way, the location of the Bates house and motel was "located" in the Tulare region of California. (middle California) In reality they were built in the back lot of Universal Studios and draw many visitors every year. Psycho 1,2,3 and 4 were made in 1960, 1983, 1986 and 1990 respectively.Blogs in the future should prove to be interesting. ............'til then---.
1970: An examination of enclosures [case 36-F-586] A through E [three envelopes and letters, photographs of five names beginning with H, two letters addressed to an acquaintance of the suspect, seven pages exemplar writing and writing and material of the prime Riverside suspect] resulted in the following conclusions:
1. It was first determined that the handprinting of the envelopes and letters of enclosure A was by the same person who prepared the handprinting appearing on the desk, a photograph of which is enclosure B of this report.
2. A comparison of this material with the Zodiac letters revealed many characteristics which resulted in the conclusion that A and B were in fact prepared by the same person responsible for the Zodiac letters.
3. One thing was certain---the Riverside Police Dept.'s prime suspect's handprinting did not match the Riverside letters. Morrill ruled that Zodiac did write those letters.
Note:Since this blogsite has been a lengthy discussion of the Zodiac and his escapades in and around San Francisco I thought it might be interesting to discuss the movies of PSYCO by Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Many people have seen Psyco 1,2,3 and 4 but have not absorbed all that they have seen either on the screen or on DVD's. Co-buff Ricardo Gomez and I have discussed Hitchcock's most famous thriller and I thought I could discuss many of the fine points (of which there are many). This does not mean we'll stop talking about the Zodiac--No- No. I'll just blend the two topics together. There is just as much to talk about in Psycho as there is in the Zodiac and although Psycho is fiction it can open our minds to a different perspective. Excuse the misspelling of Psycho in capital letters above. By the way, the location of the Bates house and motel was "located" in the Tulare region of California. (middle California) In reality they were built in the back lot of Universal Studios and draw many visitors every year. Psycho 1,2,3 and 4 were made in 1960, 1983, 1986 and 1990 respectively.Blogs in the future should prove to be interesting. ............'til then---.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Anagram? Robert Emmett The Hippie
Source: Zodiac Unmasked- Graysmith, R.
Much of what the Zodiac wrote was probably in code, that is things that didn't seem to make sense were probably translateable into other meanings - either people, places, or things. The Zodiac symbol is, for example a polar co-ordinate. Also the letters [BEORIETEMETHHPITI ] in August 1969 isn't a name but more important a location that locates the murderer's location. The letters are laid out in algebraic fashion on a graph with the graph laid out on a north-south to east-west grid on principle streets or landmarks in the San Francisco area, with random letters inserted as a filler to make the line come out even in respect to characters per line. In mathematical fashion, the accuracy of this graph could easily pinpoint the location to a specific location in a specific room in a specific building.
All characters are numbers and both co-ordinates are followed by numerals after the decimal point. This type of mathematical plotting is used in mechanical engineering and would be used by anyone familiar with science. Since the suspects had been sailors at one time, the characters could stand for degrees of latitude and longitude. This can be used after compensating for deviation and variation on a magnetic compass to pinpoint a location to within sixty feet, plus or minus. You could use an-aircraft map of the area of summer 1969 vintage to plot the isogonic lines properly, inasmuch as the location of the earth's magnetic pole does change slightly from year to year. Latitude and longitude are given as a series of numbers followed by a letter, in degrees minutes and seconds.
Personally it seems like a lot of work to ferret out all these letters so I'll stick to the 340 symbol cipher. However, if you notice, there seems to be a pattern of the Zodiac's misspellings and if one were to take the time one might find a message within a message in a lot of his writings.
By the way, what was the numerical address of that house on Jackson Street? ??12.?
Much of what the Zodiac wrote was probably in code, that is things that didn't seem to make sense were probably translateable into other meanings - either people, places, or things. The Zodiac symbol is, for example a polar co-ordinate. Also the letters [BEORIETEMETHHPITI ] in August 1969 isn't a name but more important a location that locates the murderer's location. The letters are laid out in algebraic fashion on a graph with the graph laid out on a north-south to east-west grid on principle streets or landmarks in the San Francisco area, with random letters inserted as a filler to make the line come out even in respect to characters per line. In mathematical fashion, the accuracy of this graph could easily pinpoint the location to a specific location in a specific room in a specific building.
All characters are numbers and both co-ordinates are followed by numerals after the decimal point. This type of mathematical plotting is used in mechanical engineering and would be used by anyone familiar with science. Since the suspects had been sailors at one time, the characters could stand for degrees of latitude and longitude. This can be used after compensating for deviation and variation on a magnetic compass to pinpoint a location to within sixty feet, plus or minus. You could use an-aircraft map of the area of summer 1969 vintage to plot the isogonic lines properly, inasmuch as the location of the earth's magnetic pole does change slightly from year to year. Latitude and longitude are given as a series of numbers followed by a letter, in degrees minutes and seconds.
Personally it seems like a lot of work to ferret out all these letters so I'll stick to the 340 symbol cipher. However, if you notice, there seems to be a pattern of the Zodiac's misspellings and if one were to take the time one might find a message within a message in a lot of his writings.
By the way, what was the numerical address of that house on Jackson Street? ??12.?
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Riverside College Library
Source: Graysmith's Zodiac Unmasked c. 2002
11-16-70 Sherwood Morrill found a match linking Zodiac's printing with three " BATES HAD TO DIE" letters and a wavering blockprinted poem discovered in the RiversideCollege Library. Zodiac had carved a ghastly verse into a plywood-board study desktop with a blue ballpoint pen. The poem was probably written as early as January 1967, when the desk was stored in an unused college basement. "Sick of Living......" it began. Beneath the gory poem were the incised lower-case initials "R H." Morrill checked over six thousand handwriting samples searching for a killer with those initials. " Most of those exemplars came from the Riverside College and military installations," he told me. They were all on microfilm, blown up, and I had a magnifier that I just slipped them under one after another. Now this is the weak link in the case---- some of those registration certificates were typed." Captain Cross was encouraged. "Well, it looks like we're in business," he said. The hunt for Zodiac was statewide.
It should be noted that Darlene Ferrin, while parked with Mike Mageau at Blue Rock Springs, mentioned the name Richard as to the car that pulled up behind them. The date of that was July 4, 1969. Darlene was killed but Mike Mageau survived.
11-16-70 Sherwood Morrill found a match linking Zodiac's printing with three " BATES HAD TO DIE" letters and a wavering blockprinted poem discovered in the RiversideCollege Library. Zodiac had carved a ghastly verse into a plywood-board study desktop with a blue ballpoint pen. The poem was probably written as early as January 1967, when the desk was stored in an unused college basement. "Sick of Living......" it began. Beneath the gory poem were the incised lower-case initials "R H." Morrill checked over six thousand handwriting samples searching for a killer with those initials. " Most of those exemplars came from the Riverside College and military installations," he told me. They were all on microfilm, blown up, and I had a magnifier that I just slipped them under one after another. Now this is the weak link in the case---- some of those registration certificates were typed." Captain Cross was encouraged. "Well, it looks like we're in business," he said. The hunt for Zodiac was statewide.
It should be noted that Darlene Ferrin, while parked with Mike Mageau at Blue Rock Springs, mentioned the name Richard as to the car that pulled up behind them. The date of that was July 4, 1969. Darlene was killed but Mike Mageau survived.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Anonymous Letter - 1970
Source: Zodiac Unmasked-Graysmith
The S. F. Chronicle had a letter arrive in 1970 with no signature. It read as follows"
" It is my personal opinion Zodiac has spent time in some type of institution -- either prison or mental hospital.....Zodiac would not be married. He is unable to function with a woman, either sexually or emotionally... The hunt for the zodiac killer has been a tragic comedy of errors... I know this: every act of horror such as mass killers beginning their ugly business has a starting point which is ignited by what I choose to call a trigger. The beast within them lies quietly most of the time, but then something triggers it or sets it off. In the case of Zodiac I speculate it was due to two things: an episode in his life at the time of the first killing, traumatic to the person known as Zodiac, but not necessarily to anyone else. He seems to have a real hatred for police and enjoys needling them in theirfailure to catch him. Possibly an encounter with police at that particular time. I don't personally believe he does his killing according to some astrological timetable. I think he kills on holidays and week-ends simply because he doesn't work then. I suggest in all probability he has a job which is a forty hour work week and five consecutive days....I shall remain anonymous. I hope you will not stop in your efrforts to find this fiend. I wish you good health and good hunting. [signed] Armchair."
It's interesting that the last sentences sound like Paul Avery and the Zodiac himself.
The Zodiac must be a very lonely person. It sounds like he has very few or no friends. Friends are hard to come by and we should cultivate all we can much less risk losing those we do have.
Until tomorrow-------D. Lathers
The S. F. Chronicle had a letter arrive in 1970 with no signature. It read as follows"
" It is my personal opinion Zodiac has spent time in some type of institution -- either prison or mental hospital.....Zodiac would not be married. He is unable to function with a woman, either sexually or emotionally... The hunt for the zodiac killer has been a tragic comedy of errors... I know this: every act of horror such as mass killers beginning their ugly business has a starting point which is ignited by what I choose to call a trigger. The beast within them lies quietly most of the time, but then something triggers it or sets it off. In the case of Zodiac I speculate it was due to two things: an episode in his life at the time of the first killing, traumatic to the person known as Zodiac, but not necessarily to anyone else. He seems to have a real hatred for police and enjoys needling them in theirfailure to catch him. Possibly an encounter with police at that particular time. I don't personally believe he does his killing according to some astrological timetable. I think he kills on holidays and week-ends simply because he doesn't work then. I suggest in all probability he has a job which is a forty hour work week and five consecutive days....I shall remain anonymous. I hope you will not stop in your efrforts to find this fiend. I wish you good health and good hunting. [signed] Armchair."
It's interesting that the last sentences sound like Paul Avery and the Zodiac himself.
The Zodiac must be a very lonely person. It sounds like he has very few or no friends. Friends are hard to come by and we should cultivate all we can much less risk losing those we do have.
Until tomorrow-------D. Lathers
Monday, June 3, 2013
Arthur Leigh Allen & Ricardo Gomez's Web Site and John Linn's Paperwork
Source: Zodiac Unmasked
Leigh Allen had to pass psychiatric tests while he was at Atascadero. He would show no emotion and act like he was drugged. One of the tests was called TAT , (Thermatic Apperception Test.) He was asked to make up stories based on simple line drawings portraying people in various situations. This would reveal aspects of his subconscious feelings and personality. It showed a violent fantasy life. A highly emotional individual unable to establish normal social contact.
They decided to give him a lie-detector test. These are not too accurate and they hand back a false positive about fifteen percent of the time. These measure pulse, blood pressure, and breathing and can be tricked or altered by those who are good at not telling the truth. Allen was good at this. One time he seemed to break down crying when interviewed but when he brought his head up he had no tears on his face. His eyes were dry.
Note:
I want to mention the web site of the second man who called me around 12-21-12 on my ad in the S. F. Chronicle. Rocardo Gomez has about the most elaborate site I've ever seen. Naturally, it's about the Zodiac. It's very eye catching and has a colorful crawl moving from right to left on the screen. The site is mk-zodiac.com. Once you get into it you then understand what the mk stands for.
Ricardo and I, along with John Linn from San Bruno, Ca., have contact on the phone on a regular basis. It took a lot of work, on the part of Ricardo, to fill this site. The same goes for John Linn. He has written dozens and dozens of papers on the Zodiac killings.
Ricardo and I have a similar interest in the psychological profiles of serial killers. I have, and Ricardo recently purchased, all four PSYCHO movies on DVD's. He had #1 (1960), and purchased #'s 2 (1983), 3(1986), and 4(1990). There is a lot of material in these movies and you pick up some-thing new every time you watch them.
Leigh Allen had to pass psychiatric tests while he was at Atascadero. He would show no emotion and act like he was drugged. One of the tests was called TAT , (Thermatic Apperception Test.) He was asked to make up stories based on simple line drawings portraying people in various situations. This would reveal aspects of his subconscious feelings and personality. It showed a violent fantasy life. A highly emotional individual unable to establish normal social contact.
They decided to give him a lie-detector test. These are not too accurate and they hand back a false positive about fifteen percent of the time. These measure pulse, blood pressure, and breathing and can be tricked or altered by those who are good at not telling the truth. Allen was good at this. One time he seemed to break down crying when interviewed but when he brought his head up he had no tears on his face. His eyes were dry.
Note:
I want to mention the web site of the second man who called me around 12-21-12 on my ad in the S. F. Chronicle. Rocardo Gomez has about the most elaborate site I've ever seen. Naturally, it's about the Zodiac. It's very eye catching and has a colorful crawl moving from right to left on the screen. The site is mk-zodiac.com. Once you get into it you then understand what the mk stands for.
Ricardo and I, along with John Linn from San Bruno, Ca., have contact on the phone on a regular basis. It took a lot of work, on the part of Ricardo, to fill this site. The same goes for John Linn. He has written dozens and dozens of papers on the Zodiac killings.
Ricardo and I have a similar interest in the psychological profiles of serial killers. I have, and Ricardo recently purchased, all four PSYCHO movies on DVD's. He had #1 (1960), and purchased #'s 2 (1983), 3(1986), and 4(1990). There is a lot of material in these movies and you pick up some-thing new every time you watch them.
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