Zodiac

         Last night in a conversation with a friend I mentioned that there is a possibility that there is no real person called the Zodiac and that there is a person or persons taking credit for random murders as they occur. This could be true but with so many young attractive girls being murdered it doesn't seem likely.

         Coming up this Friday there is a radio program on WGY in Schenectady at eleven o'clock P.M. where they might be discussing past murders and the Zodiac topic might be mentioned. WGY is at 810 on the A M dial. If they do mention the Zodiac it thought I might have the availability of calling in the station if calls are accepted.

         I might have mentioned this before but Arthur Leigh Allen told Ralph Spinelli at his bar, the Crazy Horse Saloon, that he could perform a service for him such as getting rid of unwanted characters. He said he could do this because he said he was Zodiac. It's interesting in the way he put it. He didn't say he was THE Zodiac but that he was Zodiac. It almost seems to hint that he might be affiliated with another person who was the real Zodiac and that he was just an affiliate. Sorting out the truth in his case seems to be a little difficult. Remember, Don Cheney and Arthur Leigh Allen were "friends" at one time.

         There is something else I noticed. Sometimes when I read the Zodiac's messages I seem to sense a variance in continuity of his sentences. It almost seems that more than one person is writing the messages. The variance in continuity is from one message to another. There is a distinct possibility that more than one person is writing these notes. Some sentences have misspelled words in them while others don't. Also in the early messages a lot of feeling was entered about slaves in his after life while these "slaves" seemed to have dropped away in later paragraphs. You have to get the psychological "feeling" of these readings and then you can begin to tell and also feel the comparison. I guess some people would attribute this to being psychic but the feeling when reading the Zodiac's notes is impossible to avoid. Everyone who reads the Zodiac's writings gets something different and
that's what makes the enigma so fascinating.


         Until next time I am Daryll Lathers - 518 773 3263

Zodiac

         It should be noted that in the Zodiac's ciphers all his letters and symbols are very even latitude wise but not so much longitudinally. It's almost as if he used a straight edge as he wrote them. We should also pay attention to what he doesn't mention along with what he does mention. He starts out in the 11/8/69 cipher with Herb Caen and finishes with detective Dave Toschi. That means those names were foremost in his mind and in that order. I don't think he ever mentions Robert Graysmith in his writings along with many of the law enforcement officers who were at the scene of the crimes after they were enacted.

         It's almost a certainty that Donald F. and Eric Z. spoke to the Zodiac at the scene of the Paul Stein murder. It's too bad that Donald can't offer more as to what the Zodiac seemed like, personality wise, from his encounter near the murder site. That was an opportunity missed.

         Here's something to think about! As the Zodiac wrote the 340 symbol cipher, when he had a change of thought, he changed from letters to symbols. This happens throughout the whole cryptogram. In other words he left a "mental fingerprint" as he wrote. Numerology also plays a part in the cipher and is used throughout the paragraph. Seven girls and seven girls murdered in S. F. , etc.  The way he thinks or thought is something he cannot hide from the public because it is an integral part of his psychological makeup. I find the expression titwillow, titwillow, titwillow very interesting. I'll have to look this up because it sounds like it might be connected to an old English or possibly Irish limerick or poem. Therein might be a good lead as to whom the Zodiac is or was.

         In the meantime I'll keep brousing through Graysmith's paperback and wait for something new to pop into my head. Those who saw him said he was big and overweight and this might tend to make him lethargic and lazy and less likely to plant a bomb at Mt. Diablo or do anything which requires much physical labor. The one thing that we might have overlooked is the fact that he might have been caught on videotape buying some of the equipment that he needed for one of his elaborate set-ups.

         Till next time...............

Zodiac & Related Stories

          Note: As I related to Ricardo Gomez I haven't been using the computer recently because I've been too busy with other business, mainly the restoration of my '95 Ford pickup and the painting of same. An expensive deal to say the least. Anyway, a man should have a hobby or two. Just to mention, the paint,(lacquer), costs about $275 a quart, not to mention the labor.

          As for the zodiac. I am almost convinced that there might be a hidden sentence within a sentence in his big cipher of  November 8th, 1969. I've tried looking for a connection when he switches from letters to symbols and have almost come up with new meanings but to no avail. It seems he has some sort of message within a message - you can almost sense it as you are translating the cipher. Almost like he's hitting one note "too heavy." It's like having a sixth sense that tells you this.

          Now no one would be better at this than a newspaper columnist like Herb Caen. That is almost a giveaway in the small sentence that Graysmith puts in his paperback novel - 2nd edition. In fact it seems almost too easy to solve. As Graysmith says, "The zodiac would hardly come right out and practically give you his name." Maybe so and maybe not. Edgar Allen Poe said in the early 1800's' "Any cipher made by man could be solved by man." Using logic, the Zodiac wouldn't  make his ciphers too hard because that would discourage sleuths and he wouldn't be as famous as he wanted to be. We are dealing with a crazed man with a huge ego here.

          There is always the possibility that the letters he's using are just one or two away from the actual letter that he wants. That's either one or two forward or backward. That's one way to look at it. Another way might be if the letter is put down in reverse he might mean the letter before that letter. There are so many possibilities that it could make you half crazy before you came up with any solution.

          If Herb Caen were the Zodiac it would be very easy to write letters to yourself and very few would suspect that he was the killer. It is like hiding in plain sight.

          Till next time.........

Silence of the Lambs

         After the West Virginia caper Clarice Starling continues to work on the Buffalo Bill case and Lecter wants a transfer to get away from Dr. Chilton who he considers his enemy instead of his jail keeper. The Lake Oneida offer was found out to be a fake dreamed up by Jack Crawford.

         In the meantime Buffalo Bill has kidnapped another girl, a Senators daughter, and is keeping her in a pit in his house until she drops enough weight so he can use her skin for the human cover that he's making.

        Hannibal Lecter has been transferred to Memphis, Tennessee and is visited again by Clarice Starling. This is the session where Clarice becomes more familiar with him and tells him about her young life living on a sheep ranch in Montana. She tells him how she was awakened one night by the screaming of the spring lambs as they were being slaughtered. She tried to save one but he was too heavy and she was caught and sent to an orphanage in Bozeman.

        It was either in this session or the next that Hannibal tells her how to catch Buffalo Bill. I mentioned this earlier in the blog on how to catch the Zodiac. Hopkins mentions the Roman orator Marcus A. of the Roman Senate. You first have to understand the M. O. of Buffalo Bill. Simplicity--- What does he do? Buffalo Bill COVETS! What does he covet! He covets what he sees every day. All of these girls he sees every day or most every day. That is the secret of catching him. It must be that in ancient Rome they must have been bothered by serial killers or those of a similar nature.

        Clarice Starling goes to the home of one of the last victims and by trial and error happens upon the home of Jamie Gumm, (Buffalo Bill). She arrests him and in the process he turns off the power in the house. She hears a click, a pistol being cocked, and shoots and kills him.

        In the meantime Lecter escapes and takes a plane for Argentina and that's the end of the story.

        Next time I'll mention more about the Zodiac and possible tips within his paragraphs.