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.........