The Victims at Blue Rock Springs and Lake Berryessa

The following is a exerpt from Graysmith's book copyright 1996, 2007. There was a confidential report from Mike Mageau in the hospital slightly different than one given before. Sue Ayers, a legal secretary said she had talked to Mike in the hospital after being shot and said that Darlene and another man had an argument while he was in Darlene's car at Terry,s  restaurant the night of the shooting and when they drove away the other man followed them to Blue Rock Springs where they continued to argue. Mike said they were shot by that man and that they were followed from the time that they left Mike's house. Darlene's sister Pam was told by Mike at the hospital that the guy came rightup and shot them. Mike also said that he called Darlene "Dee". She was known to her best friends as "Dee". It should be known that Mike had a tendency to change his story about the shooting more than once. When they went through Darlene,s papers after her death they found several letters from Mike Mageau who liked to pretend to be different people. These were signed with three different names. This was commonplace for Mike to do.

At Lake Berryessa when the Zodiac was sneaking up on Brian Hartnell and Cecelia Ann Shepard he went behind a tree and pulled on a dickey which covered his face and upper body before he got too close to the victims to be. My question is if he was going to kill these two why did he want to cover his face? ----They wouldn't be alive to identify him! I have a feeling that the Zodiac killer had been following them for a long time before he killed them.

Arthur Leigh Allen & Ralph Spinelli

Leigh Allen was the major Zodiac suspect for a long long time. Ralph Spinelli was a restaurant and saloon owner in Northern California, also with one in Alaska. Ralph, with his salesman type command of the english language, was very likeable---I enjoyed listening to him speak. The saloon in Fairfield California was as he said a "gold mine". These two men had a slight altercation back in 1958 but Ralph had forgotten all about it. One night the door man told Ralph a man wanted to speak to him outside but didn't say why. Ralph went outside and Leigh reintroduced himself. Ralph didn't remember but Leigh reminded him of the 1958 incident. Incidentally the name of the saloon was the "Crazy Horse Saloon". Leigh said he could provide a service for Ralph and his friends up to and in-cluding killing someone. Ralph said "you must be absolutely crazy". Later Paul Stine was killed in San Francisco and Leigh went back to Spinelli and said "there, I told you so". Ralph said " I believe you now and now you had better get away from me". They never talked again. This story came from Graysmith's book "Zodiac". D Lathers

Visiting

It would be interesting to visit mk-zodiac.com

Darlene Ferrin's Time Schedule

There seems to be a discrepancy in time between the time she left her new home and the time she was killed. The police said she had to be home at eleven but the babysitters said she didn't  leave the house until almost midnight. That allows only five minutes to pick up Mike, visit Mr. Ed's, also someplace called Pauls and drive all the way out to Blue Rock Springs. Even if she were chased all the way out there it is impossible to do it in that little amount of time -- to say nothing of being shot and killed at the Springs. There are so many men mentioned in Graysmith's book as to whom the chaser is it's impossible to single out any one person. She had just too many male friends.

A good way to catch a criminal is one that has been used for many years using the telephone. Every man has to have a woman that he can trust or confide in. This goes for all men. The powers that be simply tap the phone of the man they want to catch and gather enough information to nail him and then arrest him. However this requires some legal work in preparation. - D.Lathers

Itshould be noted that Salinas and Benjamin were misspelled in the previous paragraphs.

There seems to be a tendency to match the subject with the evidence instead of the reverse. This is the wrong way to solve a case especially one like the Zodiac case. You will find all kinds of weird combinations that appear to be right but all are not right. This type of thinking leads you into circular patterns of thinking which eventually lead you to the wrong person or persons. You must take the evidence and  set aside the person or people you like until you have assimilated all the evidence and then try to make a match with the best subject. If you don't you will have an almost impossible job of getting rid of subjects that you don't  want because your mind keeps slipping back into old patterns of thinking. I think this is what happened in the case of Arthur Leigh Allen. Also he didn't help things any because he kept taking responsibility for crimes he probably didn't commit. Of course there is the theory that he might not have known he was the Zodiac if in fact he really was.