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
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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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