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
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
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...............
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...............
Friday, October 11, 2013
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.........
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.........
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
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.
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.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Silence of the Lambs
After an encounter with Hannibal Lecter at his cell, Clarice Starling takes a hint from him and goes to a place called "Your-Self" storage facility and searches one of the storage places. It happens to be the one designated for Benjamin Raspail, a former patient of Hannibal Lecter. It was prepaid for ten years and after searching, Clarice finds the patient's head, decapitated, in a large glass jar with makeup on it. She then goes back to Lecter's cell and proceeds to ask him who killed him. Lecter says, "Who can say," but in reality it was Lecter himself who did it and served his organs, (sweetbreads), to the symphony board - running true to form to his cannibalistic nature. As their conversation carries on we see a relationship beginning to develop between Clarice and Hannibal.
As the movie progresses, more bodies turn up due to the pathology of the killer known as "Buffalo Bill." Clarice has to go down to West Virginia where a body has turned up in Elk River with pieces of skin missing. Jack Crawford goes with her and the girls body is examined by Clarice as part of her training. After much work it is noticed that a pupa or pod is found inserted in the mouth of the girl. Clarice takes this back to Lecter and he says that this is a symbol of change which is exactly what Buffalo Bill is trying to do - change from man to woman.
By the way we should note that Buffalo Bill's real name is Jamie Gumm. Also all of the victims have had an Asian pupa inserted in their mouths. Buffalo Bill had probably applied for a sex change in the three hospitals that do this type of thing. Johns Hopkins, University of Minnesota and Columbus Medical Center. This type of personality has a pathology much more savage than what meets the eye.
As the movie progresses, more bodies turn up due to the pathology of the killer known as "Buffalo Bill." Clarice has to go down to West Virginia where a body has turned up in Elk River with pieces of skin missing. Jack Crawford goes with her and the girls body is examined by Clarice as part of her training. After much work it is noticed that a pupa or pod is found inserted in the mouth of the girl. Clarice takes this back to Lecter and he says that this is a symbol of change which is exactly what Buffalo Bill is trying to do - change from man to woman.
By the way we should note that Buffalo Bill's real name is Jamie Gumm. Also all of the victims have had an Asian pupa inserted in their mouths. Buffalo Bill had probably applied for a sex change in the three hospitals that do this type of thing. Johns Hopkins, University of Minnesota and Columbus Medical Center. This type of personality has a pathology much more savage than what meets the eye.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Silence of the Lambs - Zodiac
Before we get any further into Silence of the Lambs I should mention that we're getting close to one of the murder dates of the Zodiac. One should be very careful when sleuthing around these sites because we can't be sure that the Zodiac might be alive and well and lurking around these places. One must remember that one of these murders occurred in daylight and that tends to lessen the fear. I myself don't own a gun but I would feel safer if I had one and had it on me when walking at these locations.
Also I feel I should thank Doctor "G" in Vallejo for this blog site and Noreen B. for the interview some months ago over the air.
Back to the Lambs. Hannibal Lecter was being interviewed by Clarice Starling and seemed to take a liking to her in doing so. He was more interested in her past history especially that of her late father. She offered him a fake offering to go to Lake Oneida which rang a bell with me because this lake is about 100 miles west of where I live and just about in the center of Upstate New York.
Also I feel I should thank Doctor "G" in Vallejo for this blog site and Noreen B. for the interview some months ago over the air.
Back to the Lambs. Hannibal Lecter was being interviewed by Clarice Starling and seemed to take a liking to her in doing so. He was more interested in her past history especially that of her late father. She offered him a fake offering to go to Lake Oneida which rang a bell with me because this lake is about 100 miles west of where I live and just about in the center of Upstate New York.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Zodiac & Silence of the Lambs
Two websites should be mentioned as a reminder pertaining to the Zodiac case and related subjects:
1. mk-zodiac.com
2. zodiaccodesolved.blogspot.com
3. Number one is for Ricardo Gomez and number two is for Daryll Lathers
It should be mentioned that Psycho, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal can be compared to Zodiac in that the motivation for killing is quite similar. As I start with The Silence of the Lambs I'll try to interweave parts of it with the Zodiac. In the last story, Red Dragon, as Francis Dolarhyde was killing his victims not only was he becoming more and more psychotic and powerful like the Red Dragon but every time he was killing his grandmother in a symbolic way. He had a lot of strikes against him, especially his face and the way he looked.
Silence of the Lambs - 1991
The following note is taken from the MGM Hannibal Lecter Two - Pack.
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deliver sensational, Oscar winning performances in this powerful "stunning" (Los Angeles Times) and "spellbinding" (The Hollywood Reporter) five time Academy Award Winner, when FBI agent Clarice Starling (Foster) is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her demons. and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it!
The serial killer, played by Ted Levine, is so convincing that he has you on the edge of your seat especially as the movie draws to the shocking finish.
As the movie starts Clarice Starling is in FBI training when her boss, Jack Crawford, takes her off an obstacle course and tells her that she is to interview Hannibal Lecter pertaining to a murder case involving a killer only known as "Buffalo Bill."
1. mk-zodiac.com
2. zodiaccodesolved.blogspot.com
3. Number one is for Ricardo Gomez and number two is for Daryll Lathers
It should be mentioned that Psycho, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal can be compared to Zodiac in that the motivation for killing is quite similar. As I start with The Silence of the Lambs I'll try to interweave parts of it with the Zodiac. In the last story, Red Dragon, as Francis Dolarhyde was killing his victims not only was he becoming more and more psychotic and powerful like the Red Dragon but every time he was killing his grandmother in a symbolic way. He had a lot of strikes against him, especially his face and the way he looked.
Silence of the Lambs - 1991
The following note is taken from the MGM Hannibal Lecter Two - Pack.
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deliver sensational, Oscar winning performances in this powerful "stunning" (Los Angeles Times) and "spellbinding" (The Hollywood Reporter) five time Academy Award Winner, when FBI agent Clarice Starling (Foster) is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her demons. and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it!
The serial killer, played by Ted Levine, is so convincing that he has you on the edge of your seat especially as the movie draws to the shocking finish.
As the movie starts Clarice Starling is in FBI training when her boss, Jack Crawford, takes her off an obstacle course and tells her that she is to interview Hannibal Lecter pertaining to a murder case involving a killer only known as "Buffalo Bill."
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