My Zodiac Story
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:06 pmMy Zodiac Related Story
Growing up in Napa in the late 70's and 80's I was very much aware of "The Zodiac."
We spent time at Berryessa swimming, flying kites and having picnics.
I read one of the "Z" books sometime in the 80's.I was intrigued by the 340 Cipher-even then.I remember thinking that would be great to solve.Side to side I would twist it and turning it up and down and all around-thinking there just might be an easy solution.
As the fascination of the code faded away along came a great fear of "The Zodiac."
I always told myself, he would be long gone by now, I should not be so afraid but I always had this image in my head he could get me.That fear did not leave me.
In the 90's I met a young man and we were dating and happy.One evening we were leaving Napa to head back to Travis AFB.He said he wanted to drive the back way and stop at Lake Berryessa.Of course I said no-it was late and very dark.He was so determined he kept pressuring me to go.I said, hell no, you did not grow up here, I did and I am not going to the lake to get killed by the "TheZodiac Killer."
He kept persisting even as we were now driving home in the direction I wanted to go.He pulled into a parking lot and
tried again insisting we go to the lake.By this time he was angry and frustrated and I was determined to stand my ground.At this point we were not the happy couple and we both were fighting and very upset.He reached into his pocket and threw a box at me angrily and said he had wanted to go up to the lake to propose to me. Needless to say one should not use the Zodiac to set the tone for a marriage proposel.
Growing up in Napa in the late 70's and 80's I was very much aware of "The Zodiac."
We spent time at Berryessa swimming, flying kites and having picnics.
I read one of the "Z" books sometime in the 80's.I was intrigued by the 340 Cipher-even then.I remember thinking that would be great to solve.Side to side I would twist it and turning it up and down and all around-thinking there just might be an easy solution.
As the fascination of the code faded away along came a great fear of "The Zodiac."
I always told myself, he would be long gone by now, I should not be so afraid but I always had this image in my head he could get me.That fear did not leave me.
In the 90's I met a young man and we were dating and happy.One evening we were leaving Napa to head back to Travis AFB.He said he wanted to drive the back way and stop at Lake Berryessa.Of course I said no-it was late and very dark.He was so determined he kept pressuring me to go.I said, hell no, you did not grow up here, I did and I am not going to the lake to get killed by the "TheZodiac Killer."
He kept persisting even as we were now driving home in the direction I wanted to go.He pulled into a parking lot and
tried again insisting we go to the lake.By this time he was angry and frustrated and I was determined to stand my ground.At this point we were not the happy couple and we both were fighting and very upset.He reached into his pocket and threw a box at me angrily and said he had wanted to go up to the lake to propose to me. Needless to say one should not use the Zodiac to set the tone for a marriage proposel.
