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EndOfTheWorld wrote:I read somewhere that the relevant years of his journal---that is, the Zodiac active years---were either not released or not found. Is this true?

AK Wilks wrote:

And IMO none of the named major suspects have the demonstrated interest, knowledge and skills to create the Zodiac 340 except Kaczynski and Penn. And when you add the further criteria of looking like the sketch and a proven desire and ability to make bombs and kill strangers in furtherance of a personal cause or need, you are left only with Kaczynski.

That might be the case, but unless we assume that Z lies hidden somewhere among the high profile suspects (as treated by us, mainly, the Zodiac buffs and amateurs), that doesn't mean very much. Personally I think there's a decent chance that Z is a known suspect, but in the sense that he may be among the hundreds (or thousands) of people who were considered interesting enough to interview and investigate during the course of the case. I'm willing to bet a substantial amount that there are multiple people in that category who possessed the necessary skill to create the 340.

Plus: The sketch is debatable. Many would claim Ted doesn't resemble it, others would say other candidates are better matches - others again would say the sketch is largely pointless other than indicating nigh-generic traits.

And: It's debatable whether Z had either a proven desire or an actual ability to make bombs. To kill strangers in furtherance of a personal cause or need? Absolutely - no argument there. But a desire to make bombs is debatable. I think he had a desire to scare people - and cause panic. Which he did, without ever having to worry about actually constructing a functional bomb (and according to several people who know far more than me about explosives, he didn't either).

The JK FRY overlay theory is interesting. And at a quick glance a few things do seem to match up in an odd way. But I have never been much interested in those types of theories because I never see anything convincing me that Z gave clues that this is what we are supposed to do and if you overlay any map, drawing and words, by chance and the pattern seeking human mind, some interesting formations will seem to happen.

Agreed - 100%. It's the basic problem with all theories of this sort: They presuppose that the theorist has managed to guess what Z's true intention was. Step 1: Come up with an intention (usually that Z wanted us to discover his name in various hidden shapes and forms throughout the evidence - and frequently far beyond the evidence too). Step 2: Come up with a specific method he used to encrypt his communications, one which doesn't follow logically from any known evidence, but one the theorist has divined is the correct one. 3: Go look for confirmation of 1 and 2 in anything remotely related to the Z case. 4: Claim that it can't possibly be a coincidence that you have extracted "daddy was da zod" from the material.