Found Suspected Code in Kazcynski's Freedom Club Writings

[Jelberg]

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[TheMist]

Can you describe the pattern in greater detail? I don't quite understand.

[Jelberg]

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[RTF]

Hi Jel. I don't see what you describe. My scrolling goes fast.

I think because the text is left-justified it creates a perception problem for our vision i.e. the text on the left appears to go by faster (and appear like numbers or binary sequences), and the text to the right, which ends each line in different places appears to go slower (because it is not so consistently filled with characters).

The other explanation is, you've spent all day and night looking at a computer screen - which can induce similar effects that schizophrenics experience e.g. the world seeming to tilt, etc .

If you see a giant hand reaching down from the sky for you, please seek medical assistance.

[Jelberg]

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[TheMist]

How did you decide how to divide up the lines?

[AK Wilks]

I think that in this particular case, it is just random noise and random patterns. This was a communication Ted gave to Live Wild or Die, a primitivist anarchist and radical environmental magazine, which he was sympathetic to and they were sympathetic to the cause of the Unabomber.

He was giving them instructions on how to communicate with him that would avoid detection by the FBI. I don't think he would have the need to put it in any cryptic clues or unusual patterns. He just wanted to communicate to them this method of how they could communicate in the personal columns and so forth.

Also this only shows up on a computer. Ted hated computers so much he never used one in his life, so he could not have intentionally created this pattern.

I think it is interesting that for one of the communications he asked to be placed in the personals columns, he put it into an astrological context, which is to say in a signs of the zodiac context. That I do find interesting for the obvious parallel to the Zodiac Killer case. I ran across this LWOD personal ad communication method before, but had somewhat forgotten about it.

It is also very interesting in relation to murders that occurred in northern Michigan on June 25th, 1968. In that fascinating case, a male-female couple was killed, Mr. and Mrs. Robison, along with their children. The killer requested that an ad be placed in the personals in order to communicate with him, just likeTed asked LWOD to do here. I happened to be taking a fresh look at this case.

And this killer of June 25th, 1968, in Michigan, who asked that the ad be placed in the personals, called himself Zodius. Six months before the first Zodiac crime. The original word for a person who was an expert in astrology and reading the signs of the zodiac (and sometimes also numbers and mathematics IIRC) was ZODIACUS. From this the English language devised the words ZODIAC and ZODIUS.

There were other interesting parallels in the two cases, for example in both cases the killer made phone calls and spoke in a disguised, monotone robotic voice. Both killers used a .22 caliber pistol with six right hand twist lands and grooves with police in both cases saying that a Sears brand JC Higgins was the most likely model used.

Both killers also used the same ammunition, .22 caliber Winchester Super X ammo. And both killers sent codes or messages with the letters ROEBERT, and both sent codes or messages that emphasized the three-letter string EBE.

[Jelberg]

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[Claypooles]

Was it typed on a computer software?

[doranchak]

I don't know, I may be wrong, but really... Who types like this???

That's called "full justification". The extra spaces are added automatically so the right edge is perfectly straight instead of ragged.