Spiderhawk wrote:ted couldn't have been the zodiac. totally different kind of serial killer. Z is a thrill killer with hatred of women and couples and likes to get up close and personal. Ted is a mission oriented serial killer who kills from afar with bombs and whos victims are totally different.
all the circumstantial evidence and apparent similarities is superfluous.
different victimology
different motivation
different weapon
different serial killer type
totally different animal.
What you stated is the common perception of Ted K, and I would say the common misperception of Ted K. Here are the documented facts. Keep in mind that three of the four confirmed Zodiac attacks are on male - female
couples. Two of these attacks are in known "lovers lanes", isolated spots where
couples would park for sex, and one was on a couple on a blanket by a lake.
In the late summer of 1966, most likely late August/early September 1966, in his journal Ted Kaczynski records a break through moment in his life. He is a genius, yet socially alienated and isolated. A graduate student at the University of Michigan, his room is next to rooms occupied by the players on the U of M hockey team. He describes hearing loud parties with a lot of drinking and yelling. Ted has a lifelong over sensitivity to loud noises. He also describes frequently hearing the sound of
couples having sex in the apartment next door to his, and he reports being driven "mad" by these sounds and says it fills him with frustration and anger. Out of despair and self described "acute sexual starvation", he records in his journal that instead of killing himself he will
"really kill everyone I hate." The people he says he hates and wants to kill are many, but they include two distinct groups. One group is what he calls "bigshots" or "government officials", and these include "scientists", "big businessmen", "politicians" and "police".
The other group of people he hated and wanted to kill included love making "couples", "rowdy college students" and those college men and especially women he deems "promiscuous", who are nothing but "animals" and "pigs". Look at the government psychiatric report on Kaczynski done after he was arrested for the Unabomber crimes:
In the summer after his fourth year [of graduate school, the summer of 1966], he describes experiencing a period of several weeks where
he was sexually excited nearly all the time and was fantasizing himself as a woman and being unable to obtain any sexual relief. He decided to make an effort to have a sex change operation. When he returned to the University of Michigan [most likely in late August or early September 1966] he made an appointment to see a psychiatrist to be examined to determine if the sex change would be good for him. He claimed that by putting on an act he could con the psychiatrist into thinking him suitable for a feminine role even though his motive was exclusively erotic. As he was sitting in the waiting room, he turned completely against the idea of the operation and thus, when he saw the doctor, instead claimed he was depressed about the possibility of being drafted. He describes the following:
"As I walked away from the building afterwards, I felt disgusted about what my uncontrolled sexual cravings had almost led me to do and I felt humiliated, and I violently hated the psychiatrist. Just then there came a major turning point in my life. Like a Phoenix, I burst from the ashes of my despair to a glorious new hope. I thought I wanted to kill that psychiatrist because the future looked utterly empty to me. I felt I wouldn't care if I died. And so I said to myself why not really kill the psychiatrist and anyone else whom I hate. What is important is not the words that ran through my mind but the way I felt about them. What was entirely new was the fact that I really felt I could kill someone. My very hopelessness had liberated me because I no longer cared about death. I no longer cared about consequences and I said to myself that I really could break out of my rut in life an do things that were daring, irresponsible or criminal." [Psych Report] {Emphasis added}
That happened sometime in the summer of 1966, most likely in late August/early September 1966. About two and a half weeks later, minutes away from the area of the Kaczynski family home, the suburban Chicago mansion of high tech business CEO and politician Charles Percy is invaded and his college student daughter Valerie is killed by a brutal hammer and knife attack. Hours away in Suburban Cincinnati, on September 27, 1966, Monsanto chemical engineer Gerry Bricca, his wife and daughter are bound and killed in a knife attack. Based on information I provided them, the Zodiac and Ted Kaczynski are Persons of Interest in the unsolved crime, and the police officially announced that the Zodiac Killer was a suspect in a press release they issued.
On October 30, 1966, when evidence shows Ted Kaczynski is in California for a job interview, the first probable Zodiac crime, the knife murder of college student Cheri Jo Bates occurs outside of a college library, within one day of a major fall holiday. By virtue of a witness picking him out of a photo lineup, Ted Kaczynski is placed at the scene of a college library knife murder that occurred within one day of a major fall holiday in November 1969.
His first confirmed Unabomber crime was in 1978, when he was 36 years old. Yet we know from research that the most active and violent period for the majority of serial killers is from their late teens to late twenties. And we see that Kaczynski reports the motivation, desire and ability to kill at least as early as the late summer of 1966, when he was 24 years old.
In 1971, Ted records that he has already "violently rebelled" against society. In the journal that records his Unabomber crimes, including murders done by bombs, in light of the fact that some in the radical environmental, anti - technology and primitivist anarchist movements are regarding the Unabomber attacks against corporations as heroic, he reports that accounts of other unspecified crimes have been "buried" or "burned", because their revelation to the public would be "dangerous", "embarrassing" or "just very bad public relations at this point in time".
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:40 am
