smokie treats wrote:I have not made up my mind completely, but think that there is a very strong possibility that Zodiac drafted The Confession Letter. Let's make an objective comparison between The Confession Letter and the Little List Letter:
BUT I SHALL CUT OFF HER FEMALE PARTS AND DEPOSIT THEM FOR THE WHOLE CITY TO SEE. SO DON'T MAKE IT TO EASY FOR ME. KEEP YOUR SISTERS, DAUGHTERS, AND WIVES OFF THE STREETS AND ALLEYS. MISS BATES WAS STUPID. SHE WENT TO THE SLAUGHTER LIKE A LAMB. SHE DID NOT PUT UP A STRUGGLE. BUT I DID. IT WAS A BALL. . . . SHE WENT VERY WILLINGLY. HER BREAST FELT VERY WARM AND FIRM UNDER MY HANDS, BUT ONLY ONE THING WAS ON MY MIND. MAKING HER PAY FOR THE BRUSH OFFS THAT SHE HAD GIVEN ME DURING THE YEARS PRIOR. SHE DIED HARD. SHE SQUIRMED AND SHOOK AS I CHOAKED HER, AND HER LIPS TWICHED. . . . BUT THAT WILL NOT STOP THE GAME. THIS LETTER SHOULD BE PUBLISHED FOR ALL TO READ IT.
Some I shall tie over ant hills and watch them scream + twich and squirm. Others shall have pine splinters driven under their nails + then burned. Others shall be placed in cages + fed salt beef untill they are gorged then I shall listen to their pleass for water and I shall laugh at them. Others will hang by their thumbs + burn in the sun then I will rub them down with deep heat to warm them up. Others I shall skin them alive + let them run around screaming. And all billiard players I shall have them play in a darkened dungen cell with crooked cues + Twisted Shoes. Yes I shall have great fun inflicting the most delicious of pain to my slaves
They both have a very dark literary quality, include fantasies of mutilating other human beings, have spelling errors, and use some of the same no so commonly used words. And of course we have mention of some type of "game," and demands that the letter be published. So we can go around and around about whether these facts are coincidences or not. And for whatever reason some people have made up their mind that this could not be the same writer, no matter what the similarities are. We can go around and around about whether the use of the word "shall" is a coincidence or not. And we can go around and around about whether the misspellings are a coincidence or not.
But let's consider the fact that Zodiac spelled twitch as "twich" in the Little List letter. This may be statistically, I mean mathematically, very significant. Twitch isn't exactly the most frequently used word in the English language, and the Confession Letter does not have very many words. Zodiac's letters, collectively, don't have very many words. They fill up maybe several pages of a book.
What is the probability that two different killers used this infrequently used English word in anonymous letters to newspapers that described their crimes and fantasies of human mutilation, in the same State, within a few years of each other, and demanded that the letters be published, with
such a small sample of total words to work with? Not very likely. And then, what is the probability that both killers
would misspell this word the exact same way?
Not very likely. This is the reason why I think that Zodiac may have written the Confession Letter. You can have coincidences. But to have so many coincidences together, and this one coincidence that is very statistically improbable, that shows strong evidence that the writers could be the same person.
Still some surprises in store.
