New and can't shake ALA...

[EndOfTheWorld]

I don't buy that somebody would tease about being a murderer, just for the fun of it. Then you are saying that ALA was delusional. A rational person would find some other way of having fun, rather than confessing to murder.

[Tahoe27]

I don't think he thought it was "fun"...he just liked the attention it gave him. I don't think one has to be delusional to do that.

Mix a little bit of ALA's pre-Zodiac stories, and a little bit of Cheney's stories being exaggerated and I think there is a simple explanation.

[Deplorable at Best]

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[Norse]

I don't think he thought it was "fun"...he just liked the attention it gave him. I don't think one has to be delusional to do that.

Mix a little bit of ALA's pre-Zodiac stories, and a little bit of Cheney's stories being exaggerated and I think there is a simple explanation.

Agreed. You certainly don't have to be delusional in order to mess with people's heads for kicks. All you need is a certain kind of personality, and ALA seems to have had just that.

Cheney may have been genuinely convinced that ALA was Zodiac. What looks like the weakest part of his story (the Johns scenario, for instance) could have been "well meaning" lies, in the sense that he added to whatever stories ALA actually had told him (morbid fantasies about hunting people, TMDG style) in order to incriminate a man he genuinely believed was crazy and dangerous.

Many possibilites there. People lie for all sorts of reasons.