monarch wrote:mike_r wrote:There is a lot I could say about this show. One of my sources at the Vidocq Society told me that this guy Mains approached them about becoming a member but was refused because he was not qualified and couldn't make the cut. So he started his own group, lol. I was told that the term "cold case expert" is a stretch for him.
I wish real Z researchers who know the case inside and out had been on this show. Nobody asked that guy Shumway why he said Cheri Jo was stabbed 42 times in 2000 and why he came up with all that melodrama about their "pet suspect" at that time. What was wrong with the mt-DNA they used to compare against their suspect in 2000? Was he ruled out? RPD so secretive in a case that cries out for the help of the public.
Zodiac did not write on Zodiac stationery. He wrote on Monarch size stationery.
The guy from LAPD said that the boot prints from Riverside were the "same ones from up north." Not true.
Since when was Z a guy who was "250 lbs.?" In my conversations with Fouke, he said that because of the jacket Z was wearing, he could have been off by "50 lbs" in his estimates. Both he and Lindsey laughed at the possibility that Allen was the man they saw and Ross was bigger than Allen, whom Fouke called "way out of proportion." Hartnell also backed off in the COTC and said that the attacker could have been "big or small." http://www.zodiackiller.com/COTC14.html
Mike
Keep in mind the soil compaction tests done at Lake Berryessa indicate that Z was well over 200 pounds, this is the only physical
evidence we have to indicate Z's weight.
The witnesses impressions of his weight are very subjective.
monarch, I personally don't have much faith in the compaction test that they did at the Lake. Correct me if I am wrong, but only one impression was taken and that was close to the shore line and next to where Cecelia was stabbed. Zodiac was more than likely straddling her as he stabbed her.When he went to stand up his weight could have shifted making that one impression deeper. They used plaster of Paris back then and have sense changed to a better mixture. Plaster of Paris swells and shrinks , not very accurate! Like I have mentioned before, two weeks later the suspect looks smaller than the Lake B. killer by many pounds and height. Foukes said he could have been off by 50 pounds, because of the puffy jacket the killer wore.
I will stand by K. Johns description as being the best of everyone elses. I do believe that she was abducted by Zodiac and later tormented with phone calls and at least one Halloween card. That to me is something that Zodiac does, he likes tormenting.
I have a hunch that the DNA will show the killer having hazel eyes, brown wavy hair and a medium complexion. I believe that Ross is a very good suspect for the CJB case,but way too large for Zodiac. Wasn't the shoe print at RCC a military dress shoe? No mention of it being a 10 and a half?
