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Do any of you guys have a pdf of the police reports? I haven't read them in a while and would love to refresh my memory.

pittsburgh_phil wrote:Do any of you guys have a pdf of the police reports? I haven't read them in a while and would love to refresh my memory.

It's really good to read over them. I may try and do it more often. I usually just read them from Tom's site. http://www.zodiackiller.com/ZodiacPoliceReports.html

morf13 wrote:

BuckwheatFlowers wrote:Anyone come up with what (Don) on the page Morf just posted refers to?

Don Cheney, Don Hardin, Don Fouke, wouldn't any of them be of interest?

How could any of those folks be in a 12/21/68 police report? Did Pitta know any of them at the time well enough at the time to just refer to them as (Don)? I don't think that's it.

traveller1st wrote:I usually just read them from Tom's site. http://www.zodiackiller.com/ZodiacPoliceReports.html

Me too, even though I have all of them saved on my pc.

BuckwheatFlowers wrote:Anyone come up with what (Don) on the page Morf just posted refers to?

I was joking about the name Don being Cheney,Hardin etc...
However, I looked back thru the reports and I have at least two guys named Don that are listed as possible suspects in the various Z reports:

The first guy named Don was found to be carrying a gun when police questioned him about the Zodiac case, I forget, but i think he was driving a blue car, will have to check. Don went on to have a checkered life mixed up in various crimes. He is still alive and in another state.

The 2nd guy mentioned in the reports named Don is very interesting. On the weekend of July 4,1969, Don was up in Vallejo visiting his Mother In law from the Santa Barbara area(Domingos/edwards). He claims he was approached by a stocky man asking for a ride back down to the Santa Barbara area. He claimed he needed to get out of the area, because he was involved in some shootings. Don knew this stocky man at least casually, or at least recognized him. Don refused to give the guy a ride. Don relayed this story to his Mother in Law, and his Mother in law contacted police. Police contacted Don, and Don denied ever telling his Mother in law that story. No follow up lised in the report, which is odd because either he,or his Mother in law was lying. What I found interesting, was that Don described the man as 'stocky' before there was any physical description of zodiac known to the public. This 2nd Don is now deceased.

No idea if one of these two Don's is the guy referred to by Pitta.

Someplace(cant seem to find it) I made a thread about 'BLUE CARS' in the Zodiac case, since every report seemed to mention one or more blue cars.

Here are a few:

Dave B. -Drove a blue GTO, late model may have known Darlene and called her

James R.- Drove a ice blue corvair

George R. Saxberg(one of my favorite darkhorse suspects,now deceased)Lived in Sonoma, and owned a blue Plymouth 2 dr

Another guy came to police suspecting that he may have been the target of the attack. He owned a Rambler, and had seen a blue car prowling around his home, and sitting out front of his house

Steve c.- owned a 2dr 65 blue Ford Falcon

And again, I think that the guy Don found to have a gun on hin during questioning, drove a blue car but have to verify that

The murders occur Between 11:00PM when Mr and Mrs Your saw the kids alive and 11:15PM when Stella drives by and sees the dead girl.
In between James Owens drives by, sees 2 cars no dead body. (I thought you would jump on that Morf).
The Yours leave before the Hunters. How do we know there were only two Hunters that night, could they have been with someone they were covering for?
OR was someone stalking the area, someone who knew kids would go there to make out? Someone who had been there with our victim? Someone who was
jealous, who kept driving through to catch her? I see on the map that there are several little roads where one could hide in wait nearby.

onewhoknows wrote:The murders occur Between 11:00PM when Mr and Mrs Your saw the kids alive and 11:15PM when Stella drives by and sees the dead girl.
In between James Owens drives by, sees 2 cars no dead body. (I thought you would jump on that Morf).
The Yours leave before the Hunters. How do we know there were only two Hunters that night, could they have been with someone they were covering for?
OR was someone stalking the area, someone who knew kids would go there to make out? Someone who had been there with our victim? Someone who was
jealous, who kept driving through to catch her? I see on the map that there are several little roads where one could hide in wait nearby.

Well,I guess we don't know if there was 3 hunters, but both Connelly & Gasser say it was just them, and the Yours only saw the 2 men,so I guess we have to assume there was not a 3rd hunter hiding out

Back to guys in blue cars for a second-
This guy 'Pete' sounds interesting too. Not sure if he was ever identified or not. Drove a blue car, some possible acne scars, black hair,age 28.....sounds like the mystery guy from Berryessa. Had guns,asked a female, "what would you do if I raped you?", not very social etc

I picked up on that too, the acne scars (kathleen Johns). Also if you read the BRS reports there is a similar report of a rape threat. Darlene apparently talked him out of it. Same person?

One of the things that makes the LHR attack interesting was that the police simply didn't know what they were looking for yet. At the time of the LHR reports there was no Zodiac yet, no letters or writing samples, finger prints or even vague descriptions of what the killer might look like. All the police had to go off of was ballistic tests to see if any .22 caliber guns might match the shells they found.

I'm not trying to say the investigator were sloppy, just that they didn't know what directions to look in. Now, looking back at these reports, many questions come to mind, and many suspects seem to be overlooked. It's a shame that they had so many missed opportunities to clear things up back then.

hindsight is 20/20