smithy wrote:Oooh thanks Mike, new info.
You know Glenn Albertson wrote the Charlie Brown card - the one tested in this timeframe, mentioned by Hal here - but it's not been released as to why it was tested and who got it?
Interesting!
Yes, Peanuts and Charles ("Sparky" - a really nice man, I've been told) Schultz its creator were big-time famous already, then, from the TV animation as well as being in the newspapers (hmmmmm) - franchised everywhere - but I still think I'd take a small wager that's it, then. Maybe.
Doesn't it suddenly seem like every former or current inmate at Napa Mental hospital needed to involve themselves in Zodiac matters some way or another?
Just goes to show, doesn't it, that the materials we see are the tip of a very big iceberg that LE was concerned with.....
Regarding Charles "Sparky" Schulz. He was a strange person. He owned the Empire Ice Arena where SRHM victims Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber were last seen. I'm not implying that Sparky had anything to do with their murders, just giving a little background info.
Sparky's main offices were on the same grounds as the ice arena. On July 5, 1995 the wife of one of Sparky's employee's, his business manager Ron Nelson, came to the offices and shot her husband. The shots were not fatal. The wife was duly arrested and sent for psychiatric evaluation. Seems that the wife had found out that her husband was having an affair with a fellow employee.
What makes this story so unusual is that Ron Nelson was fired from his job by Sparky. Then Sparky posted the $2 million bail for the wife accused of the shooting!
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/B ... 122050.php"Santa Rosa woman
remains free on bail
Santa Rosa Shirley Nelson, accused of trying to kill her husband, the former business manager for cartoonist Charles Schulz, will remain free on $2 million cash bail, a Sonoma County judge has ruled.
Superior Court Judge Bryan Jamar decided last week that Nelson, 65, was not a threat to her estranged husband, Ron Nelson, 53, and could remain on bail without new conditions.
Nelson is scheduled to stand trial in December. She is charged with attempted murder for shooting her husband in the back twice on July 5 while he was working in the
"Peanuts" cartoonist's offices on Snoopy Lane in Santa Rosa.
Police say Nelson was distraught over the breakup of their 28-year marriage and her husband's love affair with a younger woman who worked in the Schulz organization.
After the shooting Ron Nelson was fired by Schulz, and his girlfriend resigned. For a time after the shooting Shirley Nelson was confined to a Ross psychiatric hospital because she was considered suicidal and a threat to others.
Prosecutor David Dunn asked for Nelson's bail to be revoked after learning of a phone call in which Nelson said she would burn down the family home.
In testimony Thursday, Donna Martin, a friend, testified that Nelson actually said she would burn the couple's bed if she found the girlfriend had slept in it.
Ron Nelson suffered critical injuries in the shooting. After his wife allegedly shot him, Shirley Nelson turned the gun on herself. She has recovered from the wound."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BAY- ... 844381.php"Santa Rosa -- A woman who shot her husband in cartoonist Charles Schulz's office will spend one year in jail and 18 months in home confinement, a judge ruled yesterday.
Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Arnold Rosenfield sentenced Shirley Ann Nelson, 67, to seven years for the attempted murder of her husband, then suspended her term to five years probation, including the jail time and home confinement.
Nelson, who had pleaded no contest, wept through the sentencing and was taken into custody immediately after, saying through tears that "I want to get it over with."
Nelson shot her 53-year-old husband, Ron, in the cartoonist's office on July 5, 1995, a day after he told her he was leaving her for a younger secretary, who worked for Schulz. Then Nelson turned the gun on herself and tried to commit suicide.
Ron Nelson, who was the business manager for the creator of the "Peanuts" strip, suffered nearly fatal injuries. He spent 6 1/2 weeks in the hospital recovering from his wounds. He no longer works for Schulz.
Shirley Nelson pleaded no contest to the charges in February after her first trial ended in a hung jury. She has been free on $2 million bail, which Schulz paid, for some time. She has credit for 76 days of prison time."
These are SF Chronicle online articles, there were articles in the Press Democrat that went much deeper into the story at the time. One of these days I should get those articles.
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:55 pm