by Bill-Bailey » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:47 am
Holy cow, reading through all that was a grind.
I love seeing new suspects come into play. It's much more interesting to investigate new guys than just going over ALA and Sullivan for the 837th time.
But man, no offense to the two people pushing this guy so hard....it really seems like ya'll are trying to "fit" things that barely have a relation to what is known about the Zodiac into being compelling clues that tie it to Harvey. And every time somebody brings up this point about one of your pieces of evidence, they get a bit of a snarky comment back or "you just haven't seen all that I've seen" and told they need to spend the next 3 years investigating his paperwork and then it will be magically evident that Harvey is the zodiac. Again, not personally attacking anybody. I'm just sharing my opinion after reading these 44 pages and seeing the evidence presented so far.
For example - things like him sleeping with his mother. That has zero to do with him being the zodiac. Hating abortion - nothing to do with the zodiac. Or the convo about t he letter opener. Somebody pointed out why would he sharpen a letter opener instead of just using a real knife, and somebody commented something like "well, we don't know what the laws were in california"......seriously, that's just a huge stretch and to be honest, it's what a LOT of people do when trying to hype their favorite suspect.
Like the Gaikowski fanatics. One sticking point is whether Richard was out of the country during one of the attacks. Most think he was as he was working as a journalist and has a story, with a byline where he specifically says he is in that country during a specific event. But the Gaikowski fanatics will say "Well, he could have flew back before. And he was probably lying in his story. You can't prove he wasn't here on that date." It's just these huge reaches to try and backup their theory. It's hilarious the jumps they make.
Again, sorry if this offends anybody. That isn't my intent. And again, I LOVE people bringing new suspects to the table. But for me, and maybe people don't agree, I think the building blocks to weeding out (or building up) a suspect has to be on actual FACTS and not on these huge stretches that are usually just very slim coincidences.
For example: "I found a pair of size 10.5 wing walkers in the attic. And he lived a block away from one of the victims. He was known to spend a lot of time at Lake Berryessa. Several volumes of code making books were found in his library." Those are things you can use to start tying a suspect to the case. But things like "He made a symbol that looks like the zodiac symbol in a doodle once. And none of his writing looks like the zodiac, but his capital B and his lowercase M look a lot like Zodiac's. And the zodiac made a reference to baseball once and my suspect loved the Oakland A's."
To be brutally honest, if you took every male aged 25-35 that lived within a 100 mile radius of the crimes, you could literally tie the zodiac to a thousand men by using coincidences if you dug through their entire life. This guy went to the same college as one of the victims, plus he owned multiple cars, and he hated the police and owned a knife.
Anyway. Thank you for bringing a new suspect to the table. The constant "wait until you've read what I've read" line of reasoning is very off putting to me.
Why not just pour over the files and then come here with your list of the 10-20 best clues? That's how most people would do it.
Speaking of that.
is there a list where the 10 best "clues" are listed???