Mark Hewitt’s 3rd Book

[Zamantha]

Article on Mark Hewitt’s latest Book.

https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2018/ ... ssion=true

[Jarlve]

Someone buy Ted this book. He should find it amusing.

[Richard Grinell]

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dan-zupans ... ark-hewitt

Always interesting to hear other opinions, but unconvinced that Theodore Kaczynski was Zodiac.

[Claypooles]

I'm still amazed that so many people seem to consider Kaczynski as not being a convincing suspect in the Zodiac case, while offering the goofiest names as the answer to who was the Z

[morf13]

I'm still amazed that so many people seem to consider Kaczynski as not being a convincing suspect in the Zodiac case, while offering the goofiest names as the answer to who was the Z

He's completely the opposite kind of killer that Zodiac was. That's why Ted is dismissed so easily. Different signatures & MO's = different killers

[Claypooles]

I guess people go the easy way, then. I don't see it like this at all, complete opposite actually! TK was angry at the world and more precisely at young people, because he wanted to be them but knew he was different, had always been treated as an outcast. At one point he made the extra step and started killing young people as a revenge, and then, once he had passed his "message" through newspapers and started to exist in the eyes of everyone, he went away from society (no more murders, just letters / starting living in a secluded cabin in the woods of Montana). But that desire of revenge through killing was still there, and he responded to it using his new hobbie, that is bombs. It's all there in the Zodiac letters!
And to me, killers can change their MO and signature. As I just said, Zodiac clearly turned to bombs after guns, and in between he had used a knike. Like he wrote himself: By gun, by fire, by rope, by knife. I am totally convinced that passing from Zodiac to Unabomber was a logical path. Both were unique killers, I don't think the common serial killer rules apply to Kazcynski.

[RTF]

... I don't think the common serial killer rules apply to Kazcynski.

Yes, and same goes for Zodiac. His murders can be seen to merely serve a higher purpose - publicity/infamy/spreading fear in the community, via extortion of news coverage.

I'm not sold on TK, but am not dismissing him as a candidate.

[Claypooles]

Exactly, just as TK's bombings supposedly served a higher (personal) cause than just killing people.

[Jelberg]

Different signatures & MO's = different killers

...killers can change their MO and signature....
....I don't think the common serial killer rules apply to Kazcynski....

As Claypooles mentioned, the death wheel hints at randomness. Ted would no doubt know that playing a "random" game, where he changed how he killed, would throw off attempts to identify him.
Zodiac even said himself that he was going to change the way he killed (to make it look like robberies, fake accidents, etc)
I guess if he changed his M.O. then Zodiac wasn't even Zodiac

[margie]

I guess people go the easy way, then. I don't see it like this all, complete opposite actually! TK was angry at the world and more precisely at young people, because he wanted to be them but knew he was different, had always been treated as an outcast. At one point he made the extra step and started killing young people as a revenge, and then, once he had passed his "message" through newspapers and started to exist in the eyes of everyone, he went away from society (no more murders, just letters / starting living in a secluded cabin in the woods of Montana). But that desire of revenge through killing was still there, and he responded to it using his new hobbie, that is bombs. It's all there in the Zodiac letters!
And to me, killers can change their MO and signature. As I just said, Zodiac clearly turned to bombs after guns, and in between he had used a knike. Like he wrote himself: By gun, by fire, by rope, by knife. I am totally convinced that passing from Zodiac to Unabomber was a logical path. Both were unique killers, I don't think the common serial killer rules apply to Kazcynski.

Very well stated!!! My thoughts exactly!