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THE LOVER wrote:The problem with naming a suspect with so many holes in theory is when you have to create reasons for why the suspect works.

Well, after a while, explaining why TK works almost perfectly as Zodiac is like having to explain a good joke. If people don't understand, nevermind, leave them behind.

I do not think TK had the personality of Zodiac. And again I doubt any profiler would name TK.

Keep in mind that nobody at the FBI was anywhere near to imagine the Unabomber could be a mathematics genius, possibly the youngest Harvard graduate, who chose to retreat in a cabin in the woods with no electricity and no running water for more than 20 years! How many suspects names did they have? Thousands. And TK was not in their list.

THE LOVER wrote:How could anyone read the Zodiac letters and think they fit Ted Kaczynski‘s personality? Ted was always the smartest guy in the room and I simply cannot see Ted lowering himself to the sort of shenanigans Zodiac pulled.

Smartest guy in the room... That doesn't sound like Zodiac to you? I'm not saying Kaczynski was Zodiac, but I really don't think he should be thrown out as a suspect because the things that do make him a good suspect are pretty significant things. It is hard to see him actually murdering in person, but that doesn't mean it is impossible or that he couldn't have been the one writing the letters, drawing the bomb diagrams and creating the ciphers. Those are things that really make him stick out as a suspect. You could argue that Ted was a loner and wouldn't have worked with another person or people, but that cannot be proven. Same can be said to anyone that claims he would work as part of a team in this whole thing. Nobody knows for sure.

Claypooles wrote:Keep in mind that nobody at the FBI was anywhere near to imagine the Unabomber could be a mathematics genius, possibly the youngest Harvard graduate, who chose to retreat in a cabin in the woods with no electricity and no running water for more than 20 years! How many suspects names did they have? Thousands. And TK was not in their list.

Agreed! And the fact that he mailed taunting letters to San Francisco newspapers makes him even more fascinating as a Zodiac suspect. He would travel to other areas to mail these letters, which he also did when he mailed the bombs...

One thing I have always wondered about is if he had any contact or anything to do with any of the people that were involved in his MK Ultra "testing" while at Harvard. There was a lot of this going on in the bay area during the Zodiac murders so it could possibly all be tied together.

The Netflix mini-series about TK says so, but not sure if it's actually the case.

Is Doug Oswell credited (or even mentioned) at any point in the third book?

Anyone out there?

TomVoigt wrote:Anyone out there?

I just searched the Kindle edition. This is the only mention of Oswell: “A few stalwart armchair detectives, such as Douglas Oswell, continued to seek connections between Kaczynski and Zodiac.” That’s it.

On the one hand, I applaud Hewitt for doing this book on evidence showing Kaczynski could be the Zodiac. There is some good information in it, a few new discoveries and some fresh arguments and evidence.

On the other hand, he does not give credit to those who came before him. I counted at least 10 instances of evidence, comparisons and/or arguments that were made by Doug Oswell that he presents in the book with no acknowledgement to Oswell. There were also a few instances of evidence or comparisons that I made that he presents with no mention of me. He also mentions the Caesar code analysis of the Zodiac codes, discovered and worked on by Kite and myself, without mentioning either of us. IIRC he even mentions Kaczynski as a suspect in the Tylenol Murders, without mentioning that this theory was developed by Oswell and myself.


So I applaud the good work and research done in the book, but it would have been nice had he even given a brief mention of credit to those who came before him. Had he asked me, I would have gladly given him permission to use, free of charge, any of my research or images on Kaczynski, codes, sketch - photo comparisons, Tylenol, etc., and I am sure Oswell would have done the same.