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Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:13 am
by Nachtsider
entropy wrote:Well sure... that thread title could stimulate Zodiac to respond if he was lurking but I think it is also an invitation for cryptic posts from hoaxsters motivated to make people question if they are Zodiac. Idiots like that have, unfortunately, never been in short supply.

Most hoaxers are pretty unsubtle, though. There's a finesse to some of these posts that makes me take them as seriously as any potential Zodiac letter. I equate this with the 1990 snowman card; the thing that makes it feel legit to me is the lack of obvious 'this is the Zodiac speaking', if it makes any ironic sense. The thing had that teasing air to it and all the right signs without being in-your-face.

Oscar was classic, lol. If I had to vote for any poster being Zodiac, it would've been him.

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 1:23 pm
by drew
One of Oscar's most intriguing posts...

It happened. Zodiac barely got away. If the dispatcher had been on the ball, we may have missed the opportunity to converse on this board.
Oscar.

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:25 pm
by Welsh Chappie
drew wrote:One of Oscar's most intriguing posts...

It happened. Zodiac barely got away. If the dispatcher had been on the ball, we may have missed the opportunity to converse on this board.
Oscar.


I am assuming this is in relation to the Presidio Heights murder?

What is he saying 'Happened'? The encounter with Fouke i'm going to hazard a guess at?

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:02 pm
by drew
Yes, Chappie, it is. Here is the full post below. This was written back in October of 2000 -- Oscar seemed fully convinced the cops briefly stopped and talked to Zodiac.


Gregorypraxas,
It is documented in Graysmith's book, and I have seen it mentioned several other times in varying accounts. One of the patrolmen died a few years after the event, but the survivor admitted that the event did occur- this is in one of the accounts. It happened. Zodiac barely got away. If the dispatcher had been on the ball, we may have missed the opportunity to converse on this board.
Oscar.
p.s. Penn & Teller in 2004! Ride the wave.

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:06 pm
by SpookyPanda
Hay... Welshie;

:geek: I believe that Z has posted. And, some of those cards and lettles you may think aren't from Z
could very well be. DPD,I believe this is the name.

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 6:26 pm
by Welsh Chappie
drew wrote:Yes, Chappie, it is. Here is the full post below. This was written back in October of 2000 -- Oscar seemed fully convinced the cops briefly stopped and talked to Zodiac.


Gregorypraxas,
It is documented in Graysmith's book, and I have seen it mentioned several other times in varying accounts. One of the patrolmen died a few years after the event, but the survivor admitted that the event did occur- this is in one of the accounts. It happened. Zodiac barely got away. If the dispatcher had been on the ball, we may have missed the opportunity to converse on this board.
Oscar.
p.s. Penn & Teller in 2004! Ride the wave.



He doesn't seem to know the details all the accurately. Eric Zelms, the patrolman who pulled up on Z with Don Fouke, was murdered on Jan 1st, 1970, not even three months after his encounter with Zodiac.
As for the one survivor admitting it, Don Fouke has never publically made any admissions about speaking to Zodiac. In fact Don Stated recently "We never stopped the man, we didn't talk to him. That is an emphatic statement from me and I would'nt make the denial."

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 6:33 pm
by Welsh Chappie
You never know, one of the three ten witnesses from Pacific Heights could be on these boards but not want it to be known because he doesn't want 500 questions fired at him every hour. Or, there is also the eight year old witness who a suspects name to police as possibly being responsible.

I absolutely would love to know who's name the child gave as the person he saw that night and why he suspected it may be Zodiac. Like did he think he saw a re stain's all over his jacket and trousers?

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 4:57 am
by entropy
Nachtsider wrote:
entropy wrote:Well sure... that thread title could stimulate Zodiac to respond if he was lurking but I think it is also an invitation for cryptic posts from hoaxsters motivated to make people question if they are Zodiac. Idiots like that have, unfortunately, never been in short supply.

Most hoaxers are pretty unsubtle, though. There's a finesse to some of these posts that makes me take them as seriously as any potential Zodiac letter. I equate this with the 1990 snowman card; the thing that makes it feel legit to me is the lack of obvious 'this is the Zodiac speaking', if it makes any ironic sense. The thing had that teasing air to it and all the right signs without being in-your-face.

Oscar was classic, lol. If I had to vote for any poster being Zodiac, it would've been him.


Oh, I agree, Nacht, and if there was anyone still interested in monitoring a board like this thinking that Zodiac would enjoy taking the pulse of those interested in this case, I bet that would be exactly what they were looking for. It is also that "finesse" and lack of redundancy that makes for a quality Zodiac forgery rather than just repeating words and phrases used by Zodiac. I think the 1990 card, the 13-hole card and a few others fit that description and could certainly have been genuine. Just saying that there are lots of sociopathic individuals out there that would enjoy posting cryptic stuff to gain attention and most, if not all, of them are not Zodiac.

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 4:10 am
by gestr
Perhaps I should google this to verify before I post, but I'm too tired. Wasn't the BTK serial killer caught by an email he sent? Posts can also be traced. I wish LE would look into some of these suspicious posts.

Here's a Zodiac-like post from a 340 cipher site:

This is the Zodiac Speaking . . . September 20, 2011 10:46 pm


“Of course, plenty of people have already tried to crack the two halves independently and failed. . . .”

You so certain of that Einstein? Says who?

http://Anysitethatwillgivemeabreakfroma ... herexperts!

(This zodiackillersite program will not allow the fake web address, above, 'This is the Zodiac speaking' wrote. So I'll write it out here: "http" followed by "Anysitethatwillgivemeabreakfromallthesearrogantself-anointedcipherexperts!")

See it here: http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/09/ ... 40-ciphers

Re: Has Zodiac ever Posted?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:48 am
by entropy
gestr wrote:Perhaps I should google this to verify before I post, but I'm too tired. Wasn't the BTK serial killer caught by an email he sent? Posts can also be traced. I wish LE would look into some of these suspicious posts.

Here's a Zodiac-like post from a 340 cipher site:

This is the Zodiac Speaking . . . September 20, 2011 10:46 pm


“Of course, plenty of people have already tried to crack the two halves independently and failed. . . .”

You so certain of that Einstein? Says who?

http://Anysitethatwillgivemeabreakfroma ... herexperts!

(This zodiackillersite program will not allow the fake web address, above, 'This is the Zodiac speaking' wrote. So I'll write it out here: "http" followed by "Anysitethatwillgivemeabreakfromallthesearrogantself-anointedcipherexperts!")

See it here: http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/09/ ... 40-ciphers


BTK asked Wichita P.D. if it was "safe" to mail in a floppy disk. He clearly wasn't very tech savvy and believed investigators when they assured him that "Nah, it's OK. We won't try to trace it back to you or anything. ;) "

The disk was then traced back to a "Dennis" at the church where he was the acting president and the BTK case was all but solved for them.

Please forgive my skepticism about identifying Zodiac through on-line posts. The idea makes total sense just like the idea of checking out letters to the editor which led to Mr. X as a person of interest. I just think we need to keep in mind that there a ton of non-Zodiac individuals out there inclined to offer those looking plenty of bussy work.