Benicia High School note

[morf13]

The article didn't mention the note in it,so I wonder if it's real, if Z wanted to capitalize off the bomb threat news by leaving the note. While I certainly think Z may have been skilled at writing in different styles, the writing doesn't look overly like any known Z writing, but the candy cane F's are there for sure. That brings back up the question, how many of Zodiac's candy cane f's had been published up to the point of this letter,for a copycat to use? We know there were candy cane F's on the RCC desktop, and on the Berryessa car door,but were they seen by the general public by this point?

[Eggs n bacon]

Wonder what the names of the 2 youths that were arrested for making the calls were?

[sandy betts]

Lafferty seems like he was an earnest and respectable person, and he did dig up a lot of interesting material. But he unfortunately suffered from the "patternicity" that often seizes people involved with this case. They see connections between things where there are none. Patternicity is the birthplace of many bad ideas. A good place to start learning about them is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

The brain is a pattern-finding beast of a machine, and cases like Zodiac have shown us how powerful that machine is.

Thanks doranchak, Your post is so true about so many who have suspects , I see it almost every day. ( Example) " I remember my dad mentioning the Zodiac as we drove through Vallejo, he has to be Zodiac! "

I stopped dating someone who has Patternicity.

[sandy betts]

If that note was from Zodiac, and one of the boys arrested was his, then it would be easy to learn what the Zodiac's name was.
I have tried to find a city directory for Benicia , because I am told that is where my Honcho suspect was from, he had a job in construction there. I have found where he worked, "Lathrope Construction". I went there to see if I could get any information, the person I spoke to was like talking to a wall. That company had jobs all over California, they did a lot of work for schools which I found important being two that I knew had construction going on at the times of the crimes. One was Lompoc the other RCC. They have a website, you can check out some of the many jobs they did in California. I know my suspect worked on the new police station being built in Antioch during the 1990's, I saw him and was also told by a witness.

I would like to see the school yearbook for that year about the boys being arrested. To see if any names jump out at me? It doesn't hurt to try, somebody needs to do it!

[CuriousCat]

That note reads like it was written by someone who barely speaks English.

[sandy betts]

That note reads like it was written by someone who barely speaks English.

Perhaps someone who was trying to disguise who he was, or who has some mental issues that I believe Zodiac has?

[CuriousCat]

That note reads like it was written by someone who barely speaks English.

Perhaps someone who was trying to disguise who he was, or who has some mental issues that I believe Zodiac has?

Zodiac never wrote like that.

[sandy betts]

Zodiac changed how did everything, including the way he wrote. He copied other handwriting styles, so we can't possibly know for sure that he didn't write that note!
That is all part of his taunting game that he enjoyed so much.

[CuriousCat]

Zodiac changed how did everything, including the way he wrote. He copied other handwriting styles, so we can't possibly know for sure that he didn't write that note!
That is all part of his taunting game that he enjoyed so much.

Oh yeah, agreed, I leave all avenues open concerning Zodiac so I'm not saying no way that's him. I tend to think it isn't though.