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Here is a link to the January 1969 Detective Magazine article about Cheri Jo Bates (as provided by dorachak): viewtopic.php?f=94&t=3154
And some information posted recently:
Seagull wrote:
.... the Alfred "Bud" Lord article from the June 1941 from the Official Detective magazine. Not only is there a crosshair symbol depicted on a pictured note, there is the spelling of "clue" as "clew" throughout the article and magazine. The crosshair symbol is just as Zodiac has penned it with the crosshairs extending beyond the circle.
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3427
Seagull wrote:Just to add to the notion that detective magazines likely played a part in Zodiac's sphere of influence.
From the book Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters written by Peter Vronsky.
https://books.google.com/books?id=vB2G- ... es&f=false
doranchak wrote:Donald Harden thought there was a detective story influence, too:
A detective story that mentions a killer calling and saying "This is Z speaking":
Ciphers were featured in many of these periodicals.
An ACA member, in fact, recently finished publishing scans of numerous cipher-related articles and stories from Flynn's "Detective Fiction Weekly":
http://toebes.com/Flynns/Flynns.htm
