Note in this photo, the fence (although redesigned), is in the background. That is basically the side of a hill that today, drops to an athletic field. Looks like some of the trees remain to this day. Also, look at the direction the lady in the photo is looking:
zk.com
Here is the same area today...note the fence and the slight curve of the sidewalk with the photo below:
At night AFTER lights were installed:
via google
Forum: Cheri Jo Bates
Forum: Paul Avery
Anyone with contacts for surviving family, friends and acquaintances of Arthur Leigh Allen (including, Mr. Donald Cheney, Mr. Santo "Sandy" Panzarella, and Mr. Rob Huffman) should refer them to my presentation here. If you know them well enough, ask them anything they might recollect about this 1952 Kaiser that is mysteriously absent from all of the many reports on Allen: whether those of law enforcement, Robert Graysmith's books, or Mr. Cheney's answers specific to automobiles in Tom Voigt's Q&A transcript. Allen occasionally had permission from some friends to drive their vehicles. To whom did this car belong if not Allen?
What did Allen do with this car?
What happened to the 1952 Kaiser?
Where did the Kaiser go?
—Robert Peter Ackerman
Forum: Cheri Jo Bates
Forum: General Discussion
Tables 7, 8, and 9 present Zodiac killer phonologic specimens that I do not intend as exclusive proof for identifying the perpetrator. I do not make the categorical claim that the Zodiac imparts a conscious or sub-conscious revelation with each utterance of \lē\ and \lā\. The conclusions from my other research—some uploaded as Web presentations—I arrived at independent of this subject linguistic data. With an objective for completeness, I have included all occurrences of \lē\ and \lā\ in the Zodiac’s articulations across all written and spoken communication. The only exceptions include correctly spelled locale names: Lake Berryessa, Lake Tahoe, Vallejo, and proper nouns in envelope addresses: Daily Enterprise and Los Angeles.
The skeptics are free to ignore the single entry from my own cryptanalysis: Table 8 (7). The fact remains, however, that the Zodiac, when writing the Dripping Pen greeting card and the Melvin Belli letter, uses language that presents himself at his most emotively self-reflective. If the Table 8 entries for “lonely” (twice) in the brief Dripping Pen card or repetitive entries for “please help me” (thrice) in the single page Belli letter do not seem curious enough to the skeptics, then they can concentrate on the many diverse and interesting specimens in Tables 7 & 9.
Table 9 includes all articulations of \lē\ and \lā\ that are free of spelling errors and not included in Table 8. Several of these specimens derive from the Zodiac directly quoting The Mikado libretto (52-55) and Badlands blurb (59)—specimens therefore less likely to share the potential significance of utterances originating from the Zodiac and/or presenting his own misspellings. No instances of \lē\ or \lā\ are reported in the Zodiac’s telephonic transcriptions per Vallejo PD switchboard operator, Nancy Slover* and Napa PD dispatcher, officer David Slaight.
I do believe that the data from all three tables – evaluated in aggregate – lend further credence to my research conclusions that Arthur Leigh (Lee) Allen is the Zodiac Killer.
The cynics will be quick to remonstrate that most English adverbs and many adjectives end in -ly, and therefore the phonological analysis cannot be of consequence. On the contrary, with the Zodiac Killer case we have a serial killer unlike any other with respect to the amount of communication that he directed at victims, law enforcement, the media and public. Consider Table 7 and the copious amount of misspelled words ending in -ly. The Zodiac did not just write – he wrote many words. He did not just use words ending in -ly – he chose to use many of them; and he misspelled many of them, likely intentionally.
I am uploading the tables at this time because I may reference them further at some future date. As with all of my work: These images are not to be embedded on any site outside of ZodiacKillerTRUTH. If this website were somehow unavailable for hyper-linking, then a clickable link via the Photobucket image path should be provided, accompanied with citation.
— Robert Peter Ackerman
* The phoneme sequence in the words, “mile east” is a possibility, but likely inadvertent; and Ms. Slover never, to my knowledge, suggested that the Zodiac pronounced any unusual stress in the word, “millimeter.”
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— Graysmith, Robert. Zodiac Unmasked. New York: Berkley, 2002.
(Page ref. to movie tie-in paperback ed., New York: Berkley, 2007; bold emphasis added.)
Forum: Forensic Linguistics
While we await honest and conscientious citizens to come forward to tell us what they know about Arthur Leigh Allen and the '52 Kaiser – because the photograph doesn't lie – I'm setting up this Lake Berryessa thread as a necessary progression of my theory emerging from inferences based upon developing evidence. If you have not yet, please visit the Cheri Jo Bates forum and my topic of investigation: Studebaker – A LOOK-ALIKE – How about a 1952 Kaiser?
The photo reveals that Allen not only operated a '52 Kaiser in the 1960s but that he was inclined to use this car for his recreational skin/scuba diving excursions.
Robert Graysmith quoting a conversation with Det. Sgt. John Lynch, Vallejo PD:
"He's had a lot of cars though," I interjected. "He's got four now."
"Oh, I didn't know that," said Lynch.
I thought to myself that Lynch had cleared Allen because he did not match Lynch's visual impression of the killer.
Lynch's replacements over the years did not go back and check the early suspects cleared by Lynch.
When Lynch concludes: "Real old, dirty car, that didn't even remotely resemble—" he is grasping that he cannot match Allen's "scuba gear" car to the possible "Zodiac" vehicles reported by witnesses on the evening of the Blue Rock Springs crime: July 4-5, 1969—two months and three weeks prior to the Lake Berryessa crime.
In Zodiac Unmasked, Graysmith describes the encounter between Det. Lynch and Arthur Leigh Allen after the Lake Berryessa crime and describes Allen going "over to the back of his station wagon . . . ."
But was it a "station wagon"? — Is the model of automobile precisely identified and stated by Lynch in a report somewhere?
Did Lynch get a look at the wheels? Was the "Real old, dirty car" in fact, Allen's '52 Kaiser still running but with one slightly narrower front tire?
Robert Graysmith:Quote:The crime-lab technicians discovered tire tracks from the attacker's car and made plaster casts, "moulages." There were two different-size tires on the front, very worn. Width between the wheels was listed by the police as fifty-seven inches.
The disparity in tire size on the same axle presents further evidence—together with variant tread design, wear, and the modest width of the tires—that the unknown vehicle is an old car (relative to 1969), still operational obviously, but likely to display multiple signs of disrepair. If money and resources: availability of replacement parts, etc. were not an issue, then presumably the owner of the vehicle would, at the very least, desire the larger width tire on both sides of the same axle.
Napa County Sheriff's Department Report on Case No. 105907
Reporting Officers: Dave Collins & Ray Land; Recording Officer: Dave Collins; 9/29/1969
Department of Justice, Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation Report No. 1-15-311-F9-5861
Reported Assigned to: Melvin H. Nicolai, Special Agent; 10/3/1969
<http://www.classiccardatabase.com/specs.php?series=5052&year=1951&model=26996>
• 1952 Kaiser Virginian Special Series 521 Sedan: Front Tread: 58 inches; Rear Tread: 58.75 inches
Tire Size: 6.7" x 15"
<http://www.classiccardatabase.com/specs.php?series=4931&year=1952&model=27002>
• 1952 Kaiser Virginian DeLuxe Series 522 Sedan: Front Tread: 58 inches; Rear Tread: 58.75 inches
Tire Size: 6.7" x 15"
<http://www.classiccardatabase.com/specs.php?series=4932&year=1952&model=27007>
Quote:And why does he change cars all the time if he's not up to something?
What did Allen do with this car?
What happened to the 1952 Kaiser?
Where did the Kaiser go?
If the Kaiser car does fit, then you must NOT acquit.
— Robert Peter Ackerman
Citations
Graysmith, Robert. Zodiac. New York: St. Martin’s, 1986.
(Page refs. to movie tie-in paperback ed., New York: Berkley, 2007.)
Graysmith, Robert. Zodiac Unmasked. New York: Berkley, 2002.
(Page refs. to movie tie-in paperback ed., New York: Berkley, 2007.)
The Zodiac Case Solution – TWELVE MORE VICTIMS
(A "Little List," if you will)
1. There is a reason why Bletchley Park employed majors in the Humanities: literature and poetry, in addition to mathematics, and a reason why Bletchley successfully solved WWII ciphers and codes.
2. Despite a case being decades cold, don't be certain a citizen has not already offered the solution, sitting overlooked inside one of the FBI or other L.E. networks. To be sure, much of the bravado re: "bad" suspects on discussion forums is less about zodiac-case-facts . com and more about hedge-our-bets-until-the-authorities-tell-us-otherwise . com. (Oh, do let us know when that direct-to-FBI deep blue modem starts buzzing.)
3. Beware those bearing "facts" but no proofs who state that your solution is invalid because you didn't come to the case with a mind tabula rasa (as defined by their clique). If you first learned about the topic by reading a particular book, seeing a particular movie, or visiting a particular Web site, etc. that the dissenting "fact" purveyors dislike, then according to them, all your ensuing premises and conclusions must be prima facie invalid.
4. Attention cipher & crime solvers! Per the many frustrated and grousing posters in amateur Zodiac research land: if you arrive at The Solution, you mustn't claim it as such. . . . Like them, you are to swear allegiance to uncertainty and ignorance (making these posters feel they're in good company), then come on hands and knees beneath their Web thrones of pontification so that in the unlikely event that you're onto something, they can deign to pass judgment and misappropriate choice ideas for them-sorry-selves!
5. The sociological phenomenon of groupthink applies more than ever in this age of partisan online social networks. Just because you're a member of a research group or crowd-sourcing message board doesn't mean, ipso facto, that the Answer (if and when it arrives) must naturally arise from YOUR group or even will be recognized as the Answer by any of YOUR members.
6. The Zodiac Case new Catch-22: You won't receive much attention for your solution unless you have a book deal and seek media interest; but ... if the amateur research community anticipates that you seek publication, are receiving press coverage, or simply wish to copyright your hard work and findings, then a noisy portion of trolls is likely to publicly attack, ridicule, and disparage you as intellectually dishonest – when you do have legitimate answers to show. (Note: All this, most of these nattering nay-sayers will accomplish while concealing their identities under pseudonyms on alleged "facts" sites built upon ill-gotten and undeserved Internet search engine rankings.)
7. Argument by attrition may be one approach to asserting evidence, but is not an excuse to falsely accuse and defame innocent people—LIVING people and their descendents. Furthermore, argument by "See-They-Haven't-Sued-Me-So-I-Must-Be-On-To-Something" just isn't a rational argument at all. The ad hominem fallacy – avoid its use; expose the self-proclaimed "experts" when they use it.
8. If the UNSUB gives little evidence of being a super-villain (which is a safe bet) be prepared for all manner of amateurs to demonstrate their cleverness by divining clues from aerial maps, mathemagical date & gematric alpha-numeric gymnastics, comic book plots, and butterfly wing spots.
"When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras."
(Unless, of course, you are on the Serengeti.)
Additional advice to forensic amateurs who weigh the possibility of guilt and eliminate suspects based upon:
(a) Exclusionary profiling—pedophile vs. serial killer of adults;
(b) Alleged absence of a deathbed confession (though three "officially" unsolved ciphers exist!);
(c) Eyewitness testimony – especially from well-meaning but possibly misled minors re: the finer details of body & facial features – especially through a second floor window, at a downward angle, from a distance of ~60 ft. across a street, at night, with or without climate precipitation, under poor lighting conditions;
(d) Faith in the provenance & quality of conventional (standard, traditional, etc.) "evidence" from a confounding multi-decades-old cold case, notorious around the world, second, arguably, only to Jack the Ripper. Hello! Can you say approximation of a "perfect storm breakdown" in evidentiary protocol: a critical inconsistency in the very existence of, uncorrupted gathering of, processing of, and isolation of – PROOF!
DON'T quit your day jobs!
9. Beware those who have euphemisms for TOO MANY COINCIDENCES! (Zynchronicity – Oh, please.) These are the same detective geniuses fooled by a wig and a phony beard. Imagine that! – a psychopath of above average intelligence employing a disguise of fake hair!
10. Be vigilant against pedantic hypocrites (some even touting advanced degrees) claiming to instruct you on "Confirmation Bias," "POI Blindness," "Semmelweis Reflex," "Cipher Gurus,"** "Moral Compasses," "Ladders of Inference," and all the while breaking every rung they clumsily attempt to scale – until it's abundantly clear that they remain directionless, blathering in the muck of mass suggestion/hypnosis with little to show but a nasty self-inflicted bump upon their heads.
11. Caution: Some people will forever bandy the acronym, “DNA” about as if it were incontestable, a priori, even Divine Truth. Sure, when properly applied and interpreted, DNA analysis is a great forensic tool – just like computers; and just like computers: GARBAGE IN = GARBAGE OUT.
12. Consider yourself forewarned: If you have uncovered clues and reached solutions that help to unravel the mystery behind a cold case, turn your work in to the Federal Bureau, police and sheriffs' departments but don't expect to hear anything back . . . ever.
Forum: General Discussion
Forum: General Discussion
— Robert Peter Ackerman
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Forum: Online Resources
Thanks to Seagull for locating this article:
Forum: David Martin
Thanks to Tracers for sharing this! ....originally posted @ Zodiackiller.com
Forum: The Investigators
Some information about "John":
http://www.asqde.org/about/presidents/shimoda.html
A good article about him: http://www.asqde.org/about/ASO_award/articles/shimoda_article.pdf
This goes back to 1965, co-written by Shimoda. Very technical about Ball Point Inks: http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5287&context=jclc
Forum: The Investigators
Note in this photo, the fence (although redesigned), is in the background. That is basically the side of a hill that today, drops to an athletic field. Looks like some of the trees remain to this day. Also, look at the direction the lady in the photo is looking:
zk.com
Here is the same area today...note the fence and the slight curve of the sidewalk with the photo below:
At night AFTER lights were installed:
via google
Forum: Cheri Jo Bates
Forum: Paul Avery
Anyone with contacts for surviving family, friends and acquaintances of Arthur Leigh Allen (including, Mr. Donald "Don" Cheney, Mr. Santo "Sandy" Panzarella, and Mr. Robert "Rob" Huffman) should refer them to my presentation here. If you know them well enough, ask them anything they might recollect about this 1952 Kaiser that is mysteriously absent from all of the many reports on Allen: whether those of law enforcement, Robert Graysmith's books, or Mr. Cheney's answers specific to automobiles in Tom Voigt's Q&A transcript. Allen occasionally had permission from some friends to drive their vehicles. To whom did this car belong if not Allen?
What did Allen do with this car?
What happened to the 1952 Kaiser?
Where did the Kaiser go?
— Robert Peter Ackerman
* Vehicle color specs revised based upon expertise provided by Jack Mueller, KFOCI Club Historian
Forum: Cheri Jo Bates
Forum: General Discussion
Tables 7, 8, and 9 present Zodiac killer phonologic specimens that I do not intend as exclusive proof for identifying the perpetrator. I do not make the categorical claim that the Zodiac imparts a conscious or sub-conscious revelation with each utterance of \lē\ and \lā\. The conclusions from my other research—some uploaded as Web presentations—I arrived at independent of this subject linguistic data. With an objective for completeness, I have included all occurrences of \lē\ and \lā\ in the Zodiac’s articulations across all written and spoken communication. The only exceptions include correctly spelled locale names: Lake Berryessa, Lake Tahoe, Vallejo, and proper nouns in envelope addresses: Daily Enterprise and Los Angeles.
The skeptics are free to ignore the single entry from my own 340 decipherment: Table 8 (7). The fact remains, however, that the Zodiac, when writing the Dripping Pen greeting card and the Melvin Belli letter, uses language that presents himself at his most emotively self-reflective. If the Table 8 entries for “lonely” (twice) in the brief Dripping Pen card or repetitive entries for “please help me” (thrice) in the single page Belli letter do not seem curious enough to the skeptics, then they can concentrate on the many diverse and interesting specimens in Tables 7 & 9.
Table 9 includes all articulations of \lē\ and \lā\ that are free of spelling errors and not included in Table 8. A few of these specimens derive from the Zodiac directly quoting The Mikado libretto (52-55) and Badlands blurb (59)—specimens therefore less likely to share the potential significance of utterances originating from the Zodiac and/or presenting his own misspellings. No instances of \lē\ or \lā\ are reported in the Zodiac’s telephonic transcriptions per Vallejo PD switchboard operator, Nancy Slover* and Napa PD dispatcher, officer David Slaight.
I do believe that the data from all three tables – evaluated in aggregate – lend further credence to my research conclusions that Arthur Leigh (Lee) Allen is the Zodiac Killer.
The cynics will be quick to remonstrate that most English adverbs and many adjectives end in -ly, and therefore the phonological analysis cannot be of consequence. On the contrary, with the Zodiac Killer case we have a serial killer unlike any other with respect to the scope of communication that he directed at victims, law enforcement, the media and public. Consider Table 7 and the copious amount of misspelled words ending in -ly. The Zodiac did not just write – he wrote many words. He did not just use words ending in -ly – he chose to use many of them; and he misspelled many of them, likely intentionally.
I am uploading the tables at this time because I may reference them further at some future date. As with all of my work: These images are not to be embedded on any site outside of ZodiacKillerTRUTH. If this website were somehow unavailable for hyper-linking, then a clickable link via the Photobucket image path should be provided, accompanied with citation.
— Robert Peter Ackerman
* The phoneme sequence in the words, “mile east” is a possibility, but likely inadvertent; and Ms. Slover never, to my knowledge, suggested that the Zodiac pronounced any unusual stress in the word, “millimeter.”
-------------------------------------------
— Graysmith, Robert. Zodiac Unmasked. New York: Berkley, 2002.
(Page ref. to movie tie-in paperback ed., New York: Berkley, 2007; bold emphasis added.)
Forum: Forensic Linguistics
While we await honest, conscientious, and forthcoming citizens to step up and tell us what they know about Arthur Leigh Allen and the '52 Kaiser – because the photograph doesn't lie – I'm setting up this Lake Berryessa thread as a necessary progression of my theory emerging from inferences based upon prospective evidence. If you have not yet, please visit the Cheri Jo Bates forum and my topic of investigation: Studebaker – A LOOK-ALIKE – How about a 1952 Kaiser?
The photo reveals that Allen not only operated a '52 Kaiser in the 1960s but that he was inclined to use this car for his recreational skin/scuba diving excursions.
Robert Graysmith quoting a conversation with Det. Sgt. John Lynch, Vallejo PD:
"He's had a lot of cars though," I interjected. "He's got four now."
"Oh, I didn't know that," said Lynch.
I thought to myself that Lynch had cleared Allen because he did not match Lynch's visual impression of the killer.
Lynch's replacements over the years did not go back and check the early suspects cleared by Lynch.
When Lynch concludes: "Real old, dirty car, that didn't even remotely resemble—" he is grasping that he cannot match Allen's "scuba gear" car to the possible "Zodiac" vehicles reported by witnesses on the evening of the Blue Rock Springs shootings: July 4-5, 1969—two months and three weeks prior to the Lake Berryessa stabbings.
In Zodiac Unmasked, Graysmith relates the encounter between Det. Lynch and Arthur Leigh Allen after the Lake Berryessa attack and describes Allen going "over to the back of his station wagon . . . ."
But was it a "station wagon"? — Does Lynch specify the model of automobile in a report somewhere?
Did Lynch get a look at the wheels? Was the "Real old, dirty car" in fact, Allen's '52 Kaiser still running but with one slightly narrower front tire?
Robert Graysmith:Quote:The crime-lab technicians discovered tire tracks from the attacker's car and made plaster casts, "moulages." There were two different-size tires on the front, very worn. Width between the wheels was listed by the police as fifty-seven inches.
The disparity in tire size on the same axle presents further evidence—together with variant tread design, wear, and the modest width of the tires—that the unknown vehicle is an old car (relative to 1969), still operational obviously, but likely to display multiple signs of disrepair. If money and resources: availability of replacement parts, etc. were not an issue, then presumably the owner of the vehicle would, at the very least, desire the larger width tire on both sides of the same axle.
Napa County Sheriff's Department Report on Case No. 105907
Reporting Officers: Dave Collins & Ray Land; Recording Officer: Dave Collins; 9/29/1969
Department of Justice, Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation Report No. 1-15-311-F9-5861
Reported Assigned to: Melvin H. Nicolai, Special Agent; 10/3/1969
<http://www.classiccardatabase.com/specs.php?series=5052&year=1951&model=26996>
• 1952 Kaiser Virginian Special Series 521 Sedan: Front Tread: 58 inches; Rear Tread: 58.75 inches
Tire Size: 6.7" x 15"
<http://www.classiccardatabase.com/specs.php?series=4931&year=1952&model=27002>
• 1952 Kaiser Virginian DeLuxe Series 522 Sedan: Front Tread: 58 inches; Rear Tread: 58.75 inches
Tire Size: 6.7" x 15"
<http://www.classiccardatabase.com/specs.php?series=4932&year=1952&model=27007>
Quote:And why does he change cars all the time if he's not up to something?
What did Allen do with this car?
What happened to the 1952 Kaiser?
Where did the Kaiser go?
If the Kaiser car does fit, then you must NOT acquit.
— Robert Peter Ackerman
Citations
Graysmith, Robert. Zodiac. New York: St. Martin’s, 1986.
(Page refs. to movie tie-in paperback ed., New York: Berkley, 2007.)
Graysmith, Robert. Zodiac Unmasked. New York: Berkley, 2002.
(Page refs. to movie tie-in paperback ed., New York: Berkley, 2007.)
