- Joined
- Mar 3, 2014
- Messages
- 57,511
- Reaction score
- 21,592
nice work, Cubo
Blue Rock Springs has an awesome golf course btw.
Thanks. Although I can't take any credit for piecing stuff together. Since the first Graysmith book came out on Zodiac I've always had an interest. I cite that as one of the two most frightening books I've ever read. Never gave a shit about the Unabomber story. Thanks to this site Unazod, which is now defunct, I got turned on to the possibility it was Ted. At first I thought it sounded like typical internet stupidity, made even more obvious by the Tylenol stuff being lumped in. But the more one digs the more one sees far more connections than exculpatory evidence. So even if neither case is ever solved, this all makes for some fun sleuthing!
There's one theory I've hatched that I haven't seen elsewhere. One of the oddest things about Zodiac, if not the oddest, is his hood/costume worn at Lake Berryessa.
Who would do that? Why? If you're murdering people you don't need a disguise. If anything it would be highly conspicuous so you wouldn't just be walking around in it. And if you did want to cover your face then why not just a ski mask?
In Ted's cabin a homemade hood was found. I've never known anyone to have or make such a thing. And would one's natural incliination be to make the eye-slits rectangular? Maybe it's just easier to sew that way. Still though, who makes a hood to begin with?
My theory is that Ted knew he was moving to a cold-weather climate and made the hood for that purpose, not as a disguise for killing. So maybe he just wants to test out fit and function and decides to wear it for the attack. Then when they survive long enough to provide that sketch, Ted ditches the hood and later makes another one for his new life in Montana.
PS. In case it wasn't spelled out clearly in the previous post on the Tylenol murders, Ted makes more sense when you look at it as his intended target being the corporation Johnson & Johnson. The deaths were simply a means to that end. Like Unabomber targeting people for their professions was also an attack on "the system". That's why it wasn't important to actually witness the deaths.