TIMECOP, interesting stuff. Personally I would need to see more, and see some unedited stuff, not just a few letters here and there compared to Zodiac's writing, but a full page or letter from your suspect.
Here are a couple problems I see in the side by side comparisons you did. Some of the samples that you list as 'ZODIAC WRITING' are NOT confirmed Zodiac writing. For example, you used part of a letter called 'the bleeding knife' letter, an unconfirmed Zodiac letter. I am very familiar with that letter, because I am the person that first published it after I obtained it from the FBI. Its an interesting letter, but definitely NOT confirmed to have been written by Zodiac. And in another sample, you used some of the Riverside desktop writing as a sample to compare against your suspect's. I personally think there is a good chance that Zodiac DID in fact write that, and so did writing expert Sherwood Morrill, but there are others who are not so sure.
Thanks for taking the time to look at these for me. I really apreciate your two cents here.
Yes , you are correct, I only used side by side so far, here is why:
First I wanted to set the focus on the similarities. I especially find my POI's K,F,R O and small g of most importance, here is why:
If you (I know you have) read all of the Zodiac letters you will see that there are several times that Zodiac changed his writing style. This is the first thing I noticed when I focused on just the Zodiac letters and none of the other things. I mean, I focused just on the letters. He has a way. and to me it appears as natural, of changing between types of character shapes and styles. Several of the letters even display change within the same letter, which often can mean that the writing was done over a period of time and that the writer had changed somehow( maybe took nap then returned to writing, or even medication). One of the letters that I reallyy doubted at first to be his for example is the '81' letter. I have since been chasing something that came along with that one, and I will discuss that later. But in reality, it would be, in MHO, hard really to not see all of the similar type letters in all of his works. Sometimes, it is only a few of those characters which even tie the letters together, so I know you understand that this is the reason most were lumped together as being his.
I did use Bleeding knife because of the 'F' especially, one area I think can expose the likelyhood that this should be examined by professionals, the goal I am aiming at here.
One of the reasons I was even working this area, is because my POI just happened to leave samples of his writing, in relation to code breaking,etc in a treasure huntwe were working(how we became friends). The hunt(s) I should say were basic armchair hunts, you probably know of one called TISOTGH and the other WLOG. While researching these(hiis TISOTGH was an expired hunt that he felt was a rigged hunt,this having what he called: Alternate location), I happened to throw a bunch of our notes together. This is one of the problems I have:
Many people display the same type of handwrittiing, as we all sit in a class room and learn the basics at a young age. Even some of his writing, especially when we were working together is hard to determine if it is his or mine . Yes, even I display some of the habits he does, but none of my writing displays the (identity) that those mentioned characters above do. Those characters are obvious in relation if you see how the experts tied the works together.
Long story short:
I would display larger shots of the writting, but face the problem of exposing my identity and his on the forum (not allowed) and so I have stuck to what I could do. Not to mention, I only have a few samples so far that I could find, but I did find some exciting new stuff I will share with you if you are interested. I had tossed alot away before I was on to him. I would not have even looked at any of this had my poi not "
Said:1) I am sick of living ,unwilling to die (Zodiac wrote this on the desk top)
2)turned out to have gone to school in a city where one of the letters came from (something I found as I began to dig)
3)looks exactly like the sketch(especially the new age progressed sketch matches exact) also something i discovered as I began to unravel his clues he has been giving me
4)I found his full name in runes on the excorcist letter
his name overlays the halloween card (key) stick figure
5)his name is the first crime scenes when setting N to O on the alphabet wheel in relation to marks on the wheel and the map (cant post this on forum)
6)The shape of diablo is his name in Tent runes and matched with staveless runes
7)the I am code says "(poi's first name)AM NAME" when doing two simple maneuvers that are suggested by the aries sybol (air 'E's) and using that symbol as none eles but an E
Symbols in norse tie my POI to this and the story of the Vallhalla ' Hall of the slain' and Ragnarok of Norse mythology, as well to El diablo,666,harmony of the soul to divinity(music values) etc. Its a deeper connection that I have shown to date
I hope you have a chance to read all the threads. Right now I am focusing on tying the POI to the Victims and so far I am off to a good start there, it is obvious as the site won't allow my new thread to post because it reveals to much about a victim an my POIS location. I do have more samples, I found where he posted the numeric values and the alphabet twice and I will post those soon (I still get no reply from law, but have a date I will keep with the locals soon, a date I chose where they will have it all explained to them).
None the less, his writing surely has some visible proof of change, but like I mention, those specific character above are the types that would have retained similarity if indeed he wrote those letters, so I focused there. Thanks for your opinion, it is valued and appreciated greatly. I am going to have to take this up locally, I am just researching local area crimes to see if maybe I can get him another way, as well as looking for anything that can be used further for samples. I got the the vibe he still kills, my intuition says he never stopped.
Hopefully what matters most is that my POI has his DNA compared to some of the unsolved California crimes, such as Arlis Perry church murder. I feel that crime was the smoking Gun and I just feel he trips there to end his game.