Post by Admin Horan on Apr 27, 2015 8:22:17 GMT -6
This document seems to have been a proposed outline for a "Zodiac Killer" book by Paul Avery. Note how Avery tries to insert himself in the "Zodiac Case" as a sort of co-investigator with law enforcement—something Graysmith emulate in his own book. In fact, it seems that Graysmith either borrowed, or "stole," this from Avery, since Graysmith quotes from it.
Also note that Avery's outline is full of half-truths and outright fabrications. The entire document can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/112412867@N06/sets/72157639883525773
Relevant excerpts include:
"Zodiac Case Resume" by Paul Avery. May 1, 1971
Following is a chronological résumé of the Zodiac case to date, including synopses of both his known crimes, as well as other incidents relevant to the case and its investigation— specifically the numerous pieces of bizarre, boastful correspondence he has sent to newspapers (the San Francisco Chronicle in particular,) police and individual persons (including this reporter.):
December 20, 1968:
The first known Zodiac crime . . . a double murder, occurred this date, although at the time, he made no public claim of it (supposition is that at this point in his psychopathic development, he had not yet found—or at least chosen to call himself by—the name, "Zodiac") and it was not linked to him for seven more months.
. . . The crime occurred at (approximately) 11 p.m. just off Lake Herman Road . . . a "lover's lane." The victims were on their first date . . . had spotless reputations in every way, typical "good kids" . . . Why they chose to go to Lake Herman Road is quite obvious—they wanted to "neck." Faraday parked in the lovers lane . . . It is assumed all four doors of the vehicle were locked when the killer approached it. To force them out of it, he fired two shots into the vehicle. They emerged from the right front door. It is assumed Faraday was shot first . . . Miss Jensen ran and was shot five times in the back, falling dead 20 some feet from the right side of the vehicle . . . he made no attempt to rob or molest either of the victims or the vehicle . . . a woman resident of the area passed by and saw the two bodies by the station wagon . . . Casings of 10 .22 caliber J.C. Higgins pistol bullets were recovered, all outside the vehicle . . . From the victims and vehicle, 7 slugs were recovered . . . nothing of significance in the way of foot prints or tire tracks . . . revealed no reasonable motive other than by person or persons unknown for the sheer thrill of killing . . . a youth who had parked in the same spot earlier, at about 9:30 p.m. . . . and the couple for intuitive reaction more than for any other reason became frightened . . . (3)
BRS
. . . The crime occurred at (approximately) 12:05 a.m. in . . . another well-known "lover's lane" . . . In being with Mageau, Mrs. Ferrin was stepping out on the other man [her husband]. I am not certain whether they had been out together before, but Mageau said later they had gone there to "make out" He said they had been at the death site but a few minutes when the car used by the killer arrived and parked about six feet away with a lone male occupant he described as a short, stocky WM. There was no communication between the occupants of the two vehicles (the killer's car was described as a darkish brown car similar in design to the 1963 Chevrolet Corvair in which the victims were seated and which was owned by Mrs. Ferrin.) Almost immediately, the killer drove off. He returned about ten minutes later, parked about 12 feet away behind Mrs. Ferrin's car. [no mention of "spotlight"] Suddenly the killer got out with a flashlight in his hand and approached the victims' car, beaming the light in and through an open window. A volley of an estimated four or five shots was fired at the victims who were wounded critically. The killer then turned and started walking away. Mageau said he screamed and the killer turned and came back, fired two more shots at each of them, and then left. Mageau staggered out of the car and a passing car with three WMJs saw what had happened and alerted authorities. (3) At 12:40 a.m. . . . the Vallejo Police Department switchboard received a telephone call from a male voice. The caller told the officer operator (Patrolman Edward Rust) "I want to report a double murder. If you will go one mile east on Columbus Parkway to (a) (the) (??) public park you will find the kids in a brown car. They were shot with a nine millimeter Luger. I also killed those kids last year. Good-bye." This was the first connection between the two crimes, although evidence would have shown similarities. The killer had fired a barrage of shots. Nine 9 mm. casings were recovered . . . seven . . . slugs . . . No meaningful footprints or tire tracks . . . robbery or a sexual attack ruled out, investigation turned to other possible motives such as jealousy or revenge . . . Eventually, after checking routine suspects and other routine leads it was concluded because of the bizarre telephone call that the crime had been committed by some maniac. Shortly this proved to be true.
July 31, 1969 (a Thursday) Three separate letters were received by three newspapers . . . Dear Editor This is the murderer . . . [all seven "facts" listed verbatim] . . . The letters went on to give more facts of the two crimes and a threat. They ordered the newspapers to write stories about and to publish immediately the cryptograms . . . The killer (he did know things about both crimes not revealed to the public) (Despite comments by Vallejo Police Chief to the contrary to the Vallejo Nwspapers) was both overtly and quite obviously crazy and was going to make it a game to catch him . . . The letters, all hand printed, did contain clues and provided physical evidence however. Unfortunately, no fingerprints were found. Apparently, from reading Chief Stiltz's comments, sent a follow-up letter to, the following week, the Times-Herald (copy attached) in which he gave even more details . . . Mageau leaped backwards over into the back seat. This had not been known, but it was confirmed by Mageau as having happened. He also bragged [about pencel light on gun] . . . It is not known if he did use this unusual method of aiming, but at least gave an indication of his imagination. Most important to note is that it was in the letter to the Times-Herald that the killer (previously dubbed the "code killer" and "cipher killer" by newspapers) for the first time gave himself the curious name . . . "The Zodiac" . . . (6)
Lake Berryessa
. . . A pattern seemed to be establishing itself . . . Investigation revealed they were merely and truly "good friends" (both devout Seventh Day Adventist Church members) who had chosen that spot to talk together . . . He then said simply, "I'm going to have to stab you people." . . . What was an excellently preserved crime scene . . . Shortly after the attack (7:40 p.m.) a male caller telephoned the Napa Police Department (the female operator believed it was a white man in his 20s) and stated, "I want to report a murder—no, a double murder. They are two miles north of Park Headquarters. They were in a white Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. I'm the one that did it." At the scene, it was discovered that the killer had written on the side of the door of the car . . . By knife . . . The telephone call was traced to a pay booth in Napa and a possible palm print of Zodiac was obtained . . . Also discovered was a bootprint . . . unusual Air Force issued shoe called a Wing Walker . . . As before, neither victim was sexually molested, although Hartnell was robbed of his small amount of change and his keys. There was no apparent pattern to the stab wounds, particularly any indicating that sexual organs were a specific target . . . CI&I assigned Agent Mel Nicolai to work with Narlow . . . (7)
PAUL STINE
. . . Investigation revealed the killer flagged down the cab in the hotel district . . . Stine logged the destination on his tripsheet as Washington and Cherry Streets . . . The crime occurred at exactly 9:55 p.m. on Washington near Maple a block away from Cherry Street . . . The gunshot was heard by persons in a house . . . These three witnesses said they saw a WM, 35-40 years, 5'-8", heavy build, crew-cut reddish blond hair, wearing dark trousers and a dark navy blue or black parka type jacket, get out of the right front door of the cab, wipe off handle with a piece of cloth. Before getting out of the vehicle, killer seemed to be struggling with the victim. The most important piece of evidence in the entire case was discovered in the cab, a fingerprint found on top of blood on the dashboard of the cab. Elimination prints of all persons who had gone near the vehicle were obtained, as well as prints of the victim, and none matched. It is the logical assumption that the print (described by SFPD as "one bloody critical" ["partial"]) is that of Zodiac. There was no immediate connection of Zodiac to the case, however. Because Stine's wallet was missing and no money was found, it was assumed the killing had occurred in the commission of a robbery . . . The robbery motive was initially pursued. (8) At this point, it should be stated that of all the investigators . . . Armstrong and Toschi stand head and shoulders above the rest . . . I cannot praise them too highly.
October 14, 1969 ( a Tuesday): SFPD's investigation of the Stine slaying as a robbery-murder ended with the morning delivery of mail to The San Francisco Chronicle. A letter . . . was opens by secretary Carol Fisher Cota. It read, in part . . . I am the murderer of the taxi driver over by Washington St & Maple St last night. To prove this . . . The letter went on to chide the SFPD for missing having caught him through carelessness, and there was also a terrifying threat . . . immediately telephoned the SFPD homicide detail. Through sheer accident, neither Armstrong nor Toschi was aware there had, in fact, been a piece of Stine's shirt missing. This was not visible at the scene and whoever removed the clothing at the morgue and packed it away in an evidence bag didn't think it significant and failed to inform them. The small swatch of bloodstained shirt material matched . . . and proved the the killer of the cabbie was Zodiac. The investigation immediately took a new direction. The Chronicle published a story about the Zodiac angle on Wednesday, October 15, 1969, but at police request withheld the part about the threat for two days . . . The State Attorney General's Office initiated an important step in the investigation—but unfortunately it was never followed up—by calling a conference . . . October 20, 1969 (9) . . . [Sam and Oakland PD episode] . . .
November 10, 1969 (A Monday) Public interest in Zodiac waned until this date when two separate pieces of correspondence from him were received by the CHRONICLE . . . The modus operandi of the letters was consistent (it always has been so, with one exception, which will be dealt with further on) One was a greeting card [dripping pen] . . . which contained a new cryptogram, and, as proof . . . another small swatch of Stine's shirt . . . With the clearing of the double murder, [in August] it is again unclear what, if anything, Zodiac meant . . .
December 20, 1969 (a Saturday): . . . Zodiac sent a Christmas note to attorney Melvin Belli . . . nice again there was a portion of Stine's bloodstained shirt . . .
April 21, 1970 (a Tuesday):
April 29, 1970 (a Wednesday): . . . Another greeting [dragon]card, but this time demanding the bus bomb threat be published and that Zodiac buttons be made up for people to wear . . . press reports indicated the bus bomb described was rather farfetched . . .
June 29, 1970 [map letter]
July 27, 1970 Two more letters to the CHRONICLE . . . ["little list" no mention of print]
. . . [Oct 31]A man named Phil Sins. . . . wrote me (at first anonymously) he believed Zodiac had killed a girl in Riverside . . . From the moment I was shown these letters, (actually the [Riverside] police thought in 1970 there was only one such letter—I found the others in their files) I felt Zodiac had written the notes . . . Then I came upon a photograph of a poem which had been carved (written) with a ball point pen on a library desk . . . Zodiac chose to remain silent for several months . . .
March 15, 1971 The Los Angeles TIMES was the recipient of a Zodiac letter . . . for the first time there was not a San Francisco postmark . . . He credited police rather than me with finding the [Riverside] connection.
March 22, 1971 A postcard addressed to "Paul Averly" (he misspelled my name in the Halloween communication also—probably knowing a reporter's byline ego . . . This is where the Zodiac case stands to date . . . I feel after having talked with you in person that your intention . . . I feel privileged that you have asked me to assist in he coordinated investigation as a sort-of special investigator and consultant on media relations and I look forward . . .
bcc: Chief Robert Houghton/Abe Mellinkoff, City Editor, The San Francisco CHRONICLE
Also note that Avery's outline is full of half-truths and outright fabrications. The entire document can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/112412867@N06/sets/72157639883525773
Relevant excerpts include:
"Zodiac Case Resume" by Paul Avery. May 1, 1971
Following is a chronological résumé of the Zodiac case to date, including synopses of both his known crimes, as well as other incidents relevant to the case and its investigation— specifically the numerous pieces of bizarre, boastful correspondence he has sent to newspapers (the San Francisco Chronicle in particular,) police and individual persons (including this reporter.):
December 20, 1968:
The first known Zodiac crime . . . a double murder, occurred this date, although at the time, he made no public claim of it (supposition is that at this point in his psychopathic development, he had not yet found—or at least chosen to call himself by—the name, "Zodiac") and it was not linked to him for seven more months.
. . . The crime occurred at (approximately) 11 p.m. just off Lake Herman Road . . . a "lover's lane." The victims were on their first date . . . had spotless reputations in every way, typical "good kids" . . . Why they chose to go to Lake Herman Road is quite obvious—they wanted to "neck." Faraday parked in the lovers lane . . . It is assumed all four doors of the vehicle were locked when the killer approached it. To force them out of it, he fired two shots into the vehicle. They emerged from the right front door. It is assumed Faraday was shot first . . . Miss Jensen ran and was shot five times in the back, falling dead 20 some feet from the right side of the vehicle . . . he made no attempt to rob or molest either of the victims or the vehicle . . . a woman resident of the area passed by and saw the two bodies by the station wagon . . . Casings of 10 .22 caliber J.C. Higgins pistol bullets were recovered, all outside the vehicle . . . From the victims and vehicle, 7 slugs were recovered . . . nothing of significance in the way of foot prints or tire tracks . . . revealed no reasonable motive other than by person or persons unknown for the sheer thrill of killing . . . a youth who had parked in the same spot earlier, at about 9:30 p.m. . . . and the couple for intuitive reaction more than for any other reason became frightened . . . (3)
BRS
. . . The crime occurred at (approximately) 12:05 a.m. in . . . another well-known "lover's lane" . . . In being with Mageau, Mrs. Ferrin was stepping out on the other man [her husband]. I am not certain whether they had been out together before, but Mageau said later they had gone there to "make out" He said they had been at the death site but a few minutes when the car used by the killer arrived and parked about six feet away with a lone male occupant he described as a short, stocky WM. There was no communication between the occupants of the two vehicles (the killer's car was described as a darkish brown car similar in design to the 1963 Chevrolet Corvair in which the victims were seated and which was owned by Mrs. Ferrin.) Almost immediately, the killer drove off. He returned about ten minutes later, parked about 12 feet away behind Mrs. Ferrin's car. [no mention of "spotlight"] Suddenly the killer got out with a flashlight in his hand and approached the victims' car, beaming the light in and through an open window. A volley of an estimated four or five shots was fired at the victims who were wounded critically. The killer then turned and started walking away. Mageau said he screamed and the killer turned and came back, fired two more shots at each of them, and then left. Mageau staggered out of the car and a passing car with three WMJs saw what had happened and alerted authorities. (3) At 12:40 a.m. . . . the Vallejo Police Department switchboard received a telephone call from a male voice. The caller told the officer operator (Patrolman Edward Rust) "I want to report a double murder. If you will go one mile east on Columbus Parkway to (a) (the) (??) public park you will find the kids in a brown car. They were shot with a nine millimeter Luger. I also killed those kids last year. Good-bye." This was the first connection between the two crimes, although evidence would have shown similarities. The killer had fired a barrage of shots. Nine 9 mm. casings were recovered . . . seven . . . slugs . . . No meaningful footprints or tire tracks . . . robbery or a sexual attack ruled out, investigation turned to other possible motives such as jealousy or revenge . . . Eventually, after checking routine suspects and other routine leads it was concluded because of the bizarre telephone call that the crime had been committed by some maniac. Shortly this proved to be true.
July 31, 1969 (a Thursday) Three separate letters were received by three newspapers . . . Dear Editor This is the murderer . . . [all seven "facts" listed verbatim] . . . The letters went on to give more facts of the two crimes and a threat. They ordered the newspapers to write stories about and to publish immediately the cryptograms . . . The killer (he did know things about both crimes not revealed to the public) (Despite comments by Vallejo Police Chief to the contrary to the Vallejo Nwspapers) was both overtly and quite obviously crazy and was going to make it a game to catch him . . . The letters, all hand printed, did contain clues and provided physical evidence however. Unfortunately, no fingerprints were found. Apparently, from reading Chief Stiltz's comments, sent a follow-up letter to, the following week, the Times-Herald (copy attached) in which he gave even more details . . . Mageau leaped backwards over into the back seat. This had not been known, but it was confirmed by Mageau as having happened. He also bragged [about pencel light on gun] . . . It is not known if he did use this unusual method of aiming, but at least gave an indication of his imagination. Most important to note is that it was in the letter to the Times-Herald that the killer (previously dubbed the "code killer" and "cipher killer" by newspapers) for the first time gave himself the curious name . . . "The Zodiac" . . . (6)
Lake Berryessa
. . . A pattern seemed to be establishing itself . . . Investigation revealed they were merely and truly "good friends" (both devout Seventh Day Adventist Church members) who had chosen that spot to talk together . . . He then said simply, "I'm going to have to stab you people." . . . What was an excellently preserved crime scene . . . Shortly after the attack (7:40 p.m.) a male caller telephoned the Napa Police Department (the female operator believed it was a white man in his 20s) and stated, "I want to report a murder—no, a double murder. They are two miles north of Park Headquarters. They were in a white Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. I'm the one that did it." At the scene, it was discovered that the killer had written on the side of the door of the car . . . By knife . . . The telephone call was traced to a pay booth in Napa and a possible palm print of Zodiac was obtained . . . Also discovered was a bootprint . . . unusual Air Force issued shoe called a Wing Walker . . . As before, neither victim was sexually molested, although Hartnell was robbed of his small amount of change and his keys. There was no apparent pattern to the stab wounds, particularly any indicating that sexual organs were a specific target . . . CI&I assigned Agent Mel Nicolai to work with Narlow . . . (7)
PAUL STINE
. . . Investigation revealed the killer flagged down the cab in the hotel district . . . Stine logged the destination on his tripsheet as Washington and Cherry Streets . . . The crime occurred at exactly 9:55 p.m. on Washington near Maple a block away from Cherry Street . . . The gunshot was heard by persons in a house . . . These three witnesses said they saw a WM, 35-40 years, 5'-8", heavy build, crew-cut reddish blond hair, wearing dark trousers and a dark navy blue or black parka type jacket, get out of the right front door of the cab, wipe off handle with a piece of cloth. Before getting out of the vehicle, killer seemed to be struggling with the victim. The most important piece of evidence in the entire case was discovered in the cab, a fingerprint found on top of blood on the dashboard of the cab. Elimination prints of all persons who had gone near the vehicle were obtained, as well as prints of the victim, and none matched. It is the logical assumption that the print (described by SFPD as "one bloody critical" ["partial"]) is that of Zodiac. There was no immediate connection of Zodiac to the case, however. Because Stine's wallet was missing and no money was found, it was assumed the killing had occurred in the commission of a robbery . . . The robbery motive was initially pursued. (8) At this point, it should be stated that of all the investigators . . . Armstrong and Toschi stand head and shoulders above the rest . . . I cannot praise them too highly.
October 14, 1969 ( a Tuesday): SFPD's investigation of the Stine slaying as a robbery-murder ended with the morning delivery of mail to The San Francisco Chronicle. A letter . . . was opens by secretary Carol Fisher Cota. It read, in part . . . I am the murderer of the taxi driver over by Washington St & Maple St last night. To prove this . . . The letter went on to chide the SFPD for missing having caught him through carelessness, and there was also a terrifying threat . . . immediately telephoned the SFPD homicide detail. Through sheer accident, neither Armstrong nor Toschi was aware there had, in fact, been a piece of Stine's shirt missing. This was not visible at the scene and whoever removed the clothing at the morgue and packed it away in an evidence bag didn't think it significant and failed to inform them. The small swatch of bloodstained shirt material matched . . . and proved the the killer of the cabbie was Zodiac. The investigation immediately took a new direction. The Chronicle published a story about the Zodiac angle on Wednesday, October 15, 1969, but at police request withheld the part about the threat for two days . . . The State Attorney General's Office initiated an important step in the investigation—but unfortunately it was never followed up—by calling a conference . . . October 20, 1969 (9) . . . [Sam and Oakland PD episode] . . .
November 10, 1969 (A Monday) Public interest in Zodiac waned until this date when two separate pieces of correspondence from him were received by the CHRONICLE . . . The modus operandi of the letters was consistent (it always has been so, with one exception, which will be dealt with further on) One was a greeting card [dripping pen] . . . which contained a new cryptogram, and, as proof . . . another small swatch of Stine's shirt . . . With the clearing of the double murder, [in August] it is again unclear what, if anything, Zodiac meant . . .
December 20, 1969 (a Saturday): . . . Zodiac sent a Christmas note to attorney Melvin Belli . . . nice again there was a portion of Stine's bloodstained shirt . . .
April 21, 1970 (a Tuesday):
April 29, 1970 (a Wednesday): . . . Another greeting [dragon]card, but this time demanding the bus bomb threat be published and that Zodiac buttons be made up for people to wear . . . press reports indicated the bus bomb described was rather farfetched . . .
June 29, 1970 [map letter]
July 27, 1970 Two more letters to the CHRONICLE . . . ["little list" no mention of print]
. . . [Oct 31]A man named Phil Sins. . . . wrote me (at first anonymously) he believed Zodiac had killed a girl in Riverside . . . From the moment I was shown these letters, (actually the [Riverside] police thought in 1970 there was only one such letter—I found the others in their files) I felt Zodiac had written the notes . . . Then I came upon a photograph of a poem which had been carved (written) with a ball point pen on a library desk . . . Zodiac chose to remain silent for several months . . .
March 15, 1971 The Los Angeles TIMES was the recipient of a Zodiac letter . . . for the first time there was not a San Francisco postmark . . . He credited police rather than me with finding the [Riverside] connection.
March 22, 1971 A postcard addressed to "Paul Averly" (he misspelled my name in the Halloween communication also—probably knowing a reporter's byline ego . . . This is where the Zodiac case stands to date . . . I feel after having talked with you in person that your intention . . . I feel privileged that you have asked me to assist in he coordinated investigation as a sort-of special investigator and consultant on media relations and I look forward . . .
bcc: Chief Robert Houghton/Abe Mellinkoff, City Editor, The San Francisco CHRONICLE
