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Post by Admin Horan on May 30, 2018 8:10:35 GMT -6
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Post by raemen2 on May 30, 2018 16:54:18 GMT -6
Uncanny resemblance! Of particular note - the eyes. While asymmetrical eyes are not that uncommon I'm wondering what the odds are here?
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Post by raemen2 on May 30, 2018 16:57:39 GMT -6
....it could be the angle of the photo but it appears that the right eyelid in the photo appears droopy... am I noticing that correctly?
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Post by Admin Horan on May 30, 2018 18:21:41 GMT -6
   Yup. Here are two more versions (thanks to member EKH for all of these!) I have a pic of his widow's peak I need to dig up. No doubt about it, his right eye AND ear are significantly lower than the left. Jebus. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he did shoot Stine. |
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Post by ekh on May 30, 2018 23:58:11 GMT -6
It could explain a few things. It may even answer why Paul Stine was killed.
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Post by Justin Case on Jun 1, 2018 18:58:10 GMT -6
It could explain a few things. It may even answer why Paul Stine was killed. Interesting...care to elaborate on the Paul Stine theory? |
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Post by Admin Horan on Jun 3, 2018 8:49:06 GMT -6
Some people, including his sister, believe that Paul may have been working on an "investigative journalism" piece that got him killed.
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Post by ekh on Jun 6, 2018 14:19:31 GMT -6
I would love to more about Paul Stine. I have read that Paul Stine may have gotten a contract at SF Chronicle too. Now this part is pure gossip (as far as I can tell), and from another message board, but I also read that people said, that she said, he was also in the drug scene. Also, a nephew claims they were throwing a party for Paul before his murder because he had just gotten a professorship. Now I think we can write off him actually getting a professorship, but to steal a famous quote "the funny thing is..." the job at SF Chronicle and the drug angle BOTH fit with the hoax. Even if none of that's true, SF Chronicle-professorship-drugs, his death still gave the suspect at Lake Berryessa an alibi for NOT being the "Zodiac."
If I remember correctly, Paul Stine picked up his last fare on his way to a specific location, someone called the company for a cab. Maybe there's something important there, because what I'd really like to know is if it was common for cab drivers to pick up fares while being dispatched to a location.
For what it's worth, Joe Stine, Paul's brother lived in Napa on Foothill blvd.
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Post by Admin Horan on Jun 7, 2018 10:21:13 GMT -6
Stine was finishing up his PhD, so I'd say, he had probably landed a one-year post-doc fellowship, or something.
Oh yeah, cab drivers will almost ALWAYS pick up a bird in the hand on their way to a bird in the bush.
The thing is, one surviving victim of the Taxicab Bandit described him as "oriental looking," which the shooter observed by the kids at Washington and Cherry was not. So, as bad as I hate to admit it, Snook is beginning to look like the "most likely" suspect ...
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Post by ekh on Jun 7, 2018 12:09:37 GMT -6
I think the victim of the "taxi bandit" also described a man that was MUCH thinner than the suspect the Paul Stine witnesses describe.
Okay so that's new information to me. I didn't know he was even in school. So perhaps there is some merit to the professorship claim. And honestly, I think the kids got a much better look at the suspect then people realize. I have read (and of course, now I can't find the source to cite, will update) some of the witness actually went down stairs and watched from the first floor window with the lights off and not knowing the cab driver was shot and instead of stabbed, the oldest witness actually followed the man outside and watched him turn north on Cherry Street. Is this correct ? |
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Post by Admin Horan on Jun 7, 2018 16:24:31 GMT -6
Oh, yeah. Stine was wrapping up his PhD and had just started with the Chronicle. Did you know he graduated from the same University where George Hodel earned his medical degree? That George Hodel started the column that Herb Caen took over? That Hodel got his stories by moonlighting as a cab driver at night while he went to med school during the day? The same territory Stine covered in HIS hack?
Yes, the kids got a very good look at Stine's killer. They're still alive, of course.
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Post by Admin Horan on Jun 29, 2018 9:17:03 GMT -6
Was Snook basically a good guy, or a bad guy? No one--NO ONE--is willing to talk about him. Not his family. Not his friends. No one. Mention his name, and people hang up.
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Post by ekh on Jun 29, 2018 12:16:09 GMT -6
Since it appears the letter writer made efforts to prove he was the same person who wrote a previous letter, I'm beginning to wonder about the piece of shirt. Since the police supposed believed there really was a serial killer named Zodiac, could the piece of shirt been sent to prove to someone else, someone the 340 was intended for ? Now, Tony Poe and perhaps others, would send severed ears with their reports (or so the legend goes) could this be a way to mimic that ?
Was he trying to prove that Paul Stine had been taken care of ?
Would he have known that the murder of Paul Stine would kinda sorta look like the taxi bandit but still needed to show it was him ? |
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Post by Admin Horan on Jul 1, 2018 11:07:22 GMT -6
Prove to whom? I suggest that since he put "proof" in all the other letters that he Author of the letters was a hoaxer, not a killer, then the three specific pieces of shirt mailed in "Zodiac" letters actually prove that the Author was a hoaxer. How? Why? Easy. IF he had mailed in pieces from that first big rectangle of cloth that was torn off at the scene, then that would be evidence of guilt. the real purpose of grabbing two more pieces while the shirt was in the lab was to prove, if necessary (if he got caught) that the Author was a hoaxer. Even if he was the killer, he could prove that the Author of the letters "wasn't."
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Post by Admin Horan on Jul 1, 2018 11:15:32 GMT -6
Harlekwin: Yes, Zayed is the prime suspect. But it turns out that Snook (the original author of the Zodiac Letters) also looks exactly like the composite sketch.
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