None of the Fingerprints Match

Anon:

Okay. I'll bite. BTW, there are MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE UNSOLVED MURDERS IN NAPA.  That's  a shocking  number for such a small town. 25 was just the number McMahon and Schulman looked into. Schulman writes his own books, by the way.

Your Stewart Ranch is more interesting than perhaps you know. Certainly more interesting than you let on. Here are some amazing coincidences:

1. Dennis Land and Phillip Stewart could pass for identical twins. Ray Land and Arthur Leigh Allen could pass for identical twins.

2. The Land Ranch is a few miles north of the Stewart Ranch, just outside Yountville, on route 29. If you look at the rectangle formed by route 29 in Napa County and route 12 in Sonoma county, route 121 on the south side of the rectangle is the first opportunity to drive west over the mountains into Sonoma County, and Oakville Road is the first opportunity to drive west over the mountains on the north side of that rectangle. The intersections of route 12 and route 121, and route 12 and Oakville road, are where the bodies were dumped in the Santa Rosa hitchhiker slayings. That's called "geographical profiling,"

3. As an avid hunter and diver, Allen was well known to the deputies and park rangers of Napa and Sonoma counties. WELL known. Hal Snook, the Land brothers, and Phillip Stewart all knew each other from these activities, and from Snook's sporting goods store in Napa. All but Allen were also familiar with Snook from their classes in Criminal Justice at Napa Junior College. It is highly, highly, highly probable that David Faraday knew Snook. There was no official Scout affiliated Explorer program in the area at that time (there has always been a looseness in their association, anyway) but if there was any kind of Explorers getting off the ground at that time, it would have involved Snook and Faraday. The explorers have always welcomed girls, and David may have been recruiting Betty Lou. I'm having a haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard time getting anyone to say one way or the other if Snook was ever a Scout leader. The question interests me for several very, very good reasons.

4. Hal Snook was a veteran of the jungle fighting on Mindanao in 1945. The communists were of more concern to his commanders than the remaining Japanese soldiers, and the Amercan forces were there to ensure that the anti-Communist Tad-Tads would dominate once the Japanese were driven out (this fight had been going on since long before the war started.) Jim Phillips Crabtree served in that exact same theater in the 1960s, fighting alongside and training and equipping the sons of the Tad-Tads that Snook had fought alongside. They believe that the enemies they kill will become their slaves in Paradise, BTW. In other words, Crabtree and Snook had a LOT in common. Crabtree somehow got a job at a newspaper. He may have learned what he needed to know to land that job from Snook. Snook may have learned a lot of what he knew about the chemistry of explosives and narcotics from Crabtree (Crabtree was a highly intelligent former Green Beret.) Crabtree matched the description Mike Mageau gave to police of the shooter at BRS. He also described the killers car in terms of "resembling Darlene's ex's car" according to some. He is BY FAR the best suspect in Darlene's murder. His adoptive father was a CHiP in Northern California, and may have been friends with Snook, who ran two small town newspapers in the same neck of the woods when Crabtree was a boy.

5. Snook spent a LOT of time with boys and young men. 'Sall I'm saying. But Dennis Land was definitely gay (of the he-man woman hater type) and Faraday, a varsity wrestler, only went out on one date with a girl his whole life. His own mother said he never showed any interest in girls until Betty Lou, and one reason for his interest might have been that there would have been zero chance of sex on her part. All of the witnesses who saw them parked along the highway that night said they were sitting in their own seats, behaving themselves. Crabtree obviously had serious, serious problems getting along with women. Ditto for Allen, who molested mostly boys. And Snook seems to have been, at least unofficially, a kind of "scoutmaster" for these guys.

Do you know anything about Phillip Stewart's personal life? Any reason for suspecting him of murder, other than finding a body on his family's ranch?

Thanks for your comment!

The points on the map make a radian angle is the answer to your map question

Tom,

I've read all your books on this subject. Thank you! Very interesting read.

I believe this is the first time I've read you mentioning Mount Diablo though. Can you elaborate?

Pop:

Yeah. I wrote three books. This website is the footnotes to those books.

Thanks for your question!

wrong link. Here is Land's pic:

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What is the quick answer to the story posited by Gary L. Stewart author of "My Father Was the Zodiac Killer"(something Like that)? I read the book several years back and it seemed intriguing. Was it a fabrication?